Bold as love.

"When the power of love becomes stronger than the love of power, we will have peace." - Jimi Hendrix

The civilised world?

“You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.” - Octave Henri Marie Mirbeau

Were we created for Mosquitoes to feast upon?

A certain nobleman held a feast of thanksgiving. The banquet was attended by more than a thousand people. When some geese and fish were presented to him, he looked up at the sky, sighed, thanked God and said, "Heaven is very kind to us. It provides us with grains and creates birds and fish for us to eat." All the guests murmured and nodded in agreement with the lord. However, one of the sons of a guest, a child of twelve, stood up and said, "I disagree with that. The myriad of things of heaven and earth differ only in shape and form. No one kind is nobler than another, and no one group was created for the benefit of another. Every living thing eats what it can get hold of. We humans eat fish and birds, mosquitoes suck our blood, and tigers eat our flesh. If we were to say that birds and fish were created for us to eat, then we would have to admit that we humans were created for the mosquitoes and tigers to feast upon."

Does it matter?

"DOES IT MATTER?" Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality BY ALLAN WATTS - A LIVING BODY is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the substance is a stream of energy going in at one end and out at the other. We are particular and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar and pate de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement - and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy. A philosopher, which is what I am supposed to be, is a sort of intellectual yokel who gapes and stares at what sensible people take for granted, a person who cannot get rid of the feeling that the barest facts of everyday life are unbelievably odd. As Aristotle put it, the beginning of philosophy is wonder. I am simply amazed to find myself living on a ball of rock that swings around an immense spherical fire. I am more amazed that I am a maze - a complex wiggliness, an arabesque of tubes, filaments, cells, fibers, and films that are various kinds of palpitation in this stream of liquid energy. But what really gets me is that almost all the substance of this maze, aside from water, was once other living bodies - the bodies of animals and plants - and that I had to obtain it by murder. We are other creatures rearranged, for biological existence continues only through the mutual slaughter and ingestion of its various species. I exist solely through membership in this perfectly weird arrangement of beings that flourish by chewing each other up. Obviously, being chewed up is painful, and I myself do not want to be chewed up. Thus the whole scheme bothers my conscience. If the morticians don't get me first, will my being eaten up by germs and worms be fair compensation for the countless cows, sheep, birds, and fish that I have consumed during my lifetime? I wonder: is this entire biological arrangement of mutual mayhem an insane and diabolical contraption that moves faster and faster to a dead end? I have seen plants infested with greenfly, one day swarming with plump and succulent little bodies, the next - grey dust on dry stalks. Life seems to be a system that eats itself to death, and in which victory equals defeat...

A picture taken of Earth from Mars.

Soooo..... there you have it, a lonely planet we happen to call earth floating around in nothingness?

Slave Species of god.

Over the last fifty years of non-fiction publishing, certain books have grown from obscurity to achieve a worldwide popularity through the sheer impact, plausibility and originality of the ideas that they contain. 'Slave Species of God' by Michael Tellinger is looking set to join those titles, as it challenges the beliefs about who we are and where we come from in a plausible yet compelling way. Questioning creationism and Darwinism, whilst taking the reader on a remarkable odyssey, drawing clear and startling analogies between new discoveries in genetic engineering and information captured on ancient artifacts. Tellinger uses scientific discovery previously ignored and links biblical stories to their original forms recorded on Sumerian clay tablets while supporting this all with captivating illustrations. Within a dense yet convincing text, the reader is never lost as the sense of each chapter and theory is related to the previous, keeping the information flowing with ease and the reader constantly engaged. The arguments are compelling and clearly presented in an engaging easy-to-read style, as we discover that our DNA may have been manipulated at the point of our human creation some 200,000 years ago, to provide our maker with a less intelligent, therefore more servile species. Challenging accepted wisdom and using the most recent research as support for his theories, Michael Tellinger treads very much his own path, yet follows in the footsteps of authors like Erich Von Daniken and Graham Hancock. Already embraced by book buyers from both the USA and South Africa where it has become a bestseller. 'Slave Species of God’ is published at a time when the book buying public has found its interest and appetite for titles like 'Da Vinci Code' dealing with some of the biggest issues facing us all. Ultimately Tellinger attempts to provide clear and grounded answers as to why the chaos, in which the modern world has become enveloped, is closely related to the secrets of ancient history.

Creating our own truth.

....In dream consciousness...we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator. In our creativity we prolong the magic action of the Creator of All in the overflow of His imagination, which is all that reality is, or ever will be. - Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

99.99% of your creation is complete before you see ANY physical evidence of it. - Abraham-Hicks

All is one in the eternal beginning (the Alpha of our being) yet through the process of manifestation, the Only Being divides or discriminates into distinguishable forms (subtle and gross) for the pleasure of the Creator/Artist. - Taj Inayat

Anything that you give your attention to will become your "truth". The Law of Attraction says it must. Your life, and everyone else's, too, is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts. There is no exception to this. - Abraham-Hicks

Anything your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. - Napoleon Hill

As you think, you feel. As you feel, you radiate, And All-That-Is, is affected by your offering. That is your power of influence. - Abraham-Hicks

Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him...He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form...the Universe. - Zohar

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. - Anna Freud

Every separate thought takes shape and becomes visible in colour and form. - Liu Hua-Yang

Every one is the architect of his own fortune. - Mathurin Regnier

Every time you appreciate something...every time you praise something...every time you feel good about something, you are telling the Universe: "MORE OF THIS, PLEASE!" - Abraham-Hicks

Fascination is fertilizer. Whatever you place your attention on grows. - Author Unknown

Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes. - Florence Scovel Shinn

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy and you will intensify it's ecstasy. - Oscar Wilde

Give me one firm thought upon which to stand, and I will move the earth. - Archimedes

Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature. - Florence Scovel Shinn

He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm Will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair. - I Ching

Healing is an effect of changing beliefs. Change the mind to change the body. - Serge Kahili King

Hope looks forward, Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly. - Florence Scovel Shinn

If 98% of your life is working and you place 100% of your attention on the 2% that isn't working, in that moment 100% of your life is not working. If 98% of your life isn't working and you place 100% of your attention on the 2% that is, in the moment 100% of your life is working. - Author Unknown

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. - William James

It is a very good thing when you reach the place where you do feel appreciation for the contrasting experience. Because, we never get it done. There is no ending to any creation.. and so it is never "ended up".. It is never "ended up" where you don't want it to be. It's just on it's way to being that which you DO want it to be. - Abraham-Hicks

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want. - Alan Cohen

Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he; this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness. - Upanishads

Life is what we make it, and the world is what we make it. The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them. - Albert Pike

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving. - Florence Scovel Shinn

Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires or requires already on his pathway. This supply is released through faith and the Spoken Word. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." - Florence Scovel Shinn

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. - Bhagavad Gita

Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, when there isn't the slightest sign of it in sight. - Florence Scovel Shinn

Never face reality unless it matches what you want. - Abraham-Hicks

Only words that are symbols of positive, constructive and creative activity should find a place in the mind of the man or woman who would achieve big things and become, really a manifestation of the Divine Image. - Will J. Erwood

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think. - Dale Carnegie

Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. - Jim Rohn

Take what you have and make what you want. - Hilda Charlton

The act of contemplation creates the thing contemplated. - Isaac D'Israeli

Think you can, or think you can't. Either way you'll be correct. - Henry Ford

Thought is a tremendous vibratory force and man is drawn to his thought creations. - Florence Scovel Shinn

Thoughts are things - Prentice Mulford

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true and serious. - Brenda Ueland

We think in secret, and it comes to pass. Environment is our looking glass. - James Allen

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day? - Alan Cohen

When you change the way you see the world, the world you see will change. - Dr. Wayne Dyer

When you desire with belief, it's happening. When you desire with hope, it's happening slower. When you desire with doubt, it's so slow, you might as well think about something else. - Abraham-Hicks

When you start taking the pleasure in the envisioning, you've got it. - Abraham-Hicks

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. - Timothy Leary

Your Word is Your Wand - Florence Scovel Shinn

Not stars folks but Galaxies…. Feeling small enough?

“kaffertjie” – ‘n Ware verhaal.

(Afrikaans language book)

This is one of the most important South African books of the past twenty years. While very few books have dealt with the years leading up to South Africa’s transition to democracy, “kaffertjie” embraces this volatile time in a brutally honest fashion and without fanfare.

A true story that captures the celebration of the human spirit and the sudden blossoming of true love for those who were not meant to be loved.

Johan Engelbrecht captures the confusion of a nation and a small group of every-day individuals caught up in its path of irreversible change.

The author’s recollection of these dramatic events transcends all cultural and racial boundaries with its cutting representation of a middleclass white family wrapped up in the political tribulations of the apartheid regime, as they are unexpectedly confronted by laws that previously protected them.

While the title may at first take some readers by surprise, they will develop an unshakable emotional bond between themselves and the ‘klein kaffertjie’.

Be prepared to sob like a child and to experience emotions rarely evoked by modern literature.

Title: “kaffertjie”

Author: Johan Engelbrecht

ISBN: 1-920153-02-0

Pages: 216

RRP: R120-00

Genre: Afrikaans novel (based on real events)

Release date: 7 August 2006

Publisher: Zulu Planet Publishers

Email: info@zuluplznet.com