Regret

Many a smile hides a tear.


Night winds blow and the
Moon's glow grows cold
In the dim light of memory.


That which was said can't
Be unsaid.  That which was
Spoken cannot be took back.


The trees of discourse have
Shook their branches and 
Freed themselves of leaves.


A silence has descended;
A long sleep deep and sad.
A snow has covered hope.


And many a smile hides a tear.

Voice

To touch at a distance
Is the invention; the magic
Of language.

That which we cannot see
We can imagine.

And though we die,
We die knowing that
Those long after us

Can still be touched;
Can still be embraced
By our inscribed words.

This we invented: we poets
And it is our lasting glory.

Clerisy

These that are clad in black
Are the slavers of men's souls.

The minds of men are fortresses
Whose secrets are solely unlocked
By keys of knowledge and of power.

Both of which those in black lack
As they gave reason and emotion
To servitude of non-existent gods.

For only through study of Nature
Can such forced entry be achieved.

Dominion

There is dominion in nature
Which man seeks to diminish.

A scepter is hidden in evolution
And only a revolution can take it.

Who shall conquer then?  Who shall win
This war for dominance?  This great revolt?

Rebels to the last are we, and it's in our dying
A new and better race of men shall come to be.

Rowing to God

I am I.

And what I am is who I am;
Not another's avatar or fantasy; but me.

The world survives without any knowledge of me
And I survive with little knowledge of it.

Were it to know me, the world would have advantage over me.
But it does not know my name and it shall never will; for

I am I.

Empire

Gone to rot.


Lost cities; lost nations; the flags
Of thousands of forgotten states
All gone now.  Gone.


Ripped by time; frayed by lust to conquer;
To impose their will upon the soverign peoples
Of this Earth:  To make


An Empire.


In its making was its dissolution,
In its ascendancy was its descent;
So was it won and in its winning was it lost:


America.

The She

Torn from the depths of some profound despair,
The easy answer and facile response
Shall not suffice for this despondency.


The dream that once existed at the world's inception:
That all was One and of a whole unified


Has been eaten, swallowed by complacency and doubt.
What we are now is not what we were then.  No!


Brief as our lives are; briefer still
Were the days of orginal creativity.
We have moved from that bright beginning
To this bleak ending and are not the better for it.


There is of course no answer to the question
(We do not even know the question).
Only a silence, stony, still and distant. 


Hope ran free once and howled in sublime simplicity 
Gazing upward in wonder at the silver light at night.


At She,


Beautiful, cold; bathing in her gold blood,
In summons to the echo of the call
Of the wolf-bayed, white-veiled,


Moon.

Aphorism

The mean will complain; 
While the great create.
Such has been the fate of Man
Since his time on Earth began.

Birth of Beauty

All of a motion unified

Appear the oval orbits of the planets;

The temperate cycles of the seasons---

Summer's softness and winter's cold deceit.

But beneath all of this lies buried:

Lies hidden under a solemn sublimity:

An anger, hoarse rage at how things are;

At why they've been so forced arranged.

And it is from this same scowling howl;

Strangled, in the throat suppressed;

Kept silent and kept deep concealed,

Beauty shall emerge to be born again.

Poetry Begins

The United States has a long history of slaughtering its best people; on killing them in foreign fields.  Whether we might wish to acknowledge it or not, we are all on a long journey; although we may well have differing destinations.  We all end up dead, but we get there by different paths.  It's always a waste of one's valuable life to be against anything, but it's never ever a waste to be for something; provided that this something is worthy of you.  First though, you have to be worthy of you.  You can't be worthy of you if you serve a flag. The country in your head is the nation to revere.


Now.  I'm for verse.  I've answered every one's questions, such as I understood them, to the best of my limited ability (well it's not so limited, I'm a poet and a polymath).  I have explained why and how things are the way they are, and what they will be in the future, and I've literally given multiple answers and very practical solutions to all the most difficult, deep, great and profoundest questions.  So now, if I might then be excused, please, I shall just be playing, intoxicating and indulging myself, with my beloved poetry. Drunk with rhyme. Possessed by verse.  Composing poetry is praying. Poetry is prayer: Reciting is in itself a religious act; it's an affirmation, acknowledgment of existence. Believe the making of poetry.


Thirty thousand years ago, there were five competing species of hominid in the world.  Poetry is what made humanity the sole survivor (imitating the grunts,croaks and whistles to be found in nature to communicate), and it's speech that keeps us human. I adamantly won't be answering any more inquiries.  That's it!  I have now fulfilled all of my teaching functions as a Druid.  I've my own work to pursue.  And you've got all of the responses.


Enough is enough. Too much possibly. Sorry, I've done with all that. That was the easy part. Prose is easy. Poetry is hard. Society, after all, has no rightful claim upon genius.  Society exists mainly as an obstacle to any kind of creativity, since society is essentially, innately conservative as is public education.  Our prime duty is to our Self (it's why we have an obligation to seek out our real Self). Read my books.  Follow my Blog.  Answers to all, to everything, are already contained therein! Duty to others isn't nearly as vitally important as duty to ourself: Abilities must be exercised. They must be exercised.  They must be drilled.  Duties and responsibilities are only those we ourselves have freely decided to do and undertake. I want to write as well as I can for as long as I can; that's it!


Well, to be clear, poetry and that paranormal romance, far-future-fantasy, action-adventure, speculative-science-fiction, series I've written.  I just publish for the Amazon Kindle and for all those e-reader devices that use the Kindle "app," such as PCs, BlackBerrys, Apple's iPod Touch, iPhone and Apple's iPad. The reason I publish on the Kindle is simple:  Amazon now pays up to a seventy percent royalty. That's far better than any other publisher pays.  Even though I myself am a publisher through RothCroi Publications (105 South Division Street Peekskill New York USA 10566), the costs of book distribution are far better borne by an international e-book publisher, like Amazon.  What I publish is important enough to warrant world-wide distribution.  Many told me it has changed their life.


Why were their lives changed?  Let's iterate the message yet again: We've each, every one of us, a right, the responsibility, to expect from ourselves what's needful to fulfill the duty, the delight, the obligation for creating our own destinies: So.  Now's a time for verse! Not just for me; for all of us.  In prose, there might be a few as good as I (though not many); but in poetry, I bow to none, in this time or in any other: Small-minded get behind me!

Lucid Dreams

Short and brief is the candle of life:  Follow your heart.  That phrase pretty much summarizes all Druid philosophy.  But how do you know what your heart is telling you?  Lucid dreams. These dreams are spectacular visions, always in color, accompanied by sound, vividly remembered; that come in series' sequences.  These dreams emphasize both sight and sound together, as seeing and hearing are our principal senses. These are mythic, poetic and teaching dreams. They tell you what you ought to do and they show you how you ought to do it. They are harbingers of the future.


Dreams are visitations.  Dreams ought never to be ignored.  Listen to them.


Analyze them.  Follow them.  Respect them.  For they show forth to light the Way.  Nature has no reason, and certainly Nature has no design; no purpose, whether intelligent or idiotic. Nature does have rhythm and she does have rhyme: Innately poetical.  Musical.  So.  Listen! 

Some Stock Picks

We each have a moral obligation to learn and to utilize whatever knowledge we have gained in our daily lives.

Knowledge not used is lost. People choose to perceive only that which serves to confirm an already existing preconception.

Mankind creates twelve hundred exabytes of new data each and every year.

That data has to be archived and stored in order to be accessed for analysis to spot patterns and find useful information for future decisions in all fields of human endeavor.  But there is a problem:  terrorism!

Ignorance and stupidity cannot be overcome by education or by mentoring. No!

Attitudes, priorities, behaviors, habits and beliefs are all epigenetic-based permanent characteristics.

Change itself changes, but most men lack any capacity for change in themselves.  They are born static, not dynamic. This is especially true for what men believe.  The smaller the man, the more narrow is his belief.

This is because human evolution is based upon sexual selection and that selection discriminates against those who cannot follow the predominant cultural norms of whichever society in which they happen to be residing.

After several generations then, cultural norms become the most important factor in gene selection.  People in different cultures not only think differently, dress differently, speak differently and act differently; they really are different at their basic genetic level. They have been adapted to blend into society so they can reproduce.

This is why one never argues with ignorance; one simply shuns and tries to ignore those who are ignorant, for they will always be so. Cardiovascular health is greatly damaged by extended association with boring persons. Men are very, very different biologically; so they'll have essentially different aspirations, beliefs, faiths, needs and wants. This difference results from evolution:  People come in many varieties, many shapes and sizes.

Genomes are everything.  Nature has made sub-species of humanity.  There are real differences in cultures.

The many varieties of humanity have different talents also.  Most men can't see far into the future; they're blind.

They can't scree.  As The Druid of The Conchobhair of The Old Belief, I'm expected to know something about the far future.  Druids believe that the multi-verse, that's the universe of universes, actively quests to increase its state of consciousness, and that their assigned task by The She is to foster that Quest. Any action assisting this is good.

Priests of The Faith of Old Europe are all adept precognitives, as it's our sole requirement for priesthood.  In addition, we're trained to be polymaths and poets. We're expected to know the Way. To scree the future. To be the navigators for humanity. Where it's going.

And. Also. Why!

We do. Luckily I do! Let's now be practical. Any company dealing in data-base-media-visualization-servers and/or with visualization-technology-software-services looks great for purchase; so buy each of these listed stocks [Stock Ticker Symbols are Attached]:

A123SystemsInc[AONE];Hologic[HOLX];Google[GOOG];IBM[IBM];EMC[EMC];Hitachi[HIT];3PAR[PAR];SAP[SAP];Medtronic[MDT];WatsonPharmaceuticals[WPI];Deckers[DECK];HJHeinz's[HNZ];Yahoo[YHOO];DrPepperSnappleGroup[DPS];Imax[IMAX];KansasCitySouthern[KSU];Boeing[BA];CareerEducation[CECO];NektarTherapeutics[NKTR];SiliconStorage[SSTI];MicrochipTechnology[MCHP];Xyratex[XRTX];AppliedMaterials[AMAT];ResearchInMotion[RIMM];Tivo[TIVO];AKSteel[AKS];WaltDisney[DIS];
AT&T[T];HewlettPackard[HPQ];Dell[DELL];Oracle[ORCL];CiscoSystems[CSCO];Riverbed[RVBD];VMware[VMW];JuniperNetworks[JNPR];BlueCoat[BCSI];CatalystHealth[CHSI];Biovail[BVF];Carter's[CRI];Comcast[CMCSA];VerizonCommunications[VZ];Globalstar[GSAT];ICOGlobal[ICOG];TerreStar[TSTR];NextWaveWireless[WAVE];CrownCastleInternational[CCI];AmericanTower[AMT];Windstream[WIN];Microsoft[MSFT];CitrixSystems[CTXS];FordMotor[F];AmazonCom[AMZN];HondaMotor[HMC];InfosysTechnologies[INFY];Conceptus[CPTS];TeradataCorp[TDC];NCR[NCR];ActivisionBlizzard[ATVI];CompellentTechnologies[CML];LongtopFinancial[LFT];Apple[AAPL];AlcatelLucent[ALU];LMEricsson[ERIC];Nissan[NSANY];StevenMadden[SHOO];Kohl's[KSS];WalMart[WMT];Mylan[MYL];JohnDeere[DE];SuperMicroComputer[SMCI];

Why these? These companies are heavily involved in data storage warehousing or they soon shall be.

Why is data storage so important? Storage is necessary for the future of civilization.

Terrorists are the one true danger to humanity's future (all terrorists are really religious anarchists---as they greatly fear technology, as technological use eventually exposes the lack of any actual, real, factual foundation for their beliefs---terrorists' religions [the three Abraham faiths] lack all logic and reason---the three Abraham religions are suicidal by their very nature, both by their subjugation of women and by their insistent demanding and commanding obsessive-compulsive submission to a non-existent, moronic, evil deity; their appeal being solely to those persons with abnormal CDH2 gene malfunctions...half of mankind. The vast emotional and moral discrepancies caused by such absurd beliefs, the division that must result between thought and emotion, eventually will lead to irrational self-destructive socially damaging actions).

For those of us, such as myself, who don't share the same ethnicity or religious persuasion as those professing the three Abrahamic faiths, such false beliefs appear to be grossly delusional and frankly, idiotic; as from a purely pragmatic view, these faiths can't ever modify men's behavior for the better--they can only make men even worse.

Bad beliefs make bad behaviors. Bad men profess bad faiths. Evil men impose their evil commandments upon others. All commandments are corrupt for Nature has no commandments.

Religion is horrific when it seeks to control the minds of adherents.  Evil often wears the mask of revelation.  Revelation is real as every poet knows (I'm one), but revelation comes from inside oneself and never from outside. Nature triggers revelation, and that is why it's so important to study the subtle workings of Nature.

Nature is our only sacred book! To we Druids, the Abrahamic religions are detestable due to their emphasis on abject servility to a demented deity, which doesn't actually exist; but to the adherents of the Abrahamic faiths, Druids are feared due to their knowledge of the essential gnostic pan-psychic nature of reality; their tendency to integrate with Nature to utilize its power, and their trained ability to shape and to consequently control reality using this esoteric knowledge. This is why there has been so much persistent persecution in the past. There has even been: "DRUID DENIAL," the intentional refusal by the three Abrahamic faiths to acknowledge our existence, and to deny us our religious rights; most certainly a subtle, perverse, pernicious form of genocide.

Terrorists (radical adherents of Abrahamic religions) will be attacking many more corporate and government installations in the coming years. So then, preserving and protecting media data held by these entities will become increasingly a priority; especially now, as medical, corporate and governmental records are in the process of digitalization.

Twelve billion terabytes of data are now stored world-wide. This media storage shall substantially increase as all medical records have to be digitalized. The terrorists' identities and histories are stored and are kept within these records: their forensic DNA profiles. There are over a half-million people who are potential terrorists; those who are both fully mentally and physically capable of expressing violence through intentional overt acts of murder-suicide.

Terrorists are known: They're in data bases. Media data identifying them has to be protected and secured.

It's where these companies are involved n some way or other; by providing servers and/or services, or by extensively using such data warehousing services.

New Lights for Old Characters

In the Old Belief, the lights on trees represent the spirits of the dear dead departed, who are brought back for a visitation at the time of the Sun's Solstice.  Hence, the origin of Christmas trees.  It's interesting to note that the same thing happens with fictional characters at the same time of year, as that is when film makers release new films with old characters.  As characters change in accordance with audience tastes, they are reflections of their changing audiences, just as sports reflect national character.  What one sees depicted on screens are the psyches of those publics for which these films were made. Note then the great increase in depictions of brutal physical violence.

The Future Population of America

Under the Health Care Bill recently passed, sixty percent of those to be newly enrolled are eligible for coverage under Medicaid, the publicly funded health plan for the poor. The majority of that increase is due to the fact that new immigrants to the United States, almost all of them Latinos, are immediately eligible for enrollment in Medicaid without a waiting period.  Many of these immigrants lack higher formal education.  Most speak English, the global language of business, extremely poorly.  Most are young.  In the USA, four percent of Latino and Black youths, those who failed to finish an equivalent of a normal high school curriculum, are actively employed.  Ninety-six percent of such youths, fifteen million in total, are not now employed. Why?  They are not employable. They are not employed because they lack basic numerate and literate skills: They can't count or read and both these basic skills are absolutely necessary for gainful employment.  There are similar deficiencies in White and Asian youths also, but not on the same large scale.  Youth who don't find work in their early years are unable to develop the necessary social skills in their adult years that can make them employable.  Even if they can find a job, they simply won't be able to stay employed.  They don't get along with others. They are disconnected from society.  They can't be engaged within normal social frameworks, since they are unable to write with any minimal competence, nor can they understand common cultural references. They become social service welfare recipients. By doing so, they drain society of its tax funds.  And since the Health Bill passed by Congress specifically prohibits funding for abortions and for sterilizations under Medicaid (to which they are now legally entitled as they now meet the Health Bill's defined definition of indigence), their numbers should begin increasing substantially.  This is because the Health Bill mandates free maternity and newborn baby care, as well as free pediatric services, for all those eligible for Medicaid, but the Bill does not mandate any preventive birth control consultative services; instead, it severely restricts them. They'll constitute, these indigents, by far, the fastest growing portion of America's population. In effect then, what the Health Bill actually makes probable is:  Since they will be lacking requisite basic job skill-sets for fruitful labor, the Bill authorizes granting a future guarantee to all those, the least productive members in society, that they shall always be the very ones who will be bearing the most offspring.  

The Direction of History

Unlike the driven historical tradition of humanity's redemptive progress through a messianic intervention, as it's defined in Judeo-Christian-Islamic belief systems, Druid tradition has no such directive force, whether it be positive or negative. History can't have direction because there is nothing at all that is directing it. There is no Force except that of Change. Humanity evolves mainly through sexual selection; so humanity is the product of that selection and those who do choose mates don't do so with history in mind, but desire. What does change is the nature of desire.  What is considered desirable in a mate or a spouse does, in fact, change.  Without desire, there are no children and it's those children who will eventually make history.  Human history is driven by sexual desire. Change desire and human history changes. All media deal with desire, and that desire is sexual in nature.  Advertisements deal with enhancing maleness and femaleness.  Buy this and you shall be a better, more attractive, person.  You shall be more desirable.  The same is true of politics and religion.  Belonging to the correct political party and faith makes one more desirable.  To take but one current example, this is the real reason behind the absurd climate controversy.  Which side of the climate debate (does man-made emissions affect the climate adversely or not) some person is on, affects their individual desirability to potential mates.  This rule, of being on the right side of anything to enhance sexual desirability, is true of all political and religious controversies. Adolescents' peer conformity in their social beliefs, in their teen fashions, and in their expressed opinions is an excellent example of this assertion (to adults they'll appear autistic so that they'll gain favor within their peer groups).  People take sides in debates because desirability calls for them taking sides. Even a person not physically desirable, from an objective anatomical viewpoint, might become desirable if he or she takes the side in any debate that's considered to be the more culturally acceptable one.  The men and women who are on the winning sides of these debates make history.  Desire drives history.  And since desire is so very often intoxicating, men and women being drunk with desire; this inebriation is reflected in history's errant direction.  History stumbles.  History has no direction.  It falls down.  If we pause to look in order to give a dry accounting of the ages, from the dimness of prehistory until the blighted blind present, no direction or intervention is to be found; only bonfires lit by a courageous few to mark the Way.

Druid Cosmology

What evolves is the nature of change.  Change becomes more efficient to effect still more changes.  This comes from the old ethical saying:  I AM I: Choose that which gives thee most choice.  That is why, in the Druid cosmology, the meta-universe (the idea of the universe of all universes---the Mother Universe) is considered to be conscious, as there is an in-built inclination within Nature to change and to get even better at this task for changing. The better the methodology is for the process of change, the greater is the level of consciousness that the meta-universe possesses.  To phrase this concept somewhat more clearly: The World makes its Self through Change.  It creates its Self.

The Nature of Nature

When we look at the World, the world seems to make some sense.  This is an illusion.  The sense seen in the World is actually the sense and the sensitivity to patterns that lies inside ourselves.  The purpose that we seem to see in Nature is internal to our own psyche; as Nature has none.  It is not Nature that makes the sense we see, but We.  Nature can seem sublime at times, it's true; but the real sublimity resides within our own Selves.  All is Thought.  The miracle that is our brain makes a method from out of the chaos of the World. That is its function. This is why we respect Nature, but do not revere it.  It's true that we are but a part of Nature, but we are it's best part.

Nature and Natural Law

Laws are natural in nature:  there are physical, chemical and biological laws.  Laws are natural to humanity.  Governments make laws for their citizens to follow.  But there is no such thing as Natural Law.  People do have an innate moral sense that comes with their inherited genes that has evolved for many eons, but that is something purely heritable---no moral or ethical rules exist within Nature as such.  Nature may seem at times vicious and harsh; but it's really indifferent, neither benign nor malign.  Nature doesn't care.  We care.

Those Who Govern

There will always be governments and governments shall always be bad. Because they are bad, no government can last; but it will always be replaced by another bad one.  Men have the drive and the need to be in positions of power so that they are able to decide what others ought to do, and once decided, impose their decisions.  This is the perverse nature of bureaucracy.  Bureaucracy exists everywhere and it is always incompetent.  Those who govern deserve no respect simply because of their public office.  Never bend the knee to any man.  The truly creative have far better things to do with their lives than to rule.  They make.  They do.  They live.

Restrictions on Religion

Under Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone has an innate right to practice his or her religion and to change his or her religion whenever one wishes, or to practice no religion at all.  In practice, however, fully three-quarters of the world's population live in nations that severely restrict religious expression.  The reason for this is clear:  the State has an established religion and to be a good citizen of the State, one practices the State religion.  In effect, the State itself is the religion. The State expects its residents to sacrifice their individual beliefs for the benefit of the State. Those who don't, or who can't conform, are punished by the State.  These practices are intended to ensure the survival of the State.  One pledges allegiance to the State by the active practice of the State's religion.  Patriotism, in all its obscene flag-waving forms, is a ritual practice.  When a State's religion is in conflict with another State's religion, the result is often war. The Middle East is a prime example of this principle; Iran and Israel, Afghanistan and Iraq, as of right now, in particular.  To outsiders, such as we are as Old Believers, this all appears to be incredibly stupid.  And, in fact, it is!  What people believe in and what they practice is their own concern; but their concerns, if and when dumb, don't deserve others' respect.  Ignorance often can't be avoided because it is so plentiful and wide-spread, but it ought never at all engender our empathy.  Let the fools fight amongst themselves, if it's what they feel compelled to do.  For it's their religions that's exactly what's made them why and what they are: obsessive-compulsive schizophrenics.  We have far better things to do than to interfere in the battles of morons, or to argue with them concerning the morality of their conflicts:  No war can ever be just.  Ignorance can never ever be at peace.  Don't fight with or for fools.

The Dreaming Worlds

Time is a human invention.  It doesn't exist in reality.  What does exist in reality is change and those many intervals between changes that can be perceived.  Not all intervals can be perceived because of limitations of our senses.  If we consider the intervals as spaces, as being places between changes; it's exactly the tempo of the intervals that allow us to perceive that a change has taken place.  If the tempo is too fast, we can't perceive it.  If it's too slow, we can't perceive it either.  We are made to perceive within a certain severely limited tempo.  It is this tempo that we call time. Because it's a tempo, we can measure it and this act of its measurement, all by itself, causes changes to happen and to occur; changes that can be noticed and commented upon.  All of measurement is a thought process. Measurement is design.  We design the methods for measurement.  When a thing is thought about, the thing is brought into existence in the mind of the thinker of that thought. The thing travels.  It is transported into our mind. The meta-verse, the universe of universes, is conscious in that it contemplates its own existence and each of its many thoughts brings a new universe into existence.  Eventually, each universe shares its own unique thoughts to spawn anew yet other universes:  Worlds dream.

Laws of Nations

There is a false saying:  No one is above the law.  The opposite is true:  All are above the law.  Laws, whether religious or legal, are man-made and none are sacred.  Each person has the right to decide what is right.  For the common good of society, governments enact laws for their citizenry; but as the primary objective of government is its survival into perpetuity, and not the good of all residents, each citizen has to decide which laws are best obeyed.  What this means, is: Every man is in conflict with the state in which he was born, as not all the laws of his state can be beneficial to him.  Some, may in fact, be harmful.  So, what then to do to resolve the conflict?  First, know the law.  Second, support those in one's government whose interpretation of the law is most nearly one's own.  Third, for those laws deemed to be detrimental, look to change the law.  And if all three above fail, locate to some new state whose laws are more congenial to oneself. 

The Faith of Old Europe

For those few who might be interested, The Faith of Old Europe still exists, but it's mainly restricted to the far western fringes of the European Continent and islands off-shore.  Usually it's called "Old Belief" by Christians and Jews and Muslims who also reside in the same areas, followers of the "New Belief." Old Believers are the so-called Pagans. It's a neo-lithic religion that had its flowering in the Copper Age which preceeded the Bronze Age.  Old Europe, though it was a pre-literate civilization, was the first real civilization and was highly sophisticated.  One reason that adhering to the Old Belief has such a prejorative context today is adherents were prohibited from attending school by the schoolmasters, since they were not Christian nor subscribers to one of the other main religions of "People of the Book." Old Believers have no book. 

How Transformation Works

What you believe is what you are and what you are is what you believe.


What this implies then is that it is possible to transform oneself simply by changing one's beliefs.  Sounds easy, but it's actually very difficult as beliefs are addictions that are genetically imprinted.  So, how then to change them? Well, first, you have to decide which ones to change as beliefs are always linked.  For instance, political, religious, social belief systems are congruent.  What you believe politically, affects what you believe religiously and socially.  And the same is true of all other beliefs.


Beliefs form graphs of interconnected matrices. Change one belief and the entire metrical configuration will change.  Change in beliefs comes from changes in behaviors, since beliefs cause behaviors.  To change a belief, change a behavior.  Even a very small change in behavior, if repeated daily, will result in a change in belief and any change in belief results in a transformation of some sort.  Since the goal of life is transformation from the mundane to the sublime, a small incremental change in behavior will automatically result in some sort of transformation; however tiny.  Many changes in behavior, over time, will result in even greater transformation.


Transformation is cumulative.  A sudden transformation resulting from an instant insight is actually the result of many small changes in behavior, accumulating over a very long period of time.  To transform then, change what it is that you now do and do what you now don't do.  Change your behaviors. What behaviors you change depends on what your beliefs are.


Change one and everything changes with that one simple single change.
Remember Druids have but one belief and that is this:  No-Belief.  I AM I

Future Dimensions

The Present is lived as a memory of the Future.  Each time the future is remembered, it is changed; so there are many, many futures; not one.  Each remembrance opens up the possibility of another dimension being opened, in which a different future is already taking place.  In some of these futures, we don't exist.  We remember the possibility of that particular future and in them we acknowledge that in this one, this particular future; we don't participate.  In those futures, our Self has become something else entirely.  We are not who we were.  Those futures are always the more probable ones; as in them, a transformation has already taken place.  And what we are all about is our transformation, after all. 

AmazonKINDLE

Just to let readers of this Blog know (if there are any, and if there are---thanks), I'll only be writing for the Amazon Kindle reader from now on. What this means is that only those devices that have a Kindle "app" will be able to display my books and blog.  Most of what I have to say, whether it be fiction or non-fiction, is very controversial.  Being so, my writing doesn't have broad commercial appeal; but I want to write what I want to write for the people I want to write for, those who are smart enough to understand what I'm saying.  Those who are not have many other venues which are more than happy to cater to their slower needs and wants.  I shall continue to write solely for those who at the same intellectual level as is myself.  As anyone can tell, I'm addicted to writing and I needed the very best vehicle to display it.  That's why I write for the KINDLE.

The Necessity for Choice

What one is is what one is and since one is always changing; what one is, is changing too.  Everyone changes.  Change can be directed towards a destiny and that's what religion is all about---choosing the destiny and choosing the methodology for change needed to accomplish that destiny.  Any religion or philosophy that does not allow choice isn't really a religion or a philosophy---it's simply slavery.  Of course, one can choose to be a slave and so many do.  Being a slave means that someone else is choosing one's destiny and one's manner of changing.  In the case of most religions, that someone else is long dead or perhaps never even existed.  If one adheres to such a belief system, one is not only a slave---one is also stupid.  Stupidity inhibits change, and all those who can't change are already dead: Suicide of the Soul.  For only the dead cannot change. 

America is an oligarchic plutocracy

Like most nations, America is an oligarchic plutocracy.  It always has been ever since it was founded by plantation owners whose main cause was their refusal to pay excise taxes to Britain for the colonial costs of the Seven Years' War.  George Washington, for instance, owned the largest distillery in America---it's why he suppressed the Whiskey Rebellion---they were his direct competitors.  Since politicians, once acquiring public office, must seek funding to pay for future races (costs to run for Mayor of New York exceed a hundred million and to run for President of the United States exceed a billion), the only persons with access to politicians are the large contributors to their respective campaigns.  Such contributors do so because they have specific agendas to which they want politicians to adhere.  Each politician then has an obligation to follow the wishes of their contributors or his or her funding dries up.  Without funding, it's impossible to run for any public office whatsoever, and the more powerful the public office is, the more funding that's necessary to aspire to it.  So, the plutocrats run America.  The political parties are oligopolies, in that the two dominant parties agree to disparage and prevent any new party from coming into existence.  In this, they share a common agenda.  America is neither a republic nor is it a democracy.  America is an oligopoly run by plutocrats and it always has been.

Three Steps to Creativity

What we can know is not what is.  This seeming problem is actually an opportunity, as we can create what is.  Any entity, such as a god or deity, which would be all-knowing, could not create.  Only those endowed with sentience who doubt what they know is actually what is, can create.  Those who can't doubt; who can't question reality; who accept, can't create.  We can. Thinking involves doubting; involves questioning; involves arguing, disagreeing with common opinions and accepted facts.  Doubt is the first step to creation. We are because we doubt we are. The second step is intuition. That's the ability to feel what's right rather than to merely know what's right. The third step is to marry feeling with thinking. That's the ability to create what is just because it is what ought to be. That's the true divine power.  We have that.

Population Prophecy

The worse people have the most children.  This is inevitable as those who lack responsibility in their personal and social lives shall also lack responsibility when it comes to parenting and preventing pregnancy.  This is a problem that all societies must face and one that all must deal with in order to survive.  Legislation, such as public funding for easy access to contraception counseling and access to free abortion and sterilization procedures performed by qualified physicians, is necessary in order to prevent bankruptcy of any country's social welfare services system. Without such legislation, over time, the impractical, improvident and imprudent will become an ever larger growing portion of the populace, as has happened in Britain and in the United States. Those societies that don't take the necessary steps to reduce the number of offspring of the indigent portion of their populations shall fail and will inevitably, eventually, cease to exist. This has already taken place in nations such as Britain and United States: Their day in the sun is done. 

Memory Training and Levels of Martial Art

With regard to the question asked at the Saturday morning class in Pleasantville as to what's the highest level of martial art attainable:  my answer would be any art whose techniques emphasize using an enemy's limbs as weapons against himself.  This skill is an unusual ability, requiring usage of psychic energy; and it's therefore, never learn-able by someone without this energy.  As well, it requires long, extensive physical training over many years.  Such techniques, for instance, involve squeezing an enemy's heart at a distance, without any physical contact, to kill him.  This uses mental intent, but achieving that intent requires disciplining the body. Few people in the world know these techniques, and there are no schools at all that teach them, as it's entirely a one-on-one mentoring and tutoring process of passing-on this knowledge from person to person. That's the highest level I've ever saw.  It's an extremely rare skill, and it's kept secret. Unfortunately I don't know anyone who still teaches at that highest level, but I would imagine there isn't as much demand for those kind of skills today.  Although what can be used to hurt could also be used to heal, just as well.  So it's well worth learning if one can locate such a teacher.  All higher level martial systems employ evasion as the principal means for dodging the enemy's attack, as all physical effort has to be conserved in combat since there shall usually be multiple enemies in any confrontation. Fights are seldom single contests against one opponent. Fighting is not dueling.  Nor is it a mixed-martial-arts contest.  Submit and you're dead. There is no quarter given and no terms in defeat.  For myself, I don't teach these combat skills; neither the killing nor the healing---I will write great poetry and great stories instead. That's my sole skill.  I'm one of those very lucky people---I can do something as well as anyone could ever do; so, that I shall do---I'll leave the fighting for others who are far better suited to it.  I study with Ren Guang-yi as his Ren Taijiquan is important for developing implicit motor learning (while writing develops explicit factual learning---one learns because one writes, and never because one reads).  Both types of memory training are necessary. That's good enough for me. There is also a third type of memory training besides implicit motor learning and explicit factual learning, and that's psychic precognitive learning.  It's the ability to predict the future.  For training this, some activity like playing chess is best as it conditions your ability to anticipate opponents' response.  To capitulate: to train in all three kinds of memory, implicit motor, explicit factual and the psychic precognitive; practice Ren Taijiquan, write daily, play chess.  All three are necessary.

The Faith of Old Europe and The State of Mind of America

All religions are inventions.  Not all inventions are good---some are bad; some are stupid and bad.  Stupidity ought never ever to be respected.  Bad beliefs can confine the mind in chains. The three main Middle-Eastern Abrahan branch religions: Christianity, Judaism, Islam are delusional and despicable.  These religions are the products of malformed minds. They're evil. They share the same common, basic, insane, schizophrenic faith system. This is fine for their adherents, but not so fine for non-adherents as these religions tend to be intrusive on the affairs of non-believers as witness the wars in the Middle East.  Hatred spreads.  So, if one finds these religions to be ridiculous (as one would, while still being mindful that subscribers to aberrant beliefs have developmental disorders, over which they are unable to exercise emotional control---Abrahan adherents have severe abnormal under-development in the orbital cortex hypo-frontality, anterior temporal lobe, anterior cingulate gyrus and anterior capsule of the brain---since these three particular beliefs amount to obsessive-compulsive disorders), one tends to dismiss the real harms that these religions have caused and are now currently causing, and to simply try to ignore them; so that one is not caught up in their violence.  The Abrahan emphasis on sin, sacrifice, suppression and submission is totally wrong and is downright deceitful. These religions present an intentionally false picture of humanity.  This is intended specifically to thwart creative thinking. Those people born with well-formed, whole, healthy brains are born innately good, compassionate and caring; even though they are oftentimes selfish.  Those born with damaged brains, with anterior areas underdeveloped, the main problem found in the brains of premature infants, are far more likely to encounter serious social problems that need to be addressed by society.  The problem with the false belief picture is that one lives in a world where many nations have foolishly chosen to take sides in these religions' insane conflicts, and one is considered to be a member of one side or the other if one lives in a country such as the United States, which seems to be under the mad delusion that its mission is to police the universe; a delusion that has cost countless lives in many lands.  If one is sane, one simply seeks to step aside from all this religion nonsense; as, frankly, America is crazy too.  America is an angry nation and has been so since its early colonial days, mainly because of religion: America is mad!  One example of this madness is American policy towards the Afghanistan insurgents.  From 1980 to 1989, America spent over a trillion dollars supplying Afghan Muslim fighters with ample materiel in weaponry, including Stinger missiles, small arms, RPGs, rockets, mortars and mines.  Afghan Muslims had rebelled against the Soviets because the Soviet regime had abolished the dowry system for purchasing multiple brides and had instituted a formal educational system for women.  These advances are deemed socially unacceptable by religious Muslims.  The United States backed the Muslims against the Soviets.  Now, these very same insurgents are fighting the United States, using the same weapons America's CIA had purchased for them!  One of the reasons that the United States is giving for continuing its war in Afghanistan is the liberation of Afghan women.  This is truly insane.  More than insane; it's incredible!  Life is meant to be lived, whether it be easy or hard.  How it's lived is up to the discretion of each person.  Life isn't meant to be lived according to dictates in some poorly written book, whether that book be Bible, Torah or Koran.  Or, for that matter, this Blog!  People shall believe whatever their genetic and cultural heritage inclines them to believe, and they have every right to do so (I, myself, follow The Faith of Old Europe, humanity's oldest civilization and its first world religion); however, beliefs can become a virus and infect others not of the same genetic and of the same cultural heritage. That's when they're harmful, as these seditious beliefs can act as cancers of the soul to others who possess a whole mind. The truth?  The purpose of Spirit?  Let your mind follow the teachings of your heart.

Myth and Dream

Myth is the well from which the dream of reality is drawn, and make no mistake, reality is a dream.  Reality is the dream of existence:  that things really are as they seem to be.  They are not; nor could they ever be so.  But myth is necessary for sentience to exist, and because we are sentient, we shall always have myths and we shall always be making up new myths.  That's the fun of it all:  to always be making all these new myths.  That's why we keep on going...just because we can.  Myths are made by ethnic-linguistic groups to preserve their groups and no myths have universal appeal to every group, but the better myths have affect on groups outside of the originating myth-making creating group and have affect across multi-cultural lines---such myths as democracy, equality and capitalism, for instance.  All societies have elites, and people cannot possibly be equal to each other because of their genetic inherited differences, and no markets are ever truly free---they can't be and still remain real markets.  But because these myths are so strong, societies can survive under the guise that these myths have actual validity and substance, even though they don't. And societies can even persuade some of their members to fight and to die for these myths, believe it or not: That's the great power such myths have. Although the better myths may well survive and might become immortal, the followers and adherents of myths are mortal as they tend to become martyrs for their myths.  Myths sacrifice myth believers, this being especially true with regard to the religious myths, whether Eastern or Western; such as atonement, sin, redemption, reincarnation and repentance, which are all really acts of revenge against the Self. These are very damaging to the Psyche and are the direct cause of many wars and much suffering. Over a million adults take their own lives each and every year in the United States because of despondency and desperation in attempting the reconciliation of accepted myths with actual reality: America needs far better myths!

The Divided Self

In order to produce any worthwhile creative work, the aspiring creator has to divide himself or herself from the times in which he or she may live.  No matter how independent one may think one is, one is still the child of society and all societies stifle creativity as they perceive it to be a threat to their continued existence.  It is.  So the creative person needs to fight against the conservative portion of them-self that seeks to preserve what-is in order to deliver on the creative work of what-is-yet-to-be.  That takes courage.

Ren Taijiquan

To be good at anything, one has to be persistent, has to persevere and has to have patience.  There is an enormous difference between being merely talented and greatly creative, and that difference is very apparent.  Talent requires constant and continuous performance.  Ability must used; it has to be exercised, in order for creativity to occur.  So, patience is necessary.  But, above all, one has to remain alive.  One is not going to remain alive unless one exercises daily---that's every single day.  Although it's true that daily exercise is necessary to maintain health, the fact is that the majority of exercises are actually damaging to the joints, tendons and ligaments.  Aside from the Celtic Golden Eagle Set, the best form of exercise I've found is that of the Ren Taijiquan.  Ren has developed two forms so far:  the Compact Cannon Fist Form from "The Fountain" film and the Twenty-One "Black Jack" Form.  The principal problem with all the other forms from all the other systems of Tai Chi is they are simply far too slow to convey any aerobic benefits whatsoever as they are insufficiently dynamic.  Also, they are lacking in combat effectiveness.  That's a serious defect, as any form of exercise has to have a martial intent and a strong aerobic component in order to be of some benefit to one's body.  If you want to remain both alert and active, I highly recommend the Ren Tai Chi.  It works!

Experience and Intelligence

Experience is worthless without the intelligence to interpret it.  Everyone has had experiences; but very few have intelligence.  It's why so many American administrations persist in performing exactly the same errors over and over.  Instead of realizing that a particular methodology or approach to a problem doesn't work; and that something far different ought to be tried instead, the government's response to any failed strategy is to add money and head count and then to try the same approach again.  This is the way of the U.S. military---to still spend yet more lives and yet more money:  Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan...and Iran?.  Stupidity is performing the same action in expectation of a different outcome...idiocy is paying for it.

Freedom and Belief

Freedom of expression is just fine provided persons who possess this freedom have something worthwhile to express, and the political, patriotic and religious belief systems are specifically designed to curtail the ability to have something, anything at all, new to express.   Belief systems were made to retard expression.  What can be expressed under such systems is the banal and mundane; the dulling repetition of the commonly accepted belief.  Belief is not liberty, but tyranny: Belief is a tyranny forcing its adherent to reign as tyrant over his own expression.

How We Are

To the less able, mediocrity may seem like genius.  For those of us who know what real genius is, mediocrity seems more like retardation.  It should be noted that for most people, their limitations arrive early.  They accelerate quickly; reach a plateau, and then remain there until decrepitude sets in.  It's not a fault; it's simply how they are.  For us, it's very different.  We start slowly and build momentum and that momentum lasts our entire lives.  We get smarter and stronger as we get older.  We live on a different trajectory. 

Movement and Health.

Stationary, static-type exercises designed for meditation and concentration, such as one sees in Yoga and Zen, are extremely harmful for the body and for the mind.  These disciplines are dumb.  Such exercises were developed in overcrowded sedentary environments that restricted movement, and it is precisely movement that is so very necessary for spiritual development as well as for one's psychological health.  Anything that's static is bad.  Move.

Beliefs, Behaviors and Genomes

People really are very different and new sub-species of humanity are already in the process of evolving.  What's beneficial for some is harmful for others.  Every physician knows this, and that's why prescriptions for different medications work well for some ethnic groups and have no affect upon others.  Beliefs are similar to drugs as they affect different individuals differently.  For instance, the patristic Abraham belief of the Middle East, which is centered around the Akedah sacrifice as evidence of one's submission to divine will, the prof-erring dedication of the first-born male by its father, would certainly be and clearly is absolutely abhorrent to someone from and of a basically matristic culture of reverence for "The She," such as is in the Druid belief of Old Europe.  Why is this? The explanation is genomic.  Just as musical taste has a very strong genetic component, so does adherence to a particular faith and abhorrence of another.  The Middle Eastern systems of belief were invented by individuals, all of them males from a common pool of Y-chromosome bialelic haplotypes (DNA proof for common male descent); while all the Old Europe Atlantic belief systems were founded by females.  It makes a huge difference as to which faith system and ethical practice is more congenial and having a greater salient benefit to oneself, depending upon whose descendant one might be. Genomes influence beliefs and beliefs influence cultures. Cultures influence behaviors and behaviors cause individual actions.

Intellect and Creativity

One of the problems that all creative people face is the absence of intellect on the part of teachers and professors.  Creativity works by association. The creative person relates facts and experiences and forms syntheses in the manner of higher-order matrical reationships from accumulated facts and experiences.  These matrices are beyond the capacity of teachers and professors, as they lack understanding as to how creative people arrive at invention.  They are used to sequential processing of information, one fact leading to another along a linear progression, and no creative person ever thinks in any linear fashion; as it's far too slow and stupid.  Creative people relate in order to create, and the further afield the relation is, the easier it is to create.  We think differently: We learn in-spite-of school, not because of it.  The best way for a creative person to learn is by having as his tutors other creative people, so that a mentoring process can happen and begin.

Fact and Fiction

Nothing can be accepted as fact unless it's tested and validated, but who the tester is determines the accuracy of the validation.  What is taught as science is mostly mainly opinion unless it's been validated and it usually isn't...it's still in some state awaiting validation.  Scientists are just as prone to opinion as is anyone else, although sometimes their opinions are better informed than the opinions of non-scientists, but not always.  Often, they are autistic in that they fail to recognize the many obvious links and relationships between their own discipline and the impact on it of new finds in others...they are shortsighted; their imaginations poorly employed.

Fate and Destiny

There is no escaping fate.  Nor is there any way to avoid destiny. What one is, one eventually becomes; no matter what society says or does.  The problem is not fate nor destiny; problem is society, and the psychological and physical conflicts that come from society's attempt to prevent us from achieving our individual fate and destiny.  Our fate and destiny is built into our genetic code and so it's very different for all.  The best advice is simply to train so as to adroitly avoid any obstacles that society places in our way for achieving destiny; for if it's not achieved, you've wasted your life.  Live your life; not the life others would want you to live: they don't have your dreams and desires.  They have their own and ought to be pursuing theirs; not finding fault with yours. 

The Future of Markets

Questions arose as to what the future will be in regard to who it shall be who has the power?  Well, we know the answer already and it has been the same for many thousands of years:  those who have the ability to control buying and selling have the power.  Those who control markets have power.  Those who don't have none.  What has changed in those thousands of years are the nature of what is bought and sold, from commodities to services.  What will be sold in the future?  That answer is obvious also: promises of physical immortality.  Those persons and firms who shall have control of the markets for the buying and the selling of the promises of physical immortality shall have great power in the future.  Non-mortality is the prime future market.

Exercise Routines and Mental Function

Having been dead many times myself, death is not the problem as it's simply nothingness.  The problem was never death itself but decrepitude, dependency and degeneration of the senses.  That's something to fear and avoid.  Whatever measures that can be taken to avoid degeneration ought to be taken.  That's why one has to exercise daily.  The choice of exercise is all important as some are harmful and some are helpful.  The best exercises stimulate psychic abilities (if one has them).  The better exercises stimulate brain function into neuro-genesis, into making new neurons and the dendrite axial connections between neurons.  There is a lot of research available on the internet comparing the mental benefits of various types of exercise anyone can google and seek out for themself.  If the exercise is not enjoyable for the participant, it won't be continued no matter how beneficial it might be.  Some exercises are so esoteric and restricted, they can't be practiced unless one has access to an instructor in the community in which one lives.  Some exercises are just plain bad, so they ought not to be practiced at all; for instance, any exercise that goes against one's nature.  Some are simply plainly stupid and would actually damage mental function...professional football players and boxers suffer very high rates of Alzheimer and Parkinson disease.  Research, choose, decide; then daily practice what works best for you, as what works well for another won't work the same way for you.  Any exercise routine ought to show immediate benefits that are discernible and measurable in a short period of time.  If real mental and physical benefits are not shown readily available, choose another exercise.  It shouldn't take more than a month after beginning an exercise, any exercise, for benefit to become apparent.

The Sword Hand

In martial arts training, there are many myths.  Most of what one sees in films and on the TV, both in use of weapons and in the use of bare-handed techniques, is total nonsense as it's totally lacking in real commonsense principles.  This is why when one enters into the military, one is taught to discard whatever one has previously learned in the usage of firearms and to begin training anew from scratch; as combat is so very different from recreational use of weapons.  The same applies to all of martial training.  What one sees in sport fencing isn't how swords are actually used and what one sees in the mixed martial arts type competitions isn't how one actually fights.  Combat is very different from any sport.  Let's take a small example and see how this all works.  Bare-handed techniques come from using a sword.  Sword thrusts are considered to be finishing moves and are always proceeded by cutting applications to the tendons and arteries; so that the enemy is rendered weak and vulnerable, before the final actual thrust is made.  A sword thrust is made with the sword blade horizontal and never vertical.  Why?  Because, in order to get power for the thrust, the shoulder and elbow (thrusts are made through the elbow joint and not through the wrist joint as in sport fencing), the elbow and shoulder must be descended and not be raised.  If the thrust is delivered with an elbow turned outward (as it would be if the thrust were made with the sword in a vertical position), the tendons and the arteries on the inside of the arm would be exposed to a parry by the opponent.  So, a thrust is made with the elbow turned downward and with the sword horizontal.  This position then allows the body to descend under the opponent and also gives a much greater reach to the lunge for the thrust.  The strike that's delivered by the fingertips in bare-handed fighting follows the principle of the sword thrust.  Fingertip strikes are usually delivered to the bladder, kidneys and throat.  Regardless of the target, the strike ought to be delivered with the palm up and in a horizontal position.  Just like the sword!  Let's perform an experiment.  Try striking with your fingertips at some imaginary opponent.  Do it with your palm turned in many different positions.  You'll find the only position causing your whole body to slide forward while you're performing the strike is with your palm facing up and horizontal to the ground and with your elbow descended.   As the sword is used, so shall the limbs be used.

Perception and Redemption

One of the many problems with perception is that it is notoriously unreliable, and that's why in all criminal cases, corroboration of facts is necessary by deposition in order to present a case to any grand jury.  No matter how impartial any witness might seem to be, his or her perception will be prejudiced.  Everyone perceives differently, but no one perceives accurately.  There is a genetic basis to perception and that basis causes any perceiver not just to see what is happening, but also to see it very narrowly based upon the observer's past experiences.  The result is every observation has to be verified before it can be taken as the truth.  In other words, any observation has to be confirmed and redeemed by experiment and other observations before it could be accepted generally.  Of course, for the individual, in his or her every day affairs, his or her observation is more than sufficient.  That is the difference between opinion and fact.  Everyone has opinions and those opinions are always especially strong on emotional topics like religion and politics, but they are simply opinions.  They can't be considered to be facts.

What is and What is not

Since perception and experience are necessarily limited, they can't be relied upon to give a true picture of reality.  What can?  If one relies on others' perceptions and experiences, on collective perception and experience, the picture is the same; as just because many see something some way, there is no guaranty that their collective sight is accurate.  In fact, it won't be.  It won't be because collective sight is collective and most will modify their vision so as not to violate cohesiveness.  The only solution then is to sharpen one's own sight to make that sight clearer.  That's the goal of meditation and contemplation.  To make one's vision clearer so that the perception of reality is better, is enhanced.  The goal goes beyond that however.  The reason one aspires to a clearer picture of reality is to change it: to have the power to change what is.  Most waste their lives wanting to change what is not, in some futile wishing they had the power for changing something that doesn't really exist, the power to change something that could never exist.  Usually that something is the past and the past does not exist. What was is what is not now. This futile wanting to change what can't exist in the NOW is the human delusion, and that's why we meditate and contemplate; so as not to caught up within the net and by the trap of others' and of our own delusion.

Autism and Society

Autism is on the rise in all societies.  Since autism, in all its many forms, has a genetic basis; one would suppose that evolution would cull members of societies that demonstrate severe social dysfunction, the most obvious sign of autism.  Instead, the numbers of autistic individuals has grown.  The reason it has grown is; like most genetic-related psychic conditions, autism is directly related to the environment.  Societies have themselves evolved and their social evolution has been tending in a direction that actually favors severe social dysfunction.  Many of these tendencies are technological, the more obvious ones being the internet and television, which actively encourage social isolation.  In effect, societies have themselves become autistic. Since the autism condition exhibits inability to empathize with others because it lacks an ability to identify their emotional states, autistic societies similarly lack ability to identify the psychic states of other societies; thereby greatly increasing the likelihood of conflict.

Selfs and Souls

There is a common misinterpretation of the nature of the Soul.  The Soul equals the Self and the Self has many aspects in many dimensions.  One of the problems with those belief systems that profess multiple souls is that the souls are considered sequentially and not simultaneously.  If one thinks of the Self as multiple, many selves co-existing and congruent; if the goal of the belief system is to dissolve the self, the act of attempted dissolution encourages division amongst the various selves that co-exist.  This attempt at dissolution has immediate physical consequences.  Such an attempt is one of the psychic causes of cancer (cancer has many physical non-psychic causes as well of course, but psychic causes have very real disruptive physical cellular consequences).  The objective of any system of belief ought to be salient integration of the selves in other dimensions with the self that is co-existing in this dimension, and never the dissolution of the self in this dimension.  Such an attempt at dissolution is slow suicide.  It literally is a cause of cancer. 

Internal vs. External Energy

The question of internal vs. external is a common one in the martial arts world.  There is only internal energy.  What is commonly called external energy is simply force, which is never ever the proper response to any attack.  The proper response is to direct the energy used in the attack back into the attacker.  You use your opponent's limbs as weapons against him or her.  This can only be done if the defender assumes an oblique angle against the attacker and issues the response to the attack in an arc rather than a straight line.  This is why in the Celtic systems, arm strikes are delivered from the opposite shoulder and leg strikes are delivered from the opposite hip.  The strike is delivered in such a way that the striking limb of the defender deflects the opponent's strike while simultaneously delivering the defender's own strike into the opponent.  As in all the Celtic systems, the response comes from the use of the sword.  In sword play, the goal is to cut without being cut; to strike without being struck.  This is the same goal as all other martial arts.  It does you no good to deliver a blow and to suffer a blow; to simply trade blows.  That's external and it's frankly stupid.  By delivering a strike from the opposite side of the body of the limb being utilized to deliver the strike, the body must turn; the torso must twist.  This turning and this twisting is what gives power to the strike.  It also moves one's torso out of the way of the opponent's strike, thereby allowing the opponent's striking limb to bypass the defender's torso.  The defender's torso has evaded the opponent's strike.  That's the internal power and it's the only kind of power that ought to be used in any combative situation.  That's the reason power in the Celtic Systems resides in the knees and elbows.  Even though the strikes are mainly delivered with the forearms and the shins, the forearm is used as an extension of the elbow, while the shin is used as an extension of the knee.   The strikes are windmill strikes, with the axis at the elbow and the knee and the blade at the forearm and shin.

Westie Way Revolving Arms

Our planet is crowded.  Too crowded.  There are too many people and too few jobs. The only entities still hiring are armies.  Many are poor and desperate.  Desperation leads to despair and despair leads to violence, both against one's own self and against others. Violence is often both psychological and physical. Since so many are in such great despair today, best to prepare for the violence that's to come.  It's coming and that's why we study martial arts.  Remember, no martial art that closes the hip and shoulder joints has any value whatsoever. Watch what the masters of the martial art you propose to study actually do with their shoulder and hip joint when performing.  Study only those arts that require the hip and shoulder joints to be open and that emphasize elbow and knee strikes, as that's the real way fights are actually done. To throw and lock any person, movement of the waist is essential; so the art that is studied must always employ waist movement.  Your elbows and knees are used like windmills in fighting.  In order for this windmill motion to take place, the waist has to move to give power to the revolutions of your limbs.  Always note that whatever system one chooses to continue studying, the study must be active.  You actually have to do it. Videos and books are certainly very useful as pedagogical devices for correcting whatever you are doing wrong; but to do it right, you actually must do it. Arm revolution in the boxing style I learned as a child is very different from that of other boxing styles.  My boxing style comes from the use of the Celtic sword, which has an unusual shape. The Celtic sword is a saber. It's about the same length as is the cutlass, but its blade arc curves opposite to the curve of a scimitar, the Near Eastern sword.  The curve of the Celtic sword is shaped more like the Gurkha knife, in that its cutting arc is shaped inwards, like a sickle. The shape originally came from the knife used by fishermen to gut their catch. Unlike other sabers, both sides of the curving portion of the blade are kept at a razor sharp edge---giving swordsmen opportunity to cut with either side.  This is the reason all the strikes in Celtic boxing are delivered with shins and forearms.  The shins and forearms are used like sabers. The non-curving straight portion of a Celtic Sword isn't sharp...it's kept purposely dull...thereby allowing swordsmen to assume double-handed grips whenever it's necessary.  In the Celtic boxing style, the inside hand (called the "shield")  revolves in the opposite direction from the outside hand (called the "sword"). Think of raising up with a shield to block an opponent's lunge while striking simultaneously down with a sword.  Note blocks are delivered vertically (and not horizontally), usually against an opponent's tricep or bicept, to temporarily paralyze the opponent's arm. Since the Celtic stepping footwork requires assuming a forty-five degree oblique angle on the diagonal, towards the opponent (the diamond-stepping), the inside hand's function is slashing the opponent's attacking arm or leg.  This slash-block causes the opponent's limb to pass by the defender's body, opening up the inside line for attack.  Celtic boxing allows for attacks with the legs very similar to savate---Irish Step-Dancing evolved from sword usage.  To give an example, say the opponent throws a punch straight at a defender's heart wih his right fist:  the defender's inside arm slashes the opponent's arm slightly above his elbow joint, either upward in a clockwise direction or downward in a counter-clockwise direction; so that the defender's front foot can step to the outside of the opponent's front foot, thereby allowing the outside arm ability to attack the opponent's flank from a position that doesn't readily allow the opponent to counter with his other arm (because the defender's torso is now beyond an opponent's reach with his other arm).  Strategy here is to close in on the opponent from an oblique angle to prevents him from easily replying to any attack. Again, it all comes from sword-work.  Of course, the opponent could then spin, but the spin would expose his back and spine as he revolves. Celtic boxing allows attacking the back of an opponent (the entire body is a target). When I was growing up on tenth avenue in Upper Manhattan, this particular boxing style was called the "Westie Way" because it was practiced along the far West Side of Manhattan in the bars that mainly serviced the Irish stevedores who were working the docks.  It originated in the counties of Cork and Kerry around the South-West coast of Ireland, and was carried to America by Gaelic speaking immigrants fleeing the Great Famine shortly before the American Civil War, and then was carried back to Ireland by Irish veterans of that same US civil war, founders of The Brotherhood, Clan of Gael ( which was originally started in Five Points), predecessor to the IRA. They were deported because of an aborted attempted invasion of Canada, then British crown owned.  On most Friday nights in Manhattan when I was a boy, in the West Side Irish Bars, there would be "sawdust bouts" where fierce betting was done on the bare-knuckle fights, all strictly illegal of course; but the cops were all Irish and "on the Pad," their protection from any inquiry being paid for by the pub owners.  Police were poorly paid then and needed the extra pay from bar owners. This post concludes the answers to all the queries received from the few readers of my two Kindle books.  Hopefully, both books and this blog have been of help to some.  I've tried to explain how things are the way they are and why things are the way they are, as well as give a glimpse of the future.  I have visions and most don't.  As for physical training, the Celtic Martial Arts classes are given once each week at 440 Lafayette Street in New York City, downtown Manhattan at Astor Place, from one to 3:30 on Sunday afternoons in Studio# 4C on the fourth floor. Charge is $20 per class session.  Related videos are under HEARTHEALING on YouTube.  Just to let subscribers to this Blog know, I'll only be posting poetry on the blog from now on...life is a quest to find one's true destiny; then, once found, to fulfill it...this I've done--I can write now as well as anybody ever coud; so now I'm busy working on my paranormal fiction future fantasy series, entitled:  "In Dreams They Are Remembered." Anybody who has read both my books and this Blog will already be familiar with the mythology background for the series. They contain the answers and solutions to everything, and I do mean every-thing!  It shall be available on the Kindle for a price of less than nine dollars per novel. Amazon Kindle receives instant wireless access around the world, so anyone anywhere interested in the fantasy series can download all the series' books at any time. The fiction fantasy series is a paranormal romance and an action-adventure set in the future, dealing with the impact from a revelation of ancient mysteries from the Upper Palaeolithic Age of Old Europe.  But to return to the crowded planet statement (projected to be over nine billion), ever since the nineteen-forties warnings have been issued concerning uncontrolled population growth which very few nations have heeded, with the most prominent exception being mainland China. Today there are too few jobs to support the burgeoning population in some countries, the United States being an obvious example: In the US, twelve percent of teen girls become pregnant and give birth before being eligible to graduate from high school; and this is now occurring while the US national unemployment rate exceeds ten percent. The result is: eleven percent of the US population depends solely on governmental social services to pay for its shelter and upon receipt of food stamps to pay for its sustenance. Another four percent of the American populace is either incarcerated and confined within a prison or is out on parole or on probation, or was previously incarcerated and now unable to find work because of a long history of incarceration; making a total of a full fifteen percent of all Americans who are presently supported by government, whether that be at the state or federal level (usually both).  The result of all this support is a national debt that exceeds thirteen trillion.  Any state whose govenment doesn't pro-actively fund the promotion of sterilization, abortion and birth control can't survive. This is because, inevitably, its employed tax base drastically decreases, while appropriations of monies for more and more social services in support of its indigents and its unemployed greatly increases. This scenario is what's happening in America now; it's the reason behind America's problems, so look for the future of humanity elsewhere. America has terminal dementia! Why?  Aside from this failure to control and curb its population growth, America's continuing fruitless engagement in stupid, foolish, unnecessary, pointless foreign wars means it's losing the better, bolder, more courageous portion of its populace. Bankruptcy in states isn't just monetary, it's moral too.  America is dead.  It's moribund, a zombie nation. It's lost its best. And when any state loses the best part of itself, it's done. It's gone. It's time has past. Where then should we go...recommendation: Nova Scotia. Move to Canada. There you could employ the very best strategy there is for fighting, which is: to avoid it!  Well, that's one location I would recommend---Nova Scotia means New Ireland. If you believe you've got just one life only, you're mistaken; as you've got so many...life isn't an "or" thing; it's an "and" thing...so live them all. NOW!