what can i say, post bondi, it was inevitable. switched on people knew it was going to happen, how could it not. for 2 years thousands of zombies marched through sydney saying 'globalise the infitatda'  and last sunday they got what they wanted right on their doorstep, i hope they feel happy and proud that they are responsible for these deaths. along with our current government which are really just a bunch of 6th formers who know nothing about the world as they never move outside their bubble of the abc and guardian cocoons along with the ridiculous mythological perspective on israel. these people are insane with hate, their brains infected with an ancient mind virus that blots them to logic, reason or any understanding. in the spiritual war against god, they chose the wrong team. ironically the death cult attacked on the festival of lights, a celebration of life and survival. i don't know what else to say. 

on a train filled with beautiful monsters i don't feel quite the freak, just an old gothic twilight vampire out on the streets of sydney with all the other concert goers. heavy rainfall all day but suddenly as i emerge at newtown the sun transforms the sky into orange and reddish hues, and summer saves the day. 

it's the second gig i will see of the singles tour in sydney at the encore, and it's a packed house again. i'm on the balcony in the middle, good vision, good sound, and a brilliant band. you probably know just how brilliant but this time i notice some tweaking in the songs that bring out the percussion and drumming, these small elements transform the energy of the songs and really work well. in the middle off tantalised there's a section where nick and tim beat out a tribal, almost talking heads rhythm and it's beautiful. perfecto.

on the way home i'm surrounded by beautiful monsters all excited about seeing their queen, all dressed up in freaky outfits. but me, i'm just smiling on a post gig high, feeling that energy cruise around in my plasma, happy.

 exhaustion, i think i am officially burnt out. 

i do feel physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually depleted, from a multitude of factors and various energies. the next few days i will be focusing upon healing but it seems like some motivation is required as my energy is very low, thankfully there's a church gig tonight. it's heavy rain fall. 

 

down at terrible beach at dusk, big fat full moon coming up over the ocean, crisp summer light casting glorious details over the ever shifting surf, a low flying eagle fly's past me carrying a big fish in it's talons, and behind me the wednesday night drummers ensemble are being to pound their skins, a jungle type rhythm,  full on tribal sounds, echoing through the sleepy suburb as girls hula hoop and dance, fire twirl and pirouete, one shakes her ass and gets down and funky. 

and as usual old captain mission is in the wrong place at the wrong time, somehow i'm designated to take her home as she lives quite far up the hill in an inaccessible part of the suburb. she's a cross between traumatised from something and somewhat drunk, she's constantly seeing reassurance and  because i have the constitution of a stoic asking if i am okay.

okay, she is attractive and very sexual, her energy is oozing out but she is also vulnerable and that makes her unpredictable so outside her place when she begs me to come inside i am declining, but my god she is persistent. she offers me a cup of tea and i agree,  but tea turns out into this big thing of wanting to make me dinner, then breakfast after a sleep, and somewhere in the madness i agree to watch a movie with her, but blankets and pillows are brought out, lights are switched off and she decides to remove most of her clothing. 

i keep my eyes on the screen and afterwards run for the door. deep down i know she is lonely and wants me to stay, i know she wants to look after me but to be honest my radar says danger danger and when i return home at midnight I know i made the right choice.

i have a rule, never sleep with anyone i've just met who is drunk or in an altered state, it's far to dangerous in this age.

the surf pounds along, beating out it's gentle rhythm, on crusty pristine sand i walk to greet the dawn, the gentle breeze comes in onshore as i kneel before neptune and raise my fin, blessed by the sun. it's neither cold nor warm, but comfortable enough to feel alive as i wade outwards. i love this part of the day. every morning, dawn ceremony. 

a small group of local ladies known as the friendly floaters swim out to the bouy known as goldie, and today i joined them, i didn't quite make it but got about 3/4 of the way there. giant rays swam by, apparently they are there every day, i just never go out that far. the women chat and take their time, it's funny, lots of laughter, lots of conversation, no competition. i may join them later in the pub when they celebrate their xmas party.

i picked up a new version of 'black and blue' from the rolling stones, i loved that album so hearing the new steve wilson mix is kinda exciting, i think the band had really peaked around now and every song is just drop dead brilliant. the piano playing is fucking brilliant. melody is my fave but they are all groovy funked out cuts.

this time last week i set of to see the church play the encore theatre on their singles tour,  which i must admit didn't sound appealing as i thought when i first heard about it, but that's before i saw the set list, and lets face it there were not many singles people would know after the obvious ones, so if you include block,  sacred echoes and numbers then you have a little more motivation. plus the new incarnation of the church play with such vitality and transform older songs into newer ones, man you should hear them. amazing. fighting some form of flu steve pushed through and delivered a professional vocal performance that was as impressive as ever. i also got a name check, 'just want to thank a friend, 'captain mission, and with a name like that you can guess what he gets up to.'
well there was a time when i would hand steve some weed or dmt before a gig, now it's cough lollies made from elderberries. ha!

then last night i was invited to a friends who was hosting an evening for the staff at the cafe we attend in the morning and it was really lovely. a great evening, which i enjoyed immensely. all the waitresses were there except muffin girl who was mia but it was really nice to get to know skyar and the others, especially library girl who really is lovely. 

the morning surf was ferocious with waves all over the place, chopping me up and spitting me out, seaweed everywhere and although i enjoyed the experience it was a relief to get out and dry myself in the sunlight, drink a coffee and go home. there was a pull to stay but so many domestic tasks await i really need to reorient myself with home duties. i need to fit into a busy day other things i loathe doing, a trim and some grooming all of which take up precious time. but first vacuuming which is where roxy music come in handy, always good to do your housework to.

i surf each morning, the water gets warmer each day and today was lovely although choppy. my head feels the same way as thoughts rattle around and rebound on the walls of my brain or however that works, all i know is i feel slightly over people and their weird perceptions on me but that's okay, i shrug it off and move forwards, sometimes you gotta take the odd bullet just so others can feel okay, and sometimes they just don't know what they are even saying. often words are said in anger and actions follow, that's the cause and effect but occasionally the cause is based upon no evidence or false premise. even i didn't have all the information but it's amazing how malleable a mind can be when it's under attack and for the sake of the peace just accept the falsehood.

my doctor whom has helped me massivly through the last few years deducted my cough that has afflicted me over decades was not an infection at all but a form of reflux. i had undergone several tests and specialists, speculation from lung disease to mould poisoning to asthma often surfaced as everyone had their own take but my doctor suggested 'reflux' and prescribed me some medication which instantly fixed the issue. only i had forgotten all about it as this occurred over a year ago. 

when last weekend i started coughing again i just logically thought i'd picked up some bug from everyone i work with, as they were all sick. it wasn't anything else but reflux, fixed by one of those pills. but the damage was done, can't change the history or the intention, it's no ones fault but just the way things sometimes play out and although i carry no ill will or negative thoughts i do feel a sense of sadness that this type of misunderstanding or situation occurrs wen you least expect it and have no real defence due to circumstance.

it was nice to get a call from jake this morning, he arrived yesterday afternoon and had been to see his mother, things do not look good, it's pretty bad but he's prepared and strong. me, i'm still not sure what to make of the whole thing. i was wondering if I should attend the funeral, more outa respect for jake than her but the whole thing could backfire. those people hated me, they were cruel and behaved disgusting towards me, i have nothing to prove or any point to make but i wanna do the right thing, once i work that out.

cancer.

that c word again, what is it why do we get it, i have theories, ideas i have collected that may or may not be true. it appears many people i know have cancer in one form or another and i am no expert at all. it's always been something of a mystery to me, something that i just blank upon when it came up in conversations, a sort of medical term for some complex type of cell mutation, not something i am interested in. words like remission, benign, malignant and remission seemed to fly way above my head and on a need to know basis i never needed to know. anyways, at the moment several people i am close to and some i am not are all suffering from it or have had close encounters. now my ex wife has it. it's appears terminal in her case and although i have nothing to do with her it's tragic as she is only early 60's and obviously it effects my son who has to deal with it.

my own process would be o avoid all medical treatments, and throw myself into ayahuscia or sound therapy, sounds via vibrational medicine and alternative treatments, and i would probably die. but there is no way I will surrender to the medical model. it's inherently wrong and although society invests in it i don't. so if i get cancer chances are i will die.

however i don't plan to, i plan to live and grow old on my own terms. cancer can get fucked.

anyways my theories are:

it's some sort of parasite and can be treated as such

it's a physical manifestation of emotional trauma

it's caused by the covid vaccinations

it's just a fuckin nasty illness nature throws at us.

who really knows. all i know is i'm kinda sick of how much money is wasted on so many unessessery things when we could just cure it. if we had a will for where there's a will there's a way. it stands to reason if we can get to the moon we can cure this, so why haven't we.

logic says, it's because its a cash cow, an industry which keeps the markets spinning and a cure would be catastrophic for the multinationals and peripherals who profit from it.

a friend of mine told me that research after the holocaust showed that none of the survivors had heart disease, kidney disease, cancers, in fact all their organs were clean. recently i heard a guy who was captive of hamas for two years say when he was released the doctors could not believe how healthy his organs were. he was officially starving but internally his organs were clean. they said it was a mystery. maybe the way to deal with cancer is to fast but it's so extreme. i could only manage 24 hours. i guess if you are forced it's a different story.

stupid cancer. i wish it would just fuck off.

okay early night, early morning, here i am waiting to be picked up for the blue mountains trip, i'm wearing long pants, a new church tee shirt and my big overcoat. we had over night rain but it has stopped now and there is a hint of sunlight. i'm listening to a great podcast from winston marshall interviewing alison pearson from the telegraph, it's very good. i've grown to really like winston's interviews, he's a magnificent host and very knowledgable for such a young man.

well i better get my skates on.

early mornings in the terrible surf as the sun rises and warms my skin, waves are okay but my fin is battered and falling apart, it is time to take out the new one. yesterday i hurt my foot, it's throbbing hard today and difficult to stand upon, i must stop thinking i am a teenager when it comes to jumping over walls.
lots happening, my book is due out in the new year, it's kinda exciting plus i've modified or in process of modifying 'yuri' which hopefully will make it less dense, and then i can begin work on manifesto which will take a full year to complete art work and all.
fortunately i am highly motivated and ironed out all the creases in my productivity, plus incentivised and i think getting work play balance in order. a few recreational events upcoming, trips to the blue mountains, the church gigs, a sk solo show and some social activities and readings, so that's kinda nice.
outside they are digging up my road, trucks, dust everywhere but new pipes and surface makes my little cup de sac quite the lovely place. now time to get me skates on as a friend has made me pancakes. yay!

 

and here it is, out of the blue the new church tune and video, sacred echoes 2. interestingly based upon the photography of dorothy lange, a woman i studied at university when i was learning photography she worked for the food and farm administration and captured the depression down in the south so people in the north could see the photographs of how it was impacting. i guess in some ways this was the beginning of photojournalism. lange did something quite brilliant, she captured the humanity of people, that emotion transmission a photograph can carry, a picture speaks a million words. 

after last weekend i begun to burn out, exhaustion and fatigue had infected my psyche and the weariness was showing, i was finding it difficult to sleep and my motivation was at an all time low. work was giving me a headache and flu like symptoms were showing. the walls were closing in. on to of that i was having long distance issues with family and no resolution. therefore i made the difficult discussion to just take a week off and look after myself.
thankfully the weather was fine, surf was up and i managed to spend my mornings catching waves and hanging out in the sun at the beach, during the afternoon i settled into the routine of writing and finishing up my book, 'the antidote.' 
evenings i would wind down with an early night so i could get up early. 
one day i climbed the skillion, and watched the whales and one day i visited my friend who was in hospital. 
there was no real major change in my lifestyle, just a lot more sleep and routine. my cough disappeared fast and the old bones stopped aching, in fact by about wednesday i was beginning to feel much better and happier about the completion of my book. and today friday i planted some seeds my friend had given me in a big pot at the bottom of the garden, cleared a few piles of junk and pottered around doing laundry and a deep clean in the bathroom.
the road outside is being dug up as they are laying a new pipe so access has been tricky lots of trucks and dust but it has been completed and looks a lot better, at least the potholes are filled in. so that's the week. 

 

great early morning surf out on the south end of terrible, waters sharp but waves are wild and i manage to catch a few but it is time to pick up a new fin, my old blue one is on it's last legs, after 20 years the pod is going into retirement and the replacement will be a wooden one. it's the end of an era and beginning of a new one.

from wild waves to wilde childe it's been ages since i managed to catch up but today i drove around to her new abode,  which is not far from me and we spent an hour together chatting planning and laughing, she's looking great and still in the process of unpacking which is something i seem to still be doing.

it's home for me for a rest, my body feels somewhat in need of a siesta after all this palaver so i wander in and have a rest. oh it's nice o be home again, put me feet up. there's a lot of work i need to do but to be honest can't be bothered, i just wanna lay down and have a mid afternoon snooze.

i have to meet some people for a samhain gathering later in the evening, so i better attempt to look somewhat presentable. 

it's halloween time

 

the carpet crawlers are here, well the cleaner is although he is on his hands and knees with his weird steam machines as he attempts to clean up the terrible blood splatter stains that trail along my upstairs corridor and most of my bedroom. it really looks like a serial killers den up there, and it's embarrassing if visitors would pop in.  i mean it's always the person you least suspect right?
oh he was such a quiet neighbour, always had his head in a book. real nice guy.
anyways it's been going on a while and i just hope he's making progress with the blood. Jesus, it really is a mess. 

how did it get there you ask.

well i was moving a massive bookcase and the bottom of out hit my leg, and then blood just spurted out non stop, being on blood thinners didn't help. anyway's it not only hurt like hell, i was unable to move as the furniture was blocking my path to the bathroom so i just carried on until the bookcase was slotted into place. and the blood stained carpet was left looking like a pro hart / dexter variation. 

eventually i cleaned up my wound with some hydrogen peroxide, a very handy chemical to keep. i just hope the carpet crawler cleans up as effectively.

 great album from tom verlaine, i just discovered it. very hard to get on cd. love it.

the days have all blended, sometimes monday is sunday and i just don't care, as long as there's a wave that drives me forwards, the ocean has been all shades of the spectrum, still, choppy, big wild surf and gentle waves, it's clean and wet and when i emerge i'm better for it. the world gets left behind and I bathe in reality, my mind calm and clear and void, only energy unpolluted.

these are the beginning of a new phase in captain missions journey, a new arena is opening up, rebirth after a long inert winter. i have the release date for my book, it's in the final prep stage before i need to work out the cover art and launch. i'm also excited about the direction life is propelling me but most important is i have purchased a device that allows me to play my cds in my car via blu tooth. this is going to change my drive time. happiness.

currently i'm really enjoying three diverse bits of music, speed of stars by kilbey and co, richard ashcrofts new one which sticks to formula and tom verlaine's 'the wonder' album.

bookwise the fantasy epic mistborn is really getting good, I'm half way through the first book and it's suddenly improved.

what a fantastic weekend old captain mission has had, lots of surf, sun and laughter a spontaneous trip to merryweather up at newcastle, a very funny dinner party with some pals at avoca where we are laughing so hard we are literally falling from our chairs. yes old captain mission was in fine form, telling's stories and tales, joking about his attractions and repulsions to various women and discovering his spirit animal this period is the powerful owl.

yes the powerful owl is called 'archimedes' however i can't recall the word powerful and keep calling it the peculiar owl, which probably suits me better.

 

strangely enough while i am getting all enthusiastic about archimedes my friend is beginning a relationship with a donkey he came across while looking at a new property. it's quite strange how enthusiastic he is about the donkey, in fact i suspect the only reason he is buying the house is the donkey would come with it. everyday he visits and takes some carrots, 'mate i say, carrots are for rabbits,' but what do i know. late last night his wife rang me up looking for him, 'try the donkey,' i said. sure enough he was there with his four legged friend.

the powerful owl is more falcon than owl but he does make a cool owl call, in the very early mornings. he also eats a lot of small creatures like cats, rats and possums.if i could train him to get those pesky bush turkeys i'd be very happy. yesterday at work i was making owl impressions all day. i'm getting very good.

swimming at dawn again, water somewhat chilled today but it's so life affirming, the water is crystal clear and you can see the rays and fish below you. later i bask in the sun, it's so nourishing. and then i meet some people for coffee and hang out at my fave spot in terrible beach. it's wonderful being off for a few days, i'm returning to that sense of self. i have such good people around me, really great people, i'm lucky i guess.

in the afternoons i finish my novel, it's been 25 years and it's almost ready to roll, november 11th is launch date. it took so long as i had to wait for people to die. it's being proofread by a friend at the moment. the biggest change i made was the title. it's a huge step but the correct one. i cannot wait to get it out so i can start on my new one.

i am glad the hostages are home, i am grateful war has finished despite the fact it will start again. i have lived in the middle east, and i have a very good understanding of israel, gaza, jews and islam, and not only do i fully support israel, whatever connection I had with it is now stronger than ever,  it's very obvious hamas will never surrender any power they have over gaza, and by proxy neither will the idiots in the cities of the west whom identify with the islamic cause because they all celebrate dead jews more than they ever wanted peace. 

that's okay, i wrote many years ago we would be entering a phase of war i described as 'spiritual war' and we are entering it's peak point. you made your choices, and judgement will be cast by the universe. it's not quite time yet but the clock is ticking. that's the thing when you don't drill into what you are force fed. if you follow the sydney morning herald and abc, the guardian and bbc, if you follow new york times or can you will see a side. it's only by seeing the cross section of media and applying some critical analysis that allows you to see a proximity of truth. most people don't ever listen to anything that comes out of israel, ins or the times of israel therefore they never even understand what is going down. israel has one of the most liberal media and democracies in the world but you would never know that, it has the most liberal attitude to weed, to sexuality and to it's Arab population but you would never know that, it is in fact the most multi cultural society on earth but you would never know that, it has a vast population of brown and black skinned people and asian but you would never know that, it has a modern progressive attitude to women and sex but you would never know that, it has always taught peace but you wouldn't know, and why should you really care when all you care about is being on a side that virtue signals the loudest. it's okay, you are free to think whatever you wish, i'd never  censor that but i would ask that you at least acknowledge and admit you hate us jews, you hate the fact we have survived, you hate us as much as you hate yourselves. at least that would be honest.

all the things they say about israel are projections. starvation? it was only the hostages that suffered starvation. child murders = projection. watch the video shot by the palestinians, themselves, watch that then comment on morality. but the truth is you would never dare to, you made your choice long before october 7th, and as much as you would never admit it you hate the very idea of peace. you just want dead jews. that's the spiritual war, not judged by man, not even perceived but known. that's why i remain under the radar, rarely commenting, rarely speaking out because i trust the universe in a way you don't. it's part of being jewish i guess, and maybe that's what you hate.

i watched tommy robertson in israel, a great man whom has been labeled racist, fascist and all those other projections, he has made a series of short videos about what he encounters while there, and it's very interesting if you read the comments as well. people have no idea about israel. none except what they have been programmed to think.it's amazing how brainwashed people are. how reactionary they can be and how quick they judge. and it's problematic as they cannot detach, the terrible mind virus has them and they invested so much it becomes impossible to detangle. this is why feminist groups around the world were silent when it came to the are of israeli women. this is why people wave isis flags at so called peace marches. anyways whatever your beliefs, good luck. 

 the final part of rays lennox path towards some sort of peace is as brilliant as the previous two books 'crime' and 'the long knives.' in resolution we find ray working in security after quitting the police. he's relocated himself in brighton and replaced cocaine and booze with fitness and a proper relationship. all going swimmingly until his girlfriend suggests a foursome. ray's an amicable guy, happy to please the needs of his new love, he agrees enthusiastically until he comes face to face with a man who may have started his journey all those years ago in a tunnel in leith.

this is not really a resolution but a hideous look into the kind of corruption and cover ups that take place in the background of suburban life, business and friendships. it's a nasty story brutal and violent, it's also hilarious and laser focused on all the social issues of our time, but it's irvine welsh doing what he does best, watching a man breakdown and rise up. ray lennox is a great character, his pain is real, his foibles are everyman and in the conclusion to his story ray does find some resolution. 

 

it's a magnificent day down in terrible beach, there's a mild onshore wind but the sun is out in full glory. the water is fresh and clean, not much surf but i swim out anyway and it's joyous and life affirming. after splashing around I sit in the sunshine soaking up some vitamin d and wait for my meeting with aradia. she rocks up and we wonder around the corner for a watermelon drink. we quickly swap a few stories, aradia does most of the talking. she's a defence lawyer and a writer, and she's about to publish a book about her transformation into a witch. it's a strange thing as she even looks like the ex and speaks identically the same kinda stuff. the universe is presenting me with something, i'm not sure what it is but it's exciting and frightening. 

it took a while to fall asleep, the night seemed to be heavy and my brain was moving through it faster than usual, processing various concerns like an anxiety engine. when i did fall asleep it was deep and short lived, i was meeting aradia this morning but we both got confused over times, dates and daze. i guess tomorrow will have to do. the beach was busy and the water looked amazing as the morning heat bore down. later in the day i see aradia as my car runs parallel to hers, we wind down our windows and smile, locking in tomorrow. 

now it's the morning again and aradia and i are scheduled to meet after my surf, but she has to go see her agent and i'm busy enjoying the surf so our date is postponed until tomorrow which actually suits me perfectly. the surf is spectacular and afterwards i soak up the morning light chatting to monique and the various men she has in her wake. it's a wonderful start to the day.

there's not much that pisses me off. my general theory of anger when i experience it is to just let it pass over me while I work out why i feel it and what i can do to prevent it happening again. it's unavoidable these days but fortunately my process eliminates it fast from my body and mind. anger is an energy and it has it's uses but at this stage in my life i'm not interested in that kind of energy.

one thing that does make me angry on a justifiably regular basis is the fact that car manufacturers no longer make cars that play cds. this does cause me considerable anger as i don't want to hear music on a stick, i like sliding that disc in the slot and kicking back on my journey, the soundtrack meets the landscape. that's just how it is for me. 

in red eye yesterday i managed to pick up 'speed of stars' new cd 'as italy dreamed...through summers of haze,' and although I have played it at home it's the music i would like to play driving along the coast on a hot day. i said to the guy in the cd shop as i looked down at the stacks of new cassettes, 'don't tell me cassettes are coming back into fashion?'
'yeah he said, they are getting popular.'
'i'm waiting for cds to comeback.'
he laughed, 'they are actually coming back as well.'

so there car manufacturers, cds will be coming back and you guys fucked up.

anyways i'm really loving, yes that's the right word, loving this album. it's so good, these guys have really created this suburb piece of music, it's exceptional. no fluff, no filler, just great quality songs. songs that make you want to drive, road tripping music. it's a good job i have a great imagination and if i close my eyes i can see the music play out in front of me as i drive my fiat down to sorrento stopping at some coastal village for a coffee and a crunchy italian busicuit, flirting with a cute waitress staring in my own movie with the perfect soundtrack. life.

reading earl slicks book 'guitar' is filled with surprises but there's no surprise in reading how amazing bowie was at everything he did. the book itself is just slick just talking stories about his live and adventures with various people. it's an easy read and very worthwhile.

the time melts into mornings, and the mornings melt into now. at the beach i watch the women pass me by, all out and about looking glamorous and busy, sipping lattes and walking fast in tight stretchy pants, smelling good and getting ready for the summer.
sometimes i get lost in women, it's like a magnetic force overwhelms my whole being and i'm just floating in some strange narcotic like fugue state, part erotic, part romantic, part fantasy and part pornographic hallucination. the perfect way to describe this feeling is via a beatles song, 'fixing a hole.' i'm not sure why, it just does.

i have a lot of work to do, read through a version of my novel, 'rites' and make some major adjustments at the end of the narrative, it skips a year or so in a time jump and i'm not sure if it works. i really need a second opinion. maybe it requires chapters. it certainly needs a change.

i surf at dawn, the water is cold but i acclimatise fast, there's not much of a wave but it does feel good. as usual the beach is filled with friendly locals and acquaintances, in the night time we watch the drumming and hula hoop fire twirling girls, i manage to score a free dinner and under the sprawling stars everything feels peaceful and in the right place.

last night i'm having dinner with peter in avoca, we go for affogato in terrible at an exclusive restaurant where the dessert was more than the dinner. but it's good to see peter and we laugh at almost everything from the strange code we cracked of avoca waitresses to the crazy nightlife of terrible after dark.in the morning shayne picks me up for our weekly coffee and debrief, it's nice as we always drive to ettalong, 'the lords of pour' where they have an interesting menu. 

i make contact with the queen of the witches, she's a carbon template of my old twin flame, it's uncanny although i guess being an ex criminal lawyer puts her in a somewhat different type of bracket, yet she speaks identical, often repeating things the ex used to say. it really is bizarre. she is interested to get to know me, read some work, and i hers. the connection is very strong, even she agrees. the universe is kind to me, it does love and guide me and sends me interesting women.

i finish 'all fours' a highly praised national award winner. it's part of my commitment to read more female writers and as usual i am very disappointed. modern publishing is as tragic as the music industry and although many parts of the book are well written the novel is extremely self indulgent and partly ridiculous. i'm sure it will do well for the many young middle class women book clubs of the northern suburbs of sydney who have all the luxuries and domestic appliance's including husbands and children and fruitful careers yet still require fulfilment be it sexual or spiritual. oh how i wish i didn't have to finish this book, but commitment is commitment. 

at least now i can read something else. i need some violence, a male voice lusting after young women and gratuitous graphic content. or at least a great story.  i love the sisterhood but seriously what passes as a novel these days is just a DEI pick. i've always said, when a publisher approves a manuscript they should know nothing about the writer. nothing!

on perfect days i take a book down to the beach and read a few chapters in the sun soaking up some d from the source and say hi to a few passing folks and maybe grab a coffee and watch people move through me by while i think about writing new novels, character's, plot devices and arcs, various narrative inventions and how i would ideally want to tell and then read a story. sometimes my work has various magical themes, but whatever the project i'm involved in, there's always a certain amount of magickal development. even daydreaming which comes easy to me, as my novels and my life are the same thing.

so i'm now walking back to the car, i'm taking a long way around, because it's the journey not the destination and i'm pondering my long lost magical project, an invocation of hekate. the whole thing would take 8 months and although i've prepared myself for it the cosmos seems to always have different plans for me, and thus it remains at the back of my mind, perculating. but today it's not far away, as i wander along in my blissed out serene  tranquility moon base state of mind a car, a beaten up black jeep type pulls up right in front of me almost but not quite running me down. a window scrolls down and inside a young lady apologises, to which i reply, 'it's quite fine, everything's just fine.' and as i speak i see the lady is no ordinary lady but significantly beautiful, instantly alluring and myserious and all i think is i could just open the door and sit next to her. i don't care where she is going, i just want to sit beside her as she drives to her next appointment. we engage in some sort of converataion. she tells me she's a criminal lawyer and a writer and her name is aradia. 

'that's a beautiful name,' i say, ' it sounds like the name of a bright star or a galaxy.'

and then the car behind her starts to force it's way through so she needs to drive on to the main road but we are mid flirt and it's all to much, like the universe just started a stopwatch and has given us 5 seconds to seal the deal.

'but i would love to hear all about your writing' i say. 'i'd like to see you again.'

'how do we do this?' she asks.

and in that moment i knew. i would have taken a leap of faith. but i told her my name and said look me up. and she drove off.

and as i continued the return to my own car my heart. my mind and my guts were sitting next to her, sticking a church cd into her cd player and saying, 'listen to this, you're going to love it. and by the way. we are going to have a fabulous life together.'

about a year or so ago i read paul levy's book series wetiko series, something which resonated with me very much and continues to do so although i have many questions to ask him. the other day while scanning the net i discovered he had written an eloquent explanation of wetiko and i feel it's timely to share it with people. please read and think about this:

What is Wetiko

by

Paul Levy

A contagious psycho-spiritual disease of the soul is currently being acted out en masse on the world stage via an insidious collective psychosis of titanic proportions. This mind-virus—which Native Americans have called “wetiko”—covertly operates through the unconscious blind spots in the human psyche, rendering people oblivious to their own madness and compelling them to act against their own best interests. Wetiko is a psychosis in the true sense of the word, “a sickness of the spirit.” Wetiko covertly influences our perceptions so as to act itself out through us while simultaneously hiding itself from being seen.

Wetiko bewitches our consciousness so that we become blind to the underlying, assumed viewpoint through which we perceive, conjure up, and give meaning to our experience of both the world and ourselves. This psychic virus can be thought of as the “bug” in “the system” that informs and animates the madness that is playing out in our lives, both individually and collectively, on the world stage.

Before being able to treat this sickness that has infected us all, we have to snap out of our denial, see the disease, acknowledge it, name it, and try to understand how it operates so as to ascertain how to deal with it—this is what my book Wetiko is all about.

The Normalization of Wetiko

A few years ago I ran into a friend whom I hadn’t seen for a while. He asked me what I had been up to. I answered that I was writing about the collective psychosis that our species had fallen into. His response was telling. He asked me what made me think there was a collective psychosis going on. His question left me speechless; I literally didn’t know how to respond. What made him think there wasn’ta collective psychosis going on, I wondered. Could he give me one piece of evidence? Our collective madness had become so normalized that most people—my friend was extremely bright, by the way—didn’t even notice.

Many of us have become conditioned to thinking that if we were in a middle of a collective psychosis it would mean that people would be doing all sorts of “crazy” things such as running around naked and screaming, for instance. This ingrained idea, however, gets in the way of recognizing the very real collective insanity in which all of us are—both passively and actively—participating. If we want to envision what a collective psychosis could actually look like, it might be a real eye-opener to realize it would look exactly like what is happening right now in our world.

What Is Wetiko Really?

Wetiko is a cannibalizing force driven by insatiable greed, appetite without satisfaction, consumption as an end in itself, and war for its own sake, against other tribes, species, and nature, and even against the individual’s own humanity. It is a disease of the soul, and being a disease of the soul, we all potentially have wetiko, as it pervades and “in-forms” the underlying field of consciousness. Any one of us at any moment can fall into our unconscious and unwittingly become an instrument for the evil of wetiko to act itself out through us and incarnate in our world. If we see someone who seems to be taken over by wetiko and we think they have the disease and we don’t, in seeing them as separate we have fallen under the spell of the virus ourselves.

Wetiko induces in us a proclivity to see the source of our own pathology outside of ourselves—existing in “the other.” Wetiko feeds off of polarization and fear—and terror—of “the other.” Seeing the world through a wetiko-inspired lens of separation/otherness enlivens what Jung calls “the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul,” and simultaneously plays itself out both within our soul and in the world at large. Wetiko subversively turns our “genius” for reality-creation against us in such a way that we become bewitched by the projective tendencies of our own mind.

Falling under wetiko’s spell, we become entranced by our own intrinsic gifts and talents for dreaming up our world in a way that not only doesn’t serve us, but rather is put at the service of wetiko (whose agenda is contrary to our own). Our creativity then boomerangs against us such that we hypnotize ourselves with our creative genius, which cripples our evolutionary potential. To the extent we are unconsciously possessed by the spirit of wetiko, it is as if a psychic tapeworm or parasite has taken over our brain and tricked us, its host, into thinking we are feeding and empowering ourselves while we are actually nourishing the parasite (a process which will ultimately kill its host—us).

In wetiko disease, something that is not us surreptitiously, beneath our conscious awareness, takes the place of and plays the role of who we actually are. Shape-shifting so as to cloak itself in our form, this mercurial predator gets under our skin and “puts us on” as a disguise. Miming ourselves, we become a copy, a false duplicate of our true selves. We are then truly playing out a real version of the imposter syndrome.

The Sickness of Exploitation

Wetiko is powerless to control our true nature, but it can control and manipulate this false identity that it sets up within us. When we fall under the sway of wetiko’s illusion, we simultaneously identify with who we are not, while dissociating from and forgetting who we actually are—giving away our power, not to mention ourselves, in the process.

Disconnecting from our own intrinsic agency, we open ourselves to be used, manipulated, and exploited by outside forces. Indigenous author Jack Forbes, who wrote the classic book about wetiko entitled Columbus and Other Cannibals, refers to wetiko as “the sickness of exploitation.” Wetiko can be conceived of as being an evil, cannibalistic, vampiric spirit that inspires people under its sway to take and consume another’s resources and life-force energy solely for their own profit, without giving anything of value back from their own lives. Wetiko thus violates the sacred law of reciprocity in both human affairs and the natural world as a whole.

The main channel of wetiko’s transmission is relational. It exists through our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the world at large. Like a vampire that can’t stand the light of day, the wetiko virus can’t stand to be illumined. However, in seeing how it covertly operates through our own consciousness, we take away its seeming independence, autonomy, and power over us, while at the same time empowering ourselves. The way the vampiric wetiko covertly operates within the human psyche is mirrored by the way it works in the outside world.

Jung never tired of warning us that the greatest danger threatening humanity today is the possibility that millions—even billions— of us can fall into our unconscious together in a collective psychosis, reinforcing each other’s madness in such a way that we become unwittingly complicit in creating our own destruction. When this occurs, humanity finds itself in a situation where we are confronted with—and battered by—the primal, primordial, and elemental forces of our own psyche.

The Internal Origins of Wetiko

The most depraved part of falling under the thrall of wetiko is that, ultimately speaking, it involves the assent of our own free will; no one other than ourselves is ultimately responsible for our situation. There is no objective entity called wetiko that exists outside of ourselves that can steal our soul—the dreamed-up phenomenon of wetiko tricks us into giving it away ourselves.

People under the sway of wetiko are implicated in and willingly subscribe to their own enslavement. They do this to the point that when offered the way out of the comfort of their prison they oftentimes react violently. They symbolically—and sometimes literally—try to kill the messenger who is showing them the path to freedom. Ultimately speaking, in wetiko disease we are not being infected by a physical, objectively existing virus outside of ourselves. Rather, the origin and genesis of the wetiko psychosis is endogenous; its roots are to be found within the human psyche. The fact that wetiko is the expression of something inside of us means that the cure for wetiko is likewise within us.

If we don’t understand that our current world crisis has its roots within and is an expression of the human psyche, we are doomed to unconsciously repeat and continually recreate endless suffering and destruction in increasingly amplified forms, as if we are having a recurring nightmare. In my language, the inner situation within ourselves is getting “dreamed up” into materialized form in, through, and as the world.

In waking life we are continually dreaming right beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when we are under the influence of our unconscious complexes. In other words, when we are “under the influence” of our activated unconscious, we will unknowingly recreate our very inner landscape via the medium of the outside world. What can be more dreamlike than that?

What is happening in the world today is reflecting—and both literally and symbolically revealing to us—something unknown within our own psyche. At the same time, in a nonlinear acausal feedback loop that happens both atemporally (outside of time) and over (linear) time, events in our world are informed and shaped by the very inner psychological process they are reflecting. The inner and outer are simultaneously co-arising and reciprocally co-evoking each other. This is to say that what is happening within us and what is arising in our world have a mysterious interconnection; the inner and the outer are ultimately not separate nor separable.

Recognizing the correlation between the inner and the outer, between the micro and the macro, is the doorway into being able to see wetiko and wake up to the dreamlike nature that wetiko is simultaneously hiding and revealing depending on our point of view and level of awareness. Recognizing the connection between what is happening out in the world with what is taking place within our minds becomes a channel or secret doorway that leads beyond our merely personal psychological issues, empowering us to deal with the essential problem of our time.

Dreaming Wetiko

The wetiko psychosis is a dreamed-up phenomenon, which is to say that we are all potentially participating in and actively cocreating the wetiko epidemic in each and every moment. Like a collective dream, the wetiko epidemic is the manifestation of something in our shared collective unconscious taking on material form. Wetiko is literally demanding that we pay attention to the fundamental role that the psyche (the source of our dreams) plays in creating our experience of ourselves and of the world.

Forgetting the crucial role that the psyche plays in creating our experience, we marginalize our own intrinsic authority, tragically dreaming up both internal and external authoritarian forces to limit our freedom and mold our experience for us. Never before in all of human history has our species been forced to confront the numinous, world-transforming powers of the psyche on so vast a scale. Even with the ongoing multiple catastrophes that are converging in our world, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the darkness that is emerging today might become the soil out of which a regenerative age and nobler culture arise.

Although the source of humanity’s inhumanity to itself, wetiko is at the same time a potential catalyst for our evolution as a species. Recognizing the dreamed-up nature of the wetiko epidemic can become the impetus for us to awaken to the dreamlike nature of the universe itself.

In a circular process without beginning or end, we are being dreamed up by the universe while dreaming up the universe at one and the same time. To see this not only demands that we have an expansion of consciousness, it is the very expansion itself. The less wetiko is recognized, however, the more seemingly powerful and dangerous it becomes. Wetiko can only be seen when we begin to realize the dreamlike nature of our universe, step out of the illusory viewpoint of the separate self, and recognize the deeper underlying field of which we are all expressions, in which we are all contained, and through which we are all interconnected.

These are interrelated insights of the same multifaceted realization. The energetic expression of this realization, and the wetiko dissolver par excellence, is compassion. Connecting with the compassion that is our nature we find ourselves in very good company. Being the unmediated expression of recognizing the dreamlike nature, compassion reciprocally co-arises with lucidity. In other words, if we’re genuinely awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality, both lucidity and compassion will be inseparably united components of our experience.

As if an instrument of a higher intelligence, wetiko literally invites—make that demands—that we become conscious of and step into our intrinsic creative power and agency, or suffer the consequences. Instead of mutating so as to become resistant to our attempts to heal it, the wetiko virus forces us to mutate—to evolve— relative to it. Wetiko is a quantum phenomenon, in that it contains within itself the potential to be either the deadliest poison or the most healing medicine. Will wetiko destroy us? Or will it catalyze our evolution and wake us up?

driving into the moon, the road is crystal clear, an envelope of magical light surrounds the freeway as i cruise along north bound, into the deepest parts of lunar projection. that massive bright satellite fills my network, messages from other places transmitted long ago received finally after static interference from humanity, it only takes solidarity and solitude. 
i turn off the freeway and follow the path home, as i take a right turn there she is up there directly ahead, that strange biscuit shaped circle, a super-moon about to eclipse. it's a wonderful thing to behold.

fathers day, i can't help but think about my dad, so many things he just didn't understand about me. it makes me sad that there was this chasm of misunderstanding, he just never understood me. i guess that was that generational thing, that gap people speak of from the 50's to the 60's only i was not even part of the hippie movement, i was alone and belonged to no movement, belonging to no one thing. a satellite like the moon. a super-moon.

anyways my father is always there, everyday, a ghost in memory form, a vast part of the past i always attempt to project into the present. light takes time. it has it's own speed. 

i speak to my mother, she's scared and alone. she lives in fear, it's frustrating the hell out of me but i have no influence and when i attempt to communicate to those that do i'm literally snubbed. i've given up attempting to even communicate now. that connection has been cut, my efforts to fix them have been pointless.

for the next two days it rains, heavy misery but i'm hibernating indoors, getting through some stuff i need to do like the bathroom spring clean, some mopping and polishing. still far to much clutter i need to get rid off but slowly i'm actually getting somewhere. i'm also developing a sore throat so it's plenty of lemon and honey tea, lots of sleep and recuperation from battlefield work.

at terrible, crack of dawn the sun is out and the skies are blue, it's simply a wonderful spring day filled with potential and could go anywhere. i'm sitting down head into my james blish book, and my skin feels the sunlight, that wonderful burst of energy as my bones drink it in and heat pulsates through me, vitamin d straight from the source. i see my friends heading towards me, and we chat and swap stories, particularly my friend danni who gives me a lesson in artificial intelligence, she's a very smart lady who is also very funny and always manages to make me laugh. she's actually very smart and is a bit of a business woman so i'm grateful for her help, she offers to come around and train me. we look at the world passing us by, it's amazing what a sunny morning can do but through the corner of my eye i see the southern horizon fill with heavy rainclouds and the dark underbelly cast a shadow as it grows and expands. the temperature drops rapidly, the energy changes fast and i make my excuses and head home. as i drive big droplets of rain fall on my windscreen. 

by the time i am home the clouds have burst open and i have to run through the house to get to the clothes line where my washing is hanging, grabbing everything and hauling it indoors. the temperature has dropped significantly and it's colder than usual. spring in sydney.

i sit down for a moment to gather my thoughts, uncertain what i really need to do, at some point in time i need a hair cut and beard trim, whenever i cast my reflection i feel that what looks back is an older version of me, shabby, unkept and wild, and although it really doesn't bother me to much it would be true to say, i'm  overdue for a trim.

for me it's like being in medieval times, surrounded by accusers and conspiracy people who have gone so far down the rabbit hole they cannot actually think outside it. while i cannot disprove their nonsense, it's all based upon ignorance, even if i could the facts won't change their minds. i cannot blame them, they are just confused by irrational fear, almost hysteria. 

so, the skylight is being finished and it's a messy job, as i type there are two tradies australians call gyp rockers who in english are plasterers and they are finishing off the work on my roof. this is a big change in the interior, light will flood the dining table and thus the energy will change. i'm specifically thinking about full moons.

at the beach the surf breaks perfectly and there are a handful of people without wetsuits swimming, friends tell me the water is warm, however i may give it a few extra weeks as the cold immobilises me, but the call of the ocean is strong, it's really is.

the james blish novel, 'black easter' is a bit strange, there's so much description of magical rituals and paraphernalia, magick appears as complex as engineering or a well disciplined science and the plot is kinda insane, a black magician is consulted by a very rich arms dealer to eliminate the governor of california, and then a scientist. this being a trail test for the arms dealers true desire, to unleash the gates off hell upon the world, just to see what happens. obviously the magician he has chosen to do this is very powerful and possibly the most interesting character in the novel. he's almost bored by the tasks but testing his powers. the big twist in the story being the retreat of god, therefore the demons cannot return to hell. 

i'm enjoying reading it except for the magick which is far to ritualistic and medieval for me, however, the point is made well. 

this morning i venture down to the ocean but i miscalculate, it's angry and windy, it has a ferocity that is dangerous so i retreat to my coffee shop and then head home. my fish, only one left is swimming in a freshly cleaned pond, the outside area looks very good, landscaped and clear of debris. soon i will erect my hammock and enjoy a spring afternoon lazing in the sunshine overlooking the front garden. mission control slowly taking shape, slowly getting there.
with a new roof i'm immune from leaking, new skylight the sunshine will illuminate my indoor palms and the whole interior will morph into something spectacular. mission control my little sanctuary, a genuine eden with my stereo cranked up playing some space tune from kilbey and kennedy, ambient poetry, 'ignorance is bliss, thus you are eurporic,' you gotta love that hey?

i'm still recovering from some weird sin, it's left me tired and sleepy, somewhat in need of a warm tropical island and some coconuts. not much i can do about that. just have to grin and wear it. work does my brain in, the endless ridiculous double standards, the lack of mature communication, the slow death of my clients as they are dumbed down into control by an unconscious authority, ah well, onwards and forwards.

these days i just love being home, alone. pottering around, reading and pondering like a galactic watcher of worlds, waiting for the mothership or some sort of intervention. waiting for a sun god or solar flare, waiting for the angels of principalities, waiting for the barbarians, waiting for the magic bus and the visions of charlotte, waiting for the english civil war, california sinking into the ocean, waiting for the postman, and to bump into nick cave, waiting for the pain to cease, war to end, the clouds to part and waiting on a friend. 

p.s. i'm reading james blish, 'after such knowledge' a collection of novels based around the tension between magick and science. 

the last few days i've had some sort of weird virus like flu, it's okay as the rain keeps me inside anyway but generally i'm not sleeping much due to some weird condition, i'm tired but sleep just refuses to defend upon me, instead i read and listen to podcasts which is probably not the correct method of sleep induction. i probably should read a very boring book. i once read a book called 'an arabian nightmare'' that was a novel set in cairo, it was about dreaming and dreams within dreams, it was also about cats which feature strongly in the dreams of the main character and the city in which he found himself succumbing to this strange malaise. i recall every time i picked it up and read a few lines i myself would fall asleep as if this book had some weird spell casting mechanism upon me. i've never experienced anything like that before.

so last night we took a trip into the past, and ended up after very civilised drinks at the opera house bar, watching the city light up at dusk. expresso martinis, the rain had ceased, the neon skyline was magnificently illustrated in it's rich blues and striking reds, the toaster famous for it's celebrity overdose, yes you, sprawled out as a million tourists took the opportunity of a break in the downpour and enjoyed a night at the opera.

then we headed to kings cross for the sole purpose of govinda's where we watched a magnificent film called 'road to patagonia.' before a lovely vegan meal upstairs in the resteruant.

the film was about a young man from melbourne whom goes on a surfing trip to an indonesian island where the natives are animists and he ends up staying with them for 4 years, learning their ways and understanding their connection to the land. when he returns to australia and begins working in IT he has a breakdown, anxiety and depression. he escapes and decides to follow his desire to travel from alaska riding his motorbike and surfing at all the breaks he passes until he gets to patagonia.'

however around the canadian coastline he meets a young girl who is a farmer and very into nature and the environmental impact she makes upon the world, she's adopted an alternative way of living and they spend months together, swapping skills among other things i guess. when they depart the young man is quite emotional but he is determined to finish his quest and travels down to california, catching waves and meeting friends. and with a beautiful leap of faith she joins him and travels south on bikes. all sort of calamities befall the couple and although the journey is about the environment, indigenous relationships to land, the natural order it's also a journey of love as these two remarkable people transcend all obstacles and are committed to the end point. eventually they decide that to lessen their own impact they will trade the bikes for horses and they travel the rest of the journey on horseback, again challenged by emotional spiritual and physical obstacles. at one point they have to sell the horses and after travelling with them for so long, connecting with them it's painful and for the young girl she's loosing her sense of self as she merges  closer into him. she goes back and he continues. he gets there. and then he realises it was nothing without her. she was the key and he flies back to canada and turns up at her door and the next thing we see are them sitting at a farm in victoria having dinner outside with friends and their children. let me say it is a great story, i loved it. the shamanistic bits were toned down, everything alluded to ayahuscia but never quite explained, the journey involved stripping away of everything, even identity until there was nothing and in nothing they both understood all that mattered was their love for one another. beautiful. low budget, filmed on mobile phones, surfing and spirituality, all leading to la deeper love.

we all ate this beautiful food and debriefed about our fave bits in the movie, and then we walked around the cross looking at all the places i used to go, places that are iconic for me, 'barons' now long gone, 'pimlico cafe' now some sort of trendy bar, it's all very gentrified, everything was quiet and there were only a few people wandering around. saturday at midnight, the cross was dead. we couldn't even get a coffee.

our memories of the cross were a vital vibrant place filled with chaos, traffic blocked as people were walking on the road, half undressed, out-of- it people, dramas unfolding, over crowded bars and clubs, hawkers selling flesh, sex everywhere, it was glorious in its heyday but now, it's lost it's spirit, it's nice, clean and just another piece of real estate with big burger restaurants everywhere.

my hash cake has worn off, i'm tired and feeling weird, my nose is leaking, i'm older now. all that drama from my past is long gone, but there was something wild about it i miss.  a weird nostalgia.

on the peripheries lies fantasy, a genre i rarely delve into, a genre i usually avoid but joe abercrombie always seem to pop up when i investigate good books to read, he always seems on the selves in bookshops with asimov and aldis and many times i avoid him and delve into hard science fiction but these days fantasy is everywhere, it overwhelms science fiction and the sf genre is polluted by politically correct and feminst marxist philosophies that are badly written and lack any kind off interesting take. do i sound harsh here? all the female science fiction writers bar maybe le guin, shelley, mary doria russell and a handful of others have nothing new to say that is not based around politically correct tropes and happy endings. girl gets the girl. i dunno, i need more, i need to have my mind blown and i need challenge and a good story, not feel like i've just read the opinion piece from the guardian or sydney morning bullshit. 

the only fantasy books ever enjoyed are mervyn peake, tolkien, pullman and that george rr martin series, 'game of thrones.'

the rest are just far to dull and kinda based around tolkiens themes, the heroes journey, so you feel like you are reading the same story and then one day just as an experiment i picked up 'the devils' abocrombie's new book and gave it a go.

absolutely brilliant, i completely understand the adoration he receives from his readers and i enjoyed reading the novel so much i want everyone to read it. i'm not going to tell you anything about it here, just trust me, read it.

now here's something, i loved this book so much i'm going to work my way through his back catalogue. 

im never comfortable in cold climates, they make me nervous and cause a contraction in my mind. i don't like rain either, these attributes confound most people i know who seem to be quite comfortable with these conditions. they think there's something quite peculiar with my distaste for these elements. 

anyway's i'm better in the heat, the sun, the blue in the sky and the comfort of tee shirts and shorts, sunglasses and maybe a hat. i have lived in many cold climates, berlin, canada, the uk all places that leave me, well feeling cold. and that snow, yuk!

last night and this morning was very cold, despite the early morning sunshine. down on the beach the onshore wind cut through my old bones like a nazi scientist. it made me very uncomfortable. then joined by my friends i began to warm up. as usual our conversations went from the vast indian migration to sydney, the rise of south america, two tier kier in the uk, and the wonders of govinda's hari krishna food in the 80's and 90's and perhaps a saturday trip for a feast and movie. well i'm up for that. i'll bring the cookies. 

anyway's the whole morning was productive as i got my technology fixed, although i still can't operate blu tooth in my car. 

also ever since i named my fish carpe and diem, diem has been suffering from some sort of weird affliction. i'm not sure he will make it.

some friends in the uk send me a version of a song i wrote, it's made by fake intelligence and it sounds incredible. i do love what can be done, but there are some tweaks i will suggest. listening to it actually floored me, it really is amazing what fake intelligence can do and somewhat frightening.

occasionally i get things right, sometimes in a blue moon this old druid feels the impulse of the universe conspire in his brain, some wild psycadelic download installed, it's not like i even give permission. 
recall those old films about the greeks and their gods playing games, pulling strings, as though humans were chess pieces and they were just bored players making stupid moves. 'oh lets see what mission does if we make him face a gorgon.' 
'we are out of gorgan's in these modern times we only have the far more deadly 'ideologies' however i don't recommend releasing them, you know what happens when we do.'
'yes, death destruction and chaos, but that is part of the drama is it not. part of our entertainment?'

'i don't know anymore, i'm bored with these games, just do whatever you want.'

and this is why the greek gods are dead, they ran out of games to play, humans are tenacious and creative. they find ways to win, to survive and thrive. 

the newer gods born from philosophy were much more deadly, they are proxies of the mind, thought forms with a life of their own, contaminating everything they touch. billions dead, the earth is littered with corpses and bones, the body deceased but the ideology lives. dead ideologies come back from the dead.

there are a number of gods associated with the mind, with mental health but these all seem to be dead as well, and i think like all gods their creations kill them. 

killed by their own ideology like frankenstein, then free to wander the planet and contaminate others. this is the way of the world we live in, a war of ideologies, with us as the battlefield. they is no escape, it all seems relentless, no escape from it, no rest, just onwards and onwards, until you take a side.

cosmic war

one day i found myself on the island of zanzibar with two very lovely french ladies marian and flora. we were just living in a hut on the indian ocean, eating coconuts and fresh fish with rice. there were some rasta folk around so weed was always present and reggae was always somewhere. most of the time it was just sleeping, swimming and relaxing, nothing much else drove us. we enjoyed chatting about our lives and books and i found myself as close to paradise as possible. there were no other tourists around but occasionally strangers would turn up for an afternoon, usually to visit the owner of the place a finish lady who was always stoned. the girls had heard rumours about a bar in the north, it was on the beach and would take about a days hike to reach if we followed the coastline. 

i dunno, the idea of a big trek to a bar didn't really motivate me but the girls had persuasive ways, and obviously i capitulated.

so after a breakfast of fresh ginger coffee with cardamon we set off, cameras, money and sarongs. 

you know walking along beaches in the tropics, warm clear turquoise water lapping at our feet, the pleasure in the air radiating like a soft sensual dream, it was all perfect. i would tell the girls stories and they would talk about their lives back in europa, we all loved reading so books featured heavily and occasionally when we came to a nice little bay and private beach we would just stop and have a lay down.

there were no other people in sight at all, just the occasional fishing boat would float by.

we would have to swim around each little inlet to get to the next beach but the water was at low tide so it was easy, but gradually after about six hours the tide began to rise, and quickly. now this surprised me, i'd seen tides come in but never this fast, one moment we were up to our waists, the next shoulders and we had to move with our hands raised to carry all our stuff.

at one point i took the cameras, passports money and spare clothing from the girls wrapped them up in my sarong and raised my hands wading along while they swam, hoping the next beach would lay around the corner of the black forbidding volcanic rock. i was wearing a wide brimmed hat which floated away as the water rose, and eventually i had to store the stuff inside a little  up high in the rock wall, and soon we were all swimming.

at first we were laughing, but as time progressed fear took hold and the girls began to show signs of anxiety and stress, tears and outright sobbing. i on the other hand was formulating the inevitable, we would all die here together. but what a perfect death for me, washed up on some weird tropical island with two beautiful french girls. there was no less a perfect way to die and thus i smiled. in retrospect i probably felt quite please with my choice of death and company, it was perfect. but as always the moment you accept the inevitable, circumstances change.

at some point a boat came around the corner from up ahead, it was a long black canoe with a tall black native holding a huge long pole, he stood upright looking at us seriously. i waved, hoping he would pull us aboard but instead he raised his free hand, the other held the pole and he pointed ahead. 

onwards we swam, the silent sentinel watching us as he drifted passed us, i almost read his mind, 'stupid tourists.'

as we rounded the rock face we could see a small inlet, a perfect white sanded beach and i yelled to the openly sobbing girls to make their way in. i reached the beach and pulled them out of the water, we all collapsed and lay down in the hot sand. breathing, absorbing the sunlight,  silently overcoming trauma. then we laughed. may hat had floated in. 

we decided to stay put until the tide went out again, and in this remote landscape of eden the simplest of pleasures were embraced because lust is life, that prehistoric impulse, the basic coding of dna. 

as we lay exhausted on the beach and somewhat dehydrated, stupidly we had forgotten to bring water, from out of the sand i noticed something disturbing as though a very tiny earthquake was making the sand move, but looking closer there appeared thousands of translucent crabs surfacing and heading towards the water. and we were in-between to exhausted to move. they seemed to part and millions of them just circumnavigated our bodies and disappeared into the ocean.

if i'm honest this frightened me more than drowning, i'm not great with anything insect like and this was a horde that would never be deterred by three bipedal creatures with soft flesh.

after the crabs had left we continued our trek, the tide receding and although more cuatious and aware of the environmental dangers by dusk we reached the bar.

it was at the northern point of the island, at the end of a very long stretch of beach. large candles illuminated the area and sofas and comfy chairs seemed randomly placed near the bar, but there was also many hammocks attached to palm trees and posts, and that's where i headed while the girls sat at the bar flirting with a small group of people gathered drinking cocktails. a. ghetto blaster was blasting, bob marly and in the pastel drenched pinks, light blues and greens, the sunset over the horizon, and we all were in awe of it's beauty and simplicity. 

i don't know how many hours passed but i was awoken by the girls who suggested it was time to head back, it was dark and stars were out in full, the gentle lap of the dark water in lieu of bob marly. the bar was empty save for the rasta barman who waved goodbye as we set off, he had said if we kept moving south we would miss the tide.

at one point we splashed about in the water and noticed the bioluminescence, it was like being surrounded by thousands of fireflies,  mind blowing. very romantic and other worldly. we were all mesmerised by its wonder.

returning back to base we shambled up the beach towards the hut, exhausted and feeling mission accomplished. the whole day was perfect, and we were alive.

as it happens flora said she took a photograph just before the water rose. she sent it to me, and it's off marion wading as the tide began to come in. over the years i thought it was lost and lay in digital heaven but yesterday i found it, although it was an old file extension and required some technical expertise to bring it to life. i am pretty sure there's another one somewhere, one of me before my hat floated away, but it may take a few years to find that one.

apparently 100000 people marched across the harbour bridge to protest israel starving the palestinians after a fake photo was posted across all western media, leading to governments of canada, france and the uk and eventually australia all recognising palestine as a country. i guess because they are left wing governments and have such large muslim populations appeasement is their self serving response.

yet the image of the real starving israeli hostage being forced to dig his own grave was ignored.

the fake picture was on the cover of the new york times and it took four days for them to confess the image was of someone with a degenerative disease. in fact israel facilitated his treatment in a hospital but that was omitted. and in the un-cropped image you can clearly see his siblings are well fed and far from starving. 

whereas the video images of the hostage digging his grave was filmed in the tunnels under gaza and the man was so weak he could barely lift the shovel as he renumerates about his death. surrounded by hamas eating from piles of food.

no one wants war. israelis least of all but the world seems to hate jews there is so much cognitive dissociation calcified in their brains, and they cannot see the woods for the trees. the fog of war is not so thick as murky with double standards, hate and some sort of weird psychosis, the oldest hate. a shape shifting mind virus that seems to only adapt to jews. it's weird but very much part of spiritual warfare, and not political at all.