The Fabulous Riverboat

I was looking at this architectural drawing of the Etemenanki ziggurat - the biblical Tower of Babel - and it suddenly began to look like a ship to me - viewed from dead ahead. Blame the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, everything looks like a ship right now - heading for an iceberg on the event horizon. It's almost perfect, the stacking of the decks, the prow and cutwater, the columns representing the smoke stacks. A ship of the desert, plowing through time.

Time, flows like a river, to the sea. The Alan Parsons Project

Maybe that's why, when I visited the Great Architect's Taliesen West in Phoenix this winter, I felt compelled to do my Jack impersonation, perched on the "prow" of the monument.

The ziggurat as the riverboat of human consciousness, on the river of time. Samuel Clemens was a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, This occupation gave him his pen name, Mark Twain, from "mark twain," the cry for a measured river depth of two fathoms. I began looking at those twin columns, those twin towers, those twin smoke stacks.

Hit it, Tina:



Title inspiration from The Fabulous Riverboat, by Philip José Farmer, from the Riverworld series.

Fool's Gold

 Google has a cute April Fool's joke this year - an 8-bit Google Maps for Nintendo. The Japanese children are delighted when they can find the Pyramids of Giza, the Skytree of Japan and the Nazca of Peru. All man-made constructions, two ancient and one modern, that some surmise have been intentionally designed to be "seen from space".

The natural question is "seen by who?", and we get all kinds of alien gods, angels and nephilim stepping in to take the role. Since Google actually DOES see things from space, one might suspect that Google is showing itself, in a playful manner, to be our new god.

I'd have to say the Google are right. Whenever I want to know something, I run to the computer and query Google for the answer. I'm like a resident of the Emerald City who, when confronted with an anomaly like the 'Surrender Dorothy' skywriting of the Wicked Witch of the West over the city, I rush to the Wizard/Google for an answer.

We also saw a curious story about the Anonymous hactivists who some say had threatened to take down the internet today. But no, that story was the work of trolls:

It’s of course still possible that some hackers will attempt to take down the Internet today. They will fail. Furthermore, they won’t be supported by Anonymous. I can’t emphasize this enough: do not believe reports saying Anonymous is attacking the Internet. Some may be trying, but the larger group has made it clear many times it loves the Internet and would never even attempt to take it down.

So there you go. Even Anon loves the Wizard.

Human Consciousness, the 8-bit computer getting an upgrade. 8, 16, 32, 64. Or 8x8 - the star g8. When we're done, we'll realize we never needed the Wizard after all, the ability was within us all the time.

Going Against Programming

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity." ~C-3PO

I was watching Return of the Jedi last night and I had this weird feeling that it was all true, at least, from a certain point of view. The deflector shield was built on Endor (Eden, the Garden State) and it represents our collective ego. This deflector shield is keeping out Cosmic Consciousness, and deflecting it away. We threw ourselves out of paradise. At it's core, the shield is our ego, but the ego has a way of becoming a super-ego, and so we get a collective expression of our egoic fears, which is now involving so many threats I can't even keep track. The U.S. Military has set itself up as a "threat assessment" operation and well, how many threats ARE there to the ego? All these military analysts sitting around all day, imagining new terrors... It's like we put H. P. Lovecraft in charge.

In a way, this is all Fundamentalist Christianity/Scientology, since L. Ron Hubbard imagined earth as a prison that our spirits were thrown into by the evil Xenu, and yet, I suspect this "prison" is of our own making. We've made our own deflector shield, and it's made a Death Star, and it's bloody well keeping out anything or anyone that might have anything decent or constructive to say. You get the choke hold if you mention that maybe if we all just stopped competing against one another, then maybe the giant SUV wouldn't be necessary, or the huge bank account or the defending ballistic missiles, etc. etc. etc.

In the same way, our Id is entirely personal, but she is also building a Super-Id. So when we see National Geographic presenting vivid images of alien invasion, you wonder if maybe something is up. The Id missile?

I think the whole experience of sync is to warm us up, get used to the idea that what we think is intimately connected to what we experience. We might feel compelled to accept our own godhood, and accept what that really means. I know, I know... it goes against our programming to impersonate a deity, being the good protocol droids we are.

Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said , Ye are gods? ~John 10:34

Mr. Deity resembles George Lucas, of course.

It's Time

Yesterday, Var told me he named our new Current bush Kronos (where did THAT come from?) - who happens to be the god of time. Today he picks out a Big Ben themed iPhone cover at Best Buy, and I keep seeing all these Saturn automobiles on the street today, sort of haunting me. Something tells me it's time.

Wouldn't it be amazing if the birth of something new happened on 3/22 - skull and bones day?

Art by Jacob Mott and his Big Watch Boiz

Green Man Up

Last year for St. Paddy's day, I posted The Naked Justice of St. Patrick, which outlined the ancient phallic "creator god" tradition of St. Patrick's Day, via a cool homoerotic comic called Naked Justice by Class Comics. Thanks to Christopher Knowles' The Secret History of St. Patrick's Day, we know:

• In Egyptian mythology, Osiris was killed on the 17th day of Athyr, the third month of the ancient calendar.
• 3/17 is also the date of a Masonically-created holiday, St. Patrick’s Day. The story has it that the holiday was established by high level Freemason, George Washington, allegedly to reward Irish soldiers in the Continental Army. But “St. Paddy’s” has traditionally been a very minor Saint’s day in Ireland. Considering that the day has become America’s defacto Bacchanal (which takes us back to Osiris) it’s worth noting some of the parallels of this day with Solar mythology.

In the Egyptian myth, Osiris is murdered by Set, dismembered and thrown into the Nile. Osiris' wife, Isis, collects the pieces and finds all but the phallus, and so makes a substitute out of gold. With this, she bears a son named Horus, who grows up to avenge the death of his father and unite upper and lower Egypt.

Imagining the USA playing the part of Egypt, split into two parts (red states and blue states) Isis (Lady Liberty) standing in the Nile (the Hudson) seeking her husband, it's not so difficult to see the parallels. Alan Abbadessa-Green at Look at All the Happy Creatures has done some amazing work outlining Manhattan as the missing phallus of gold, and the 911 mega-ritual as being the event that cracked the egg of Horus consciousness into the world - Why so Sirius? Pt 2: The Rise of Horus

Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains. ~Mark 13:8

Captain America (the first Avenger) was "born again" last summer, and shortly afterwards came the Occupy Wall St. movement, using V for Vendetta as a symbol for justice. Since George Washington, St. Patrick's Day and the Egyptian mysteries are so closely intertwined, I began tracking news items concerning truth and justice, Washington, and the upcoming Osiris Day.

• March 16: Washington man sentenced to life in NW killings A Washington man has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to two murders in a deadly crime spree through Washington, Oregon and California.
• March 16: US Suspect in Afghan Shootings Identified After five days cloaked in military secrecy, the US soldier suspected in a massacre of 16 Afghan civilians has been identified as a Washington state father of two who underwent anger management counseling a decade ago after an arrest for assault...
• March 16: Jury Finds Spying in Rutgers Dorm Was a Hate Crime A former Rutgers University student was convicted on Friday on all 15 charges he had faced for using a webcam to spy on his roommate having sex with another man. His roommate, Tyler Clementi, jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge three days after the webcam viewing, three weeks into their freshman year in September 2010.
• March 16: Gay leaders from Israel snubbed by Seattle's gay commission The Seattle LGBT Commission canceled a Friday reception for a delegation of gay Israeli leaders. The six-member Israeli delegation had scheduled on the West Coast — with stops in San Francisco and Los Angeles — to exchange ideas on advancing gay rights. Only in Washington state, however, did the team encounter pushback from fellow gays./li>
• March 17: Hunt Zeros in on the Mystery of an Old Site Called Hades Now a coveted residential ZIP code, the area in Northwest Washington was briefly a center of WW1 chemical warfare research, a frantic response to Germany’s weapons. Some historians liken it to the Manhattan Project.

World War I began in 1917, and Osiris was the God of Resurrection, The Underworld and The Judge of Dead.

Take the Money and Run

This here's a story about Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue
Two young lovers with nothin' better to do
Than sit around the house, get high, and watch the tube
And here is what happened when they decided to cut loose

Thanks to Driftglass, I was musing (once again) about George and what has become the Fourth Reich. On Becoming One With the Darkness. It's brilliant, go read it. It reminded me how much I truly hated GWB and his wars, his profiteering, his "bring it on" bluster. How, thanks to the modern "Pearl Harbor" of 911, the corporate right got everything they could have ever wanted, and we're now living in the ruins of it. It could have been so different... segue into Al Gore watching his own version of It's a Wonderful Life and all that would have happened if he had not become president. We're there, living in Pottersville (Bushville) every day.

Much was written back in the day about the similarities between Bush and Hitler. Both claimed "Gott Mit Uns". Both declared a "Fatherland" or "Homeland". Both began wars based upon lies and paranoia. Both found a racial and religious stereotype on which to focus collective fear and hatred. Both employed financial shenanigans to create an illusionary bubble of economic well-being to fund the war machine.

They headed down to, ooh, old El Paso
That's where they ran into a great big hassle
Billy Joe shot a man while robbing his castle
Bobbie Sue took the money and run

The only thing really different between Hitler and Bush is that Bush did not have the good sense to die in his bunker and bring closure to a really nasty decade. There was no great trial, no war crimes tribunal. It just continues on. There has been no judgement, no justice. The bumper sticker says "If you want peace, work for justice". I don't know what it will take, a "French Revolution", or what. But it has to be that way. Justice is coming. That's just the way the story works itself out.

Go on take the money and run
Go on take the money and run
Go on take the money and run
Go on take the money and run

Note: youtube video uploaded by iNUKEDbinLADEN. 'nuf said.