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Taylor Swift at the Brit Awards: Yet Another Illuminati Ritual for the Masses
Last November, I posted a short news article entitled Taylor Swift's Performance at the 2012 AMA's: A Typical Initiation Ritual where I described how it symbolically represented an occult initiation ritual. For the 2013 Brit Awards, Swift brought back that same symbolism as she performed again her single I Knew You Were Trouble. While the setting of the performance was different than the one of the AMA's, its symbolic meaning and the color code used was identical. Furthermore, the ritualistic symbolism of the entire thing was even more blatant. Here's the performance.
As it was the case for her AMA performance, Swift begins her song dressed in a virginal white dress, symbolizing purity and innocence. She stands at the door of some kind of temple.
After dancing for a while in front of the temple, the doors open. The set then gets very fiery and the ritual begins.
At one point, Taylor is surrounded by bunch of guys and emerges with a brand new outfit.
During her performance at the AMA's, Swift also started singing with a white dress to end up in a sexier, black outfit. The fact that this exact change of costume color occurred again is proof that none of this is random. In fact, it symbolizes a very profound process and this ritualistic color code is used across the entertainment industry to underline occult meanings in performances.
Looking back at the beginning of her career, Swift was known for being very timid and down to earth. With the release of her last album, Swift embodied a new, feistier, nastier persona. This performance symbolically represents the same process, one that is apparently required to be in the good graces of the music industry. How many young female pop stars went from good girl to bad?
Some people who read my previous articles might ask: "Didn't Taylor Swift get initiated during the 2009 VMA's?". Remember that these performances are not actual initiation rituals (which occur behind closed doors). Televised performances are meant to expose the public to the Illuminati's rituals and symbolism in order to make it trendy and part of popular culture. As the occult elite knows all too well: The best place to hide something is in plain sight.
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Guys, lets face it, the entertainment industry is the least of your worries! Yes , there is symbolism in everything. If the illuminati controls all this stuff then guess what else they control? The entire food system, all the news and media, any one remotely powerful in the world, all of your money and all of the banks,our president, churches, wars, military, Facebook, twitter and the INTERNET. Everyone gets angry and wants to boycott this specific artist, but let me ask you this? Have you quit your job? Sold your clothes? Burned all your money (which contains this same "satanic" symbolism) Sold your house? Stopped eating out or shopping at the store? Grown your own food? Stopped drinking bottled water and or water from your faucet? The answer is probably no and if that is the case, you are serving them, correct? I guess my point is we are all under some sort of control. If the illuminati exists, that means the president is useless, trying to help impoverished people is useless, working is useless, because it is all controlled and predestined right? We say we are just becoming aware and awake but if anything we give into them and… Read more »
Well said
What I do as an 'action' is talk to people about this since this is the only sensible thing to do. It's hopeless to try to do anything about it if we're just a tiny group of 1,000 people here – this issue requires mass mobilization. I talk to family and friends, write about it on CIA-book (that I now use for talking about this ONLY) and I've even written a few policitians I trust. Nobody wants to listen; nobody wants to deal with it. When people call me out for posting about these 'insane' things I show them some of the more obvious footage – but after that, I never hear from them again. They're not brave enough or intelligent enough to grasp this and recognize the possible consequences of failing to act on this. The only sensible people on this planet are you guys here on this site. The simple reality is it's the 'mainstream' worldview that's insane while this 'fake news' website is the only one making sense of this mess we find ourselves in. I'd encourage each and every one of you reading my message here to do what I've done. If they won't listen to… Read more »
Anyone noticed that the gurl dancers had a mask with one Monarch butterfly covering mouth~?
Mah goodness.
Yep, I noticed that, too. And the male dancers had two sides to their outfits indicating split personalities as well. These performances are getting so predictable.
Those lights that clearly looked like a Baphomet when the camera panned out caught me off guard, despite the other blatant imagery throughout the performance that I had almost chalked up to a coincidence. Almost. But when I first watched the video online only a day or two after the performance, I was so freaked out that I started crying. I hope this is all some edgy imagery and not actual Satanic ritual, because if it is real, these pop stars are in serious trouble. I think the people designing the sets are completely aware of this; real or not, it's pretty terrifying.
Sweet Innocent Taylor Swift has become a Satanic priestess. Amazing but believable.
That turns me on too
There's something erotic about this sweet innocent girl becoming a Satanic w---e!
It seems the Illuminati are mocking her. In performances at the 2012 VMAs and 2013 Brits, Taylor depicted her initiation rite and good-girl-gone-bad transformation, demonstrating that her celebrity is due less to talent and more to selling her soul. She's paying a high price for her fame..
omg…She was so pure before…Now It makes me creep out seeing her 'new' self..She really looks like a satan's worshipper…I don't want to hear it any more..It looks really scary…
I have seriously been waiting for people to come to their senses about Taylor Swift. Everyone thought that she was "too innocent" to be part of something so dark. I always said that when they start selling a million copies of an album in the first week, people need to start paying attention. Thank you for doing a great article VC!!!
This video performance was recently reposted on YouTube and has regenerated interest. I agree with the recent comments about consummation of the union of Taylor Swift and Baphomet. Access the HD video of this performance. As Taylor convulses on the floor, the light emanates from the loin area of "Baphomet." I have no doubt this represents their union of Taylor's and Baphomet's flesh.
I have another idea. I respect VC and the opinion that the real initiation would have happened in secret between closed doors. What a sinister twist it would have been if this "performance" was real. Taylor's 2012 was similar but ended with a smile to the audience. Subsequent performances on tour were not as intense. What a diabolical twist it would be to take beautiful Taylor Swift, a celebrity considered wholesome, sweet, and innocent, and convert her to a Satanist in public. On stage, in front of a large live and cheering audience and in front of an even larger television audience, Taylor surrendered her soul to Satan. Her hollow expression at the end indicates she knows there's no retreat. She is committed to Satan. Could the Illuminati ever have a greater victory?
I went to her instagam to show my mom how she changed, and after scrolling down it turned to the black and white checkers.. then some pics turned to black with a smaller grayish square in the middle … I tried scrolling back up but it stayed.
I'm not for the illuminati, I thought it was a rather genius cult or organisation until I looked into it, but they are pure geniuses, how they use subliminal messages to,let's say 'hypnotise' people into there"secret code" the government are rooting for the illuminati, if not can someone please explain how they ain't doing anything about it? Seriously..? Personally, and this is just me (feel free to agree with me and maybe if enough people want to we'll set this up) make another cult, backing up just who are in the illuminati and who aren't,someone has to do something before they make the decisions in life for other people instead of there own decisions…
"And the saddest fear..comes creeping in.. that you never love me or her or anyone or anything.." this explains everything.. i guess? Hmm. That Baphomet really dont love you. just wanted your soul. hmm..
i liked Taylor before but now her new album RED showed a different Taylor
CAN YOU PLS FEATURE HER SONG " THE LUCKY ONE" the lyrics are really scary
If you look you can see the eye made out of the hanging beams of art!
Thumbs up so everyone can see
NOTE: Not only does this show the normal ritualistic behavior of some of the artists, in her performance there are dancers (all female) who have a butterfly taped to their mask, again referring to the monarch butterfly… this symbol is for me far more important than any other ones noted here. Everyone should have read the book that is posted on this website, because this is far wider than just the music industry. It has transferred to any large multimedia business as comics (ALL DC Comics), Manga (Berserk, D. GrayMan, Yugioh etc.), video games (Bioshock I&II).
Side note: Bioshock is purley based on the book: The Illuminati Formula used to create an undetectable Total mind control slave. Everything from the Grande Mother, to the Beta-,Delta- Programming as well as the porcelain face programming. Also like this website suggests, the movie "Sucker Punch" demonstrates it also quite well.
Can you do a review on her MV 22? It's just recent…but there is a part there where she wore kitten headbands and a kitten suit. I've been a VC reader and I think this is what you call 'Sex Kitten Program'. I miss the old Taylor.
if you watch the official music video for trouble when you walk in right at the very beginning she has a little monologue which i found more than interesting @ 1minute 30 secs she starts to say " how could the devil be pulling you towards someone who looks so much like an angel when he smiles at you, maybe he knew that when he saw me. I guess i just lost my balance, i think the worst part of it all wasn't losing him, it was losing me" more than interesting that with all the ritual and dark satanic stuff she has has been using to introduce to our youngsters all i know for sure my daughter will no longer be listening to any of her music she is evil sounds to me like she has accepted satan opening and willingly and wants the same for people without eyes willing to see
She does interact with them directly, that's how she met the Kennedy's. She actually is an elite descendant as well from the Nordic bloodline. I'm from an esoteric Masonic household in PA not far from where she grew up. My father is a BilderbergJew and I now theorize Pennsylvania is the core state of the Luciferian Masonic hierarchy. Most of the Elite old money is in Main Line Philadelphia and Taylor Swift is descendant from the Bloodlines in the first place, as are many of the new pop stars. The elite have multiple partners and sexual affairs outside marriage, you don't have to be a Rothschild to be decedent from an elite bloodline. Her genetcs are typically elite as well; the coltish lean body, the angelic model like features, she could have made any choice and been succesfull because shes from an elite houshold and is the core favored child of that family.
wow. good exlanation…thanks
I'm surprised you didn't mention the female dancers in the wire mesh masks with the Monarch Butterflies covering their mouths.
Seems VC misses/omits lots of stuff; thanks for pointing it out. It's strange he doesn't mention those **** butterflies since those precisely make it clear beyond doubt that this is the nasty occult stuff.
I think you're right about the screen mate, it is clearly from a far meant to look like that. I mean, why would you have a screen showing just the rafters/roof fixtures and candles ?. Anyway, who watches this rubbish on TV?
When did music stop being about the music, and instead became a performance with a music score background?


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These three words have multiple definitions and because of this there is confusion. In such cases it is always important to understand where your own "definitions" lie. In ascribing "definitions" to these words I have no wish to obviate other definitions and ways of thinking, just a simple effort to clarify where I am coming from.
I have to take as "assumed" what I wrote in the Ch22 on addiction, by assumed I mean that I don't want to keep repeating myself – that would make these blogs more tedious than they already are. This meme taken from Buddhadasa's teachings brings some clarity:-
Here we have three levels but they do not correspond to Ego Self and Anatta. Anatta and sunatta are similar, and could be seen as no-self, so this meme has effectively two levels self and not-self. Within the two tiers of self (self, body and psyche) are the ego and self.
This train of thought started when I was trying to explain about clashes of male ego to a Thai person. She did not understand ego but did understand atma or atta. In other words in Thai there was no distinction between ego and self. This makes sense to me because the ego and self are both formed by attachment to the khandhas – represented in the meme by body and psyche.
The situation of description concerning clashes of male ego also helped me come to an understanding as to an arbitrary distinction between ego and self, and that distinction is relating to society. An ego is something like a façade that we put out as a defence against society – hence male ego. This ego still comprises of the 5 khandhas but is more concerned with how we appear to society. Hence there are similarities to egotist and arrogant, and of course clashes of male ego are concerned with "handbags at 10 paces" ie superficial ego in society.
There is a tendency based on Hindu thinking amongst others to have a two-tiered approach ie just ego and self. This fits in with certain aspects of western thinking such as self-realisation. In other words, in this two-tier system the self is seen as the true you that has to be realised or actualised. As far as it goes this is fine, it is a way of thinking I worked with for years. For this approach people are searching for their true selves by trying to eliminate ego and finding something that is true underneath any conditioning that they unravel.
When bell hooks talks of self-esteem I would suggest that she is talking of this true self, and how this true self should be valued – self-esteem.
It would be reasonable to leave this consideration at ego and true self (not bringing in anatta). When people are seeking self-realisation and get close to their true self, then there is great understanding. But the problem is that there is still conditioning left – illustrated by the fact that people are calling it self. There is still some separation.
Buddhadasa makes this clear by talking about "removing I and mine from the 5 khandhas"; self is still I and mine, no matter how true, soul or "essence" it is. In Hinduism this "self" confusion comes from needing something to transmigrate when there is reincarnation. But if there is oneness, no separation – just oneness, then there is nothing that is unique.
Some would argue that a self needs to exist to give volition etc. But examine the 5 khandhas (body – rupa, feeling – vedana, memory and perception – sanna, mental operations – sankhara, and consciousness – vinnana). What else is there in self? If each of these 5 khandhas carry out their function, what action is there that is not covered by these 5? In other words, why is there a need for a separate entity of self. As explained in Ch22 we build up self by attaching to 5 khandhas through instinct, and then as adults we cling to this self – our instincts – instead of just letting them go. The final step of this letting go is to let go of the self and just accepting sunnata.
Following the path can be seen as recognising the ego letting it go, seeing that self is also attachment to the 5 khandhas and transcending this self, just being sunnata.
Books:- Treatise, Wai Zandtao Scifi, Matriellez Education.
Blogs:- Ginsukapaapdee, Mandtao, Matriellez.
Posts Tagged 'Anatta'
Ego, Self and AnattaPosted: 27/05/2018 by zandtao in Insight, ONE planet
Tags: addiction, Anatta
Identities – SelvesPosted: 17/10/2017 by zandtao in Freedom, Insight, Meditation, Writing
Tags: Anatta
My recent Bhavana continues to have drastic repercussions. The blog "living as no self" set the roadmap but it left much that was vague. A recent effort to return to a normal routine day left me with a surface normal day yet sleep occurring throughout the day without sufficient sleep at night – 11-6. Throughout the efforts at sleep there was clear evidence of self attached without any understanding of why – living as no self was not enough for understanding and change.
There are 3 identities – Wai Zandtao, Matriellez and Bill Zanetti; what are they? This question gives the answer to the selves. Wai Zandtao is the writer, this is almost all there is now – writing, and learning for writing. Then there is the Matriellez teaching – giving back. Where is Bill Zanetti? I now understand why monks have monk names, their birth and society selves have gone. Bill Zanetti is now sanna – memory – only. Bill Zanetti led his life, worked, learned, and has provided for Wai Zandtao to write and Matriellez to teach and write. Maybe Wai and Matriellez will need to draw on Bill's memories but otherwise there is no need for Bill.
Bill has life patterns and life-styles. When Bill was teaching and drinking Bill watched too much TV, now this TV self is impacting on Wai and Matriellez from being – from writing and teaching. Bill's selves need to disappear. These are what is keeping the body awake. Bill has learned a way for the body to be healthy, these ways are now not Bill's, they are Gaia's. And Gaia has what used to be Bill's body to enable Wai (and Matriellez) to be.
Bill interfered with Wai (and Matriellez). Bill was angry that people did not listen when he explained various understandings – primarily included in Zandtao Treatise. Bill was frustrated that knowledge and understanding that Gaia Sunnata had granted Wai (and Matriellez) did not give him recognition. These were selves.
Wai (and Matriellez) are simply Gaia Sunnata. Write and teach is all there is – apart from learning for writing. Trust Gaia Sunnata, the writing and teaching comes from Gaia – that is enough. Gaia will decide.
Trust Gaia and no self – no Bill Zanetti (except sanna when necessary).
Books:- Treatise, Wai Zandtao Scifi, Matriellez Education.
Blogs:- Ginsukapaapdee, Matriellez.
Renouncing self-indulgence?Posted: 02/10/2017 by zandtao in Buddhadasa, Meditation
Tags: Anatta, Bhavana, Home Retreat
Have just finished another home retreat, excellent. Body getting better. Knee only a bit of trouble but ankles were trying hard towards the end. Managed 3 "hours" – 1 "hour" is 45 minutes with 15 minutes break. In total it lasted 5 hours, one break I fell asleep for an hour, and other "15 minutes" were longer.
The issue was indulgence. Towards the end of the first session "indulgence", and then I realised I was avoiding the word "self-indulgence". I am supposed to be "living no self" when a big portion of my day, after evening meal until sleep early/mid-early hours, is usually watching tv. "I AM" watching tv – self-indulgence.
This has been a pattern that has developed throughout my second childhood. For the first few months the path was no self – much learning. The two trips, first to Belgium and Paris 1975, second to St Valery-en-Caux 1976, were full on learning, but after returning from Belgium drinking started at Argyle Manor, and never stopped for 12 years. Except for holidays when mostly I was learning whether at home or on walking trips. In between the indulgence of drinking I indulged tv, when I stopped drinking pastime was indulging tv – excuse pressure of work, tv and marking etc. Once I retired there was writing, the beach and too much tv – excused because there was writing.
Too much TV is just indulgence – "living self", "I am" watching TV, watching Man U. I remember a discussion with the "Tony and education" monk. At one time he realised that my lifestyle, meditation plus, was not aspiration-driven – it surprised him. I accepted this because I have doubts concerning "aspiration and desire" but I might well have been rationalising. It seemed to me that the path should just be – I do who I am, but maybe there needs more influence.
A monk is a renunciate – renouncing daily life. Ever since hitting bottom I have renounced "normal life". Until I retired there had always been hopes I would find a partner, but they were mostly forlorn following Peyton Place; I tried in Botswana but I wasn't discerning – like Farangs in Thailand. Since 1999 I have lived alone comfortably. After leaving uni I was forced to live alone – since Harrow I have mostly chosen to live alone with the failed Peyton Place and attempts in Botswana.
Renouncing "normal life" is not the same as renouncing daily life, I was more comfortable being alone. In that comfort I became used to self indulgence, used to living with self, despite varying efforts to live on the path including anatta. I don't want a renunciate's life because I want control, but that control is not so I can be self. Ascetic lack of self-indulgence is an avoidance rather than balance but what I am doing is definitely full of self. There needs to be a new balance, can I do it or am I too attached?
Books:- Treatise, Wai Zandtao Scifi, Matriellez Education.
Blogs:- Ginsukapaapdee, Matriellez.
Living as No SelfPosted: 24/09/2017 by zandtao in Insight
Tags: Anatta, Bhavana, mindfulness
I have finally worked through what all this talk of awakening is about. I spoke of two childhoods. Let's examine the first childhood, the system childhood, the outer childhood. In this childhood my contents of consciousness were filled with all kinds of stuff they wanted to fill it with – mainly academia but also system compliance. And how did that childhood end? By hitting bottom and "awakening" – following the path. There was a system "I", an "I" that had been formed in my childhood (actual) that had been based on my upbringing. This "I" had attached to all the conditionality, become arrogant, and had to be knocked on the head before starting the path.
So what has happened during the second childhood? Instead of taking the opportunity to live an unconditioned existence, my "I" took on new selves. I started with compassion, and through that compassion "I" was allowed to take on a teacher "self". That compassion then moved to beyond teaching and started to take on a political "self". In addition throughout this second childhood period there have been insights. But what happened to those insights? "I" has appropriated them. What started as insights from the path became thoughts (sankhara) that self appropriated leading to a second conditioned "I" that needed to be knocked out of existence. When I was focussing on awakening it was the path telling me to remember what happened in the first childhood, and get rid of the conditioned second childhood "I".
In some ways this is harder to do. Hitting bottom and coming through experiences on the other side was rapturous but unconscious. It was a time to be grateful for – however unhinged I was. But this second "I" with an accumulation of teacher, political ideology and insights is more difficult because it can only be dealt with consciously – mindfully. I have tended to rely on the fortune of following the path, and have not applied mindfulness to my second childhood allowing the selves to condition a new "I".
There is only mindfulness as a way out – mindfully living as no self. In this world of spiritual and systemic inimicality/delusion/conditioning, it can only be through the recognition of continually emerging selves and the need to continually release them that the path can be followed – that I cannot accumulate again.
Finally a special word for the political self that I have to be especially conscious of. Much of the above is bog standard Buddhism, and whilst it is good to have such a body of knowledge it is also an institution with all the entity problems of an institution. The biggest such problem is that of avoiding politics because by such avoidance the institution can survive and have greater influence. As an individual there is no need for such avoidance, in fact it is an important part of awareness and the end of conditioning not to avoid such institutional compromise. But when an individual has to be better than an institution like Buddhism that contains much wisdom, there is a big danger of ego. There is no doubt that I have attached to a political self, and so ideology is perceived. I cannot alter the perceptions of others but I have to continually be aware of the potential for self-accumulating.
Accumulating is a good word to describe the 1%-system but it is also a good word to describe the khandas. Aggregation is the natural process, accumulation is attachment, mindfulness means aggregate but not accumulate – mindfully living as no self.
Just a final caution. Whilst I might have reached this insight concerning mindfulness – living as no self, it does not mean I will do it. Hopefully I will keep trying though.
Books:- Treatise, Wai Zandtao Scifi, Matriellez Education.
Blogs:- Ginsukapaapdee, Matriellez.
Lies and beliefsPosted: 21/12/2013 by zandtao in Insight, ONE planet
Tags: 4 Agreements, Anatta, intellect
"Can you see the consequences of believing yourself? Believing yourself is one of the worst things you can do because you've been telling yourself lies your whole life, and if you believe all those lies, that's why your dream isn't a pleasant dream. If you believe what you tell yourself, you may use all those symbols that you learned to hurt yourself. Your personal dream may even be pure hell because believing in lies is how you create your own hell. If you're suffering, it's not because anybody is making you suffer; it's because you obey the tyrant that's ruling your head. When the tyrant obeys you, when there's no longer a judge or a victim in your mind, you won't be suffering any longer."[p71] THe Fifth Agreement
One of the biggest problems on the Path is humility because the Path shows itself in a personal way heightening self-importance. Throughout life in general people are taught and seek agreement. Once the Path breaks through, then enquiry leads to breaking these system agreements, but often these agreements are replaced by other agreements.
The usual source of such agreements is some counter-culture guru or teacher, and one example, although there are many others, is David Icke. From being a system icon, a sports presenter, the Path opened him up and he became a counter-culture teacher. Over the years the number of people who agree with him has increased. However whilst he does present a great deal of healthy questioning, much of what he presents is a set of ideas. He tells people not to believe him, to find out for themselves, but he does not present them with the tools to doubt. The personal revolution that David Icke symbolises is not the ideas that he presents but the questions that he asks and the doubt that he throws on all the system agreements that we have all been spoon-fed.
But the beliefs and lie that we personally subject ourselves to are not just simply the beliefs and lies that society subjects us to through education and conditioning. Nor are they simply the beliefs and lies that counter-culture presents us with, they are any beliefs and lies that we hold to. This is a major danger on the Path.
Now the Path has major strength, it needs to have. Once the Path teaches you to doubt all the agreements you have been conditioned with, then there is a great possibility for conflict. This often starts with the family. Now the family tends to be a conservative structure. Whatever parents believe for themselves they don't want to teach their children to be in conflict with society as there is a lot of hurt that way. There is also a tendency for parents to want their children to learn tools that will help them survive in society. Because so many people do not follow the Path, such social skills are often agreements that the Path conflicts with. And so your first source of conflict is your parents. Equally as children grow at some stage intuitively children reject what happens in society as what happens is so far from the Path. This rejection has different strengths in different people. In my own case I never voiced this rejection either socially or with my parents. Beginning in the sixth form but more at university this rejection voiced itself politically but I can only remember such awareness leading to arguments with my father. For most of that time my awareness resided in the bottom of a bottle.
Once the Path did rear its head, my rejection reared itself as anger against repression – repression at home and repression in society. Fortunately this anger was greatly subsumed by the circle of friends I developed at the time – through the Arts Centre, with whom I was able to discover more about myself and about the society I lived in. But I was still an angry young man, and I lived with and displayed that anger throughout my life.
This anger I felt justified with as it was deeply felt and was based on my Path conflicting with society. I often considered obnoxious aggressive behaviour was acceptable because I was right. Quite simply my Path was at the beginning stages, and I hadn't developed compassion and insight. One idea I held to was that I was on the Path. Believing I was on the Path I didn't question enough my behaviour allowing myself to be a drunk, to varying degrees, whilst "on the Path" for 12 years. Throughout that time my lack of questioning of my behaviour allowed itself to manifest as drunkenness, as my ego clung to the notion that I was on the Path so such behaviour didn't matter. My ego was clinging to an idea, the idea that I was on the Path.
On reflection I was on the Path to a certain extent but my clinging led to a complacency my ego exploited – allowing me to be a drunk.
How can someone be a drunk on the Path? This can only be understood by understanding the relationship between Path, mind and ego. For me there came a point at which I realised I was on the Path, the realisation hit me and that was it. This is not some intellectual assessment based on reading the right dogma, or some other such mental trickery it is a realisation – often traumatic. The problem with discussing the Path is attempting to describe it. You know you are on the Path, it is a deep realisation, but other than this realisation there is no other way of describing it. And what makes this difficulty so much worse are the myriads of people who falsely claim they are on the Path, whether by misplaced desire or deceptive intention. Belief is a significant factor in this. Belief is intellectual. One's faith is a set of ideas. I believe in the bible is just a statement that you accept the ideas and words that are written in the bible. Many people's faiths come from a collective agreement in these ideas, and with these agreements come certain compelling forces – we must believe because everyone else does, we must believe because the priest tells us to, we must believe because good people believe, we believe and we get collective strength, we believe and we don't have to question any more. For the majority of people a religion is the set of ideas that are agreed to and adhered to through these compelling forces. But for some this faith is more, it is the Path – aaggh I don't know. It's quite simple, I don't know. I can read Eckhart Tolle or Neal Donald Walsch, and assuming that it is not fiction can know they are on the Path because the description of their experience is so similar. Of course I could be deluding myself.
The monk I read the most does not talk of the Path in this way, but to me he has stepped out of dogma and onto the Path. It feels real to me but again I could be deluding myself. How many religious people are on the Path? Like the monk I study, maybe some are. Saul on the road to Damascus became Saint Paul, born-again Christians occur, but how many of these have found a set of beliefs they adhere to passionately, and how many are on the Path. By their practice very few born-again are, they just sound like they want to be.
But what is this Path about and what is its relationship to mind? And the answer is Unity – Oneness. We grow in a world where we are educated to be separate. We are educated to see the individual self as the most important – I always saw education as self-realisation. This self is also a set of ideas that we believe in. We believe we should do this, we believe this is important, that is important, and the
The mind is a tool, and this tool can be used to increase our happiness by working in Unity with Nature, or we can use that tool to create separation by allowing the process of ego to identify with ideas of self or ideas as belief. If we identify with ideas that means there is an other, a duality, those that identify with the ideas and those that don't. Then there is the degree to which we identify with these ideas. These are my ideas, you must believe my ideas, if you don't believe my ideas there is something wrong. Sometimes these ideas are concerning money and power, and when that money and power work alongside the ideas of self then we have those with power and those without. And we can have war if the ego and the false motivations are strong enough.
But fundamentally it stems from ideas, ideas that separate, ideas that we cling to and forget that the Path of Unity is all that matters.
The problem of ideas is so seductive to the ego especially if those ideas are your "own". Even more difficult these ideas can be formed as a consequence of being on the Path. Because it is the Path we know the ideas to be truth. But they are not truth, they are a temporary manifestation of the Path. The Path mut formulate ideas in order to communicate, but once formed they are ideas. If they are held to as belief, no matter who has said them, they become divisive.
I used to hold this idea, I used to believe this, they are to a lesser or greater extent the problem. The Path is the Path is the Truth. As soon as we talk of something that we have learned from the Path, then it is an idea. Many ideas continue to be true through a long period of time such as our world is run by the corporatocracy, the 1%, for their own benefit. But in the end that is only an idea that will change.
As soon as we cling to an idea we restrict, both ourselves and others. Hey, that's a good idea. Go with it, enjoy the idea, and move on the Path. Don't cling, don't hold on to the memory, don't try to be the memory. Be fluid. Hold no agreements, just move on. As I am writing this it is true, but once written it is not true. You are reading this – maybe someone is, if this rings a bit true to you think about it, evaluate it, use your insight, does this hold true for you now? I hope so. But then forget it, and if the idea comes up again, ask the same question is this true now? It is not true always, no idea is. The Path is and understanding on the Path is gained through Insight and not through intellect, a tool of the mind.
Let go of the ideas.
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4 AttentionsPosted: 14/09/2013 by zandtao in Insight
Tags: 4 Agreements, Anatta, Corporatocracy
In the second part of the 5th Agreement Don Ruiz discusses the 4 Attentions.
IST ATTENTION – Victims:-
Dreaming without awareness. "The adults prepare us to be a part of our society, and I can say without a doubt that it's a society ruled completely by lies. We learn to live in the same dream they live in; our faith gets trapped in the structure of that dream, and that dream becomes normal for us. But I don't believe that they did this with any bad intention. " [p76]. This lack of intention is prevalent throughout the work on 4 Agreements (and 5th), and this irritates me. Whilst the victims are not aware there are victims who are taking advantage of other victims. Using the description of society's ethos as the corporate paradigm it is quite clear that there within the category of unaware people there are victimisers and victims. The people who are victimising might be equally unaware of the dream, but their intention is to exploit and that exploitation is still part of the dream. But the hurt they cause cannot be ignored simply because they are unaware of the dream process. Because someone is deluded in thinking that collecting fiat money in offshore bank accounts is meaningful, it dies not mean that this person is guilty of victimising, a victimising that includes wars. The hurt, death and destruction that are caused by the way they use their lies does not change because they are unaware. And if these victimisers were beginning to become aware through the 4 Agreements (5) then the damage they do would start to be reduced. But such an important part of life for those who are not aware of the dream should not be dismissed simply because the perpetrators are unaware of the dream. Compassion is part of the awareness that we are dreaming.
"If we had said, "No, thank you, I am already God," we would still be living in Paradise, but we answered, "Yes, I want to be like God."" [p79] I am not God, I am an integral part of Nature. This statement has the same worrying arrogance that was ACIM – A Course in Miracles. Tan Ajaan teaches Idapaccayata, that all is cause and effect, and he describes the "God" of Buddhism as Idapaccayata. No problem with this. If I didn't have such an ego I would simply be part of Nature, part of the global cause and effect. There would be no dream in this ego-less state, quite simply how many people can say I am God without accruing some ego? There would be a constant change accepted through Insight – cause and effect. I don't like this use of God, as I didn't with ACIM – although in ACIM it seemed to me that belief in ourselves as being God was the source of power for miracles, such a risky state of mind especially for the arrogance of educated westerners.
However wanting to be like God is a worse state of mind, always searching. Doing the best you can isn't searching, that appears to me to be the only valid use of perfection. Accepting who I am and doing the best I can with that, how perfect is that?
"Awareness is the key to coming back to life, and it's one of the main masteries of the Toltec. Awareness takes you out of the dream of the first attention, into the dream of the second attention, where you rebel against all the lies that are ruling your head. You rebel, and the whole dream starts changing." [p81]
Second Attention – Warriors:-
"Toltec call the dream of the second attention …. the dream of the warriors, because now we declare a war against all the lies in our knowledge [p83]".
"Perhaps we no longer believe in Apollo, we no longer believe in Zeus, we no longer believe in Osiris; but we believe in justice, we believe in liberty, we believe in democracy. These are the names of the new gods. We give our power to these symbols, we take them to the realm of the gods, and we sacrifice our lives in the name of these gods [p83]." This is not acceptable as written. It is good that we forget traditional Gods – his use of the Greek myths, but the tone of this tends to dismiss justice, liberty and democracy. No dream is acceptable if there is no justice liberty or democracy within it, nor for that matter compassion etc. But it is not acceptable to hold these as belief systems. If we are using Insight – seeing the Truth, then there is justice freedom and democracy in the way we live, however if we take positions such libertarianism then we have a problem. Beliefs such as libertarianism create prisons for our Insight, barriers for communication as they become the castle walls to be defended at all costs – creating rhetoric dementia (Doris Lessing in the Shikasta novels), wriggling sophistry and often ludicrous positions – positions of idealism that hurt people in the name of the
"Human sacrifice is happening all the time, all around the world, and we can see the result: We see violence, we see crime, we see jails full of people, we see war, we see the dream of hell in humanity because we believe in so many superstitions and distortions in our knowledge. Humans create wars, and we send our young to be sacrificed in those wars. Many times they don't even know what they are fighting for. [p84]" When I first read his description of human sacrifice I didn't grasp it, but this paragraph so wonderfully describes what happens as a consequence of the acceptance of the dream of the corporatocracy.
You might describe my use of corporatocracy as a belief system, it certainly appears to be so. The word corporatocracy is a description of a political system in which the rich in Big Business and Finance control the politicians to further enable their profits. But examine the social reality, is this not happening at the present moment in time? A moment later, examine it again, has this changed? At the time of the First World War was it a corporatocracy? Much less so. Powerful finance families (Rothschild, Rockefeller etc.) were in control but countries were much more central in their means of control as they fought for their cake in Africa. At the end of that war the finance families did not want to lose their profits so the peace treaties left Germany with some power. Between the wars finance capital bolstered business during Hitler's rise to power, and during the Second World War these businesses benefitted through huge profits whilst human sacrifices abounded. Since the Second World War profits have accrued to these families, whilst various wars have been fought. Recent global financial catastrophe saw huge mismanagement of the banking system yet western governments gave away huge amounts of money to bolster the banking system under the pretence of "trickle-down capitalism" creating jobs, and those individuals in charge of the banking system simply took that money and put it in their own offshore accounts. This is corporatocracy evolving but it is simple – see the Truth of corporatocracy at this moment in time. But don't hold to the word as a belief system, analysis must continually evolve the understanding – continually evaluate the Truth.
So why bother with this analysis as it risks becoming the dream of a victim? Because a warrior must examine the Truth of the society or world they live in. Failure to do this is failure to see all the Truth. Political ideals are a huge problem because when they are fixated they become belief systems, and hence a hindrance to our happiness, a hindrance to seeing the Truth. Using Insight to analyse is a permanent process, adhering to words like corporatocracy is not a problem so long as that adherence is a process of understanding. And if socially our world starts not to be controlled by Big Finance then our analysis must be ready to change its view of what is the Truth. Insight is essential for this and meditation can help with the seeing.
"The way to measure the impeccability of your word is by your emotional reaction. Are you happy or are you suffering? If you're enjoying your dream or suffering your dream, it's because you're creating it that way. Yes, your parents, your religion, the schools, the government, the entire society helped you to create your dream, and it's true that you never had a choice. But now you have a choice. You can create heaven, or you can create hell. Remember, both are states of mind that exist within you.[p85]" This is so important because it makes you responsible for your happiness. Of course the corporatocracy and everything else creates problems but you don't have to internalise these problems, and especially you don't have to make them problems for others. This is the Trots issue again; they rant and rage at everyone for not accepting their belief system – their dream. But they don't have to impose on others, they don't have to make others unhappy. Their knowledge can be beneficial because their understanding can help us break free of early conditioning, but the truth is if they are so unhappy why would anyone want to copy them? Instead of helping people break free, their ranting and raving has the opposite effect – alienation. Surely the measure of your control of the dream is your own happiness, if you are not happy where is the validity of your dream? Whilst it is evidently true of Trots, it is also true of others who want to impose belief systems. Some of the alternative belief systems produce happiness, even if that happiness appears "spacey". But other alternatives just produce anger and frustration. In fact many of these political "alternatives" I agree with because once you start to question then the system pack of lies simply collapses leading to these "alternative" idea systems. But that collapse doesnt help you if it is not replaced with happiness, and doesn't that happiness come from an internal acceptance of what is – Insight – in 4 Agreements terminology "seeing the Truth"? If not, how else do you get it? Does filling your head with ideas bring happiness?
"You start to realise that you are the artistic creator of your life. You are the one who creates the canvas, the paint, the paintbrush, and the art. You are the one who gives meaning to every stroke on the canvas of your life. You are the one who invests all your faith in your art. And you say, "The story I'm creating is beautiful, but I don't believe it anymore. I don't believe my story or anybody else's story. I can see that it's just art. [p88]" I don't fully grasp this, or is it that I don't agree? What do I agree with? I am the artistic creator of my life, for sure. I must take responsibility for everything that I do. Does that mean that my self creates – definitely not as self is not real. I am part of Nature and when self is not blocking that Nature creates the artwork. But it is an illusion because Nature creates it as a temporary dream for BillZ, the quality of that dream depends on how much self is in the dream. Can any dream be real? The dream of anatta? In other words, if there is any dream there is no anatta, no enlightenment, only increasing awareness as we pay attention to awakening from the dream and seeing the Truth. Because the dream is temporary it is not real – anicca. I don't believe in it because I don't believe in anything. It is in this life that I experience. I don't believe it because I don't grasp at what I do, what I experience I just get on with it. What I do is what I do, it is for me and that's it. What is there to believe in? When I want something I establish a framework, a target, and this wanting causes problems; if I don't want anything and just do that's enough.
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About TagsPosted: 14/09/2013 by zandtao in Insight
Tags: 4 Agreements, Anatta, Corporatocracy, enquiry, intellect, khandas
I have been working through my blogs to try to make my writings more accessible (discussed here).
There is an issue of separation that is causing me concern. To me understanding anatta is completely important, I both believe in anatta and am beginning to understand it – the first not being important.
So somehow I am looking for no-self, an apparently infeasible notion. This means I am trying to get rid of self (a sentence with a language problem already). So self arises because I become attached to various experiences that in Buddhism would be described as khandas, as a result I build up I – self. So I try not to attach but attachment occurs – attachment that could be called clinging. In about I could have given these as separate tags – anatta attachment and clinging, but I have called it anatta; as anatta was something I began to understand through Ajaan Buddhadasa this is discussed a great deal on the Tan Ajaan page as well as at the tag anatta.
But then everything on my Path is anatta, so is that my only tag for everything? An important area for me in blogging is the ego's misplaced emphasis on intellectual processes. This arises from an establishment education process that focuses on presenting information or ideas, and not on the importance of creativity – mainly insight. There is an Insight page. Note my description as misplaced emphasis on intellectual processes arising from miseducation, I am not dismissing the processes of reason etc. out of hand but stating that the emphasis is misplaced. This lack of balance is common-place amongst those whose ego dominates – especially in western education. I was in discussions with one person in academia who was trying to seek insight. I noticed an inability to delineate between insight and intellect processes, and in his case he was unwilling to stop clinging to his descriptions of the academic intellect despite his desire to understand insight. But I will always remember an observation he made, he said my blogs were intellectual. Because my blogs often develop from an insight in meditation, I was initially emotionally offended but then I realised how helpful that comment was. Once you write the blogs (express the insight) they become ideas, they become static. The learning has moved beyond insight into ideation, and at that point need to be let go. Academia develops a process of clinging to ideas. It is the ideas that they write about, it is the ideas of the professor that the climbers adhere to to keep their jobs.
There are other academic processes such as dialogue. Dialogue is a wonderful means to an end, it is the way we learn from each other. But there has to be a purpose to this dialogue, and that is a mutual desire for learning from each other – it helps with enquiry. I prefer to think of dialogue as a genuine enquiry to reach a mutual conclusion. There are several ways that ego interrupts this process. Firstly the dialogue is entered with a view of imparting ideas, the person clings to their ideas and measures the quality of the dialogue by the way in whch the ideas are imparted to the other. It is a one-way process where the ideas are intractable; is this enquiry? I noticed one such intellectual process in which a dialogue would start and then halted on one side, nothing mutual about the dialogue; this was very frustrating and to this day I can see only limited value to this process. Fear can prevent this genuine enquiry through dialogue, a fear of losing the ideas that are being clung to, an intellectual fear. With insight such a fear does not exist because the ideas are not important, not being clung to, the enquiry and insight are all that matter.
In our society a significant group of ideas are our belief systems, and clinging to our belief systems as religion is a major cause of contention. Religious discussions become heated because one belief is considered superior to another and some are prepared to fight wars accordingly. It is necessary to move beyond the ideas of the belief system through genuine enquiry into the real understanding that is at the esotoric core of all religions but few of the religious establishment are willing to do that. Nor do they encourage their practitioners to do the same, so a religion becomes a belief system that is entrenched and a cause of violence. It is amazing to see in history religion being used as an excuse for war when at the core of all religions is peace, such practices are a clear demonstration of the dangers of clinging to ideas.
Belief systems occur around religions as well. On the alternative scene people are asked to have faith in all kinds of things – angels, elves, tree spirits and many such. There is belief in ghosts, after-life and so on with all kinds of consequences that come from clinging to such ideas. If you have experienced such then it is real, if there is no such experience then it is not. Theosophy is one such example. Madame Blavatsky, through automatic writing, wrote much in The Secret Doctrine, Leadbetter says that he sees chakras and we should have faith in his sight. Why? Why should we believe any of that? More importantly what is the point in studying such? It is just a bunch of ideas, they may be true for Madame Blavatsky and Leadbetter but does that make them true for others? I strongly recommend anyone to come to terms with their own experience of chakras, that experience has been beneficial for me. But it is up to you, your insight your experience.
Idea systems occur in other ways. In the 4 Agreements we are encouraged to recognise that our education is but a dream, a set of ideas that our upbringings encourage us to fall in line with – agree with. This dream includes mores, customs, delusions, beliefs, idea systems etc. Our education, instead of equipping us with insight, fills us with ideas and an acceptance of the status quo. In one way this is useful as mutually accepting ideas and status quo can produce stability. But on the other hand if we accept a system that is harmful to others then that is dangerous. Our education has been hijacked so that the status quo that we are taught to accept is in fact the corporate paradigm, in other words we are taught to accept that we will be wage-slaves in order to increase the phenomenal wealth of a few individuals. Further in accepting the paradigm we ultimately accept that wars will be fought in order to help increase the wealth of those individuals. By accepting the dream we agree to war. Through enquiry we can learn to see what that dream is and reject it.
But here is an important rub. What happens to those people who begin to reject the dream? Where do they go? They run to alternative belief systems, and replace the dream they have from their upbringing with another dream. This new dream, one such description might be rejecting the corporate paradigm, might well be a more accurate description of what is happening, but it is so important for such people to see that they are replacing one dream with another, one set of ideas with another, one belief system with another. And one worse characteristic of such replacements is vehemence. The Trots replace their indoctrinated acceptance of capitalism with vehement diatribes about socialism. You must, you must, you must. Others who have rejected the system's dream replace it with other idea systems and then say "you must, you must, you must". I have a you must "Insight and Enquiry through Meditation". To me it feels imperative that people replace their dream with these three yet by insisting on them I am also creating idea systems so from me there is no "you must". There is a dream we grow up with, there are alternative dreams that we can accept but what if there was a state of being in which there is constant enquiry, not clinging to any ideas? What if through meditation or otherwise we could develop minds in which continuous insight was a way of perceiving all the idea systems that we come in contact with?
Clinging to ideas is what an intellectual does. People who believe in belief systems do the same, some of those belief systems are religions. But it is the intellectual adherence to a set of ideas that is common throughout. All of this on intellect, religion and belief systems I have tagged as "intellectual", yet this intellect is part of clinging and this clinging starts to disappear if we start to understand anatta.
Here is an image. There is an inner world and an outer world, at the boundary between the inner and outer are sets of ideas. We cling to this surface of ideas because we are afraid to make the journey inner. It is comfortable to do what we are told, to live our lives as others do, to conform, to live on the surface. But that comfort has been rocked because accepting the way things are means accepting war and hurting others. An inner journey will hopefully put an end to such acceptance; all of this is summarised in tags – anatta, intellectual and coorporatocracy. Anatta – inner, intellectual – surface, corporatocracy – outer.
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SankharaPosted: 14/09/2013 by zandtao in Buddhadasa, Insight
Tags: Anatta, khandas, meditation
Online there was a discussion about sankhara – I call sankhara mental formations, it is one of the 5 khandas. The discussion concerned whether there were sankhara without self.
….more on Buddhadasa page
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Is anatta possible?Posted: 14/09/2013 by zandtao in Buddhadasa
Tags: Anatta
This monk impressed me (excerpt from Amongst White Clouds).
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Anatta and AdyashantiPosted: 25/07/2013 by zandtao in Buddhadasa
Tags: Adyashanti, Anatta
Anatta and Adyashanti….more on Buddhadasa page
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La Gaonera, Fuengirola
La Taberna Gaonera, Calle El Troncon, 20 (Junto a Plza Constitucion), Fuengirola
It was starting to rain and we'd walked down memory lane along the breezy promenade under slate-grey skies for over an hour, visiting haunts we think we remembered from over 20 years ago.
As we sauntered back towards the main shopping area we were hit by a squall and we were fortunate to find La Taberna Gaonera just in time.
The old fashioned look appealed and a quick peek inside confirmed that this would be our lunch venue.
Good timing as the heavens opened. The tiled bar and the atmosphere was a draw.
So were the welcoming staff. We had our choice of table. Ours was under a series of pictures of bull fights and matadors.
I visited the bull ring in Fuengirola with my daughter – she wanted to see one and mum would not go – and I've never forgotten it.
The event was memorable for all the wrong reasons but it is a Spanish thing.
Whatever, we got down to ordering. The range is considerable and mercifully locally-based as this establishment is so far removed from some of its neighbours who cater for British tastes.
Pam ordered pechuga pollo plancha, a delicious and well-cooked portion of chicken with so tasty, salted potatoes and a vegetable selection.
The portion was just right. I tucked into a callos andaluces, an Andalucian stew with chick peas, pork plus chorizo in a tomato sauce. It was packed with flavour and came piping hot.
Thankfully, the rain had relented enough for us to make a dash through deserted streets for the bus station.
We were accosted on several occasions by anxious restaurant staff desperately trying to entice us in for a coffee or drink, but we had other things on our mind – the 2.30pm bus to our superbly-appointed holiday flat at Cabopino.
As I write this the rain has stopped and the wind abated, slightly. The forecast is for an improvement tomorrow.


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Methi Paratha is a wonderfully tasty, nutritious breakfast dish, packed with unique flavor. This flaky Indian bread makes a very healthy alternative to plain parathas.
These methi parathas can be made very easily. It is made up of whole wheat flour and fenugreek leaves. The methi leaves added gives nice color to the paratha. Wilth its yummy taste, no doubt it will turn one huge favorite of your family too..:)
It is best served with pickles, raitha or plain yoghurt.
We know fenugreek leaves are very healthy as they're rich in iron content, anti-oxidant and dietary fibre.
If you do not get methi leaves, you can also substitute spinach ( palak ) with the same recipe.
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· Chopped fenugreek / methi leaves - 1 cup
· Whole wheat flour - 2 cups
· Red chilly pwd - ¾ tsp
· Turmeric pwd - a pinch
· Cumin pwd - ½ tsp
· Cooking oil - as needed
· Salt to taste
1. Clean, wash and chop methi / fenugreek leaves to fine pieces.
2. In a mixing bowl, add whole wheat flour, fenugreek leaves, red chilly pwd, salt, turmeric pwd, cumin pwd and a tbsp of cooking oil.
3. Add water little by little and knead to form a soft, smooth dough.
4. Let the dough rest for 15 to 20 mins.
5. Divide the dough to equal sized balls.
6. Dust each ball with flour and roll it to nice round shape in a rolling board.
7. Heat a frypan / girdle.
8. Fry the parathas in medium low heat by drizzling oil to the sides.
9. Flip the parathas once in 30 seconds to get even browning over the surface of the paratha.
10. When the paratha is done, dash it with a tsp of butter and remove from girdle.
11. Yummy and healthy Methi Parathas are ready to taste.
12. Serve hot with chilled yoghurt or your favorite pickle or chutney.
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Setting Up Google Contacts Integration
Click on Settings link available at the top navigation bar as below.
Click on Integrations link available in System section as below.
Click on Install next to Google Contacts.
Enter your Google credentials (NOTE: we do not store this information).
Click on the Accept button to allow access to your account. You'll be redirected back to karma.
Once back in karma, select the groups from Google that you want to sync. You can select one group, specific groups, or all of them if you would like.
Set the sync type.
Set what you want to happen to contacts that are deleted in Google.
Click on the Save and Import from Google button. This can take some time depending on the number of contacts you have in Google.
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Student: Kate Butt Course: Access to Social Welfare Subject: Psychology Tutor: Rose Williams Submission date: 20/3/03 'Abnormal' Behavior Credit value - 1 Preface A topic was given to everyone in the class based on the subject 'Abnormal' Behavior. The aim was to present the findings of the subject to the class accompanied with a hand out. Within this report will be a list of evidence surrounding the subject matter Anorexia Nervosa and an evaluation of the presentation. Contents Section Description Page Number 1 Signs and symptoms 4 2 Causes 5 3 Difficulties encountered 6 4 Professionals who help 7 5 Treatments 8 6.1 Explanations of condition 9 Through five main perspectives: 6.2 Biological 9 6.3 Psychodynamic 9 6.4 Behaviorist 10 6.5 Cognitive 10 6.6 Humanist 11 7 Evaluation 12 Signs and Symptoms 1. Signs and Symptoms. Eating Disorders are characterized by psychical and psychological harmful eating patterns; these patterns are categorized as 'Behavior Syndromes' associated with psychological disturbances and psychical factors. Anorexia Nervosa means nervous loss of appetite, there are many contributing factors however for the anorexic person it does not mean loss of interest in food, it is quite the opposite. Food is always on the brain for the anorexic, many dream of food, read cook books back to back and prepares meals for family and friends this does not mean these are the warning signs however it does give a background into the mind of an anorexic. ...read more.
Explanations through the five perspectives 6.2 Biological The biological approach to eating disorders looks at the genetic factors. Twins studies show evidence of eating disorders as being generic however it was not enough evidence to connect eating disorders as being genetic. 'A sample of 10,000-20,000 would be needed to discover the importance of genetic factors for eating disorders'. (Holland et al 1995) Evidence from the neurotransmitters and hormones indicate abnormalities from those suffering with the disorder however there is still not enough evidence to prove if the abnormalities caused anorexia or if it was due to the damage that was made from the disorder. The effects an eating disorder can be anxiety, increased levels of serotonin are also found in the body. Serotonin is made from 'trypophan' which is a form of amino acid. These chemicals are produced from food, the effects of reducing calorie intake. What it basically means is the body can discourage food intake. This is not the case there isn't enough evidence surrounding that anorexia can be genetic even though the body can discourage eating food is still needed to survive. 6.3 Psychodynamic The psychodynamic model looks at how adolescents fear adulthood for a female this can be entering puberty, sexual relationships and social factors. ...read more.
I enjoyed the both but one was on PowerPoint which I found easy to read the OHP's Sara-lee provided was not very clear this is not down to her fault but the nature of the machine can make it that way. Andrea's topic was on bipolar disorder which is a form of a manic depressive. This presentation was focused on the five perspectives to the disorder, I felt Andrea was confident and understood the topic however the handout was in detail of the disorder to the five perspectives and not enough emphasis on the subject and what it was. The finial presentation was on obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) I enjoyed this presentation however I feel for three different resources the same information was provided. On the day of the presentation there was a good atmosphere. A variety of methods were used such as PowerPoint, OHP's, cue cards, video's, newspaper articles and poems; visual aids were also provided. As for my handout I feel I could have listed the disorder to the five perspectives but as it was only specified as a one page handout it was very limiting. My personal preference for presentation tool would have to be power point as there is a variety of backgrounds, sounds, images there is also a notes tool which I used to assist with my presentation. ...read more.
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If an airline denies boarding because you have failed to provide API or because the name on the travel document is not the same as in the booking then there is slim chance of a court awarding compensation as it will be the traveller who has failed in his duty to provide the prerequisite information during the booking process in accordance with both international regulations and the airlines Conditions of Carriage.
In times gone by I would have agreed you with you but, alas, times they are a changing. Your argument might carry weight for domestic flights or where no API is required. Where API is required then your argument is weak legally and the risk is that the traveller who provides inaccurate information is now more likely to be denied boarding or face a 'name change' fee at the airport - and that may not always be possible for travel to certain countries where API is required.
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Thanks for your comments Tobias and ddwjp,
I haven't had time yet to go thru my paperwork to find what form one requests for the additional name/info to be placed in a passport.
However in relation to the Legal points raised -
yes they may be in the Terms & Conditions however if a Supplier fails to bring them to the attention of a Consumer (a member of the General Public) at the point a Contact was Effected then they can not be replied on at a later date. They are in Law a Post Contractual Term and can not be enforced in a Court of Law and I would Invite a Judge to Find Such.
In law there is a fundamental and very important principle 'ignorantia juris non excusat' - that is 'ignorance of the law is no excuse'. That principle applies here. When you make a booking with an airline you make a declaration that you accept the Conditions of Carriage - whether you read them or not is irrelevant - you have agreed to abide by those terms.
Whilst you are correct in the principle that post-contract terms cannot "usually" be enforcerd (although there are exceptions to this) - we are not talking about post-contract changes here.
As this could be a very expensive error, I will reiterate, it is essential to have the travel tickets and booking in exactly the same name as the principal name shown in the travel document to be used for the journey.
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As posted by Tobias
Travel Document as in Passport? If a second name is included in a Passport then this requirement is satisfied.name on the booking must be the same as in the travel document.
This is not pertinent in any instance involving my wife. All information supplied to the Agent and Airline has been full and accurate.that the traveller who provides inaccurate information is now more likely to be denied boarding
There may be scope for inaccurancy as a consequence of inadequacies of the data fields used within the Computerised Airline Ticketing SystemThat information must be accurate and it must be exactly as it appears in the travel document the traveller intends to use to travel.
Again the above paragraph is not pertinent in any instance involving my wife. All information supplied to the Agent and Airline has been full and accurate.If an airline denies boarding because you have failed to provide API or because the name on the travel document is not the same as in the booking then there is slim chance of a court awarding compensation as it will be the traveller who has failed in his duty to provide the prerequisite information during the booking process in accordance with both international regulations and the airlines Conditions of Carriage.
As posted by ddwjp
I can confirm that my wife has never experienced a problem with Immigration only some local difficulty at the Check-in desk.When passing Thai immigration(nothing to do with flight tickets) use the Thai passport. Simple
I remain confident that should it ever come to pass that my wife and party were forced to make alternative travel arrangement as a consequence of Check-In staff refusing to allow my wife to board a flight that the Airline/Travel Agent or Credit Card provider (always pay the first 100GBP of the Plane Ticket by Credit Card to be covered by Section 75 of the 1974 Consumer Credit Act) would be Liable to reimburse all financial losses suffered by my wife and party.
As this could be a very expensive error, I will reiterate, it is essential to have the travel tickets and booking in exactly the same name as the principal name shown in the travel document intended to be used for the journey.
That is my advice and nothing you say will cause me to change it. You are flogging a dead horse Orange
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Thank you for your opinion Tobias - deadhorses deserved to be flogged. Lazy Brutes.
Orangesoup, might I suggest you put a hold on this post until you find the time to go through your paperwork and can provide said form that allows you to add another name to a passport or actually post the passport that has two names in it, then the world and his wife will be hushed and you would have won the argument
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The issue here is which name should be used when booking international travel. My advice is that it is essential to have the travel tickets and booking in exactly the same name as the principal name shown in the travel document intended to be used for the journey i.e. name "A" - especially so when API is a requirement for travel.
This could save a great deal of time, heartache and expense. Whilst a passport might have an endorsement showing the holder is also know by name "B", the passport itself is in the principal name "A" which is the name printed on the data information page that is swiped or scanned at the airport - it is that name which should be used in the booking - not the 'also known as' name "B". To use name "B" may cause all kinds of problems for the traveller.
At the end of the day the person's legal name is "A"; "B" is only a name they are also known as, but that does not stop their legal name from being "A".
I cannot see why any name other than name "A" shown on the data page of the passport needs to be used when making a booking in any event. Why create yourself a potential problem you really do not need?
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So presumably if one's spouse has changed her name on her ID to her husbands, but has not changed it on her passport, even though tickets could be bought in her maiden name (using the passport as ID), she would not be able to get a visa as the names on passport/ID do not correlate?
Sorry Tobias, totally missed the point (again)
I for one, after the potential disaster of buying a ticket for Nok using married name even though she did not yet have her British passport, would not want to jeopardise any flight by causing any naming confusion.
Too much of a costly disaster, let alone the heartache of not being able to fly.
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I am referring to airline ticket bookings only - whatever name the travel document is in (more often than not a passport) then that is the name to use when booking travel - it does not matter if it is the maiden name if that is the name in the travel document.
When applying for a visa you should also use the same name as in the passport used for the application. As for the ID and Passport - the correlation would be made by producing the marriage certificate. That is satisfactory for visa applications and for proving a change of name. The separate issue is specifically about which name to use when booking travel - in this day of heightened security and API regulations failure to use the name in the travel document (name "A" in my example above) could lead to denied boarding, delay or an expensive name change on the booking.
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For example, you buy a TV from ABC Limited for £3,000 - you pay say £1 on a credit card and the balance of £2,999 in cash or in kind - if anything went wrong with the transaction the purchaser would be protected for the full amount and could claim against the credit card company for the £3,000!!
Another important point, if you use an agent to purchase a flight ticket and a flight is delayed or cancelled or you are denied boarding you could not claim protection under Section 75. Section 75 also does not apply to PayPal or Google Money or similar type payments even if you use a credit card for the transaction.
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We had no problems at the Eva check in bar from a slight delay as the a phone call was made and a bloke collected the passport and marriage certificate (Uk translation) to photocopy the documents. To save any future hassles I'd do as Tobias suggests.
As an aside I tried to open a joint Bank account at NatWest on the same day with a utility bill in our joint married name, her passport (maiden name) and her Thai ID card (married name). Computer says No as far as NatWest is concerned. Her ID card was useless because it was not 'from Europe'. Natwest's words not mine. I don't understand this utility bill thing as a form of ID? Just means I've got to ring NPower up and say can you change the name from 'married' to 'maiden' and take back to the Bank and everyone is happy as this will match the passport.
This afternoon I just have gone thru a slimmed down folder that we kept for Citizenship purposes and the info I'm trying to locate isn't there.
Used a search engine and up came Wikipedia with this entry in relation to Britsih Passports (we all know how (un)reliable Wikipedia is).... I will continue to look on the Net for more useful information
The holder is or Holder is also known as ...
This endorsement is found in passports where the holder uses or retains another professional name or has an academic, feudal or legal title. The styling 'Dr ...', 'Professor ...' or similar is recorded here, or the alternative professional name. For example, Cliff Richard's birth name was Harry Webb. Ergo, his passport would read:
"Holder is also known as Cliff Richard."[citation needed]
Changing to your husband's last name
If you are married and wish to change to your last name to your husband's last name or want your passport to have the observation 'the holder is also known as' you must provide:
Link http://ukinthailand.fco.gov.uk/en/he...port-documents
- your original marriage certificate and
- your old passport.
The endorsement in my wife's British Passportof 'the holder is also known as' was performed by the Staff at the Bangkok Embassy.
As far I can recall it was a simple process; I telephoned the Bangkok Embassy and spoke to a Thai female who then spoke to my wife, after taking advice, we posted off our marriage certificate and my wife's Thai and British Passports with a covering letter to the Bangkok Embassy. 10 days later or so the documents were returned by Post with "the holder is also known as' last name matching my wife's Thai Passport surname. From memory I believe the only fee paid was for the postage.
I apologise if I have inadvertlenty given the impression that the above procedure was performed in the United Kingdom.
HMPO are now refusing to issue British passports, if the applicant's name does not match the name in the applicant's foreign passport.
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Wish I hadn,t missed this Vinny...could have saved a lot of potential pain.
Can,t believe nobody else has encountered this problem in the past 3/4 years.Surely there has got to be plenty of OH,s with Uk passports using married name who have Thai passports in their maiden/family name ??
ah women it can get worse when divorced has a women can then be known by what she wants but all legal documents will have to be changed .
With regards to booking a flight most websites actually flag before payment is taken or warn that the name must match what is in the travel document to be used .
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Just imagine if she was a football hooligan and had to surrender her uk passport when england play in a nice tourist zone with sun .
She could still go and watch the match lol.
The only potential issue we had was the first time she travelled she showed both passports to the Thai immigration desk. They got confused. So whatever you do, don't do that unless asked.


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Happy Monday!
Happy Monday!
Happy Monday!
According to Wikipedia, doesn't every great blogger refer to Wikipedia when they need information, a perfect storm is "a confluence of events that drastically aggravates a situation." Or as a person who was raised in Oklahoma and have been around when the weathermen begin to go crazy weeks before storms come into the state, I begin to think of those moments when all the right things are happening to create a big weather event a perfect storm.
Now I am not saying that this week was a "perfect storm" in the form of a weather event but more of a "perfect storm" for many moments of melt down in my life. Okay maybe that is a little much but it was a tough week and this was the only way I could think of it. (If you can't handle any whining now might be the time to step away and come back tomorrow for motivational Monday! 😉 Don't say I didn't warn you.)
As many of you know I am training for my 6th marathon and have tried a new training plan. This one had me doing up to 70 miles in one week. I have worked harder than ever before to get better at this crazy marathon thing. I have felt pretty good the whole time and have completed more miles in a short amount of time than ever before. For the month of April alone I ran 286.17 miles. That is more miles than I even drive in a month.
Anyway, things have been going well and I have felt very confident that this was going to be my best marathon ever! Then on Monday morning of this week (the day after my last 20 miler) I woke up with so much calf pain in my left leg, I struggled to walk and my mind took over. I started to doubt I could complete my marathon in 3 short weeks, I started to count my dreams out of ever getting a Boston Qualifying time. (Can you say, Drama queen much, I know!)
This was one ingredient to my "perfect storm". In fact here are all the "confluence of events" that made this week my perfect storm. One: calf pain, Two: taper time – basically time to reduce the amount of running to prepare for my marathon. During this time I am usually very anxious because I start to visual the race and how I am going to handle it all and my expectations begin to really come into play. Third: hormones! For those that don't have it, that time of the month is no cakewalk and for me I tend to be even more emotional during it. Four: added work stressors, really no need to explain that one, we all have them. Five: Turning a year older. Not really that stressful but I thought I would throw it in because it was an added event that happened this week. All the ingredients were present for the "perfect storm" in my mind this week.
I am happy to report that I survived it! I didn't get the t-shirt but I made it through. Thank goodness I work really hard to stay motivated and in the present moment. Here are some tips for how I survived:
So I guess what I am saying is that when faced with the perfect storm, if you are prepared you can make it through. Your family me get tired of you for the week because there might be some whining, but if take a breath, take control of your mind, you can make it through.
Anyone else ever struggle with this? How did you make it through your taper time?
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On this the shortest day of the year, here is a little something to think about to start your Monday.
Happy Monday!
This week I had one of those moments. One of those moments when you feel like you might actually be understanding what the world/universe or in my case my higher power (I call mine God) is trying to teach you. This is how it happened….
Daily I post a motivational type quote on my facebook page. I have been doing this now for about 2 years or more and usually it is because the quotes are something I need to be reminded of or need to think about for the day. On Wednesday I posted this quote:
This was to remind me as I embarked on my 12 hour + day of meetings to just take it slowly and you will make it through or at least I thought that was why I posted it.
Then while in my first of four long meetings a colleague gave a presentation and at the end of the presentation she had this same quote. That was when I felt like it was much more than a perseverance quote I posted on facebook because what are the odds. I had never even heard this quote before I posted it on Wednesday morning.
I really began to think how does this quote apply to more in my life? Over the past couple of days I have been thinking about it and trying to figure that out.
In my job which can be very overwhelming right now because I am basically learning how to run a million dollar business while running a million dollar business, I need to learn to take things slowly. Set up the right procedures and policies and not just try to put a temporary fix on the problems because that will not work. Also I need to not be so hard on myself. In reality, I have only been the Director for 2 months and the facility has only been open for a little over 3 months.
In my running, especially my marathon training, there is so much to learn. Yes I have completed 5 marathons, 10 half marathons and numerous other races, but I am nowhere close to where I want to be as far as how fast I want to be. I hope to get there but I know that it might happen in time or it might not. I need to enjoy the pace. It might be happening slowly but as long as I don't stop at least I am making progress.
Ever have one of these (as Oprah calls it) Aha Moments?
Less than 2 weeks! In less than 2 weeks I will be done. Okay maybe not done but my 5th marathon will be in the books (I am optimistic that it will be a success).
I have now almost completed training for 5 marathons and it is true if you want to change your life train for a marathon. Each one has been different. My spring marathon I completed during the snowiest winter ever, completing four 20 miler runs on a treadmill (needless to say I try to stay a long way away from treadmills for this training plan!).
This summer brought it's own challenges of relentless heat and humidity which only started to subside last weekend right after I finished my last 20 miler. That's okay, my hope is that it will not be this hot and humid in Chicago in two weeks.
So this brings me to my quote for today. It's one of my favorites and something to think about on this wonderful Monday!
Happy Monday! I hope you have a fabulous day!
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