How to Be Happy Again? by Siegmund Mischinger Smashwords Edition ********* Published by: Siegmund Mischinger at Smashwords How to Be Happy Again? Copyright © 2013 by Siegmund Mischinger All rights reserved Introduction In the beginning there was a lie. The lie is the idea that we humans are somehow inherently flawed and unhappy by nature and only strive to reach the unreachable goal of happiness. However, if you go back in time to your childhood, you can easily recall that at a very young age you were naturally curious, active and happy unless somebody made you unhappy. This is not supposed to mean that only children are able to remain in a state of constant happiness or that you should become childish or child-like again to achieve that. To the contrary, as a more experienced and educated individual you can achieve even higher levels of happiness, including states of deep extasy without the aid of any psychoactive substances. Furthermore, ancient Indian and Chinese philosophies also perceive the state of constant happiness as naturally occuring and it is only the western culture that is promoting the idea of most people acting like zombies and expecting others to do so. But let us start from the beginning. In fact most individuals today are deeply unhappy to the point of becoming suicidal. Your neighbour or the postman that you see occasionally actually most probably hate their lives and would like to do something about it but do not know how. The thing is they never tell it to anybody and this will not be put on television. They are unhappy because they find their lives inadequate. 1 They are not what they want to be and do not do what they really want to do. Over time they will develop depression and above a certain treshold depression makes you suicidal, similarly to sleep deprivation. Waking up to emptiness or not being able to sleep properly will make anyone suicidal. Regardless of what the reasons might be, most people you see everyday are trapped in a world that is not thier own. Some of you are reading this because you are unhappy and you want to find out "How to Be Happy Again". Some of you are actually happy but you just wanted to make sure that you really are or perhaps find a way to become happier. As for myself, I used to be deeply unhappy to the point of becoming almost suicidal. But I found a way out of my dilemma and thus I can be here with you here and share what I have learned. But I did not only regain my previous happiness, I also found a way to a happiness that I have never perceived before. I found it by doing a lot of reading and a lot of thinking and I am going to share it with you now. This is not going to be an obscure lecture about philosophy, I am really going to tell you how to do it. But I am also going to mention the philosophical aspects that led me where I am today. So I am going to start by asking you a question that you can also ask yourselves: Who are you? And I am not asking you about your name, age, profession or any of that nonsense usually used to „identify” another „human specimen”. Instead, I wish to identify you as a person. In Indian philosophy there is something called atman, defining the very core of a human being. This is what I mean when asking who you are. So I am asking you: do you really know who you are? And even more importantly: Are you who you want to be? 1. Self-awareness and self-determination While visiting Austria eight years ago I saw a phone card with a slogan: "Ich will" („I want”). It did not say "I must" or "I should" (which by the way is a softer version of „I must” or „I am forced to”). It specifically said „I want” and to my mind this short sentence determines you as an individual. Some people say „You are what you eat”. I say: you are what you want. Whatever that might be. One might say: I want, therefore I am. In everyday life we are constantly told not to do what we want. Right from the very beginning as small children by our parents, then as adults by our supervisors and then as retired old people by our caretakers – we are constantly told not to do that. So we don't and we forget what it was that we really wanted. This separates us from our atman – the unperishable core of a person and this in turn later leads to something called akrasia or a weakness of one's will where an individual, when faced with a choice to be made, in spite of still posessing the full mental capacity, chooses a worse alternative or one that goes against their own mind. Just like slaves we are told that doing what we want is not allowed because if we were allowed to act freely we would probably only want to do something wrong. We are also told that our life is meant to be suffering and this is due to some kind of guilt, debt, imperfection, inferiority etc. We are 2 constantly kept in shame and fear – and it all represents the very characteristics of a typical slave's life, strongly reminding us of the slaves known from the Roman Empire or later on from colonial America. Slavery has never been really abolished. Not many of us are allowed to decide „this is what I am” and „this is not what I am or do not want to be”. Besides, our vocabulary is full of slave words and expressions. Slaves are not allowed to want or demand anything (just beg) or express emotion – and this is the true origin of "please" and "thank you" which block any individuality of reaction that would normally be expressed when a given item is requested or received. This single word is supposed to replace an individual, personal description of what you feel, making it impersonal and meaningless. Therefore, slaves are only left with wishful thinking – totally spineless. This is why they cling to a false hope and wait for manna from the sky. But in reality they are not even waiting for anything, just expressing idleness and passiveness. As mentioned before, in order to turn from an unhappy slave to a satisfied master of your life, you are supposed to find and protect the core of your being – your soul, which is immaterial, simple (not possible to divide), and most importantly: immortal (not possible to destroy, imperishable). You obviously cannot imagine your own non-existence and this is due to the fact that your spiritual part is simply subject to a steady cycle of rebirth (samsara) and is therefore never destroyed, which was so vividly depicted in the recent film Cloud Atlas. However, deprived of our basic rights on a daily basis, we seem to have forgotten what freedom actually is. Freedom is the ability to decide. You should decide about everything pertaining to your self and nobody else (as stated by former erotic actress and now writer Sasha Grey in her 2011 book Neü Sex). We ought to act instead of the idle hoping. Instead of becoming submissive puppets, we are supposed to protect our individualism from being subjected to external force. Society tends to constantly exert its „pressure” on individuals. In terms of mental manipulation, this takes the form of censorship and propaaganda. They use censorship to destroy or at least conceal what they don't want you to know. On the other hand, propaganda is what they want you to think. You are also supposed to think that law comes from supernatural force or is inherent. For example, it is illegal to be gay in one country and illegal to be anti-gay in another. Propaganda and enforcement of invented laws can be implemented on many levels and you are already experiencing it as a child. For instance, your parents not letting you view erotic content are practicing „censorship”. On the other hand, they show you fairytales about infants found in cabbage etc. And this is „propaganda”. Your goal is to get past all that and get to the education, which is what the world is really like. And this means books, articles, video clips or simply having the courage to „know better” and „think for yourself”. Already in the year 1784 a German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote: „Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude)." Have the courage to use your own understanding. Have the courage to liberate yourself from this sheep-like state. 3 2. Strength through pleasure Another great thing to do is to liberate yourself from the common misconception conerning feeling and reason. Feeling is NOT the opposite of reason. In fact, if they are in accordance, you achieve happiness. A nice example of that is the difference between a forced and self-chosen marriage. In real yoga which is not just a fitness exercise, there are different levels (according to master Patanjali). The first one is yama – self-control. But it should not mean self-restraint, self-censorship, self-deceit or self-denial. Now a question worth addressing is why is there so much hate towards body and pleasure? Why aren't all body parts considered „good”, including feet and behind, which also can be kept clean and healthy? Why is it socially acceptable to have a dog defecating on the pavement or having a guy vomit in the street after drinking poison (alcohol) but kissing or even hugging in public is frowned upon or even banned in some countries? Why is the free hug movement so controversial and even needed? Why should nudity be a shame? Why should a naked body which is not ugly or dirty but rather beautiful, attractive and pleasant to look at be banned? Quite interestingly, violence is hardly ever banned even though it is rather unpleasant. What also strikes me is that on television people are most often shown in some kind of distress. Regardless whether it is the evening news or some kind of retarded soap series you almost never get to see happy people, not to mention people enjoying something or in a state of deep extasy. A nice explanation is offered by Barbara G. Walker in Restoring the Goddess: Equal Rites for Modern Women. According to her theory the erotic dimension used to be a source of power for women so it had been suppressed in order to make them powerless. And hence all this negativity surrounding sensuality and the shockingly positive attitude towards violence. We are living in a sort of an inverted world where war is peace, slave labour makes you free, freedom is slavery (Orwell), violence is OK, nudity and pleasure are not allowed... If you are intelligent or active people will hate you. Furthermore, we are haunted by feelings of imaginary and incomprehensible guilt. We are fed the myth of a paradise lost being the cause of permanent lack of happiness. Interestingly, all this pertains to people from a certain age while children find the whole idea rather laughable, frankly awful and simply untrue. Why and how are women being suppressed? If you happen to be a woman, your reasons for lack of happiness are slightly more complex. The society is making it difficult for you as well as trying to keep it secret from you. To understand that, let's consider first: what does it mean to be a woman? Is it enough to have a long and styled hair? To use make-up and large amounts of cosmetics? To have an interest in and a large collection of clothes? To display silly and submissive behaviour? Men (shemales) can have and do all that. Even though this is what we are referring to when talking about the definition of a 4 woman. So women as we perceive them do not really exist. What we regard as a true definition of a woman is in actuality just a set of sterotypes. And now just think that „transsexual women” go through complex medical treatment or even surgery as well as a change in legal status just to be allowed to display this set of stereotypical features in a kind of a very extreme cosplay. There's not much real difference between man and woman other than that what has been enforced by culture. And by the way, if you remove all that, nothing is left. There is an obvious difference in body shape and size but other than that, a woman can do all that a man can. And yet she is consistently forced into a stereotype as if the only goal of her life was to marry and get impregnated. A woman can indeed thruthfully desire to find an exceptional partner and/or have children but marriage is a very perverted variant of this aimed at destroying the woman, incapacitating her and withdrawing from society in which she had never fully participated anyway, since prior to this she had always been kept in this partly slave-like and partly child-like state before crash-landing in marriage. There are no really famous female classical music composers, very few scientists and poets etc. and there must be a reason why. One 28-year old woman told me once „They are treating me like a child. But why?” Even as young individuals women are constantly terrorised by the future prospect of marriage (where by the way the man usually gets disinterested quickly, with the purpose being just a boost in his social status). On the other hand, men are told that this is the true nature of women and that they would find themselves severely disadvantaged, ridiculed or even unable to participate in normal social relations if they didn't treat a woman in accordance with the stereotype. Women themselves would find them weak and other men would find them weird. Women themselves do not widely accept feminist attempts at restoring their human rights either because they do not understand what is going on or because they would have to first openly admit their misery which is obviously difficult for anyone regardless of gender. So they just choose the path of denial largely characteristic of the general insincerity mode they have been raised in, all their life. Adding to the confusion are disoriented women who do not know other views and are actively participating in their own suppression as well as influencing others because they think this is the „proper” and natural state of matters. After silencing the awakening voices of reason like Virginia Woolf, a great void emerged followed by confusion and reverting back to the not so distant past of having women strongly repressed or even worse, totally unaware of what is being done to them and treating the whole setting as „natural”. I am not a feminist myself, I am not even a woman, I am a guy and yet I can see all that discrimination and suppression! So there is still something obviously wrong with the role of women in our society. I mean let's consider what women are usually like. Well, they are always depressed (not energetic), cowardly (not adventurous), inactive, submissive, dishonest (do not value integrity). Women behave like that because of the way they were raised. The role models for men are Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Super-Duper Man etc. Women have Barbie. Well, for a time they had Lara Croft but if something counters the stereotype it will then be broken to comply so an active Lara has recently been done away with after widespread criticism and replaced with a much more tame character who for example lets a Russian guy rape her in one of the scenes of the game. So women have their spirit broken first. I once saw a boy and a girl walking with parents – the boy was beaeting random things with a stick, while the girl stayed close to their parents, totally paralyzed and obedient. Later on, women have their bodies destroyed by birth while lying down which not only goes against reason but even against the law of gravity. If a woman happens to be giving birth in an emergency setting outside of hospital, e.g. while travelling, she will always instinctively adjust her position and 5 rather give birth while squatting which makes the act much faster and does not put unnecessary strain on the stomach muscles. Even women at hospital will want to do that but they are always „corrected” by doctors that this not „the right way” and forced to damage their stomach muscles and in turn their voice by having a forceful labour while lying down, receiving a lot of pain and load on their nervous system from which they may never be able to fully recover. After having their bodies damages they often become desperate to return to their previous state and try to compensate like Beyonce who recently started a swimming suit campaign, sadly showing her damaged but desperately exposed body. But even before their infamous crash-landing, I often get the impression as if women used only 20 percent of their body just like people usually only use 20 percent of the brain (see film Limitless). They are simply robbed of their plesaure, deprived of own sensuality – strongly reminiscent of the famous line „my life has been stolen from me” (see film The Hours). Western women even in the absence of any signs of physical mutilation or restraints, all seem to be wearing a mental burka. This is made possible by two factors: firstly, their rejection mechanism which in itself is needed and useful, has been turned against them and trained to actually reject men they desire. Another one is that they seem to be equipped with a sort of nightmarish mental traffic lights which keep controlling them. As a result, the motorway is empty and safe but they are still not crossing it and standing frozen instead. And all this is possible because all women receive a series of mental blocks which are put in place in course of their „programming” and passed on to successive generations. And that is not only my opinion. Nicole Daedone of One Taste, the author of Slow Sex: The Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm, is wondering why she can see such a profound pleasure deficit among the women she encounters as an advisor. She wonders why women don't allow themselves to have sex, do not liberate themselves to do what they want to do anyway. They keep saying things like „I'm not in love, I'll be a slut” which strongly suggests the social wiring they received. Pleasure deficit is not only found in women. Men are not nomally allowed to express sensual satisfaction or any other strong emotion for that matter (except maybe anger and frustration), not expected to have high hygiene standards, use face cream or even lip gloss or have any higher esthetic interest like fashion or art. Famous fashion designers are all male due to the same factors which selected famous composers, but there are extremely few of them. To simply put it, the current standards in our society dictate that men are supposed to be violent, narrow-minded and frustrated while women are supposed to be inactive and insincere. Why are young individuals being suppressed? Discrimination is not only about women. At an early age people are especially capable of quick learning and boosting both their mental powers as well as emotional richness and competence. Sadly however, since around 18th century, young individuals are put in a state of psychosis over an extended period which is called „childhood” when they are at least supposed to pretend mental incapacity and emotional instability. And all that is connected with strong age discrimination – strict censorship, meaning not only that erotic entertainment is not allowed, but also limiting insight into the real world. To add to the incapacitation, young individuals are legally incapable which means they cannot decide about themselves and even about any permanent changes to their body, are not allowed to receive money for any kind of work nor travel freely, they are forced to eat against 6 preference, go to bed to early against their own biological clock and most importantly almost always disrespectfully called „kids” which strongly reminds of „niggers” etc. 3. The illusion of money, love and friendship For any individual aiming to restore and maintain the natural happiness, it is important to be immune to the common social illusions. They are all artificial ideas introduced in many cultures at some point, but supposed to be considered „natural” as if they had always existed and as if we absolutely couldn't do without them. The money trap Money functions different than you think. First amd foremost, money is not coins and bills but an abstract idea, a mean game based on social „magic and ritual”, aiming to hinder your access to resources so as to force you to submit to the idea of forced labour. To simply put it, you will not be allowed to acquire food unless you obey and do what you do not really like, so that you can receive tokens (coins, notes or just digits on your abstract account). But don't be deceived into thinking that you will be allowed to acquire wealth in this way. You are supposed to always be spending all or at least most of what you receive and starting anew so as to make yourself perpetually available as a slave.The idea is to trap you in debt - otherwise your masters (employers) would have to physically capture and restrain you which would seem rather laughable in the 21st century. So they resort to a mental „economical terror” instead. One could argue that this is not terror or any kind of enforcement at all but a smart way to regulate access to a very scarce food supply and making it more fair and just, a part of a certain biopolicy. Interestingly however, there is actually enough food in the world for everyone and a lot of it is simply thrown away everyday – for instance, in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung dated 7 June 2013, page 9 you can read: „Currently according to the FAO about 870 million people are undernourished. Simultanously 1.4 billion people are overweight. Theoretically nobody has to starve: the farmers of the entire world are currently producing 2,800 calories of nutrients per person, where on average the amount of 2,100 calories can already make a person sufficiently supplied with nutrients. Starvation occurs currently solely due to the fact that people cannot buy food – because they are too poor or because there are no products purchasable where they live. This is not only so in the developing and threshold countries but also in the industrialized ones. It is estimated that in the United States 50 million people are not becoming enough to eat.” So as you can see people are openly admitting in a major newspaper that they have actually been producing too much for some time now and are more concerned with storage of the large piles of food being produced rather than its scarcity. In fact this is giving away free food for humanitarian actions is possible – there is simply too much food and a lot of it is left unpurchased and literally ends up in the bin. As Barbara G. Walker noted in her book Restoring the Goddess: Equal Rites for Modern Women, in an egalitarian matriarchy the distribution of resources is based on need and work is supposed to be 7 creative and not enforced upon anyone. But a patriarchical society is based on hierarchy, exploitation and repression – you have to „deserve” to stay alive and you will only be allowed to sleep and eat if you get yourself enslaved and do work not based on creativity or performance but rather organized around the concept of being a slave submitted to a master and being submissive. People „raised” or actually brainwashed in patriarchical societies will usually strongly oppose against other means of obtaining sleep or food or obtaining money like freelancing but also begging, freeganism etc. In order to keep you perpetually devoid of and desperate for money, you will be lured into purchasing costly items like cars, technology, real estate etc. But all these products are not designed to give you anything but to simply rip your money at purchase and generate additional cost afterwards. Let's take cars for instance - all makes of cars look the same now and only have the shape of front chassis (especially the front lights) constantly „updated”. You initially dump a huge pile of money in order to purchase a car which is in fact a very low quality, low budget mass product which is going to sit idle most of the time (either in front of your house or in a garage) and simply project your „social status”. And after such purchaste „the rippers” benefit because they have your money while the state benefits because you are poor again and more controllable. However, if you manage to avoid such debt trap, you will be in full control of yourself – you will unilaterally decide what you eat and when you go to sleep, which are in fact very fundamental and very personal choices. So since money is an abstract game, a good way to make yourself immune to it is to always play with it wisely and never forget that it is just a means of social enforcement. So how do you get „immune” or „rich”? Well, first and foremost, you are not rich because you are not making yourself rich. The idea of money is to pay you as little as possible and strip you out of it as soon as possible as well. To counter this you have to divide your income into two parts and strongly protect one of them. In this way you are going to create a zone where money is „left alone”, is safe and can make more money. You should also make it physically impossible for you to access the funds from this zone directly and at will. How big should you make it? That depends on how much you absolutely have to spend everyday and how much you can acquire (not „earn” as this is a slave term). Then it is a good idea to acquire as much as possible from multiple sources and keep expenses low. On a final note, since money does not really exist and is not a natural law but a repressive invention based in fact on magic and ritual and technically an abstract game where you receive tokens, not all people were fooled into thinking that it had always existed and has to exist and that you would instantly die without it. One can see perfect examples of a world without money. In course of natural disasters where large groups of individuals have their material resources destroyed, money suddenly ceases to exist. They receive international aid which is basically supplying large amounts of food and not expecting any money in return. Similarly, children usually eat without spending a dime, receiving all their food from their parents for free. And since money does not really exist and only the physical goods exist, and since money is in fact just the source of a lot of frustration and distress and simply keeps people from doing what they really want and plays a major role in limiting their success and whatever they endevour, one could be tempted to get rid of it completely. Apart from the hypothetical egalitarian matriarchical societies and cultures of the distant past, this has also been not that long ago attempted by communists. However, countries aiming at achieving communism found themselves in a reality where other countries were still using money and therefore they made the mistake of making the whole transformation a long-term process instead of replacing the old system virtually „overnight”. Had those countries been isolated and self-sufficient, they could have probably succeeded. In fact, a highly advanced and materially „relaxed” culture at 8 the same time isolated and self-sufficient evokes the mythical culture of Atlantis, which if finally found and proven to be so would consitute a proof of the feasibility of a money-less world. Still, until that happens, all we need to do to prevent material concerns from making us unhappy is to really understand the abstract mechanisms behind money and make ourselves as immune to them as possible. The love illusion Have you ever noticed how persistently the church authorities insist on love and try to promote it, how obtrusive is the manner of presenting it to you in songs? If something exists and is desired, why would anyone ever need to persuade you? And yet, love songs basically come in two types: some of them will try to convince you that love is needed and natural and others will present the effects of another „crashed relationship” leaving mental scars and dissatisfaction. But what if... love is not real at all? If it is just another illusion just like money, equally efficient in making you unhappy and maybe even more dangerous, as it refers to even more personal feelings? I never seem to stop wondering: Why do lovers behave like haters towards each other? (demands, conflicts instead of admiration, inspiration, cooperation). And also: why does the man try to enslave or at least control the woman and the woman tries to use up the resources of the man, take an advantage of him in the most mischievious way? On a side note, domination through enforcement and through genuine admiration are two diffferent things. From my observations, a really strong and attractive man is naturally and automatically admired and submitted to while a weak control freak enforces submission over an extended period of time. On one of my visits to Beate Uhse I had an incident which seems to cast some light on the very nature of this love illusion we are all forcefully trained for by songs, literature, television and religion. At some point I felt a strong attraction for a female leg clad in some sort of fancy garment. All this happened without ever seing the face of the individual nor realising that this „person” was in fact a mannequin. Had I still been following the trained „love-routine”, I would probably have developed a strong attachment to a completely imaginary and inadequate concept of what the „woman” is like, start planning for the „future” etc. and all this with... a dummy, nothing more than a piece of plastic shaped like a female body! In fact this sort of illusion has famously been described by Edmund Husserl and is known as the Husserl's Dame-Puppe illusion. It beautifully exposes the lack of foundation upon which certain perception is based. Another abstract illustration of this would be Bertrand Russell's teapot. Although his concept was developed to illustrate the naive mechanisms of believing in an imaginary masculine, personal deity, the concept is similar. Just like you might say that there is a giant teapot orbiting the Sun somewhere between Eearth and Mars and argue with anyone unable to prove its non-existence, you would similarly make completely unjustified assumptions about a person or even about a piece of plastic, solely based on the programming you received from obtrusive songs and other sources regarding the concept of love. For your happiness it is crucial to rediscover the true feeling behind it, namely that you like someone and you are attracted to this person. When you actually think about it, „liking” can be much more powerful and pleasant and authentic than exclusive and obsessive „love”. Love is something you do to yourself because you have been conditioned to do so. It has nothing to do with the actual person it seems to be referring to and will in fact harm this person as well as scar yourself psychologically as your obsession and jealousy develops and is then painfully confronted with reality. 9 Love is not natural but was invented and promoted by the church and is in fact very unpleasant and destructive. Obessively attaching yourself to one partner or „getting married” is comparable to locking yourself in a room with only one DVD to watch for the rest of your life. After some time you would probably dislike the DVD even if it used to be one of your favourites. And most importantly, you would become paranoid due to the simple fact of being permanently deprived of variety, one of the driving forces behind enjoying your life, regardless whether art, cuisine or human relations. As a result, sooner or later „exclusive love” will turn an activity you actually used to enjoy into something boring or even obnoxious for both partners involved, turning any relationship into a nightmare and ultimately rendering it „unsuccessful” i.e. ending in divorce, nervous breakdown, etc. I even suppose this is the very reason why celebrity relationships initially announced in strokes of almost „fairytale” happiness end up as mutually destructive nonsense and the opposite of what they originally used to be. The dreaded friendzone What is friendship actually? In many definitions the recurring theme would be some sort of „selfless sacrifice”. A friend would give you his or her time or even money while not expecting anything. To illustrate this, let's imagine you meet someone in the desert. You ask this person for water. This person gives you their last drop, having their own condition worsened as a result. Later on this person is going to regret it. Upon directly sensing the results of their decision, they are going to have natural second thoughts, the sort of „what did I get in return”? The very concept of selfsacrifice with nothing in return is simply another destructive religious idea and means of exploitation. People are regularly dumbed down into not wanting to benefit but later still revert to their natural state and actually regret it, sometimes even directly accusing their beneficiary of evil intentions. Rather than self-destroy by sacrifice, the two people in the desert could have simply ventured to get more water together. Help is rather lamentably another slave concept and ought to be avoided and simply replaced by a more healthy variant: cooperation and mutual benefits. One should expect to benefit and if this expectation is mutual and considered just and fair while being so, it can only be a source of true joy and satisfaction from a relation and not hidden schizophrenic hatred as seems to be designed and implemented by Christian and many non-Christian religions. While non-erotic same sex friendship seems to be pointless, I suppose I do not have to remind of the dreaded friendzone – the scary place where all incompetent lovers are pushed to after a failed attempt to become of erotic interest to a woman. But since friendship does not really exist, regardless whether same sex or not, what would be the healthy alternative? The answer is: acquaintances. As we progress through our lives, we do in fact meet people. But there is nothing more to it than meeting, as even the persons themselves may not be truly able to know and understand one's own self. Still, in reality we may actually enjoy building a group of aquaintances who seem to be beneficial and favorable to us and this group may in fact prove to better than a family, since you can choose each and every one of them and create your "court" of people influencing you in a pleasant, inspiring or entertaining way, just like a powerful king or a queen would. And needless to say, monarchs tended to lead a happy life highly superior to the everyday drudgery of their subjects and subordinates. 10 4. Prevent your self-destruction You are usually told that your body is transient and other things are lasting while exactly the opposite is true. I am only in my thirties but within my lifetime such „lasting” things as countries have disappeared from the map overnight. There is no Soviet Union any more, there is no German Democratic Republic. What I mean is that you do not really know where you are going to live in the future, you may have a different house, you will surely have a different car or you may even be part of an entirely different culture. But one thing is certain: you are still going to be within the same body. Countries disappear and appear (Soviet Union, Southern Sudan), houses are being demolished but in 10 and 20 and 30 years from now you will still be in this body. So treat your body with utmost respect, care and benevolence because enjoying it is the very benefit of your incarnation. Imagine a rectangle of vitalities with sleep and food at the top corners and hygiene and entertainment at the bottom. Nowadays a lot of individuals are recklessly deprived of sleep on a regular basis while sound sleep is actually the very fundament of the day that follows. The flow of high quality food may be suspended and compromised but only temporarily as it is also vital and crucial for one's well-being. Both sleep and food deprivation are usually included in the practices of body-hating religions in the form of fasting, midnight mass etc. Therefore, it is a good idea to protect your body from such circumstances, unless you really agree to obey and hate your body and destroy it through malnutrition. But I suppose you would agree that there is no sense in being a "tail eater", "selfkicker" or "self-whipper" any more. But: you are not your body. A nice example of that is when you go to bed. Interestingly, your body does not know if your soul or spirit or „spark” is sleeping or not - hence the tossing and turning right before falling asleep - your body is checking if your spirit has actually fallen asleep by sending the "turn" impulse and awaiting response. So even though you are not really your body but rather in charge of it, it still seems a great idea to protect it from adverse conditions as well as religious hatred. On a side note, age is another concept that does not really exist in the real world. In most religions you are expected to have your body damaged to a given extent at a specific time. But you can just avoid the damage. In many cases your body may not keep its integrity because it is malnutritioned and a change of diet brings about a sudden improvement. One example of that is Christian Bale who was fasting on just apples and canned tuna for his role and still managed to restore his almost skeleton-body to a Schwarzenegger-like condition only a few years later. Which also proves the point that it is fact possible to have your body in better condition at a later age and the whole pressure on gradual decline of bodily abilities over time is just a religious superstition. Real food vs. chemicals Most people are skipping breakfast and then lying about it when asked what they had. They had nothing, at the very „best” they had some coffee! And this after thousands of years of the tradition of eating a brakfast that actually does something for you (ayurveda etc.). Another interesting habit is sticking to processed foods or turning them into something even more processed. The usual excuse is time – but nothing happened to time, it is exactly the same as it used to be thousand of years ago, it is just than now it is usually almost entirely consumed by mindless staring at a tv screen or waiting for your laptop to complete doing something or recover from a crash. Ironically, all this is happening with the food availability actually much better now, with even the most exotic foods 11 readily available in shops and not even being expensive. But there comes this mental block of the idea that only rich people deserve to eat well, combined with the habit of self-flagellation and selfdestruction invoked by religion. The digestive systems of most people are flooded with milk and its derivatives and clogged with bread, combined with diminished amounts of things like pork. On a side note, pork is prohibited by most religions because swine very orgasmic and probably contains a substance that promotes that in humans. On the other hand, marketing: items that pretend to be food, illusions, but in fact more like soap – chocolate, shampoo-like „juice”, apples 400 g each while ideal for taste used to be 100, champignons the size of apples, or even something as extreme as feces of genetically engineered bacteria – aspartame. making you fat, fatigued, causing brain fog want you to be sick so that can make money and keep you in check. Bread is not food. It is a kind of poison just like milk. In fact all men should look like the musclerich action figures from 1980s Masters of the Universe but they don't because they are not getting enough protein. And that means it should be delivering protein that is supposed to give you the HeMan muscles as well as minerals that will keep you sharp, smart and fully capable erotically. Don' eat bread, it is not really food. It is a dangerous addictive product that has been invented to fill you up and thus make you eat less food meaning less meet, fruit and vegetables. Furthermore, the youngest generation is further feminized by the use of harmful soft drinks and chemically castrating shower gels containing things like paraben etc. When talking about eating people would usually mention „something to eat”. Well, if you really want to live a life that can honestly be called a life and be happy, don't eat „something”, eat food. Eat real food. What cigarettes are doing to us I don't smoke cigarettes for the very same reason that I do not inhale other toxic fumes from objects being burned. In actual real-life conversations I had many smokers personally admit they are ashamed that they smoke and they do not enjoy smoking at all. The reason for all this nonsense is that nicotine is a much more serious drug than you think. It is actually one of the most addictive substances in the world, even more so than marijuana. Cigarettes are nowadays placed behind bars in shops because they are so strongly addictive while being increasingly expensive at the same time. On the other hand nicotine will not only damage your lungs and cause caughing but also numbs your taste buds so that you can't really taste your food. It similarly numbs your brain and reportedly damages memory. But even if I don't smoke, I passively smoke every day because so many people in Germany are walking or even cycling with a toxic fume dispenser (cigarette) in their hand. When is "der Rauchzwang" (smoking obligation) going to end? Alcohol – a great way of flushing your life down the toilet Looking at a label on a bottle from a German Augustinerbräu beer portraying a monk with a somewhat mischievious face, I started wondering: why are spirituality specialists (monks, priests etc.) involved with production of a psychoactive drug that paralyzes brains and destroys lives? Why is alcohol consumed during the mass? Why every seven days groups of people are paying a guy who drinks alcohol and also says you should destroy your bodies and never have fun? 12 I don't drink alcohol for the same reason that I don't drink petrol or sulphuric acid. Yes, alcohol is poison as mentioned before. It will make you depressed, dumb and hostile. There are shops and restaurants specialised in selling poison. Poison has an endless variety of labels and "products" though it is essentially always the same nonsense gunk. Even more disturbingly, drinking poison is a social habit! You can be forced or "expected" to do it (on a side note, if drinking poison can be socially expected then it demonstrates how irrelevant or even irrational the social pressure really is).When I was little I thought I would never drink alcohol because seeing how it affected other people I was afraid it would make me dumb and destroy my brain. Then I drank it due to "social requirements". However, many years later I met a woman who was around 23 but never drank it - she still thought what I used to think when I had been little. While talking to her I was at a stage when I would drink only one beer on my own once every few weeks and would usually accept other kinds of alcohol being offered to me on various occasions. But after some time I concluded that alcohol indeed does nothing for me other than busting my liver and fogging my brain. It does not even make me feel good, it just slows me down. Now after a time without a single drop of any kind of alcohol in my body, I am intensely irritated by people who drink it. They will have a pathetic illusion of being happy and at the same time behave like idiots, piss all over the place and smash bottles on the ground leaving shrapnels that will ruin your shoes. Alcohol has no recreational value whatsoever. Moreover, it has replaced all forms of entertainment – people no longer have any interests or free time activities, they just automatically reach for the beer bottle. Even publically played music has become dull and expressionless and only a background for the consumption of the drug. Alcohol is slowly replacing having actual fun, there are no inventive ways to have fun, just this pathetic instant replacement meant for the simpleminded. As a food alcohol is not only worthless but actually has a very negative qi value, which means that it will make you weak and susceptible to sickness. It will keep you down both mentally and physically. Sometimes when I see alcoholics they look as if they were trapped in another dimension. They can't move, they can't do anything even though they would like to. They have been sucked into a black hole and do not have enough strength to set themselves free. So alcohol is increasingly replacing food and all forms of entertainment, and with beer being considered less serious or even not alcohol at all, nowadays virtually all people are drinking poison and persuading others to drink it while securing enormous and steady income for places where poison is sold or served. But the government is never going to ban alcohol and tobacco completely and stop this legal drug traffic because the state gets a share in the profit from sales. Furthermore, legal drugs (alcohol, tobacco) play an important role in the recent depopulating and sickening biopolicy which intends to decrease the population and make the citizens sick to keep them in check and to profit from pharmaceuticals and medical care. And since alcohol is there to keep you from actually having fun or doing something interesting or eating properly, it also makes perfect sense that on a holiday or a Sunday libraries are closed but poison bars are always open – after all, it is better to keep people frustrated, sick and retarded so that they can be manipulated like lifestock. Therefore, not drinking alcohol and persuading others to do so would probably be considered an act of anarchy as it is in direct opposition to what the government wants you to do and a way of boosting one's personal liberty at the same time. But seriously: alcohol is a Killerdroge. Don't drink it. Ever. No matter what sort or quantity. Just 13 don't do it. I don't and I feel like a god. Every time you think of drinking alcohol, just eat some good food instead. Why television is „evil” TV is another "drug" just like alcohol and cigarettes. Similarly, it keeps you down and idle, paralyzes your brain, does not really deliver any real entertainment (pleasure), keeps you from doing so many pleasant things like cinema (those really interesting latest films without commercial breaks and in excellent image and sound quality), reading, strolling, listening to good music and a whole multitude of other activities that actually can be pleasant or thought-provoking. As stated in a talk between Alexander Romanov, Benjamin Fulford and Chodoin Daikaku, the tv is designed to dumb you down. And in a world where it is forbidden to think on your own, displaying intelligence is socially frowned upon and the education system is supposed to compartmentalize your brain (replace actual thinking with rigid categories, make you always think inside the box instead of outside of it) such a tool of constant distraction and repression seems indispensable. The disadvantages of cars and public transport versus natural body activity What happened over the last 200 years is basically that people do not walk any more. They only make those few steps to the nearest bus or car going to work. This doesn't feel right however and they usually try to compensate by walking on artificial treadmills like hamsters – instead of actually going somewhere. Another way of pretending that you actually live a healthy life is jogging. But why do all those joggers I am passing have this look of agony on their faces? Jogging basically means running at a speed that puts you in a state of constant fatigue – faster than walking but not as fast as actually running. Added to that is a rhythm and sometimes a set of mannerisms which all seem very wrong and unnatural. The joggers that I am passing by all have this look of agony on their faces as if they were going to die any second. And this by the way may not be far from actuality as this kind of nonsense places an extreme load on their cardiovascualr system and is just physically wrong in so many ways. They never look as if they were enjoying it, their looks always says „somebody made me do it” and their body seems to be saying „it doesn't feel right, why are you doing this to me”. Actual running or even strolling, both being natural body functions and reflexes, would provide much more benefit if done over a longer distance. The reason why nobody walks very far is a mental block deeply rooted in their subconsciousness. Nowadays people all feel compelled to use „civilized” means of transport – either the ubiquitous public transport or the ultimate social status symbol – the car. The bus almost never goes on a straight line between your current location and desired destination, doing its retarded zigzag insted. Furthermore, the inside of a bus with tens of people in it is a great place to exchange bacteria and viruses. There will always be this one sick dude caughing all over the place and infecting others so that they could pass around the wonderful gift of flu. Cars on the other hand are wonderful ways to squander money. A conglomerate of lots of metal outside and cheap plastic inside, that rapidly slips in value the very moment it gets sold and then continues on a steep slope, will not only have your money literally burnt (fuel) but will additionally drain you with various car-related taxes (which are usually disguised as insurance), not to mention repairs or costly medical assistance in case you have an accident. It seems most humans obviously have yet to re-discover something as simple as walking. But as the Chinese say „Even the longest journey starts with a first step”. 14 The origins of self-destructive thinking Our western civilization is a direct derivative of the late Roman Empire at its most lamentable stage of decline. In the year 394 the last Roman Emperor Theodosius I forbade the olympics and hence stopped the celebration of the body and the development of its capabilities. In the year 529 Justinian I, the East-Roman Emperor of a now already deconstruct Roman Empire, banned teaching philosophy in Athens, thus paralyzing mental progress. The thriving and enjoyment of life known to previous generations had been replaced by obsession with tormenting, destroying and damaging the body and paralyzing the spirit. In the year 800 Charlemagne, who protected the papacy in return for the legitimization of his power over people (and forcibly christianized the Saxons), was crowned emperor of the newly formed Holy Roman Empire. He created a grotesque combination of urGerman proud spirit loathing low energies and the slave-like shady mentality imposed upon the people by clergy. This permanently tied Christianity with the state, setting up the future for generations to come. The Christian habits brought by force were never fully internalized by any nation converted to it. Periodic nutrition deprivation (fasting) was supposed to strengthen the character but in actuality rather succeeded in making individuals grumpy, frustrated and paranoid. The restrictive wedlock had the opposite effect to what was supposedly intended, infuriating both men and women who used to enjoy freedom in their erotic dimension. In medieval Poland the locals were deeply dissatisfied with the process of christianization which had been started there back in 966. In the year 1032 strong pagan reaction became prominent, which culminated in a series of uprisings in 1034, 1037, 1038 and 1039. In the year 1046 the Hungarians started a rebellion aimed at abolishing Christianity and reverting to paganism, known as the Vata Pagan Uprising. Christianity is still interferring with the lives of everyone regardless of actual spiritual stance. Anyone who has lived close to a Christian church is very familiar with its loud bell suddenly booming at six o c'clock in the morning or in the evening, polluting the air with its cacophony while you are trying to listen to some actual music. On Christian holidays all shops are closed, causing congestion, excessive shopping and long lines on the day before, resulting in frustration and anger which seem to be the opposite of what the „peaceful” religion claims to be about. Even the education system is oppressive and based on a false, slave-like „reward and punishment” mentality and not internal motivation, designed not to educate but to condition for the future role of a slave, forcing activities instead of simply asking „What would you like to learn today?” As for the 7-day week and idle Sundays introduced by Christianity: if you make every 7th day of your life look the same, your entire life will consist of those days being experienced all over again, instead of a linear progress. Once every seven days you are going to experience the phenomennon I personally call „the weekend paralysis” when you are theoretically „allowed” to have fun or do what you want but just have no idea what that could be, with Sunday being the worst of all when you just wake up to an empty day due to all shops and other facilities closed and all activity suspended. You are then limited to your own confinement which promotes idleness and at the very best, some very foolish and irrelevant activities. Under Christian religion countries have turned into farms of mindless eaters and their rulers secretly consider reducing their population by means of providing unhealthy food (genetically modified or radiated) and promoting unhealthy habits. I suppose it is very likely that many of you, deep down in your heart, consider the whole idea of western Christian religion rather laughable and obnoxious. Perhaps it is a good idea to abandon what you had always secretly wanted to abandon anyway and make a fresh start with a happier life based on much older and deeply established wisdom inferred from true value. 15 5. The Real Goals in Life So after you have determined who you are it is time to ask another question, namely: who are you when you are at your best, what's your mission? In Indian philosophy this is called dharma. You are what you want – you are your mission. Become free to be able to do it, connect to your true essence. Every living thing desires freedom (moksha) and is seeking pleasure (kama) and avoiding suffering, just like flowers and even trees always reaching for the sun. But most religions and philosophies of the west deprive us of pleasure and even buddhism calls for an ultimate withdrawal from worldly pleasures. But you have a choice. You can instead detoxify yourself physically and mentally, you can un-castrate yourself and get back in touch with your own previously repressed sexuality, you can un-trap your secret potential permanently, unleashing the strength and creativity of your own personality and creating a world where you can finally be strong and smart and stop subconsciously feeling inferior to other people. Flower of Life Humans as a species have already experienced 100 thousand years of existence on Earth. One hundred thousand, not 5 thousand years, as most religions are trying to imply! Yes, the timespan going only as far as the year 3,000 or 5,000 BC that seems to limit our understanding of history has actually been invented and enforced upon us by religion (on a side note, the Arabs whose archeologists are most avid at denying the possibility of the pyramids and the sphinx being much older artifacts of some distant civilization predecessing the Egyptians, actually have their religion derived from the religion of the Jews they so much despise while their own true religion had been erased and forcefully replaced). However, while examining ancient monuments which might have been created earlier than 5,000 or even 8,000 BC, a characteristic pattern has been found, present consistently in different cultures across continents, including ancient Egypt (Temple of Osiris, Abydos), rural Poland, Assyrian artifacts, China (Forbidden City), India (Harimandir Sahib). It is called the Flower of Life and can be presented as either a flat pattern or a three-dimensional geometrical figure which actually consitutes a container for other well known figures such as the Seed of Life, Egg of Life (which is the basis for music and the speheres discovered by Kepler), Fruit of Life as well as other energy systems and from which the golden ratio can be derived. The Flower of Life is a design present in the shape of a developing human embryo dividing first into 2 and then 4 and 8 cells. But it is also present in deep space in the form of the shapes of various celestial objects like galaxies and nebulae, showing the connection between human body and the cosmos and how our bodies are magnificent and marvellous and thus to be revered and protected. The secret force of Qi It has been known for ages and called qi by the Chinese and in India it is called prana. It is beautiful and delightful and powerful life force that you can experience in the joy of a hot summer day and which is also present in the smiles of children but also in the tension of a martial arts fight or a lightning bolt. This however should not be confused with yang from the pair of coexisting yin and yang forces, where yin is associated with relaxed states (dark, moist) and yang represents the dynamic ones (bright, hot). They are traditionally associated with female and male gender but are actually present simultanously in men and women and not separated nor mutually excluded, with deeper sources only stating that women are more yin and men more yang but the two genders still incorporate both aspects in them. One idea is to be aware of those forces around you and follow this 16 knowledge in order to free your self from low energies that have been holding you back. Restoring your true self Always acting against your preference, turning yourself into a zombie, destroying your own body and numbing your mind is not the only possible way to live your life. You do not have to wait for any imaginary heaven. You can really live your life in this life. It is simply being your true self that keeps you permanently happy. If you experience pleasure and live in accordance with yourself, you reach happiness not as a goal to be achieved but as a natural and undisturbed, natural state of being deeply relaxed and inspired at the same time, which could be called ananda (bliss) that will permanently reignite those sparkles in your eyes. Don't let the widespread slave mentality drive you into a pointless and absurd self-hate. In Japanese philosophy there are 5 elements of nature which also represent mental concepts: chi – world – stone – confidence sui – water – river – adaptability ka – fire – desire fu – wind – smoke – open-mindedness ku – void – sky – creativity Be confident, adaptable, follow your passions, interests and desires, stay open-minded and creative. The bans on physical and mental development placed by corrupt and perverse rulers hundreds of years ago have not been broken completely up to this day. It is your turn. And even more importantly: protect and develop yourself. Serving imaginary „others” is the primary directive in the life of a slave or a servant. In real world with real people in real situations, those you care about can only benefit if you yourself develop into a full-blown, independent and strong individual. How can you assist the people you care about if you yourself are in distress? Life as suffering is a pitifull and pathetic self-destructive concept and should be treated as such. It is the pleasure that makes us stronger, not suffering. Strength and completeness through pleasure or even extasy and delight are within reach of every enlightnened person. A life of value can make yourself shockproof, waterproof and permanently place you on cloud nine. All you have to do is just reach for your happiness with a strong hand. You do not have to change the world. Just change your world. 17 Further reading: Sasha Grey, Neü Sex, Powerhouse, 2011 Nicole Daedone, Slow Sex: The Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm, Grand Central Publishing, 2011 Barbara G. Walker, Restoring the Goddess: Equal Rites for Modern Women. Prometheus Books, 2000 Ursula Scheu, Wir werden nicht als Mädchen geboren, wir werden dazu gemacht, Fischer Taschenbuch 1977 Vincent Bellonzi, Health Recklessly Abandoned, Morgan James Publishing, 2013 Sculptures: Gian Lorenzo Bernini – Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1652) Auguste Rodin, Eternal Springtime (1884) Antonio Canova, Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (1787) Films: Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski - 2012) The Hours (Stephen Daldry - 2012) In Time (Andrew Niccol - 2011) 18