The Next Generation
Last month our family had the 100th day Rite for our late Great Grandpa. It’s a weird cultural tradition where a person who has passed away gets two funeral rites or ceremonies. The First funeral ceremony is the usual time of the burial like normal people have. The theme of the First rite is morning. And then 100 days after the burial is the Second funerary rite, which has the theme of Closure and Reassurance.
Usually for the Second rite we have 5 monks come to the house of the children of the past away person and they chant and do their thing. Then after that we do bindbat and feed the monks. Then afterward every little family related in some way to the passed person offers the children of the passed person gifts of money and a reassurance that we’re all still family, bound to help and support each other, even with the passing of this person. Just to verbally speak it to them to let them know that just because a person who linked our blood together is no longer with us that we all are still one family, one blood. The money gifts mostly are to cover the cost of the funeral service and whatever expenses has been incurred due to that death. It’s another way to say that whoever has died is also our kin, and thus we are also responsible to help pay for that death. It is a great great great dishonour to be related in some way to such a passed person and be at the 100th day rite and not give a gift of money or some kind of token of solidarity.
I’ve been to plenty 100th day rites. They usually aren’t as sad and painful. It’s more somber. Everyone has had a hundred days to let the death sink into actual realization. Everyone has cried their eyes out for 100 days. Everyone has taken their deep breaths and are ready to start to move on. And so it not as sad, and actually fun. It’s like a huge family reunion where those that lived too far to make it to the actual burial rite can come and do their clan diplomatic stuff. So for our family these 100th day rites usually calls out around 100-200 people. Usually every person at these ceremonies with access to money gives their gifts of honour and solidarity. Just us cousins alone we each give around $100 in an envelope. The older you are the more you give. So if you do the math, you’ll get a feel for how much money is being transacted. Also if you can’t make it because you are on the other side of the planet, then you send your offerings and gifts by airmail. Our family is about 500 people deep worldwide in 5 different countries: America, France; Australia; Thailand, and Cambodia.
But my late Great Grandpa and his private family were/are Christian. So this 100th day rite was very different for most of us. There was a group of church people there who did their religious stuff. Church songs were song, Bible verses read for solace, the preacher went on and on about how Great Grandpa was in heaven. Things like that. Then after the offering of gifts which takes a while because you stand in a line and one by one or in little groups give your gifts to the children of the dead person, there is the big feast. Little Grandma’s house is pretty big, you can fit 20 big tables in the back yard and still have room for the little kids to run around and play.
Me, my little mom, little sister, and grandma were very early to help out. But there was really nothing to do since it had all been done, so we just talked with the other early birds there. The Great Grandpa Savudt and his wife were there joking around and teasing my grandma like usual. Savudt is not his name. It’s the name of the village he was born in. So it’s like calling someone in English the “Orange County Grandpa” or something. We don’t use names with anybody older than us. Great Grandpa Savudt’s wife is a older cousin of my own grandmother.
Our very last Great Granny was upstairs also. She is blind and can’t move or eat by herself, and she talks very quietly because she doesn’t have the force to speak loud. Even though she is blind and can’t move, Little Grandma takes her places to get her out of the house. When Great Grandpa past away, Little Grandma took Great Granny to the casino to gamble to get some fresh air. Great Grandpa forbade it when he was alive. He’s old school so he used to discipline Great Granny with force like he did with his children. You don’t mess with Great Grandpa, he’ll beat the shit out you, wife, children, whoever and all, when he was young. Little Grandma said Great Granny liked playing the slot machines so much she asked to be brought to the casino every day!
My aunt-mom tells me that late Great Grandpa was the son of a normal Chinese family of immigrants who forced their children to work very hard until each of Great Grandpa’s sibling and he got jobs working in both the Thai and Cambodian government. So one of late Grate Grandpas aristocratic friends and business partner gave him as a gift his one of his daughters who is my grandmother’s blood aunt, so that way his blood and family can be grafted into our family. My aunt-mom says that the late Great Grandpa used to beat his wife silly because she was stupid and didn’t know how to do anything, being a spoiled aristocrat. He forced her to do all her own work and told her that unlike her, he had to work his ass off to be who he is in life, that he did not comes from a privileged, and that he did not want his children being incapable of working hard like him to make themselves into something. So he disciplined her, taught her how to work and do labour, and forbade her to raise his children fearing that they might grow up spoiled or incapable of working hard like he did.
I was just sitting there bored as hell since nobody was there yet and the church service wasn’t going to start for another 3 hours. I had already went around and greeted all of the older people, like you’re supposed to, then found a chair in the sitting room to sit and wait. So this one unfamiliar grandfather came to sit beside me to keep me company. Generally in the family anybody with grey hair you call a grandfather or grandmother, and anybody who seems around your own mother’s age is an uncle or aunt, then people your own age are called brothers and sisters, not cousins. We don’t the word “cousin.”
I had heard my grandma wave at this unfamiliar grandpa and called him “Big Brother Stak,” and then they hugged each other, then I heard my little mom greet him properly as Uncle Stak, so I figured that at least he was related to me and that “Stak” must be a nickname of some sort. My grandma had called me over and told me to clasp my hands together and properly greet “my Grandpa,” and she explained to him that I was the daughter of her youngest daughter.
So I was sitting there bore since everybody was outside and it was windy. I was watching youtube on my phone and this unfamiliar grandpa Stak sits next to me and asks me in English what kind of phone I had. So I said that it was an android phone and handed it to him. He said that he had an iPhone and pulled his phone out of his pocket to give to me to look at. I said: “An iPhone huh? What’s wrong with Android?” He goes: “iPhone service is more available back in Cambodia. All of my associates use Apple. It’s very popular there. Did you know the Prime Minister has an iPhone and an iPad?” I told him I really didn’t like Apple stuff. So we had our small talk about phones and we spent our time showing each other our favourite youtube videos. He was showing me youtube videos of his daughter, whom he informs me should be my older cousin/sister, where she was playing the guitar and singing.
I ended up spending half the day with this unfamiliar grandpa and our talks drifted into Buddhism and politics. After an hour of talking an unfamiliar uncle [whom I properly greeted] had come to join our conversation about Apple Inc, iPhones, Buddhism, and politics, and we were speaking in mostly English, but also Khmer. It wasn’t like we had deep spectacular conversations or anything. Just light conversations mixed with joking around with each other. The grandpa and uncle were more interested in how I understood my Buddhism so they asked me a lot of questions and gave me great feedback. I was interested in their political views about things since they lived in a different country outside of America, so I asked them random stupid questions about how things were like outside America politically, economically, socially; and also how they saw America and its role in the world. They were very nice and said that I was very smart for my age and the uncle jokingly said that I should relocate to their their country and be a politician.
So anyways, after the feast ended we properly went all around and greet everybody goodbye, which takes an hour because there’s a lot of people. I road with my aunt-mom and big dad and cousin-brother since I was going to spend the night at there house.
On the way to my other house my cousin-brother asked me who I was talking to all day. I told him I really didn’t know, all I knew was that they were related to grandma; they just sat by me and we started talking. My big mom and big dad started to laugh, and my big mom says in Khmer: “The grandpa is your Great Grandpa Savudt’s son and the uncle you were talking to is the son of one of my uncles who is a younger brother of your late Grandfather that just past away. They both work in Cambodia and flew here for the week for the ceremony.” My big dad was still laughing, he laughs at anything. He really likes to laugh and he has one of those high pitched loud laughs. So my big dad stops laughing and says chuckling in English to me: “You did all that talking and never stopped to ask who you were talking to?” Then he started his loud squeaky laugh again for another minute. But you’re not culturally supposed to ask elders such questions because its rude and offensive, so I couldn’t, which was why my big dad found it funny. It’s almost like how in English you were to come up and talk to me, and then I stopped you and asked you: “And you are? Who are you that you’re talking to me again? Can I have a resume?” Then he stops laughing and gets into his normal serious voice and said: “You know what those two do in Cambodia?” I answered no. So he says back: “They’re Members of Parliament, they work in the government. You were talking to real politicians about politics and didn’t even know it!” Then he starts cracking up to himself again.
Which was when something hit me like a brick. All this talk and thoughts about revolutions and destroying some state I have done. And the general belief in me was that using force to destroy a state does not change anything all got confirmed physically that night. It was a shock to see it with my own eyes. Because the Khmer Rouge in 1975 had this communist revolt where they did actually destroy a State or Kingdom, and they did murder as best as they could every blood member of oligarchic families to get rid of competition. They did this, successfully. And I knew that Great Grandpa Savudt and his brother were working politics before the revolution, and I knew that our late Great Grandpa work public offices also and became an ambassador to the US during the Nixon administration. Now only ONE generation later – only about 35 years after the revolution – their sons/relatives are back in government! One generation.
Just out of bizarre curiosity I asked my big mom and big dad if they knew of any other people from other families who may have worked in the government before the revolution and now have their children back in politics. What I was trying to see was if other former oligarchic families did the same thing. And my big dad – who is really into politics [he's a Conservative Republican like all of us] – just started to name a list of name of current politicians in that country he knew of whose father or grandfather worked in government before the revolution. He named about 7 names he knew of. Then he started laughing to himself again and jokingly said: “Guess the Khmer Rouge didn’t do a good job huh?” But he switches tone to a serious note and added: “No, seriously, we have a saying in our culture where it is said, ‘we often become what our parents were in life, because the fruit never falls far from its tree.’ We follow the example of our family. So if children come from a family of musicians, they will be musicians. If a child comes from a family of politicians, they are more than likely to become politicians themselves.” So I jokingly said back: “Oh, you know what my little mom was when she had me?” My big dad gives a nervous laugh and says: “There’s exceptions to every rule.” My little mom had me when she was still in high school.
I was shocked during the whole ride home in my mind. The Khmer Rouge were meticulous in their work. To make sure they killed every member of the oligarchic families they hated, they first killed every one who wore glasses, they had lists of people who worked high professions like teaching to doctors whom they ended up killing, anyone light skinned was automatically executed, same for anybody who spoke a dialect or register higher than what commoners use, and they murdered everyone who could read. Two million all together, just to be safe. They had this trick they used to figure out if you could read by taping a cut out of a new paper or a magazine to the end of their rifles. You were tied up with your hand behind your back and brought to kneel before the rifle and the guy at the end of the rifle screams at you to read the paper or he’ll kill you. His helpers yells at you that if you don’t read what’s on the paper the party will kill you for being stupid because you’re worthless to the party. If you read the paper they shoot your face and head off on the spot. You have to beg for your life and tell them that you’re an uneducated peasant and can’t read. If you do that, and they believe you, then they take you away and untie you and give you a hug can call you “Mit” which means “Comrade” and they tell you that you past the Test because the party loves the peasants and working class and that the party is fighting to kill the oligarchic and upper Vanna [Caste in Pali-Khmer] people who abuse them with poverty and no freedom.
Pol Pot and his inner circle had all these tricks to weed out upper Vanna people slowly. One trick was they had forced the entire population to live in the forests and in forest side work camps. Every city was abandoned and everyone wore black. In the camps the Khmer Rouge would walk around and watch how you acclimated to the camps and to life in the forest. If you were fine and had no problem living off the land you were safe. But if you show in any way that you had trouble cooking food, adjusting to life in the forest or the camps then they knew you came from a privileged class. They’ll come and call you Mit if they see you not adjusting and they act very nice and sweet and say to you: “Beloved Mit, I see you have trouble adjusting, the party is here to help you, please tell us if there is anything the party or big brother Pol Pot can do for you or give to you to help you adjust?” If you fall for their trick and actually ask for creature comforts which confirms your class and vanna, they tell you to meet them in a place later that evening when they will “give it” to you. And you never return.
Another trick they use is speaking French. Pol Pot and his inner circle where actually all intellectuals educated in France so they actually spoke French. To further weed out oligarchs and high vanna people they watch you carefully to see how you carry yourself, how your thinking process work, if you are unusually enthusiastic about party ideology. If you show signs of being an intellectual or being capable of thinking better than a peasant where you try to climb rank to be better then others, then they approach you quietly with a trick. The trick is they act very friendly with you and make it seem as though they are giving you an opportunity to climb their social rank to be in their “in crowd,” and when you are off guard one of them will speak French to you or ask you a question in French in a friendly manner. If you show the slightest sign of understanding what they said or if you are stupid and actually talk French back at them, they cut your throat so you don’t make a noise. This way the others don’t know and they can reuse this trick with others. Peasants and farmers don’t or shouldn’t know French, only the upper vanna and privileged would.
Another trick or method of weeding out upper vanna people which they used early in their take over of the country was to check your hands. If they were soft and looked like they have never done any labour, they shoot you on the spot. Another trick is they read your face. This is something our elders do too to assess a person. You divide a person’s face into three parts: 1) the top of the forehead to the bridge of the nose; 2) the bridge of the nose to the bottom of the nose, & 3) the bottom of the nose to the chin. In general, people with the top part longer in length than the lower part are intellectually inclined and are shot dead on sight. People with the lower part of their face longer than the top part are more emotionally inclined and are safe. Also the shape of your forehead gives you away. People with visible squareness to their foreheads in general are thinkers, problem solvers, philosophers, have intellectual abilities, and usually do very well in business, mathematics, government or offices or work that involves thinking. You’re automatically dead if you have a square shaped forehead. Round shaped foreheads are safe. Also the way you behave socially around others gives you away. People who are introverted are usually thinkers who spend their time thinking in their heads. You’re shot dead on the spot when they notice you are an introvert. People who are extroverted, who talk a lot and those people who think out loud by speaking and narrating their thoughts are more emotionally inclined/influenced and less deep thinkers, so they are safe.
Their reasoning behind killing off intellectuals and saving emotive people is obvious. If you are a thinker, you will pick at their ideology, think yourself out of their grip, mentally challenge what they tell you to yourself. And so you are a threat to their party and regime. Emotive people since they are driven or influenced by their emotions and not ideas, can be emotionally manipulated to be loyal. This is the same tricks cults use if you ever truly insight roll on an amateur anthropological mission. When you join something like the Mormon Church for the first time you are surrounded by smiles and welcomes. As soon as you give signs that you are the intellectual type by questioning their theology and dogma, they set you aside and have a specially trained group of people work with you to answer your questions far away from other new comers. If you are a new comer and you show signs that you are stimulated by their emotional hooks such as their friendliness, smiles, sweet words, and you are responsive like when they ask you if you want to hang out with them at a church gathering and you nod your head and said: “I’d love that!” They put you as an emotive type around everyone else to bombard you with their friendship and emotional stimulus. You take a serious demographics analysis of the church membership of major churches or just watch TBN for a few days, and you will see that 99% of the time the people you see are obvious emotive types who are crying for Jesus, in tears because of the holy spirit, waling their arms about, and are absolutely irrational, incapable of intellectually questioning or analyzing ideology or dogma. Where did all the intellectual types go? They got systematically weeded out.
As an intellectual, you are a threat to any power structure and regime. Your ideas are actually, not you the person. As an intellectual you lack a nature that actually makes you a real threat: the ability to Act or execute your ideas. The party or church owns your other half. It is the emotive type which easily becomes excited, “empassioned,”driven to Act and Deed by powerful emotionally charged speeches – think HITLER – who becomes inspired by mythos, God [think Jihad], words, and ideas, that is the half of humanity that DOES. But these two types are not two separate points. They are points of a human spectrum and we all will be somewhere in that spectrum. There are two major kinds of people that make up humanity and both types must work together as one cooperative whole, if anything is to be actualized or materialized. “Divide & Conquer” does not always mean somebody is separating or isolating you from some group to brainwash you. Divide & Conquer in politics and situations such as revolutions and mass control of a populous or cults has more to do with the regime dividing the intellectuals away from the emotive types, so they can’t effect and stimulate the other.
The regime is the only allowable thinkers for the emotives. You know you have been psychologically conditioned – divided – by a regime or a power structure when you have been trained to not trust your fellows, especially if they are thinkers and share their thoughts. Read that sentence very carefully many times. If you are the type of person who REACTS negatively with another person in such a way that when another person expresses an idea, a thought, a thinking process, and you react to that by wanting to Argue, debate, doubt, tell others not to listen or believe what is said; to fight to maintain some idea of individuality, then you have been conditioned by a regime to psychologically reject your fellow citizens who are the intellectual types. Ask yourself this question and seriously think about its implications: “Whom do I trust, the Authorities who tells me something, or my fellow citizen who tells me something?” Then ask yourself what class or strata the people you deem to be trustworthy authorities come from, and learn to understand that you have been trained to reject and not trust your own fellows from your own common class and strata for a reason.
The fact that you are born into the human species which is a social organism, and the fact that you are dependent on others for your first 21 years of life should tell you that “individuality” is a fabricated delusion. The fact that nothing about the way you live, dress, eat, work, and believe, and nothing about your opinions, ideas, thoughts and worldviews is individually unique should tell you otherwise. Then after your 21st year when you have been tricked into thinking you are “independent” you are actually dependent on the State. Can’t see it? Go look at the case of Hurricane Katrina, the Haitian Earthquake, and the Japanese Tsunami. When the infrastructure of the State falls and the police don’t exist, the water stops flowing in your pipes, and the grocery stores are empty can you truly say that you are a self-reliant, independent, individual, and not dependent on your State for handouts and sustenance?
What do you think “politics” means in practical actuality? The science of exerting your policies onto a population. How do you assert and exert your policies onto a population and expect a people to follow them if the emotive doers are connected or influenced to their fellow intellectuals not in your party or on your regime? You have to induce distrust in the population. Cause the emotive doers to distrust their fellows who are thinkers. Can’t see it? Go ask 100 people in America from different classes who feel dis-empowered or enslaved by their government and state, and ask those same individuals if they each believe in “individuality,” and tally up the correspondence and correlation between those who feel dis-empowered and those who believe in individuality/individualism. Then go to any Middle Eastern or North African country where the populous topples their government once every generation if they believe in individuality. I will bet you my little sisters virginity that the answer you will get most often is that they are individuals within a cooperative collective called a Tribe. Even secularism has its cult creeds: Personal Liberty, Independence, and Individualism.
The population or church membership has been caused to exist in a state of disorganization with each other. Like an electrical circuit which has been cut. The thinkers can’t influence the emotives. The regime is the only allowable influencer of those emotives. The laws exist to keep the thinkers in check. Can’t see it? Pay attention to how any government reacts and handles any group of people who Organized themselves. Especially when the Organization consists of a working circuit of thinkers and emotive doers. Do some history.
Anyways, a few years of this stuff and the Khmer Rouge had murdered 2 million suspect high vanna people and they had themselves a labour camp state where the “citizens” they had were completely powerless. Half of that powerlessness came from the peasant half of the population who truly believed in their ideology and rhetoric or out of spite for the upper class treating them so bad they just became fanatic party members. The other have of the powerlessness came from the other half of the population working who know they were enslaved. You see that half of the population got the bad end of the deal, and they were kept powerless with two methods. The first method the Khmer Rouge used was division of intellectuals from emotives. You can’t kill every intellectual since that’s irrational and a waste of time, money, and energy. You kill to set examples and to induce fear. Your intellectuals are now afraid to think and open their mouths. The second method the Khmer Rouge used was something we can call “Docilization.” Emotive types are stimulated into action by their emotions. To docilized these type you simply don’t stimulate them. No more cool fun speeches of proletarian revolutions, no more pats on the back by the chairman, no more music even. It was actually against the party’s law to sing and make songs about love, punishable by death. The only songs allowed were songs about how cool the party was and how utopian it is to work for the party.
How would you neutralize these two types of people in a democracy like America? You cause the public to not trust the thinkers, and you induce apathy in the emotive type to docilize the public. You give the emotive type stimulus that directs their energy into useless outlets: sports, casual sex, vicarious living through the entertainment industry, whatever. Or you direct their actions by giving them stimulus that supports your power structure: political correctness, egalitarianism, etc. You may allow your intellectual types to congregate in their intellectual groups, but you first train your emotive types to think such endeavours are stupid. You know how stupid Nazism is? If you think so you have been desensitized, thus rendering most Nazi groups a non-threat. You know how stupid racism is? If you think so you have been docilized. Thus rendering any pro-African movement a worthless stupid ideology of a few disgruntled Black People.
You ever wondered what the hell happened to the Black Power/Social movement of the 1960′s? You ever wonder how convenient Black street gang developed during the 70′s just in time to divide Blacks into warring factions? If you know your street gang history you’ll know that the first Crip gang started out not as a gang but as a group of students who tried to recreate the social structure of the Black Panther movement to give their lives some order and discipline. It was a well meaning group. Then this group was infiltrated by the FBI and later the Bloods broke off becoming a rival. Conveniently later in ghettos around Los Angeles, unused train stations started getting trains coming in carrying military grade weapons. What were those weapons doing in LA? What happened in the 80′s? Street gangs started warring with each other with military grade weapons. So you analyze this over carefully and ask yourself, well who were those Black Power movements against originally? Not White people, the mostly White power structure that abused them. And you see them organizing into very coherent organizations where intellectuals like Malcolm X and emotional bards like MLK Jr were singing the emotive types into a dance. Then you see the younger generation of Black kids in the 70′s start to continue this movement by creating their own organizations. But after that you see “something” external fracture that coherency causing street gangs wars where Blacks kill Blacks. And then finally you ask yourself, well if the Blacks are too busy killing Blacks, who are they not fighting? The White power structure they originally hated. Then take a look at the depraved conditions of the ghettos, the incredible number of drug addiction in Black hoods, and the peculiar large number of Blacks in America’s prison population, and you should begin to see something “interesting.”
As good a job as they did in dismantling a feudal kingdom and State regime, the Khmer Rouge didn’t do a good enough job because many of the families with their tentacles in the power structure escaped into the safety of other countries. This same thing happened in Russia and China during their communist revolution. Before and during the revolution in Russia all most of the intellectuals, artists, and aristocracy had fled the country. Then we see that families who survived the Khmer Rouge revolution after only one generation have relatives back in government. Between the period of WWII and the Cultural Revolution many families with relatives in the Chinese government apparatus fled to either Taiwan or Southeast Asia, and interestingly many of these families ended up having their kin marry into oligarchic families in their new countries. The king of Thailand and his relatives; as are many of the upper strata of Southeast Asia; are part Teochew which is a major ethnic group from china who made a mass exodus southward.
I was watching this one documentary I think called “Hitler’s England.” It was about the Nazi’s plan on invading and taking over Great Britain. The first half of the documentary shows you the way the Nazi’s worked behind the scenes when they took over a country. Before they took over a country they sent spies in to gather the names and information on every known person inside that country that were public officials, intellectual, thinker, artist, writer, journalist, entertainers, and such types. These became their “black list.” When they took over that country the very first thing they would do is send out a secret group of soldiers to quietly locate and execute every person on that black list as fast as they can. This took place while the Nazi party gathered all intellectuals and politicians in that country who supported them into a new government. Then the Nazi propaganda machine would induce the populous to accept the new government. And they’d move to the next country. The Nazis never took over Great Britain, but the interesting thing for me was that after the war paperwork of the Nazis were collected and the British discovered that the Nazis already had a black list of people in the UK they were going to execute. Some of the people on this list were well known authors and entertainers.
The reason why such types were targeted by the Nazis is simple. As a regime of intellectuals hoping to control a populous, you simply don’t want any rival group of “meme makers” introducing stimulus into your emotive sector. Meme makers include artists and musicians and orators who are potentially more dangerous than thinkers, because these types act like emotional bards. One Hilter with great emotional barding skills can do a lot of damage. He was in his youth an aspiring artist. The Prophet Muhammad was this type who was known for his poetic barding skills. Vindex, must be this type. I encourage the ONA collectively to serious consider the importance of such tools of soft power as art, music, and poetry.
Ancient Walls
A week or so after the 100th day rite I went into one of my brief Islam spells where for a few days I obsessively collect information and read everything I can on a subject like Islam. What triggered it was how my late Great Grandpa had successfully by himself cause a large portion of our family to have a new family tradition which had now been adopted by his direct grand children. So I was wondering how the Prophet Muhammad may have done this back in his day. I started out by chasing down a nice PDF of the Qur’an and read it. The one I found was a thousand paged one complete with hadith quotes relevant to each Surah in the footnotes. Culture and Tradition by the way are two different things. People of the same Culture can and often do have different unique Traditions of doing things.
The only thing of use I extracted from reading this translation of the Holy Qur’an was something written in the beginning which defines for you what the Qur’an is technically. I learned that what is considered the Holy Qur’an is the verses in Classical Arabic or the classical language the Prophet actually used and spoke in which the original verses were written in. Everything else outside of that classical Arabic is only deemed an inaccurate translation of the Holy Qur’an. Meaning that if you had a Koran in English, or French, or even a modern dialect of Bedouin Arabic, it is not accurate to consider or refer to those books as “the Qur’an.” They are only inaccurate translations of The Holy Qur’an!
I thought that concept was linguistically genius! You know how much trouble Christianity would have saved if the Church was smart enough to say that The Holy Bible is only the verses written in the original ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Ko’in Greek and that all other bibles are merely inaccurate translations of The Holy Bible? This gave me an idea for later. When the time comes to translate ONA and Myttian writings into Asian languages, I have to keep an original English verse near the translated one, and in the footnotes try to explain key words and ideas as best as I can. This Qur’an I had gives you both the classical Arabic and English Surahs side by side, and it keeps every important word in Arabic, but spelled phonetically in English. I actually learned all these cool derogatory words to call an infidel like al-Fasiqun, Zalimun, and my favourite: al-Mushrikun.
But reading a translation of the Qur’an didn’t show me the politics of how Islam came into being which is what I was interested in. The Qur’an only showed me the propaganda devised used my Muhammad to forge his empire. So I searched for documentaries to watch to find the historic and political side of the birth and growth of Islam. I ended up finding finding a great 2 hour documentary I watched twice because it was so informative called “Islam: Empire of Faith,” which I found on youtube. I haven’t watched TV in 10 years. I only turn my TV on to watch documentaries. Otherwise I have been mentally disconnected from TV, newspapers, magazines, and even movies for 10 straight years. On youtube I only listen to music and watch documentaries. I figure if I am going to vege-out I might as well learn something while doing it.
If it weren’t for the Yahoo news that is in front of me when I check my mail, I’d be completely shut off and oblivious from the outside world. I’m very possessive of my brain and very, very selective about what memes and data goes into my head. On the internet I just mostly read selected forums and then 90% of the time do research by reading documents. The world outside my door is where I go find my entertainment and pass times, with friends and family. I’m also very selective with who I hang out with, you have to either be family or a close friend I know in person for many years. Otherwise I won’t talk to you or hang out with you. I don’t care if you are a friend of a friend. If I don’t know you or you are not related to me, then you have no business talking to me or wanting to hang out. This makes it so that up to 90% of everything in my head, and around me such as my environment and people I interact with are under my control at all times. You know how hard it is to be Master of your own Mind and Domain? Very. It’s a Buddhist practice often called Renunciation. When you renounce the world [loka: populous], it means to renounce the world [the mundane] and everything of it. When you seek to gain Mastery of your own Mind, Heart, and Body/Life, it means total self-control. The only thing that should exist in your life are the Three Jewels: Buddha which represents Mind; Dhamma which represents Natural Phenomena; and Sangha which represents your association of monks, family and friends. Everything else beyond that is a distraction.
So the first thing about that documentary that stuck out in my mind was that Islam counts the year 622 as its year 1 and not 611 which was the time when Muhammad started getting psychic transmissions from his invisible friend. Which transmissions were actually retellings of the Torah mixed with 700th century political laws. In 622 Muhammad and his followers were kicked out of Mecca or they left because their lives were threatened. So Muhammad with his followers traveled to Medina. This was considered the birth of Islam because now for the first time in these people’s history a new tribe emerged which was not based on blood kinship, but on Faith.
Muhammad’s life was threatened for political reasons. At first he was just treated as a nutter, but as he gained followers he became a visible threat to the status quo of Mecca. During that era the Arabian peninsula was inhabited by many different tribes, each warring with the other. Each tribe had their own animistic religion and gods. In Mecca was a cube shaped structure the elders of the different tribes used to house the gods of each of the major tribes. The cube structure was used for political purposes. The gods inside induced the tribes people to not fight in the area of Mecca. This allowed something vital: Trade. And with Trade comes money and wealth for the ruling class. Muhammad had become a threat to Mecca’s status quo because he was preaching about a one god and demanding the discontinue of worship of all other gods. Without the other petty tribal gods, the ruling families of Mecca feared that peace would not be possible in Mecca which thus prevented Trade between tribes. So Muhammad left for Medina to brood.
Shortly after Muhammad settled in Medina the first war which would spark the birth of an Islamic Empire broke out. The ruling families of Mecca had sent a thousand of their sons and warriors to Medina to kill Muhammad and his followers. Muhammad could only collect 300 out of Medina to fight for him, which included every male from young boys to old men. His little rag tag army kept the Meccan army at bay for a while and slowly Muhammad started to gain the upper hand. When the neighboring non-islamized Bedouin tribes heard of a war against Mecca and learned that Muhammad’s army was tough enough to slowly gain the upper hand, the Bedouin tribes gradually came to help Muhammad fight for a share of the future profit: power and influence of over a new regime. This first war to expand Islam technically never stopped.
When Muhammad took over Mecca he institutionalized something called a Hajj which was a bit of genius. It’s basically a rule that states that every Muslim should at least come to Mecca to see the Kaaba at least once in their life. The genius of this comes later. In only a decade after this initial fight Muhammad’s Islamic army had forged an empire that stretched from Arabia to southern Spain. One hundred years later the political genius of the hajj started to bare fruit. Because now you had Muslims of different skin color, nationalities, tribes, nations, classes, all traveling at least once in their life to Mecca. This first made Mecca a lucrative center of Trade within the empire. The genius part is that IDEAS from different people and areas all converged and mingled at Mecca, and so when these pilgrims went back home, they left with new ideas. This gave birth to the Renaissance of Islam or the Golden Age of Islam.
So when Europe was in this thing called the “dark ages” and retarded, the Islamic civilization was experiencing a productive Golden Age of learning and science. Baghdad at the time was the cultural center of this Islamic Renaissance. You had all these thinkers, artists, inventors, philosophers from different places of a massive empire all come to Mecca to Trade items and exchange ideas, and they’d bring those ideas back to innovate them. Then the elite of the learned of that empire all met in Baghdad to translate their ancient Greek together, work on their inventions together, and all that good stuff, which would later find its way slowly into Europe.
I thought it was fascinating how a simple trek to a box in the desert could end up engineering a 1400 year old tradition for many people of different ethnicity and more importantly for clans and tribes or families across one generation after the next. But all that wasn’t the best part of the documentary that hit me like a load of bricks!
The best part comes later during the end of Islam’s Golden Age during the 1400′s. What initiated the decline of Islamic civilization was the Mongol invasion that swept across the Islamosphere. Most of the Mongols eventually would end up becoming Muslims, but they had nonetheless set the decline into motion. A tribe of nomads in the mountains of Anatolia [modern Turkey] were inspired by the Mongols. So they came down from their mountains to settle and carve themselves an empire. These became known as the Ottomans and their empire was the Ottoman Empire. This is where things get interesting, at least for me. These Ottomans ended up taking a big chunk of the aging Byzantine Empire, but that’s boring.
The good stuff happens with a young Ottoman Sultan named Suleiman. After Suleiman inherited the throne he set out to conquer the most desired city to be conquered: Constantinople! Other past Ottoman Sultans tried before but failed. This was because the actual city was a huge walled fortress. The documentary showed you a layout of what the ancient walls of Constantinople looked like, with all its towers and forts. Even with gun power cannons shooting at the huge wall the Ottomans could not breach the 1000 year old wall!
That briefly made me think because I emotionally realized something. The people and families living in that city had remained in one place and each generation that past had seen the same 1000 year old wall! What a concept. I realized that in our modern times because our jobs and business and just the moving around of family members, we will never settle in one place for a 1000 years in such a way that our generations sees the same something for 100 life times. I quickly thought about The Numinous Way and how DM says that a Numinous culture develops over Time when a people are settled down in one place where they connect with their land.
Suleiman had this great idea to take Constantinople, he would strangle it to weaken it. To strangle it Suleiman constructed a fortress by the water side of the Bosporus thing right across the way from Constantinople. Then he used ships from his water side fortress to sink every ship that goes near the desired city. Eventually he conquers it and turns the Hagia Sofia into a Mosque and becomes one of the Ottoman empire’s most famous rulers. I think the Hagia Sofia is one of the most beautiful architectural structures on earth. The Hagia would end up being the model of all mosques.
So back at home Suleiman became very famous for taking over Rome and conquering a coveted city in Europe. But his life wasn’t all great. The documentary switches a while to tell you about what the life of a Sultan was like. Usually when a crown prince has been named and that prince has taken the throne it was usual practice to kill your male sibling to prevent anyone of them from killing you for the throne. There were also different tribal families of power in the empire who eyed the throne and who many times used whatever means they could to get close to you and kill you. This meant as a Sultan you can’t even trust your wife, concubines, generals, or vizirs, because any one could be secretly loyal to one of these other powerful families or tribes.
The problem for the Sultan were the tribes and families and ties of loyalty you see. Everybody in his empire came from a family and tribe and so they were naturally loyal more to their blood than to him. Sultan Suleiman had to do something about this to gain absolute power. It’s what he did that is the most fascinating part of this documentary for me, if you understand the implications as I do. How did he fix this problem of loyalty and gain total power? Easily actually.
Sultan Suleiman established an institution in which he set up orphan guardians and teachers. He then went to Constantinople and other places where there were Christian families that had nothing to do with Islam or Ottoman Tribes. Then he took very young children away from these Christian families and raised thousands and thousands of them in his orphanages. They were to be raised strictly as orphans with no kind of parents or tribes and clans or anything that like that. They were completely individualized. His appointed orphanage teacher were to raise these orphans as Muslims. But Suleiman treated his orphans like gold. They got the best education in the empire, ate the best food, lived in his buildings. As these children grew up if some of them showed signs of being intellectually inclined, Suleiman would train them in government. If they were interested in military science, Suleiman trained them in the military. Whatever they had a natural desire to lean toward, he trained them in. In only a few years when his orphans grew up, Suleiman had himself something bizarre never seen before in the empire. He had thousands and thousands of men and women who owned no loyalty or allegiance to any family, clan, or tribe, but he himself, who would kill and die for him. And to secure his power he placed all of his grown orphans into every office and position of importance in his empire.
What a capital concept. Individualize children from their families, institutionalize them, raise them in a public/state/imperial education system until they grow old and put them to work. This way these orphaned people in their adult years have no ties to any family, clan, or tribe, and are loyal only to the state/sultan. With no family, clan, or tribe to depend on, you are dependent on the sultan/state. The best part about this is that such grown orphans breed and have children of their own. And when that happened what do you think happens? The orphaned adults raised their children in their orphan culture. This is your typical American. The amazing thing to consider is that in our public school system during our most impressionable years, we actually never learn anything about family or culture. That state draws you away from any family you might have with ideas of “Independence” and “Individualism” and “Personal Liberty.” We learn about the state and things that will make us a productive citizen of a state later in life. And as orphaned, segregated, individualized citizens with no family to trust or rely on, no fellow citizens we trust, we end up living our entire lives serving the interests of the state and its corporations. Then you die, and your children you gave to the state takes your place. But you are never ever aware of the families and people that grow wealthy and powerful because of your orphaned state of existence. As long as you have your independence and individualism. God forbid you live together with family and friends to simply help each other prosper and live better.
The Future
Something new and strange is in the air for my cousins and I. Something strange happened after that 100th day ceremony. We had seen plenty before. But this time it was different because we experienced it as young adults, with the mind and understanding of such. My older cousins and I left that ceremony that day changed inside. I have a lot of cousins, 30 of us all together if you count just us who came out of the 9 children grandma had. She had 10, but 1 died as a boy. He was the twin of my favourite uncle. Since my mom had me when she was very young, I am up at the top with the older cousins. What changed us inside was that we that day fully realized that all our parents were getting old, and that our grandparents were all dying out.
We were hanging out as a family early this month at grandma’s how with the aunts and uncles and cousins barbequing. My oldest cousin is 30 years old, and our ages tapers down from there. And so one of the older aunts looked at us all and shook her head and said out loud to us: “Look at you guys. You’re all old as us now and you still need us to cook for you!” Everybody laughed since many of us cousins were old [over 18]. Jokingly I said back to get back at them: “You aunts and uncles take a good look at this house, because it’s going to be your nursing home.”
There was loud laughter that came from that statement. But it was a different kind of laughter, one with a solemn knowing inside all of us that it was true. My Grandma and her peers nod their heads laughing, and one of our aunts in her mid 50′s says for everybody: “She’s right, we’re all going to die together in this house.” My other favorite uncle I wrote about who knows the martial arts and kicked peoples asses said jokingly at me, as us cousins were laughing: “Ok, laugh your fill now. We’ll see who has the last laugh. Since you cursed us to die in this house Diapers [my family nickname], when I get old and wear my first old people diaper, I’ll make sure I take a big shit it in for you!” Everybody calls me Diapers because when I was a baby I cried so much I pissed and pooed through many diapers a day.
That joke that day was what triggered “The Talk,” among us older cousins. It was our first real adult talk together of any kind. The oldest one who is 30 whom we all call Big Brother started the talk when we were eating out. It was all the 10 of us who are over 21. He is an original “charter member”of our WSA and is actually “Myattian” because of me and my writings. He initiated the talk saying to us: “So, what are we going to do with them? Our parents are getting old?” In our culture the oldest in age by birth right has the most authority, then it works on down so the next oldest has the next level of authority. I’m nowhere really near the top, but everyone at the top are WSA and Myattian and turn to me for advice. The oldest of us girl cousins who is 26 named Christine answered our oldest cousin and said: “We have to try hard to keep them together so they can be happy, it’s all on us.” Our 28 year old cousin nods his head and puts his foot down telling us: “It’s all down hill for everyone from here. Grandparents will go first, then our parents. This is it for us. We’ve fucked around enough. Just the parents together is 18 people. That’s gunna take a lot of time and money. We either work together form now on and start saving up or they’ll die apart in nursing homes.” We all nodded in a solemn agreement together, knowing inside that someday in our lifetime, we will see them all die.
And from this first talk, our talks grew during the month. We ended up having a long talk about our future family. All of us older cousins were now at that age where we were either thinking about having our own children or where we have come into awareness that we will have children soon. I asked our oldest cousin what kind of wife he wanted to test him. Our oldest cousin is perhaps the most Americanized of all of us. When he was 18 he moved out on his own, got a job, had normal friends, and he didn’t like Asian culture or Asian girls. He always dated either Black girls, White girls, or Mexican girls. It was only recently that he got his first Asian girl who was Korean. My oldest cousin surprisingly said to us something like: “You know, I’ve thought about it. I’ve been out there in their [American] culture. I’ve come to realize that they have no culture or purpose in life. They live for nothing. Over the years I felt drawn back to our culture. And thinking about it I’ve come to realize that I don’t want my children living like them. With no soul or roots. I have to marry a girl with a culture and roots of some type, someone traditional with family bonds like us, for my own kid’s sake you know.”
Our main concern was money. Because as the cousins generation we have our 18 parents and the several grandparents PLUS our own future children to think about. So the idea is not a simple American concern of feeding two little mouths and keeping a roof over two little heads. The only way for us to pull this off is to all stay together as a collective to not work jobs but do business with each other. All 30 cousins will in time have to tribalize into a single organized whole to make our money to take care of both our elders and our own future children. There is no other way around it. The act of us wanting our personal freedom and independence will cause a causal chain reaction where the end result is the elders get separated and put into nursing homes and we each struggle just to feed our own kids.
The older cousins during our first adult talks said that the situation in America here is not going to get any better. It will either stay this way or more than likely get worse as time passes. This means that as time passes living conditions will get worse, money will buy less, housing and utilities will be more costly. My oldest cousins said that there is no way for us each to divide up into nuclear families like the typical American and expect to be able to provide the same kind of life that we each had when we were children growing up. If we go our separate ways to be little nuclear families, most of our kids will be raised in apartments in not so great neighborhoods and environments. My oldest girl cousin agreed and added that she would be more than willing without a second thought to give up being an independent person like an American and live with her siblings and cousins just so her children can have a nice big house in a nice environment to be raised in for their own sake and well being. We all nodded and agreed that the best option for our future children was for us cousins to follow the example of our aunts and uncles and live together in groups to share the load.
I had brought up during another adult talk we had with my set of older cousins the concept of gradual degradation of culture. We have the generation of grandparents who have inherited a lot of their ancestral cultural practices. Then we have the aunts and uncles generation who only know a few of those traditional rites and practices. And with our cousins generation we have 1% and really know nothing. This would mean that our children will have nothing, no real culture. And the problem arises that no matter what we do to give them a big house and nice environment to live in, because they have no real cultural praxis that vacuum will be filled in with that American secular stuff. And so their children ahead of them will be lost to this nothingness of an American “culture.” In that condition they will just be prey to these religions as they look for cheap substitute cultures.
The oldest girl cousins in our group nodded in agreement and she added that she wants to re-introduce Chinese customs into her future children and so she was starting to learn as much as she can from our Chinese elders and from her Chinese friends. We all agreed that re-introduction was a great idea. Our 28 year old cousins said that he has his heart now set on marrying a Thai girl from Thailand in a few years when the time is right, so he’ll have access to a living Thai set of traditions and cultural praxis which he can help re-introduce into our future children, which we all agreed was a great idea.
My other concern was transgenerational traditions, meaning a set of some sort of traditional observances or experiences where each emerging generation experienced such things. Our ancestors had the fortune of being settled in one place for hundreds of years to stare at the same forest and temples generation after generation. And living in America with the way of life here will not ever guarantee that our children and their children, and their descendents will stay in one place to be exposed to the same surroundings and the same traditions. My oldest cousins being Myattian and influenced by me knew exactly what I was trying to get at and he brought up the tradition the Muslims have of making a pilgrimage to Mecca which they have observed for over 1000 years, and this helps maintain the coherency of their culture and tradition over the passing of generation. So we all agreed that to help keep our clan blood and culture together over the passing of generations that we needed to designate a place where all of us makes a pilgrimage to once in a while. This way we can take our future children these places, they they pass that tradition down to their children. In ONA we call this the or a Black Pilgrimage.
My oldest cousin, me, and our 28 year old cousin all actually own tracks of land in Cambodia. Every time one of our family members goes to visit the old country, we’d send some money with them so they can buy more land to add onto our property. Personally I have about $5000 worth of land. Depending on the area, they sell what they call around 6000-7000 square Hecters for your $1000 or something like that. Unfortunately I don’t know what a Hecter is or what a thousand squares of it feels like, and my older cousins don’t really know either. It’s just what my grandmother and those aunts call it, but they say it as in a Hecta. Our oldest cousin says that the property is just big because granny says she can’t even walk to the other side of the property. So our first plan is to build villas on each of our properties, that way our children can share it and have a place to actually trek to. We designated the obvious Angkor Wat as our Mecca, and then the city of Chiang Mai in Thailand is our Medina. The rule we agreed on is that from now on every 5 years we all together have a family trek to our Mecca and Medina and this tradition will be observed by our children and theirs on down. We picked Chiang Mai because our grandmother traces her lineage back the a kingdom named Lanna whose ancient capital was Chiang Mai. In the late 1700′s the Thais sacked Lanna and took Chiang Mai, then the traditional history our grandma tells us is that the family that ruled Lanna were forced to give up the throne and their hold on power, Thai kings were put in place and the Lanna family just married into a line of the Thai family. We have a younger girl cousin named Lan-Na, we call her Lan, which in Khmer means a “car” unfortunately.
My other concern was what we were actually going to be breeding with and if the other parent of our children has a culture or not and what culture our children will actually be raised in if they are mixed. We all agreed that whatever they were mixed with, it’s our culture and way of life that they will be raised inside of. But my main concern was with us girl cousins, since it’s easy for us to get involved with White guys/people. My issue is that those American guys just do not have a culture, and that if we breed with them, their cultureless way of existence will ruin our children. Our oldest girl cousin Christine understood what I was trying to say, since she is also Myattian, and she put her foot down with the younger girl cousins in our group and said that if we girls cousins are going to mix with a White person, that the White person cannot have a say into how the child will be raised, or we will call our boy cousins to use force to discipline the White guy. That White husband has to agree to raise the child in our culture. Because these White people have no sense of family bond and don’t take care of their elders.
One of the older cousins among us is half White. She’s 25 years old named Sopheary which means “Beautiful or Pretty,” but she goes by Sophie; sometimes she calls herself “Sopretty,” and we’ll call her “Soapy.” Her father is White whom we call Uncle Steve. But our grandma will pinch our thigh if we call him that, she wants us to call him Lok Boo Steve, which is more better. Boo means Uncle, and Lok is a respectful title meaning something like “Sir, Lord, Master, or Mistress, Lady, Ma’am.” My grandma reveres Uncle Steve.
Back in the 80′s before I was born when my grandma and her children first came here a young White Jehovah’s Witness guy with blonde hair saw my grandma one day and clasps his hands together and had a Khmer friend of his tell my grandma that he would like to help my grandma’s family get use to America. He introduced himself as Steve.
It was actually Uncle Steve who for some strange reason just devoted a lot of his time on our family teaching us how to buy [and drive] cars, get bank loans, find work, and start up businesses. And he also took my grandma and the aunts and uncles around to sight see different places around California. He never stopped devoting himself to our family. My grandma really liked him because she noticed that this young man had respect for his own parents, lived with them, and had the ability to respect his elders. He just spent so much time with our family he went “native” and married into it. Or actually my grandma “gave” him one of her daughters as a gift and asked him to marry her. So he did. Over the years Uncle Steve not only learned to speak fluent Khmer to talk with the aunts and uncles and his new wife, but he also learned to speak fluent Thai to speak with my grandma and her peers. He has never during his 30 of being around our family ever tried to convert us or ask us to go to his Kingdom Hall with him. My grandma sometimes asks him about his beliefs or she would ask him which religion he thinks is better Christianity or Buddhism. Uncle Steve always first clasps his hands and says that he really knows nothing of the matter, besides that there is only one God and as long as our own faith in this God makes us each good people, it should be all that matters between friends and family. Which is what my grandma believes also.
Uncle Steve raised his mixed children all in our culture, meaning 100% in his wife’s [our aunt] culture. And like how we do things, his elderly parents actually live in his house for free with his wife and children. Our mixed cousins he fathered are Buddhists just like us, are animists just like us, burn incense and pray to the Buddha and dead ancestors just like us. Uncle Steve is a big influence in my life, because of the aunt and uncle generation he is really the only one that knows about my culture, but also has the same command of the English language as I do, so he can articulate things about our culture in a sophisticated way when it’s just me and him talking. Sometimes for a fish born and raised in water, it’s hard to be consciously aware of this water. But when a frog above from a lily pad hops into the same water, this frog knows the water from a different perspective and can share what he understands of it to the fish. That’s kinda like Uncle Steve. There was a time in his past when after he had children that his Kingdom Hall rebuked him for not raising his children Jehovah’s Witnesses and never bringing them to the Kingdom Hall. They called him a hypocrite for believing in Jesus but allowing his children to be raised pagan. Uncle Steve quit going to his Kingdom Hall after that.
One time when after I had read the Satanic Bible, identified myself as a Satanist, and was in high school, I asked Uncle Steve why he didn’t raise his kids in his religion. He said that the average American – which included him – does not have an actual living culture. They gave that up during the American revolution when they severed ties with Mother England. So without a real culture they have a vacuum inside their soul and they look for things to fill this vacuum. They look for substitute cultures. Which is why religion and sects are a big business in America. Religion is a substitute culture, and now so is Consumerism. But he realized early on that the actual practice of religion, which is to sit in a church or building once a weak to listen to a person talk for an hour is actually a very, very poor substitute for a culture. And so he didn’t want his own children to have that void which he had. So he wished for a wife with a living culture and promised himself that when he had children he would give them the gift of culture and cause them to understand that belief is no substitute or culture and tradition. In our culture, the praxis of Buddhism is an interwoven part of our culture and ancestral weltanschauung. You can’t separate the culture from the Buddhism, from the weltanschauung. Uncle Steve said that he would raise them immersed in a living culture, and give them the freedom to pick their own religions if they would like one, just to test out his theory that religion is a substitute culture. He hypothesized that his children will grow up having no interest in such substitutions. He was right.
Uncle Steve was still soul searching in his older years. He questions his beliefs and says that he whittles it down to the bare essentials. Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t believe that we have souls or spirits, and in our culture we do believe that we have something like a soul or a spirit. This one day when I was over at Uncle Steve’s hanging out with my cousin, we had one of our philosophical talks. He’s likes to see himself as an amateur anthropologist since he really is fascinated with other people and their cultures. So many times Uncle Steve asks questions just to gain a better understanding of a person and their understanding of things, but sometimes he asks questions because he is actually searching for an answer for himself. So as he was making us chicken wings while I was sitting at the counter doing my homework, he asks me something like: “I’ve read in some English translations of the Tripitaka that the Buddha seems to suggest that people don’t have a soul or an atma. But in your culture you believe that the ancestors are still alive and that when we die we reincarnate? I was wondering what your thoughts were on that, just out of curiosity, if you have any? Do you believe a soul exists?” Now he was asking a high school student, so I didn’t know much at the time.
I first told Uncle Steve that I didn’t even know the Buddha taught that people had no souls and that now I was confused. I thought about for a while, and I had a clever answer that made things make sense to me. I told Uncle Steve that maybe stuff like souls and God is like the Sun? It doesn’t matter if I believe in the sun or not believe in it because it is still going to be there. If I don’t believe the sky is real, the sky will still be there. And if I believe really hard that the sky is really real, it’s not going to get any bluer than it is. If I stop believing that my heart exists, it’s not like it’s going to stop beating and I die. So if spirits exist and are real, believing in it or not believing in it really changes nothing. So my answer is that I chose not to even bother to be concerned either way. Because you have the Yin of belief and the Yang of disbelief, and before yin and yang is neither one or the other but stillness. Then Uncle Steve nods his head in contemplation and says to me: “You know that answer deserved an extra pile of chicken wings!”
At our cousin meeting about the culture of our potentially mixed children I remembered my talks with Uncle Steve, so I suggested that we raise our future kids in our culture, but allow them to chose their own religion when they feel the need to search for one. And we all agreed to the idea. And most of us knew the out come. Because all of us older cousins during our teens and high school years and college years did actually go find other religions to be inside of for a while. Besides me, no less than at least 4 of my own cousins got into Satanism, but when we grew up and past our 21st year our insides turned around and we gradually dropped our religions to go looking for our roots. In such a way that now, all of us are actually devout Buddhists.
I think it’s a beautiful thing that use older aged cousins are now growing into that age when we are thinking about having our own children and that we are now having meetings to talk out our plans. And those plans are boil down to sticking together for the sake of the next generation, because things in America aren’t going to get any better. We made a contest to see which one of us will make the prettiest children. Our oldest cousin said he’ll win because he’s decided that he’s going to either marry an Arabian wife or a Hindi one since he really likes both of those cultures. All the girls but me in our group cheered for him to marry a Hindi one. I objected to both of his choices because Arab and Hindi girls are hairy and his kids will come out hairy too.
This thing in the ONA we call Magian Ethos is like the ocean: it is everywhere around us in the West. I was watching a documentary on the navy once. The documentary was just about the US Navy and what life was like in it. It showed you what life was like in submarines, on ships, and on those air craft carriers, and what duties and chores the navy people had to do on a day to day basis. At one point the documentary showed these Navy guys run around putting tarp over the air crafts, painting other air crafts and their ships. I was wondering why they were doing that because the crafts look fine and did not seem to need a new paint job? But the documentary explained that sea water is corrosive to metal and over time will eat right through it. So those guys had to take care to keep a layer of paint on all their airplanes and ships to keep the salt water from eating away at them.
The unconscious mechanical State system born from the psychosis of millions of people in America long ago was built to manufacture individualized citizens to insure its own sustenance. It’s nobody’s fault and it’s not a conspiracy. It’s just that orphaned adults who don’t have culture and don’t know better simply perpetuate that state of existence down into their next generation over and over because they are lost in that samsara. As someone awake, who know what’s going on, I cannot consciously allow myself to have children of my own and condemn them to become an individualized zombie. We can’t escape the system, but inside we can do what we can to make life in it better. I’m done with teaching outsiders to see things my way. I don’t care about you and your children, what religion you keep and what culture you are rooted into. I’m now concerned with my own family and my future children. I’ll share my ideas with the ether and if you have come to understand and see things as I have, then what I share may help you along your way to survive in this system. All I can say is that you aren’t going to go far alone, and that because things will get worse gradually in time here, your children will definitely not make it far alone. There will come a time when you will need to seriously inspect your belief of “individualism,” to see if the causal fruits of such beliefs is worth the effort of being a loner in a system designed to prey on the individualized.
My only concern as a Buddhist and a Myattian person is to help reduce the potential condition of my future children’s suffering and to give them peace in life. I was talking to one of the old guards once about DM. I can’t remember if it was DarkLogos of Dark Lianna. But This was a time when DM was still into Islam. I had said to the old guard something like: “Maybe DM is trying Islam out because he is restless inside. I hope he finds peace someday.” And the old guard said back: “What is peace.” I thought it was supposed to be a humourous statement, so I never answered the question. Peace in English is meaningless, or it would mean the absence of war and conflict. Then we can parse the concept of “conflict” to mean any number of things, conflict between two people, conflict between two emotions, between ideas, conflict between duty and personal liberty, conflict between one’s Mind and one’s emotions; have you heard the statement that goes: My Mind’s telling me no, but my body is saying yes? That’s conflict and no peace. In my Asian weltaschauung the concept translated into the word “Peace” is different.
Generally Peace in Khmer is Souksabbai, which is pronounced Sookh and Sabbai which should rhyme with the English pronunciation of the word “Rabbi.” It’s used as a casual way of greeting people. We clasp our hands and ask “Souksabbai te?” Which literally means “Peace No?” Then as a return you say “Souksabbai.” It’s the same word in Thai and Lao with the same meaning. In the very same way a Muslim will greet another with a casual: “Salaam,” and the other returns with the same. Salaam means Peace. But revealingly when you morph it by adding an I to the word you get “Islam” which has the meaning of: Surrender, Submit, Give Up, Let Go; which to me makes sense because it’s the same essential imagery as our word for Peace and you’ll see why as we go further.
Souksabbai is actually made up of two words. The word Sabbai is Khmer, but is used in Thai and Lao also with the same meaning. It means to be “Happy” or “Content.” When you are drunk you say that you are Sabbai or Sabbai Jed in Khmer which means Happy Chitta [heart/emotions]. In Thai it’s Sabbai Jai. Souk is the word that actually means “Peace,” and it is almost impossible to translate into English using a single word. The word “Peace” unfortunately is the closest word English has.
Souk is the vernacular for the Buddhist-Pali word and concept: Sukkha or Sukkham meaning something like The Sukkha. But the final -A is soft so it is not pronounced in the vernacular. It is related to the Sanskrit word Sukra which is the name of the planet Venus. Thus there is a connection between the word Sukkha and the metaphorical shades of meaning of Venus. She is soft, pleasant, pleasing, subtle, gentle, etc. In fact in the vernacular the word Sukkha, and the name Sukra which also lends it’s name to our word for Friday are pronounced the same: Souk. Before you can grasp what Sukkha means you have to know its opposite: Dukkha or Dukkham.
Dukkha is pronounced almost like the English word “Took,” as in I Took something. But the “T” is soft like a French or Spanish T. It usually accompanied by the word “Ter” read like a Brit would like Tuh. Ter means to Do or Make, like “faire” in French. Ter Douk means to “Make/Cause Trouble.” So when I say my Kabal [head] Ter Douk, I mean that I have a headache of some sort. When something is Ter Douk Jed me, it means something is bothering or troubling my heart. When I say my Gapih [stomach] Ter Douk, it means I have a stomach ache.
If say a thousand children in Ethiopia have died of a famine, then Douk is not the right word to use. In this case it would be ludicrous to describe the tragedy that happened to those starved children as “Douk.” You use Douk like when a fly is bugging you and you say: “Shit, this fucking fly won’t leave me alone, it’s Ter Douk-ing me!” For the famine and the mass death you have to use a word that is heavier in tragical meaning. You can use the word Vetania, pronounced Wait-Tan-ee-ah, which means something like Misery or Hardship. If it’s winter time in Denmark in the old days and your family is struggling to survive because you lack enough food and fire wood, you say your experience is Vetania. There is even more tragical “Apop” which is hugely worse than Vetania. Apop means Suffering but the kind of suffering that describes 2 million people dying of starvation, war, and genocide.
Which should tell you something. The Buddha in Pali said in Life Dukkha arises and that his Way is the way to alleviate Dukkham. He never said life is Apop. Unfortunately when Buddhism is translated into English, the well hearted English speaking Buddhists will interpret Dukkha to mean that maybe the Buddha said pessimistically that life is full of the kind of ungodly suffering born from a big meteorite falling on New York city and killing millions of people, tsunamis and earthquakes slaughtering whole cities so why bother living? Give up and die. When all the Buddha really said if we translated it into modern English was: “Dude life sucks man.” And his 5 monks would say: “Dude for sure man.” And Buddha says to that: “I think I got a fucking way to unsuck life dudes and make our lives Hakuna Matata!” What’s Hakuna Matata mean? It’s Swahili for No Worries, and is the exact meaning or essence as the word Sukkham. The opposite of Dukkham [worry/trouble] is Sukkham [no worries, laid back, chill dude]. Remember, bhikkhu means homeless beggar. The original monks back then were hippies and slackers that dropped out of society to chill out in forests to live a Free [liberated] life with no king, boss, or Brahmin priests. Why did they shave their hair? Because it was troublesome [dukkha] to keep hair in the forest because it got tangled and you got lice. Sukkha literally means the same thing as the word Chill in contemporary English slang. Pali back than is like what Ebonics is to English today.
Souk is when a creek flows softly as it naturally would where you see a leaf nice float by. It’s chill, it’s cool, don’t touch it, leave it alone. Douk is when a rock in that river, The rock obstruct the river’s Natural flow and Disturbs it. So we can then say that the disturbed state of the river is not as it Naturally should be. Let’s remove the rock so the river can be chill again. When we take the rock out we say that the river “Na’oo Souk,” meaning, it’s “Kick Back, Laid Back.” Na’oo means to Dwell At or Live At, or Be In a Place. When a baby is sitting by itself minding its own business chewing on things we say the baby Na’oo Souk. It’s just minding it’s own business and chilling. When you Disturb that baby and take its toy away and make it cry you caused Douk for the baby. So we can ask: “Is the baby’s state of crying and unpleasantness [douk/dukkha] its natural state? No it isn’t. Something is disturbing it. If we stop that cause of Douk, we then return the baby to its natural state/stasis of Souk.
Souk is Tao. Tao just flow naturally. Yin is being excited or over-joyed. Yang is Douk which is worry or anguish. Yang is climbing up hill which is the struggle of war or state of douk. Yin is the excitement of going downhill or the rapture and fanaticism of the belief in God or Peace. Tao is standing still at the foothill: neither going up or down, just Chillin like villain. Before the Upness and the downness is Tao. To find Tao, to be in Harmony to that Tao, to its Natural flow, you simply must Let Go of the yin and the yang. Stop holding on to the yin and the yang: surrender your grip. Submit, Islam. When you submit to the flatness of the foothill you are still and not in a state of trying to go up hill or falling down hill. If you are in a river, submitting to the Tao is when you are neither holding on to something to stay in one place, struggling up stream, or swimming down stream. You just surrender and float like a leaf undisturbed and flowing naturally. That is Peace: Souk.
And so in our life here in America there are many things that can cause us to worry, stress out, trouble us. The praxis of Buddhism as per the 4 Noble Truths is to learn to recognize what troubles us and let go, or to help others in our life let go of their worries or cause of their worries so they can Chill Out again, their natural state of being, when they are just still and content: souksabbai. Some times the word Sahnok is used instead of Sukkha or Souksabbai. Sahnok means “Easy,” or “Facile,” as in “Piece of Cake.” You hear your elder men say that they used to like short skirts on their girls when they were young because it’s Sahnok to get access to something. These words have no spiritual or religious meanings or value. It’s the religiously inclined people with their religious attitude that corrupt it in their ignorance, assumptions, and misunderstandings. Original Buddhism used to be a kick back [sukkha] way of life [sasana]. But as time past when less people understood the Pali, that Buddhism morphed into all these super spiritual religious things or some sort of super spiritual philosophy.
The Buddha once said that you are not in the sasana of his Way if you do not take Refuge in all Three Jewels. Sangham saranam gechami: The Sangha is the Help/Protection I go to. Refuge is an inaccurate translation for Sarana [Pali]. Sharana in the Sanskrit simply means Help or Protection. Sharanarti or Sharanasthana is Refuge or Asylum. So you cannot be a “Buddhist” unless you have a sangha to go to for help and protection. Sangha includes the bhikkhusangha which is the order of monks and the ariyasangha which is the order of nobles [what all Buddhists are collectively called]. The monks are just an order of people who have dedicated their life to keeping the dhamma to memory. This way their order can re-introduce the dhamma to every new generation that emerges. The ariyasangha is needed to apply or pout into practice the dhamma. You cannot practice Buddhism by yourself. It is a communitarian sasana. Meditation is not how you “practice” Buddhism. It is simply a tool to quiet the Mind so you can analyze what is causing dukkha in your family and friends, so you can discover a means to relieve them of their distress or worry. You can’t practice Buddhism alone because who do you practice metta with if it’s just you? Sasana doesn’t mean a Belief, it means Instructions to be Executed. When you buy a cabinet from WalMart and you begin to put it together, the sheet of paper with your Instructions on it is a sasana. You don’t believe in your Instructions, you either follow them thru to manifest the intended end objective, or not. Believing or disbelieving, agreeing or disagreeing does nothing practical.
When your elders are worried about their elderly years because they are unsure if they will be taken care of, this is Dukkham. As a member of their association/sangha or family, it is your duty to be your elder’s Help and Protection to get rid of that Dukkham and ease their worries by taking care of them. This is Buddhist praxis and the Gift of Peace [Sukkham]. If how you live your life makes your mother worry, perhaps because you drink too much or whatever, it is your duty since you took an oath to follow the Three Jewels, to relieve your Mother’s worry by changing the way you live your life. That is Buddhist practice and the Gift of Peace. If your child is hungry and crying you feed it and console it. That is relief of Dukkham and generating Peace. If you Understand – Buddhi – that the world in 20 years will be much harder to live than it is today, and you are going to have children, then it becomes your duty to do everything in your power to see to it that your future children has as few causes of worry as possible and will be as Souk and Sahnok as possible, that’s giving them peace. That’s Theravada Buddhist praxis. It’s nothing mystical. It’s boring. It’s a life long commitment. And it’s hard.
This country is not going to get any better. It will either plateau or decline further. Judging by our unpayable debt which becomes a heavy burden to each emerging generation ahead of us, I’ll bet that conditions in this country will decline. Having children in such an environment involves thinking and planning ahead. Because if we allow them to be individualized like the average American, then they will eat shit and struggle just to get by. This causes stress or Dukkha in their life. Our only way to help protect them from this Dukkha is to keep them in our culture so that they understand that our collective way of life allows them to enjoy life better then others. The golf between the rich and the poor as time passes will get wider, just like it is in India. The rich will be very rich, and the poor will be very, very poor. Staying in the middle class even today is a struggle and fight which many nuclear families loose. And this is today. My cousins and I talked all this through and we agreed that we cannot be so foolish as to give birth to kids, let them free and hope for the best. If they are to have money and enjoy life in their time and era, they need the proper life skills our family has used that has proven to work and generate positive results. The most important aspect of these life skill is collective living, sharing, and cooperative effort, for mutual benefit. That skill must begin to be taught as a culture at birth, and the concept of “independence” and “individualism” is a threat to that corporatist or tribal way of life.
This would be a good place to stop and bring up the Anariya. That word in Buddhism is used to mean people who are basal or worldly. Whose awareness is fixed low to the ground, pedestrian, barbaric, or an ignorant person. The Sanskrit Arya and the Pali Ariya means: Wise, Honourable, Noble, Polite, Respectable, Civilized, Cultured, Mannered. In the very ancient times in India when cities were still a novel concept not everybody lived in one. The city folk were described as “Arya” meaning that they were civilized, cultures, and orderly. Living in a city back then required the ability to get along with other citizens, work together, share resources; get involved in cooperative effort such as irrigate rivers to farm, till large tracks of land to farm, work together to build the actual structures of a city. So that word “civilized” has more the meaning of a person who is not only Wise enough to engineer such a city, but to work together in a honorable way with other to make that way of life work. Outside these first cities were the wild people or Barbarians. Barbarians are uncivilized, meaning that since they lived in the forest or mountains they had no reason to cooperate, they had no use for Honour, they had no wisdom to engineer anything, or sophisticated intelligence to be a part of a collective something the size of a city. So that’s what the word Ariya and Anariya meant.
You can’t enlighten the Anariya [mundane] because they don’t have the Noble [ariya] Mind to Understand [Buddhi] sophisticated thought. Sophisticated thought meaning the ability to grasp the complexity of causal mechanics and the interconnection things. For example lets say there was an Anariya who is hungry and he asks you as you walk by for a Fish so he can eat. You say to him: “I’ll tell you what my friend, I’ll give you this fishing pole and teach you how to use it!” And the Anariya will say: “Why? I can’t eat the pole? Just give me a fish.” You test this out and you can always call out the anariya [Mundane]. It’s a simple idea that you must work harder to survive if you are individualized. So you go up to any average Mundane American and tell him: “I’ll teach you how to live in clans and work and live in a big communitarian group!” And chances are the Anariya will say to you something like: “That’s conformity! I value my individuality and independence!” And even if that Mundane ends up struggling and actually being poor and homeless and suffering, he will hold on to his anariya beliefs with a death grip and not let go. This is a dhamma. It is Testable. Go out and prove to yourself that there are in fact two types of people out there: Noble and Mundane. You cannot enlighten the Ignoble because they lack Understanding [Buddhi/Gnosis] and will resist you like a stubborn mule.
Concept that are simple for the Ariya to work out in there head, are impossible for the Mundane to reason. For example it easy for some of us to understand that the Tanha [enthralling attachment] to gambling can manifest debt and lost of your savings. And we can also understand that a Tanha for alcohol where we abusively drink can cause us and other problems. So we may be able to become Aware of such Tanha and work to fix them. Whereas an Anariya will never become Aware of that Tanha to fix it. They are spellbound by it’s illusion. The gambling addict is in a state of delusion where he Believes that the next play will be the one that wins, and that he’ll make all his money back and more to make his family happy. He sincerely Believe in that belief and is lost in it. An alcoholic who loses his wife, children, friends, job, and home to his drinking problem cannot see that he has a problem, because he sincerely believes that it is the other people that are against him, that hate him, that want to hurt him. You try to tell him he has a drinking problem and he will react violently with you and deny it. You can’t Awake [Buddha] these anariya from their enthrallment and loss of self in their Beliefs. In Buddhism, it is metaphorically said that such anariya, because of their kamma [works], must sink to Hell and burn before they Awaken and work themselves back up to the human world. That Hell is rock bottom. So far down the bottom that your nose bleeds hitting it. That’s when the gambler or alcoholic wakes up from his idiocy and Realizes his problem. Only then will he allow others to help him.
Tanha is just the Pali word for Thirst. But 2500 years ago in India, Thirst meant something very different. Thirst meant you go find a well or source of water. If you were wandering around the jungle and you were Thirsty back then you have 3 days to find water or die. The closer you get to that third day, the more Desperate you grow for water. It becomes All Consuming. Drinking water is the only thing on your mind. You don’t give a fuck about the rest of the world, it’s faded away. A better modern example of the essence of this word is when you are on a long road trip somewhere and you have to go pee. The longer you wait, the more Desperate you need to pee. You start to pray for the rest area to hurry and come. You get to the point where your parents talking gets you angry because you just want them to shut up and find a restroom for you. You can’t think of anything but peeing. Then when you pee finally that bizarre spell which captivated your mind is gone, and you’re happy and not a demon bitch anymore. It’s wrongly translated as Desire. Tanha has nothing to do with desiring something. There is a difference between desiring to eat and enjoy a chocolate fudge cake, and a difference when you desperately eat chocolate fudge cake to comfort your misery because food is your friend and you get 500 pounds. Have you ever watched those talk shows where those fat ladies cry on TV and says to Oprah: “I can’t stop eating. Please help me. I’m ugly.” Those fat ladies don’t have a simple desire to enjoy a cake sensibly. They have a serious problem. There was no word to describe this problem 2500 years ago in India so the word Thirst was used because of its metaphorical value. What’s it mean when we say to “Thirst for knowledge?” It’s not a simple desire to just know stuff. At times it’s an all consuming drive.
The Magian West
The West has fallen under the control of two beasts who use very similar methodologies. It seems as if these two beasts were able to take root in the West because of the state of Mind of the Western mundane people. They are in their own way a great people with ingenuity. Our modern world and its sophisticated science, medicine, and technology was born from these minds. But still, it seems as if a majority of their fellows are gullible and not very bright.
The first beast was the Vatican and their invisible “Church.” This Church set up shop in Europe and started to sell an invisible commodity called “Salvation.” In exchange for the people’s Dependence on the Church. Because if you wanted to be saved, only the Church can give it to you. Then this beast crept into other arenas of life like marriage. Now if you wanted love, sex, and children you Depended on the Church to give it to you in the form of a lawfully wedded spouse. Then they had all these laws and policies they past which were religious edicts that further Monopolized your Dependence on the Church. You had to follow these laws of you weren’t a member of the Church, which meant no salvation or anything the Church offered you. Those people were enslaved by a power structure back then and the strangest part is that at no time did those Church members ever ask themselves: What exactly are we being saved from? It’s revealing that the usual answer is: Sin. What is sin? It’s a theological ideation that is nothing real.
Then the second beast is something called Democracy with its “State.” You can’t see the “State” they assure you its there, after all you’re living in it aren’t you? Then this State sets up shop and starts to sell you an invisible commodity called “Freedom.” Then the State passes laws which you are to follow since you’re a citizen of the State. It’s your duty, or you go to jail. These laws further dis-empowers the citizen and further helps the State Monopolize your Dependence on the State. For example try printing and using your own money and tell you nice State that you won’t be needing their printed money anymore and see what happens. Raise you kids at home and teach them things the school system does not teach and see what happens. People end up being enslaved by a power structure and at no time ever did any of the Mundane citizens of the State ever ask themselves: What are we being free from?
I can understand if the year was 1776 and I asked the American rebels what were were fighting to be free from. They’ll say something like: “Freedom from the King of England and Freedom of Self Governance!” That I can understand. But today? In the year 2011? What are we being freed from? Freedom from what? The king of England? The freedom to govern ourselves? Whose governing who here now? Maybe it’s the freedom to walk around and do whatever we want? But penguins do that to in Antarctica and they don’t have a government. Or maybe the State exists to protect our freedom! From who or what? As a species we’ve been around for at least 200,000 years. People before the invention of the State were free and they didn’t need a State to protect their freedom? They protected it by themselves? The Native Americans didn’t need a State to protect their freedom or guarantee their freedom?
Revolting and tearing down the system doesn’t work. Because we’ve seen it demonstrated in the Middle East and North Africa since at least the Cold War that when one regime falls from revolution, a new regime just takes its place and the State still exists and the citizens are still enslaved and abused. Russia and China are great example. It didn’t matter what regime, revolt, or system of government was implemented, because the same group of people who were abused continued to be used and abused. And in other cases of revolution it only took one generation after the revolution, to have the same bloodlines back creeping into the governing apparatus and power structure.
Hypothetically we can as ONA say that even if we can’t get rid of the State, as long as our regime is in power, it’s all good. But this would only be a temporary victory because no power structure lasts forever. Will our power structure last long enough for us to evolve into a stellar civilization before the citizenship revolts and another regime fights for power? And if we do lose our grip on power, then it’s all back to square one for our future progeny because now they’ll be enslaved in a system again.
I see our unfortunate relationship with the System/State in two different views. My first view is that I see the State thing as a useful tool that we need. In the same sense electricity is a useful tool we need as a source of energy. Our dependence on this electricity is born into being because perhaps we just don’t know of an alternative energy source. If we did know of an alternative energy source, it may be that gradually and collectively we would grow out of our electricity dependence phase. And we are actually now in the beginning moments of that stage so we’ll see. A couple of years ago I read an article in a science journal about how we have reached the limit of the size our microchips can shrink to. The electrons are just too big for our chips to get any smaller, plus they give off to much heat, so anything smaller would burn up. Then the article introduced an new something that might forever change our paradigm and kill our dependence for electricity. The new something was something called a “Photon Crystal.” The crystal was a primitive prototype. But the concept behind it is that the crystal traps and absorbs photons in its crystalline structure, and with nano sized “wires” these photons can be sent out in single file to produce binary code and also ENERGY. The article says that this prototype photon crystal has opened a door for something revolutionary with no name but they are have coined it “Photronics,” which is like electronic technology, except the devices neither use electrons or run on electrical energy.
When I use the term “paradigm shift” that is what I mean. Not a mere change of opinion. For the past hundred and some years since Edison, collectively we have existed “inside” a paradigm in which we see the whole world and our future tainted with the assumption/belief of electronic energy and electronic technology. Electricity is etched into our worldviews and we cannot or could not perceive of a modern world without it, or a future without it. Electricity is an indivisible part of the fabric of what we perceive to be our world and future. But now with the prototype photon crystals and the Photronic technology and Photonic energy it implies, if we fully grasp those implications it causes in us a genuine paradigm shift where we can understand that in the near future, electricity and our reliance on electrons would be a relic of a primitive human race using primitive aggressively harmful technologies to generate a wasteful form of energy. Wasteful meaning that a huge amount of energy of electricity is wasted as heat radiation. That’s why you have fans in your computers. The knowing inside – heartful realization – that there is a usable other form of energy freely available from the sun; which is not electricity; that allows us collectively let go of our proverbial grip on our dependence of electricity. But before the “new age” of photronics can come into being, we all – all of us involved in a civilization – must together experience that critical paradigm shift.
This tool we call “democracy” in Europe and North America would not have been possible if the people of the West had not had a paradigm shift when they all genuinely realized that a world without the Church and a king was possible. That there was an alternative to kingdoms and Christendom. But those kingdoms and that Christendom had to be experience by the old world Europeans for each of them to eventually have that inner Gnosis or genuine paradigm shift. In this context I don’t believe that the religious and political institutions in old world Europe was a “bad” thing. No more than the opulent royal palace the Buddha was born and raised in was “bad.” Because without that past direct experience in that palace, the Buddha would have never had his realization later. Without the experience of kingdoms and Christendom, the people of old world Europe would have never had the realization that an alternative was indeed possible or desirable. When I study the Middle East civilization and people, I see them in the state old world Europe was in, when they were inside Christendom. Where they cannot sincerely perceive or understand a world without Islam or Islamic law.
Barbarity in our species’ ancient past brought us pretty far. But there is a point where it can’t take us any further. Then empires and kingdoms like Sumer and Ancient Egypt appeared. That system of government was an epic Vehicle which brought our species up to the door step of the verge of the modern age. But even the memetics of empires and kingdoms fails as a vehicle to take us further into the future. So the West had a paradigm shift and democratic States was our new vehicle which brought us into the modern age all the way up to the doorstep of a stellar civilization and this is where our current Vehicle breaks down like an old car.
In this regard. I don’t see the West as being wrong, or barbaric, or lost, or primitive. I still see the West and its mixture of peoples to still be the Earth’s Supreme Causal Form of our species. And I still believe that it is this same West that can and will someday take us to the stars. But this vehicle we call the West has taken us as far as it can go and it is now broken down. But it is a good thing that it is broke. Because it helps us understand what this Form of civilization can do, and how far it can move forward, and what it can accomplish. And so because of this I believe the West is still the Supreme Causal Form because I can look at other civilizations such as the East dominated by China and know that although they may be a growing “superpower” and becoming a “huge” economy. Their copy-cay State won’t go far. The best part is our Western vehicle broke down first. That means we are ahead of the game and have time to build something new that will take us further! Remember, we already rode on the wagon of Capitalism as far as we can go, those Chinese are just starting! But for there to be any further movement for the West, there needs to be an alternative way to cause or initiate a collective paradigm shift in the zietgeist of the West. Otherwise, we’ll be stuck with our broken wagon for a while, and the Chinese will catch up.
Which brings me to my other way I see the State. I see the Western State as not going anywhere and that there is no logical sense in exerting force to even try to destroy it simply because the mundane anariya of the West are still enthralled in the delusional samsara of this Western State thing. As I mentioned up there, when an anariya is sincerely lost in their delusional beliefs the only way to wake them up is to wait till they hit rock bottom to go to Hell as Buddha’s mythos puts it. I fear that there won’t be a paradigm shift until the current Vehicle of the West falls where everything literally goes to Hell. Just like the chaos that came into being during that fall of the Roman Empire. The unfortunate thing is that these delusional mundanes must be allowed to have their experience from beginning to final end if they are to have a realization or paradigm shift born from their pathei-mathos. In this context I see revolution and deliberate use of force to tear down this system as being counter productive. This is not to say that subtle force shouldn’t be used to hasten a fall such as messing with the economic system. But like some classical ONA texts puts it, I think the old must be destroyed – by its own dysfunction – for a new something to be realized. Vindex just might have a guest appearance after all when the right moment comes.
Thus, we are stuck here in this system for a while, either to ride it out until the end and/or to subtly work to hasten its fall. Until the fall, what we need to do is engineer Seed Cultures with which to seed the new aeon. And so it all comes back to each of us, how we live, and to our children and how we raise them. We have two important things to consider as Time moves on: 1) Magian Ethos is what is killing the current West, in time this will be clear when its dogma of independence and individualism is understood to make each citizen a prey; 2) it’s going to be a long ride before the fall, and so we need to each plan ahead and prepare our next generation to function optimally, better then the mundanes and their children.
It is a good thing that these mundanes will never give up their individualized state of existence. This make it so that they are easy prey to our own next generation. If our next generation is a coherent and organized group, then they will have the means to hire, use, and abuse, the mundanes as work force to make each other rich and generate some leisure in their future lives. In a jungle the most collective dominate and thrive, not the biggest or strongest. A legion of army ants in a jungle trumps the biggest panther, and the little individualized bugs are no competition. The ONA’s next generation just needs to learn to understand the value of all this Myattian talk of clans and tribes. Sooner or later it will be apparent to those with the capacity to think and understand. I’m personally done trying to convince the deaf, dumb, and blind.
In the years to come within this sick West, I really do believe that Myattian things like Folk Culture, Reichsfolk National-Socialism, The Numinous Way, and the ONA offer the Westerner working templates to recreate for themselves their own clans, tribes, and communitarian societies. They are each not “perfect” but nothing is and each Drecc and Niner must use their own brains to work the bugs out by old fashion trial and error. One of the benefits these Myattian things has is that they teach members of a clan, family to be proud of their culture and family. This breeds group solidarity and helps forge a group awareness or collective identity. Which is vital if a clan is to exist at all.
Honour – as silly as the word may sound to some in the West – as a praxis is the vital glue that makes a clan function. It is like the grease that makes gears turn smoothly. Acausal-Empathy is like the wordless knowing of when to push and when to pull, when to lead, and when to let go that makes dancing with a partner possible. Empathy will also be needed if a clan is to function productively. Duty is vital if a clan and family is to also function and bare fruit for mutual benefit. These three might seem simple and overlookable, but they are to a clan or any group structure, and as genuine daily praxis are hard to execute.
The Mythos and Methodology of the ONA gives the Drecc or Niner the practical means to apply the ideas and theories from the other Myattian things. It also provides a template for the manufacturing of new cultures, new traditions, and new rites of passage vital to any group of humans. Ideas are useless unless applied. Applying the ideas to get results is the hard part. Talking about future children and clans is easy, doing the work to make it all become a reality will take decades of dedication and effort. I predict that after another 40 years there will be two types of Nexions, the old kind made up of friends and associates, and the new kind made up of blood kin and real clan members.
Like Anton Long says somewhere, the most important work for the ONA to work on during this Phase Three of Fayen is Our Family. This is because the family – as in big groups of people bound by loyalty, honour, and duty, as well as blood and intimate association – is the enemy of any regime and system. The Magian system has been assaulting and eroding the natural human Family since Christendom. This should be very easy to see. You can either have people share and borrow cars from their siblings or divide them so they have no choice but to buy your cars you made. You can either live with your family or divide them so they can buy your houses and rent your apartments. You can either borrow money from your family, or divide that family up so those people have no choice but to borrow money from your bank. With no family to be Loyal to, you become a Patriot and support your Nation even with your life. But you can barely shed a tear when your own mother or brother goes hungry. With no family to owe Duty to, you become Employee of the Month. You’d rather devote your energy and time to make another person wealthy. But you turn a bind face and pretend that your grandparents in those homes don’t even exist anymore, because you have no duty to them. They don’t give you a weekly pay check. They use all your hard earned money don’t they. With no family to honour, you honour your ideologies and become fanatics of your religions and parties. Rather than honour living bodies that can return the honour and care for you, you would rather honour dead letters and empty ideations. You don’t even have nuclear families any more. They are just single parent house holds. That’s the cool things these days for mundanes to be bred in.
Without a culture and tradition of some sort to ground yourself in, you seek religion, and the secular -isms like individualism and consumerism as your substitute “culture.” Your modern approved Western “families” today has the family tradition of all waking up at 8AM in the morning to go to school and work your whole life. You now have the family tradition and culture of driving through the Drive Thru for a traditional family meal. You now have the culture of going into credit card debt. It’s a right of passage actually. Your not a real Western Magian man unless you are at least $5000 in debt when you are 21. You have the cultural rite of passage for girls becoming real women too. Your not a real grown women unless you had sex when you were 15. Oh, lets not forget the new cultural crazy: facebook. And we can’t forget the Father and Mother of modern Magian culture: Apple Inc & the Internet! Oh yes, the traditional cuisine of the Magian Western Culture: Coka Cola, Pizzahut, McDonald’s, Big Size fries, and beer. And we can’t forget the Fine Arts of the Magian West: The Kardashians, Jersey Shore, Oprah, and the local news.
But I’m not trying to save the world or anything. You mundanes can keep that Magian culture. As a Buddhist and ONA I know it is pointless to try and enlighten and educate you anariya mundanes. Nothing I have ever written and no ideas I have ever shared was ever written for any of you anariya mundanes to read. I consider all of you mundanes to be illiterate, meaning even if you can read the letters, you are incapable of Understanding the essence. The last thing I want is for you mundanes to wake up. For the sake of my future children, nieces, and nephews. Who will more than likely own your children’s asses. Your children will feed mine, work for mine, and make mine rich. Keep in mind that as time passes, the chasm between my rich descendents and your poor children will be huge. And don’t tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about, because the several family businesses my family today owns has some of your Magian Americans Mundane kinfolk working for us. In context to just the mundanes that work for my family, my family owns the apartments they live in, the houses they lease, and the cars they lease, because they get the money to pay for such things from my family. Your Magian “Culture” literally breeds you to be an employee and to seek employment when you need money. You have immigrants in the millions coming into this country with their own cultures and clan-families who all teach their young generations to start up and own businesses, and work and live together. That alone should tell you something about what you have to expect in your future. I promise you mundanes one thing: you will starve, die, and rot alone in your individualism.
I have no care or concern for the anariya mundanes. I do care for those in the West with the spirit and sinister quality who know something is wrong with the West and who understand that what is wrong begins at the very societal and familial foundation of the fabric of Western civilization. You have been individualized for a reason. I sound like a broken record now. If you know that much then you know the only means to fight Magian Ethos is to live the opposite way those Mundanes live. However they live, live the opposite. Whatever they Believe, believe the opposite. The only practical way to fracture the Monopoly the State is by re-establishing over time the more human way of families based on clan and tribes. This not only gives you a group of bodies to depend on for mutual aid and mutual prosperity, but gradually it also redirects people focus away from a far off government they believe they depend on back to the numinous level of your immediate sphere of life. The Monopoly of Power the State has is based on the Dependency of its populous on “services” the government or regime offers. Such as “protection” for tax money, its money they print, its jobs they make, etc. The more you are Dependent on that State, the more powerless you are and the more powerful the State becomes. The less powerful you are, and the more powerful the State is, the easier it is for the regime to implement its policies and further own your life. It’s simple “causal mathematics.”
There is no difference literally between a street gang and a political regime. If you look at a street gang that owns territory in the form of a neighborhood, you first ask, how did they get that territory? By war, meaning killing rivals or competition. Then they set up shop and start to prey on their “citizens,” in the form of dealing drugs to the neighborhood dwellers. If you study these gangs real close in different areas, you will see with your own eyes that the more Dependent those neighborhood residents are on the “services” their controlling gangs offer [drugs and protection], the more powerless – due to a real lack of desire even – to over throw the gang and liberate themselves. In the neighborhoods where the people don’t buy the drugs and resist the gangs “services” such as protection, its easier for them to chase the gangs out in time. All you have to do is take that street gang scenario and expand it to the size of a continent or large landmass and you have what is called a State and its regime. It doesn’t matter of the gang/regime elect themselves into power or if you elect them into power, they are simply a gang/regime who controls territory to exploit you as their vanquished “citizens.” When did the American Indians lose their sovereignty and become matriculated into America as a subordinate group of people to the federal government? When they were vanquished.
Ending Remarks
I have a certain way of writing where I naturally mix my important ideas I want to actually talk about inside a picture painting made of word which tells stories about my life and which all is explained in different ways to the reader. There are several reasons why I do this. First is that I write how I think and formulate my own thoughts. This is just how or what my own thought process in my own head looks like as they form ideas. It all comes out mixed with memories of past experiences and I brake my own thoughts down into easier to understand things. Second reason is I simply write how I talk. Third reason is I think and talk and explain things the way my elders talk and explain things to me. This is how I get most of my knowledge and wisdom from my elders. All wrapped in stories of their past experiences and broken down into picturesque explanations. And so it is very easy for me to Understand what they are trying to share with me, and if I wanted to used those ideas they shared or incorporate them into my own mental system, it forces me to be able to truly grasp what they are saying so that I can extract or distill or refine out the essence of their talks.
My Bhikkhu grandpa once said us in a room: “I’d be a useless teacher if my students didn’t understand a word I was teaching wouldn’t I?” I have always found it hard to digest some things my peers in the West – those of my age and stuff –write because they lack this organic way of being taught things by elders through stories and picturesque explanations. Many of my peers have only an academic college or books they have read to follow the example of. So when they do write, it’s often dry and clinical to me. As if they were writing an informational essay for college. They tend to cloud their essays with big words, the more the better they seem to believe. Sometimes their essays in word are verbose but in essence are barren. And when I as a reader or “student” may complain that I have a hard time understanding the writing, I am accused of being stupid and informed that perhaps I need an education to learn the big words they know.
In Theravada we call what my elders and I do “Upaya” which is a method of teaching or tricking people minds to understand an idea or tricking them to act or behave in some way. You need rapport and empathy to use do upaya. Meaning that as a teacher you need to know your target audience. Upaya is then the ability to take the essence of an idea and convey it into the Minds of a 5 year old and a 50 year old and have them both understand your idea in their own individual way according to their nature. There is just no point in teaching an idea or sharing a thought if the people you are speaking to do not understand you. The other productive benefit to upaya is that an idea which is able to travel into other Minds easy thus travels around easier. And therefore such thoughts are better able to inspire and influence more people.
I start off with a seed idea in my mind and then I pick out a handful of imaginary people or people I may know as my direct audience. Then slowly Unfold that seed thought using lexical words and pictures ideas my chosen audience may use. I use the personal stories to generate relation, meaning that perhaps when you read those stories you end up saying to yourself: “Ah, I had similar experiences, I can relate with that.” Then I take the same essence of the story and rewrite it out through different picturesque explanations so that the reader hopefully understand as close as possible what exactly I am trying to convey. If I was successful, then the essence of the essay should have added a new insight to your perception and understanding of things. With the end hope the you will in your own way add on to those ideas and even do something.
The essence of this essay is simple. Getting rid of a State with force does not work because the a new regime will form or relatives of the old regime will find their way back to running your lives. The West – or at least America – won’t get any better. It may even get worse. And so as future parents or one generation who will give birth to the next generation we each have a responsibility to give each generation we give birth to the tools, knowledge, and wisdom they will need to make the best of life in their era and time. Because things won’t get any better, the next generation will need more refined tools to survive. The tools the Magian Ethos offers will strangle them and cause them to be exploited. Lack of real culture is something vital that is missing in America. No the whole West is cultureless. Most of Europe still have their ancestral root at least. It may not sound super sinister but the most empowering work the ONA can do for the next generation is to put into practice the simple concepts of honour and clan life the ONA and other Myattian things teach. This way the next generation will at least have some kind of infant culture that can grow. It only took on person – my late great grandpa – just one life time to presence into the world a real living group of people who practiced his new culture of Christianity.
Our Unborn are our most important work. Because those of us alive today will all die and our Unborn will inherit this world. If we really intuitively understand this death of one generation and emergence of another, and we truly understand what it is we mean by the word “world” than it should in time be able to understand that in its the culture and mindset with give to the Unborn that unfolds as their world. The ONA gives us a clew to how to aeonically influence the future when DM defines a Nexion as also being a person. It is through each person that the essence of something is expressed into Form via action and behaviour. Yes I know I misspelled clew. Spelled that way it means a Ball of String you throw into a maze to help lead people out. Can’t find your way through a Labyrinth if you without clews. It is through the Unborn as nexions that our aeonic seeds unfolds in a future time frame. But for those seeds to unfold and even pass to and through their children, our Unborn nexions must be given every thing they need to function properly. Our Unborn should be as healthy as we can make them, as smart as we can teach them to be, and as cooperative with their own. They will need some kind of culture and tradition.
One of the positive aspects of traditional religions is that they offer a means of transmitting rites, traditions, and customs to a people across time and the succession of generations. Islam and Catholicism are two fine examples, which I actually admire. Although religion should be no substitute for natural human culture. They work better as something to supplement that natural human culture. But things like this with structure end up becoming something opportunistic people fight each other over for power and influence and wealth. Something like the ONA should be more like language. Where each user/speak actually has their own unique version of the ONA, and where each nexion and clan also has their own vernacular or dialect of the ONA. This way, like language, no one can ever claim to own the ONA and get very far beyond the simple claim. You can claim to be the leader of English all you want, but it’s not going to get any further then the claim. But if you pay attention to a living culture, they are also like that. No one can realistically claim to own or be leader of a culture. A culture does not actually exist as a concrete thing. It is a mosaic made up of all the individual doings, observances, and practices of each person in that “culture.”
I think that the ONA itself, as an Order – which is what the word sangha means – is a useful tool in the very same way the sangha of Buddhism was useful for 2500 years. As an Order it is made up of different people with related ideas and thoughts housed in our writings just like dhamma was housed in the Tipitaka. The sangha’s monks just simply introduce there ideas out to each new generation so that those new generations has the sasana/practice. The ONA may one day through one or some of us evolve into such an Order, which introduces the “Nine Angles Tradition” to each new generation of the future. The Seven Fold Way already can serve the function of a sort of “monastic” priesthood. Actually “priest/priestess” is a title you assume in on of the Grades of the Seven Fold Way. The Dreccs and Niners are like the ariyasangha which is the other half of the Order. It’s actually not accurate to refer to members of the Ariyasangha as “laity” because a “bhikkhu” is actually a beggar who specializes in memorizing dhamma and not a really a monk.” If you call a member of the Bhikkhusangha a bhikkhu then you call a member of the ariyasangha an Ariya or Noble. Technically there are classes of Nobles, the “lowest” being the Upasika which means Assistant or Apprentice. Each class is only based on how many vows you hold. The ONA has its novices who are beginners. They start off by studying and reading. Then you have the next class who are the Dreccs and Niners that take the vows of The Sinister-Numen to live by that code of honour. Then you have a different class who practices the traditional things outlined in Codex Saerus and Naos. And so on.
As long as each of us in our own ways puts into practice the ONA in our lives, and as long as we stay somewhat organized, we can slowly work to seed the future aeonically through people we meet and progeny we make. I’d rather learn from the example of these ancient memeplexes like Buddhism, Islam, and Catholicism which have proven to live a very long time, then from the example of new age books and the occult. One thing those three memeplexes share in common is that they are full of ceremonies and rites that become traditions observed by their people. They also supplement a people’s organic human culture instead of totally trying to replace it like Protestant sects operate. A Mexican in Mexico and an Italian in Italy can have different cultures, but the same Catholicism. A Bedouin from the Sahara and a Bangladeshi can have very different cultures, but share the same Islam and Islamic traditions. A person from Sri Lanka and somebody from Japan can have very different cultures, but share Buddhism. But the English language works like this too. This is one flaw I see in modern satanism. It inherited its parent’s [Protestantism] attitude of watered down substitute culture based on nothing but pure ideation, ideology, and thinking with a different set of beliefs. You are left divested of culture, tradition, or any kind of practice in life. It’s literally just an idea and label you carry in your head.
The problem I see with the design in the State/System of America is that it was made to maintain equilibrium and status quo and not progress collectively as a civilization. Most scientific and technological progress we have seen comes from the private sector or from the corporate sector. Any American history buff like me who is actually into every little detail of America’s history and development cannot avoid something called Freemasonry. At least as far as independent study of history goes. If you dig deep enough and look in all your corners, you’ll come across that organization several times and out of curiosity to fit the pieces of history together, you’ll have to research Freemasonry also.
If you take a look at how the structure of Freemasonry is put together you’ll see a republican system of government called a Grand Lodge. The officers are democratically elected. But the actual function of the Grand Lodge is to maintain regularity of the rites and the status quo of its organization. So you’ll see that the Grand Master and most of the other officers have only a one year term. Before you can make up your mind to make any real progressive change, you’re time in office expires. And setting change in motion while in office is still hard. Because during your one year term you can try to draft a new rule, but this has to be voted on the following year after your term is actually up. Then if your drafted legislation does not collect the required votes, they use a method of stalemating that legislation sometimes called a “carry over” when it is saved for the next year to be voted on again. There is only so many times that draft bill can do that carry over before it is killed.
After the revolution, the Founding Fathers had no other republican system of government to model their system after besides the Freemasonry that many of them belonged to. So you end you end up with a the US Constitution, which was inspired by British Freemasonry’s “Anderson Constitution” which is perhaps the oldest functioning constitution of any republican styled system. The Grand Lodge system of Freemasonry which is all three branches in one was separated into three independent branches and this became our American Governmental system. The office of Grand Master of Freemasonry is renamed the “President,” in the same line of thought where the Master of the Lodge is the actual “Presiding” head of his Lodge. The one year term of the Grand Master is extended to 4 years. Most important correlation to look at is that in a Jurisdiction of a Grand Lodge, it’s common members of the Subordinate Lodges are subject to the rule of their Grand Lodge and they have no choice but to follow the laws past by the Grand Lodge they elected. They also actually have close to zero power and say in their jurisdiction other than the power to vote once or twice on things during voting season which is also in November for them. So you look at the Citizenship of America and you see the same conditions. The Citizen is subject to the rule of the government they elected, they have no freedom but to follow federal laws, and the only real “power” of self governance they exercise is the ability to vote a few times once a year. The entire governing system of America is designed only to maintain stasis and status quo and is not mechanized to be an actual dynamic and progressive civilization.
Another major problem in the American System is the actual “Policy Maker.” In a kingdom you have the king who is the actual policy maker. He creates the policy and asserts it onto his populous. When the Founding Father’s won their independence they took the concept of a king and turned it into what we today call a “Political Party.” The policy maker is no longer a person, but a set of principles, beliefs, and ideological theories, which has a base of people who support those theories and seek to assert those policies onto the populous. Whereas in a kingdom a king only lives for a good 90 years and if you don’t like how he governs the land you can kill him, with a Political Party, the Party lives longer than one life time, and you can assassinate a political party if you did not like how it is running the place. The problem arises when not only do you have a separate President who only serves for for 4 years, but now you have many Political Parties, each with their own policies and agendas. You end up with a system designed from the beginning to only maintain its generic equilibrium and which system ends up going in circles because of the back and forth transition of Political Parties. The only thing that really manifests out of such a system is debt and control of the populous for the sake of control. At least with an empire of kingdom, you did have national debt, but you also had national fruit to show for that debt, such as expansion of territory, etc.
Where is the collective energy of America being focused? With collective entities such as an army or kingdom you actually had something dynamic where the collective force of the army or kingdom was focused on various “projects” and interests such as expanding territory or even exploration of new lands. So you can see that as an entity something like an empire funnels it’s people’s collective for on productive endeavours, so there was appropriate reasons for national debt at times to fund such projects. But what exact is the collective creative force of the 300 million Americans focused on to actualize? Corporate Labour is the answer, and the by products of such corporate labour, such as opening new markets. What do I mean by “opening new markets?” I mean what happened in the 1800′s when Japan was a closed society and nation that would not allow America to trade and access it’s market? America used force to open up Japan. Then back at home because of the new market, some new jobs were created to put citizens to work. Or the other byproduct of corporate labour, which the acquisition of needed resources to maintain a corporation and manufacture goods. If a energy requires oil to make and your companies need energy to make products, then oil is a resource that is very important to keep your corporate system functioning and to keep you citizens busy. And so it’s no surprise that the West sticks its nose into the business of countries with oil. And our West goes so far as to make Capitalism and Consumerism as the Culture of the West. So in the end we end up with a civilization based on a really useless concept: the concept of making some people very rich. You’re left asking: and than what? After you have made your billions, then what?
As diseased and dysfunctional [or pointless] as the West is right now, I still am conservative about the status quo of the world order. Meaning that I do not believe in the equality of civilizations and that it should remain as it is now. I would rather have a sick West which at least values freedom and creativity to lead the world and thus humanity, than to have the Islamic civilization be top dog in the world order to lead the world into shariah law. I reject the concept of ecumenism and egalitarianism on a global level, a ideological level, and a people level. Not every ideological doohicky is equally good and productive. Not every person or culture is productive or constructive or intelligent, with equal amounts of reason and understanding. Not every nation should influence the rest of humanity. Those people or nations or ideologies that have actually proven their worth via fruit and end results are what should lead the order of things. In this regard, I still believe in the Supremacy of the West and that the West still has a Destiny to manifest. Even if it is sick at the moment. Capitalism and our current system of government has just taken us as far as it can go and broke down or is breaking down like an old car. We just need to collectively [the zeitgeist] wake up with a paradigm shift and fix it.
Destiny is just a goofy word I use to mean Vipaka, or the aeonic End Fruit of a causal input. For example if I have the resolve to hike up a hill and I actually put my body in motion to climb that hill, then we can say that being at the top of the hill is my Destiny, or that I am Destined to be at the top. It’s from the Latin word Destinare, which means to Establish or Make Firm, as in to be Determined to materialize an Intent or Purpose, which is what the old French “Destinee” meant. If I have the intent or purpose of visiting Tokyo and I actually bought a plane ticket and drove myself to the airport, then because of the causal input I have set in motion, it becomes my Destiny that I Will be in Tokyo the next day. But just because it is Destined to be, does not always mean that it is guaranteed. Because my plane can crash into the ocean before I get there. Then that is called Fate.
Fate is when you experience the end fruit of someone or something’s causal chain reaction. When another person’s Destiny crosses your path. An airplane is over flown and a crack develops in the wing. The people that should have inspected the wings for defects felt lazy that day so they didn’t. I got on the plane to fly to Tokyo. It is fated that I die in the plane crash, because of the causal events set into motion by different wyrdful streams of causal input. And then Wyrd would be the messy spiderweb network of lines aeonic lines of fate and destiny crisscrossing which we are all inside. 300 million people lost in the samsara of the “State” of America is a collective wyrd, or we can say that the System is the Wyrdful result of the collective causal input of 300 million people.
If you pay attention to the murmuring of the zeitgeist of the West and Japan, you’ll see that from our collective psyche there still bubbles to the surface visions and desires and dreams to colonize space and to exist in some sort of future environment that is different than the world we live in today. Usually these murmurings bubbles up in the form of science fiction movies and books, but sometimes it inspires scientists and inventors to try and make new things. If you were to just compare our collective hopes and murmurings of our Western Zeigeist with the collective mind of other civilization you’ll see the big difference. The only real murmuring you feel come out of the Islamosphere is the destruction of Israel and global shariah, which is actually petty on the scale of humanity and human potential. I don’t even know what the collective mind of Africa is murmuring for, maybe for food and clean water and money. China is collectively done murmuring for wealth and superpowerdom, they are now inputting their causal inputs to actualize their murmurings. So we can say that it is their destiny as a people to one day because of their new found capitalism be a rich and respected country. But keep in mind that the West has been there and done that. We’re already rich and respectable, and capitalism can’t take us any further. The West is broken right now, but the spirit of the West still murmurs and still yearns to reach high for the stars and for greater potential. We just need that paradigm shift to awaken everybody up to the reality and possibility a new aeonic vehicle that will manifest our Western Destiny.
Until that day comes when the West does experience that shift, the mundanes in the West will be enthralled or attached to their broken system until all Hell breaks loose. They are a breed of people who are very short sighted and weak minded. The anariya cannot be awaken unless they hit rock bottom first. Otherwise they will reject any help. Which means that between now and a future collapse of the System, those of us Aware in the West need to wise up and act accordingly and plan ahead. We are each thus responsible for our next generation’s well being. Those of us in the ONA who are influenced by Myattian thought must try hard to keep Magian Ethos in all its Forms from infecting our Unborn. The next generation needs to learn how to live in a more collective or communitarian way. Even if we don’t raise our future children up as criminals and Jihadists, there are still many aspects of the ONA and the other Myattian things that serve as templates to forge a culture and clan out of. Whatever we do, our next generation, being a product of our causal work here on this earth, are each living testimonies of our own worth. For, the results of our actions speak louder than our ideological beliefs. The Fate of our Unborn, literally, rests in each of our hands.
Chloe 352
Order of Nine Angles
122 yf
