How to tell if you are mad - especially for earth bound souls.
If I was insane, how would I know? There are at least two parameters that remain constant by which we can measure our level of sanity, being nature and pure logic. The further we move from these standards, the more insane we know we are.
The laws of Nature can be observed, discussed, and agreed upon by anyone, without the need for a lawyer taking his greedy and biased cut, and pure logic can be faulted by no-one. So let's take a frank look at man's relationship with nature and logic in 2011.
The first essential
The first essential in any life is food. Better food gives better life. Historically we see that the natural vibrations of earth reproduced similar styles of agricultural society in every place that humans could survive - and advanced to a situation where many poor people were growing food, and a few rich folks were eating it, as was the situation from fifty or so years ago until today. Since the mid 1900s world population has more than doubled, and the number of agricultural workers has dropped very significantly, being replaced by unemotional machines which can't tell one taste or texture from another.
Eating naturally-grown hand-picked food used to be the norm for everyone, with the farmer's family having first choice. Such is considered luxury today - demonstrating the true measure of technological advancement regarding food from a logical point of view. The only way to consume natural food today is either grow it yourself or eat from memory - most growers mistake profit for prophet, and chemistry with shirt making, categorising both higher than nature.*
We are what we eat.
It is true that the consumption of meat generates more aggressive tendencies, because the adrenalin and other chemicals of aggression and fear generated by the animal immediately prior to an unnatural death saturate the carcass, and are then ingested by humans. Halal style killing where the murderer must look the animal in the eyes alleviates this problem somewhat, and is certainly far less evil, though still completely unnecessary, and incredibly bad for karma.*
Nature provides food in the approximate proportions required by man, as would be only logical and natural. This means that the food most suited to man is fruit, and it turns out that whenever fruit forms the bulk of our diet, then we lead a very healthy life. And the second food group essential for survival is green-leaved vegetables, also provided in abundance by nature. Add a sprinkling of nuts and seeds, and we have not only a perfectly delicious meal, bit also a balanced diet and a cure for most diseases.*
Alternatively, we can dedicate much of our time and energy to selectively consuming man's failed efforts to reproduce nature, in the pipe dream that we are bettering ourselves.*
Hey - teacher - leave them kids alone.
We know that the education of our children is important and that there are several ways of learning, and some of them are easier than others. One method in particular has been shunned by academia, even though it is simpler and more effective than any other - I will call it the Natural Way.
For example, each of us learned our native language The Natural Way. By briefly analysing our first communications, we find that the main emphasis was on listening. The Natural Way of learning a language is through our ears. First we listened to our parents and close relatives and then we tried to emulate their sounds. Our mother didn't jump up and rush to the whiteboard to write the words there. The mere sound of writing on a board is detrimental to the effort of learning the tone and structure of the sound that relates to the object in question. In other words, the white board is used to divert from the natural process of 'learning by assimilating vibrations'. Truly, when we learn something for real, we learn it through our feelings.
But throughout academia, we are taught and expected to control our feelings and learn through our eyes, by reading books and writing essays.*
Learning a language through the eyes is only a little easier than trying to identify a colour through the ears. This is why there are so many second-language students around the world who are totally unable to communicate using their second language, let alone read and write it properly even after ten years of study. They had been able to communicate, read and write in their own native language in a much shorter time span than ten years, and far more effectively.*
Each one of these students is now in a perfect position to take their education authority to court for first making school mandatory, and then forcing methods on teachers which have obvious origins of subterfuge. If there was no subterfuge, then the tens of thousands of well-meaning language teachers in schools around the world would not promulgate such obfuscation. On examination, they too are found to be following the non-thinking philosophy of "that's the way it's always been done".*
I have lived with a community which had no written language at all - they never spent one minute of their time reading a book, or newspaper, or advert. Yet they had far more knowledge of their immediate surroundings and relationships than anyone could ever dream of teaching in a classroom.
The glorious classroom
Ah! The glorious classroom - that castle of "that's the way it's always been done".
Surely we can all agree that we learn fastest through personal experience, the more of which we have, the wiser we become.
So what do we experience personally in the classroom? We experience sitting on a chair looking at a board, and listening to someone who believes he/she knows more than we do And we do this most days for ten or more years. We do not even experience the natural emotions and reactions that would usually occur between people, because the classroom is the one place outside prison and the armed forces where natural activity is stifled more than any other.*
In short we can correctly describe a typical student's period of language learning in school as an effective method of reducing learning and thinking capacity regarding real and natural things to a bare minimum.
Now the anger begins to rise, as our golden rules are broken - this criticism is far too fierce and uncalled for, even if it is totally logical, natural and true.
The monsters begin to rattle their cages, with a wish to be set free. We keep them in cages because we were told they were fierce, but all along they have just needed some loving.
I will continue
Let's take a brief look at government, which was exceedingly well described by a Lahu friend of mine.
Democracy - "It seems to me that we are supposed to get excited about someone we don't even know, who if successful will get a job for which he hasn't had the slightest training or experience, who will advise us how to run our lives without having met us, and who will get falsely paid as our representative."*
The multi-millennia-old traditions embodied in Lahu government are far superior - there is no permanent government, because most Lahus are able to govern themselves.*
From a government's point of view, non-thinking androids are far easier to manipulate into slavery and drudgery than their higher-thinking cousins. This is why every government program is aimed at non-thinking androids, who are unable to see that they are being massively manipulated. Dishonesty is dishonesty even when perpetrated by a politician or corporate leader. Ask any immigrant.
Finance
The world's money is controlled by a few rich families who are able to hold the rest of the world to ransom. They start wars on a whim, and care less about the people than we do for mosquitoes. If only a fraction of the people were able to assimilate the effects of this pyramid style scam, our bankers would be locked up for fraudulently stealing our planet, yet today they walk free and are glorified with ridiculous bonuses.*
* indicates potential insanity like flashing neon.
And so we see from the above, as demonstrated naturally and in pure logic, that most of today's society and all of its institutional thinking is actually insane.
In love
David.
