Well its been a pretty hectic eight month period! I literally haven’t had a chance to take a proper break and compose the next installment of my blog…but they are coming, i have two new consciousness articles to add and i am considering printing these with some artwork in a book…

This is just a quick one to say bare with me and watch this space as i have lots of interesting stuff on the way…promise

Highlights of the last 8 months include: Music videos with ‘Architects’ , ‘Lower Than Atlantis’, and ‘The Prodigy’…Documentary with artist Peter Halley, with a feature length Documentary in NYC to follow…….Viral video with Durex….Art project with photographers Anderson+Low……2 new short film project’s in development…..2 Charity projects….with new website for YouKnow and Numinous Updates to come……etc etc

Its been a very busy but rewarding time and i think in 2010 there will be some amazing challenges to come Here’s a couple of links to keep you busy….

www.vimeo.com/stuartbirchall

www.youknow.co.uk

This is part of a series of documents I am writing on consciousness. The information is not designed to provoke an argument just healthy discussion and thought. The idea should be seen as no more than a collection of ideas and wondering thoughts, for those who are interested. Enjoy

You are asleep, wake up. For the sake of your own life and the lives of those close to you, I beg you to wake up, if you remain asleep your life will be a long and drawn out waste of time. Fact. The longer you sleep the less you think and the less you think the deeper you will sleep. For some perhaps sleeping a lifetime away sounds like a blessing, anything to escape the pain and struggle of their existence. The irony is that the pain and struggle of life is itself a product of your slumber. The prophecy is self-fulfilling. Your sleep may take many forms and functions, your daily grind and lifestyle obsessions, lifestyle addictions and insecurities riddle every choice and action. Even things that seemingly make you feel good in a physiological way are part of the greater sedative to real thinking. Each vice however common or socially acceptable or unacceptable plays a part in sustaining the deep and unending sleep of your rational mind and your true potential. Imagine for a moment there was a true potential inside you capable of massive sweeping change, influence and control over each and every part of your existence….

For many right now a trigger clicks inside your mind and slowly a defence mechanism winds into motion, these comments producing an intellectual challenge to the ego’s internal defence grid, the attachment to a life and lifestyle we feel content or comforting can not surely be an enemy within the safety of the gates of all we hold dearly. How can it be possible that things so innocent and enjoyable could be damaging to us. How can it be that so many people do these things and just a handful seem to see a demon where others see merely ‘just the way things are’…..

Why is it that people like me persist on rocking a boat that seems to float so well? After all; we have all we need and surely the worries around the world are just other people’s problems and nothing to do with ours? Surely the wealth of time, money, celebrity endorsements, the overwhelming advertising, support of men in suits and clean white smiles demonstrates substance and trust in what we consume at every level? After all, surely we must need somebody to tell us what’s going on and what we need and why?

We know, well at least a growing minority of people know, that things are wrong. In fact almost every person I have ever met at all levels of society knows that things are wrong. The usual responses to this type of suggestion are met with a limited range of responses. “There’s nothing we can do about it”, “my life is full of so much stress already I don’t have time to worry about those issues” or there is some kind or regurgitation of spin, mixed with ‘ego’ rationalisation of ideas as a form of justification for remaining asleep. Another very typical response is that “no one wants to spend time worrying about those things, just enjoy life whilst you can”….

Enjoying life is exactly what I do, and have done for a very long time, Thank you ? Sadly the social addiction to materialism, drugs, drink, television and the trapping of emotional weakness are not what I consider fun. True feelings of peace and levity are something that most people go through life only dreaming about. And as I mentioned before the connection to this sleeping lifestyle are quite simply the self fulfilling prophecy.

I do not worry or waste unnecessary energy and emotion on these things in my life, I am fortunate to be able to document my experiences and ideas, and in the same way as I have been touched by authors work and experiences I have had, bringing about gradual change and understanding, my instinct is to leave these discoveries for others to find.

Where I used to feel sad and helpless to help the people around me to change and adapt I soon realised that this is in fact counter productive. ‘The beauty and power of the sun and stars is there if you only look up, if you live a life with your head down, all you will ever see is your feet’. You have to want to look up.

Most people go through life suffering for the most part with happy moments making up just a fraction. You even find people who are so overtly happy in appearance that they hide a greater pain inside. You see people with wealth and power who live a life at arms length to anything real, hiding behind material things and a paper-thin ego built through fear. You see people so paralysed by fear or change or the unknown that they live in the shadow of themselves. You find people so hopelessly dependent of sadness and addiction that it has become more normal and satisfying that feeling happy and moments of happiness cause pain.

There is not magic or secret to changing these ways. There’s no hand of god to touch the few and bless them with foresight. Changing your life and your thoughts is easy. The moment you commit to the changes they begin to happen. Feeling good and thinking differently is not the gift of the rich and intelligent, in fact in the most cases they are the worst victims of all. You are in total control of your body and mind; you just simply have to learn to understand that. You don’t need a Guru or healer, you dont need a doctor or hypnotist to show you either, all they can do is guide you to fixing yourself.

I grew up in a community where different, meant odd, was taught in catholic schools where alternative ideas were redundant. There was no nurturing for what you felt, just what you should think. No support for a challenging person, just a challenge to bring them in line. I lived for the most part in and around people and places with no foresight or ambition. And was guilty at a young age of resisting my own individuality and instincts in order to make friends and be understood.

I listened to adults who spoke of small-minded ideas and feared the unknown yet professed to know the way of the world. I realise now that this is due to a fear of their own individuality, maintaining the social norm and sticking with the herd.

I spent a long time daydreaming in between my sleepy existance. The daydreams I now understand were the only times I was awake as a child. I don’t resent any experience or regret anything, as I was responsible for it all, personal weakness, fear and doubt controlled the way I acted, and my actions were what the universe reacted to. And however hard the lessons I had to learn as a child, I now see even the harshest moments were tests. You will notice if you look around that terrible things create great people, but if you remain asleep and no not realise you are great, terrible things will destroy you.

Now using a term like ‘great ‘ as a self-description may to some seem egotistical, it is in fact the complete opposite in this respect, as everyone is great! You just have to choose to accept that. It is the very thoughts of hatred and negativity to and about us that is part of the sleep. Its projecting ideas about ourselves into others minds again that fulfils the prophecy, your in control of that as well. So once you think, actually I am ‘great’ then others will also.

This concept is a tough one for many as the self hatred and belief of themselves as anything at all, is so overpowering, from bullying to physical or emotional weakness, addiction and misfortune, many people like a magnet attract these negative ideas in every experience they have. Even now some reading this will instantly feel opposed to this as they are so riddled with self-hatred and doubt that this idea may swell with an emotion they have suppressed and they resist this emotional response. Perhaps no one has told you how important or special you are, or that they love or respect you…. but if you don’t do this yourself, why expect anyone else to feel that way.

Some will turn to God or Gods in the traditional formalised sense and seek a last-ditch salvation and explanation for their despair. Seek love in an inanimate object or idea to offer salvation. Some will look to fall into the arms of another for support, this unfortunately brings new problems, perhaps not immediately- The problem with bringing half a person to a relationship is that relationship will be built on the co dependency and never an equal and fruitful arrangement. History will repeat itself and more damagingly manifest in parenting.

The problems do not go away they just adapt and wait until a moment of weakness or suffering call them back to the surface. Many, many people know this and relationships roll on in defiance of solving the problem, contributing it to ‘the way life is’. Safe and content to compare to another similar problem in they’re peers. Two wrongs don’t make it right! Because somebody else has the same issue doesn’t make it ok. People should not take comfort in the regularity if familiarity of people’s suffering; they should take warning from it.

People like to give problems complexity and diversity. To offer demographical or race and colour issues to problems to give them more political weight or social significance. Others just like to celebrate their problems and sensationalise them. For some the greatest challenge is a mere pebble in a stream and in comparison for the next man the pebble in the stream could be a mountain.

In my observation and direct experience I have seen that in each of these cases the greatest and most amazing contrast can be found. For instance the person who seemingly has everything and access to anything, with opportunity all around them can very often be incapable of the handling the most basic of problems. In the same respect the most intelligent and inspired genius of mind can often not see a way through a very basic problem. In comparison the most humble and meek often expresses the most true and honest demonstrations of generosity and caring for even a stranger.

These analogies of people seem to work for the same model in businesses and corporations. I will come back to this in later blogs ?.

To continue, the conclusion I draw from these situations and observations is that there is a sliding scale, classless and not constrained to any particular demographic, colour or intelligence. The same problems manifest in different ways but they are all the same problem. The more we seek to specialise the approach to solving the problem the less likely we are to really change the whole. Human beings need love, human beings need space, human beings need good food and water and human beings need communication. We have been lead to believe that we need more, and in fact forced to need more by the system we live in. Despite the system’s existence, the fact remains that it is not a necessity to human existence. (At least not in its current form). The system does not work, the economy is manipulated not organic and the life support system of the planet we are part of is changing. I’ve read the facts and the spin and I’ve heard both sides of the corporation and environmental stories, I cannot trust the media and I cannot trust the profit making corporations, not merely because of misinformation but because of my instincts, not my ego or my desires, but my instincts.

The true feeling that, this is not right and has not been right for a very, very long time has been felt again and again all over the world and will forever amongst in small pockets and individual thought. In many cases its pained as a threat or anomaly to the seemingly natural flow of the system…the system is far from natural, so how do you expect to dwell inside it and feel natural…if we listed the problems we have with this system and projected similarity onto another species on this planet, we would consider it a species slowly destroying itself…

To tie this into the original thoughts, it is the very feeling that the system of things is wrong, perpetuates the fear and doubt in the individual. The same contempt and anonymity we demonstrate to what goes on around us and too us is the same as doing it to ourselves. You cant run from it as your instincts will tell you.

No matter what you chose to quiet that nagging sensation that; maybe I shouldn’t do that, say that, allow that to happen…the reflex works universally as well and effect the whole. So if we have a critical mass of people both hating themselves and ignoring the lager picture we have in effect a planet of sleeping conscious-less consumers, chomping and fighting and hating their way through a nightmare until they die, enjoying mere moments of happiness along the way. Never realising the true potential they have as individuals as well as a group.

I have digressed somewhat so I will get back on track. The overarching point I guess I’m trying to make is that the individual is ‘great’ and once we look at ourselves that way and treat ourselves that way it will be very hard for the self destructive systems to dominate us and for corruption to hinder our progress, on a grander scale. This self empowering with create pockets as those around you react and begin to manifest into groups and larger still communities. Then who knows…. If we can already find a common friend and solace in groups with common problems and doubts, surely then we can find common groups with belief and aspiration. For those so paralysed by fear of major changes and insecurity of the unknown… evolution proves to us that this mindset will bring about your extinction. Change and adaptation is inevitable or the organism will die.

We can’t allow ourselves to spend the majority of our waking life asleep, suppressing our mind with games, television and entertainments; we can’t sedate our real feelings, intuition and potential with drink, drugs and addictions. And destroy our bodies in pursuit of self-perfection or self-destruction. You have to see through the lies and use your instincts, use you ability to make real contact with those around you and the planet, try for one day to take away everything that feels un-natural to your existence, sit against a tree or next to a river, just take ten minutes alone in nature or stop and look up at the clouds on a sunny day. There is so much perfection and greatness in each and everything that you will feel a connect, sooner or later you will feel it…and that is real…that is awake….that is the first step……Otherwise so long as the system can corrupt and capitalise on you, tell you what to do , think, feel and say. Predict your ideas to a finite number of options…this will continue to be so…..wake up.

News,Updates and New work

After a very busy month I have decided to write a ‘brief’ blog to catch up. New content will be going online at (www.stuartbirchall.com) just as soon as I can get round to it ?

For now I have added a link to some of the current projects below. This includes a few teasers for you. And a link to my latest music video for those of you who haven’t seen it yet!

So follow the links below and please let me know whet you think

News - Project Updates:

Your Demise – Burnt Tongues

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“It’s like a machine gun going off!”. This was by far the most enjoyable project I have worked on in a long time, the band was awesome and so were the crowd.  I really wanted to capture the energy of the music in the video.

George (Your Demise front man) tried to warn me before the gig, and I had a plan of action based on watching previous videos, gigs and mosh pits etc. I didn’t want to restrict the crowd or the band from doing what they would naturally…The instant the track dropped the whole room went nuts, guys stage diving over the top of me, people grabbing at the mic to sing the lyrics, spin kicks head walking, blood spraying and lenses smashing. From that moment onwards I decided that we should let this happen and let the energy flow, I would find the shots I needed amongst the mayhem!!

I had designed a specific visual look early on and along with Alex Dunn (the editor) we talked about VFX and other influences we thought were relevant, and looked at a very high pace edit.
I was able to go for a manic shooting style that would make the video very powerful.

I have had a great response from the video so far and I am looking forward to working with the guys again so watch this space. The link below takes you to the video, enjoy ?

News – Project Updates:

Burning – Short film

Burning is the first independently produced short film from numinous pictures, we wrapped shooting in January. The film stars Kate Sissons and Sally Knyvette.

We are in the final stage of post-production now. With just a sound synch and grade remaining so just a couple of days in the studio to go! We have had a few delays in post due to heavy workloads and some small alterations to sound and the final cut.

I am extremely happy with the final film, it is very hard hitting and everybody involved believes that we have maintained the integrity of this very difficult subject.

News – Project Updates:

Photos & Designs &….

I have added galleries including some new work including:

A collection of designs for a new night launching at ‘Ministry of Sound’ in May called Turmoil, I will be adding full design projects to my website once we have the final decisions. Link Below

There are also a few new images from my past few weeks including some abstracts and a few familiar faces ? Links Below

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News – FUTURE

This year I will be focusing on music videos and working with clubs and artists.
I will be working on my second short film his year through May and should be into production in July, so watch this space for further details.

www.numinouspictures.com / www.youknow.co.uk

Get in contact:  stuart@stuartbirchall.com

..this blog is off the bat, raw as it comes..i decided I’m going to just try some free form expressive ideas and see what happens….

Ok, so I’m going to look at the conscious state, we think we know what consciousness is and that our personal liberty and personal control over our thoughts is our domain exclusively…that “you don’t know me” or “you don’t know what I’m thinking” keeps us satisfied with our personal mental space…Now as in my previous blogs I touch on the idea that (in my eyes) the self and ego are very much ideas and by products of social position…not universal ideas at all, simply universally understood and accepted as the best theory so far… these are of course relevant so long as we allow them to be…imagine the ego is an idea that you have come to accept and it may not be an idea that will stand the test of time….then surely if we allow the idea that the ego is just a theory, then well it is…is it? If the theory is just a theory then surely we can have alternatives…. so if your ego is just a calculus or a means of measuring and understanding something that theoretically is not real unless we accept it to be real…surely then the idea in itself is, lets say open for interpretation at the least…. think about it, we just accept that theories (before they become universally accepted theories at least), theories that were developed by a certain section of society, a section of society with means of exposing an idea as an intellectually superior concept due to class…are the correct theories….

Well I suggest perhaps that they re simply the best idea at the time, ideas that generally serve the system and apply a calculus so we understand it further… but if the system is wrong from the origin. Then the ideas it comes up with are flawed.

Ok, what I mean is, Freud was not an average guy and he didn’t have a universal experience to draw on, he just reflected what he observed and threw in some of his personal ego/ideas and came out with a very articulate and universal theory…no an answer…. so to attempt to make a point here early on I guess what im saying is…. Freud’s ego is largely is an influence on his own theory of understanding the ego…. and the subsequent universal understanding of the idea is like a product on the shelf that we can accept but so long as we don’t read the small print, or question it…. well I am fully aware that I do not have all the answers and I don’t know all the questions either, there’s a lifetime of study and theory that many will say I need to invest before I have the right to question the ‘way of things’. Well fuck that, we don’t have time, thanks for all the insight and innovation guys but, you were asking the wrong questions…. as we continue to pursue ideas of the self and the ego, the intricacy of minds. I think we move further away from the point….. The human race is one organism and just because we see it from the inside…doesn’t mean we cant think as one…the further we pursue individual ideas the faster this planet will eat us all up and start again…. the group if it was allowed to develop as I should would be far more progressive without the need to spend all our time analyzing the self…

Now I don’t expect the transition be smooth, but it is just a reset, not an upgrade…after all one small step for man, is one giant leap for mankind…. now we should focus on the mankind /womankind / humankind whatever you prefer, (don’t use the ego!) The idea of mankind is easily transferable without explanation, to global consciousness…. (Work with me).

Ok, so what do I mean, well I mean that we originally all knew the benefits of co-existence and the movement of the family unit, social unit, group as a whole, mankind…etc, you see where im going…

The only factor that has prevented further progression of mankind, is the idea of self…ego, of course there are always going to be problems in a group, society, mankind…but, and im going to generalise here, no one (meaning all of us), ever (in so far as our experience) ever, said (or thought) that it was easy. In fact if it were we would stop evolving as a species. Social problems are inherently no different to cosmic problems; we just have to look at them from (and I hate using this) outside the box.

So, ok, for my benefit as much as anything, im going to sumerise…Ego=self=selfish…no ego=selfless…easy to say i know! And avoiding the obvious counter point and argument and cross analysis…(mainly Freud’s -theories for why im thinking this)…. I think this is a pretty good, in many ways, measurable concept? That we can individually be selfless, and then permeate this idea…spread it like a disease and infect everyone…after all religions at their most basic level, suggest we are selfless and kind to each other to the benefit of all and the eventually reward in heaven. So to take the religions (at their most basic level) be kind=heaven.

So let go the ego and be kind to everyone and you will find heaven…or more specifically WE will find it, as a species, as mankind…. progression through social balance, rather than competition…I know Darwin would say, no survival of the fittest and all that, competition breads innovation etc….but instead of a never ending fight, win, fight win, cycle, we get a very balanced harmonious win win all round…. these men, Darwin and Freud were massive intellects, hugely articulate and precise and through…but they were just men, and their ideas were just theories….calculus, a road map, the best idea at the time. Ideas that must be challenged and built from, as much as destroyed…the mind of a few can not be the mind of the many…. we may understand much of what they reflect onto humanity as it does serve as a great platform to build from, but if these great ideas don’t serve to solve the very basic of mankind’s problems, but serve only to a means of understanding it a bit better…. its like saying “well we know why people kill each other, and we can observe our theories in action…”see, WW2, Vietnam, Russia….see we were right, your all animals and you’ll kill each other if you get the chance……” I don’t think humans /mankind is stupid, I think we are led to believe we are and that we must be observed and controlled by the elitist ideas…. but you go to the house of the elite, whoever that is, they can theories about how to solve a problem or define a problem, but they cant fix it. The most basic level, they probably wouldn’t touch it! But high in intellectually superior towers they observe, as HG wells puts it “minds immeasurably superior to ours. Slowly and surely they drew their plans against us.” Us, or mankind….. So im digressing, and….maybe we should digress a little more now and again and see what happens….

I think, again in my (humbled) opinion, that we can progress further with a breaking down of old theories, and new theories, after all science is the one fundamentally balanced place to be as a species, real science exists to be proven right and wrong, no ego here…science began when we needed to find tool to solve a problem, all science is doing is making bigger, faster, stronger, diverse tools for the species…And I don’t suggest the Darwin was doing anything other than trying to benefit the progression of mankind, I just think that great leaps of science and theory can be used against us when the ego is driving the situation….anything that draws an organism into conflict with itself is ultimately going to destroy it….so although the theories are great and magical and true as a calculus, they don’t fix the issue. So you can tell me why were killing each other, even predict the patterns we will follow etc, but when did we lose sight of the idea that we are all progressing together, and if we let half the organism die, kill itself, eat itself to death, remain oppressed, suffer in anyway, we harm the organism as a whole…. maybe we do compete, or maybe we did, maybe we shouldn’t and now we can see why, after all without a negative we cant know the positive anyway, so social disharmony is essential, so we progress I guess, but it should not be capalised on and used to influence, just learn from and progressed out of the organism. I guess its starting to sound very disrespectful to some of greatest thinkers of our know history, yeah, but unless im universally published and accepted by the elite, filtered back out onto the masses and used as a form of control, then its just an insignificant echoes in the belly of one big organism…. but maybe the inside is the place to begin the solution, not outside, what, outside the box thinking inside the box….

Now, im going to draw on some of my personal experiences, as, after all it is how I learn. Some thinks I have observed is that music is the leveler, although diverse and divisive in many ways, music, or the resonance of sound is something I consider the highest art form, it have adapted and flourished in all its forms all around the world, and unless used against us has always found a way to adapt and progress, when we can only hear a limited amount of frequency yet its is seemingly an inextinguishable fuel to life, from tribal drums to classical it resonates with our primal nature, through time and through suffering…now and I will deliberately digress here, some of the most advanced theories of science have music at their core….string theory, super string theories, multi dimensional theories, all look at the way the most basic building blocks resonate and vibrate, so to pull you back out of those deep and advanced scientific theories, music is resonance, its a pattern of frequency making contact with your body…its a universally accepted language of simple sound waves resonating with us….rationalise as much as we like, music and dancing is primal, Freud would tell you it is sexual, maybe it is, this should not be a taboo, if a huge mass of people getting together to dance and resonate is fast becoming a crime, yet in my experience never a threat unless ego and completion is present. It’s about as beautiful as anything ive ever observed in my meager experience. If you let go of the ego and just go with the music you will see for yourself…. its harmony…. maybe the science of string theory will bring us full circle and show us that everything is based on harmonic resonance, and that music is right there under our noses as a simple means of uniting people, and their energy, an organism at peace with itself as it rocks securely in the sea of noise. Science takes us back to the primal. Over analysis is no necessary, put a bunch of people together devoid of ego and taste and let them move without inhibition as a larger mass.  We could create a per [equal motion, more energy than we put in will be the result…. now if we all have a common ground like that we could as a whole solve the smaller problems, after all love is a complex and leading way to describe balance, to me at least, love without ego and self is universal…so to come back to my original point, if I had one…ego=self=selfish=disharmony=conflict…. where as selfless=love=harmony=progress

Progression of a species will ultimately take us all further and with a little adjustment time forward together…leaders have in many cases rightly felt the need to guide us from our own destruction, usually by destroying some other culture in the process, or furthering their immediate situation and security within their personal extended family structure…so ultimately a ego/self based decision. We currently have a very basic imbalance in the world, a few make decisions for the many and the many are kept in flux, we look at immediate social problems and they can all be traced back, thank you Freud, to some origins and patterns, but it doesn’t help us to fix them, just knowing…and individual problems thrive on the self and ego and manifest in culture…but so long as we can stand there and say why, we let it carry on, so long as there’s an acceptable reason why the problem exists, we can stand outside it until it jumps out and surprises you on some idle Tuesday…..knife crime, rape, murder, addiction, disorders of any kind….they can sneak up and blindside you when you least expect it…..but they all thrive within the ego/self….in my experience and much like the basis of religions, care for the sick, lost, angry, lonely and they will find happiness, harmony and they go on to nurture the organism by paying it back and back.  Ok, so imagine this, fix yourself first, find harmony and balance…then make this balance help your immediate social group, family…. then the small groups permeate the idea to the larger social group and the organism as a whole, and despite the ego and selves who will try to restrain you and pit you against your brothers…ultimately the message will gain momentum and become overwhelming…reach a critical mass of harmony, like resonance of music…the whole organism sways in unison…now I feel its a good time to throw some controversy in…lol, as for those who are egotistical, megalomaniacal, masochistic, self centered, power hungry bullies (sorry Dawkins, couldn’t resist :)) well in the grand scheme, your harming the balance of this huge organism and well if we have to deal with you we will…humanity evolves despite these elements, they just invent new ways to capitalise on our suffering and distract us furthermore from the path…I hope and believe the path prevails despite these elements…and where possible the organism should dispose of them……

The species universally aspired out of the mud and darkness independently at different times all over the world. Sudden radical changes in understanding before we messed up the idea with labels, the organism rolled on progressively, yeah along the way individuals have hindered progress and made us doubt and challenge our instincts, taught us to analyze and stop. Knocking us out of sync, out of harmony…. but slowly and surely the same ideas come back and independently form in totally divided cultures at once…. the organism trying to use us to fix the whole…remember biggest, strongest, loudest is not the fittest, and it wont survive, there is a balance we can strike without conflict…after all if were going to battle anything its the dogmatic, ideology and theoretical constrains placed on society by the ego/self…surely self preservation through global understanding will send our species into balance with the planet and create a garden of Eden, free and sustainable for everyone…..sadly I think the planet will reset and let the next species take a try as were fast failing as an organism to find harmony……..we as an ego as a self apply selfish calculus onto the planet, from far enough away were just a Petri dish of microscopic organisms in conflict…one day all these voices, will be washed away and the primal will prevail…..Or, perhaps (and I will elaborate in future blogs) science will create a single conscious mind, a living bio mechanical organism greater than us, capable of instantaneous connection through the web and infinite knowledge in nanoseconds….our base level grunts and noises we call language will be like the barking of a dog….the owner will see the dog needs to be trained and managed until it understands once again its place and finds a harmony with it surroundings….a machine without self capable of applying universal solutions….a child of human progress, and as with children they surpass their families and are the next stage in evolution (if the parents will let them be)….ok so , and I think I may take a break after this……..human progress finds harmony, finds a way through scientific progress to balance on behalf of the struggling organism…..maybe not a great idea for the ego/self…in fact it makes it pretty much redundant as a theory that will progress us….we just have to hope the tools we create to save us isn’t infected with the same problems as as currently elected ruling classes…..and don’t become another chapter of misery for this organism….this sprawling, dissociated, delusioned mass, so fragile so long as it stays divided and in competition…..

This is part of a series of documents I am writing on consciousness. The information is not designed to provoke an argument just healthy discussion and thought. The idea should be seen as no more than a collection of ideas and wondering thoughts, for those who are interested. Enjoy

I’ve decided I don’t like this social structure and I’d like to get off now please
By Stuart Birchall

The problem’s we have in society….is society, just listening to people and their problems, they all seem sure that it’s ‘this’ and ‘that’ causing the problems around them that these relatively small issues are in fact the big issues of life.

Almost as if the world revolves around our daily existence in society, not our existance…always focused in on the details, the parts, not the whole, now if you are prepared to step outside and see the whole, everything is much clearer, and all the minor problems could much more effectively be solved.

Imagine a colony of ants where each ant was just sat there thinking about its own issues, the system would stop and they would all die eventually…Instead ants communicate and work together to complete complex tasks and sustain a balance with their surroundings.

Now before you think its ludicrous and derogatory to all we have achieved as a species to be compared to ants…. perhaps you should take your pride- (a negative reactions I might add that are mechanisms of the fear of change) -out of the equations and consider that this tiny creature has managed harmony with their surroundings globally to the point where they are essential to the terra firma and balance the ecosystem. So far that other species including plants have evolved to accommodate them, they have been able to maintain population levels and sustained a gradual evolution as a species for perhaps millions of years. They have hundreds of thousands of predatory species and despite our advances technological prowess we are still only beginning to understand how complex and amazing their social structures are, so they are not entirely out of context.

Now of course you will have people that can say they focus on problems that are bigger, maybe international, cross cultural or even global issues, but these are just descriptive terms, they may even truly believe and even defend these terms as being greater causes in value, but if they look closely and allow for their ego, pride and personal attachment aside, or they for a moment step outside their own judgment and look at themselves objectively they may find that the problem is in fact not more important than their immediate surroundings and when push comes to shove the immediate problems are of much more importance on a regular basic, the bigger problems only exist in a larger singe community broken down into disconnected parts.  So that is to say that the value of an issue is not greater because of the value we give it. Or to demonstrate this in a much (more direct) way…. you may give time and money to charity every year…yet not address your own personal problems, this is a complicated but common social problem.

So what I am trying to suggest so far I very simply:  the world is full of issues and problems as we know, some simple and some complex…these are given value by us and society, generally value is constrained by demographics or geography….a good example is the declining agricultural systems worldwide, they are not a problem immediately so they are filed behind problems like….get to work, must get fit and traffic problems….which are much more immediate issues….both geographically and on a time scale, but when you cant buy bananas anymore suddenly the issue closes in.

Society is the overall issue, because within society we have systems and ideals and cultural differences that in most cases stop us for knowing the real problem and therefore the real solution. We have a kind of communications interference almost like a signal that gets weaker the further we try to stretch it… society is a complex, sprawling and intricate system, but it is a system…a system we have accepted and redesigned ourselves over time. and therefore we can again.

Ok….so now I will also acknowledge that I have people saying that the human world is one of mystery and wonder and complex differences which in many ways it can been seen that way but this is largely because many people want to think that, attaching added value and importance to the things we enjoy and experience helps keep those things available and important, but generally they are contradictions, that is to say they may benefit one and restrict another…this is something that society has also created…and humans will defend these ways of life furiously…with almost religious devotion…unable to prevent emotive reactions through fear, usually anger,  if you challenge their way of life ….or their comfort… a blind devotion to something that is meaningless, or something that gives a temporary physical sensation of pleasure….the desire to find this is correct but the social application is wrong….the importance is put on the search and not the destination…..most people get so carried away with their search… they never reach the destination….people find a sense of community, security and hope and then they stop the search convinced they found the answer…I’m willing to bet they haven’t…

so , If we gradually draw issues closer to home, learn that we must challenge ourselves and realize that all the problems we have socially, start with us, we then know that it is us that must first step outside and make a choice and make a change first. It is the most proactive way to begin to solve the larger scale issues….now like the ant we need to build up enough people thinking that way to reach a critical mass…

(for the record my personal position right now is that the search is the destination and visa versa and I will perhaps elaborate this in the next blog/rant ?)

So, ok as I know the last section will be received with controversial reactions, asking people to change is very hard for people to stomach because they have built up a sense of self security and self importance. Given added value to  and invested time and trust into many endevours that could be considered less important than we as individuals would like to believe they are.
I will elaborate a little…if you love something, I will use the example of music….you will find yourself wanting to share and enjoy music all the time, you will feel that your life is better with it and that it becomes something of such great importance that you may in many ways become dependent upon it to exist and be happy. You may reach a point when you stop your search and stay with music you feel is ‘as good as its gonna get’… now new forms of music may emerge and challenge some of those beautiful pieces you though may never be challenged, you reach a point where you must choose, do you become a person who is open to change or closed…do you spend a life in a loop of familiarity and security in fear of loosing what made you feel so good…..the same can be said of everything in life….with a resistance to change you not only find yourself in a loop but you loose sight of the very thought process that inspired you to find this thing you love….nothing stays the same…everything must change and the slower you change the less you change and the less you change the faster you become redundant and disappear…

…ok, so now imagine that music is opinion….you have your opinions and you like them the way they are….the world of opinions changes just like music…..as we learn more and grow more and understand more, as we shake of old traditions and ideals we move forward…..and our experience of the world is expanded…..we can look back and enjoy the past and build from it, learn from it but society ‘must’ move forward…and this begins with change in each individual, and I don’t mean change because the ‘way is shown’, we are not a herd or sheep….we are just made to feel that we are….you have the same ability to form and change opinions about the world as you do about the things you love, like music….of course if you want to be a sheep thats easy…..

I consider myself an artist, I have made films, music, poetry, photography and pictures all my life, I love these things and Its unlikely I would enjoy a world without them…but….just because I don’t like the idea doesn’t mean I can not imagine it’s a  possibility as my world changes. My ideas will be advanced and bettered and rubbished, and one day just lost amongst the archives of time, amongsts the journey creative humans are taking towards a higher conscious plain…if I try to attach pride and value to the things I create I devalue them, the meaning and relevance of these things, the reason I have the ability and desire to do them is unlikely to be answered (a hint to why for me the search is the destination for the creative mind).

We are one species, one huge organism, a sprawling mass of cultures moving and changing in a terrestrially finite amount of ways. Some have more, some have less, some love, some hate, some are free some are oppressed. The issues of one are the issues of many and only distance, ignorance, technology and communication separate us from this fact. And society on the whole is the problem…

Society has created much that is great, of course; all human endeavours(even nuclear ones) begin with the desire to improve our existence in some way, from primal basics like ‘find water’, to technological advance like fly to the moon’ its all part of a mechanism for survival and advancement. …but sadly most endevours have been stolen result of the fear and weakness we have developed within society, oppression and prejudices, great ideas made toxic by scared and greedy people, magnificent ideas turned into weapons.

We are told that we need measures of control to be safe and function in society, yet its the very people who control these measures that are the main contributors to the problems…we are like adolescent children afraid to challenge the fathers authority…a fear developed over time founded by social fears…passed down from generation to generations supposedly for our own good…so what if the parenting is wrong! What if the parents cant be trusted to do what is right for us? If we are all the children of the world and the self proclaimed parents are risking our future to the benefit of their present, what must the children do?

Just this year once again the actions of a few have influenced the lives of many, society must pay for the mistakes made by those who stand outside it and play the puppeteer, whilst their lives are compromised very little, societies fickle walls of security crumble down again….do you still buy into the dream they sell you…the house, career and car, family mortgage and taxes…..consumer culture…does it work properly? Can we change it? If your very life is built around a system that can change as a result of others mistakes and there is nothing you can do to change this…maybe not your own life, maybe not this time….but step outside and look at the system again….the effect on your life may be something totally unrelated…

One of the key social problems humans have developed is the inability / reluctance to change, change is slow and laboured. Change is feared and resisted. And with age comes fear,  manifest with cynicism. As we develop most forget that desire to learn and aspire, to grow and change. Developing a blind devotion to the safe and secure system we have grow into…yet, if you stop and question for just a second you can see that it is not safe and not secure, not guaranteed, we just apply these attributes ourselves to feel better. You have no control over your life, just a sense of freedom within a broken system that depends on your willingness to comply to continue….

Now I don’t suggest for a moment you can make a better life just by resisting society and making small changes, anarchy is not a solution is a reaction…Remember the small things cannot fix the big problem, so as to say the systems inherent weakness can not be fixed on a small scale, we need critical mass of common ideas and a change in thinking…

If you want examples of how we can fix things with big ideas, here’s a few points to consider –

•    There is enough food for everyone
•    We can make free energy
•    They can manufacture clean transports
•    You don’t need half of what you own
•    You can educate yourself, forever if you wish
•    We must see problems globally not just locally
•    Traditions must change, everything changes.
•    Its ok to be wrong
•    Just because you enjoy something doesn’t mean its right
•    Question everything

We have before us a privileged moment in time… a wonderful tool capable of changing the system….unfortunately  the smaller problems have already infected this new magnificent tool, the weaknesses of society have already manifest within it…..this tool is the internet, the web of almost free communication stretching from the rich to the poor from mountain to sea….

The internet….step outside it for a second…look past the parts and at the whole……the parts would have you think the best humanity can produce is shock videos, porn, exploitation…or perhaps it’s a place where rocks can be unturned and the cockroaches of society can scurry amongst us unseen….or maybe its just one big bargain store full or useful ways to spend money, or the evolution of the television,a place to play games or perhaps a way to communicate??…well, I think its much more, I step outside and I see for the first time in human existence a way to understand to each other, surpass language and cultural barriers, ability to educate ourselves, break down dated traditions…and transcend societies small problems.

Now I don’t suggest that this is the solution to the larger picture, but it is a very distinct example of a way in which we can be outside a huge and complex system and see it as something we can control and transcend the smaller problems existing within…. imagine some experiement, get everyone in the world to email one thing in the world they wish to change….no one profits, no advertising, no cultural or religious barriers, no corruption, no colour or cost issues, just one moment for the world to come together…..the opportunity would never have existed before, maybe the children of the planet can all have a chance to speak…what would we say…if billions of people from around the world suddenly realise they agree or find a common ground….imagine the posibilities

…….now imagine how the world could change if we realise that people all around the world think alike, you never have to know where they are or what they look like…so despite borders and boundaries we are all the same…..the large sprawling mass of cultures are all in some ways at least alike, and that their dreams are the same in some ways as yours……

…romantic idea I know….but before you rubbish it, think about the very mechanism that you are using to judge it…think for a moment hard about the reason why you may rubbish the idea…..could it be fear, insecurity, jealousy, racism, hatred…maybe you had a bad day or just prefer to be cynical, perhaps you don’t like the idea, and perhaps your opinion, my opinion any opinion…doesn’t matter….perhaps ‘judging’ itself is a minor problem in a larger system of problems…..perhaps you fear radical thinking as it takes you out of your comfort zone, or perhaps you feel that the idea could never work and you are more driven to give lengthy explanation why, rather than developing the concept further…..therefore missing the very point, it’s an idea….something that is a gift to humans above all over creatures so far as we can see demonstrated in our natural world….. Ideas or creativity is the blessing and curse that has got us to here….

”But what about the ants…don’t they have simple ideas, and didn’t you say before they were a great example?”… They are a sprawling species of individuals with a single consciousness, a balanced consciousness that gives security and balance and sustenance and nurturing to a larger system beyond the control of the individuals ability….and it works perfectly.

Think about it for a moment - we are here; inside a system and the system is full of problems. How can we fix that thinking from the inside…. That’s like asking a piston to fix a motor, or a chip to replace a motherboard. Or a single ant to build a city…Its like a person trying to solve the problems of the world when the problems at home are great….like standing in a field and trying to lift yourself off the ground perhaps…

The solution can be made if we begin to think alike and synchronise, allow the ideas of the many to benefit the many, not the ideas of the few control us all. I think it was Bill Hicks who said, if we can share out all the food and money join together and not fight and argue over land and law, perhaps we could find a way to live together and as a species explore this universe together forever…that’s an idea that one day will be a reality for a future society who finally worked this out…

Now all that sound simple I know : ) and I know that for many these ideas will seem, well, insane, because remember; to think about a problem you run into more and more problems and suddenly your back to square one, realising that thinking is now the problem. Because your very thinking is itself damaged, you see you can only think within the system because its all you know. Your mind must first decide to be free and allow for new ideas and systems and creative pathways to develop and when they do these ideas suddenly feel very real and you will change your life to bring you closer to making them a reality if not for you but for your grandchildren at least…thats a selfless act by the way, thinking of the future you may not be here to experience, pushing the species forward…

There are ways to look ahead and to learn to visualise and connect dreams and ideas and potential, develop creativity and experience new levels of consciousness, a simple place to start is to just get outside the system, a few days away from it in isolation, learn to enjoy silence and your own headspace and start to clean your window of perception…take off the baby harness of society and see who you are outside it, you don’t need a mountain or commune or an island in the middle of the ocean, just quiet and isolation and space away from the structure you are so unknowingly dependent on…..let me know how it goes ?

“But, hold on how will we know when we are there and what do we do when we are there…”

the more radical exit plans will be discussed in the next instalment…to be continued

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The conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the deadliest in African history. Since it began in August 1998, it is estimated that the fighting and its aftermath (poverty, disease, and malnutrition) have claimed over five  million lives. In recent weeks, fighting has displaced at least 250,000 civilians, most of them women and children. These people are in a desperate situation, without sufficient food, water, medical supplies or shelter.

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Protect The Human

The Flu Vaccine Myth

Croft Woodruff

Statistically, you’d be more likely to avoid the flu if you took nothing at all. So why are we subjected to the flu vaccine media blitz each year?

In Vancouver, a BCTV reporter, commenting on the current flu epidemic that is overloading BC hospital emergency wards, claimed that of 32 people who were vaccinated, 30 caught the flu. Immediately, the news anchor intoned “It is not too late to get your flu shot. The vaccine is 70 percent effective.” [BCTV News Hour, January 11/00]

How does a 93.75 percent failure rate for the vaccine translate into a 70 percent effectiveness? Here is a vaccine with a success rate of 6.25 percent. This is an amazing under-achievement, since the average placebo response to distilled water injections is 30 percent-even to cure chronic low back pain.

How can any drug company manufacture a drug which has nearly five times less of a positive response than virtually nothing at all? How does such a questionable treatment get past federal health regulators?

According to Hugh Fudenberg, MD, the world’s leading immunogeneticist and 13th most quoted biologist of our times (nearly 850 papers in peer review journals), if an individual has had five flu shots between 1970 and 1980 (the years studied) her chances of getting Alzheimer’s Disease is 10 times higher than if she had one, two or no shots.

When asked why this was so, Fudenberg said it was due to the mercury and aluminum that is in every flu shot (and most childhood shots). The gradual mercury and aluminum buildup in the brain causes cognitive dysfunction. Is this why the number of those suffering from Alzheimer’s is expected to quadruple?

Creating herd immunity through mass vaccinations seems to be justified in the name of sacrificing a few for the greater good of the majority. It means people are expendable. Some would call this premeditated murder. This was what the Nuremburg Trials were about after World War II.

People cannot and must not be medicated or subjected to experimentation against their will. It also flies totally in the face of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Vaccines consist of mainly three categories of ingredients. The first are cultured bacteria and viruses. The second ingredient is the medium in which they are cultivated. This may be chick embryo, chicken or duck egg protein, pig or horse blood, dog kidney tissue, monkey kidney tissue, calf serum, rabbit brain tissue, aborted human fetal cells or cowpox pus. These foreign proteins are injected directly into the bloodstream. They are not subject to the stomach’s hydrochloric acid. The enzymes of digestion are absorbed into the blood and carried directly to the liver.

Like insect stings or snake bites, these foreign proteins and other toxic byproducts have the potential for a mild to severe or fatal reaction.

Vaccines also contain stabilizers, neutralizers, carrying agents and preservatives such as formaldehyde, mercury and aluminum. As noted previously, mercury and aluminum are neurological poisons-they accumulate in the brain. Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen and is used to embalm the dead. There is no safe level of formaldehyde injected into a living organism.

Life After Vaccines

Sweden banned the pertussis vaccine in 1979, considering it both dangerous and ineffective -infant mortality dropped afterward. Sweden now maintains one of the lowest incidence of infant mortality in the world. In 1975, Japan raised the age of the pertussis vaccine to two years of age considering it a danger in infancy. Since that time, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has largely disappeared.

Nations with voluntary vaccine programs such as Canada and the United Kingdom have lower infant mortality rates than the US. Before the 1960s and the move to mandatory mass childhood vaccinations, the US had the second best infant mortality rate in the world. Forty years of mass immunizations later, with a childhood series of more than 34 vaccine mixtures prior to entering 1st grade, the US has dropped to number 24. Why does the wealthiest nation in the world, with all its vaunted health technology and medical know-how, have such a dismal record for infant mortality?

Every year in the US, 12,000 to 14,000 reports of adverse reactions associated with vaccinations-including hospitalizations, permanent brain damage and death-are reported to the Food and Drug Administration. Any drug on the market with a fraction of this record would be recalled in short order. Recent Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) vaccine campaigns in the US have coincided with a 200 per cent rise in the incidence of autism. Hepatitis B vaccine alone has been responsible for 25,000 reports of adverse reactions including optic neuritis, brain damage, paralytic polio and sudden death.

There is not an insurance underwriter who will offer liability coverage for drug companies in the event any of their vaccines cause death or disability to the recipient. One would think this should give cause to reflect on the value of official assurances of vaccine safety. Indeed, the US government assumed liability for vaccine damage because the manufacturers could not get insurance. Since 1987, over a billion US dollars have been paid out to compensate only 10 percent of the claimants.

The current effort to make vaccines compulsory world wide will be a license to print money for the vaccine producers and an iatrogenic health disaster of the first magnitude.

Health professionals and others in work situations requiring compulsory vaccines are faced with hard choices. If there is a family history of allergy or anaphylactic reaction, they may be able to apply for exemption on medical grounds. Otherwise, you take your chances with vaccine roulette.

Croft Woodruff is president (since 1991) of the EDTA Chelation Association of British Columbia.

by Croft Woodruff, from the April 2000 issue of Alive magazine.

By Stuart Birchall

The lies continue and we just consume and pretend it doesn’t happen…

Of the 80,000 chemical compounds in use today 85% have never been tested for their effects on humans.

Today’s blog is no joke, and i would advise people to look into this for themselves…..If you are the sort of person who goes through life and just thinks that catastrophes and medical statistics are just something that results from blunder and a natural course of human events…maybe this article can wake you up? This stuff affects you and if your a man its gonna hit you where it hurts the most….

I will begin with the facts :

1. Testicular cancer has DOUBLED in just 20yrs.

2. Sperm count has HALVED in 50yrs.

3. Infertility and abnormality in male reproductive systems has RADICALLY INCREASED in western culture.

Ok, so WHY? Well pioneering research has been going on in Canada and it has begun to reveal some terrifying discoveries, many in the medical world believe too terrifying to go public. I have covered the highlights below and it makes for scary reading it was featured in a Canadian documentary that has since been pulled off their website (link below).

The modern western world is seeing a MASSIVE decrease in males being born, and even more cases in young adults of poor sperm count, infertility and cancer ; scientist are now finding links to a number of synthetic chemicals, some of which can effect male reproductive systems as early as in the womb. These chemicals are fundamental to everyday life and you are never further than arms reach from something that contains them.

Just 60 years ago synthetic chemicals did not exist !! we now have over 80,000 in everyday use…and almost none of these have ever been tested for their effects on humans…These chemicals are used in everything from plastic to shampoo, from baby bottles to beer cans….they can be found in almost every modern consumer product…The scariest fact is (if your a man) that they seem to have an almost exclusive effect on boys reproductive systems.

For example the average University age male has half the sperm count of their father and more worryingly so, this half is almost always 85% abnormal reducing the actually sperm potential of the male to alarmingly low levels.

These changes have been sudden and dramatic - just 12yrs ago 7 out of 10 sperm donors were meeting the required NORMAL threshold, today this number is just 3 out of 10. And if that is not shocking enough for you..the medical boards have LOWERED the required NORMAL threshold from 60million per milliliter..to 40million…to 20million and now propose 10million per milliliter…??? So that means that not only are the numbers dramatically decreasing but at the same time the NORMAL requirements are as well, i guess if they suddenly found a trend of too many abnormal males there would be a PUBLIC OUTCRY for research into the findings…..

100 of thousands of young couples are finding it increasingly more difficult to conceive, and with record number of miscarriages and still born still increasing every year, specialists agree that the sperm anomaly’s are linked to environmental factors but remain vague…

So for more answers and research a good place to look is wildlife biology. Since the 1980’s research on Alligators in polluted lakes has brought up very alarming results. The Male alligators display sexual organs a third of the natural size and the reproduction rate of Alligators exposed to these chemicals is 90% below the average. There is now overwhelming evidence to suggest that pesticides can alter the development of the sexual organs in male animals by lowering the testosterone levels.

In the 1990’s as these findings were being released some scientists began to turn the question onto the human male child. There is no reason why the same effects would not be found consistently in humans or any other species exposed to chemicals.

To explain the effects : The system effected is the Endocrine system - the glands in the male body. Synthetic chemicals can damage, disrupt and block the function and development of testosterone at the development stage, and the effects are permanent. They radically effect the male reproductive process, this could be the greatest unintentional consequence of the 20th century and if the statistics continue it will be more threatening to our way of life and more immediate than global warming concerns…..now maybe your starting to see why its not public information and why the average NORMAL levels maybe decreased so as not to cause alarm…

(a bit of history) the chemical industry…

The chemical industry is only 100yrs old, it went into overdrive just after the second world war with massive increase in demand for produce as the consumer boom began…prescription drugs / synthetic rubber/food additives / pesticides / nylon etc etc. By the 1950’s the chemical industry was already producing 1000’s of new compounds…one of these products changed the way humans in the western world lived completely…PLASTIC.

…so in the 1960’s people suspected nothing and in light of the new way of life didn’t care to, people didn’t worry about chemicals like DDT and PCB’s . But they soon began to destroy the environment and kill wildlife causing wide spread concern.

But wildlife and adults are less at risk, children and babies are the most vulnerable as they develop. However the highest risk areas and the most worrying is the fate of the unborn child in the womb, the effects on the fetus are permanent and destructive! As early as 6 weeks after conception. Dr’s once believed that the baby was safe in the womb, protected by the placental barrier. But this was not the case. The womb provides almost no protection for the child from toxins and the unborn baby is at risk of contamination from everything the mother is exposed to. But at 1000 times more risk due to the sensitivity of their developing body.

Becoming a boy (a bit of science) : several weeks after conception the embryo is neither male or female. After 7 weeks the male reproductive track’d develops, so any chemical exposure around this time of development is obviously going to be destructive, and may begin to explain the 200% increase in male genital birth defects.

Immediately after birth the child is again at high risk, subject to further chemical bombardment from their mothers own breast milk…Mothers milk has been proven to carry chemicals from the compounds (these chemicals have little effect on the mother), but then not only can be found in the child, but they stay there permanently!

note : (The chemical industry’s do not run tests on developing animals, just fully grow rats and mice and therefore the limit test results are inconclusive and in many cases irrelevant).

Industry and government are both dismissive of the birth ratio findings and no global body exists with the ability to bring the research to light. This is a global issue, with over 20 heavily industrialized nations recording male birth rate decline. The numbers since 1970 as a total would number over 3 million fewer baby boys. One localized case in America, where almost no boys were being born at all in a heavily intoxicated industrial town, (female birth continued as normal), some mothers reported to have up to 8 miscarriages. Scientist said it could be the first signs of human extinction, there is no other way to describe the findings.

These chemicals exist in everything, in every home, clothing, furniture, mattresses, toys, water supply and the air. This pollution is now part of our background chemical make-up and is inside our bodies and being passed between us, but it is the baby boys that are at risk.

Every single product you see uses these chemicals in some way.  All the most damaging compounds are found in petrochemicals - Thalites are found in everything from cosmetics to food packaging to toys, they make your hair softer, skin clearer, perfume last longer, hands beautiful, they make toys softer, and safer?!….but we are indoctrinated to see these as good clean positive chemicals, they are making us cleaner and more beautiful??….but they are poisoning us, carrying compounds into our skin. These thalites were found to be in almost every human being in America!

It is so common now that baby boys are now classified with Thalites syndrome, this is usually a marked decrease in masculinity, penis size and function and abnormal growth and birth defects.

Imagine: that an anti-natal ward is full of PVC vinyl, this flexible material contains DEHP - it is classified as a reproductive toxin by several agency’s worldwide, but still remains in our hospitals. It has a most dramatic effect during the development of the male reproductive system. It is used to make, many types of medical equipment from IV tubing to blood bags and is proven to leech (absorb into the bloodstream). The average person will absorb 30 micrograms of DEHP a day and this is considered safe. A child in an anti-natal ward is exposed to over 200 times that amount in a single exposure daily.

Some US hospitals have already begun changing to safe non-toxic plastics,despite the chemical lobby professing it safety.

But if all this doesn’t already sound horrible and frightening enough there is still worse…The most notorious chemical, one that is causing wide spread concern and debate is Bisphenal A, over 7 billion pounds of this compound are produced each year and used to create poly carbonate, a hard rigid plastic used in anything from DVD’s to baby bottles.

Its has a dark past and has been around although not commercially used since 1891, when it was developed in Russia, originally it was being developed as a possible hormone replacement as it was seen to act like estrogen (female hormone) in lab rats…something that would come back to haunt us! This research was abandoned as it was found to be more useful for creating clear shatterproof plastics and epoxy resins used in food and beer cans.

This chemical can cause massive irreparable damage during a child development, effecting the brain, pancreatic development and reproductive system.

100’s of independent studies contradict the official explanations by the major chemical companies. Every single study that was found to demonstrate the safety of these compounds were surprisingly! commissioned by the chemical lobby. The same commissioned researchers found that  over 90% of tests on animals were demonstrating damaging results, but 0% in humans…..convenient. But considering we share the closest DNA match to rats…. heres a few facts on Bisphenal A tests :

• Experiments with rats demonstrate that low level exposure to bisphenol A during fetal growth causes breast cancer in adults
• In utero exposure to BPA caused long term effects on mammory tissue developed in rats, increasing risk of cancer, and increased sensitivity to chemical know to cause breast cancer.
• prenatal exposure to extremely low levels of bisphenol A causes precancerous prostate lesions in rats.
• Experiments with mice revealed that cronic adult exposure to bisphenol A cause insulin resistance.
• Bisphenol A at extremely low levels cause changes in brain structure and behavior in rats.
• exposure to 1/5th the considered safe level of bisphenol A is sufficient to alter maternal behavior of rats.
  

It reminds me of the 7 heads of big tobacco who swore in US courts in 1994 that cigarettes were not linked to cancer after their commissioned researchers found not evidence. This is no different, the chemical lobby is amongst the most powerful groups of people in the world, they have the money and power to prolong the investigation into these compounds for a very long time, time enough to make billions more profits. They are so powerful that since 1976 the U.S government has only banned 5 chemicals, despite public concern, and independent research to demonstrate the dangers of many many more.

The chemical industry is currently paralyzing the independent agency’s with bombardment of misinformation available to the public. The consensus is that misinformation is better than nothing and the majority do not care enough to research for themselves, in the tradition of the consumer culture!!

so where do we go from here?? - public pressure in the US meant that Wallmart began to withdraw all products containing bisphenal A from their shelves, and then Canada government began withdrawing all baby bottles from the shelves and began further research into this problem…small steps but positive signs.

This problem is huge and we have to send the pressure back to hope of getting a result, stop consuming blindly and learn more about the world we are living in and the effects our lifestyle has. Once people boycott the products containing these compounds they will have to begin changing.

Remember that of the 80,000 chemical compounds in use today 85% have never been tested for their effects on humans, if we dont do something we will continue to see widespread growth diss-function and a continued decrease in male reproductive capabilities and eventually in male all together….

….this is just the first sign and the research is young, there will be further revelations…..so maybe think again before you put your pen back in your mouth……

i think that’s quite enough for one day……

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/disappearingmale/

http://www.ourstolenfuture.org

By Bourgeoisie in this instance i mean those who display undeserved wealth, lifestyles, tastes, and opinions born from lazy modern culture and reliance on technology in these exponential times….

…..we are all part of a system that grows exponentially to accommodate our needs and desires(supply and demand)…..indirectly and directly we are responsible for action and reaction all over the planet…..shaping a ‘techno world’ the majority will never really understand. Yet, rely on to survive….just a digital conveyor belt of consumerism the online shopping experience on a life support machine keeping you alive so long as you can keep up and spend money.

….Ok, so heres a few ‘techno times’ facts to illustrate how fast this exponential culture actually moves……

1. China will soon become the number 1 English speaking country in the world….

2. The 25% of India population with the highest IQ is greater than the entire population of the United States…

3. The top ten jobs that will be in demand and highest paid in 2010 would not have existed in 2004…

4. Based on the above we are currently training people who will be in jobs that don’t exist yet, using technology that we haven’t invented to solve problems we don’t know about….

5. 1 in 8 couples who married in the United States in 2007…met online.

6. Myspace has 200 million register users…if it were a country it would be the 5th largest population on earth.

7.The first text message was sent in Dec 1992….today the number of text messages sent and received each day is higher than the population of the planet…

8. One weeks worth of information in the New York Times is more information than a person living in the 18th century would have seen in their entire life.

9.The number of internet devises online in 1984 was 1000…..in 1992 was 1,000,000….and in 2008 is….1,000,000,000

10.There are now 540,000 words in the English language…that’s 5 times more than when Shakespeare was alive…

11. The number of years it took to these technology’s to reach a commercial audience of 50 million are as follows:

Radio - 38 years

T.V - 13 years

Internet - 4 years

Ipod - 3 years

facebook - 2 years

12. It is established that around 4 EXABYTES of Unique information will be generated this year…..that’s more than the previous 5,000 years put together…

13. By 2013 a supercomputer will exceed the computational capabilities of the human brain….

14……by 2049, a computer worth £1000 will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human race……

Now i dont know about you but keeping up with that is not only impossible but undesirable, a life dependent on a machine, a  freight train racing past reality……..are we better or worse as humans growing up in these times…is information replacing intelligence and instinct…..do we know more about nothing and less about ourselves…?  We follow the light of technology as it shapes our environment like a Pavlovian experiment……we are stimulated and before we know it become dependent…..

when you stop and look at the consequences of your actions or perhaps your pacification, you see that by being slaves reliant to technology you drive it ever faster to become your master.  The west has empowered its eastern cousins to thrive working hard their culture is faster, stronger, richer and more intelligent…whilst the western masses exist in the Utopia behind the glass bars of our prison and grow fatter, lazier, and less intelligent……dependent and oblivious just like Aldous Huxley predicted…. Preoccupied with the next best thing and the throw away culture…

….the mass complacency reminds me of the Eloi in H G Wells time machine…or perhaps more recently the ‘humans’ in the charming film Walle….

……anyway, i guess there something on T.V more engaging anyway so in spirit of entertainment and so i don’t ‘once again’ leave it all doom and gloom….heres the ‘TOP 101 PEOPLE’ who have changed the world…..none of which use facebook to my knowledge…..and no you wont find ’star wars kid’, ‘two girl one cup’ or Chuck Norris in there!…..see you next time : )

1.Jesus Christ
2.Thomas Jefferson
3.President Mikhail Gorbachev
4.Martin Luther King
5.President Nelson Mandela
6.Lord Buddha
7.Winston Churchill
8.William Shakespeare
9.Woodrow Wilson
10.Abraham Lincoln
11.Sri Krishna
12.Joan of Arc
13.Mother Teresa
14.Muhammed
15.William Wilberforce
16.George Washington
17.Isambard Kingdom Brunel
18.Bill Gates
19.Emily Dickinson
20.Audrey Hepburn
21.Rosa Parks
22.Lord Nelson
23.Elton John
24.John Lennon
25.Princess Diana
26.Oscar Wilde
27.William Blake
28.Gabriel Mistral
29.Hilary Clinton
30.Boris Yeltsin
31.Margaret Thatcher
32.Charles de Gaulle
33.J.K.Rowling
34.Jane Austen
35.George Orwell
36.J.R.R.Tolkien
37.C.S.Lewis
38.Charles Darwin
39.Sir Isaac Newton
40.Boudica
41.King Alfred
42.King Arthur
43.Queen Elizabeth II
44.Queen Victoria
45.Paramahansa Yogananda
46.Swami Vivekananda
47.Sri Aurobindo
48.St Terese Lisieux
49.Ramses The Great
50.Sappho
51.Confucius
52.Aristotle
53.Socrates
54.Alexander the Great
55.Marcus Aurelius
56.Charlemagne
57.Saladin
58.Babur
59.Akbar
60.Sir Walter Raleigh
61.Galileo Galilei
62.Voltaire
63.Samuel Johnson
64.Catherine the Great
65.Mozart
66.Schubert
67.Napoleon Bonaparte
68.Beethoven
69.Alexandre Dumas
70.Benjamin Disraeli
71.Florence Nightingale
72.Leonardo da Vinci
73.Louis Pasteur
74.Leo Tolstoy
75.Mahatama Gandhi
76.Albert Einstein
77.Ataturk
78.Pablo Picasso
79.Franklin D. Roosevelt
80.John Paul II
81.Mohammed Ali
82.Aung San Suu Kyi
83.John F. Kennedy
84.Lyndon Johnson
85.Indira Gandhi
86.Eva Peron
87.Anne Frank
88.Benazir Bhutto
89.Desmond Tutu
90.Kofi Annan
91.Dalai Lama
92.Dag Hammarskjöld
93.Albert Schweitzer
94.Elie Wiesel
95.Richard Branson
96.Roger Bannister
97.Sir Edmund Hilary
98.Emile Zatopek
99.Pele
100.Ernest Hemingway
101. Guy Fawkes
…..the irony of today blog is that its one of an estimated 50,000,000 blogs worldwide….. : )

Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of the everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration - whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone’s death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday - I thought we could mark this November the fifth, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.
There are, of course, those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now orders are being shouted into telephones and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there?
Cruelty and injustice…intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance, coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame? Well certainly there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told…if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn’t be? War. Terror. Disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you and in your panic, you turned to the now High Chancellor Adam Sutler. He promised you order. He promised you peace. And all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.
Last night, I sought to end that silence. Last night, I destroyed the Old Bailey to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago, a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice and freedom are more than words - they are perspectives. So if you’ve seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek…then I ask you to stand beside me, one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament. And together, we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever, be forgot!