In a state of perfect rest, when one feels safe and secure, everything is flexible and relaxed, like the little children initially go through life flexible, elastic and springy, unaware of any fear or evil. But soon that’s over when others start to set demands, with which the youngster needs to comply, and it learns to be on it’s guard, afraid to not be what others expect from it. It learns to control itself, and muscles contract as if it could go on the run any moment. In that structure of disrupted muscles, too loose or too tight, the youngster grows and deforms. X- and O-legs, flat feet, forced facial expressions, big noses, small noses, big heads, small heads, setting teeths, tooth braces, spastic, rigid movements or gangly, because it doesn’t know how to behave, growth disorders and tics. Like a tree can only evolve to be what is was meant to be, when it doesn’t get hampered by trees that stand too close or like a willow, that needs to be cut back to be useable, grows into a deformed cultural product. But fortunately out of the seeds won’t grow cut-backed willows.

 

With tense, cramped and rigid living people you find a constant high muscle tension, even in their sleep. And when it gets too much, they get aches in their back, neck or shoulders. The doctor tells him, he must relax more or sends him to a physiotherapist, who will then massage the muscles and loosen them, and thus doesn’t take away the cause. Or he makes an x-ray which shows that the spinal disc is narrowed down, and so the perpetrator is discovered and must be widened, but to the muscle tension nothing happens of course.

 

From the way people move, adapt themselves to the preprogrammed pattern of the style dance, you can see how rigid they are in their thinking.

Cramp is the feature of neurosis. Cramp is tensely holding, unable to release and forgive (20)

Valium and alcohol reduces tension, because they make you think indifferently and it reduces fear, and thereby the muscle tension reduces. It’s an artificial relaxation, that works until the drugs wear off.

People still live like the slogan “Arbeit macht frei”(wasn’t that written on the gate of Auschwitz?) which means, “Labor makes free.” But labor only gives the freedom to be able to play the game along, to consume what first needs to be produced.
But the only thing that truly makes free is to radically give up your prejudices, false needs, learnt and acquired opinions and dependency on people and things, and the realization that you’re responsible for your own dirty hands. That will make you internally free in an externally unfree existence. Then you’ll see through the game, you’ve always been playing with yourself and you let others play with you. But you realize, that you’ll have to go on with that for the time being, because others demand it from you. But it doesn’t affect you anymore. You’ll live as a loner in this bizarre world, full of people driven by their motives, which they don’t know. Only when you stay, you can carefully show people, what they do to themselves in ignorance. Simple as a dove, sly as a snake.

When someone has at last with much pain and struggle adorned himself in many coloured clothing to play the role, which has been assigned to him by various factors, but which he eventually modified himself to fit, he will soon notice, that there’s a big gap between theory and practice. And continuously he finds things that are not quite right; conflicts with other players, that he gets criticized or appreciated and he refines his role to better fit and quells his doubts. Until he eventually breaks, and can’t continue the game anymore; but fortunately there are others, who have learned the role of rendering aid and can tell you how to play the game smarter. And they explain, how it’s all because of your past and because in your upbringing you didn’t receive enough love. And then they teach you to accept the game as it is.

Perhaps it’s sufficient no longer playing the game well. Actually the question is: has this game to be played? (21)

You can step from one role into another, but then it’s still a game. And you can’t interrupt the game, for it would make you a spoil-sport and not playing anymore is the worst there is, because then you’re labeled mad and you get expelled. But what’s really life threatening is to step out of your role and show others they’re just playing a role.

There was a time where you’d get the cup of poison for that, or you just got crucified. But imagine you falling out of your role, taken off all the cultural baggage, with which you’ve been playing the game till then. Than you could for example explain it as following:

You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen—the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives—I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, "Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves." Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me. And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried, "He is a madman." I looked up to behold him; for the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was ignited with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman. And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. (22)

If two such madmen would meet, they wouldn’t need any words, as with little children who don’t need any words to understand each other. Once there was a time where madmen were called wise, but nowadays wise men are being called madmen or fools. Humanity is so adapted to an opaque society, that it has also become opaque to itself. Only chaotic, contrary people fit into a chaotic contrary world. When he acts ‘normal’ and adapted, he’ll constantly hit his head. So it is understandable, that when everybody is scared sometimes, worries and get’s sick now and then, that everybody thinks it’s normal and so thinks it’s just part of life and the way people live their lives. Then you can’t help it’s all happening to you, and you just have to live with it. You can justify your behavior, rationalize it’s called nowadays, where you always can find an explanation outside yourself and can blame others or the environment. It’s the safest way to stay unnoticed, but you’ll have to deceive yourself constantly.

The tedium of self-deceit is that you always bear it with you (23)  

About Little Johannes (24)

The innocent Johannes get’s noticed by his conscience, Windekind, on all bizarre contradictions in the world of adults, until he yields for knowledge, Wistik, who promises him happiness, and then Windekind disappears. And next he meets Pluizer, scholarship, who will make it clear to him, that life simply is a valley of tears and

And Pluizer introduces him to Dr. Cijfer, the researcher,

The doctor had not yet found what Johannes was seeking; but was very near it, he said. He would take Johannes as far as he himself had gone, and then together they would surely find it.
Johannes listened and learned, diligently and patiently, day after day and month after month. He felt little hope, yet he comprehended that he must go on, now, as far as possible. He thought it strange that, seeking the light, the farther he went the darker it grew. Of all he learned, the beginning was the best; but the deeper he penetrated the duller and darker it became. He began with plants and animals ― with everything about him ― and if he looked a long while at them, they turned to figures. Everything resolved itself into figures ― pages full of them. Doctor Cijfer thought that fine, and he said the figures brought light to him ― but it was darkness to Johannes. …… And when he came to the study of men and animals ― their wonderful construction ― matters went still worse. In all that looked beautiful to Johannes, or ingenious, Pluizer pointed out the incompleteness and defects. He showed him the great army of ills and sorrows that can assail mankind and animals, with preference for the most loathsome and most hideous…… “That designer, Johannes, was very cunning, but in everything he made he forgot something, and man has a busy time trying as far as possible to patch up those defects….. Now they do everything for themselves, and have absolutely no further concern with the designer and his scheme. Whatever he has not given them they saucily and selfish take; and when it is obviously his will that they should die, they sometimes, by various devices, evade the end.”…“But it is their own fault!” cried Johannes. “Why do they wilfully withdraw from nature?” (24)

Scientists don’t know reality, but merely have theories about reality. The marvelous relationship, in which everything is interconnected with everything, they have scattered, and then put together the splinters according to their own constructions, where you find the most bizarre links, which they then prove in calculations, statistics and charts. It’s not all right yet, they say, it’s an approach, but once we will get there. Once we’ll find a theory in which we explain everything, the “Theory of Everything.”

“and Pluizer explained to him what love really was. Then he was ashamed, and Doctor Cijfer said that he could not yet reduce it to figures, but that very soon he would be able to.” (24)

A foreseeing vision, because in figures and charts Masters and Johnson (The Human Sexual Response) have now unraveled that too. After the death of his father, Johannes rises up against Pluizer, the theorist who has an explanation for almost everything:

“Pluizer was strong, he knew. He never yet had opposed him; but he struggled on with a fixed purpose…. When he looked up Pluizer had vanished. Death sat, alone, by the bed and nodded to him.
“You have done well, Johannes,” said he.
“Will he come back?” whispered Johannes. Death shook his head.
“Never. He who once dares him will see him no more.” (24) 

Once you’ve put behind all theories, rebutted them as fictional, you’ll never be bothered by them again.

 

About the relations between culture and diseases

The real difference between humans and animals is that humans can deviate from their nature. Humans can deny their nature, degrade and create an artificial existence in time and space. That’s what they call culture and human beings that grow up in it are no longer products of nature, but cultural products. Isn’t it then obvious to ascribe, what people call cultural diseases, to an alienated existence in an artificial environment?  And then, wouldn’t it be possible, that because all people are intoxicated by cultural influences, all diseases are cultural products? Each nation has its own traditions, habits, raising methods, rules and laws. National character they call it. Thus every nation has it’s own specific disease pattern, one has more stomach cancer, the other has more venereal diseases. Scientists have all kinds of explanations for that; or it’s because of food, or climate, or air pollution, but they are still working to prove it, first there has to be done more research and experiments etc. Immigrants, who assimilate and take over the habits of their new culture, yes also eating habits, also take over its diseases. Closed groups chained in their own heritage, like Jews and Mormons, have their own disease pattern. It is the same in subcultures of junks, gays, officials, orthodoxies and children too have their own specific symptoms of their own way of living.

Discriminated groups, who let their self-image be determined by the opinions of the mass, have consequentially their own diseases.

 

Every nation, that gets infiltrated by the viruses of the western culture, prestige, ambition, progress and production, will suffer from that contamination. It’s bizarre, that the West first colonizes to pillage natural resources, then sends missionaries and propagandists to westernize the nations and finally sends doctors to ease the misery, that by then has been inflicted, and everybody thinks this shortsightedness is beautiful and magnanimous. Yes but, people will object, what about the primitive nations having their fear for demons, their feuds, their absurd traditions, their human sacrifices, leprosy and bilharzias and malaria, their masters and slaves? And what about the West with their fear of bacteria and viruses, their wars, their absurd traditions, their traffic victims, heart diseases, cancer and disabled, their bosses and employees. Is that really anything different? Only from the outside it looks different, keeping up appearances masks so much. The westerner kills so civilized from a distance and gets his hands dirty with white gloves on.

 

About pot plants, domesticated animals and civilized people

People say a plant lives, as if the plant does it by itself. That the plant gets directed by its genetic material, as if the genes do it their selves. The only thing you see is the plant getting bigger, every plant in its own way and its own unchangeable nature. A plant doesn’t put obstacles its own way. There must be something, a regulating, shape-determining force you might call it, that makes sure that the plant grows to be what’s specific to exactly that plant; that a crawling plant keeps crawling, and cryptogames don’t get flowers. When you take the plant out of its natural habitat and puts it in a pot, you disrupt the balance. You will have to fertilize, cut and pot it to keep it alive. Continuously you’ll have to be busy to maintain the artificial balance. It might grow extra big, but its natural resistance weakens. People call that cultivation and cultivated plants are being called more likely to become sick and sooner or later it will get sick. Under the microscope the scientist finds, like he called it, bacteria, viruses or molds. That’s the cause of the disease he then says triumphantly, forgetting what he has done to the plant, and in his laboratory he discovers substances that are deadly for the “causative agent”. But plants should not growing up in pots.

 

The same thing happens to animals. Animals in free nature (but where is nature still free?) live absolutely according to their own nature, their instinct. When they get hungry they search for food, when they are tired they sleep. They have no interests, possessions, yesterday or tomorrow or a better nest than the neighbor. And then there comes man, who tames and trains them. He determines how they are supposed to behave and adapts them to his own rules and laws. The animal must serve his interests at the expense of its instinct, because its instinct is not in agreement with the interests and prejudices of its master. When they get sick the scientist again finds pathogens. That way people keep animals degenerated and keep them alive in that state. Birds don’t belong in cages, cows not in a pasture and dogs not on a leash. And this way, and no other, it also is with human beings. This way people keep each other degenerated and keep each other alive in that state.

"It is like the dismay of the skilled gardener, capable in lopping, shaving and all demand of the profession, if at once a stranger pulls out of his hands pruning-knife and lopping-shears and says: let grow that mess, freely, like it wants to do. For I assure you, you cannot make clear to any gardener in the world, a wilderness is more beautiful than a maintained garden. And so not to many others, even if they are no gardeners" (25)

Like people mow their lawn, shave their beards, like they cut their shrubs, cut their hair, like they decorate their gardens with wooden sleepers, tiled paths and garden lanterns, they decorate themselves with their jewelry. Because what’s beautiful, is what “people” find beautiful en that way everybody keeps each other busy.

 

About the lesson of the medicine man

 “How can you believe in that”, a western doctor asked to an African rainmaker. “Don’t you see, there won’t come any rain? If it does come, it probably also would have come without your efforts.” The black rainmaker answered: “Why do you believe in your own medicine? Don’t you see, people die from their diseases every day? And when they would recover, it also would have happened without your efforts.”

 

Nobody can prove if a patient heals from the medicine, because of the period of treatment, the fact that he stays in bed and rests, because of the changed reaction of the environment because the doctor has sanctioned the complaint, because of the fact his fear has been taken away, because the doctor had said it will pass over and reassured him, or because he gets extra attention and care. For the medical science, the patient itself is a side issue,  he is just a coincidental carrier of its symptoms and patients have learned to behave that way. In this manner the patient comes to the doctor. Here I am with my body which shows malfunctions, here are my symptoms, can you do something with it? I know nothing of it, you have learned for it, you can tell me what it is and you have the pills to make it disappear. I find it hampering, can’t use it and want to get rid of it as soon as possible. Because I have so much to do, I’m indispensable, dare not to stay at home, think I should cope with it, or else they thing I’m a complainer, it’s so terribly busy at work, I can’t sit still, it’s so inconvenient. That they reveal the meaning of their sickness, both the patient and the doctor are unaware of. Overheated in this cultural machine, their body denotes it can’t go on like this any longer.

 

It’s like someone, who comes to the doctor with a swelling on his forehead. And the doctor looks shocked, because he doesn’t like swellings, there could be more to it than that. The patient notices the doctor’s reaction and gets a bit anxious about it too. And the doctor looks at it and feels the swelling and says, that he doesn’t know but will first make a  x-ray of it and check the blood. The doctor doesn’t trust it either, he tells at home, and there are lot of speculations and given advises. But the x-ray and the blood doesn’t show abnormalities. But that is what you get when the patient doesn’t tell he fell with his head against the table. Medicine consists of setting a diagnosis and the treatment of a thus named disease. The only useful question : why does this patient get exactly this complaint at exactly this moment, doesn’t get asked.

 

Diabetes, rheumatism, cancer multiple scleroses, these are only names, diagnosis, verdicts, labels. Science tries to explain it all with complex theories, but doesn’t look at the meaning of the symptoms. And if you don’t look for the meaning you’ll find a cause. But people only show with their symptoms that, in the struggle to keep their heads above the water in this society, they are wounded and beaten. It’s bizarre what people let medical science do to them. If medical science didn’t so carefully avoid the question “why”, it could have turned much sooner from this ruinous road. Now they dare not to return, it can’t be true that they have collectively mistaken, so it’s not true. So the research gets ever more expanded, ever more massive, more doctors, more medicines, more devices, ever more absurd. The people is waiting in vain.

 

" Science has got their hands on the hollow cocoon, the butterfly has flown" (26)

 

With organs and tissues, with rabbits and people in all kinds of tests, they do their examinations. Their blueprint is Vesalius’ corpse-anatomy, refined, corrected and improved. Medical science has made a pact with death, while it pretends to protect life. First organs, then tissues, cells and now they’re already in the cell structure looking for the “how” and “what”. Soon they will look on molecular level and further and further and eventually it will appear to be a dead end. And with their own complicated theories it does all seem complicated. In the meanwhile people get sicker, but trust that science will once know it all.

“According to modern science, humans are a substantial product of nature. It’s “spirit” is a production of it’s nerves. Humans are no spirits. So at the point where someone would pass away, he doesn’t leave it’s “shell”, but actually nothing happens materialistically. He isn’t changed at the moment of death apparently. Weigh him, he’s still the same weight. After death he’s a corpse, by dying he hasn’t changed, so before death he also is a corpse. Thus the on earth living human is nothing but a corpse.”(27)

Because the father usually works outside the house, the mother is the raiser of the children for the most part. She is the central regulating dominant character, who determines the order and rules at home, and makes sure they are lived up to. She didn’t make up the rules on her own, but it’s a continuation of the harness in which she grew up in. The choice of the partner is partly determined by the similarity of both family rules. The house is her domain where she reigns. She is the caretaker, the one who is there for everyone, the home base for children and husband, who fight their fight in the evil outside world. While the men reign the outside world, she reigns the family. In a patriarchal society a matriarchy rules over the families. But that reality you only see in caricatures, because despite the opposite is true, most men are in the illusion that they are the heads of the family. Commonly women say when they talk about their husbands “it’s like I have another child.” Seldom reversed. Man-woman relationships are often disguised mother-child relations, with all it’s consequences. It are the home habits in which the child grows up. Continuously they have to do things, they don’t understand, that adults can do, and they can’t or vice versa. A very confusing world. They learn they have to consider other people’s habits, that there are things you can’t talk about, what is normal and how you’re suppose to behave, what simply is the way it is, en that they have to adapt to it.

 

And so they learn to think the most insane things are normal, because their parents certainly think the same, and they get ever more insecure and  more dependent on the judgments of others. The process of raising children makes children to be unfair, and is sickening, because children have to be adapted to an unfair and sick outside world and sadly the only way to do that is also make them unfair and sick. Children are less often sick nowadays, because the harness is less constricting, and because they can flee more easily from the tyranny of the well-intentioned parents by playing outside the house or retreating to their own domain. With bad weather conditions they are forced to stay inside where everyone is on top of each other. That children will get sick then people think is self evident because of the weather, draught and cold etc. There are homes which get polished and homes where is being lived in, but also there are boundaries. Those neat, clean houses, where you can eat from the floor, where the windows are cleaned every week, are uninhabitable for children. The tidier the house, the more chaotic the heads of the inhabitants, because chaos from the inside is being compensated with order on the outside. The more ordered the inside world, the less hold you need to have on the outside.

 

Ear inflammations, throat inflammations and eczemas reduce when children go to school, if school is more free than the constricting environment at home, or worsen if it’s the opposite. In this society there is no solution. The best you can achieve with raising, is keeping the damage to a minimum.

About the difference and similarities between physical and mental diseases

Descartes divided man into body and mind, an artificial division. Based on the body the somatic medicine evolved and based upon the mind psychiatry. Both don’t originate from the human being, so neither can say something meaningful about it. Both originate from a reduced human being and have build up their own theoretical constructs, organized the symptoms and labeled the diseases. But both diseases are in fact merely a different expression of a disrupted balance. With a physical disease the adaptation to the outside world stays intact. At all costs the patient wants to stay in the game and comply with the rules, comply with what people find normal. With the  mental disease adaptation to the outside world gets interrupted. The patient is incapable to comply with all the demands the outside world sets for him.

“Like the healthy, the normal people are incapable of forming an inside world, so are the sick, the not-normal ones, incapable of forming an outside world. Thus the healthy and the sick are in the same way an expression of an imbalanced, sick society!”(28)

People have let this society wrap them up in such a way, that they will need a tough and painful unwrapping process, an realization process it’s called, to discard the shackles, in which they have chained themselves, to obtain freedom. Growing it’s called, and they say you’ll need a lifetime to do it and you’re never be finished. The end result nobody knows, remarkably enough, but obviously it has to be desirable if it balances the effort. Real maturity, being full-grown would not be possible and thus in this world there are only immature people, who then show each other how immature they are, and on top of that say, they learn so much from that. Therapists have learned for it, out of books and trainings, where they learned various techniques and in that way became a growth specialist. But more mature than your therapist you can never grow. They can only ensure that you grow out of your old environment and then you’re really on your own, or you’re ripe for another subculture.

If you don’t want that, you must go on, on non-paved roads, unfasten from the group thinking. You’ll have to dare to see, that everybody is wandering, also the great, famous and honored ones of this society, against all established opinions. Everyone is free to choose that road, and if you don’t, you shouldn’t complain when you’re not happy.

People are conditioned, what makes them do things they actually don’t want, and things they would want to, but don’t do. Out of habit, to maintain a false harmony, and to not be alone. And they don’t see that anymore. They don’t know their own restraints and that’s why they fight for a seeming freedom, for their own concerns, always at the expense of others. They don’t realize they are the prisoners of their own prejudices. Prisoners of their own opinions, who fight for the freedom of expressing opinions, the freedom of speech. That’s something like prisoners, who fight for the right to decorate their cells in their own taste. Prisoners in religions and other beliefs, who claim the freedom to decorate their harness to their own understandings.

 

About boundaries

Earth divided, humanity divided, language divided, man divided, body divided, mind divided, eternity divided. And instead of fading out the boundaries, people are trying to bridge the boundaries, and that’s striving for unity while maintaining the boundaries, an impossible task. You never get unity when you add up the parts and connect them. The whole is different than the sum of parts, not more, but different. It takes as much power to preserve discord than to create an artificial unity from discord. While maintaining own possessions, own interests and own prejudices  defending so-called freedom is a bizarre pretention, because nowhere freedom gets defended, only interests, opinions, boundaries and possessions.

Like people enclose their territories, they enclose their gardens, counties set their boundaries, provinces having their own territory and lands their borders. An as much as there are fights about fences, division lines between lots, there are discords about other boundaries. The large is a reflection of the small and visa versa. Like there are rules and norms in families, depending on religion, political preference and class the people are in, they also apply those to society. Fatalistically people then say that you can’t turn it back, that it’s already gone too far, that there’s no way back. But as much as there has been a way forward, that made everything as it is today, there is a way back to what it originally was.

Now everybody is on the same boat, with many arguing captains at the stir, who all know better but still don’t know where to go. Scientists and politicians, the stokers of the fire, promise the people, that they will extinguish the fire, but just are not yet ready. There still has to be done a lot of assembling, deliberation and studying. And one tries to convince the other of his own rightness.

On the one hand…on the other hand. Pros and Cons

Poor and rich, right and left, clever and dumb, master and servant, clean and dirty, religious and pagan, man and woman. These are all cultural terms and signs of an disturbed original balance, a teared apart unity. In reality there is no “on the one hand/on the other hand”, but everything is as it is. Force and counterforce are necessary to maintain an imbalance. To maintain the existing order, as people call this social chaos, there must be a balance between the battling parties. That’s why the two-party-system is so logical, because then they can fumble together in the margin, and everything remains what it was, the poor ones stay poor and rich ones stay rich. Action always gives reaction. And this way the scale swings out of balance for centuries and centuries, and when the elasticity is gone, a crisis, a revolution or a war follows and the game starts again from the beginning.

 

And so everywhere you see people who are against nuclear energy, against atomic weapons, against environmental pollution, against exploitation, against hunger in the world, but that’s all as meaningless as being against cancer, or against leprosy. When a disturbed balance invokes symptoms it’s important to take away the cause of the disruption and it’s like mopping with an open water tap if you fight the symptoms. And still everywhere there are symptoms being fought and is searched for solutions for problems, while people first create them. Everywhere people give with one hand, and take with the other, and those two know what they are doing very well.

"When this man never had been on earth, the entire surface would be covered with a vegetation carpet, except for the areas with extreme temperatures. All deserts arose by actions of man, who had put himself against nature. The quickness with which deserts form, keeps increasing. Agriculture and stock-breeding, both to cover unnatural needs of man, break the ecosystem, as the natural balance is called these days, and smoothes the way for erosion and desertification”

The true man feels one with creation and doesn’t interfere with nature, and neither alienates himself from his own nature. He doesn’t interrupt, but lives on the fruits that nature provides in abundancy. Very unhappy the civilized man would feel in an unspoiled nature. Everywhere would be threats and dangers, diseases, wild animals; imagine he would get a toothache, and what would he do without clothes when he would meet someone else; continuously he would be on his guard for his own imagined fears, as with Robinson Crusoe. There wouldn’t be any time to enjoy left for him, who always worries about tomorrows day. And again he would start making fire, tame animals and hunt, to satisfy his learned cultural needs. And as always, when you begin, the end is lost.

Like a nature raped by agricultural machinery and stock-breeding keeps demanding more energy, manuring and pesticides, to keep under control a disturbed balance, so does a human nature that’s raped by alienation demand more and more effort, devices and medicines to maintain alienation. This society does perish by diligence, ambition and power, and everybody is helping with it.

While there is discontent, strife and discord everywhere, people think that world peace is being threatened. There is a cold war everywhere, people who don’t agree with themselves, families in which nobody says what he thinks, anything for a quiet life, pressure groups who fight each other, churches denouncing each other, nations that condemn each other. And sooner or later all the victims of those fights get to the doctor. Recent medicine can be compared to the war’s front surgery of old. Fixing people who can’t manage the battle for life and death anymore, so they can go back to the front. Controlling doctors who judge if the injuries are of that kind, that they indeed can’t take it anymore, or perhaps can perform adjusted work in the rearguard, because there’s got to be produced. Upbringing is comparable with drilling of soldiers, learning strategies to later be able to participate in the battle to keep your head above the water in this bizarre society. You’ll have to harden your children and make  them resilient to keep them standing in a world where relationships are based on power.

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. (Ecclesiastes 8:9) (33)

Power is not compatible with love. War not with peace. Power divides people and keeps them divided in superiors and inferiors, masters and servants, parents and children, men and women. Science promises people power over nature. But as it goes with people that are temped by the promise of power, the toll they pay is slavery and powerlessness. And man fights for freedom, while maintaining a culture that is based on restraint; they fight for freedom in a cage.

 

About The Fall of Man - I

"Of all mistakes and vices of his pupils, the educator must search the fault in himself. It lies undoubtedly in human’s nature to search the cause of all sorrow, yes even of his own mistakes, outside himself. One can perceive that yet in the first Fall."(34)

In the symbolic bible story Eve falls for the temptation and gives Adam the apple, who eats from it. It could as well be the other way around, but that’s what is written and eventually someone has to be the first to cross the line. And when they are called to account for their actions, Adam puts the blame on Eve, who subsequently puts it on the temptation. Both didn’t take responsibility for their actions, but blame it on the other or the circumstances. So everybody does know its own first lie from its childhood, the moment he left innocence.

Eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil means not trusting your conscience anymore, but arbitrarily deciding what is good or evil. When people make their own rules and laws, they put themselves outside creation and break the eternal laws of nature. And so now people live in a world in which parents decide what’s good and what isn’t good for ‘their’ child. Priests decide, what you must and must not believe and what is sinful and what is not. Doctors who decide what is healthy and what is harmful. Judges that judge if people are guilty or not. People decide what’s beauty and what is ugly, clean and dirty, hygienic and unhygienic. All artificial commands and prohibitions, in an ever expanding number and increasingly complex.

People always blame their unease on circumstances, or the others. If you ask a patient, who comes to the doctor with a complaint, what he thinks is the cause of the complaint, then the answer is: work, the boss, the weather, the food, the wife, the detergent, the children, the busyness. Never he does have anything to do with it himself, he always searches and finds the cause outside himself. He always stays out of it. But it’s his own work attitude, his reaction on the boss’s behavior, his annoyance about the weather, his anger about his complaining wife, his idea about the harmfulness of the detergent, his opinion about the upbringing of the children, and his reaction on the busyness, that brings about the clash. 

He wants to be appreciated, he wants to get higher up, he claims he must do all kinds of things, he expects anything from others, he demands from others what he demands of himself. And that has got to give conflicts with the opinions of others.

 

The only thing a man has a right to, is freedom. But that’s only possible when he doesn’t let others or his environment influence him; when there’s no power being wielded over him and he himself doesn’t wield power over others; when he lets others be, and others let him be. When he doesn’t have to do things for himself, but also not from others; when he isn’t dependent on others and others not on him. Because if all people are trapped in a self-created web of interdependence, the worries of a prisoner weaves it’s way through the entire web and everybody, the more crowded the environment the more, he suffers from it. It’s not fair to blame the troublemaker, because you let yourself get caught in the web. Guilt is just a refined instrument to wield power over each other, to influence each other. One is only guilty when he knowingly  and willingly harms the other just to harm him. It always results from of a feeling of powerlessness. He has learned to listen to authorities, people who have put themselves above him. When one doesn’t listen to himself, he feels guilty towards the other, because he doesn’t comply with their demands, expectations, norms, commands and laws. If he listens to others, he gets out of balance. Bowing down to the mass, society, always is at the expense of yourself. There are no guilty, just responsible people. The only victims are the children.

                                  

 

The Fall of Man - II

Like all myths and fairy-tales there is a hidden message in the story of man's fall. It is not anyhow an apple or anyhow a tree, but explicitly is mentioned it was the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And Eva says to the serpent: "We may eat from the fruit from the trees of the garden; But from the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die". It says so not at all God did forbid that, but only if man would eat from it he would die, in other words, he would expel himself from paradise. You can compare it with the fairy-tale of Snow-white. The dwarfs so enjoined upon her not to accept anything, for it could be dangerous, but she too yield to the temptation and the promise and had to pay dearly for that by falling asleep. Next fallen man needs a saviour, like a prince to Snow-white. And they awoke and lived happily ever after, but we are not as far as that.

In fact the Fall of man is a very simple story with a same simple message and moreover it is the root of guilt and projection. You could read it as follows:

 

•     God (or Nature Spinoza would say) has decreed, by His eternal and unchangeable Laws of Nature, what for man is good and what is bad, for is own welfare, so he can live freely, happily and unconcerned. So blessedness consists in living according the will of God or according Nature (like the statement of Spinoza again).To eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil merely means man starts decreeing arbitrary what is good and evil in his own conceit, to his own disaster.

•     The serpent seduces Eva to eat that apple and next she gives it to Adam.

•     And then both are called to account and at that moment happens what still happens everyday and everywhere: the one blames the other and the other blames the seduction and so they open the source of guilt. Both reject the responsibility for their own behaviour and opinionatedness and so they expel themselves out of their innocence and paradise and that they consider as the punishment for their trespass. But it wasn't a punishment, but only a warning to stop with that pride.

The cruelty of the myth of the Fall of Man is that it is represented as a irreversible process and that it isn't. Like Heraclite says: "the way up and the way down is the same" so the way out and the way in too. If the trespass of man is he decrees arbitrary what is good and evil, he can stop doing this too. Still one man decrees the other how to live. The doctor decrees what is wholesome and unwholesome for his patients, parents teach their kids what is good and evil in their opinion, clergy decrees what to believe and what not, scientists what is true and untrue, politicians what is good and bad for their citizens, trendsetters what is in and what is out, judicature what is justice and what is injustice, establishment what is normal and abnormal, psychiatrists who is mad and who is not, and so on and on.

That is the way men prefer their own laws to the perennial and unchangeable Law of God, or Nature and everybody can decide for himself to stop with this pride. It is the pride of man they are convinced they know better then God and Nature and they have to make nature better.

About 400 AC Pelagius, a stranger from Ireland came to Rome. He rejected the fatalistic irreversible doctrine of the lickspittle of the establishment Augustinus, about the fall of man and the original sin. People sin, he said, by imitating and repeating the contravention of Adam. But like all threats for the men of power Pelagius was denounced and Pelagianism eradicated.

In fact for the return to the Promised Land you only need the message of the Fall of Man. The rest of Bible is only the history of a wandering nation, culminating in the appearance of a messianic movement, become known as "Jesus", whose rise and fall are described metaphorical in the canonical Gospels.

 

About human being a deserter from nature

Arbitrarily human has put himself outside nature and outside of his own nature. What people call culture is a result of that broken contact. And because he can’t live according his nature, life has become his own worry and concern. Seen from his degenerated state, he is standing before a frightening world, in which he doesn’t feel secure and where he can encounter calamities randomly. Nature has become a threatening chaos, that needs to be restraint. Every human order is contrary with the eternal laws of nature. Man doesn’t let God’s water flow on God’s land anymore, but canalizes, impolders  and irrigates it. The way they rape their own nature with rules, laws and norms, not from their heart but sprung out of their heads, the earth gets raped by deforestation, mining, road construction as an artificial network of veins, agriculture and stock breeding. But everywhere nature is bursting out of that straitjacket, in humans as diseases, in society as wars, and in nature as natural disasters. Man behaves like a sorcerer’s pupil, who misunderstood the teachings of his master. And while the water rises to his lips,

Everywhere there are symptoms being fought against. There are those who know better and want reformation, who want to re-interpret the learning, another structure and system to canalize the unbridled water. Everywhere there’s being scooped with buckets, while the water tap is fully open. The discussions are merely about the type of bucket with which to scoop. Like all-seeing heads of Cerberus the scientists and other black magicians, who open the water tap ever more and draw from that their right to exist, watch that nobody touches the tap, because the progress, as it is called, may not be interfered. Everywhere people drown, tired of fighting, but they continue. Once they will succeed, once they will have found the solution to every problem, blind for what they inflict now. And with every invention, with every accomplishment the believers of the illusion cheer, that the big solution  has come a bit closer, while the opposite is true. Where’s no knowledge, neither is foolishness. 

 

About cities

 "That whole barbaric accumulation of buildings, that never ends, all great city abominations, the insane green-expelling building cancer, where traffic struggles through in hundred forms."(38)
 

This way every city is a nature-odd cancerous tumor, that grows by eating away its environment, disseminating into satellite cities, recklessly spreading at the expense of nature. And while there’s being built and broken, it sucks up the environment for it’s own growth, and it’s sick influence spreads to far distances and gets more and more unlivable. In which only affected people can live and canker and even the parks, are artificially constructed and maintained by godforsaken human hands. There are no good or less good, beautiful or ugly, livable or unlivable tumors.  

But for the citizens, used and adapted to the chaos in the city, who call the city life lively and pleasant, nature is boring, chaotic and unpleasant.

What people call cultural monuments, pyramids, temples, palaces, cathedrals and castles, are all accomplished by slavery with blood sweat and tears. A nation can only build when it’s unjust, when there are superiors and inferiors, masters and slaves. In other words, when they are civilized and have taken the path from which the end is lost. So instead of admiration, they are a warning for the offspring. 

For not regarding wisdom, they not only got this hurt, that they not knew the things which were good; but also left behind them to the world a memorial of their foolishness (41)

About the second coming of Christ and how he would be received

While he clearly said that he wasn’t from this world, with which he meaned to say, that he did not fit in this society. Laughter he would harvest with his statement, that it’s pointless to worry about tomorrows day, because what to be done with all your plans, your insurances, your programs, your agenda? How can you still fabricate or build something? What an absurd message for this society would be that “be not troubled about your life, for you shall eat and drink”, with all those life-insurances, healthy and well-considered food, doctors and hospitals, meat, you know why. What an unchristian statement, that “be not worried of what you shall wear, for the pagans run after all these things”. Because what to be done with your clothing-industry, your fashion, your three-piece suits, ties, priest robes and jewelry. “Don’t collect treasures on earth, where moth and rust will destroys them”, but what to do with all those possessions, art treasures and gadgets? And then that “don’t judge”, for the churches that outcast each other, group disputes, gossip, backbiting and discrimination. Except for the pretty words, the gospel has nothing to do with the churches that call themselves Christian. With a lot of struggle, the theologians try to adjust the message of the gospel, which was meant to free you from culture, to culture. Because it’s obviously very painful to accept that the “but woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither suffer you them that are entering to go in.” is precisely about them. But they are well-intended, aren’t they? But the way to hell is paved with good intentions.

 

 

About paradigms

A paradigm is a way of looking at reality. It consists out of a number of hypotheses about reality, that for scientists form the foundation on which they establish their scientific construction and keeps building higher and more complex. But

The scientist doesn’t describe reality, but gives his interpretation of reality. To look, the scientist slides the paradigm in front of his eyes, as with colored glasses, and thus sees a colored and distorted reality. And with the things he then perceives he practices his science. He explains, draws conclusions and connects, false explanations, false conclusions and false connections. The laymen don’t know that there is such a program of faith, such a taboo not to question the foundation, even most scientists don’t, because they build on, on the work of others, and it seems so terribly bright what they all do, with all those difficult words and formulas. Still there’s science being done on that fragile base, until at one moment a daring one doesn’t accept, that there are several things that don’t fit in the chosen system and can’t be explained with the accepted reasoning system. There starts to be agitation, till someone, very cleverly, comes with a new paradigm, other colored glasses. And after a while everybody is relieved, that they didn’t see this before, but now everything will be clear. A new world opens, the puzzle are shifted, up till then unexplainable cases seem to be explainable now, just as false connections are being made, but different. Until after a while there again appear to be other cases that can’t be explained. And this way science whirls around reality, with yellow, green and purple glasses on, and they can go on forever.

Science is based on a belief in paradigms. When you don’t believe in that, you can’t participate and you can’t practice science, for then you’ll not be scientific. A scientist without prejudices is impossible, because his right to exist and his salary derive from  activities based on prejudices.

Science keeps itself busy with reality as it presents it to them, seen through the colored glasses. Thus the paradigm determines the appearance.

So it’s science itself that creates and maintains the gap between being and appearance, so you can only perceive reality when you get rid of scientific prejudices in your brain. Science prevents to see clear and thus is a beam in the eye. Prejudices serve interests, because from benefit springs prejudice. So, unselfish, objective science doesn’t exist. The last paradigm will be no paradigm, because only if you take off the colored glasses you can see reality in it’s true form. It is indeed a bizarre discovery when you see that entire science, that in so many generations, at the cost of blood, sweat and tears, is constructed like a gigantic tower of Babel, and that in its pride has attempted to fathom reality, is a big air castle. It’s like the difficult climbing of the highest mountain top. In the illusion that the top is within reach, that the step of the cumulated scholarship to omniscience will be made within measurable time, the scientists struggle on. And then there comes an unknown stranger that says: "Never mind guys, it’s all been for nothing, this way you’ll never get there." Above , waiting for centuries and centuries, there sit a multitude of wise men, headshaking for so much foolishness.

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