Tag: Consciousness

Space Holders for the Light

Altazar Rossiter

As a child … I used to wonder what people were thinking, to be as they were. It appeared to me that the adult world was completely disconnected from everything that I felt was true. Grown-ups were seriously switched off, as far as I could tell. Yet I couldn’t wait to be grown up because so much was forbidden to me, as a child. I was seduced by the idea that I could do whatever I wanted … when I wanted … without anyone telling me what to do. Then something strange happened. I went through that period between 12 and 21 when I knew everything … especially everything that was wrong with the world. Then suddenly I was “grown up”. I transformed into one of those disconnected people called grown-ups … I was seduced by the apparent pleasures that became available to me…. Read moreSpace Holders for the Light

Enlightenment

Altazar Rossiter

WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT? I wonder if anyone really knows what constitutes enlightenment, beyond their fantasy of what it must be like. Glowing rainbow chakras … floating in ecstatic bliss … free of challenges … Every day I see various memes, giving me idealised versions of it. I certainly don’t measure up to any of them … and don’t want to. [I have actually been accused of it a few times 🙄 … I plead not guilty.] It seems to me that “enlightenment” is another of those loaded terms that we’re encouraged to judge ourselves by. Another opportunity to admit to not being good enough. There are so many of these in our social order. They create a dominant focus on what we’re not good at, so that we learn to ignore our gifts: the stuff we’re good at. Our gifts and talents are generally… Read moreEnlightenment

The Call to Unity

Altazar Rossiter

I was born a few short years after the end of World War 2, into a firmly established wartime consciousness that permeated my early childhood. I spent some of those years in the adventure playgrounds created by the Luftwaffe – the bomb-sites of North London. Since those days there have been several nuclear scares, along with military action in other parts of the world, but I’ve lived in the privileged war-free zone of North-Western Europe. The wartime consciousness I remember from my childhood has faded into a history that fewer and fewer people are alive to recall … but it feels like it’s back now. During times of war major controls are imposed on the civilian population. That’s generally accomplished by a manipulation of consent through insistent official narratives supported by the “news” media. And of course, any information that undermines the official story… Read moreThe Call to Unity

A CHALLENGING REFLECTION ON A DIFFICULT SUBJECT …

Altazar Rossiter

I’ve always found this self-reflection stuff challenging, which is the surest sign that there’s something for me to learn from it. I see some very ugly problems in the world, and I certainly don’t want to accept that they’re in anyway a reflection of me. BUT … One of the important aspects of this phenomenon that I have learned, is that the reflection is somehow indirect. It’s distorted in some way … upside down, magnified, twisted … So I have to explore it and decode it, a bit like a clue in a crossword puzzle. Perhaps one of the nastiest issues that I don’t want to consider in relation to myself, is the trafficking of children; the violation of their innocence and their disappearance on an almost industrial scale. Children are farmed for organ replacement, and for slaughter in ritual sacrifice. None of this… Read moreA CHALLENGING REFLECTION ON A DIFFICULT SUBJECT …

Keep Calm …

Altazar Rossiter

Much of humanity is struggling to reconcile the inequalities and disproportionate imbalances that plague our cultures. That struggle creates a richly fertile soil in which resentment, fear, blame, shame, misery, outrage and conflict grow in abundance. It disrupts any sense of calmness, en masse, almost by design.