Iran war

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America and Israel attacked Iran again, although it would be more accurate to say that Israel attacked Iran using America, again, because they weren’t happy with how it went the last time; basically, both Trump and Iran were happy to conclude the previous war as soon as possible, with token damage inflicted. So, it is my interpretation that this time, Israel convinced Trump that Iran will fold and disintegrate immediately if they kill Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. What they, of course, knew, is that the opposite will happen – Iran will feel honour-bound to escalate the war to the point where neither party will be willing or able to just proclaim victory and finish it.

So, what are the goals now? For America, the goal is some kind of a regime collapse in Iran, or disintegration of Iran as a state. Since this is extremely unlikely to the point of being impossible, this means America doesn’t have an exit strategy, at all. They will try attacking until they are left without ammunition. Inevitably, they will suffer some extreme loss, such as an aircraft carrier being sunk or irretrievably damaged, and then they will be forced to use nuclear weapons to finish it.

For Iran, the goal is equally unclear. Ideally, they would want Israel and America to be permanently and fatally damaged, to the point of finally fucking off and leaving them alone. Since they think this is unrealistic, they are trying to survive long enough for their enemies’ corpses to float down the river of time. This means they don’t benefit from a direct confrontation, but now they are being forced into it, and there is no obvious way out. I mean, there is – they could always “salt” Israel, make it permanently and completely uninhabitable using dirty bombs, but then nuclear weapons would be used against Iran as well, and they also probably have some kind of a religious interdiction against that. But we do need to have in mind that this is technically an option for them, and Israel exists only because Iran isn’t fatally threatened. If push comes to shove and someone uses a nuke against them, I’m pretty sure they will “salt” Israel, and then all hell will break loose, everywhere.

So far, Iran’s retaliation has more-less paralysed oil and gas supply through the Strait of Hormuz, and this, together with the rest of the damage to the Emirates and everything else there, will cause serious issues to the global economy, which will persist even if the situation were to normalise immediately, which it won’t. The price of oil is going up, and America will now have to try to tear it down. If they fail, both themselves and their allies will find themselves in an immediate economic crisis, while Russia will get an advantage; China won’t be greatly affected because they are plugged into Russian supply. This is damaging the West primarily. The liquefied gas supply from Qatar has also been stopped, and it would take half a year for that to be restarted in earnest. This means Europe is going to either restart their Russian purchases, which is unlikely because they made enemies out of Russia, which is unlikely to just let this go at this point, or they are going to have a serious energy crisis.

I am expecting global supply lines to be compromised for all sorts of reasons soon enough, which will limit availability of things, putting pressure on local sources, which will result in prices going up. Production of artificial fertilisers might be further compromised, with availability and price of food becoming an issue.

This, of course, assumes a gradual and linear escalation of things not much further than they currently are. However, if something really big happens, all bets are off. Big powers are already itching to use nuclear weapons because they are out of conventional options, and with some big escalatory event, the temptation might become too much.

So, what are my recommendations? I think it’s too late for prepping. The crisis is already upon us; gold and silver started their exponential takeoff, so they are probably too expensive to buy at this point. The time to prepare by putting money there was years ago. Spiritual preparations are another matter, which is why my new book exists, I’d say.

Weather

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We went to Plitvice in order to get some change of scenery and catch different photographic motives – snow and ice, and if we can’t have that, then at least some fog over the lakes. Instead, we got three brilliantly sunny days:

On the other hand, when we returned home, the sunniest place in the country, we got rain, clouds and fog:

But yeah, cobwebs with dew beads, yay. 🙂

The Lakes in spring

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I failed to get icy and snowy shots of the Plitvice lakes; mostly because it was that kind of a year. When there was ice and snow, the roads were dangerous, and it all melted almost immediately, so I couldn’t plan anything. Also, we had much more serious problems to deal with. Also, I had a book to write.

No snow. Plenty of snowdrops, though:

The trees are still bare, and the wide compositions were harder to arrange:

Plenty of ducks, though:

Here’s the whole album.

Errors that never mattered

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If you look at my old books and other writing, it’s obvious that I was under several serious misapprehensions. I also didn’t understand all of it correctly. How is it, then, that I was not harmed by those misapprehensions – like, at all? And how is it that my former students could never be justified in disobeying me?

Some of the misapprehensions look quite serious – I thought Sanat Kumar was the Purusha of the Earth, basically the aspect of God dedicated to spiritual evolution in this place. This sounds very much like thinking Satan is in fact God. Which I did. I also thought his plan of evolving people to higher initiation was good. So, I basically said “excellent plan, let me help you with that”, and I assisted people in evolving to attain higher initiation.

Yes, I thought he was God. So I focused on God, saw what is the right thing to do, and did it. I suspect Satan was not at all happy with how that went, but basically, you can’t deceive someone who already has a connection to God. You either pretend you’re God well enough to pass, in which case you can’t effectively do anything harmful, or you try to deceive and you are ignored because it’s not of God. He tried deceiving me both personally and through his sock puppet of Sai Baba, and he used all kinds of sophisticated deceptions, the stuff that would make your skin crawl, on the limits of nirvikalpa samadhi. When I was deceived, it was because deceptions were very good. However, nothing sticks. I went to India, saw that Sai Baba doesn’t have the mantric signature of God, and used the mantric signature of God to break down his playground. Deceiving me works about as well for Satan as catching a big hornet works for a small spider. Successfully caught hornet in net. Net broken.

So, whatever I did then, it had the mantric signature of God and led to God. When I was under some misapprehension, I charged it with the mantric signature of God. The “guys up there” were not allowed to reveal the truth about Sanat Kumar; I had to figure it out myself first before they could confirm it. They could, however, show me enough of the real stuff for his deceptions to fail. I also didn’t know how exactly and why the Kundalini techniques I used work. I knew that they do. The entire theory was gradually revealed decades later. I didn’t have to change a single thing about the techniques, because those were revealed in perfect form very early on, before I started working with students. That’s why nobody is justified in renouncing me by citing my mistakes and misapprehensions. It all had the mantric signature of God. The technical system works. The theoretical understanding came later, but that’s the least important part, and one can attain higher initiation without it, obviously.

That’s why I left my old books as they are, without revising them. It’s a historic record of how things were revealed to me and how my understanding evolved. To say it was all there at once would be wrong, and it would misrepresent the process. It also shows that it doesn’t matter if all is not revealed at once, because what is revealed early is what is needed to reach the point where you get more. Reject that, and you rejected God. That’s how it is. Also, God did this as a test. I was deliberately imperfect, flawed and weakened, so that there would be a possibility of failure to correctly identify me and act accordingly. I also don’t think Satan would allow something that is completely unambiguous to manifest in his world – there always must be room for doubt, so that he could have something to work with.

Success

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I managed to finally find the hummingbird moth in proper context and for long enough to take pictures:

I usually just find them dead after they got stuck in the stairwell, so this is an improvement. 🙂

What’s the reason why I finally managed to get it? Nothing, really. I just kept doing the same thing that failed before. I went to a blossoming tree with a camera in hope the bugs show up. The lesson, I guess, is that failure isn’t necessarily a sign you are doing something wrong, and reading too much into either failure or success isn’t beneficial. It can be merely a matter of time, or statistics, or factors completely out of your control, such as bugs really liking that tree you chose.

What am I actually suggesting here? There was lots of quasi-spiritual nonsense floating around in the 1990s and I guess most of it kind of stuck with people, and they just assume it implicitly. The problem is, that stuff all mostly contradicts itself:

  • if you keep failing, maybe the Universe is trying to tell you something
  • follow your bliss
  • you need to persist if things are hard, because that treasure chest might be just one inch below the point you stopped digging
  • if you stop struggling and let go, you might find out that the outcome you feared might be nothing at all

You see what I’m getting at? It’s all nice sounding motivational bullshit. Maybe the Universe is telling you something, or maybe the bugs just aren’t there that day and you’re doing everything right. If you persist, you might waste your life doing the wrong things, or you might eventually succeed, because it’s merely a matter of statistics, and the thing that led to success isn’t any different than the thing that produced failure before. If you give up, you might regret it, or you might find out that what you feared isn’t really a big deal. It’s basically all some kind of copium people like smoking because it feels nice and comforting. The problem is, in the 1990s when this nonsense was trending, everybody believed it, because they were all reading from the same script and copying each other’s homework. This is also the reason why all those supposedly enlightened people sound so similar. No, it’s not because “The Truth is One”, it’s because they are copying each other’s homework.

Also, if you keep succeeding at things, maybe you should try doing something hard for a change. Basically, if all you’re doing is adding single digit numbers and you keep succeeding, you may think you’re a genius, but there’s another word for an adult stuck in first grade.