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Modern Music and Militant Materialism

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originally published February 26, 2019

Talk about an alliteration, eh? I have been listening to my new favorite song, “Superposition” by Young the Giant, a lot lately, but having difficulty with a few of the lyrics – particularly the first lines:

“I don’t believe in fate, no psychic vision…”

Now I do love pretty much all of the other lines in the song, absolutely love all the quantum physics and cosmology terminology. But those first few lines get me, because I do believe in a form of fate, and I certainly would like to believe in psychic vision. I realized that a number of popular new songs out these days have patently negative messages. I was going to list a number of them, but they are so numerous, it seems almost pointless.

But for the sake of example, here are some lines from another song I really like right now:

“I keep on running backwards, I keep on losing faith
I thought I had the answers, I thought I knew the way ” from “Make it Up as I Go” by Mike Shinoda.

Now to be certain, one can’t expect everything to be all roses and smiles all the time. And it wouldn’t be honest art if it didn’t reference the tough times, the difficult feelings, the sadness and tears as well as the joy and laughter. But I believe words do have power, and I believe that the constant repeating of words or phrases can affect our minds, moods and attitudes (hey, that rhymed! Lol) I remember back in ’89-90 when I was living with Willie, he would catch me singing “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for,” and he would encourage me to changed the lyrics to “I still have IT found…” He was a huge proponent of positive thought and positive affirmation. And while I had kinda’ forgotten about it for a while, it’s coming to the forefront of my consciousness again now. I want to be more careful about what I tell myself.

Now it has me thinking, wondering, if there isn’t something bigger involved – (warning: possible whacky conspiracy stuff that may or not be true, but likely has some element of truth to it coming up) in the creation, dissemination and popularity of music with such messages. I’ve been reading a lot about magick, egregores, collective unconscious, etc lately, and it has brought back thoughts I used to have about “black mentalists” and those people in power who like to maintain control of the masses to maintain their power. And I honestly believe those people are compelled to do things by forces beyond their knowledge or understanding. Of course, they may just be completely ignorant or uncaring, or truly selfish and aware of what they are doing too. I guess I would hope it’s the former though, for their sake.

Whatever the case may be, I am being more careful about what I tell myself. I’m changing the lyrics in my head to “I believe in fate, in psychic vision,” and “I keep on moving forward, I keep on gaining faith, I know I know the answers, know I know the way.” If the mind is like a computer, which in many ways it is, one has to think that the programming we give it, which I believe words to be a major form of, has to have some kind of effect on it – especially when presented through a powerful medium such as music or spoken word. It’s not really so hard to program and control people because so many of us are completely unaware, uncaring, or unbelieving about how it all works. There is so much more to say about this, but concerning the title of this post – the trend in these tunes seems to be based on a similar theme: loss of faith, loss of belief – central tenets of hardcore materialism, the currently-ruling paradigm of our age.

But I and some others really hope to challenge and change that. I personally am strengthening my faith and gaining more hope by reading books by authors who share similar ideas and sentiments, and seeing posts on various sites by people from various disciplines who agree that the worship of materialism has gone too far, and we have lost something vital to being human – our faith, our belief, our imagination. I guess I’m hoping I get a chance to play my part in helping to spread the message of magick to counterbalance and even dismantle the militant materialism that is inundating our world.

As Above, So Below – The Pollution of the collective Unconscious

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NOTE: I actually woke up yesterday morning with this post in my head, and finished writing it at 10:05am AZ time – almost 12 hours before the tragic events in Christchurch, New Zealand…

So today, they blocked access to my blog at work. No matter – I Can still capture my thoughts…

What do all of these things have in common?

A small disclaimer first: these statements are not based on actual statistical data, but on my personal observations. I can’t defend their accuracy, but think most would agree they are accurate.

Increases in the numbers or instances of people

–      who feel like they were born into the wrong body

–      committing mass shootings, or murder-suicides

–      displaying polarized viewpoints across the world – the rise of the alt-right and extreme liberalism

–      experiencing early onset dementia

–      suffering from anxiety and/or depression, especially in young people

–      expressing atheistic beliefs

–      disengaged with life – lost in their phones, computers, tv series, celebrity stuff, etc

A materialist would say there is absolutely nothing these things all have in common, there is no causal connection between them, and to suggest there is is just hokey speculation.

But as a quantum seer, a modern mystic with a science-oriented, but still open mind, I do see a correlation. And I think it is best expressed with an analogy.

Think for a minute about environmental pollution, severe pollution, and its effects. It’s not uncommon for animals, especially those are sensitive to changes like amphibians to either start showing mutations, or perhaps even go extinct. The air can become so thick that it’s hard to see or breathe and cause respiratory issues in people. If the water is polluted, it can cause fish to die off, harmful genetic mutations and defects in babies that are born to mothers who were exposed to that water (think Flint, Michigan). The list goes on and on, but the point is, pollution has real effects on the physical world – negative effects that alter physical systems, and life, on wide scale.

I believe that the cause of all of the symptoms listed above is a pollution of the Collective Unconscious, the Universal (human) Mind, the Spiritual Realm from whence our souls originate. The religion of materialism has gained so many followers intent on completely excising the belief in any kind of spiritual principles – or at least relegating it to the scrap heap of human thought – that there is not enough “good” thought – clean, pure, loving thought to offset the thoughts of apathy, doubt, greed, fear, lack, etc, and the result is a pollution of that realm, which causes spiritual defects and negative repercussions in the existing spiritual realm – the realm of Mind.

And just to assuage any fears – I’m not suggesting that someone who feels they were born into the wrong body – a woman who feels she was born in the body of a man – is “defective.” Not at all. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. There is little doubt she was born into the wrong body, and it happened because of the pollution that’s impacting the spiritual realm: the soul was accidentally placed in the wrong body because of a kind of “spiritual birth defect.” And the people experiencing all of those other symptoms are like the people choking with smog, or getting cancer from drinking polluted water – they are experiencing problems with their Minds because they are directly tied to the Universal Mind – they are extensions of it, and subject to changes in it.

There is so much more to say on this, but the salient point is that, as it has been said, and is has always been – As Above, So Below.  

Post Number 2

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originally published January 14, 2019

So I guess I figured out how to change the site title from “Kev’s Quantum Connections.” That sounded just a little too cute and “homey.” I was also able to change the site address to quantumage@wordpress.com – an address that will be easier to memorize, type and reach. I’m honestly surprised it hadn’t been taken yet. Interestingly enough, ‘quantummage’ had been… probably some Magick the Gathering player or something lol. So yeah, better name, better address – better content? Yeah, don’t get too excited about that just yet.

I can’t count how many different blogs I’ve had at this point. I’m guessing somewhere around 6-7..? I still have The Thought Buffet, but because I can’t reach it from work, it’s very limiting, as I like to release some mental steam and take a break from coding by blogging a bit sometimes – write some of my best stuff during those periods. And thankfully, obviously, this site is accessible from work. Yay.

Not quite sure how I am going to use this yet. I haven’t completely given up my hope of someday being published – or ‘discovered’ as it may be these days. I mean, I guess you get enough followers, and you can make your $$$ without ever doing anything more than posting. I was watching this special the other day where it mentioned that certain posters – “influencers” they call them – can get paid like $100,000 for a single post. Can you believe that…? And you can bet your bippy that those $100k posts have very little real, lasting value – they don’t contribute to the compendium of human knowledge, as it were. But I guess I ought to be happy for those people who get to make millions posting shots of their booties, or thoughts about other celebs, or…. Yeah, I’m not happy for them. I hold them – or actually, the people who PAY them – responsible for the downfall of civilization.

Wow, this turned out different than I thought it would… I was planning on talking about the latest developments in quantum computing, cool books I have read on science, latest breakthroughs in physics – and instead, I rail on the social media monstrosity. Oh no – I’m one of them! I am become death, destroyer of minds… and souls. Oh well, there’s always tomorrow. I’m just sure I’ll post something sciency then.