ARMAGEDDONXMAS

The more I live the more I realize that I have a very serious life.

There is no such thing as a human survivor. There is carnage. There is surely DEATH but I have yet to encounter anyone on Earth who is as strict as I am about life and living. I don’t mean the pride… the endless competition that earth dwellers feel is their domain. Nothing could be further from my intentions. Or uglier to me.

Everything is far worse than man or woman can imagine. Things get worse, and worse and worse. And why not, we are “involved” in a creation of continual hurt. Isn’t it about time that we realized and faced this?

Often there is nothing but despair, depression, and feelings and emotions that go absolutely nowhere. But why do so many “turn off” at this time. This is, indeed, the only time to enter the Malestrom of life’s creation, when we feel at our worst… to extend our experience’s into what is most disturbing to us.

I often wonder when the Earth that I see will begin to mirror my own ideas and understanding. Ideas that are completely beyond what is said and written by secular men and women, of our day. What is containing and increasing our ignorance? Each other? Ourselves? Are we really in on something… or is it that this something isn’t big enough for a great and growing many of us.

Maybe God isn’t all that important to us after all. Commanding: assuradely. But God isn’t actually useful anymore. His things are his own and one thing about GOD is that he surely isn’t the helper that many religions oddly envision him to be. The question in this area may well be:

Will we ever face things without God?

Are we ready to stand alone?

Are we capable of doing so?

I believe that we are, and that we must indeed, do so, as the future isn’t anything that the present promises us. Perhaps we should find our “hero’s” in this lonely place, instead of the vast coinage of more popular rescues.

I do see so much great talent, and probably like many of you, I’m often in admiration of these very talented individuals. Yet, unlike you, perhaps, but like death, I see and keep with the primordial ugly nature of man and his diseases. His life, you see, is becoming static… his greater numbers and modern approach are not the answer at all. Not an answer to anything.

There are so many who fail miserably when faced with what is truly ugly in life, when that very and vast area should be taken in with encouragement and courage! Death is not what it seems… and often the mirrors that hang before us are just that, smokescreens, that become self-serving and begin to seem almost pertinent to our very futures… but these things are complete lies.

I could focus on the specific ways in which many become “used” by ordinary life as the vessel grows older. But if you aren’t finding any ancient struggles, then what good is your life? Your life is, of course, valuable to you, but your life isn’t valuable to me at all. And why is this knowledge such a surprise? It should not be.

But if you have a true life, then I can surely see the value in you, regardless of my own interests… religiously or otherwise. I can only respect your Journey… after all “Life Is A Journey”… has been said. I mean that life may or may not continue, but need this be the “big” question? The Journey continues regardless of your emotions, religions, thoughts, values or anything else.

Creation doesn’t stop to “enjoy” our victories or our tears. Then why should we stop for the interest of others? Maybe we shouldn’t, maybe we should delimit what has gone on before. With religion on Earth at a standstill…a stalemate… maybe it’s time to “clear the board” for a while.

There is hate and anger, but so what, everyone is proficient with these… maybe we should begin to wield hate and anger… instead of looking at them as weaknesses. Perhaps we should address the “energies” that confront us from the past with War. God’s and Prophets should fall from the hand of the living. Perhaps we can reach and effect some astute ends to the “afterlife”… A very useful endeavor… Draconian to some, yet timely and valid in a world whose people have reached into a further understanding.

Are we living in times where life has become as difficult and meaningful as Death and the mysteries of The End?

-Clay Scott Brown

Although Buddhism has come to evolve as a religion with a characteristic body of scriptures and rituals, strictly speaking, in Buddhism scriptural authority cannot outweigh an understanding based on reason and experience.  In fact the Buddha himself, in a famous statement, undermines the scriptural authority of his own words when he exhorts his followers not to accept the validity of his teachings simply on the basis of reverence to him.  Just as a seasoned goldsmith would test the purity of his gold through a meticulous process of examination, the Buddha advises that people should test the truth of what he has said through reasoned examination and personal experiment.  Therefore, when it comes to validating the truth of a claim, Buddhism accords greatest authority to experience, with reason second and scripture last.

Yes, this is all to do, Mr. Tenzin Gyatso , but don’t forget that you aren’t The Buddah anymore than I am Jesus Christ.  Your book I couldn’t continue with, although you are sure to have many interesting things going in and around the science discussion.  I don’t really know how your Religion ‘works’.  I think it’s powerful, even though I haven’t encountered it!  You are The Lama, though, the Father of your Nation.

China could literally wipe you off the face of the Earth, and let’s face facts, you know it.  Yet visualize this outcome for a minute The Lama, what if China did Murder every single child, man and woman of Tibetan Ancestry?  What would occur then.  Well, Absolutely nothing, since China shouldn’t be there anyway, they are simply stretching themselves more and more thin with the large population, actually all they are doing is getting to know others and will probably be leaving in very friendly spirits!

China.  There will be no China expansion… it would be a disaster of monumental proportions.  The world could just as well as sit on the head of the Budda himself, who I don’t view as a ‘phantom’ by any means, simply mysterious is my guess, doing what needs doing out there in the after.  More power to him and may much Luck and Karma Guide his way into many Victories for Buddhism… which we are all graced with.  Still, I don’t see what the use is of ‘Visiting’ another people in this occupational manner, Mr. Gyatso.  You may actually have a high opinion of The Buddah, and that I can understand.  Still I think your young man awaiting is becomming more challenging than you.  I saw him on Television.  You may wish to pursue other interests at this time, but things may not go your way.  You are in no way required to participate in any ‘trouble’ Mr. Gyatso… saying no is simple.

I don’t know you as a man Mr. Gyatso, but I wish I did.  I don’t quite know what I’d say to someone like you.  You are stunningly Beautiful and rather than carp on the Chinese troubles of late, I’d much prefer to discuss the fascinations of water, or say the movements of a tea kettle.

Hello, I haven’t commented here for some time. As you know I’ve been keeping the days from month to month, and keeping is a good way to put it. I’m ‘pleased’ at what is occurring. With this new month (July 44) I’ve used my book The Tarot Arcana and also The Oracle that goes with my book to bring about a more personal reading from day to day. I feel that this offers me, and you a much more detailed understaning as pertains to the Future. It is indeed rather frightening to actually ‘know’ the future, although the word K-N-O-W isn’t a good one pertaining to the ’sight’ of an actual ‘Seer’. And if you are truly an actual ‘Seer’ you probably won’t be well known on this present Earth. Yet there is some hope that in the future their may someday be another Earth… this Earth we presently inhabit is far too small, literally for most of us.

It seems to me that a huge “Kick Start” is coming and with the Mayan Calendar coming close to it’s end in 2012 (48 by my Calendar) we will probably be witnessing some really interesting days coming up. The ‘whip-Snake’ is going to surely be coming back on most people who once thought they were in ‘esteemed company’. The fissures of experience have been showing in so many ways, that you may have not seen for yourself yet, still there is the hope that you may ‘live long enough’ to see things for yourself and up close. By all means see to your safety but at least attempt not to let a Risk go by. So many of you got caught up in the Maelstrom of what you were born into that the Clear Path must have seemed oh so sure.

If you’ve been around this boat for sometime now you may actually realize that your own perceptions were in fact correct, and if that is the case then you are in good stead!

The fact is that a great deal isn’t known. The ‘living’, as it were, isn’t much of a model for that other area that we commonly Fear and call the Spirit World or the After. I personally have come to the understanding that a great many things are yet to unfold. I consider the years past…

1980-2008 and counting to be the Age of Un-Enlightenment, the exact opposite of what ‘friendly’ Spirits and.or Soothsayers, that you may have encountered, have told you!

So if we are looking at things anew in this context as I would indeed recommend you do, you will see then that 30 years may be the final end to many ‘old fashioned’ ideas and outmoded concepts. Yet every breath you took is one for yourself, so regardless of your present ‘time of life’ feel pleased that you were even alive during such turbulent times. I’m not one for looking at a Wide Universe and seeing myself as a dot of light. I see more of a Universe that will someday explode or fizzle to nothing, and I don’t count years like a Scientist! Gazooks! 6 billion years isn’t much to hang on! Indeed time isn’t anything but a means to keep that dinner date, but it does inform the Imagination if not the Creative side.

Now let me say a few words about the Present Deck of Tarot Cards that I’m using. I bought these on an interesting trip that I took to The Bodhi Tree on Melrose in West Hollywood. I had quite a long ride, as I had to take the Bus. I bought these they are called the Pagan Tarot and are generally pretty interesting cards, I’d say. There is that one woman generally throughout the deck, but interestingly I don’t see the Pentacle as being very Feminine actually. I sure don’t mind others looking at The Pentacle in any way they see fit and If they do find something of note there I would encourage them to pursue it to the furthest of their interest… yet the owner of The Pentacle isn’t going to be a ‘happy one’ to adherents and I would caution ‘blanket beliefs’ and ‘good feels’ as not the ‘whole story’. I’d generally advise a very serious mind for anyone truly interested in what some Religions have deemed “Satan”. I look at these so called ‘negative interpretations’ as weak of the various religions that harbor such ignorance. I’m not one to correct an ignorant religion, however. I don’t mind seeing one go belly up, as it were.

With that said I will be using the present Tarot Deck in the Coming month of August. It allows me a chance to see further where this is going. It is interesting that many woman in particular are seeing the Pentacle as Pagan. The word Pagan is one that I’m not entirely sure denotes a history. History isn’t anything that can be stamped down by any one Era in my view. Indeed we may not see the actual thrust of our own times until far into the future when future peoples see into our little corner of the Universe!

Until then however, we can remain as cozy as can be… or as cozy as we can manage. Either way things are sure to get interesting.