Smoking Mirrors – May 8, 2020
Dog Poet Transmitting…….
Guess what you haven’t seen for a while now? Guess what hasn’t been appearing in the news media. “Hmm, let me think about that”, Visible said to himself, given that proper social distancing protocols were being observed and he appeared to be alone. The beauty of Visible’s quarantine status is that he has invisible friends all around him but the authorities can’t see them. Force is invisible too. We can see the effects of the force but we can’t see the force itself. It’s a bit like the wind.
What we haven’t seen is ANY articles or mention of Gender Issues, transsexual concerns, or ANY news about the alt.sex representatives. We also have not seen any increase in the usual savagery of fear-driven outrages, crimes of opportunity, and sundry. Of course crimes continue but there seems to be no indication that the climate of uncertainty, trepidation, and material loss has created any outbursts of panic or misbehavior beyond what is usually the case. I have considered this deeply and at length and can come to no other conclusion but that there is some form of celestial intrusion in the affairs of humanity.
People are losing their savings and livelihoods, businesses are closing, rent and the usual bills are calling but… where is the expected national turmoil? No doubt the stimulus payments and excessive unemployment payouts, in many cases proving to be greater than what the wage earner was making, before the shutdown, are having a salutary effect but it really feels like something more is at work here.
I cannot speak to what is passing through the minds of the materialists and those bound to material concerns. I spend my days and nearly all of my moments in the pursuit and celebration of a perpetual unity with the Supernal Realm. The fruit of a lifetime of striving to that effect has resulted in a sense of assurance that continues unabated… PREPARE FOR DIGRESSION.
Someone who signs their name thusly مقداد وفائی at Truthseeker comments section has… ah… Have you ever run into someone so in love with the sound of their own voice that they literally suck all of the oxygen out of the room and you can’t hear them anyway? Because of the law of a vacuum. Some kind of poetic, cosmic justice that is, I would say. Very rarely does anyone like this show up at the blogs, or even at Pocketnet. It seems to be a particular UK phenomena. There are 3 or four of these type of frustrated intellects who appear with regularity at my postings there. If you take a moment to ‘objectively’ study what they say and the manner they present it in you will see, soon enough, that what they are saying, has little, if anything to do with anything I said. Rather… I provide them an opportunity to strut about and preen in a sort of toxic, pseudo-intellectual, embarrassment dance; a clueless tango, with a funhouse mirror held VERY close… too close to actually see their own reflection… or they would cease in short order and then hold their breath, in a sort of piss yourself anxiety, hoping that the moment will pass and time will wash over whatever it was and mercifully obscure it forever beneath the all-forgiving sands of forgetfulness.
I’m not going to provide examples of these commentaries. Some of them are longer than my posting to which they are appearing at. However, if you just can’t help yourself you will find all… and more than you will ever want at this location… below each of the posts. On occasion some of them get incensed beyond the ability to restrain themselves. It’s a rowdy affair indeed BUT… what I notice most is that it is some kind of effort at self-promotion in many cases, with links and directives of all kinds and you really wonder why they don’t get their own staging area, as I and others have done. There is this time-worn effort that so many people employ these days, especially in this era of anonymity, where they have gotten the idea that they can raise their own profile by tearing down someone else’s. So far this seems not to have worked at all but we should give them points for trying.
Now… I did not make mention of this because it makes any difference to me one way or the other. I hadn’t even read any of these responses in a very long time; so long that I cannot remember the last time I did. However… several readers thought they should bring it to my attention and I did go and give it a look and at one point I made a comment or two and the result of that was similar to tossing a bag of weasels into a hen house. So… I have just as quickly stepped back again and gone on with the more important business of writing these articles of faith, at the times I am provoked to, which is often.
Still… in the last couple of weeks or so I have received a handful of emails asking me to say something about it because these particular readers enjoy it when I address this. They like the controversy apparently, though I suspect that most of you do not, nor do I. However… as a favor… I was asked as a favor, would I please say something about so and so and so and so, like I sometimes do? I am not going to name so and so though, but you will have no trouble recognizing them because they are the ones who will be shouting the loudest after they read this.
Alright then BUT keep in mind that I am not going to have anything further to say after this. I never set myself up as an authority on spiritual matters because I think such legitimate representatives at that are VERY, VERY FEW AND FAR BETWEEN and none of those commenting at Truthseeker can be numbered among them. It is painful for me to see the extent to which people take themselves seriously. The atmosphere of self-righteous pedantry and egregious sophistry that I noticed in the very short time I spent reading the comments was palpable. I did spend some time thinking about it all and looking at it from several angles; which I am actually able to do and… it became ever more clear to me that these people simply do not see themselves as… sadly and unfortunately so many others do and ESPECIALLY in these times of AWAKENING. Some of them are even writing in French, despite their being English speakers at an English speaking site. The poseur mentality is through the roof.
I’ve learned a few things in my passage through this plane of being. When I was not yet, or only slightly out of my teens in the Washington DC area, I was a horrid pseudo-intellectual and name-dropper and I had it brought to my attention by those older and wiser than me. “Look son, obviously you are brilliant and talented and no one can take that away from you but you ruin your image with this immature posturing.” as one fellow sagely put it. So, after a brief term of wrestling with myself and comforting my bruised ego, I got a clue and stopped that nonsense. I was callow and in my teens so some amount of that can be forgiven and (grin) I have forgiven myself but when you are decades older than that and STILL DOING IT… well… yeah.
We DO NOT look smarter to people, unless you count stupid people, when we TRANSPARENTLY try to make ourselves look wise and magnificently informed. No one, other than other people like you, are entertained by this bullshit AT ALL. We are WATCHED ALL THE TIME MY FRIENDS, by beings far, far wiser and more informed than ourselves and we are NEVER going to advance if we continue to behave in such a puerile fashion. Yes… you can get a passel of mentally deficient types to applaud you, as can be seen at a Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift or Kanye West concert but then you are going to have these jejune and insipid characters chasing you down the street and telling you how wonderful you are and you will have to talk to them and who knows what else? For some people, the celebrity is enough. They can put up with this. I certainly could not and so I consider fame a serious burden rather than any kind of an asset. I have often likened it to having to walk around with a hairnet of flies and mosquitoes.
Vapid celebrities are made of some strange combinations of armadillo shell denial and a blank space where their intelligence is supposed to be located. They literally obsess day and night and through the years about their fading looks and loss of appeal. After a while everything about them is fake but they keep on smiling like real estate agents and used car salesmen. It comes with the territory and they will always have Hollywood Squares as a fallback.
Then there are those who spend years and years, weighing themselves down with the minutiae of dogma and questionable facts about this that and the other and NOBODY CARES! They can’t wait to get away from you because you can’t shut up and listening to someone else? Fuggeddaboutit!!! See? I even spelled Fuggeddaboutit correctly BUT… who cares? How many people even knew that there is a correct way to spell that word?
There are people who memorize scripture and become mind-numbing bores, who go on and on about ‘so and so begat so and so’ and they know what all the rules and regulations are and they know who Mohamed’s sister’s, cousins aunt was and the names of all of her children and NOBODY CARES, except other people like them, who are champing at the bit to throw out their own litany of ‘so and so begat so and so’. These people have what I call, Thomas Aquinas Flu. It is way worse than Coronavirus because you don’t die from it, you just make other people wish they were dead.
Now… of course, I don’t know everything; not even a little bit of everything. Maybe I do know a very little bit of a very little bit of everything but that might still be euphuistic and self-serving. I am compelled by a power far greater than myself to do what I do. Some may dispute that and go right ahead. Time will tell and we shall see and YOU CAN COUNT ON THAT. We shall ALL BE JUDGED BY THAT ONE WHO CANNOT BE FOOLED. Our works will last beyond us or they will vanish while we are still around. I am content to let that play out in my case, nor am I concerned or anxious about it one wit. I don’t do it for any of those reasons anyway.
People come to my sites because they want to. They don’t have to. A whole lot of people have been coming for years and in some cases decades and that includes some amount of serious malcontents as well. Why they keep coming around I have no idea. I’m not the best and brightest but I NEVER SAID I WAS. I simply do what I do and it is there to take it… or to leave it. I most certainly know the difference between a djinn and an angel and I have encountered both and I will tell you the one thing EVERYONE needs to know about such moments, should they occur for you; BE HUMBLE AND POLITE AND SHOW NO FEAR. And… if you want to encounter the former, get some good acid and go into the wilderness and take it. They WILL show up if you take enough. IF you want to encounter the latter… pray without ceasing. I guarantee these methods, I have used them and they work. I DO NOT RECOMMEND the first option with the djinns. YOU MUST HAVE the dispensation, the character, the gene, the self restraint, and a visceral lack of fear, or you will wish you had not done so. Right… right… you have to go alone also.
So… as hard as it may be for those who take themselves seriously, I don’t care what you think of me and I don’t care what you say about me. Most of the time I never even see it. I care ONLY about what God thinks about me… PERIOD. There is a fellow at Pocketnet who keeps devoting entire posts to slandering me, or so I am told because people mention it to me but what this fellow does not know, apparently, is… that having blocked him, I can’t see any of it. People write exhaustive screeds to me and I never get past the first sentence or two in which I identify the intentions and that is the end of my attention to it. I’ve tried to tell these people in the past, in hopes of sparing them the considerable time they spend writing these things but… to no avail. Mercifully there have never been more than a few of these.
My friends… those of you in the majority who may well wish I hadn’t written any of this, or who care as little about it as I do myself… as I said, this is a favor to a few readers who have been asking me for a more comprehensive discourse on the matter, especially one friend whom I find it hard to say “no” to but now I won’t have to worry about it.
In closing, may I say to those of you who get so worked up about what I say. You might learn something if you self-inquire as to WHY it upsets you. Also… people are smarter than you give them credit for and most of the time they see right through your pretentious and egotistic grandstanding. You make yourself look like a fool. NOBODY cares about your pointless minutiae. NOBODY CARES about The Prophet’s great, great, great grandson’s horse’s name. NOBODY cares enough to go and translate what you wrote in French that proves as uninteresting in English as it was in French. NOBODY cares that you are pissed off about what kind of God lets all these babies starve; if you do care so much, WHY ARE YOU NOT OUT FEEDING THEM??? NOBODY CARES that you don’t believe in God. NOBODY cares enough to even wonder why it is that if you don’t believe in God you spend so much time talking about it. NOBODY cares about your 3,000-word comments, filled with information that NOBODY CARES ABOUT.
Okay Alan, Bill, Karen, Rick et al. I hope this does it for you. As for everyone else, I promise not to head off into this direction at least for a while.
End Transmission…….
Today’s Song is;
♫ I’m a New Age Twinkie ♫
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Pocketnet, Pocketnet shave a pig.
How many hairs will make a wig?
Four and twenty Theosophist’s isn’t enough
To save your life when the Truth calls your bluff.
I don’t believe that you’ve encountered an angel or a djinn. On LSD you encounter nothing but the mind, the pattern seeking mind. It might seem like an apophenic revelation, but it’s not. It’s typically Apophenia’s crazy sister, Pareidolia. I lack faith in “your” Angel’s, and nobody gives a damn about your LSD trips. “Faith” is often just another word – a better sounding one – for credulity. But how can a book or another person, let alone an acid trip, be an authority in your experience. If you believe his/her, the guru, “masters”, teaching, then it is upon your own authority and discernment that you have found his/her words worthy of credence, which has nothing necessarily to do with him/her at all, nor the facticity of his assertions, but very likely is a projection of your own needs and pre-existing beliefs onto the image he/she, the guru, master, or the acid presents. Particularly with the acid.
But what do I know
“What a fool believes
He sees
No wise man has the power
To reason away
What seems
To be
Is always better than nothing
And nothing keeps sending him…”
On a lighter note I consider your hateful and juvenile diatribe not only a self-absorbed failure. But also a stunning display of the Kruger Denning effect.
Trite repetition of popular tune lyrics does not a sage make. I said nothing about LSD being responsible for my seeing angels and very little about ‘seeing’ them. You don’t read carefully and this is because you are jittering about like a horny goat who pisses himself in the process. What I mean is that you are so driven by the urge to say something and make yourself relevant that you don’t bother to actually read what you are responding to. IN WHAT UNIVERSE does what does and does not happen to you become a criterion for everyone else? How does you having no experience in the metaphysical realm stand as a statement on my experiences? How can you discuss or comment on what you have no knowledge of? Doesn’t this bother you? Surely you know internally that you don’t know what you are talking about. You do know this right? Even a third party can tell that you are assuming and weaving a narrative based on no real information whatsoever.
Is that all you do? Criticize and grandstand? I am past being surprised at the way certain people continue to embarrass themselves and yet remain completely unaware of it.
I haven’t taken LSD in MANY YEARS and tossing out mythic references does not a scholar make. There is a difference between visceral and intellectual apprehension. You may have SOME of the latter but NONE of the former.
As far as no one caring what I have to say, how do you account for all the people who come and read my work? Where are your works hosted? I am curious… would you share with me your accomplishments, those things you have done that render you a competent and informed critic, rather than a cut and paste serial commenter with no imagination?
You need to spend more time reflecting on your own interior and less time puzzling over me. Time is running out and you will have to give an account for your life. What will you say when that moment arrives? I am not the one you have to answer to and I am not offended by your slanders and uninformed attacks on me. You don’t know any better and less than nothing about me. I am concerned for you as I am for all of the insecure and bombastic souls who careen from one bumper to the next like a pinball and who wind up with even less than they arrived here with. Seriously…. very seriously… give some thought to your own being and the state of it at present. You do not know what waits around the next corner and you very much should.
You did read this, right? “I am not going to name so and so though, but you will have no trouble recognizing them because they are the ones who will be shouting the loudest after they read this.”
“Someone who signs their name thusly مقداد وفائی at Truthseeker comments section… ….Very rarely does anyone like this show up at the blogs, or even at Pocketnet. It seems to be a particular UK phenomena. There are 3 or four of these type of frustrated intellects who appear with regularity at my postings there. If you take a moment to ‘objectively’ study what they say and the manner they present it in you will see, soon enough, that what they are saying, has little, if anything to do with anything I said. Rather… I provide them an opportunity to strut about and preen in a sort of toxic…”
I am not really interested in attacking you (Les Visible) as a person; perhaps the only times it came close as attacking you was when I said you are possessed by Djinns which is what you claim yourself anyway you just call them spirits or other things, and when I said your beliefs are like a Frankenstein monster put together from various parts from other beliefs.
You speak about a wide variety and range of things so anyone engaged in regular research and study is naturally inclined to respond.
Your articles have a unique style, most of the time you’re describing your own experiences or point of view in poetic ways. I only attack what you believe and on clear philosophical arguments. Mainly on Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, Reincarnation, Pure Dualism, Citta/Mind, subject of Djinns, etc… so essentially I am attacking those other religions and philosophies you just happen to be attached to, and provide an opportunity for logical discourse which should be a good thing. This means, Christians can ally with me on some subjects but on others we differ, on the subject of Jews probably we all agree unanimously!
You (Les Visible) had one article in which you talked about discipline and I mostly agreed with you. So it is not like I am unconditionally attacking you on every matter. As for those guys who speak rudely and without any substance, nobody should take them seriously.
“It’s a rowdy affair indeed BUT… what I notice most is that it is some kind of effort at self-promotion in many cases, with links and directives of all kinds and you really wonder why they don’t get their own staging area, as I and others have done.”
We all should agree, today the most effective way to touch hearts and minds is through making movies, documentaries and even computer/smartphone games. People don’t have time to read or much energy and skill to even think enough! Should I ever decide to have a platform, it will be different.
As for self-promotion… you guys can’t even pronounce my name, and those times I post links are mainly extra reading resource or relevant evidence. For example link to the Grill Flame PDF on CIA website. What you may need to know about me is that I am an Iranian Shiite Muslim located in Iran using various proxy servers to reach here and represent and defend my side, I also offer a unique perspective on various matters that is surely different and fresh. None of this is an indication of personal motives.
The rest of your comments directed at me are not important, I only defend correct arguments and attack incorrect ones to the best of my understanding and in the process learn and grow.
my two cents
LES wrote: “Okay Alan, Bill, Karen, Rick et al. I hope this does it for you. As for everyone else, I promise not to head off into this direction at least for a while.”
When I saw my first given name spelled correctly (for once!), I had to reflect. Noooo, I have always written words very supportive of LV! When I took issue with one of Les’ many, many assertions — once I recall had to do with entertaining disembodied spirits, which spiritual disciplines under which I studied counselled a “no-no” — I had done so respectfully. Then, a tune came to mind: “You’re so vain….you think this song is about you!”
Fortunately, vanity per se does not seem to reside among my main problems du jour. I also have in mind at this moment an anecdote|analogy employed by Yogi Bhajan. He described a daily walk along which dogs would bark and bray at him. He analogized to those students, or others, who did the same. Some people just bark like dogs. Dogs can’t do a million things we can, and we find ways to love them. So be it with people who bark. Love them. Don’t have to trust them, that’s up to your, your conscience. Love them.
Alan
Thanks for all that you do brother Visible. Don’t worry about the comments.
Those that comprehend your stuff will always bless you and thank you. Those that don’t,
we pray that, they find what they are looking for, sooner rather than later.
You are right, the cosmic court is in session. The Light grows brighter by the day. Those in the light will grow with it. Those fighting the light will simply, as brother Cash said in one of his songs “Disappear into the potter’s ground.”
The world now belongs to the golden hearts.
Thanks again, I greatly enjoy your works.
Your humble brother in God
“Have you ever run into someone so in love with the sound of their own voice that they literally suck all of the oxygen out of the room and you can’t hear them anyway?”
An apt summation of this person. Thank you.
Two cents? No sense.
Many of us appreciate you so much for all you do.
I could not exercise such restraint if I had arrogant
people like this adding their absurd comments.
I will try to be compassionate. I realise these people
are ignorant, even though they feel they are erudite and
reasonable.
I am grateful everyday for you.
Keep going my friend.
Tragic…
“Time is running out and you will have to give an account for your life. What will you say when that moment arrives? I am not the one you have to answer to…”
To me, someone cut and pasted that idea into your head, the majority of our heads, before the age of reason. This happened through cultural osmosis at the very least, shameful indoctrination at the worst. What’s that mantra of the Jesuits? “Give me a child until the age of seven…” I’m sure you know the rest. But it was you who in your humility said, “FUCK THE POPE”. It was Plato who asserted that one will have to give an account to the “Gods”, and if it’s any consolation, I think Plato was wrong.
“The greatest Evil on earth is ignorance.” Sadhguru (A proper Hindu Guru and Very famous too!)
Does ignorance occur spontaneously? What about those with power and resources with the intention to keep people ignorant? They can have long-term plans to shape and set the society in such a way to perpetually create more and more ignorance with increasing intensity and dumb down the society. As much as SadiGuru’s intention is well and wants to wake people up, what if his efforts are not even making a small bleep on the radar of those in power with bad intentions? Is it possible that if they felt Sadhguru was a serious threat they would consider assassinating him with a drone-strike or at least take his YouTube channel down? Is Sadhguru willing to become a martyr in his cause to fight ignorance? Could we consider his intentions truly sincere if we expect anything less than this (martyrdom) from him? So… what can be Sadhguru’s endgame? He is teaching people to detach from materialism at an individual level, so they won’t grief over what they don’t have so they become calm and suffer less, however should they have any love for their fellow humans they shouldn’t be sitting so calm! One would expect a concerned look on their face and some anger too, a selfless kind of sorrow and anger… and if each and everyone of us don’t feel that way about one another and our community then how can we fight those evil people at the top? This kind of detachment from world is not beneficial, even a very advanced AI that has no primal desires can be better “detached” and act as a natural guru!
We can seek our own solitude and let the cycle and karma deal with such concerns, that way we don’t delude and pose as well wishers. The solution? To be attached to the material world but selflessly! Instead of deleting the equation we must seek power and fight those at the top. Power should be returned to the people by choosing correct leaders. None of this is going to happen through individualism. It is time to make a clear distinction between beneficial “material detachment” and harmful “material detachment”, conversely to see the difference between beneficial “material attachment” and harmful “material attachment”. It’s the approach that matters. Even a believer in pure dualism who cares for balance between the “opposing” sides should start to worry. All of this mean that to effectively eliminate human problems we need a decent leader with political power. If Sadhguru refuses to lead can he at least teach how to lead? The sad truth is that today philosophies based on dualism or pluralism can’t even restore balance let alone shift the power for the good side. Is there such a thing as collective Karma? Or is it always individual karma… You guys should delve deep and think about it.
Let us ask Les Visible what he thinks about “Collective Karma”. You can read this interesting article from Sadhguru here: https://isha.sadhguru.org/global/en/wisdom/article/collective-karma-affect
This is not a forum but polite comments from different people who have time to think will be interesting.
my two cents
@ Alan Donelson,
I don”t think Visible was targeting you. Here’s a quote that clarifies…
“Still… in the last couple of weeks or so I have received a handful of emails asking me to say something about it because these particular readers enjoy it when I address this. They like the controversy apparently, though I suspect that most of you do not, nor do I. However… as a favor… I was asked as a favor, would I please say something about so and so and so and so, like I sometimes do? I am not going to name so and so though, but you will have no trouble recognizing them because they are the ones who will be shouting the loudest after they read this.”
Someone in that group of people who requested this post is also named Alan.
I assume you have read that article from Sadhguru… He says that a society may force air-pollution on an individual whose karma is not at fault, they may have even planted trees too, but since they live in that society they suffer from the pollution. He obviously considers Karma to be a kind of memory which we can deal with later in another topic. However the real question is if today our leaders are such nasty Evil Satanic Djinn worshiping bastards, how much are we and our ancestors responsible for it.
Having laid the foundation, perhaps now I can better address this quote from Les Vesible: “There are people who memorize scripture and become mind-numbing bores, who go on and on about ‘so and so begat so and so’ and they know what all the rules and regulations are and they know who Mohamed’s sister’s, cousins aunt was and the names of all of her children and NOBODY CARES, except other people like them, who are champing at the bit to throw out their own litany of ‘so and so begat so and so’. These people have what I call, Thomas Aquinas Flu. It is way worse than Coronavirus because you don’t die from it, you just make other people wish they were dead.”
It’s not just about names or bloodlines, we love and respect our “martyrs” and perhaps if you had any you would too! In an individualistic spirituality and belief system, Gurus, Dervish Whirlwind Dancers, Mystics and Soothsayers and those who use mind-numbing substances to get the next random-clue from the next random-dream that may well be a work of a Djinn, “detach” from materialism and in their irresponsible selfish seclusion and from a safe distance they teach and guide people to the truth! They inadvertently but certainly by Karma step into the Jewish secularism trap that “politics should be separated from religion” or that “power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely”, they then delude themselves that they can have any effect at all.
In contrast think of Khomeini, he was not afraid to get into materialism and take back power (beneficial attachment to the material world), if one is true he won’t be corrupted rather become more responsible…. he would instead set in motion something unique and spectacular, a “Collective Karma” for the Shiites of Iran. If we use Sadhgurus words, Shiites have a kind of collective memory that is well fed with the blood of martyrs. We have supremely vivid emotional memory of our imams. Just recently you saw how people of the region reacted to Qasem Suleimani’s martyrdom. So this means the new generation will not forget and repeat the past mistakes, so they are prepared for when the Imam of time takes lead openly.
Have you watched “Edge of Tomorrow” staring Tom Cruise? Somehow during an alien invasion he gets the power to reset time so every time he dies he restarts from yesterday, so he keeps experiencing and trying again the same events over and over until he acquires so much memory and skill that he can win over the aliens. Now the question is that most average people have the historical memory of a snail how can a divine leader / imam plan for the future to successfully grab control and power from Satan? The most effective way is the culture of crying that Shiites have. It motivates and rejuvenates the religion. Remember that to fight Jews and Satanist at the helm effectively, you can’t drop your weapon and shield, religion is a weapon and protection. Just as Jews can take the entire world hostage based on their religious racism, other people should not drop their weapons. How good is their weapon is another issue. Iran tried democracy and you know what happened… in the end I’d like to say I see a lot of potential in Christianity, despite all the damage done, it still has the potential to bring about a real change in the west; other modern religions, or passive eastern religions, ideologies and philosophies can just stand back and watch, they can prophesy what will happen in the future while real planners shape the future.
We create power for our leaders, we bask in the glory of our martyrs and imams and this in turn power us as individuals and as society. You and many others would not care but the Jews in Israel do care when they see 25 million pilgrims take the walk of Arba’een in the most unprecedented and massive religious gathering/event on earth, coming from all over the world to a hot sandy desert with no material attraction at all.
my two cents