Ideas to change the world.
Actions to preserve the environment.
Certain individuals in this world are mutants — people who, through their ideas, actions, and behaviors — bring about a change in the consciousness of others. People who recognize the imbalances and seek to bring about a balance, a reduction of the lies, deception, pollution, politicizing, what have you.
Are you a mutant?
Everything that you can see, feel, touch, smell, hear, and sense is a part of Nature. Part of the mega frequency that envelops everything in the world. Your job is to tap into this frequency and explore your true potential — your infinite potential. I love you.
How easy is it to watch an endless stream of videos of people doing amazing things such as recycling, practicing sustainability, and consuming environmentally-conscious foods? How easy is it to smile when hearing about great leaders doing positive things for their communities? How easy is it to listen to stories of heros who took a stand against great opposition for what they believed in?
It’s ridiculously easy to watch from the sidelines a see great things taking shape. Because it feels good, as it should. No doubt. It feels great to see positive change manifesting. Hell yeah it does..!!
But, my friends, don’t get trapped by “watching” these amazing things unfolding. Don’t remain on the sidelines in a passive — “positive” — position only watching and observing these things.
Because when you do that — remain on the sidelines — you’re dis-empowering and declaring yourself as a rock on the beach. No. Become the lively and vigorous wave crashing about, constantly moving and changing.
Join the movement. Join the fight. Join the pains. Join the struggles. Join the joys. Join the tears. Join the blood. Join the death. Join the peace. Join the love.
Whatever you do, don’t just watch in a zombified state of passivity. You’re better than that. Don’t live your life vicariously through the courage, bravery, and actions of others. Become an ember and contribute to the flame.
We need all the sparks we can to help keep the flame of positive change and peace burning. For I tell you, it’s dwindling. So step up an jump in. You can do it. I know you can. You know you can.
We need you.
Boom!! You’re hit over the head with a 10 ton sledgehammer and for the next few hours your entire existence surfs on the reverberations — the cosmic current raging through your blood, your every thought.
Scary — yet, amazingly beautiful.
It’s a struggle to bring back ideas, but not impossible. The most brilliant ideas are configured right in front of you like spiritual logos, each stack bringing forth new levels of understanding. But at the same time, you aren’t free from the most negative of all thoughts.
“What did I do to this dog? Why does it want to kill me? Wait, this dog doesn’t want to kill me, it’s my friend. No! No! It wants to bite my shit off!! Oh shit! I’m fucked!”
Chill…. Relax…. Breathe… Embrace it
“Dave, it’s so easy to lose control — so easy!” “Dude, I know, it really is.”
“Hey man, why are you brining her up? Taking me down memory lane and shit.” “Dude, she’s a hoe nowadays.” “Shut up, no she’s not. I don’t want to hear that shit!”
You don’t use language to communicate, everything is beyond words. Everything relies on feelings. And when the ideas are introduced, you try your hardest to hold onto them, but you see them dissipating right before your eyes.
“No… No… No… Please, let me just take this one back. It’ll change the world”
Everything that you thought you were is shattered — all aims, ambitions, plots, plans, and schemes shatter. You can see them on the ground. Then they begin to melt and you’re a clean slate — tabula rasa baby!
Coincidences are raining down all over the place. But they aren’t coincidences, they are holes. Not worm holes, but sort of like them… You can tell that someone is trying to communicate with you through these sequences of beautifully constructed coincidences. So speak back into the hole! Speak back! That is your job.
“Get out of the house, there’s too much going on in here. Television is on. People are singing. People are dancing. People are talking about Madison Ave. bullshit! People are desperate for attention! People are so weak!”
Get out and let nature soothe you. You’re okay now. Hush. Breathe. Relax. Notice the white buds coming into blossom.
My hypothesis: If you speak to nature, she’ll speak back to you. If you slap nature, she’ll slap you back.
My hypothesis: Everything is round and relies on curves for some reason that I don’t know. There’s a certain curvature at play. You don’t actually see the curves, it’s more like you feel them… then you, in a way, see them.
My hypothesis: There’s a relationship between your mind and your stomach region — perhaps the solar plexus and the pineal gland are dancing together in harmony. Not sure what it is, but these two regions of your body are most definitely speaking to each other on some sort of meta-physical level.
“Dave, you alright dude, you look worried?” “Nah man, I’m cool. Just inside and once you’re inside, you’re there. You’re in it.”
An idea: The process of crying is a spiritual experience. You are watering yourself and the tears are speaking to you. Whatever made you cry is built into the tears. The people, the situation, the experiences — they are in the tears and they speak to you!
An idea: Coincidences don’t exist; they are holes into other dimensions — they are lines of communication and you must speak back into them so he/she/it will hear back from you.
When your slate is cleared, you are naked. Truly naked. It’s scary as hell. It’s amazing as heaven. You are totally naked, open, and exposed. This world is for the brave.
Go in. Create and Destroy. Come back. And share. This is what it’s all about. Pheww… I’m back.
Why doesn’t Al Gore ever mention the stopping of meat consumption, or even cutting down meat consumption, throughout all his speechifying on global warming? Doesn’t he know that meat production and consumption leads to the destruction of the universe? Not to mention the extreme harm it does to our health. I mean, even with all the science showing the causal links between meat consumption and death (re: heart attacks, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer etc…) and the actual first-hand experiences people encounter when they find themselves getting sick 10+ times a year… it’s still not enough to get people to put down their burgers. Absolutely, amazing!
Understanding the various games of society is essential to understanding what’s really going on — figuring it all out and deciding if you’d like to stay in and play or pack up the pieces and start your own game. In this discussion I answer the following questions of:
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For as long as I can remember, I think that I have isolated myself from society in one way or another. Back in my early school years — middle school — when I a little menace involved with the groups of “cool” kids that made fun of “fat kids” and picking on “nerds” and intentionally flunking classes and simply acting like someone who I wasn’t in order to fit a certain image. I remember going home as asking myself “wow, why am I acting like this just to be ‘cool’ and just to ‘fit in’ — I don’t believe in any of this, so why do I do it?”
I got caught up in living a double life of maintaining my popularity with the “cool kids” and “macho people” and all the while living a secret life of thinking about and doing things that were of real interest to me, such things like: science, nature, learning about ancient civilizations, learning about programming languages, physics, etc… things that I liked a lot, but was always scared to speak about them with my current “friends” at the time because I was scared of being labeled a nerd or kicked out of the cool gang. I didn’t want to lose the good grace of the society that I worked so hard to be ingratiated in. I didn’t want my polished position to be compromised in any way.
I fooled myself into believing that this was the right course to go down. That I would be okay and that what I was doing, holding back my true nature, was right. Society lead me to believe that this was right. I lead myself into that belief. But the reality of the matter was that I was, in fact, isolated. Because no matter how demonstratively popular and “cool” that I was when leading that life, I was nothing short of a genuine phony by not living the way that I wanted to live; sweeping my passions under the rug while people ventriloquize my every action and behavior — telling me how I should act, perform, and be like. Suppressing what I was really all about.
It wasn’t until, say, mid-college when I began to figure it all out. When I pulled down the curtain behind the almighty image of what I was supposed to be, where I was supposed to go, and how I was supposed to live my life. The greatest, most brilliant, trick that I’ve ever fallen victim to. Now, all of a sudden, I began chipping away at the illusion and started living a life the way that I want to live — not by the standards of others.
I bring all this up because I feel that many people, right now, are caught in situations of suppressing who they really are, in an attempt to perfectly fit a certain mold that society pressed. They don’t feel that they have an outlet and/or a community of people whom they can really relate to and speak to about what’s really going on inside. Maybe you’re thinking about things like spirituality, sex, quantum physics, religions, theories, philosophies, etc… but are simply too scared to discuss them with your so-called friends (trust me, they aren’t your friends if you are scared that they’ll reject you) because you feel that they are “too weird” or eccentric.
Well, I was fortunate enough to wake-up and say FUCK THAT! And come to the realization that I am free to be who I am — no matter what. And so are you. One of the reasons for starting the Mind Petals Organization, which grew out of mindpetals.com, was because I figured that there are people out there who intentionally become isolates — isolating themselves from the greater society because what they have to say, in their mind, is just too “out there” or radical, and have opted to either remain silent or only hold these sort of discussions with a select group of individuals (what I call TRUE friends) who are open-minded and accepting of novel ideas, no matter how “weird” they may appear to be.
I created Mind Petals Organization to bring together these small, yet immensely powerful, islands of people who speak about certain things amongst themselves and now bring them together into a community where there is freedom of thought. Freedom of expression. Freedom in art no matter what the medium may be. A place to throw your ideas into a pool of loving, open-minded, caring, and enlightening people who strive for positivity, never negativity. This is what utopia is. This is the paradise that I am growing.
Today I took a trip to Elizabeth A. Morton National Wildlife Refuge and I thought that I’d share my experience with you with a picture story that I made below. Please enjoy.
A soon as I started the hike, I was greeted by these birds. Literally, hundreds of them all over the place. They were following me as I walked — guess they wanted food or perhaps just to chill. These birds totally rocked! They are called Black-capped Chickadee’s. They are really brave as well. For the first time in my life, a wild bird landed on my finger for a second and it was amazing. I wish I had some food for them.
I came across a few small ponds
This is me on the beach after a hike through the forest. It was cool because I was in the woods for about an hour then all of a sudden I pop out into this awesome beach. I was like “wow! sick!”
I found some crab claws and cool shells. I brought a few home with me. This beach was really nice. I sat on it for a while and observed the ocean and meditated for a bit.
As I continued up the beach for about an hour, I found another large forest. It was a bit creepy looking, but as I entered I saw this awesome patch of flowers
Here’s a cool dried-up flower
When I popped out onto the other side of the beach, I found this HUGE…HUGE… hawk’s nest, an Opsprey’s nest. I didn’t see any hawks, but the nest was cool. When I first saw the nest I was amazed by its architecture, so I climbed up to it. The hawk actually used a sandal as building material — look closely and you’ll see a peace sign on the sandal. The hawk was PEACE!!
While on the other side of the beach, I began tracking a raccoon (or perhaps Opossum). I wasn’t able to actually see it, though. It must have smelled me coming and left. But here are the tracks.
Walking back to the main side of the beach
Now I’m walking back through the forest towards my car. But before I ended my journey, this Eastern Chipmunk came up to me to wish me farewell
Thanks for virtually walking with me on this journey. Hope you enjoyed! Peace!
In this segment I wrap up with my closing remarks and we enter into a question / answer / feedback forum — which is always really fun! What I really love about discussions such as these is that they can never really end… they can just keep on going because the possibilities of talking about life are endless — they really are. Please enjoy.
In this segment I continue my discussion on the sticky web of society and how to avoid being trapped. As you’ll gather from my discussion, the way out is to simply love — to dig — what truly makes you happy and do that just for that… not for anything or anyone else. To come to this realization it may be immediately or it may be years, perhaps never. But we all have the potential, the opportunity. Please enjoy.
Someone once commented to me, vehemently, calling me an anarchist, to which I hastily responded “no.” But to a degree, I was wrong. And through some meditating on the matter, yes, in many ways, I am a proponent of anarchism. When the system is fucked, step outside of it. Build your own system. If people really knew what anarchism was all about, they would have a beautiful appreciation for it. Nature, being the biggest anarchist of all, teaches us so much about how to get rid of the waste, how to rejuvenate stagnated growth, how to regenerate a way of living that has been severed by society’s razor of mind control, fear, and aggressive –misguided– capitalism. These subjects and life experiences are of great interest to me. Please enjoy (or not…). Like I say in the discussion: “either is okay!”
Food is not something to be underestimated. It’s not something to never consider when consuming. It’s quite the opposite. Food is an experience that one should cherish, love, and respect. Certain foods help to elevate our spirits and some aim to weaken our spirits / energy. In this discussion I speak with my younger brother, Khalik Allah, about the life experience of building a relationship with food; how food communicates with our spirits, our thoughts, and our actions in life. The main food we discuss is real raw chocolate called cacao. We can all help to evolve our nature by building strong, cohesive, and high-frequency bonds with what we consume — what we nourish our bodies with. Please enjoy.
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Lately I’ve been toying with the idea that the universe — everything from the sand, water, and hills to the bees, birds, and humans — are all a part of this mega-frequency tuned into the same channel, working as one organism. Surely this isn’t an entirely new idea as the Gaia Hypothesis examines the earth in a similar fashion.
I’m really digging this — the universe and all its parts being a part of the same frequency, as I’d put it. This mega-frequency that acts as a current, running, no, flowing, through everything in existence. Flows through us. Flows through the rain. Flows through the rock. However, each part still having its own frequency which is mutually exclusive of the rest.
Now with the assumption of the universe and all its members being a part of one large mind as a collective whole and being one multi-tracked organism that cumulatively has an effect on life, death, mutations, tidal patterns, temperature, and all changes as we know it, I’d like to now, abruptly, speak a bit about mutations and how I believe that mutations aren’t monopolized by the genome and how mutations take form and shape metaphysically.
In nature (re: the universe) we have many forms of mutations in a myriad of species of plant and animals. We tend to think that all mutations are bad. We think of cancerous cells or grotesque scenes of the X Men flashing through our heads. But this isn’t the case. A mutation can be a good development as well.
Certain strains of flowers that grow on high mountain regions develop a genetically superior coating of hair that offers them an extra level of protection. Now these genetically superior plants blossom and fertilize the plants below them and those plants fertilize the plants below them as so on… spreading this mutation throughout the region.
Now keeping in mind the notion of the entire universe as one living organism, couldn’t we now propose that human beings could spark mutations — mutational shifts — as well? But not mutations on the level of the genome — that’s a given. I’m speak of a societal mutation. A mutation that spreads into the culture through thoughts, actions, ideas, — essentially through behaviors.
And such a supposition is supported by biology. In biology we understand that on a certain level, behavior is a variable, a player, in the genetic makeup/development of a species. When a certain animal begins to act in a new way, say comes up with a new hunting technique to compensate for the faster prey that have entered the region, and teaches that technique to their offspring — those offspring and their offspring, over time, begin to grow that particular hunting technique into their genetic code. And this was all initiated through behavior.
So now, if nature is one all-encompassing mind at work — which I believe that it is — and it recognizes an imbalance, it’ll initiate a series of solutions to bring back the balance and return the equilibrium. This happens all the time, think about it. When new growth is required in an arid terrain, nature brings about a fire to renew the land and promote green, lush sprouts. Before tsunamis and hurricanes occur, we can observe many animals, albeit anecdotally, such as dogs howling, rats fleeing from buildings, and oceanic animals breaking patterns way before anything happens.
What if nature can also recognize societal imbalances, infections, and disease. Such as racism, painting myths as absolute truths (out of a book) to control the masses with fear, using lies and deceptions to trick, steal, and take advantage of, and all sorts of other imbalances and negatives that, at the time, may be surpassing the positives?
What if nature is able to recognize these patterns and, through the consultation of certain human individuals who are open to nature’s universal mind, come into existence to inoculate the societal disease — to be the fire purging the negative thoughts, lies, and deception. People, grown into the universe who act as knives, cutting away the cancerous cells that have infected the minds, hearts, and spirits of those who have drawn away from nature and got lost in the midst of illusions, false power, ignorance, and corruption?
What if someone like Martin Luther King Jr., having consulted with nature, came about to return the racial imbalance back to an even keel. Nature, having seen the ridiculousness of people killing people due to the pigmentation of their skin, brought forth King to eradicate this infectious and pernicious ideal?
What if nature brought about someone like George Bush to project lies, play games with the psyches of the masses, and use mind tactics to control the masses by imposing powers and laws under false pretenses to nail you into a wedge of fear? Nature having brought about Bush so that a select few could awaken and see how fickle our minds have become, how weak our will to freedom has become. And these few sprouting into society to revive and awaken the masses out of the virtual reality and into the truth.
Well this isn’t a book, just a posting of thoughts… so let me wrap this up on this note: My proposal is that nature, through its organisms, can correct any imbalance in the same exact way that the stock market (which is directly controlled by the psychology of the players), will correct itself as long as the balance of intelligent investors slightly rises above the amount of unintelligent investors — it always does. In society, nature can incite a, what I call, “Mutational Paradigm Shift.” Brining forth, not by commanding, but with the cooperation of the minds of certain individuals in society to act as a mutant, positively infecting society with certain acts, thoughts, and behaviors in an attempt to combat those that prey on the minds, seeking to control, kill, and destroy. Scrambling the inner working of the current paradigm and creating a new one, with balance, positivity, and dare I say — Love.
I’ll be speaking more about this on Tuesday March 25 in New York City, for those interested.
[photo credit: Noli & Provoste]
Today I took a trip to one of the wildlife refuges on Long Island, New York. Close to my home town. Ha, before I left I remember speaking to my mother about going into the woods and being with plants, trees, animals, and other forms of nature. She laughed — actually, scoffed — at me with a: “why would you want to go into the woods. I hope that you aren’t going crazy.” To which I responded: “Well if that’s the definition of crazy, then, yup, I’m crazy. Definitely.” Curiously, if I told anyone that I was going shopping on Madison Ave. they would say: “Awesome, cool.” And when you tell people about going on an adventure in the woods, they think that you’re crazy. Wow, how backwards have we become? It’s sad, really. When we valorize consumerism over nature. How did this happen?
Here’s a section of my journal that I jotted down while staring off into the marshland:
“How beautiful these marshlands are as I stare off into nothingness. A bird just flew by and sang a note above my head — an unusual sound that I don’t believe I’ve heard before. I didn’t know how beautiful Long Island could be. I’ve been so consumed with all the homes, developments, and stores that I almost forgot to search for places such as this one. The sun plays hide and seek with the clouds, running from the cover and popping back its magnificent rays onto my face. Hello sun, how are you today? There you are, my friend. I am told that migrating birds visit this spot, traveling several thousand miles using the sun, stars, and wind, arriving in only days. That’s truly amazing. I feel a sense of peace here. Almost like watching that movie, what’s it called? with Kevin Costner on the Great Plains of America — Ah, Dances With Wolves. How he enjoys himself on the open grasslands. But this isn’t a movie and I don’t have to pretend to be at such a place. I’m here. There is music in the wind. Closing my eyes, I hear the wind gently wrestling with the leaves, swaying with the grass, and snapping frail twigs — that is nature’s drum-set. Nothing short of a symphony, indeed. If you listen with care.”
Had a great time of meditation, contemplation, seeing animals, and walking through an amazing forest full of surprises. I’ll continue to share my entries as I go on more of these journeys.
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