If anyone thinks FreeMasons are a Conspiracy theory, watch this. And now that you know that they exist, understand that they don't run the world, and just because some rappers use their symbols doesn't mean Satan wants to eat you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAOdnmowo0I This is kind of a dark part of Civilization that no one talks about, but in the past, it was believed that when you built a structure for a building, it was considered best to use a human body in the foundation. Many old churches around Europe and other places still have markers with the name of people buried in the foundation of different churches and tons of Ghost stories exist to this day because of these bodies in these buildings. Sometimes it is a knight or a monk, but usually it is a church. This idea still exists in regular culture when people talk about building things on Indian Burial grounds. That version of Building no longer exists, but the groups that built those building still exist. Such as, the Catholic and Protestant Churches. And there are still building methods that are used that have meaning similar to that of putting a body in the foundation. The first example is the Cornerstone, which people sometimes use as Time Capsules. Any large building usually has a Cornerstone somewhere, I have seen them in places like Airports and Libraries. According to myth, there was a man named Hiram Abiff. He was the Grand Master in control of building King Solomon's temple, but there were three Wage earners who wanted to earn more money for their work and decided to tell Hiram they would go to other nations and pretend to be Grand Masters themselves if he did not pay them more. So they went to the temple where he prayed and blocked the 3 entrances. One of them met him on the East side and demanded to be named master, but Hiram told him that he could not teach him those things without permission from the King of Tyre and King Solomon. So the worker slit Hirman's throat with a 24 inch measuring gauge, and when he turned away from his attacker, he met another one of the workers at the South door who hit him in the chest with an Architecture's square. He turned again and was hit with a Mallet/Gavel at the West door. He died and they carried in through the West door and later buried him in a 6 ft grave and they fled. 9 other workers had backed out of the plan went to the Grand Master wearing White Aprons and White Gloves as tokens of innocence, When the 3 were found, they suffered horrible deaths. No one knows if this myth is true, because the temple was destroyed in 597 BC, according to Ancient Historians. During the Hellenistic Era, the cult that held these "Mysteries" was spread out of Crete and Egypt, Mithraism came from Babylon, and then the Roman government eventually adopted them as their Government religion until Christianity took over. This can be found by searching the "Mithraic Mysteries" to see the Roman Government or "Minoan Genius" to see the ceremonies being done in Crete. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraic_mysteries Emperor Constantine Converted to Christianity in 312 AD, and commissioned the people in the Government religion to build the Churches of Rome, which started a tradition of Giant stone Churches and strange Symbols on the Churches that are sometimes not related to Christianity at all. During this time most people could not read, so when they built the churches they built them so that people would learn from the Symbols. For example, in the early church the Choir would stand behind a screen/veil that only allowed the people to get glimpses of them, which would make them feel more like they were angels or souls. This is still used in Catholic Confession boxes. Within 300 years, these groups were making Churches all over Europe, and by 1217 they had adopted the French name for "Stone Craftsman" which is "Maszun", and by 1292 they were commonly using Huts to store their tools and eat meals, that they would call the "Lodge". These groups became well established and the government hired them to build everything from military forts, to palaces. Around 1220 the Masonry industry became Unionized, and there were guilds setting the prices of work in different areas. They were not allowed to join together like this to control the prices, so they had to meet in secret. Trade Guilds would make new Masons follow a set of rules known as "Charges", which included things like never playing Cards, except for during the 12 days of Christmas. The Church demanded loyalty from these groups, but they held on to the Ancient Mysteries that came before the church. Around this time there were 7 Crusades by the Church, and the "Poor Knights of Christ" became "The Knights Templar". Which was a central part of supply of Knights and Mercenaries in Europe. This is the group that worshiped Baphomet, and who Christians claim worship the Devil. This group was forced in to the shadows by the Catholic church after they were tortured and confessed to Heresy, at which point some of them were burned like witches. An Important Document to these groups is known as the Regius Poem. It claims that the group started in Ancient Egypt with Euclidean math. But their work can be found on Churches all over Europe before 1400. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonic_manuscripts#Halliwell_Manuscript.2C_or_Regius_Poem Zoroastrianism was the first religion to be Monotheist, because Zoroaster took all the powers from all the Gods and gave them to 1 God. But that started 3000 Years ago, and since then Mithra has made his way in to a higher position. Zoroastrianism was not only the first religion to have 1 main God, but it was also the first religion to have a constant war between Good and Evil. Today, the Zoroastrian Fire Temple is called "The Court of Mithra"and the Priests are given a Mithraic mace with 100 edges. Mithra himself is seen as Between Light and Dark, a Path of Liberation. And Mithra's name itself has 3 meanings in Farsi. Mithra is Love, Mithra is the Sun, and Mithra is Friend. The Mandrake plant is known as "Mithra's Plant". This is the plant from Harry Potter that had screaming babies for roots. In real life they have roots like kind of look like little people, and in Medeival Europe they used to think that the plants actually had screaming babies on them. They would tie a dog to the plant and cover their ears, then make the Dog pull the plant out and get the curse from hearing the scream. That was not just made up for Harry Potter, people actually used to think that. Mandrake is a Sedative and Poison. Mithra can be found in Chinese mythology as "the Friend" and there is a possible link between Mithra and the "Last Buddha" or the "Buddha of the Future" who is the embodiment of love and is known as "Maitreya". Mithra can be traced back to Zoroasterianism and Sumer where he is known as Mica or Mehr. Mithra was and is the God of Promises and Contracts, which is why Christmas Holidays have always been associated with gift giving. Mithra, being the God of promises and contracts, was commonly involved in Marriage. If you noticed, the people in the New Testament pretty much died in jail and stuff, but Christianity is very focused on Marriage. During the Time of Paul, Mithraism was popular. It had made its way all the way from Persia, to Greece, to Rome and Mithraism was one of the last Pagan religions to survive in the Roman empire because it was ingrained into the politics, so even Christian leaders would do Mithraic ceremonies, like Marriage. Paul was converting Pagans to Christianity, and if you read what he said according to the Bible, he said "I am all things to all men" and he was doing that so that people would like Jesus. Mithra can be found in pretty much EVERY culture. A blatant example (and other examples) can be seen in the Middle East. If you have ever heard of the "Oman" people, when they become men according to their culture, they have to start carrying a knife. But not just any knife, a Khanjar. Below is a Omani man with his knife, then below that is the Emblems of Mithra, which is the Phrgian cap and the J shaped knife. http://i62.tinypic.com/57hau.jpg http://i58.tinypic.com/2wbz2tw.jpg And this is actually not even rare. Mithraism was popular all the way from the Island of Britain to the Middle East. If you remember ISIS was chasing the Yizidi people up that Mountain and America had to bomb the ISIS members at the bottom of the mountain? The Yizidi people are a still practicing Mithraic group that is seen as related historically to the birth of Christianity. If you look up "Yizidi" you will see people wearing the Red and White Mushroom colors. And below is the Kurdish Flag, which has the Star of Mithras on it. Then, if you look at pretty much any Middle Eastern Flag you will find the Colors Red, White and Green. Which is out Christmas Colors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidis http://i59.tinypic.com/vqm9lw.jpg Mithraism was the base nature religion before the Romans, Christians and Muslims started making Empires. Then the Empires absorbed the Mithraism and suppressed it. But it was always there. Today, we see it in the Christmas Holiday and in the nations described above. As well as in Christianity/Catholicism. Most people have probably heard of Bull fighting. Mithra was known for killing a bull, and wearing a Red Cape. Bull Fights are pretty much a perfect example of how we are still doing Mithraic ceremonies around the world.
And hamsters do a magic dance to help them rule the world. http://www.hampsterdance.com/classics/originaldance.htm Your turn
Something that a lot of people don't know about the Ancient Egyptians is that they were really REALLY in to math. They used Fractions for pretty much everything. Here is the Eye of Wadjet, which represents all kinds of Fractions. A lot of people don't even realize this, but they had games in Ancient Egypt. One of the main people who fist documented Egyptian artifacts was named Flinders Petrie, and one of his jobs was figuring out exactly how the games worked. He also had to identify things like weights that were used on scales. They had certain weights that they would know the weight of, then they would weigh it against Gold or Silver or whatever they were getting paid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinders_Petrie The Egyptians learned Math from the Dung Beetle. They called him "Khepri" and worshiped him like a God. Dung Beetles use the Sun and the Stars and the Moon to Navigate, and watching the Dung Beetle draw in the sand is how the Egyptians first mapped the Sky. The Egyptians also pretended that there was a Beetle pushing the Sun through the Sky, this can be seen in the Solar Boat Imagery. The Solar Boat has the Planets and the Sun, and the Beetle, which shows how they saw that the Planets and the Sun were moving, while the stars were not. The Beetle was also similar to how modern people think of Butterflies. The Dung Beetle lays eggs in the Dung Ball, then they hatch and become Larva, then they grow in to beetles. This helped the Egyptians realize that people changes, and civilizations change, and no matter how hard you try, some things will always happen the same way. A well known Measuring device in ancient Egypt was the Nileometer. This would flood when the Nile rose, allowing them to measure the exact volume of extra water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilometer Another example is the Sun Temples. Before we had Calendars, you would mark Holidays by creating a Structure that pointed to a spot in the sky. And when the Sun got to that spot, you would know it was that Holiday. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_sun_temple The Goddess of Measuring and Record Keeping is Sheshat. She was an important Goddess to the Rope workers (possibly hemp growers), and Ropes were pretty much the most important measuring device in Egypt when it came to building things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seshat Math was used in Religion, Construction, Farming, Trading, and pretty much everything. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Mathematical_Papyrus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_geometry
When you think of "Astrology" you probably automatically think of people asking "What's your sign" and talking about how their future will go based on a website. That is not what Astrology is, that is just how it sells. Astrology is how we farm, it is how Calendars were made, and much much more. Calendars seem like a normal part of life now, but there was a time when Calendars did not exist. In ancient Egypt they would make fake Horizons and make a mark where the sun came up every day. And by doing this, they made pretty much a perfect year, because the Sun moves across the Horizon throughout the year. And you have probably never thought about it, but a "Month" is actually based on the moon, you could call it a "Moonth". Each month gives us about 1 full moon. Also, Sunday is "Sun Day", Monday is "Moon Day", etc. A lot of people think that the Horoscopes are just random star system that people decided "That one looks like a goat" and "That one looks like a lion" and "That one looks like a guy carrying water", then they randomly assigned months to stars. But that is not what happened. Those specific constellations are the specific constellations that the Sun seems to pass though as we go around it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology Before Gravity was discovered they thought the Planets controlled the Ocean. And the reason Jupiter/Zeus has a lightning bolt is because they thought the planet Jupiter controlled lightning. Even the Hebrew people knew about Mars. The Egyptians called Mars "Horus of the Horizon", the Hebrews called it Ma'adim (מאדים — "the one who blushes". The symbol for Mars is the symbol for "Male" and the symbol for Venus is the symbol for "Female". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_in_culture Astrology is actually a distorted misused form of Ancient Religions. Most of the time Ancient people didn't look to Horoscopes for things like dating or changing jobs, but instead they looked to it for things like farming. Where the could "predict" when to plant their crops, and "predict" when they were going to be able to harvest. We still do this today in the form of "The Old Farmer's Almanac" the Almanac can predict the weather and the planetary alignments and everything. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almanac Hindus OPENLY Worship Gods that Correspond with the Planets. If you look up "Hindu Equivalent to Mars" you will find it. If you look up "Hindu Equivalent to Luna" you will find it. The Greeks and Romans had a similar faith, which the Egyptians and Sumerians had first. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_deities
The Ancient Egyptians were not the only ones who used Math as part of their religion. And you can still find remnants of the Religion in Math today. For example, the "Equal Sign" (=) if explained to an Ancient Egyptian person, would be "Ma'at" to them. Ma'at was the Balance in the universe, and they drew her as a Scale or as a lady with wings on her arms. And the = is basically a representation of her with her arms out. The most in your face example is Algebra. Algebra was invented by Babylonians, then was spread through Mosques. People used to solve Algebra problems using Geometry, ex: The Egyptians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra#Early_history_of_algebra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Mathematical_Papyrus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plimpton_322 You have probably heard of the "Pythagorean Theorem", this is: A Squared + B Squared = C Squared, on a Triangle. Pythagoras was actually a Philosopher, and had a whole philosophy behind numbers. He was also the first person to ever point out that "Wine is good, but too much causes problems" and he actually invented the Pythagorean cup, which spills if you try to drink too much, and only allows you to sip your wine. Much of "Sacred Geometry" is based on Pythagorean ideas, and inspired a lot of the art that is on stone Churches. You saw earlier that the Egyptians used Fractions, and Geometry and Scales for Weighing, and the Nileometer for Volume, and Ropes for Surveying, etc. But not all the cultures were using Math so practically. Math was considered pretty much Magic for a long time. The Greeks and Hebrew people had their number system in their alphabet, they were not different. When people say "Alpha and the Omega" that means A and Z, as well as like 1 and 0, or 1 and 9. But Omega was 800 (This is why there are "Roman Numerals" that are letters). Because Math was wrapped up in Grammar, these cultures would do math with their words. This math was called Isopsephy. The Hebrew culture also had Gematria. This is where you add up the value of a word and compare it to other words, for example the word "alive" in Hebrew has a value of 18, so any word that adds up to a value of 18 is lucky. Zairja was something invented to generate ideas. It is basically word Algebra. You take a Sentence or Paragraph, and add up the Values of the words. Then you do Algebra with the Paragraph and write out the word Values for the Answer you got to the equation. The idea behind this is that if a question is proper, then you should be able to "Solve for X" if you make an equation out of it. But they actually believed the answer was in the question, and just needed to be pulled out. This is probably still a good way to generate new ideas though. Math is a religion. So Christians, you are probably summoning demons or whatever, and Atheists, I bet you are not worried about indoctrinating your kids with Math, so think about how you lump all religions together.
People like to think that Medicine and Science happen in Sterilized rooms, where everyone wears a lab coat, and everyone knows exactly what the outcome of everything will be. That is not science, it might be a routine test some scientists are doing, but that is not the bulk of how science moves forward in leaps and bounds. For example, Penicillin was not discovered by someone working for Pfizer in a sterile lab, trying to cure disease. It was discovered by a messy scientist, who was eating in his lab space, and accidentally left a sandwich out. When he came back to the sandwich days later, it had mold growing on it. He put this mold in a Petri dish with other Bacteria, and it ate all the other bacteria. This is how Antibiotics jumped forward. The first person to invent Vaccines also kind of did so on accident, or at least the guy he copied did. The inventor of Vaccines is Edward Jenner, but 30 years before he invented Vaccines, his friend John Fewster was randomly doing studies where he gave people smallpox on purpose so he could study their reaction, and one time he did it someone didn't react and he questioned them, and it turned out that that person had previously had Cow Pox. So he told people about this and 30 years later Vaccines existed. Not all science happens like this, but a lot of it does. A more modern example is a spider they found in the Amazon, this spider ha venom that works similar to ######. But when it bites you, a guys wenis will get so hard it explodes or stops working via ruptured blood vessels or something. So now that some people have died from this (I think you would die, or hope kinda) they are now working on a way to turn this venom in to the new ######. So this kind of stuff happens all the time. I just wanted to point those things out to say, Western Medicine is not the regimented, sterilized, perfect art we think it is. It is just regular people that went through some higher education, and now they are figuring some stuff out. And I told you that because I want to show you where it comes from. Western Medicine starts in ancient Greece with the worship of the God Asclepius. Asclepius was always identified with snakes, and usually a non-Venomous snake would be kept at his temples, the snakes had free reign inside the temples and were allowed to slither on the floor in rooms where patients slept. The Aesculapian snake is actually a species of snake. The Temples were known as Asclepeion, and they operated much like Hospitals where people would come from all around to come be healed. The way the Doctors would heal the person is by inducing a dream and interpreting it, then giving the person a prescription based on the dream. This is almost identical to Native American Shamanism, you may have heard people call Ayahuasca "Medicine", this is the context of that. The Shamans are meant to take Ayahuasca and come back to this "realm" with a prescription. And according to legend, the plants themselves actually told the Natives how to make Ayahuasca, since you have to mix 2 specific plants in the jungle. If you want to try to find the ancient Greek writings about this, there is supposedly a book called "Sacred Stories" by Aelius Aristides. He was one of these doctors. The Rod of Asclepius is a common medical symbol, it is a staff with a snake on it. The doctors themselves were known as Asclepiad, the most famous of which is probably Hippocrates. Hippocrates invented the Hippocratic oath, which Doctors still say today. Hippocrates is still considered the Father of Western Medicine to this day, he identified a few things that are still named after him sometimes, like Hippocratic Fingers, and Hippocratic Face. He also started the classifications like: Acute, Epidemic and Chronic. He also invented the Hippocratic bench, which was a forerunner to Chiropractor tables and some Torture Devices. I am not suggesting we go back to the Greek Medical model, I just wanted to point out that the things we take the most serious, sometimes (usually) started as people playing with snakes and interpreting dreams.
Democracy is not meant to be any harder than forming a Tribe, and Democracy is not just meant for Governments. There is supposed to be Democracy inside Religious bodies as well as within Political parties themselves. The voting body or city was known as the "Polis", and the Center of the Polis was the Agora. In some places the Agora had elaborate temple structures in order to maintain different functions that the groups did there, but when they first started they were usually as simple as an area marked by Stones as a border. The People would gather at the Agora and cast their votes. As the Agora was used more and more, and functions were decided, structures would be built along the edges of the Agora, but the center was usually left as a wide open space for people to gather. the buildings they usually built were Court Houses and Town Halls and stuff. Extended Porticoes were sometimes used so that functionality of the space was not lost in bad weather. Sometimes Porticoes were built pretty much as their own structures, with a line of rooms at the back, which could be used as offices. Statues dedicated to different groups would be kept at these places, so that they could all gather in their individual groups or together. The Polis itself was a larger reflection of the Agora. It would start off as a region of land which a group of people claimed as their own, with Borders such as rivers, mountains, etc. and slowly through the democratic process, groups were formed and projects were started, until farms were growing and cities were booming. Leagues and Hegemonies operated like the modern United States or EU, or United Nations, in order to get things done between different nations and work together in times of war. Eventually the Polis itself became Warlike and only eligible military members could vote, this eventually evolved into what is known as the Police, Policia, or the Polis. During Hellenistic times the Polis became a battle between Rich Oligarchs, and poor but armed citizens. Today we can see most of the Polis and Agoras purpose being utilized in Universities, but not in too many other places. Archive keeping is an important part of Government and Democracy. If people do not have information from past generations, then they can not make decisions for the future, at least not without running in to problems that would have been avoided if they had information about previous generations. In Ancient Greece the most well kept archives were Law, lists of Public Representatives and the Winners of Sporting events. This is not much different from now, except now there is also the occasional story about someone who saves some animals, or starts a homeless shelter, or has an event, etc. But just like today, other records were kept by more specialized groups. For example, Temples were often a place where you could find archives, since the priests and worshipers would deposit anything important there. It would kind of be like if a church started a library, and asked all their members to donate any books they could that were written about Bible history or written by Historical Priests. Over like 100 years, that Church might actually have a pretty cool collection of stuff, even to non-Christians, it would be kind of like a Musaeum/Library of History. I personally think that more "Temples" should be made, and more Archives should be kept. Even if it just happens in people's houses, there should be people collecting things like: Books written by people in their town, Books written by people in their family, Books written by Historical Figures, Books written in certain time periods, etc. Most Theater, both Plays and Movies, are based on Greek and Roman Plays. Almost every Combination of Good guy and bad guy in almost any environment was already written about in ancient Greece, a lot of people just change the characters and settings to fit modern or even future events, and then make modern movies. For example. the Movie "Prometheus" is just Greek storytelling in Space. Even when it is not on purpose, most movies copy the story-line of existing Greek dynamics. So for an example, I think it would be cool if people who liked movies collected the plays that started the movies they liked, then found other movies based on those plays and put them all together. How awesome would it be to see the progression of a story all the way from ancient Greek telling to modern Movie "Magic". Another cool example would be for someone who is interested in the modern Military of America, they could collect books written by people in service, then they could go through all the tactics that were used and the stuff that the people went through, and see if they can find other generals through history who used similar tactics, or Books by people who were under generals who used similar tactics, and then if there is ever a military mind that sees that collection in the future, it could effect the way he does things. Since he may learn something about the humanity behind all the tactics. I am pretty sure you could also start with the books written by the last few modern American presidents, then after reading their books branch off into other areas that you notice while reading their books, and then keep copies of Obama's executive orders and any things the next few presidents do, and eventually you would have an archive that could definitely be useful to voters. I have talked to people about the idea of Towns, and it seems like a lot of people think it is some sort of magic Craft to start a town. So here are some classifications and Political possibilities that most people don't usually think about. Tribe: Tribes are the societies that exist outside of states. The State is equal to the Greek Polis, with its own sovereignty, and ability to join other states in a Union, League, etc. The people come together at the Agora (Capitol Hill in America) to make decisions, this is the state. Tribes are much more loosely governed. Tribes can be a collection of families, or a collection of religious groups, etc. and usually have some form of leader, either chosen based on the Tribes specialty (the best Hunter, or the best Warrior, or the Best Artisan, or the Oldest, etc). A Club is a collection of 2 or more people that have come together for some common purpose. A Community is similar, except that is is a looser organization, and usually they just have the same values, not necessarily the same or even similar goals. A Gang is any group of friends or a family unit that has a leader. For example, if there is a military family who all look up to 1 Grandpa figure who first joined the Military and started a tradition, that is a form of Gang. It is not an Organized Crime Gang, but it is a form of Gang. Townships are the most basic form of Town. In America there are 2 forms of Townships, a Survey Township and a Civil Township. A Survey Township is just a unit of land that has been measured properly by a Surveyor, a Civil township operates like a County, in some states they are treated like a regular "Incorporation" type town. Civil Townships exist in 20 of the 50 states. The overall name for Towns, Townships, Villages, Cities, Counties, etc is Municipal Corporation. To establish a town, you need a Town Charter. A Town Charter would be created by/in a State or County Legislature, and the people of that County would Vote for the new Town to be formed. A Town could also Vote to Split. Villages are smaller than towns, and are not necessarily Incorporated. Depending on the State, a Village can just be a town that has formed with its own Government Body, but a smaller population than a town. A Town is incorporated and follows State laws to form. City is really just a big town in most places. Counties are Administrative divisions designated by a state. Common Law is how we get Laws from Court cases. 2 Modern Examples are: 1. The Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare 2. The Hobby Lobby Supreme Court Case When the United State Supreme Court makes a ruling, it becomes "The Law of the Land" for all of the United States. This is common law. The reason it exists is this, for example: If you bring a Wolf to town, and no one has ever had a Wolf as a pet there, people might freak out. So the Police might get called, and they might give you a ticket, which establishes a Court Date. Then you have to go to Court, and argue your case, and whatever the Judge decides is the new Law for Wolf owners in your town. Maybe they say you have to give it a muzzle, maybe they say you can't own it without a license, maybe they say you can't own it at all etc. Common Law works on all levels. US Supreme Court makes rules for the Country, State Supreme Courts make rules for the State, a County Judge makes rules for the County, and a City Judge makes rules for the Town. A Common Heritage of Mankind is something that no one can really own, but everyone can use. Examples are the Ocean and Space. An Embassy or a Diplomatic Mission is a group of people from one state/country, who own land in another state/country, and work to establish treaties and accomplish goals in that country/state. Once the Diplomatic mission establishes permanency it becomes an Embassy and the head of the Embassy is considered the Ambassador. Embassy can also just refer to the building or office that the Diplomatic mission is operating from. For Democratic Non-Violent Protests, there are some Organizational tactics that can be used. If Clubs, Tribes are established, it makes it much easier to protest, this is why Unions are more successful when striking than regular employees are. Here are the Supreme Court Rulings that are the "Law of the Land" and defend our Rights, such as the Right to Gather, and the Right to Free Speech. Public Sit ins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Louisiana Police May not Plot Against a Protest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_v._Princess_Anne The Local, State or Federal Government should not put "Breach of the Peace Statutes" in place, because they are more likely to incite violence than not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox_v._Louisiana Police Breaking apart a Peaceful Crowd is Illegal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_v._South_Carolina Most protests don't have any previous organizational structure, so the best way to establish it for the first time is to get people to line up in rows, then give each row of people a flyer to explain what their overall goals should be as a group, This way people can choose to do different things, but be following a main plan within the group that they talk to throughout the protest. Do not try to get people to line up constantly, this is only to create the foundational structure to accomplish a goal other than being loud, not a way to create a regimented force of soldiers. When passing out any other objects or flyers, they should be something that encompasses all the established groups. The reason you want to make groups is to create more diverse functionality and thought. This does not need to be a division within the whole group, only within the core people that are there first. For example, if there are a group of people with Walkie Talkies in your protest, you would want to make this division within that group of people, so that you could all coordinate different plans. Examples of divisions of labor would be Making/Passing out Protest signs, Giving People Rides or Collecting Emails/Phone Numbers, Setting up a space where people can get water and maybe food, Making videos of specific protesters or groups and getting their names, Keeping an eye on the crowd to make sure no one is bringing like Molotov Cocktails in to start a riot, etc. If you have groups you can do various things instead of just trying to be some random "Administrative Entity" over the protest. Goals should be to go to Libraries, Universities or Local/National News Broadcasting stations and holding "Sit Ins" or at least "Stand Outsides". These places are places that will get more people to come and join, as well as being more likely to be News worthy. If you do NOT want to be in the News, use Profanity a lot, put a Cuss word in your Groups name (Ex: You can call yourself the (*)(*)(*)(*)ers and it won't be in the news) and if you want to stay off of Live Broadcasting, write the word "f***" on your forehead. At least one person should try to get Emails or Phone numbers from protesters, the people there are obviously interested in learning more. Any goal that you want to accomplish politically should be something you care passionately enough about to make a Pamphlet or a Brochure type thing, at least made up of a 2 pages and folded together to make a pamphlet. Not a lot of people understand that they can start political organizations (look up "How to start a PAC" if you want to make one) or how to run for office in local campaigns. So having information about how to do these things can be extremely helpful. Protests are not going to accomplish much more than getting the word out, and eventually you have to tap in to Democracy and protest by getting new people in Office as Judges, Sheriffs and Mayors. TONS OF CITIES have District Attorney's that run unopposed. People only think to Vote for Mayor and Sheriff and stuff, they don't think of running themselves, and they definitely don't worry about who the District Attorney is. But that is such an important position as far as deciding who goes to jail in town. During a Protest, Police should take the role of an outside presence. They do not need to be involved, and according to training videos from the 60s, they are only supposed to put plain clothes officers in the protest. And if you watch the Yippies and the Hippies in the 60s talking in videos and stuff, they talk about how part of the plan was to get the Police to beat on the Plain clothed officers with them. Police should not take an offensive position, but they probably will. If they do, what they are going to do is a "Show of Force". This will include loud barking, and possibly banging on shields or stomping feet. If the Police do this, the best response is to get people to start doing some kind of beat. Like even just clapping and stomping "We will rock you" is sufficient. If the police move forward, the main protesters should not run at the police to fight them. The main protesters should make their way to the back of the crowd to form a ring. If you hold hands behind the other protesters, they will not be so easy to move back, and you will be able to hold your position without them moving you. Having something to create cohesive units can also help, for example, if you have brooms or something, you could work together against the shields more effectively. These tactics are meant to be a response to police over action, like in Occupy and the early days of Ferguson, not a way for protesters to initiate action against the police. The best way to initiate action against the police is to read their oath to them, or just elect a new Sheriff. The word Thug actually comes from the word in India "Thuggee". When the British Colonized India, they found that there was a group of people that were not afraid of death, sometimes seeking death in battle or by running off cliffs, and they were known as the "Noose Operators" because they were very good at the art of "Strangulation" which in modern terms would be recognized as "Going for their neck". They would often work as organized Gangs, with district leaders and things like that (Police and Gang structure is pretty much exactly the same if you don't know). They would often split up and line up miles apart on a road way, then they would slowly join a traveling group, each of them pretending to be alone, until they were all together at which time they would lead the people to a killing spot. The word made its way to America, and Tupac made it popular by inventing "Thug Life", people were already being called and calling themselves Thugs or Gangsters, but 2Pac put it in everyone's face. It originally made its way to America via the Italian Mob, which used their "Thugs" to do leg work. Tupac realized that his people were afraid of/Believed in the Illuminati, and he wanted to Squash that, and once the president said his name on TV he had the platform to do it. I am not exactly sure who educated Tupac, but he was very inspired by Niccolo Machiavelli, Tupac was even known as "Makaveli". Machiavelli is the founder of Modern Political Science (Called PoliSci by students) and Political Ethics. He grew up in a time when the Pope of Italy would constantly declare war on the Italian city states, and many of the politicians were bought off. A Politician who has been bought off is known as a "Condottieris" or "Contractors", which in Ancient Italy was done openly, not as Bribes or Political Donations. Machiavellianism is the concept that comes out of Machiavelli's book "The Prince". This book was written as a "Mirror's for Princes" style, which means it was meant to be read by kings and rulers. It is basically a book about how people use political power for personal gain, and it shaped much of the modern western thought as far as "Politicians". If you have ever heard "Politicians lie", that is common knowledge because of Machiavelli's book. There is something known as "Malevolent Creativity". We all understand normal creativity, where someone uses their imagination to create something, or when someone puts 2 things together and makes something new, or even when someone just does something out of the norm to see if they can. That is normal creativity, Malevolent creativity is different. For example, if someone says "We have a drug problem in our town" and you say "Lock them all up" or "We need to crack down on our people" this is Malevolent creativity, a simply online example, would be if someone was annoying you in a forum, instead of being "creative" and finding a way to ignore them or deal with them, the "Malevolently creative" thing to do would be to Ban them, for being annoying. Most people have the ability to do complex problem solving and be creative, but this other route is taken by people who are more self absorbed aka Low Emotional Intelligence, or No Empathy which could lead to worse, more sociopathic behavior. Many people think Tupac was trying to hurt people, but he was not. He was trying to teach people about Politics and how bad it was in the streets. If you listen to his music he is never saying like "Go kill people" he is saying "Why are we shooting each other" and "Why are our women getting raped by our men" and "Why do we let ourselves think there is something holding us down"
The Importance of Closing Your Eyes I am sure most people have had the thought or question "Why do we have to sleep?", I don't have the answer, but here are some things that happen when you close your eyes. Dreaming: We have all probably had at least a few dreams in our lives, some people even equate dreaming with "Good Sleep" which I don't think is a proven case. But when you close your eyes at night, your Pineal gland releases Melatonin, and Melatonin is what gets you tired, and puts you to sleep. Melatonin is extremely similar to Serotonin, and you can get it at various Grocery and Drug stores. 5-HTP is very similar to Serotonin and has been shown to promote dreaming in some people. AcetylCholine has been shown to regulate dreaming, and taking it has also been shown to promote dreams. Meditation: When people meditate, the goal is similar to sleeping. You close your eyes and your Pineal gland will release Melatonin. This non-sleeping Melatonin full state is known as "Meditation". Closed Eye Visuals: If you have ever heard anyone talk about an experience with something like Mushrooms or LSD or anything like that, they may have talked about Fairies and Gnomes and all kinds of weird things. This is probably not true. If you want to see anything "Different" than what is actually there, you will have to close your eyes. Mushrooms will make edges wiggle, and colors meld and shift in and out of each other, it will make Fire Amazing and Lights have Halos, and the Stars might move or connect the dots for you. But usually if you want to see anything different, you have to close your eyes.
Just in case anyone thinks I am talking about "New Age" stuff, I want to explain what New Age is. The New Age has to do with things like the Mayan Calendar and the Egyptian Ogdoad, so people think that I am talking about it sometimes. But "New Age" is a specific kind of discussion/practice. When I personally talk about Planetary Gods and Math, I am not telling people that 2012 was an alignment of the ages or that Sacred Geometry can heal you of things. An "Age" is just a cycle that our Solar System goes through, this is why the Mayan Calendar ends, it is meant to start over, and start a new "Age". A "New Age" person will talk a lot about the Age of Aquarius, because that is the age we would be moving in to if everyone still used those calendars. Then problem is that "New Age" people think that the New Age was a shift, and now everyone will automatically act different. This is not true, for example, will you act EXTREMELY different when you hear we switch from 2014 to 2015 soon? No, you will pretty much do the same stuff. And just something random, but a lot of people hear about Hinduism, Zoroastrianism or Buddhism and automatically want to call it "New Age", but Buddhism and Zoroastrianism are over 2500 Years old, and Hindu is about 4000 years old. If anything, Christianity is new age. Even though their symbol is the Symbol of the old age, the Fish/Pisces.
A lot of people are confused about a few things. 1. They thing Christianity spread through Peace and Love 2. They think all religions believe in a God that is in some way similar to the Christian God Both of these things are not true. First, the Christians did live pretty peacefully for a while, because they were in jail. It was pretty much a prison cult for a while, until the Church got popular and then eventually became the official religion of Rome. At this point it turned around completely. They started killing Pagans and everyone else they could find. And if you read the previous part, the Egyptians and Greeks were pretty much Worshiping Math and Medicine and other "Arts", like "Martial Arts" which comes from the Worship of Mars. Mars is a Planet that was being Worshiped. Most cultures worshiped Planets, or the Wheel, or Math, etc etc. And they would attach moral codes to these things, like Each planet would represent "Love" or "Darkness" or whatever. And with the wheel, each Spoke would represent a different value. Either way, the point of the worship was to learn that all these things work together to make one overall thing. Mithra worship was the main religion around Europe and the Middle East before the Christians came, that is why the Oman people have the J shaped Mithra knifes they have to carry around once they are a certain age, and this is why Red, White and Green are the Colors of most middle Eastern Flags. This was also the main religion of the Roman empire, and statues can be found dedicated to Mithra in Roman government buildings. So, once they shut down all this stuff, we had things like Isaac Newton having to do Planetary research in secret, because if the Church found out he was studying the planets, he would have been killed. Then we would have never had Gravity. Then came the Muslims, and they made a bunch of become Muslim, but as tons of Mithraism stayed in the cultures. And the Christians got worried about the growing influence around them, so the Pope declared the 1st crusade. Then 9 Crusades later, (the last one being less than 800 years ago) we are where we are now.
When people think of a "Soul", they usually think of some Magic force inside of you that God takes to heaven. So any time you hear the word "Soul", you think it must be similar to what Christians imagine. But Christianity was kind of made up "on the fly" and isn't even as intricate as Judaism, the Ancient Egyptians had a much more intricate and realistic version of the Soul. The first example of the Soul is the Shadow which they called Sheut. They would make Statues and Silhouettes to preserve the Shadow after death. It was believed that your Shadow was your connection to the Afterlife. Your name, known as a "Ren" in Ancient Egypt, was another aspect of Soul. It was believed that as long as a name was spoken, the person's Soul was still alive in some way. And the more a person's name was written the better, because then it had more chances of surviving and being read and spoken. The Ka is the vital essence of a person. This would be the life Spark in someone that would determine if they were alive or dead. Now adays we would point to "Brain Dead" as the point of the Ka being gone. The Egyptians did not value the brain like we do, they believed that the Heart was the seat of the body, since it flows to all parts. the Heart was known as "Ib", most of our ideas about Hearts being important for things comes from Egypt. Later, European people would think the Liver was the most important, which is why it is called the "Live-er". "Ba" is similar to the idea of a person's personality and what makes them unique. Anything could have a "Ba", such as an Instrument. If you have a relationship with a Car, Gun, or a Golf Club, or Whatever, then it probably has a "Ba" and you have maybe even given it a Ren. People who smoke Marijuana give their Pipes/Bongs Ren and people try to choose them for their Ba, they just don't use those terms. The Ba was not considered different from the person, and this is the part of a person that you can see in your dreams. Even after a person is dead, and no longer part of this world, their personality or uniqueness can still persist in the family and friends of the person. The Ba is almost impossible to compare to the Christian idea of soul, the ideas are SO different that when Christianity came to Egypt, they had to use the word Psyche to get them to understand the Christian soul. The Ba is a much more physical REAL thing, and you can still see the other person's Ba in your dreams after you die. The word "Ba" for Soul was the same as the word "Ba" for Ram, so it was common to depict dead people and Gods with Horns to show their Soul aspect. This ideaology is also the reason most Ancient religions allowed people to Sacrifice Rams for their sins. Akh is your living intellect, or maybe what we would now call your "Mind" or maybe what the Greeks would call "Ego". If you have ever taken Mushrooms and looked in the Mirror and realized that whatever "You" are is not a body, then you have experienced your Akh. It was believed that after death, the Ba and the Ka would come together and reform the Akh. And there was a perceived risk that the Akh could die again. Akhenaten was a very hated Pharaoh because he believed he was Gods representative on Earth and changed the Egyptian religion, his son is King Tut, who restored the Planets as the Gods. The priests set his ghost to wander the Desert, and people still claim to meet him out there. Bat was an Egyptian Goddess, and it is thought that her name is the Feminine aspect of a person's soul. She was one of the first Goddesses in Egypt, and is depicted with 2 heads as a representation of the Upper and Lower kingdom as 1, or as 2 Banks of the Nile, or as the Past and the Future. The Sistrum is a musical instrument that was associated with her, and it was shaped like an Ankh. Bast was the Cat/Lioness Goddess, as well as the Goddess of Music, Joy, Love, Dance and Protection. Her name contains the word for "Soul" with a Femenine Suffix, and She is is also seen holding a Sistrum. Cats were praised for their ability to kill mice and rats, as well as snakes. The snake "Apep" was thought to do battle with the Sun during the night, and Bast was known for battling Apep. The Ankh is the symbol in ancient Egypt that looks like the Christian cross, but with a loop on top. It is known as "The Key of Life". This symbol is held by pretty much every God in Egyptian art. No one is sure what it means now, but the symbol was very common in Ancient Egypt and the symbol was used for an important ceremony every year. The Pharoah was not actually a person in Egypt, the "Par'Oh" was the main Palace, and in this Palace you could find different priests and priestesses, as well as Sacred Animals. One of these animals was the Apis bull. This bull was treated like a King all year, then during the Apis ceremony, they would put a Sun Disk on the Bull's head, and this along with the Bull's horns would make the shape of an Ankh. It is possible that the Ankh is a Representation of the Sun and the Moon, and possibly even the Sun and the Moon and a Shadow, which would make it an Eclipse. Sometimes the Sun Disk can be seen on the Heads of Gods and Goddesses, along with a partial moon. Measuring the sky was pretty much the most important thing in the world to ancient Egyptians, so being able to predict when the Sun and the Moon would do things, would have been important. Even today we are mesmerized, as a species, by eclipses. The Eye of Horus/The Eye of Wadjet was important to the dead. The symbol was meant to protect, as well as to Symbolize the 6 Senses, being Taste, Touch, Sight, Hearing, Smell and Thought.
