HEY, MR KLATUU, WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT ?

First, just a wee bit of philosophy. C'mon ! You can take it? Aw, C'mon. And then we'll get down to brass tacks....Okey....?

It is logically probable (from the collective viewpoints of Thales, Plato, Aristotle Bishop George Berekeley) but totally unproven, that that the basic force of all things is some form of manifestation of energy wave (this includes the new ideas of zero-based energies). Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has talked and written about flow. Years ago, the composer John Cage talked of Indeterminacy which suggests that there exist perhaps an infinity within an edlessly creating confluence of different forms of waves. A Theologian might make the point that the Ultimate creating force of the Universe is a Conscious Self Creation and Maintaining Conscious Infinity and Primal Self Creating and Self Perpetuating Algorhythm of Ultimate Compassion, Wisdom, and Power.

From the book: When the OCtopus became a Buddha, WHAT ? by Christoper Jameson-Strang

chapter one

FIRST MENTAL BREEZE
THE PRATTICHYASAMUTPADA :



SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA'S EXPLANATION

OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE BIRTH FORCE

OF ALL ASPECTS OF PERCEIVED AND UNPERCEIVED

REALITY



"Do no evil. Attempt to do good. Purify the Mind"

The Buddha's words known specifically

as The Ovada pati mokka









Most of the early history of Buddhism is apocryphal. This includes biographies of The Buddha, his followers, the dates of the writings contained within The Pali Canon of Theravadin Texts, The Mahayana Sutras and various other texts, the dates and longevity of Buddhist teachers and saints prior to 1000 AD.



To begin with, the birth date of the Buddha is in serious question. It seems odd, that Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) did not discover any practitioners of Buddhism or Buddhist ideas during the period of conquest initiated by his father, Philip of Macedon (382-336 BC) and completed by himself (336-323 DC). Even earlier dates, including the period 622 BC, or 563-483 BC, have been given for the birthdates and death date of Siddhartha Gautama, the Sage of the Shakya clan which lived in one part of what is now Nepal. But there is no substantial proof for this.



There is some evidence of Buddhist monks being in Rome during the period of the lifetime of Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 BC). Therefore, it is possible to make a case (albeit controversial) that the Buddha was born ca. 100 BC. If it is true that he lived to be approximately 82 years old, he would have died ca. 18 BC. If he lived to be 130 years old, as states another tradition, he would have died at Vulture Peak in Northern India, approximately 13 years before the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Undoubtedly, this question will remain unresolved, but it is probable that the historical Buddha was born less than 200 years or 100 years before Jesus Christ. If Jesus Christ traveled to the Indian border or Rome, most likely, he would have met some Buddhist practitioners. All these issues will remain controversial.



As already mentioned, Siddhartha Gautama was born a prince in Lumbini Park near Kapilavatthu. His parents were King Suddhodana and Queen Siri Maha Maya, who reigned in the North of India at the border of the province of Himapanata, near the Himalaya Mountains and the border of Nepal within an Indo-Aryan tribe named the Sakiya. Siddhartha Gautama's mother died just seven days after giving birth to him and the Queen's sister; Princess Mahapajapati then became his foster mother. At the age of sixteen, Siddhartha Gautama was married to his cousin Yasodhara, who was the daughter of King Koli. At the age of 29 years, Siddhartha Gautama and his wife Yasodhara had a son. They named him Rahula.



During this same year, Siddhartha Gautama renounced his entire family, his position, titles, and wealth and became a homeless wanderer, searching for inner truth. For the next six years he lived an austere land very harsh life. At the age of 35 years, on the night of a full moon, he was sitting at the base of a Bodhitree at Bodh Gaya (India) and experienced direct enlightenment. During the remainder of his life, he gave his teachings of enlightenment to many people.



What Did the Buddha Teach? Hinayana and the First Reflex of Buddhism:



"Suffering exists



Suffering is not eternal.



Suffering can be ended by right effort of human beings.

This way of right effort is known, can be taught, and can be learned by any human."



The nature of conditioned existence is suffering."



The nature of enlightenment is the cessation of suffering"





There is an Unborn, Unbecome, Unmade, Uncompounded; for if there were not this Unborn; Unmade; Uncompounded, then there would be no transcendence from the born, become, made, and compounded.

Udana 80 f: ; Itvutakka 37



In this last quotation, the Buddha makes it quite clear that Nirvana is not any form of annihilation but a different dimension of being. It is NOT a statement discussing the transformation of personality, although, this, too, might take place.



The Buddha continues:



There is a sphere wherein is neither earth, nor water, nor fire, nor air; wherein is neither the sphere of infinite space, nor of infinite consciousness, nor of nothingness, nor of neither ideation nor non-ideation, where there is neither this world nor a world beyond, nor both together, nor sun, nor moon: I say there is neither coming from it nor going to it; it has neither duration nor decay; their is neither beginning nor establishment; there is no result and no cause; this is verily the end of suffering.

Udana 80



These passages speak of a sphere , realm, or world where the four material elements, the four Formlesss Realms, this world, all worlds beyond, and the sun and moon are not found. Further, there is no coming, no going, nor staying, neither dying, nor being born.



What is really being said is that all these notions of our physical world and phenomenal world, and all relative concepts are simply not established in any way as any form of absolute reality. One tries to pacify the mind from automatically, obsessively, and continually compounding and concocting images of reality. The negative terminology, so often used when discussing Nibbana (or Nirvana) are to signify the struggle for and the power of detachment from the being controlled by one's own thoughts and concepts which are only awareness which has been lessened and conditioned by a multiplex network of causes, other causes, conditions, and other conditions - aggregated, single, and mixed.



One should practice detachment to one's own set of aggregates, consciously reflect upon their impermanence, their interdependence, and their arising and dispersing, and upon all of their Not-Self characteristics and Not-Self intrinsics, and seek in one's self "The Deathless Element" often with the aid of a convenient yoga, aphorism, phrase, idea, or mantra which (in its own existence) defies the person's present situation. But, while respecting these methods, one must never fall in love with these methods, nor grasp them to the detriment of their very usage-ability.



In so far only, Ananda, can one be born, or grow old, or die, or pass away or reappear, in so far only as there is any pathway for verbal expression, in so far is there any pathway for terminology, in so far only is there any pathway for designations, in so far only is there any sphere of knowledge, in so far only is the round (of Samsaric Life) kept going, for there to be any designation of the conditions of this existence.

Dialogues of the Buddha;

Pali Text Society



Friend, Visakha, when one has emerged from the attainment of the stopping of relative perception and relative feeling, three impingements assail him/her: impingement that is void; impingement that is signless; impingement that is undirected. Middle Length Sayings of the Buddha, Pali Text Society



By knowing the destruction of f formations, O Brahmin, be thou one who knows the Unmade.

Dhamma pada; v. 383





Now lets get down to brass tacks. Here is what is happening here:


Our events are:

1. Steampunk
2. VLF Radio /and LF Radio and listening to the Voices of Planets.
3. The Conet project
4. Astral Travel to Planets
5. Listening to the Voices of the Dead on Recorded Tape
7. Experimenting with Combined Digital and Analog Signals.
8. Musique Concrete



1. Steampunk : This is a concept begun in the late 1960s and 1970s K. W. Jeter’s book Morlock Night (1979) and Robert W. Clark’s Queen Victoria’s Bomb are considered seminal works in the creation of this field. Among its most important attributes is the remodeling of current technology into earlier worlds, the “finding” of modern technologies in earlier historic as well as prehistoric periods, and the re-use and re-definition of low-tech and earlier technologies into the present. Steampunk looks at and acts both with and against classical time frames. Some people have defined Steampunk as retro-futurism.
2. VLF Radio (Cat: Spirits-Energies, Energy Events) . It is not generally know that Moons and planets as well as stellar sources transmite radio waves. One of the “noisiest and most frequent is the planet Jupiter. A group of Scientists LF Radio (Cat: Energy-Events) LF Radio is basically that part of AM radio that exists below 550 AM on your radio dial. There is a whole world out there of people who use it and it is is very weird. The Syndic is considering broadcasting on this frequency once all the equipment and resources are fully understood and gathered up.
3. The Conet Project (Cat: Energy-Events) From the last 45 years or so strange SW (Short Wave) broadcasts that are virtually impossible to figure out using any and every means of analysis including code-breaking.
4. Astral Travel to Planets: Psychometry is using your own human touch to get close, to communicate with those waves of astral energy that strongly hang on to materials. Thus I have found out that by doing this, it is possible to astrally travel to Mars or the Moon and then more importantly begin some form of direct contact with the sentient spirit ruler of the planet of moon, Itself. And this is a totally amazing experience. Mental Waves ? Physical Waves ? Who knows ?
5. Listening to the Voices of the Dead (Cat: Typres-of-Spirits, Spirits-Energies, & Energy-Events). Dr. Constantine Raudive found a way to listen to and record spiris talking. There is only one book on the subject and one CD. Also there is a device that can be hooked up to a tape recorder that will give you this recording ability .
6. Experimenting with Combined Digital and Analog Signals Experimenting with Combined Digital and Analog Signals. This is an open freeway for experimentation.

7. Musique Concrete Today: MCT is a form of combined electronic and acoustic music that utilizes all forms of sounds from recordings of teakettles to recordings of violincellos. It was begun by Edgar Varese (December 22, 1883-November 6, 1965) and Pierre Schaeffer (August 14, 1910-August19, 1995) during the 1940s. They believed that sound itself was the primary compositional element.