Macrobiotic Life

I am not sure why I am attracted to catastrophic scenarios, but I have to follow my intuition, my inner voice anyway – so be it, I really believe in the disastrous future of our civilization and I am so mad, that I believe it’s not so far, it will be fast and unexpected by majority – the never ending old model of collapse of the big civilizations will play its role again. We have a great opportunity in these days to learn a lot of things about the history, enough to educate us what the ancient civilizations did wrong, so we don’t need to repeat the same mistakes – but you know it better than me, we learn nothing, we go in the same steps of the destruction.

Yes, I have joined the “doom & gloom” group of weird people, that are so attacked by “The Secret” type of groups – but I still believe in optimistic thinking – but for me, the blind optimism is very dangerous – optimism together with rational thinking and proper action is my best choice. I believe in the constrained resources – fossil fuels, water and most important of all – quality soil.

I have written this little summarization of my core beliefs only for the reason to explain my apocalyptic interests at this blog.

Here’s very interesting article describing the 1990 famine in the North Korea, after the fall of the Soviet Union, that was the main food provider for the Korea.

After poor harvests in the mid-1990s, the North Korean government was forced to reduce the food ration that its people relied on. This amounted to 700-900 calories per person per day supplied by the government. This was supplemented by what could be grown in home gardens or purchased elsewhere.

There was a natural progression that saw disease attack the most vulnerable, which were the children under five. Next were the aged; those over 70 followed by the 60-year olds and the 50-somethings. Death then stalked the people in the prime of life. Men, because they had less body fat, went next. The strong and athletic were especially vulnerable because their metabolisms burned more calories.

We need 500 calories per day, on average, to survive. Eating only food foraged in a temperate forest; you could expect to live no more than three months.

I wonder what could happen if we would be taught to believe the popular esoteric model that we are not our body, but we are Oneness, Everything. I mean, really taught from the birth. Do we need deep meditations, profound esoteric training to realise that we are all connected? Or can it be done simply by switching the ongoing consensus about the reality, about our belief in the connection to the single body? What if you were taught that you are All, your body is just the point of reference to this Everything world. But you are responsible for everything that happens around. There would be no logic in fighting against anyone – you would logically behave peacefully to everyone/everything around, because all is you. There’s no reason to steal, to cause pain, to cheat someone, to make money on someone, to not help someone – all is you. It’s hard to imagine this logic now, because we are preconditioned already, but it’s more possible with everyday training. I am not sure if the meditation is the only process for achieving great results in this matter, or if it’s also possible with pure logic, switching of the thoughts about this Reality. Buddha was saying, that whatever we do, whatever we feel, we shouldn’t take it, that we are the Doer – I understand it as one of the ways how to unconnect from the body-limited-view. There are many other examples in the esoteric texts – they are quite well known. I am simply pondering if the change in consciousness is happening only through the meditation sitting or if the way could be enhanced by the everyday act of changing our thoughts, of the belief system that we are all sharing, the paradigm shift – this shift has nothing to do with meditation, right? It’s done at the logical level of the thinking process.

Anyway, I am not sure what’s the end of the meditation activity at all – but if it would be realisation of the Oneness (or if this is one part of it) – I am beginning to believe, that it could be very much achieved by this rational act of paradigm shift – just start to think about Everything as You, you are responsible for all.

But in the end – maybe the point in meditation is, that you really realise this Truth internally, while logical realization at the level of brain is only a small part of this.

How can we find ourselves in the culture of capitalism?
We are determined by the idea of ever rising GDP.
We are tied by the artificial value of money.
To grow GDP every year, it’s totally necessary to consume, to throw out things for the reason that you can buy new – without consumerism, the present economic system couldn’t continue/prosper.
And we are totally determined by this present economic structure.
We agree to study deliberately, to become professional, to get a good job, to earn money, to spend money and to fulfil the dream of the stupid logic of the few idiotic leaders.
We are sheep, domesticated to create other sheep, to accept the present logic of the humanity, to accept the growing GDP logic, to accept the illusionary value of the paper money, to be stressed by the rules of the capitalism, to accept the masquerade of the political game.
Only when you have enough time, to study, to read, to question everything, you can start to see behind this curtain.
But it’s still very hard, because you are not learnt to question thinks – the educational system is in the favor of remembering facts, instead of critical thinking. When you do tests from the remembering of the hard facts, it’s also easier for the teachers to give you a grade, but it’s very hard for them, to grade you based on your critical thinking. So, just learn the historical facts, biological, economical… and repeat them – ok, a little bit freedom is given you to think, but this freedom is nothing compared to the totality of this Universe – we are still confined in the barriers of the dogmatic belief systems around us – the brain is able only to repeat the old.
It’s a very devil trap put upon us right from the beginning – that’s why I say, we are poor sheep – but I don’t blame us – who can blame the poor people that hadn’t time, or God given interest to ponder about things.
It’s like a Matrix and very few are lucky to see through it.
But when you start, when you get more glimpses, you can’t retrace – it’s impossible and you will struggle… you can get mad, or you can get braver, healthier, but only after a long inner/outer fight with the System – but return path is closed in the moment, you realise the basic logic, the core Truth that determines you – the Nature laws.
In the present families, they are making wars against each other for totally stupid matters – about proper education of their children (which is really devil education from the perspective of Nature, but your life becomes much harder without it in the present System), about brand of car, television, whatever… giving energy to maintain their phony social status, copying whatever is the present modern way of behaving – this all eats a lot of energy and logically, you have no energy left to question it all – you are lost in the Sheep land.

There are core things much more important than a good job, than a University education, than a proper marriage….
These things are hidden in a very simple things, so much simple, that our rational mind can’t accept them – again, because we were trained up so.
The simple things are found on the way of Heart – in the intuition, in the feelings, emotions – without questioning them with the mind if they are good or bad, if I can feel them or not, because it’s appropriate by the measure of present Sheep’s behaviour.
We need to trust in Ourselves, our feelings, emotions – but it’s very hard, it’s risky, we fear to stay immersed in them for a longer time – everything from the System gives you message that you are Unique, you are Different and causing you to fear, to return to the average behaviour.

Ahh.. what a Trap put upon us.. from our nearest to us – from parents, grandparents – we are poor repeaters – but you must still find hope in all of this, even when the logic says there’s no – as I said, the logic is very constricted, thinking in the barriers of the known only – the Heart sees much father and the Consciousness is the total Truth.

Who am I talking to anyway?

We are part of the reality that is happening out there, part of the whole.
Our disconnection is illusory – I am not sure if it’s because of the dicstinctions made by the eye-sense, that see strict borderline between our body and environment, or if the disconnection started much earlier in the brain decoding mechanism, or somewhere else.
Anyway, we have believed (in the end, the brain is behind any belief) we are disconnected from the Whole.
Let’s imagine again that we are not separated, that we are interconnected with everything and it was never different – let’s back it up with your favorite theory explaining this interconnection, for example the particle theory about each atom having vast space around and when you zoom close enough, you can’t see any borders between your body and your environment – makes quite sense, right?
Now, you are really connected with Everything – you are not your body avatar only – the Avatar is there only as your lens, as the point of reference from which you observe the Oneness.
How do you get informations from the World?
Senses. Is there anything else then them (I think there’s not, but make me correct in the comments)?
Senses are all there is for you, to get the knowledge about the world.
Does it make logic to listen these senses and to obey them, follow them, because they are some higher logic, higher messages from the Whole reality?
Can you make better decisions made by thinking, by brain, by logic?
What is more restrained – decisions based on senses or decisions based on pure logical thinking of the brain?
Can your brain think up anything different than it already knows from the past?
Isn’t the brain only repeating the past models of thinking, past theories, old stories, old worries?
What about senses? Can they lie? Can they manipulate you?
If you feel joy, is there any false in it?
Is there any reason you shouldn’t be really happy when you feel so? Even when everyone else is not so – maybe at the funeral?
Is there any logic in not following your feelings, your inspirations?
Why should you start using your logic to judge if the inspiration is good, if it’s worth of pursuing, if it will bring you enough of this or that, if it’s childish, if it’s embarrassing etc.?
Can you imagine living totally spontaneously – following your inspirations, feelings, senses – following your intuition – the path of Heart?
It takes some time, to re-learn listening to the senses, to switch from brain consciousness to the heart consciousness – it’s a regular learning process – to de-learn the old habit of “using too much logic”.
But finally, you’ll start to become very spontaneous, not restrained by the pure rational thinking repeating the old patterns – each situation is brand new, totally new variables are presented at each moment, and brain cannot understand it at all – only senses can tell you immediately what is happening around and giving you hints how to behave, how to deal with each situation in every moment.
Does it make sense?

It does to me.. but I am aware I am suggesting here extreme switching from the brain to the heart – I am aware about the advantages of the middle paths – no extremes are good. But I am still not sure what to think about this extreme. I think, that this is what Osho and other total-consciousness teachers do propagate – at least this is how I understand their tips for total-spontaneity. But this lifestyle would be really scary, when bravely applied – you would stop planning, stop thinking about consequences, about problems, barriers – you would just do what you feel at each moment, without fear.
Can it be so easy? Or am I compensating my long term tendency to use too much of the brain logic in my life, by clinging to the opposite extreme?
I am not sure, but I am experimenting with it now – living by the inspiration, intuition of each moment.
As many times in my life – I was hugely inspired by Steve Pavlina with this test.

And sorry for all the typos – I don’t feel like I want to repair them – anyway, I write it for myself at the first place (ok, maybe even for the 2 loyal readers).