An article by Sha'Tara, local writer and friend.

What else have we not been told?

[thoughts from ~burning woman~ by Sha'Tara]

The search for new information, new knowledge, goes on at a feverish pace, as anyone can see, but is all that frenetic effort giving us what we really need to survive (lowest common denominator) or pull ourselves up by our bootstraps into a new age; into a world where anyone can be assured of living in relative peace? Is the information we are being allowed to access the kind that will feed our minds, that we may become, let's say, more human in our interactions with one another, with the planet in general? Note that I wrote "allowed to access" and not "accessing" as would seem to be the correct way to say it. The following will hopefully clarify the reason for that caution.

I was watching the "What do Aliens look like" episode from "Through the Wormhole" documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman. There are several very interesting theories presented by scientists on how intelligent life could have evolved on planets much different from earth; planets that, to us, evidence extreme conditions for any biological life form. No longer the "little green men" from Mars, or the elongated humanoid creatures invented for "Close Encounters." These scientists have created artistic renditions and developed computerized scenarios of alien creatures that look nothing like Earthians. They base their theories on how life in similar conditions on this planet, has evolved. There are many rather odd looking creatures on this world who developed to take advantage of conditions that would kill us in an instant. The researchers posit that such life forms could have evolved to be the main intelligent life on worlds that have little or no oxygen, for example, or worlds with no atmospheric protection against their solar radiation, or worlds awash in hot water and steam. You'd have to watch the video to see the proper context.

With all this extraordinary effort expended to try to develop a sense of what an alien life form at least as intelligent as an Earthian and perhaps much more, could look like, there is one thing that is taken for granted by all and sundry: the inescapable acceptance that no matter how evolved an alien life is, it retains, in the minds of researchers, one element common to earth—they are all locked in a predator-prey cycle. It is automatically assumed and never questioned, that all life-forms are predatory in nature. This means that as far as an Earthian is concerned, all of life is predatory and can only evolve by developing a smarter prey which then develops an increasingly specialized predator.

Why is such a thing taken for granted? Why can't Earthians imagine worlds of far superior intelligence to earth where there is no longer a need to "kill and eat" as we are conditioned to accept here? Is it because no such condition has been observed here... or is it due to massive, collective brainwashing and the fact that the most successful predator on earth is man?

What Earthians, even the ones considered "bright," fail to notice is that a predatory species pulls itself towards chaos and eventual entropy. As it specializes itself to capture its prey more and more efficiently, it has to let go of other aspects of itself. It loses its ability to see a broad image and sees only those things that make it more efficient in capturing its prey and satisfying its baser needs. Take this one step further, as Earthians have done, and observe that a predatory species that increasingly preys on its own kind to satisfy its needs or its wants, guarantees its own demise. If the prey is prolific (for example the teeming numbers of Third World peoples who can be enslaved for their labor while conveniently consuming a relatively small percentage of the natural resources it produces, that end for the chief predator may be protracted, but it remains inevitable. For what happens when the prey percentile of the species fails to "outrun" the predator, or can no longer feed itself? Will it not simply die out? If there is no hard and fast line between prey and predator, this means that the bigger sharks will turn on the smaller, and so on up the food chain until only the big sharks remain to eat each other... or die.

Seems to me that an intelligent life would have seen this coming a billion years away and would have done something to prevent it. After all, "evolution" (and I use the term very loosely since I don't actually buy into the concept) has to have some smarts if its purpose is to make a world, any world, a better place, and what other purpose would "evolution" serve?

In speaking of a better place, you can't just arbitrarily place one species "on top" and in the best place while leaving the rest to stagnate, suffer oppression and die off. In other words, if we would speak of evolution, we must, of necessity evolve all the life forms, not just the chief predatory one. These aren't cartoon worlds we're talking about, but worlds that are alive and in any living environment not destined for entropy, balance must maintain.

If we were to take a critical look at man's performance in, say, the last 2000 years, we could only conclude that evolution has failed him. While growing numbers (the easier prey) and the ability to exploit natural and labor resources has been instrumental to the great surge of technological achievements which are still going on (if more esoteric than ever and with certainly less relevance to earth life in general) the species "man" has been the net loser in this development.

While awareness of the body and its senses have pushed science and technology forward, there has been a quantifiable decline in evolution of values and ideals; mind and ideas being subjugated to a broadening quest focusing on material wealth and physical comforts. Philosophy and the arts are in decline world wide and in total disarray in the Western world. Organized sports, loaded with overt and covert violence as well as endless other equally worthless forms of entertainment have replaced the story-telling in song and music that once characterized a people. In today's world, if you can't sell it, it has no value. The result of such a development is easily observable and was totally predictable. Modern societies, from the teeming cities to the farthest reaches of mountains, deserts and seas, with few exceptions, are experiencing increasing decadence in social interaction. Sadder still is that there are no voices anywhere to call the people back from the brink or if there are, they cannot be heard through the cacophony of mindless digital voices. If they have a message it will not be heard unless it is tailored for the Matrix marketplace, in which case it will, like the millions of messages from politicians, movie-makers, best-selling hope or doomsday authors, be completely eradicated from the minds of the sheeple after it has had its media run.

So you have this terrible void, this screaming silence, this choking emptiness where once some form of wisdom used to thrive or at the very least survive the attacks of madness from religious and political inquisitors. I've always maintained that buying out someone with a message is more effective in silencing her than burning her alive at the stake.

Based on this long-term observation it would seem that all is lost; that there is no hope at all for this planet. Perhaps. But while I hold little hope that any serious challenge is about to be made to the status quo, I do know this: that we are all being boldly lied to and lulled into a collective sleep leading to death.

And so I have to explain the lie by backing up again and sorry if I step on a few toes, but I'm going to have to take God on again.

The main "religion" of earth is that of predator-prey, and I say "religion" because it is more a matter of faith than of necessity! Even the gods, and eventually God, or the one God who billions claim to believe in, were, and are, predators. But in order not to appear as the biggest of the big sharks in the pool, the Earthian God puts himself across as a judge of the good and of the evil and with that, assumes the terrible right to decide who will live in bliss and who will suffer eternal torment in a burning hell—that is, who will be the prey in the eternal barbecue. I'd say that is more akin to sadism than predation but be that as it may for now and let's consider the advertising campaign; how clever God's institutions are at demonizing whatever displeases him. By this subterfuge, his predatory nature is hidden under a cloak of justice, you see? That there is no possibility of justice ever emanating from any Matrix-controlled religions matters not because this is faith. By faith, this whole business is safely removed from any man's judgment. "One cannot go against the will of God" to quote the Muad'dib in Dune. So whatever is done in the name of God, by faith, is not challengeable by anyone. This is so deeply entrenched in the species that those who have challenged "the will of God" either as individuals, institutions or even as empires, over the centuries have failed. And why is that?

It is so because God, or Religion, is a full member of a Trinitarian Matrix complemented by government (the State) and money (finance or Mammon). If "God" (Religion) is predatory, it follows that the State and Finance are equally predatory in nature. And this we know well. So if the "creators" or rulers possess a predatory nature, it follows that their slaves will also have that nature and will indulge it.

So there you have it: the three sided pyramid of power that controls all intelligent life in this universe. Or almost all. There is a rabbit hole down which one may yet escape but...

What you have here is a one-eyed, two dimensional look through a fortuitous knot hole in the fence of brainwash faith giving you a peek at my little sketch of the Powers' encompassing control and how that is manipulated and imposed on the ruminant Earthian. The whole Matrix act depends solely on faith and that faith is neither magical nor special: it is an integral part of the ROM BIOS of the Earthian soul implant. The Powers can access and tweak the soul to direct how the sheeple will follow; how they will believe and what they will do as a result, whether they bray or moo. There are several passages in the Bible that attest to this, the Tower of Babel episode being a more commonly known one. But faith is not the exclusive domain of Religion; it's what makes the System go. And since predation is one of the motive forces keeping the machine moving, the sheeple are programmed to believe that such a thing, as anti-life, as revolting, as sick, as de-evolving and de-humanizing as it is, is not only natural to evolving life, but necessary. Hence why it is readily accepted and never debated. Again, "one does not go against the will of God."

We should always remember that in a universe as complex and intriguing, there must exist countless levels of intelligent life and the Earthian with his truncated intellect and his treasured soul implant is no match for his Lords and Masters, however he struggles time and again, to break out of their control. He is already assimilated and he will conform.

Now then, let's say that someone is able, in the moment, to break free of the soul implant's programming regarding predation; that for a brief moment, this person is convinced that there is a better way. Can such a person find the rabbit hole? Slip through that hole in the universe and come out where the Time Lords or God or the Powers do not make the rules? There is. There is a place outside the confines of this universe or any other universe that is called "the Nexus." The Nexus, as I understand it, is somewhat like the Neutral Zone which any Trekky will know about. But it is more. It is a "non place" if you will, and those who can access the Nexus are de-facto free of the oppression of the Time Lords because in the Nexus exists neither time nor actual space and it rejects all energies that carry time/space conditioning modules (energies, if you will).

And now, what if there were worlds out there, in that Nexus, that have evolved beyond the need for predation, or had never even heard of it? What if such worlds had evolved a type of life that co-existed in quasi-perfect balance and in peace, every part aware of every other and respecting each in every aspect? I could imagine finding a proper working definition of love on such a world and I choose to be one of those who get to experience such a world; to learn how it functions, then to "boldly go" out into the universe, perhaps even back to this place, to teach and demonstrate this concept. To me, that is as exciting an idea as any I could imagine.

There is one little problem in accessing the Nexus: no intelligent, sentient, self-aware being implanted with a soul can ever enter there because the implant gives off a certain pattern of energy that is automatically blocked by the Nexus. So what happens if a time/space entity, being or creature approaches the Nexus is, it simply slips through unawares to end up back in its own universe, or in a possible parallel one.

So, someone may query, tongue in cheek, can the soul implant be gotten rid of? My answer is, yes, of course. It entails a bit of a "trial" somewhat like the one in the tale by Stephen Vincent Benét, "The Devil and Daniel Webster." Every Earthian soul belongs to the God (Matrix Power entity) who gave it and to regain one's freedom means to enter into a tricky sort of deal with that entity (or those entities). But a quest must begin somewhere. If we are not willing to risk anything or to do something drastic to break out of the programming of the Matrix, we will destroy this world. At best, we will be doomed to repeating this life, over and over.