Wrapping up 2015 and wondering

In the opening introduction of Will Durant's The Age of Faith, a smaller insert (only about 1200 pages) of his amazing The Story of Civilization, he writes about the obligation of covering  the following areas of interest.......artistic, political, legal, medical, scientific, philosophic, literary, military, religious, economic, social and legal.  

If you were wondering, and most likely you weren't, The Age of Faith covers 325 A.D. to 1300, which is a very important period in human history....in fact, a period that in all probably accounts for a majority of the Belief Systems currently held by the human race.

Perfect place for Neo-Illumination #19 insert.

The Universe has a system of order and chaos
The Human experience is a tangent of that system
that can both
establish order
and
create chaos
BELIEF SYSTEMS DIRECTLY LEAD TO CHAOS
acceptance
with investigation and introspection
CREATES
MORE
ORDER
The mysteries of the Universe will always outnumber the known realities.
and chaos
will forever exist

OUR JOB SIMPLY MIGHT BE
TO
AVOID
EXTINCTION

Whereas I would never ever ever ever claim to be regarded on a literary level of Mr. Durant I can honestly say that in the 9 years since I started MIND JAZZ I have indeed covered all those above mentioned areas of interest.

I do note that Mr. Durant didn't mention the word Spirituality but instead most likely considered it to be part of the religious interest one should address IF one has an interest in what might have happened, what is happening and what is going to happen in the future.

I think the word spirituality needs to be separated from organized religious doctrine......or at the very least given a new separate paradigm that allows imagination to envision what our souls might be truly about.

The tern NON-PHYSICAL REALITY once more rises up in my agenda of observation.
Spirituality is a non-physical reality
The soul is a non-physical reality
Man-made Organized Religions are a very real physical reality.

Attempting to prove a non-physical reality is not a group event.  Stories can be told to one another but the proof of soul awareness and non-physical reality only lies in the individual. It's a proof that you need to find on your own.

As 2015 comes to an end (which brings up my favorite question of all time....."what is today's date, really?)   the planet earth is inhabited by billions of people who choose to accept someone else's non-physical reality belief system.....not their own.

The physical reality of language is taught so that the child may learn.  The sociological development of how family and friendship structure works is done by example.  I have learned that lesson the hard way.

Teaching someone about how their own soul works and how it connects to the Universe is called....brainwashing.

As an individual, of which each and everyone of us...IS, I pride myself on trying to understand the Universe that I am a part of.  It is my job to learn as much as possible about as many things as possible within the biological parameters of my ability.  There is most likely a DNA limitation to how much physical reality I can retain but that's not my fault.  Math just isn't part of my program....and never will be...and I accept my limitations within the vast scope of learning about physical realities.  There are thousands of scientists and mathematical brainiacs who don't accept limitations to what they are working on and I always look forward to hearing about their new discoveries or ideas.

ONCE ONE BECOMES AWARE OF THE EXISTENCE OF THEIR SOUL....THERE IS NO LIMITATION TO HOW MUCH NON-PHYSICAL REALITY ONE CAN RETAIN.

NO LIMITATION

THE WORK TO LEARN MORE ABOUT NON-PHYSICAL REALITY IS ENTIRELY UP TO THE SEEKER.

WHAT I'VE NOTICED IN 2015 IS A WHOLE BUNCH OF ACCEPTANCE AND A VERY LIMITED AMOUNT OF SEEKING.

2015, in my humble opinion, was the year of the follower.

I am simply wondering if 2016 might prove to be the year of the seeker.

Needless to say....I sure hope so

Happy New Year

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Not sure which I like better but hard to beat The King

Christmas can be the happiest time and the saddest time of the year.

Circumstances, both monetary and sociological, dictate the level and degree of how the holidays come and go.

They do come and they do go and sometimes much too fast and sometimes much too slow.

I think about the families of victims in San Bernardino and how sad they must be and then I remember how refugees fleeing their war torn countries must feel and quickly I think about new families forming through weddings and adoptions.  I've read about lottery winners this year and how lucky they must feel...and then recall reading about layoffs by large corporations due to consolidations.

We would obviously like everybody to have a beautiful and loving Christmas but then I remember reading the other day about the Price family of five from Kilroy crashing their small plane outside of Bakersfield with no survivors.

So many things cause me to pause and question the old adage....everything happens for a reason.

That absolutely might not be right......and might not even be close to the right word.

The holidays bring out the best in people but sometimes they bring memories and pain that just don't subside.

My only suggestion is that you wrap yourself in family and friend events and try to listen to a few songs that might make you ignore what you need to ignore and think more about the beauty that life has to offer.

I have two that I believe can do the trick.

Not sure which I like better but like I said up top......it's hard to beat the King.

Have as Merry of a Christmas as possible........

Council of Faith......NEEDED MORE THAN EVER

Five days after 9/11/2001  I wrote the following piece.  I've posted it a few times over the years on Mind Jazz but when talking about it to someone the other day I realized that while it might have been important at the time....it is now PARAMOUNT that something along these lines becomes a reality.

WE NEED TO GET THE STARS TOGETHER

WE NEED TO GET THE SCRIPT WRITERS TOGETHER

WE NEED TO GET THE DIRECTORS TOGETHER

WE NEED TO GET THE PRODUCERS TOGETHER

WE NEED TO GET THE STUDIOS TOGETHER

WE NEED TO GET THE PUBLICISTS TOGETHER

WE NEED TO GET THE CRITICS TOGETHER

WE NEED TO GET THE DISTRIBUTORS TOGETHER

WE NEED TO GET THE FILM EDITORS TOGETHER

WE NEED TO GET THE SOUND EDITORS TOGETHER

WE NEED TO GET THE SET DESIGNERS TOGETHER

WE NEED TO GET THE GRIPS TOGETHER

WE NEED TO GET THE CATERERS TOGETHER

AND

THEN

WE NEED

TO DEMONSTRATE OUR ABILITY TO

LISTEN AND LEARN AND THEN LOVE WHAT WE HEAR

AND LOVE WHO WE HEAR IT FROM

AND THEN LOVE THAT WE MIGHT HAVE DIFFERENT WAYS

OF TRYING TO REACH THE SAME GOALS

OUR DIFFERENT METHODS OF HOW WE LOVE GOD SEEM TO

BE ONE OF THE MAJOR ISSUES…….SO LET’S HOLD A

COUNCIL OF FAITH AND COVER IT LIKE NO MEDIA

EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.  LET’S GIVE IT AS MUCH

PRIME TIME AS WE GIVE TRAGIC EPISODES.

LET THE WORLD WATCH AND PARTICIPATE….BRING EVERY

RELIGION TO THE COUNCIL OF FAITH AND ONCE AND FOR ALL

LET’S PUT THEM ALL ON TRIAL.

You can do one of two things

The following information is current as of 12/3/2015.

The United States has 6 of the top 9 manufacturers of WEAPONS on the planet.

Not really sure which of these corporruptions specializes in bomb building but since we've dropped 8,200 in Syria since 2014 I would assume that it's a collective effort.

I'm listing the company, their revenue total and their stock prices.

Lockheed Martin      35.94 (billion all the way down)      215.76 

Boeing                        30.94                                                  144.60

Raytheon                   21.95                                                  122.62

Northrup Gruman      20.20                                                 182.51

General Dynamics     18.60                                                 143.26

United Technologies

                   Corp.        11.90                                                   91

A Boeing toy..............

Let's just assume that each bomb costs
$10,000 and I'm most likely undervaluing those LOUD puppies by A LOT.

Probably more like $100,000 each....with some being much much much higher....which would correspond with the old adage......"bigger bang for your buck." (Tomahawk cruse missiles run about $1.4 mil)

Those special bunker buster big bad babies might even run as high as $10 million a piece....and they need a $100 million plane to deliver them to the home office of ISIS. (F-22 Raptor actually costs $350,000,000)

I MUST INTERJECT HERE AND REMIND YOU THAT I AM VERY UNINFORMED REGARDING WEAPONS of any kind SO ONCE AGAIN I SHALL INFORM YOU THAT I WILL DO SOME MORE RESEARCH AND POST ACTUAL NUMBERS LATER....unless of course it just gets too depressing and I have to stop and go back to talking about college football or the Dodgers off season attempts to reach the World Series for the first time since 1988.

By the way I just read somewhere that if five or more countries military are involved in the same conflict then it's considered a World War.  Syria seems to qualify since there are 65 members of the coalition fighting ISIS.......

THE POINT I'M TRYING TO MAKE IS THAT YOU NOW HAVE ONE OF TWO CHOICES.

SELL YOUR STOCK IN THOSE COMPANIES LISTED ABOVE
OR
BUY MORE STOCK ASAP.

I actually was going to write this article yesterday but then another different weapons story hit the news from San Berdo.....

It's one thing to own assault weapons but is there no limit on how much ammunition one can purchase?   

Asshole Crazy guy walks into store and says.....

"I need 3000 rounds for my assault rifle."

"Ok buddy....hollow point or regular?"

"I don't care...it's just target practice."

DOESN'T THE PERSON SELLING THE AMMUNITION 
MAKE A PHONE CALL
 AT THAT POINT?   
OR    
ARE ALL THESE ITEMS, GUNS AND BULLETS, AVAILABLE ON THE BLACK MARKET?

And one more small thought.......when that creepy white christian asshole shot up that school in the Carolina's did it make you think all Christians are bat shit crazy or dangerous?

There's not a lot that can be done to stop individual moments like yesterday but the people who keep making the items, that allow this type of carnage, could be affected by how their stock is performing on the NYSE.

You can do one of two things........

Are you a buyer or a seller?

Or are you just a sideline observer that thinks the entire planet is slipping toward 
an
unparalleled moment in time.

THERE'S NEVER BEEN THE TYPE AND AMOUNT OF WEAPONS THAT PRESENTLY EXIST ON THIS PLANET.......NOT EVEN A CLOSE SECOND PLACE.

SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE
SOMETHING HAS TO GIVE

and then I just read that they are putting a marble bust of Dick Cheney up in the US Capitol.

OMG 
this really might be the end times.
This latest news actually scares me more than the weapons stuff I was trying to explain...because at least the weapons stuff has profit motive behind the action.  Putting a bust of  Dick Cheney in the Capitol means that NUMEROUS people involved in Washington politics thinks he was a great and honorable man.

THAT IS TRULY BAT SHIT CRAZY!


Michael Timothy McAlevey