Macrobiotic Life

Energy future:

From vast discussions at theoildrum.com

Everything is based upon some form of our current BAU or BAU Lite or Green BAU. No one seems to be willing to come to grips with the probable reality that any form of BAU is dead meat.

Take the arguments for public transportation: The underlying assumption is that these millions of non-productive people will have jobs to go to. Sure, let’s spend billions of dollars for these systems. About the time they are completed I’m willing to bet that society finds it can no longer afford people who do not produce. And, by “produce” I mean exactly that – “stuff” whether it is new practical ideas or physical things.

Further, all of this leads to what shape education should take because it is trapped in the same BAU mind-set as energy. If it isn’t changed now, we are going to end up with another generation of useless people who have skill-sets that are no longer appropriate.

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If those of us who are not sanguine about the future and have prepared are wrong, we hurt no one. However, if those of you who believe the future is rosy are wrong, it is likely that you will destroy society trying to survive.

Since the time, in the last autumn, we switched from gas-furnace to wood-furnace, I get my nose to many important life-changing experiences.
I now know, how hard it is to produce enough heat for the whole house.
I have some idea how many trees have to fall for our daily temperature needs.
I realise that there is not enough trees for people to do the same step as we did.
I realise, that people will do this step anyway, when the price of oil will get higher and they won’t care about the forest limits.
I realise that this step will cause a deadly soil-erosion, that will bring you the collapse of a food production, which is much more important than the heat needs are.
I see how stupid is the modern house design, energetic procedures used in modern construction, that were developed based on the era of abundant cheap fossil fuels, but were forgotten to update in the time of upcoming opposite era.
I see why people in the history were building small houses, even when the building material was all around (clay, mud, straw, wood, rocks) and the spent time to build a bigger house wasn’t the main reason that stopped them from doing so – the reason was the question: “How long does it take to prepare enough wood to keep the house in a comfortable temperatures daily?”
They had no oil powered chain-saws!!
I tried to do it the old way, manually, with simple hand chain.
It was terribly hard work in comparison to the chainsaw.

I appreciate the value of trees now, the value of energy much more.
I learn daily how to burn the wood properly, to get as much energy as possible from it.
How to start the fire without modern chemical fire starters.
I have insulated all basic things in the house – little gaps around the windows, tubes running in a colder parts of the house.
And I dream about a smaller house, not only because I would like to have less work to do with preparing the wood, but because I would like to save the trees.
And also, before this life changing experience, I was thinking daily what kind of exercise should I do today. Weight lifting? Running? Walking? Yoga? And I was bored many times while doing it.
Now it’s very easy – should I take the chainsaw, or maul today, or stack the wood?
And the satisfaction is just perfect – I see a real work behind me, something I didn’t get from aforementioned sports.
In the near future I have to learn how to plant the trees properly, how to prevent them from animals eating them in the winter, without using the chemicals again.

We have 1975 house, 50 cm (20 inch) brick walls, no insulation, new windows (plastic), 220 m3 (7770 cubic feets) heated space and the firewood needs are 25 m3 (883 cubic feets or 6.9 cords) of stacked wood per year.
What are your yearly firewood needs?

Pictures bellow do show a small portion of our house needs. We need roughly 10-times more for the whole year than you see below:

Do you think the economy is a worthwhile knowledge?
Do you think the economists are studying hard to provide us with a really useful ideas, products?
Do you think they better understand how the society operates, evolves and should behave?
Quite the opposite.
They are brainwashed, deluded in the name of Money.
Their main goal (even if they don’t realised, that’s how brainwashed they are) is to promote the concept of the Money – this concept is their chief marketing product, they are trained sellers of this Money idea.

Money are worthless, they are an illusion, their value is based on trust, on our consensus.
They poses no inherent value, no real value.
What is the real value then?
For example – heat, shelter, clothing, food, tools for providing aforementioned things and also love, fun, friends.
Do you get it?

You can’t eat money, but they have a little value in the form of tiny heat they can supply you when you burn them while trying to get a little bit warmer, in the times of the Money illusion collapse, when the cheap oil, that supplies your heat requirements nowadays, will stop flowing. That’s why you should collect paper money only and in a small denominations, just to have them as much as possible for a longer fire. I am joking, but actually it was always better idea to have many different small denominations when the horrors of the inflation hit the country and the banks stopped working, you couldn’t get any money – when this time starts again (and it will, because the inflation is hard coded into this economic system, it’s a process how to balance old debts, when things are out of control), you need small money to buy the real thinks (like bread), until the money will still have any value (for the baker).

Because, what has value for the baker? Real wealth again – food, shelter, heat, clothing.
If there are no money, do we stop to use these real-valued things?
Not at all.
We start to exchange them for something else.
Something basic for the whole Universe.
Something all economists are taught nothing about, or apparently not in the way that should give them enough hints to realise they are brainwashed Earth-destroyers.
All economists should learn really hard the Laws of Thermodynamics as their basic knowledge.

Because, it’s all about Energy.
Energy should be the real currency of economics, not the money and because of this delusion, our daily steps are based on a devastating model, that could only stupid, undeveloped brains propagate.
Yes, I call the economists stupid.
And all of us, who don’t try to understand the reality better.
It should be our basic knowledge too.

Stupidity comes together (also) with wrong thinking, clouded, heavy, detail oriented thinking. Not able to connect all dots, to see things broader, interconnected. Stupid people have little will to understand the basic phenomenons, basic laws of Universe, like Energy flow.
Ohsawa would tell you what’s the cause and what’s the remedy of course.

My English and knowledge of this topic is not good at all, that’s why you should read this article, minutes that can’t be spend better for the upcoming times:
It’s the Area Under the Curve – Oil Prices and the Economy

There are many relative truths these days.
But many of them seems to be relative, because things are very complex – and their real logic is hard to find.
We are lost in believing many things that dig grave to our own children – and we even pursue them with great zest, as many others around do.
It’s hard to see the simple logic, but it’s hard only because we are not learnt so – because we are overwhelmed with thousands of unuseful informations.
Unuseful from the context of sustainability – of the ecosystem, which is our living environment and us.
Sustainability of our human health.
Sustainability is the key word to everything we do.
But the meaning is lost in times of the cheap abundant energy.
Many stupid undoable things are happening every hour, which we can understand in a minute, after we imagine world without cheap fossil fuels – many things are clear and we know what is needed to do, we are becoming effective in each moment – and at the end of the hard day, we are somehow internally happy, satisfied with ourself – something we are striving so hard to find in present society.

The most negative scenarios come about when you study actual human behavior. The reason societies collapse is because humans evolved to seek advantage. They do not cooperate for the common good. That’s why all these suggestions for one-child families, etc. just get ignored.

Here is a quote from THERMO/GENE COLLISION: On Human Nature, Energy, and Collapse

FALLING NET ENERGY, OVERPOPULATION, AND COLLAPSE
The “collapse” of a country is caused by “too many people competing for too few resources”[16]. When a country can not supply enough resources to satisfy its members, that country becomes unstable and subject to fundamental change.

The human mind serves “fitness” – not “truth.” Since every individual is programmed to pursue personal fitness and lie about intentions, no civilization has ever been able to convince its members to cooperate enough to survive the depletion of the energy resources which gave it birth. When confronted with ever-declining resources, the preservation of social order requires more-and-more cooperation, but individuals are genetically programmed to reduce cooperation and seek advantage. This genetic legacy sets up a positive feedback loop: declining common resources cause individuals to reduce cooperation even more, which reduces common resources even faster, which leads to collapse even faster.

LIE, CHEAT, STEAL, RAPE, AND KILL
Society only directs our behavior when we perceive that it is able to reward or punish us. A “collapsed” society has no influence over our behavior. That’s why cultures disappear and people revert to more violent ways of life. Our present society began to collapse years ago because of the rising energy costs of energy.[17]

We include others in our society when we feel that it increases our fitness to do so, but we invent excuses to kick minorities out of our society when resources are insufficient. Allies can become enemies almost overnight. The collapse of Yugoslavia is an example of neighbor slaughtering neighbor.

Jay Hanson gets derided as a hopeless doomer but his research has been backed up by the likes of Garrett Hardin and Jared Diamond and books like Constant Battles: Why We Fight. If we want to avoid the worst we had better take human nature into consideration.

Everything changes, but the Principles repeat!
Observe the history and her repeating periods – pinpoint the underlying Principle of each crisis and apply it to the contemporary civilization predicaments.
Historical books from Arnold Toynbee are perfect study material for this job – Kushi learned from them very much.

Here’s a peak oil informative material:

The agriculture of the future, like agriculture in any thickly populated society with few energy resources, will thus use land intensively rather than extensively, rely on human labor with hand tools rather than more energy-intensive methods, and produce bulk vegetable crops and relatively modest amounts of animal protein; the agricultural systems of medieval China and Japan, chronicled by F.H. King in Farmers of Forty Centuries, are as good a model as any. Such an agricultural system will not support seven billion people, but then neither will anything else, and a decline in population as malnutrition becomes common and public health collapses is a sure bet for the not too distant future.

The Archdruid Report – Riddles in the Dark

Worst drought in a millenium creates severe food shortages in China

Awesome articles are being delivered from The Archdruid Report wonderland. Each week I am being enlightened so profoundly with Greer’s direct logic, leaving many complicated scientist’s articles behind. He makes, from seemingly complex topic, the easy job for understanding.
This is not a spiritual, high minded stroll, like many of my topics here, but the tangible reality that awaits us, no matter how good we meditate, no matter how good we eat, love or think positively.

It’s necessary to get knowledgeable about this basic topic of the humanity’s impending energetic future.
It’s not a dark, barbarian future – but big changes are going to happen soon.
And for me personally? I am looking forward to these changes for more than 2 years.
After I come through many of the depression phases, that followed each of my “conspiracy/future theories” explorations, I am more stronger, more happier, more optimistic than ever before.
Because, in the knowledge, in the acceptance of how things are, instead of believing in the collective illusions, there lies a big power – your mind shifts to the better reality model description and will not be surprised by the big society changes.

If you want to understand the topic, the basic logic behind the solar energy sources, read the latest report – Barbarism and Good Brandy. There’s perfectly explained, how is it impossible to switch from crude oil to bright solar future, without vast amount of compromises – this is what most, even the well educated, population doesn’t understand and you can get the knowledge from this article very fast.
But I strongly recommend reading this whole website from the beginning to end, or at least the preceding articles to this one.
There are many reasons, why even the nuclear power can’t save us – this is very controversy topic for many people.

Stop self-identifying with your opinions.

We waste vast amount of PersonalEnergy in holding our self-conceptions.
It’s all about the available energy in the end.
Either you have enough for living fully, living your dreams, or you are running the rat race, in the circle, spending the energy to everything else but your dreams.

Self-identifying with your opinions is one of the biggest PersonalEnergy eaters!

You are not your opinions, realize this.
This is what Buddha and many others taught.
We are not our body, we are not our mind, hence we are not our ideas, opinions.
Easy up with yourself and don’t take yourself so seriously.

You invest a lot of available/potent energy to holding your self-identity.
You are trying to behave consistently, to have the same face each day before the world, before all the people that know you, but especially before yourself, before your EGO connectedness.
You are afraid to behave another way, to really follow your inner feeling, inner emotions.
You are stuck in the dead world of ideas about yourself.
You nurture your SelfIdentity daily, you feed it, like a personal Pet.

But you know what? This Pet theory, it’s not a joke.
Your SelfIdentity is really a living entity.
It is energetic being and it needs to eat, it needs attention.
Read Toltecs (Castaneda, Ruiz – Beyond Fear) – and you’ll get perfect explanations that our emotions are alive entities, feeding on our emotions.

Stop feeding it, nurturing it.
Stop identifying with your opinions.
Start to embrace other people’s world views, ideas, concepts.
Don’t feel attacked if they attack your old views, they are not attacking you, but your coat, your WorldViewGlasses, just your opinion.
This is how the people should think – to embrace these, that are different, that think for themselves, that are not part of the sheep herd.
Don’t be afraid to change your opinions from day to day, if it seems reasonable.
Think logically about other people’s views, be critical, open minded, allow yourself to think differently.
Try to ‘wear’ other opinions first before discarding them, before attacking other world views.

We are living in a big stupid DreamWorld.
Full of close minded people, holding their opinions, stuck in them.
Feeling attacked by other people’s ideas, religions.
Projecting fear around and poisoning other relatives, raising own children in this way – to fear, to feel lack, to take energy from others by the method of fight and fear, not by the method of love and courage.

When you stop identifying with your opinions – the results are:
You start communicating on the web more freely, more often.
You start putting comments to your favorite blogs, to favorite forums.
You start connecting with people in the real world.
You start talking instead of listening only.
Because you are not afraid what others think about you – because you are not your opinions!!

I know, it’s easy to read, but harder to achieve.
I have been there, reading, believing, but still afraid to express myself fully.
I am still learning, but I have gone a long way.
And I can tell you and 100% assure you – be brave and start practicing this MindShift immediately, now.
It will take some time, of course, few months – but you’ll get there – but it’s not about the End, it’s about the walking the Path.
The mind will shift to the new world view (egolessness, energy abundance, love) – the living entity will be cut from the emotional fuel.

And you’ll start to have available energy – start living your Dreams.

There’s nothing wrong with you, if you feel lack of energy, still desperately looking on your Dreams and still not getting them.
You feel bad for yourself, you feel you are weak, useless, unable to achieve your dreams.

But realize this VERY IMPORTANT energetic concept!
This is not fault of your CoreBeing at all, it’s not Your fault.
Don’t feel bad for yourself!
This “feeling bad” thinking is the mind trap, this is the “running in the circle” protractor.
Realize how logical it is on the energetic level.
You have exact amount of available energy – this energy can be regulated of course, the incomes are in your hands how you handle them, there are many ways – I am now talking about the outcomes.
It’s completely up to you, where you invest the available energy.
Because we are domesticated by society, we have no other option to think differently than investing this energy to fear, stress, SelfIdentity.
It’s nothing to feel bad for, to criticize yourself for.
It’s really complicated to see through this SocietyGame.
All energy in this SocietyGame is taken by your mundane jobs, poor partnerships, concurrent relationships, stupid amusement distractions (tv), lot of commercials provocating in you the need for material things.
It’s just how things are, nothing to feel bad for.
Now, realize this – the only way to get out from this trap is to love yourself for whatever you are – especially for this stupidity, that you played the SocietyGame so long.
But, be careful, you are not out of this game at all by seeing through this Game, you just know the doors now, but you are not out yet – I am saying this to protect you from a new MindTrap before you – you think you grasped it now and nobody can stop you – yeah, if that would be so easy – but reality is, you have grasped it, you will do your best now, but you still haven’t enough available energy to go through this door, to close them behind, to lock them – you will be many times kicked out from them – this is how things are in the energetic Universe – I am just preparing you for these up/down periods, this is the typical spiritual grow – remember, love yourself for whatever you are, whenever you are on the way!!
If you not loving yourself, you are wasting a lot of the available energy and closing yourself again to the “rat race”.
Only way how to gather the energy is to start loving Yourself.

Meditate, start connecting to your RealSelf, to the Observer in you.

Play the life with easiness, with grace, with love.
Play the life like a game, which it truly is!
Don’t stress about other people opinions, moods, behaviors.
But don’t be also passive – change things, but with inner calmness.

You are not your opinions (and many other things)!

Start commenting to blogs and forums that you like to read.
Start giving instead of consuming – the more you give, the more energy you get.
Kick out the biggest energy eaters from your life.
Don’t hold the old relationships based on fear, based on the past times.
Or don’t kick anyone, just stop feeding them with your energy, don’t allow them to eat your portion. But when you do this, very probably, many of them will be angry to you, because they suddenly stop getting the feed from you.
Be kind with them – they are just addicts as we all are.
But stop prolongating this stupid SocietyAddiction.
Read Miguel Ruiz – The Four Agreements – it’s a perfectly practical set of things how to raise your energy. But most important, don’t only read, PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!
Express Abundance.

Love you

Never think negatively about anything. Sometimes things like Iluminaty, New World Order, vaccination, electronic chips, environmental threats create fear in us. I feared myself for one period of life, while watching/reading these informations. It’s good to be informed, but always transform everything to Love.

From non-duality perspective is all perfect like it is. There can be no peace without war. No day without night, no life without death, no cold without heat, no fear without courage etc. We dream about ever lasting Peace, Heaven on Earth, but is it possible from the duality point of view? Can there be only Peace in the Universe? How could the balance be maintained then? We would be living in one extreme, although in very pleasurable extreme. But this situation is not possible in the world of dualities. Dualities are always balancing each other. If there is no duality, there’s no world like this, all activity would cease.
So, enjoy whatever is – seek challenges and grow

I can see one solution to the theory of Heaven on Earth. It’s very similar to macrobiotic principles. All we do in macrobiotic is to shift from taking too much extreme spectrum of energies. It doesn’t mean, we are taking only good ones, the healthy ones. There is no good without bad, no health without illness in the duality world. We cleverly shift to the more calm spectrum of these dualistic opposites, yet still enjoying the energy effects that the food creates on our body/mind system. We can live without extreme foods, extreme experiences, because we find pleasure in the more sublime, calm activities. It all happens naturally, no strong will is needed. Because we change from inside, the food change us to the more balanced, less extreme energetic condition. And we attract outside conditions according to our inner environment. We are more calm, more balanced inside, hence we attract these kinds of energies. And this all happens naturally, no need for strong mind control, suppressing our emotions, feelings, no need for strong control of our tastes.

This can happen to the future world also. We can shift to the more sublime, narrow range of energetic spectrum. It doesn’t mean, all problems, all negativity (as we perceive it) will cease. It means, that we will have less of the extreme negativities and extreme positivities. I am for this kind of World. I am for the less extreme smiling people, that are smiling artificially, after taking alcohol, drugs, a lot of white sugar. This would be compensated with the less extreme negativ people, angry people, feared, hatred, aggressive people. Give me less wars and less peace, instead of brutal killing and exaggerated loving care.

Because I have realized: the basic Universal frequency is sublime, calm Love&Peace song – OM.
When we will shift to the less extreme conditions – we will hear more of this basic Heavenly sound, all-penetrating Love frequency. But this Love is not artificial Love, it’s not mind constructed Love. It’s something that’s inside all of us, but we can’t hear it, because we are not tuned to this frequency. We are enjoying extreme foods, hence creating extreme inner environment and attracting extreme outside conditions.

The way outside, is to change your inner frequencies. Stop taking extremities in all your daily activities – food, tv/internet news, people, music, living environment etc. All are affecting your body/mind system. Be clever and start accepting more sublime energies. And your mind will start producing and attracting more sublime thoughts – love, joy, happiness, compassion, courage, bravery, enjoyment. With these thoughts in your mind, you can’t be unhappy, depressed, feeling bad. You are naturally in the Heaven here&now. Constantly. Even when natural bad things happen you will stay calm and happy inside – for example natural death is normal – you die because of old age, you die in peace, surrounded by loving friends, living fully to the last days. You don’t need to experience unnatural slow painful dying, war killing and similar – these kind of deaths are bringing you the big misery – but this is the price for living, “enjoying” the extremities of our duality World. We have created it by our daily conduct, we can stop it. Start with yourself and it will spread naturally.

Here’s an excerpt from talking of a Yogi master (sorry, don’t know which one):

Question: I can’t help thinking about the future of the world and worrying that it is going to destroy itself. What is the proper attitude?

Answer: Don’t buy into those who say it’s a dark time – it is so un-yogic. We will always have wars, depressions, turmoil. There is no duality – there is no future – unless we believe in it. How much energy do you want to put into tomorrow, into the future? It’s fantasy – it’s a lower-age belief system. There are no good times. There are no bad times. Whatever is happening is right and perfect. The yogi always asks, “What can I learn from this?” no matter what is happening. Detachment is going within. Go to love – and you will see that there you have nothing to do with war and peace. Environmental conditions or any other outside conditions, whether good or bad… take the attitude of St. Francis who said, “The weather is always nice, but in different ways.”

We’re only a breath away from going within. It’s so simple. But the mind makes it so complicated, so complex. The mind is always flickering. Learn to say “Ahh, what’s happening?” Get rid of the judgment. Ask, “What can I learn?” Take full responsibility – be a god!

But we all have an evil twin inside. It says, “It’s all a dream. Nothing really matters in this world. What’s the purpose? Why should I do anything?” If you listen to that evil twin, you will start feeling empty, depressed, and if you let it continue, you will start getting weak. You may find your spiritual life is not going well. What’s lacking? Positive action. It is very important to use positive action – it’s very easy for the evil twin to take charge. You must connect your dreams and aspirations with positive action. Even truth can become a negative affirmation without positive action. It is more important to do something, rather than wait around for something to happen.

When you are in a bad mood, realise when the bad mood started and what Agreement caused it. What Agreement* do you hold, that started this unpleasure mood, that caused your fears or whatever. Think about this Agreement. Realise how ridiculously stupid this Agreement is. Why do you hold such an Agreement that weakens you, takes you energy, takes fun from your Life? All your Agreements are your choice. You are the Master of your Dream. Don’t believe anybody, don’t believe yourself (about your Agreements) – you are domesticated as everybody else, you believe in a collective dream, which is very poor, very limiting dream. Decide for a new Agreement, that empowers you, that gives you unlimited energy, unlimited potential. You don’t need to despair, you don’t need to fear, feel depressive. You can choose a new way of thinking, of looking at the reality. You are capable of everything, don’t limit yourself, unleash all your inner potential. Be God, be Unlimited Love! Arise, Awake, Shape your Reality! Create your Dream! Have Fun and empower all people – send this energy thousand times – the more you share, the more you get! ))

*Agreement – used in the context of The Four Agreements – the book of Miguel Ruize

And my favorite post, written by me at 4th January 2008. After rereading it today I can only say – where are the times?

I am trying a lot of concentration methods in the last days.
I am now seing a lot of power if you can concentrate very good.
Because you can eliminate lazyness completely from your life by the good use of will.
If you are master of your mind you are not distracted by your thoughts.
If you control your thoughts you control your emotions.
Yes, your emotions are simply product of your thoughts.
Many people are pulled by their mind to many directions.
They can’t drive the car (body, mind).
They are simply followers.
But it’s not good for the practical way of life.
You will not achieve big things with this mind setup.
Only after you learn how to concentrate on the topic you are doing, you will achieve enormous results.
Actually, you will achiveve anything and everything you will be only brave to dream about.

Think a little..
You have many ideas, dreams, ideals of your life.
Why can’t you achieve them?
Are you trying hard enough?
In my case it was because very big lazyness.
I couldn’t kick myself to start doing, I was only fantasizing.
But after learning how to concentrate I started to eliminate side thoughts.
The thoughts that are not helping me to achieve my desired things.
Everything is energy.. it takes no more energy to decide to finish the thing than to procrastinate.
It’s jusy a simple decision.
But you have to control these decistions at first.
You have to control the direction of your thoughts.
It can be all done with learning concetration techniques.

Spiritual explanation of macrobiotic lifestyle.
Where does it all heads, if we eat proper food.
Vibrational levels of the Universe, which we have passed and we will go through after leaving our present Human body.
What can you expect after Death (very precise description).
Ghosts (astral souls) around us, how to communicate with them, how to help them and how they can help us.
Explanation of the Law of Karma – it’s not any kind of punishment, but simply a balance of the yin and yang.
How to eat better to understand the Law of the Universe on the base of intuition – without everyday eating of the brown rice, one can’t understand/comprehend the Essence/Principle, all other grains will keep us healthy and happy, but who wants to develope Spiritual path, have to eat brown rice daily.
How to clean up your Spirituality – mantra AUM, meditations, moderate eating, chewing.
How to watch Aura – unsharpen vision (similar to the Celestyne Prophecy book).
Chakras and meridians and our connection with the Universe.
Death is the same as the birth (only it has opposite character from the yin/yang view) – we are born to the next world (astral) – if we are attached to anything in this world, we are creating unconsciously another illusionary world (Maya) after the death and we are spinning in the Circle of reborns – attachment and confusion is created by low quality foods.
Human being can come to understandment (inner conscious comprehension) all the levels of the being/existence and understand the uppermost Principle/Essence – but it’s not possible if we are not vibrating at the right frequencies (the highest quality food).
The power of Purpose/Intension/Will and the Dream is manifested at all energetic levels – in the material world (that we are now) is the Intention (thought, dream) manifested as doing/action (by our physical body) – at the Astral world (the next after we die) is thought immediately manifested in the form of Picture/Image – important is, everything exist in the form of vibration, that’s why we can communicate with death people (souls/ghosts) and they with us (by the power of thought in the Astral world).
The meaning of Life and much more you can read at: