Sustainability and the Avatar

Sustainability is the global crisis of our time. The machine age, symbolized by the automobile, is carrying us off the cliff. We, the lemmings, are driving the car. It really does seem as if we are powerless to slam on the brakes.

Followers of Meher Baba can take hope, if that’s the right phrase and attitude, in Baba’s two car accidents; one in Prague, Oklahoma on May 24, 1952 and the other in Satara, India on December 2, 1956. Baba and several of his disciples suffered severe injuries, and one died in the Indian accident. Baba said of his injuries that the machine broke his bones in order for him to break the backbone of the machine age. About the Oklahoma accident, Baba said “America has long been clamoring for my blood.” This accident began as a cross country car trip that started in the Carolinas and which happened to retrace the route of the Trail of Tears, the forced removal of Cherokee and other native tribes to Oklahoma. His beloved and most important disciple, Mehera, also suffered severe injuries, especially to her face and skull. They both shed blood on American soil.

Baba claims he slammed the brakes on the machine age. We have to wait and see what that entails. In 1954 at Meherabad, India, Baba issued his Final Declaration. This was two years after the accident in America and two years before the accident in India. This is one of the most intriguing and arresting statements he ever made.

The Final Declaration announces that he will suffer a strange disease which will cause his humiliation, result in the breaking of his silence (a decades’ long physical silence), effect his violent death and result in his glorification. And immediately before or after the breaking of his silence, 3/4 of the world will be destroyed. This series of events will be of a short duration, and is referred to as his Manifestation, which will be followed by 700 years of increasing love and peace, after which he will return again which will be the juncture of the beginning and end of a cycle of cycles, representing billions of years.

This announcement was amended by two subsequent announcements, a Clarification and a Confirmation, which state that the Final Declaration was given in both his language and our language, and is not all to be taken literally.

Baba dropped the body in 1969, 15 years after the Final Declaration.

The Avatar is the Sustainer, the Preserver and Protector of all. Each of his advents makes the adjustments necessary for creation to continue. Our machine age is increasingly being recognized as an extreme crisis in sustainability that cannot continue for much longer. The brakes are being slammed.

 

 

 

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Age of Orwellian Shitfuckery

We are well into the age of Orwellian shitfuckery. A good start date for this age is 9/11/2001. This marks the symbolic crashing of the corporate state and the consequent panic that elevated demagoguery as the primary basis for a US foreign policy devoted to empire. 9/11 and the resulting campaign of  “Shock and Awe” plunged America into a state of continuous carnage and lying.

This shitfuckery initiated by George W. Bush was continued by Obama who, like Bill Clinton before him, sanitized the neoliberal project as a bipartisan affair, but which was rudely exposed by King Baby Trump to conceal the neofascism we now find ourselves wallowing in. The neoliberal state lead directly to the neofascist state.

How did this transformation happen? It was very simple. The failing corporate state embraced militarism so ardently on a bipartisan basis for so long  and with such committed lying that the political birth of King Baby Trump emerged as a magnificent turd. A really beautiful, beautiful turd.

Orwellian shitfuckery of corporatism, militarism and racism regaled by a compliant Big Media as patriotism has become normalized. This is who we now are. King Baby may stay or go, but the corporate state in support of the Spy and War Machine will remain. We will remain eternal friends with the religious and racial fascism of Saudi Arabia and Israel. We will continue to be completely bamboozled and bullied by our inverted definition of anti-Semitism  to believe that institutionalized racism in the name of the Terror Wars and Zionist apartheid is perfectly legitimate- even to the point of supporting war crimes as a patriotic duty.

There is no end to the age of shitfuckery as long as we refuse to give up the racialized corporate state and its embrace of death in exploiting the earth and laborers in pursuit of  greed. We would rather die in a global bonfire of shitfuckery.

 

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The Idol of Progress

Christ chased the money lenders out of the temple. Muhammad drove the traders out of the Kaaba. In both cases, the idols of commerce and greed had driven the One God, the only God, from the Sanctuary. This is what the restoration of monotheism is always about.

But in our time, the goddess of progress has been enshrined everywhere. She was first widely worshipped in Britain, and then exalted as chief among the gods in America. And then the glorification of the machine and consumerism spread across the earth. Progress is history’s most successful  fertility goddess: her chariot is the car, and her temple the garage.

The exaltation of progress represents the continual rape of the earth and perpetual servitude to her high priests, the corporatists. Progress is a devouring beast. Never is there enough. No sacrifice is too great to honor and placate her appetite. Her filth and noxious fumes poison the air, fire, water and earth, yet we are commanded to lift our hands and voice in praise of the pleasure that her refuse provides.

The earliest civilization of which we have a literary record, Atlantis of ten thousand years ago as mentioned by Plato, was devoted to progress- until she devoured the land and the island-continent sank.

But in our time the Prophet has once again returned; He has returned to break the backbone of the machine age by the car breaking his bones. This was his sacrifice to save not only America, but the entire world from the fate of Atlantis. The cult of the machine will perish and the earth shall live so that the one God, the only God, will be praised everywhere.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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dharma vs. karma, and the Now

Karma is what you’re born with, and this includes environment. How you play it is dharma. Dharma is the integrity with which you face karma, and how this works out is what life is all about.

Dharma is to be true to your karma: the sum total of all past thought, word and deed, as represented by past lives. You cannot help but be defined by the past and its consolidation in the present, but how you relate to it, how you honor it, is everything. Attitude is everything.

Karma renews itself endlessly, like a snake perpetually shedding its skin. Each moment is the expression of past karma and the creation of future karma. And what you pack into the suitcase of this life, is what you live out of the next life. Only the Now is creative. The past is dead and only becomes alive in the Now. Likewise, the future is predicated on the Now. Only the Now exists. Only attitude exists.

The Now is creative because it alone can witness, because it alone can be detached from the corpse of the past and its reanimation in the future. Only the Now is alive.

All this is why Remembrance is the key. What you remember in the Now transmutes the past to become the future, in the Now. Remembrance of the beloved manifests the beloved, and is the path to be with him or her forever, in the Now.

 

 

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Going Green is Going Cold Turkey

The new film produced by Michael Moore, Planet Of The Humans, challenges how we think of going Green. Seriously, how do we get off fossil fuels? Do we have the slightest idea of what this involves and implies? Do we cut down forests to burn chipped wood as a biomass substitute for coal and gas? How is Green infrastructure built and maintained without fossil fuels? The answer is that it’s not. And then what? Discuss this on the smart phone and laptop full of rare metals gouged from the earth?

This film very dramatically makes the case that we are babies prattling about collective suicide. And that there is a whole lot of disaster capitalism promoting delusional solutions.

What will it take for citizenry to grok the crisis of sustainability? People do not realize that the entire basis of modern living is unsustainable. And this is the problem. We can’t go there. We can’t admit that the planet can not possibly continue to support a consumer based lifestyle for a fraction of the present world population, which is increasingly concentrated in mega cities of 10 million or more.

The modern city is entropic. And so are the suburbs. Both only exist because of fossil fuel- energy as concentrated capital, and which serves to destroy a living bond with Nature. There is no way for a modern city to go Green. There is no way for a world economy based on globalism to go Green. There is no way for any living arrangement to go Green except on a decentralized basis. Only local economies can establish a sustainable relationship with Nature, a relationship not based on relentless resource extraction and degradation, but on living in harmony with the land and one another.

Going Green is going cold turkey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Why You Should Not Vote For The Monster King Baby Trump

Why you should not vote for the monster King Baby Trump.
Rumors say King Baby was made in a neoliberal laboratory in an experiment that went badly. This is embarrassing to neoliberal scientists who disavow the fact. They deny all reports that claim such paternity. And they will track, trace and isolate anyone who makes this assertion. Like the Chinese state party enforcers. The official story is that King Baby is a mutated random event: all evolution is entirely random, without design and just cleverly opportunistic. And King Baby got loose somehow. But neoliberals had nothing to do with it.
Please don’t buy this fake news. It’s totally bogus fake and junk news. Garbage news. Neoliberal scientists will take care of this. They will track and trace this monster and isolate him, although they didn’t create him. The expert Clinton Foundation Laboratories is working on this. CEO Corn Pop is in charge.
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The Great Interregnum

After a sovereign dies and before succession is assured, the intervening period poses uncertainty. This state of affairs can be perilous, as the status quo abhors disruption and loves continuity.

We are now in a great spiritual interregnum signified by Meher Baba, the Avatar/ Prophet of the age, having dropped his body in 1969 but who will remain largely incognito until the Perfect Masters assume a public role in revealing his destiny. This period, according to Baba, is about 100 years long. Baba has explained that it is as if he is still physically alive during this time period, that he indeed continues to reign as the sole spiritual sovereign. And he has explained that this is why his lovers- his very close ones, those privileged to have come within the orbit of his grace, should hold fast to him and not be allured by claimants and impostors to his throne.

This time period, this Great Interregnum, which has about 50 years left before it is over, is a most special and perilous time. This period is preliminary to the Avatar/ Prophet’s public manifestation. This is a time of quiet conviction on the part of his lovers, who remain loosely organized and relatively unknown to the general public. It is during this time period that a personal relation to the Avatar is most possible by forging and renewing a connection with him through remembrance. This time period is the greatest opportunity to develop an unmediated relationship to the Avatar- because it is as if he is still physically alive, and because he represents the sole functioning of God in the universe.

This Great Interregnum only really applies to those with the great fortune to have already come into the orbit of the Avatar/ Prophet. The world is not even aware that the King of kings has come and is now seemingly gone. The world will come to recognize that the long anticipated return of the Christ has happened only long after the fact, and only when the time is right- that is when the requisite suffering compels man to turn to God.

The coming fifty years represents the mounting suffering and despair required to bring the world to the feet of the Avatar. Baba has said that this manifestation of the Avatar will be the greatest, that he will be regaled as the universal Avatar; but that this will only happen through the greatest suffering.

The world will have to give up the many false gods to once again embrace the One God, the King of kings; chief among these false gods is the goddess Progress, the idol that has incited more blasphemy than all the others combined. Scientific materialism and the worship of technology in the service of greed is cooking the planet like fabled cannibals boiling colonialists in a giant pot.

We are cooking ourselves to death, until suffering and despair compels us to cry out for Mercy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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When we have been reduced to crying out for our food

When we have been reduced to crying out for our food
we will then at last begin to believe in brotherhood.

When we refuse to support the Spy and War Machine
we can then march our politicians to the guillotine.

When we rise up and refuse to endorse doublespeak
we can then devote song to pure and holy lyric.

When we rise up and dance and dance to single malt
we can then kick arse of ev’ry bloody poly-dolt.

O Yes, CEO and general will be swiftly exiled
and with ten thousand joyous boot reviled.

This world a loss and Christmas punted to heaven
and dark mangled earth the romp of clever satan.

But now hungry Darvish reveals pure amber secret:
Sun rises in his glass and the friend bright and discreet.

 

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The Next 50 Years

The next 50 years will represent a descent into increasing chaos: we are in clusterfuck terror-tory. Apart from political outcomes- which don’t look at all good, the problem of fossil fuel induced climate change, a burning planet, environmental degradation from a myriad sources, overpopulation, the sickness of factory farming, pandemics, a decreasing potable water supply, the ubiquity of guns and ammo- especially here in the US, the complete inability of cogent leadership to rise above prevailing obfuscation, the shocking failure of Big Media to properly inform the public, the utter indifference to real support for public education and perhaps above all the fascist exaltation of violence embodied in US foreign policy- all this is resolving into sharp simultaneous focus.

What is happening is the collective inability to account for the complete failure of industrialism, corporatism and militarism to provide a sustainable future- when this tragic failure is staring us in the face. We are all trapped on a Princess cruise ship with a flotilla of lethal icebergs before us and don’t have a clue what to do.

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On approaching Hafez in translation

My recommendation is to follow this guideline: eschew any book or source material that spells Hafez’s name with an i, as in Hafiz. Hafez properly rhymes with Fez, not with fizz. This is most important because correct pronunciation is essential. If an author or editor can’t pronounce Hafez’s name correctly, it’s probably trash. It suggests that abstraction rather than sensibility is uppermost. After all, poetry is all about sound and sensibility.

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