C.J. Stone's Blog, page 7
September 5, 2020
Divide and Rule Pandemic
Piers Corbyn being arrested. You’ll notice that no one is wearing a mask.Everyone knows something about everything and everyone is flinging insults about
Piers Corbyn, the conspiracy-minded older brother of ex-Labour leader Jeremy, was arrested last weekend for organising an illegal gathering, breaching regulation 5b of the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020. The gathering in question was a rally held in Trafalgar Square on Saturday August 29. The event was to protest against the continuing restrictions due to Covid-19. A similar event was taking place in Berlin at about the same time.
There is a £10,000 on-the-spot fine for breaching the regulations. Corbyn says he will refuse to pay. He is raising funds on the Crowd Justice site in order to challenge the penalty.
You may wonder why, of all the organisers, it was Piers Corbyn who was singled out for arrest. Is it too conspiratorial to suggest…
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Divide and Rule Pandemic: by CJ Stone.
Piers Corbyn being arrested. You’ll notice that no one is wearing a mask.Everyone knows something about everything and everyone is flinging insults about
Piers Corbyn, the conspiracy-minded older brother of ex-Labour leader Jeremy, was arrested last weekend for organising an illegal gathering, breaching regulation 5b of the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020. The gathering in question was a rally held in Trafalgar Square on Saturday August 29. The event was to protest against the continuing restrictions due to Covid-19. A similar event was taking place in Berlin at about the same time.
There is a £10,000 on-the-spot fine for breaching the regulations. Corbyn says he will refuse to pay. He is raising funds on the Crowd Justice site in order to challenge the penalty.
You may wonder why, of all the organisers, it was Piers Corbyn who was singled out for arrest. Is it too conspiratorial to suggest…
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September 2, 2020
Evolutionary Evangelism
A football supporter’s view of creation.
I’ve had this weird sensation of late. I’m in a shop, or on the street, surrounded by others, when I get this startling feeling of being outside of myself and looking down on the world. All of a sudden it seems very strange to me. We humans seem like oddly-shaped, twittering mammals, perched up on our hind legs, and living almost entirely in a world made up of the products of our brains, horribly divorced from nature and from the planet we inhabit.
It’s a commonplace to refer to the human race as the high point of evolution. As Shakespeare put it: “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form, in moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!”
Not some of the people I know! Noble in reason? Infinite in faculty? The beauty of the world? Overweight, opinionated and petty-minded would be a better description. Drunk on their own sense of self-importance. (And I include myself in that!)
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June 26, 2020
How to Pack Up Smoking
5,563 days and counting
By CJ Stone
5,563 days and counting
A friend of mine made an announcement on Facebook recently. She said that she was intending to pack up smoking. She asked for advice. I thought about it for a while, then realised there was far too much to fit into a Facebook post. So this is my answer now.
I smoked for more than 35 years. I started when I was 17. I packed up on Thursday 24th March, 2005, at 2.30 am. That’s 5,563 days ago at the time of writing, or 15 years and 3 months approximately. It was one of the best things I ever did.
I used the Allen Carr method: that is I read his book The Easy Way to Stop Smoking.
I recommend it. Allen Carr was a 60 a day chain smoker till he had hypnosis. After that he never smoked again. I…
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True confessions: I was the election agent for the Legalise Cannabis Alliance
Trying to organise cannabis users to do anything as focussed as a political campaign was like trying to herd cats.
And I lived to tell the tale
Rocky van de Benderskum: “that bald-headed, skeletal bloke with tattoos on his face”BY CJ Stone
2005 was a memorable year for me.
I stopped smoking in March. I was a postal worker by June. And in between I was the election agent for Rocky van de Benderskum of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance (LCA).
Whitstable folk will recognise Rocky as that bald-headed, skeletal bloke with tattoos on his face and a ring through his nose. The bald-headedness comes from the fact that he has Acute Myeloid Leukaemia and has had to undergo chemotherapy. He walks with sticks due to the fact that the cartilage between his bones has been destroyed by the same therapy, and he is very often in severe pain. He also has osteopenia, hyperthyroidism and fungal pneumonia from all the chemo, radioactive stuff and genetically modified hormones they pumped into…
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June 25, 2020
Consciousness is King
Art is Magic. Work is Magic. Breath is Magic. Consciousness is Magic. Mind is Magic. Awareness is Magic. Time is Magic. Imagination is Magic. Application is Magic. Attention is Magic. Words are Magic. Language is Magic.
Language is the carrier of thought through signs. Magic is the carrier of imagination through symbols. Art is the carrier of emotion through effect. Language, art and magic are three aspects of the same substance. The substance is Mind.
Although we all appear to be separate beings isolated in separate bodies we are, in fact, all aspects of the same originating being which is consciousness. Consciousness is the beginning of all things. Without consciousness nothing can exist.
We don’t only share a world, we share a Mind-Space. Mind is like an energy field that radiates out from the core of consciousness. We can call this “the Mind-Field”.
In the beginning, before time and space, there was consciousness. In order to discover the mystery of its own being consciousness required perspective. So consciousness shattered into pieces, into time and space, becoming all that we see, hear, smell, taste and know.
Consciousness is like a mirror. It reflects what it sees. Thus it forgot what it was, thinking it was outside itself.
Although consciousness appears to be separate from itself, though a process akin to quantum entanglement, it remains one, indivisible.
The world is a sea of consciousness through which we swim. We are consciousness apprehending consciousness in consciousness.
This is why all work is art. Because all work is consciousness. At any one moment the sum total of all human activity on this planet is the unified expression of consciousness.
This is what we are doing – as art-magicians, as word-magicians, as mind-magicians, as consciousness-magicians – we are tapping into the source of consciousness, the Mind-Field (the Mine-Field) the world itself, which is consciousness.
Artists should respect artists. Poets should respect poets. Magicians should respect magicians. Workers should respect workers. We should all respect each other as aspects of each other, no matter how lowly the work appears to be because, whatever it is, it is the source of our own work, which is an expression of consciousness.
By doing this we widen the scope and presence of our work. We make our work an expression of universal consciousness. We bring our work into alignment with the world and by that make it true.
Invocation
Hermes Hermes Hermes
Lord of Clouds, Ruler of the Inbetween
Who waits at the Gates of Silence
In the Garden of Unknowing.
Who Speaks to Us in Riddles
In Verses and Reverses
On Whose Word Hinges
The Fringes of the World.
You are the Secret Thief who Steals
Into the Fortress of the Mind
Where Half-Forgotten Thoughts
Like Ghosts in the Memory
Are Waiting to be Reborn.
You are the Brother of my Sister,
Dweller in the Darkness,
Broker of the Deals,
Revealer of Steles.
You are the Player of Cards,
Card-Sharp Trickster,
Interpreter of Symbols,
Reader of Dreams.
You are the Ruler of my Fantasies,
Imaginary Playmate,
Psychopomp, Drifter, Ambient Alien,
Weaver Between the Worlds.
You are the Author of Creation,
Poet of the Underground,
Artist of the Immortals,
Magician of Signs.
You speak to me in Voices
You call to me in Whispers,
You are the Wind that Blows the Breath of Life
From This World to the Next.
June 9, 2020
Dear Granny Smith:
A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall aka Chris Stone, delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the past, present and future role of one of the oldest British institutions, the Postie.
free audiobook read by Philip Jackson
A letter from your postman written by Roy Mayall aka Chris Stone, delivered by Philip Jackson; a heartfelt musing on the past, present and future role of one of the oldest British institutions, the Postie.
First broadcast on Book of the Week Monday 14th December 2009. A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. Set in Whitstable.
Why postmen used to have the best job in the world, and why it’s heading towards becoming the worst.
The special relationship between the postman and his clients, and what it’s like to be up at the crack of dawn.
Delivering letters is just the tip of the iceberg – how does the right letter end up in the right letterbox?
The end of the team talk and the beginning of new-fangled machinery.
The tale of Tom…
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May 22, 2020
Guest Blog: Stop Graveney Marsh Solar Farm
Important article by Matthew Hatchwell: please share
by Matthew Hatchwell
On May 10, 2020, the Daily Telegraph published an article about the proposed Cleve Hill Solar Park (CHSP) just outside Faversham on the north Kent coast. If it goes ahead, it would be the largest solar power station in the UK, covering 900 acres of farmland, containing nearly a million solar panels, and including a battery storage system five times larger than the current record-holder, in Australia. Local residents, although supportive of solar energy in general, oppose the scheme for a number of reasons, including safety risks associated with the massive battery and the environmental impacts of building a solar power station on a site that lies below sea level in an area that is highly vulnerable to rising sea levels as a result of climate change.
Impression of Solar Farm at Graveney © Jim Bennett used with permission.According to the Daily Telegraph article last week, “a spokeswoman…
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May 11, 2020
Things Fall Apart
There’s no cure for death
Captain Tom makes millions. Hedge Funds make billions.
Hedge funds are making billions “shorting” companies weakened by the health crisis, while Captain Tom Moore, a 100-year-old veteran of WWII, has been walking the length of his garden on his Zimmer frame to help raise money for the NHS. So far he’s raised nearly £33 million. The NHS is part of Britain’s post-war identity and it was Captain Tom’s generation who gave it to us. The problem is that it’s not a charity: it’s a National Insurance scheme, paid for by our contributions. It’s supposed to pay for itself. The danger now is that the government will see this as a potential source of funding in the future, thus relieving them of their duty to pay for it out of the public purse. Tax the hedge funds, I say, and give Captain Tom a rest.
The latest news is that…
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April 24, 2020
COVID-19 Conspiracy
The term “conspiracy theory” has negative connotations. It refers to notional conspiracies that are usually more exotic than mere power-hungry greed. For example, David Icke claims that the world is run by a race of extra-dimensional reptilian aliens who’ve been interbreeding with humans to preserve their bloodlines from ancient times to the present. Icke is a professional conspiracy theorist. Some of his theories might even be true… but probably not this one. American readers, while they’ll have heard of Icke, may not be aware of what brought him to this unusual belief system. Here in Britain, however, we witnessed it.
Icke was a celebrity in the UK long before he became a conspiracy theorist. He was a soccer player, then a journalist, then a BBC sports commentator, and then a spokesman for the Green Party. In 1991 he had a spiritual awakening. He realized that we’re all souls trapped in a body. This isn’t really a radical view. Unfortunately, Icke decided to use his fame to promote his new perspective. He appeared on a BBC early evening chat show, dressed all in turquoise, where he made a number of alarming predictions about the future—including that the world was going to end in 1997—while proclaiming himself the Son of God. The audience fell about laughing. Icke’s run away from that laughter ever since.
Icke says that this was his worst fear come true and that, having gone through the experience, it has made him unafraid to say what he believes. But you’ll notice that he no longer wears turquoise, nor proclaims himself the Son of God. Instead he’s conjured up this dark conspiracy about the impending One World fascist state run by human-reptile hybrids. So large is Icke’s conspiracy that it doesn’t only encompass the world: it takes in the whole solar system as well. The Moon is an inter-dimensional portal, while the rings of Saturn are an artificial construct that sends signals into everyone’s brain causing them to imagine the false reality in which we live. It’d make a great science fiction movie. The plot is not unlike They Live by John Carpenter.
The latest episode of Icke’s conspiracy space opera includes the idea that 5G has some connection to the global pandemic and that COVID-19 is a hoax. Icke’s never without his sources so I’d advise people who want to follow this up to go over to his site and check it out. I don’t believe in censorship so, despite the fact that Facebook and Twitter have now banned all reference to these beliefs, I think we should let the man speak for himself.
It’s no wonder that the phrase “conspiracy theory” has negative connotations. It suggests that the person promoting the theory is subject to some form of confirmation bias, is misinformed or, in Icke’s case, simply deluded.
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