Hacking the Mainframe!

Dr. Timothy Barker
France (in exile) 11th April, 2008.


It is actually quite difficult to deprogram oneself from consensual reality. It also now seems, in retrospect, to not be an entirely good idea. Certainly ‘the authorities’ or ‘the establishment’ do not like people to think for themselves. For my own part in these escapades my objective was simple. I was witnessing, along with countless others, the destruction of our planet. I could no longer stand by and allow this to take place. Not on my watch, as they say. So, I sought to make a few changes.

The principal change, therefore, which one has to enact is to let go of the commonly held beliefs around about one’s being in society and then try to create one’s own path. However, this is much more easily said than done. For example, I was quite used to using shampoo and conditioner every day. I would try to take a bath or a shower (if I had one) every day. Looking back I’m not really sure why. But isn’t that what you’re supposed to do? Everyone is always doing this on the TV, right? It took around three or four months (I lost count actually) for my hair to ‘get right’. I still don’t use products, it looks OK to me. This probably hits that particular nail right on the head, so to speak. Taking responsibility for one’s own choices is paramount if we are to live in a sustainable manner. And this is the key objective of all of my experiments. Some of these I am outlining here.

Precisely why I am outlining these at this time is of great interest since I find that I am (I am struggling to find the English to describe this) being ‘held’ under a Section 3 of the Mental Health Act, 1983 (under British law). Actually, I fled the UK after some wholly un-British (in my book) actions on behalf of ‘the authorities’. Being pinned down and injected with pharmaceutical drugs, being handcuffed and dumped in a hard-to-locate ‘secure’ (actually drugs came and went like candy in a school playground) hospital ward and being denied all kinds of basic human rights such as the right to breath natural air and generally practice one’s own spirituality all say to me that the Mental Health system in the UK is in need of a jolly good overhaul and, more-to-the-point, should not be used in lieu of laws for the detention of citizens (with rights equal to others’) who want to deprogram themselves from consensual reality. Phew…

You see, my real bone of contention with all of this, is that consensual reality simply IS NOT WORKING! Take a look around, what do you see? Not only are we killing each other through drink, drugs and consumption in general but we are killing our one planet we are currently able to call home AND, potentially at least, a number of other species who may get along better without our interference. Those of us who are not concerned by this: ‘as long as we are doing OK’; should stop to think about our children’s children or our children’s children’s children. Or maybe you don’t have children? Well, here’s the news – you too were a child once! Grow up! Peace out, DD.

Journey to Forever

This project sounds about right. Good luck to you all! :-)

Pow-A!

"Health, HIV-Aids, tuberculosis, and even deficiencies in diet. Many of these problems can only be eradicated by education, knowledge, empowerment - the dynamic information at the right time and the right place." MS Swaminathan

A Lot of Hot Air!

Nice article on the Beeb about the UK and talk of 'renewables', to quote:

"Still, a lot of wind can clearly take Britain a long way."

Never was a truer word 'spoken'.

The article also points out the obvious mistake; a lack of respect from on high for 'micro generation'.

Finally it ends with what everyone really knows. We are obese when it comes to energy consumption too.

If we use less we don't need to generate as much! Simple.

war and peace

"These are anxious and exciting times and remind me of the days before the Second World War when many free spirits saw the need to accept conscription. They knew that if war was to lead to a just and successful peace its objectives must be kept in mind as well as the disciplined mechanics of military action. There is no betrayal of Gaia, we need the restraint of scientific conduct for investigation and theory testing and we need the poetry and emotion that moves us and keeps us in good heart while the battle goes on."

James Lovelock , Gaia, Preface p.xiii (2000 Ed.), Oxford University Press.

switch off the mind and let the heart decide

wind, warmth and water
land, life and love
the earth that surrounds us
with heaven above!

heart and lungs

"Whichever way one looks at this, education is absolutely at the heart of the transformation process - starting in our homes, workplaces, leisure centres, professional bodies or institutions, clubs, trade unions and so on. And it's as much a re-education of the heart that we are talking about here as the continuing education of the mind." Jonathon Porritt, "Capitalism as if the World Matters", Earthscan, 2006. (my emphasis)