Gaia Community: cosmicbdog's Blog

Change.org... love it!

http://b13.gaia.com — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:07:16 GMT

Obama is apparently hailing in a real democracy inviting citizens to involve themselves in the discussion and to suggest 'changes' government and the people should make.

One that caught my eye enough to join and help the debate is Go Vegan, go vegan as a family.

I thought you would like to add your 2 cents and vote for this to be considered as a change we could take on!

Tags: change.org, go vegan, go vegan as a family

Hey you soulful musician what do you think of this sound cloud...

http://b13.gaia.com — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:30:36 GMT

http://soundcloud.com/blackwax said he is looking for artists

I imagine I might have a friend or two who might enjoy putting some vocals to music made by this up and coming producer... and no, I'm not talking about myself right now.

He's looking for collaborations. Especially lyricists and vocalists. If you're not catching on by now... *ahem*aki..

There's just something about blackwax's music, like his remix DJ Oji Vs Dr Bob Jones - Soul Underground Blackwax & H&H Unreleased Remix has a feeling to it that is light.

Tags: blackwax, collaboration

"Where the hell is matt?" He's dancing in this video of unity!!!

http://b13.gaia.com — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:09:24 GMT

Hey everybody. Quite some time. Nevermind. I'm back again, temporarily as always but I am coming back this time with ways to keep a track of me so that when I'm not posting here, well, you don't miss out on me all together!

So firstly, add me to your twitter => twitter.com/cosmicbdog. Whats on my mind lately? You can get micro updates from me there. Well, mostly it has been the world and the state of fear we are in. The economy. Shifting the economy. Uplifting the human spirit. These have been my focuses.

I have made some kinda comical half activist videos as well which I posted up on my white board www.cosmicbdog.com

And I'm just getting started. But for now, let me leave you with a video I had to share with you where the following chap goes to every corner of the globe to do a little jig. I hope you love it!

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)

Goto wherethehellismatt.com to see more about this epic production! And if you love the peice above, then set your sites on a talk Matt gave on the creation of this.

How the Hell Did Matt Get People to Dance With Him?

Big love to all my close gaia friends. I hope you can learn something from Matt. Isn't it really just about coming together?

Tags: world unity, dancing, fun, love, earth, global, humanity

A lovely puppy

http://b13.gaia.com — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:57:43 GMT

Cookie Eats Carrots!

Tags: dog, carrots, vegetarian, carnivore going vego

What does your soul look like, pt 2

http://b13.gaia.com — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:59:37 GMT

Eh?

Dj Shadow is speaking to my soul today... just a little bit.

"We are standing here at the edge of time... cold... our road was paved with the edge of time... steel... sparks... come with me now to the edge of time... does anyone remember who i am? ...in a few moments you will have an experience which will seem completely real... it will be the result of your subconscious fears transformed to your conscious awareness... you have 5 seconds to terminate this tape... 5.4.3.2.1. [has everybody got a place to hide? ...is everybody inside?] x2 ...there's a game out there, and the stakes are high, and the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long, and all night... once in a while he let's you steal a pot, but if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose, and once you've lost, there's no way back, no way at all... (the time has come) x 3

Can you feel this? What is that buzzing? Are you now, or have you ever, moved slowly?"

"Bobby, whats going on, this doesn't make sense? How does this relate to anything???"

Bah, who needs to make sense? Look, let me march like a soldier for peace. Nobody questions the military act of marching for peace. We all go "yay, thats peaceful". Nobody questions the insanity behind chomping on meat while talking about how horrible a war is. So let me spill a bit of random insanity... I mean look, it works for some of the most popular bloggers on Gaia... I say to "do X" while I do Y.

I found a funny pod description on here the other day that is just FULL to the brim of wide eyed truth ignorers. It read something along the lines of "This is for the real spiritual people, who believe we don't all have to be vegetarians that don't wear leather, who feel the way our ancients lived is attuned to nature" etc etc.

I was like "man, I couldn't agree more... can I join? Finally, somebody who understands that the old is where its at! Bring back the days where we could take our daughters in cave when it got warm without the new age fun police coming in to tell us about 'karma' and 'morals' and 'ethics'. What do these pseudo new age terms mean anyways? Bring back the grunts I say... thats what spirituality is about... stuff this hippy dippy enlightenment catchphrasey crazy stuff where I actually have to do any real personal development... lets just pretend we're onto it by going back in time and living like the apes did. Man, I miss those days when you could just carve up your kids if you got really hungry... I mean thats living with the land and within your means! These vego's and yoga fanatics are just frikken losing it... joy doesn't come from within... it comes from having blood and flesh fibers rotting between the teeth dummy, and surviving."

Ok I actually kept these thoughts to myself because people tell me to keep the ridicule down. Of course, since the majority of people love to live in a comfortable veil they don't like to be confronted so there are these society barriers the masses put up. Like its not ok to say "babe, you are an elephant... lose some weight" because the majority of the populous in that region or obese. Move to japan however where there aren't so many chunky monkeys, and its totally ok. Niche said something about morals the people project as being the weaks way of undermining the truly strong in society.

There's no hatred in me towards fat people though. Just like I don't hate meat eaters. Do I hate lions? No. Dogs? Favourite animals. But if somebody can say "lions eat animals in the wild and sharks eat fish so predation is natural and intruding on another beings life is perfectly fine" well I say "stop eating meat ya warlord". If a lion eating meat in the wild is justification that we have free reign, why can't the same be applied to me slapping a burger out of a fatties mouth? Am I not a natural being? Are my instincts not as valid as a shark? Or did I magically transcend and become an alien?

What intelligent being ever fooled the population of humans into thinking they magically left 'nature'. "Oh look, you stepped over the line... see, over that line is nature, while on this side of the line is ___' What? Alien territory? Non-nature? Cyborg land? Deluded dementor world full of people with their head in an idealistic future with their feet blindly trampling the world below?

We're stupid... and I know I know... stupid isn't very friendly is it. But ignorant really isn't any better is it? Its still offensive. Infact any sort of description that puts me in a better category than you is undermining and arrogant. So whats really the problem? You want me to treat you equally while you don't mind taking the life from creatures you believe are less evolved then you? I'm trying... I really am. But I'm also trying to crack through to you and it seems you'll enjoy living in 'la la' land forever with a bunch of other blood cult members patting each other on the back. I know that I evolved a leap and bound when I stopped eating animals. I could see the contradiction in my desires to live peacefully and the ways I was eating which was violently. It just wasn't possible to plant hatred and magically blossom out with love. So I stopped. You will too I believe. Whether its your health that collapses on you, or its new animal rights laws that come into play, or whether its your higher self screaming to be heard through the pin prick of an opening you have in your awareness... it will happen I am sure of it.

So on this note, I think I've gotten the derogatory outbursts out of my system. I blame it on the meat diet still imprinted on my cellular walls. Seriously, where does your angst come from? Really question how you feel you are living in a cage yourself? Why is your life the way it is? So many people don't have the answers for this. So many people won't admit its because they eat caged animals... that they are bound to authoritarians because they play authority over creatures on the earth. They would rather give the power to some all powerful politician or secret society who has rules in effect... but thats just the cop out and the fractal of actions on the micro, unfolding to the macro. The reality is we reap what we sow. Eat slaves, you'll become one. Give freedom and life to people, and thats what you will generate. Try freedom on for size... try truly following the words you speak. You won't look back I promise.

Well, thats all for me for now... Bdog... cosmicbdog... one love.. namaste... in'lakesh.

*Rocks out to dj shadow organ donor (the extended overhaul) remix*

"No wonder the sound has so much body!"

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The Power in Compassion

http://b13.gaia.com — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:43:56 GMT

Again, borrowing the words of another friend Lao Tsu interpreted at http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~davidt/tao/the_power_in_compassion.htm

"All the world thinks that my Tao is great; and yet it seems inconceivable. Only it's greatness makes it seem inconceivable. If it could be conceived of it would have become insignificant long ago."

"I have three Treasures that I support and protect: the first is compassion, the second is moderation, the third is not to be the first in the world."

"With compassion, one becomes courageous. With moderation, one becomes expansive. In daring not to be the first in the world, one becomes the instrument of leadership."

"Now if one is courageous without compassion, or expansive without moderation or first without holding back, one is doomed!"

"Compassion always triumphs when attacked; it brings security when maintained. Nature aids it's leaders, by arming them with compassion."

The three treasures - compassion, moderation and the courage not to be first - are the emotional foundations of Lao Tzu's whole approach. Enduring leaders are those with the most compassion. They are endurin g because compassion is a mysterious intellectual force that allows reality to act on the mind in a deeply affecting way, and in return endows the mind with the power to act on reality. Compassionate leaders are able to make decisions with foresight and vision - this is how they endure and triumph.

Lao Tzu opens this passage with a paradox - the idea that something can be so large, so ever-present and so profound that it becomes inconceivable. He suggests that anything that can be fully conceived of and comprehended by the mind becomes small and manageable. Yet true power does not come from controlling the small and manageable, but from the mind-expanding exercise of conceiving of the inconceivable. (67)

Compassion is a transforming force of nature - through a mysterious process, those who practice compassion transform themselves and in the process transform those around them to be more in harmony with nature. Witness the deeds of Jesus Christ when he healed the sick. These acts of compassio n made such an impression on people that it helped to establish a religion that has endured for two thousand years.

Tags: the tao, inconceivable nature, love, compassionate, leadership, being the change, being expansive, being moderate, being courageous

Today its Coldplay

http://b13.gaia.com — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:25:57 GMT

From the latest Album Viva La Vida this track is speaking some things better than I can at the moment...

Title: Lost!

Just because I'm losing
Doesn't mean I'm lost
Doesn't mean I'll stop
Doesn't mean I will cross

Just because I'm hurting
Doesn't mean I'm hurt
Doesn't mean I didn't get what I deserve
No better and no worse

I just got lost
Every river that I've tried to cross
Every door I ever tried was locked
Ooh-Oh, And I'm just waiting till the shine wears off...

You might be a big fish
In a little pond
Doesn't mean you've won
'Cause along may come
A bigger one
And you'll be lost

Every river that you tried to cross
Every gun you ever held went off
Ooh-Oh, And I'm just waiting till the firing starts
Ooh-Oh, And I'm just waiting till the shine wears off
Ooh-Oh, And I'm just waiting till the shine wears off
Ooh-Oh, And I'm just waiting till the shine wears off…

Tags: lost, coldplay, long live life

CosmicBDog with guest speaker Daniel Priestley

http://b13.gaia.com — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:32:00 GMT

So I want to bring in some more perceptions into this discussion. This isn't a one way conversation I am having here. In this episode I sit with Daniel Priestley, successful entrepreneur with an array of enterprises under his belt moreso, you can see the shimmer in his eyes when he speaks. An optimist and seeker of solutions and generally willing to see the silver lining on the clouds.

A man who has travelled the globe speaking on the topics of living passionately, solving the poverty crisis, how businesses could work more efficiently, how people can begin to live their dreams and not under a strange idea that they must sacrifice the best years of their life chained to responsibilities they would rather go beyond.... and more. A top bloke, and at just age 27 has sat down and had chats with people of the likes of Roger Hamilton (Founder of Asias largest business network), Sir Richard Branson (does he need an introduction?), Dr John Demartini (author of hundreds of life changing books, renowned world best seller and speaker), Mark Victor Hansen (co-author of chicken soup for the soul)... just to name a few. He's also one of the oldest friends of yours truly.

Yes, he gets around, and when he's not meeting these kinds of people, he is recruiting people to The Hunger Project across the globe, being a strong advocate and personally donating more than $50,000 to this initiative that is aiding the real solutions to problems we are facing in 3rd world countries today. The Hunger Project doesn't just put food in mouths - its teaching impoverished people how to rebuild their communities and generate abundance once again.

Why does any of this introduction matter? Well of course, there is the perception that vegetarians hide from life... they don't live large and they don't have any position in the real world. Daniel busts the mold on this one and is another example of people on veges who are doing some serious ass kicking for the good guys. Enjoy

Disclaimer: Daniel Priestley does not necessarily endorse what I a have to say on these topics and may not share my opinions.

Links to checkout referred to in this video...

http://www.happycow.net

http://www.peta.org

Tags: vegetarian, save the world, business leader, entrepreneur, deforestation, water crisis, global warming

5 key crisis on earth that 1 singular thing is responsible for...

http://b13.gaia.com — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:25:12 GMT

There is something humans eat so much of that is unnecessary and is responsible for 90% of the worlds land being negatively transformed from pristine forest, into wasteland. And if global warming doesn't wipe us out from this food item... its the new diseases that are a bi-product of it.

Do you know what it is?

Meat.

It may come as a surprise to know this, but 90% of earths agricultural efforts go towards putting food and water to keeping livestock alive. Did that surprise you? It surprised me.

Here's something that might come as shocking news for you too... or may be hard for you to accept... IF you eat meat, you're about as ecologically minded as a hum-vee truck. You could be riding around on a pushbike, using solar power, offsetting your carbon emissions by planting trees but guess what? If you eat meat, you're leading the parade of destruction on the planet.

Every meal you're chomping on bones, you're saying "I fuck the planet nice and hard, and I don't care, because it tastes good AND I love living in the ignorant bliss and blind stupidity that eating meat is essential and good for me."

Let me ask you something - how good will it be when there is no environment left to enjoy it in? If eating meat was so essential, don't you think it would be environmentally friendly?

Let me bring your attention to 5 major crisis here on planet earth and how eating meat is peaking out at the top of responsible contributing factors to them...

The water crisis

All across the world there is a water shortage. Fresh water supplies are running out. What used to be natural running water ways are now contaminated. Livestock is the primary pollutant of these systems.

We can't just create new water. There is a certain amount that is naturally created on earth. If it is used over on this continent and turned into toxic juice, earth doesn't just pump out new stuff. It goes into stagnation and takes a long time to recover. So the more say, America, eats its diet of meat and turns water into flesh for McMeaties, the less water Africa has.

Could the melting of the ice caps and the snow on Kilimanjaro be earths way of trying to provide some more fresh water for us? Probably. The earth is thirsty so she's tapping into her stored supplies, but hand in hand with the melting of those supplies comes a raising of the sea levels and a nice wiping out of destructive beings in the world.

Check out The 11th Hour at your local cinema or video store.

But if the toxicity of the water systems isn't enough to get your head thinking, think about the inequality of your diet lifestyle choice versus those kids in Africa who are running around a desert trying to find a fresh water supply. While you're having your shower being eco efficient on a timer so you don't waste water, consider the reality that the water that is consumed to feed a cow in order to create just 1 Pound of flesh is equivalent to a whole years worth of showering.

Check out http://www.goveg.com/environment-wastedResources-water.asp for a breakdown of just how much water goes into feeding cows.

The poverty crisis

90% of the world lives in poverty. Lacking the water and resources to do anything about it. The other 10% of the world are not in poverty, and they use about 1000% times the resources they need to in order to live. Is a shift of resources and priorities in order? Duh.

Instead of sending the grains to feed the humans who are starving, we send it to feed livestock. Isn't that intelligent. Personally, I think actions like this make humans the lesser evolved species while animals in the wild are actually more evolved. Does it not make sense that we cancel out our intelligence when the very actions we perform wipe us out? So based on this, shouldn't humans have less right than the apparently less evolved animals? Think about it...

The forest crisis

Do you know that the Amazon rainforest has been mostly pillaged to make way for agriculture to feed cows? Wasn't that a smart move. And thats what happens all around the world. The bulldozers come in, mass clear the land and then the stumps that are left are set on fire. What do you think created all the C02 in the atmosphere? The cars? Nope. Its fires, its the lack of forests keeping the planet cool and its all those trucks driving back and forth back and forth taking grains between the farms and the animal slave fields.

When it rains, an old tree root system can hold something like 50,000 litres of water like a sponge. When these trees are removed, the water doesn't hold in the earth and this is where the massive inland flooding is coming from. Instead of being sucked in, like trees do, it creates these massive landslides, rushes of torrents, and makes a beeline to the ocean destroying most things in the path. Trees do much more than just filter the air we breath, they are home to vital life systems humans rely on AND they are like our defensive barriers against weather. Pull more trees out, the weather will get worse and worse.

The health crisis

A massively growing problem in the health world is Colon Cancer. Why? Humans have a herbivore colon (Check out a breakdown of a human, herbivore and carnivore for the facts) while attempting a carnivore diet. Its not hard to work out why. Speaking to a colonic specialist they will tell you that the average meat eater has rotting corpse in the colon 6 months old. Parasites... worms... there's an army in there. A carnivore doesn't experience this problem passes the meat within days.

Colon cancer accounts for around 650,000 deaths a year world wide.

But if that doesn't ring some alarm bells, lets introduce the new friend of ours on the top of food chain. Humans are no longer there. Say hi to the new Super Diseases we created. Alzheimer's... Mad Cow Disease.. just to name a couple who have only been on the planet in the last 50 years.

So, how did it happen? Why has humanities health gone down the shitter? Some say its microwaves... radiation from mobile phones... and while these play a part, they are quite friendly compared to eating food which just is plain and simple incompatible with the body we have.

Of course its just 'theoretical' as doctors and a medical industry push paper around wondering how they are going to get out of the way of societies gunfire for shoving the food pyramid down our innocent minds at childhood putting meat right up there once the critical mass is reached and the majority of humans go "what the fuck? why did you lie to us?".

The Food Pyramid of LIES

Well, thats not too hard to answer. Its about money, greed and disconnection from the land. Looking further into it, its about everything.... peoples lack of love and connection to the spirit in all things. But I digress...

A few generations ago, humans went industrial crazy and made a big leap away from natural living. They started to do some very unearthly like things... such as bringing minerals up from deep below the earth that probably should have never been touched... minerals that are like the earths bones that have been formed over billions of years. In doing this, they started to be able to create hardcore machines that could take our way of life to a whole new level of destruction and creation. For example, they decided they could plant the same crop on the same field over and over again which until recently was an impossible thing. Native people of the land know that you must rotate a crop and return things to the soil that have been depleted in an organic and holistic way otherwise the earth would say "no more fruit for you". But in this new era of advanced stupidity, if the crop stopped responding due the land being completely raped of resources, what did they do? They brought in these new beefed up fertilizers that we made from crushing up Cow bones combined with synthesised chemicals. That seems harmless, they thought.

Adding 10 years of this process and oh dear, the fertilizers aren't working so well anymore. What did we do!? Like the geniuses we believe we are we formulated even stronger new genetic chemical to add to the mix... SUPER FERTILIZER!! Forget rewinding the clock and considering we were heading in the wrong direction... there is money to be made. So they kept going... Meanwhile the belly got hungrier and the ease of manipulating and slicing up animals to arrive in neat little packages increased.

With the increase in appetite came the increase in need to get bigger and faster yields from crops. The food being grown by these super chemical fertilizers started to go straight to the cows. All heil supreme human intelligence. And here lies the beginning of an alien like mutation of disease...

The cows are eating chemically grown grains. But strangely, cows don't eat grains. Did you know that? I told a couple of guys that cows don't eat grains and they didn't know, so maybe you don't know that. Maybe you don't know that you're eating animals that live lives forced to eat food they are not supposed to eat. Cows eat grass. Just like humans are supposed to eat fruit and vegetable. So you can see how that illusory way of diet has transferred up the food chain. Many humans think they are supposed to eat meat just like they think cows are supposed to eat grains. Wrong. So the cows got sick. Just like the humans did. Who cares? We have just invented a new formula to add to the cow feed on top of the already chemicalised grains... Steroids... Drugs... x 100. Ahhhh... there we go. See, the cows are still alive and its aalllllll good. Meanwhile the humans pumped up on similar drugs.

Do this pattern over 50 years and what do you have? Simply, you have diseases that doctors don't even understand now. You have a strain of virus that has mutated and mutated so many times building better and better resistances to our antibiotics that they have virtually taken on an intelligence and life of their own. They are so powerful that they don't even die under fire. They are viruses that exist in the body which basically exist under the radar of the human immune system.... which means your body doesn't even know they are there and attempt to eradicate them.

Not only this, they are verily indestructible. Think about the plague... smallpox... how bad they were. Smalltime diseases to us now that wiped out half the planet. All of those diseases which humanity lived in fear of used to die simply under a blue flame. Boiling water. Zip. Gone. Well the little critters that have been brewing in the livestock sheds can withstand temperatures beyond what can be created in most labs. What is about to emerge from the farms is stuff that will make Aids look like the common cold people.

The karmic crisis

See, karma is real ladies in gentlemen. It doesn't just apply in the areas you decide it works in. Energy is energy. It works on every level of reality. Put an animal species in a cage for eons and eons and you can't get away with it. Life finds a way to return the favour. All of a sudden we have a massive biological crisis on our hands where potentially a huge portion of humans are going to feel just like the animals being tortured and used as products feel: controlled, helpless and innevitably going to enjoy a painful and horrific death.

Chomp chomp. Please sir, can I have some more?

Its time to do something to reverse this...

Firstly, stop eating meat. You're health will shoot through the roof despite the dogmatic religious like claims that you need meat to survive.

Secondly, start helping causes that are going to reverse the environmental impact. Sure, we might not survive the chaos around the corner thanks to the damage we've created... but at least we can try and not send earth into the same burning fate that Venus is in. Potentially, if we don't undo this damage, thats all folks.

Check out the initiative I am working on called Save the Cows. Simply, when you start to save the cows, you save your health, you save animals from being tortured and you are saving the earth.

http://www.cosmicbdog.com/save_the_cows

Tags: global crisis, karma, deforestation, water crisis, poverty, law of attraction, save the cows

You have got to check out this video

http://b13.gaia.com — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:19:43 GMT

The following is a video of a creative peice made live by an elephant. These elephants are not taught exactly what to paint, but are taught how to. What they come up with is truly unique and incredible... Enjoy :)

Elephant Painting

Tags: animal, elephant, peaceful giant, gift, animal activist, painting, artwork, natural design, self portrait

Why this media mogul doesn't eat meat...

http://b13.gaia.com — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:33:54 GMT

Hey rockstars! And I mean that… its a rock we’re on… and if you’re abstaining from killing and torture while on this rock, you’re a star in my books… I mean blogs. People have told me I should stick to writing, “write a book bro”. I don’t know though I’m not sure if they think I’m a good writer or because I talk too much and its a subtle way of saying “leave me alone”.

Anywaaaays… enough writing for now. I listened to the critique… ‘make it shorter’, ‘make it more to the point’ and so I went back to the studio to make another movie for the cows. Really though, why should I make it shorter? I see these animals like my family. Lets see if you stop having a little cry about your brother or sister being taken away one day and raped and murder for the rest of the days. Lets see if you stop after 10 minutes then.

My rants and raves ladies and gentlemen, are just going to get longer, more moving and intense and confronting. My challenge to you is only going to increase. Until I see world peace and true unity on this planet, you can expect this from me. So try all you like to silence the lion, but the roar is comin.

So on that note, here’s the next installment from CosmicBDog:

Tags: vegetarian, meat diet, vegan diet, humanitarian, activism, animal rights, karma

An update...

http://b13.gaia.com — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:03:40 GMT

Hey everybody... I wasn't really happy with the google video system so have started a channel at blip.tv. I think that will become my video posting home since its got a lot better functionality and doesn't strip the quality down too much on the video.

Anyways I made a few changes and is a tiny bit shorter now. Enjoy.

p.s. if you have itunes, subscribe to me at http://cosmicbdog.blip.tv/rss/itunes and whenever there is a new video from me, you can get it directly!

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If I could change just one thing...

http://b13.gaia.com — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:49:37 GMT

Hey G's. I decided recently that written word just wasn't making the impact on the planet I feel I could be making so stepped up the game to multimedia. Here is the first installment of many videos you can expect from me on a topic very close to my heart. In short, its about really looking at ourselves and the things we want to see in the world, and taking a deep hard look at what we do ourselves that supports on the micro what is manifesting in the macro. I hope you get something out of it.

p.s. if you like this video (or not) visit it on the google site at (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5788009410111048751&hl=en) and give it a rating so that it gets some popularity and potentially gets a bit more coverage. I would really appreciate that... and so would the animals.

Tags: video, vegetarian, change the world, change yourself, diet, world peace, micro, macro, murder, meat, torture

Where art thou Bobby?

http://b13.gaia.com — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:58:24 GMT

Some folks may have noticed I'm not writing a regular column here anymore on the benefits of not eating meat. I decided to find somewhere more appropriate and supportive to those efforts.

I have just posted my first blog over at happycow.net which is a community that begun its focus around providing all of the vegetarian food outlets on earth. It makes the cows happy. I love cows.

So my first blog there is available for the reading. Bobby, I mean cosmicbdog is still alive and kicking and his current kicks / writing has been focused on The ‘compassionate’ kill. So check it out. There's plenty in there to laugh about and as usual I've thrown in a few of those good old fashioned caveman excuses as to why people think its ok to eat meat. I think even meaties could have a laugh.

I hope you are rocking the cosmos fellow creature of earth. Don't be a motherfucker. Love your mother.

Tags: vegetarianism, mia, returned from the blogging dead

Jesus was a vegetarian

http://b13.gaia.com — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:42:24 GMT

Jesus Was A Vegetarian - For more funny videos, click here

Tags: jesus was a vegetarian, vegetarianism, era of peace, christianity, catholicism, religious change

Global Warming and Livestock

http://b13.gaia.com — Sat, 17 May 2008 07:05:54 GMT

Tags: global warming, c02, livestock, lies, going green

Bringing hand grenades and rifles to the peace march

http://b13.gaia.com — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:36:07 GMT

Despite the heading of this entry, this post is about healing the body and not fighting a war. What I hope to clarify however is the contradiction most of us are consumed by when it comes to healing our body as though its a battle field.

Currently I am focusing on redefining words that keep me locked in paradigms of experience. Those who know me would know I've had the occasional chuckle at the idea of a 'peace march'. Especially when a peace march contains within it all the very things it opposes, just merely on a smaller scale and slightly different form.

Marching came from wars and so unless a peace march is full of reformed soldiers, isn't it kinda irrelevant and counter productive effort for regular citizens to get up and start performing the military act of marching... for peace? Is it sending mixed messages?

A bunch of people get together to fight for a cause... just like a war. "And look, they march like soldiers too! Its another army!" the news reader says without words, but images.

And isn't it really just another side in the war? The people who fight in the war, are against something. The people who fight against the war, are against something. The same war, just different enemies and targets. The people with the guns might be fighting against a different race because they see them as brutal and unevolved, while the people at the peace rally fight against the people in the war itself because they see its unevolved to be fighting wars.

Me personally, I have spent some time fighting meat eaters because they for no valid reason (to me) slaughter animals to eat, in the process making those people my prey to slaughter. Thats a common target of mine in this great war. Just like every other stupid shortsighted warrior on the planet, I have found a vacuum and have been sucked into and often lost grip of the very things I wanted to bring into this life.

When peace marches get violent though, thats when they really cross the line and lose all credibility.

Anyways, this post is actually about healing the body and the target is more the language used to describe our healing experience. Today, I'm trying not to fight wars and not bag on racist and speciest.. much. Its funny to me though... I'm against people who descriminate, but aren't I descriminating discriminists in the process? So I will draw conclusions and contradictions in and between wars and healing because my understanding of health and the way a lot of us approach healing is as though we are in an ancient war.

Today, the king on the battle field is the antioxidant.

Think about an antioxidant? Surely you have heard of the term. They are a mega buzz word in the health world. But much more then a word, the word describes a type of metabolic creature that lives in many foods we eat and drink and there is a whole spectrum and diversity of them to help us feel healthier! We love them, it seems... but didn't we give them the most stupid name? We gave our positive friend a negative name. Oops.

Why do we call our most valued friend in healing our body an antioxidant? Surely we could have a better name then this. Couldn't it just as easily be a 'attractibalancer'?

My understanding is that an antioxidant isn't really anti anything. Its attractive... its on purpose.. .its on a mission to seek out bad stuff going on and helps it all get back into a harmonious state with the body.

Take the following definition from medicinenet.com:

"Antioxidant: Any substance that reduces oxidative damage (damage due to oxygen) such as that caused by free radicals. Free radicals are highly reactive chemicals that attack molecules by capturing electrons and thus modifying chemical structures."

I find an underlying problem with calling attractibalancers 'antioxidants'. On one hand, there is a positive perception connected to the antioxidant. It reduces oxidative damage. Thats a good thing. But then on the other hand, the way it goes about it, or I should say, the context its work has been set in is that of a battle field. Thats a major negative. A bad thing. What you have there is a negative cancel out a positive. This has also happened in the anti-terrorism movement.

The fight on terrorism...

Elsewhere this 'anti' thing works out to cancel its efforts. Who wants terror? We want to be anti terror. Down with terrorism. What happens though in being 'anti' terrorism is the people strongest in that effort of seeking and destroying terrorism become the greatest terror providers of them all. So we find a Bin Laden or 2... A Suddam Hussein or 3. And we Anti them. In the process though, we created far greater terrors.

Now, I'm not saying that because we call our antioxidants 'anti'oxidants that its like fighting a war on terror and expecting peace to come about. What I am saying however is that potentially there is a major disfunction in the labeling and the way we describe aspects of reality which are going to have effects on everything that we probably don't want to occur.

Its as though...

"You're so busy going from from A-Z, that there's uhhh 24 letters inbetween".

~ Infected Mushroom

What I'm trying to say here is that 'A' is the unhealthy body. 'Z' is the healthy one. Most people have no idea what happens between A and Z, they just want to get there. So they hear a dietician and a few medical advisors say you need antioxidants and people are lining up to get the fix.

The Z seeker... and the fight on oxidation

Trying to get antioxidants is like rocking up to a peace march and looking to find the guns and grenades. Not exactly being peaceful, is it? Simply because of the way the we name these critters we are putting ourselves into a state of healing war, which isn't very conducive to healing. I'm not saying its pointless. They are proven to have a positive effect. What I'm suggesting however is that we're augmenting and giving power to the oxidation. We're basically one step forward, one step back. I think that by naming it an 'anti' we are, on a mass scale we are reducing their effect to be positive.

On the micro, we run around looking for our antioxidants, without any understanding of the 24 letters in between. Projecting perceptions into our cells that we are fighting a war within. And we are taking antioxidants as a way to fight this war even better. But when does it end?

On the macro, soldiers fight wars without the majority of people who pay the taxes knowing really anything about what, why or how the battle is taking place.

We have trusted our healing context to be set by doctors who haven't stopped since the wars that haven't ended since ancient times.

"You've got a bullet in you. Lets pull that sucka out and get you back on the field".

"You've caught an infection from that chemical bomb. Lets pour some acid on the bitch and get you back to work."

Its very reactionary work. Problem, solve. Problem, solve. From this fear based perception of limited time to really delve into the cause of problems, we bandaid it up as quick as we can. Why? Because there's so much to fix right. Because we just don't stop long enough to think about the real bigger picture. The more fear, the less time we think we have and the sooner we need to act. In the very act of acting as quickly as possible, little time do we spend in the infinitely abundant and eternal space that is the fabric the very limited world is able to believed in. Acting from a space of limitation and immediacy, we deny the possibility of actions to be sourced from a far more fruitful place.

We think the problem is the bullet, not the war. Its the psychotic energy plant, not the crazy mans agenda to take over the world and need for more power. Its the lack of fresh blood being supplied to ill health regions for transfusions, not their approach to diet and life. Its the bug in the system, not the corporations desire to get stuff to the market as quick as possible to make more money creating oversights.

There is a very good explanation for this Wayne Dyer helped me see once. He drew 2 marks on a board. 'A' and 'B'. He said (excuse the paraphrasing)...

'A' is being sick. Full of symptoms and problems. 'B' however, is being symptomless. You feel 'ok'.

a to b or b to c

What Dr. Dyer brought to my attention was how what we focus on expands. Sure, you have symptoms, so you need to bring attention to that and think about how you can polarise the experience you're having from a negative, to a positive one. But what most people don't realise is that by entering into that paradigm, they lose themselves in an ever expanding focus of trying to get away from being symptomless. Healing becomes a battle. Sure, you heal something, but all the while you were healing underneath you were focusing on fighting a battle which was sending negative vibes throughout your whole system and in the process, created more problems to focus on fixing. Caught between A and B.

What surprised me, was coming to the realisation also that little to no focus is put on C. For example, how far does the line between B and C go? How healthy can you actually be? I mean, if you somehow leave the majority of people stuck fighting a war against themselves in A and B, what is your potential? Could you maybe feed millions of people from nectar from your hand? Could you potentially grow a set of invisible wings? Could the sound of your voice miraculously heal and uplift anyone and anything that hears it?

Who knows? Well, its hard to know, because we seem to be so caught up in this paradigm of A and B.

Instead of people thinking about how peaceful they can be, they think about how to eliminate the symptoms, which are the terrorists. Instead of people creating new communities, they bag on the current government and its limitations. We spend most of our lives it seems, stuck fighting a useless cause. Stuck between A and B. The parenthesis of limited understanding and ignorance of a greater potential. We think that the harder we go at it against whatever is represented by 'A' we will somehow magically shoot out the other side of 'B' and 'C'. Its a nice ideal, sadly due to the lack of immortal people on earth its safe enough to say it doesn't work that way.

Killing creates a cemetary. Fighting creates a battlefield. Battle healing probably creates a bit of a bodily paralisis. Some good stuff happens, some bad stuff happens and you mosey along and basically nothing really changes. Mental negatives cancel out physical positives and progression through the world is at a standstill. Its confusing and frustrating, because you're putting all this effort into being healthy and not feeling diseased, yet there you are... with problems... pains... aches... fear. In the future however, I believe in this life or the next, you will come to realise you brought hand grenades and rifles to the peace march.

Not the greatest approach, surely. Maybe, the solution is a dance of multidimensional spectrums that doesn't really make sense right now, but that we are all apart of it and forever will be free within it. Where within it, we feel awesome and timeless and in so much gratitude that even our bodies and minds forget that we have problems to fix and we bloom into a whole new evolution completely free of the rubber between A and B and we launch past B and beyond...

Maybe curing cancer for some is as simple and stupid as being affectionate and loving with all creatures instead of torturing and murdering them. Hey, crazier things have been suggested and proven to work. And maybe the cure for people feeling continually held back in life, as though greater powers control them, would feel free of those restraints when they removed those sorts of energies from their diets?

Maybe even, its as simple for some as calling antioxidants 'life bringers' or 'energy donators'.

I'm not even sure I understand fully what an antioxidant does as a process. Most searches to understand an antioxidant is very generalistic descriptions and explains roughly the end result of what is achieved.

"Well-known antioxidants include a number of enzymes and other substances such as vitamin C, vitamin E and beta carotene (which is converted to vitamin A) that are capable of counteracting the damaging effects of oxidation."

Potentially, antioxidants is the perfect name, but I think there is some validity to what I am bringing up in that our approach to healing is a bit fear based and war like a lot of the time. Even when we're trying to be holistic there are still terms we use to describe the bodies process of healing itself that makes it sound like we are in a fight with disease.

What could you be capable of if you focused more time beyond b?

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Randomness with guiding qualities

http://b13.gaia.com — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:07:57 GMT

I have some things to share. Things to be reminded of. Things that are thoughts.

Be grateful for what you have been born into. And be grateful for what you have.

In a world where you can see and feel anything, remember that what you look for, you seem to find. I don't know how. I'm not certain why, either.

What is the purpose? What is your purpose in all this?

They seem to be questions that help to see the silver lining that if you see and hold for long enough, beyond its horizon is something that will probably mean even greater things to you. Of course its your choice, but to be reminded of the power and grace you have seems to create experiences and opportunities to open up and feel greater love and support, while focusing on the struggle in situations closes windows of opportunity and gives us pending thoughts of doom.

Holding streams of thought and feelings that are aligned with what you want to expand. Knowing you are in an infinite universe for some reason able to be and do what you think and feel. Reminding yourself of the freedom you have to choose how to interpret and metabolise all that comes your way.

Keep in mind that the same light which miraculously warms our world is in your shining body.

On what and why, you shine your life.

Infinite abundance.

That you have the power to feel ultimate sadness, or joy. The whole spectrum of life seems to be available in every experience.

So what is real or absolute when everything is relative in a whole ocean full of waves of spectrum?

absolute relativity

If this certain thing you focus on is relative to everything else, and everything is relative to everything else... then what is absolute?

Consider this... we're in a completely changing and non-absolute universe and are still able to believe that there is a fixed blue print or linear progression of things. Doesn't our ability to be limited show us, just how infinite we are. Isn't our belief in ourselves so strong, that we are able to forget who, what, how and why we are here? In our confusion, shouldn't we be calm in the chaos recognising that its not weakness that has brought us here, but the ultimate support? Unconditional love and knowing that even with seemingly all routes disconnected back to the source we would find our way home again.

Wow.

Potentially, our ability to remember is our greatest gift. To be completely confused and lost in sense, the ultimate pleasure. To capture these feelings over time and keep them in our minds and body is potentially our greatest asset. What feels better or worse than good and bad memories?

I see we think we have all this growth to go, some experience to reach that is greater than this experience we are having now... but potentially, the greatest thing ever created in our funny little universe of stars and gasses is to be here and now as some sort of animal having a heart... having feelings... contemplating past mistakes... hoping for a better future. These are the greatest gifts we have. They give us our reason and purpose. They give us our positives and negatives, simplicities and complexities.

We want to work out a solution... but in the future, we will look back and know that we were and are the solution.

Why did this happen to me? We look back and we wonder what the purpose was in something we experienced. If we reflect, and learn, we're considered to have wisdom.

Awakening up to the realisation that we are in a unbiased, yet somehow infinitely loving universe we are learning that although it is unbiased and so loving we are able to destroy ourselves and each other should we choose, ultimately there is one song here we play as a planet. Se is harsh and allows us to have gone through hell and back, at the same time, we're learning that there is a guiding force wanting us to come together and create a life that considers our own and the dreams of others. Just by the very magnetic nature of everything I feel this is proven. Forces of nature repelling and attracting. Rivers leading to the same ocean. Many different paths.

Finding a fusion and balance within a chaotic world of polarities.

The ocean of a eulogy we're creating in our time in this life, building experiences upon experiences... lessons upon lessons... the whole feeling of it all. This is it. Being in our disconnected and partial perspective of the universe this is what we have obviously craved for as an once upon a time all knowing and all connected origins. The origins on which our illusory playground is beautifully fabricated. To be here, weaving a web very slowly and gradually back to our origins seems to be what I feel we are here for. So whats the rush?

Am I making any sense?

Appreciation and gratitude seem to expand the sense of time and fill you with more life. So why be in a rush to get to your enlightenment, when relatively, from an almighty creators point of view, to be unenlightened, is to be enlightened. To have dreams beyond measure, with limited form to build. To recognise boundaries beyond reach, but still yearn for them. I don't know, but I think it gives us a humbleness in the world that is probably needed to reach out and connect with others.

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Keep your wisdom teeth.

http://b13.gaia.com — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:02:23 GMT

We are given fears growing up, told that one day potentially our body will decide to give us some brand new teeth, the wisdom teeth and that it could send you down the shitter. Many people, hear about the doom and gloom of wisdom teeth coming through at an 'inconvenient' time because evolution of our bone structure has not yet caught up with the evolution of our awareness of better health and therefor ability to keep our teeth for longer.

More simply, modern man feels he should intervene with the mouth growing process and pull our teeth out because well, caveman lost more teeth to make room for the wisdoms when they came through.

Miraculously, in this life we've some how been given such a body that allows for the incredible transformations and experiences we can have, yet some how our bones and teeth are stuck in an archaic past? Isn't this as silly as thinking earth doesn't have an intelligence and that mankind magically started or invented consciousness?

Like what Alan Watts said "we call it an apple tree because the tree apples. And the earth peoples".

What comes first, the chicken or the egg?

Why do we tolerate an xray mentality when deciding what to do with our bodies? our future? Isn't it clear to any academics that have been through a modern scientific process are fully aware of the "what you look for you will find" understanding? Isn't it common sense that the context things are set in defines the experience to follow?

For example...

Child aged 12 is at the dentist. Xrays show the wisdom teeth coming in at a really bad angle. The mouth is tightened and crammed up and teeth are a bit overlapping. It seems like an over populated mouth. But no psychological to bodily advice is made. Little to no examination of how often the child smiles or even talks throughout life and the dentist feels ok to set the future of a horrible operation set many years ahead.

Why is the mouth crammed? Is the mouth small because not much communication is happening? Maybe the kid isn't singing? Afraid of making choices? Using that vocal choir of sound to create in this holographic orchestra.

On one hand of the intelligence spectrum, there's these kinda radical believers of an infinitely changing universe where we have all this potential to be and create whatever we want, and on the other hand of the spectrum... the ones holding the surgical blade its about looking out for symptoms and problems and fighting a battle against them. Got a problem? Just cut it out. Throw some porcelain or metal in that hole.

It really saddens me such an approach is taken as though the body is a battlefield. Some people survive cancer by years and years of electronic therapies and radiation. Some survive the same cancer through massage from loved ones. People induce incredibly intense pains on themselves in the fear that potentially something bad might happen. Potentially the wisdom tooth might hit the other teeth and create an infection... potentially though, you might learn to open your mouth and in the process find your jaw in a new alignment with the world.

When such awareness in the world is coming through, where we realise that what we focus on expands, why do we fall victim so easily to letting ourselves focus on seeing the part of the story where we cannot heal and see the opportunity in the crisis? That it might be harder for a child to smile more often or open the mouth to the world than getting an intensive operation is the result of fear. I am questioning why its tolerated that any sort of negative imprint on the future is allowed... Isn't it obvious that a child with a cramped mouth has some sort of tension in the mouth? Expression that isn't happening? Confusion of choices?

Tell a child with a cramped mouth they've got more problems of the future to deal with, aren't they going to have more stress to deal with? Isn't the idea to try and solve things internally first? Isn't dental surgery just a bandaid when the problems in the mouth are the overall reflection of the whole? Blockages in the flow? Channels closed down? Sure, pulling something bad out might help, but when there are so many natural and simple things to do on your own in a gentle way firstly that can help most problems I don't know why we would goto such extreme lengths as cutting jaw bones to remove teeth.

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What is to us living beings the most important pathway?

http://b13.gaia.com — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:50:32 GMT

"Photosynthesis is the conversion of light energy into chemical energy by living organisms. The raw materials are carbon dioxide and water; the energy source is sunlight; and the end-products are oxygen and (energy rich) carbohydrates, for example sucrose, glucose and starch. This process is arguably the most important biochemical pathway,^[1] since nearly all life depends on it."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis

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