56th issue, October 2002
POPULATION
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The increase in Ladonia population is still going on. When the last issue of the Herald was published we had 8.700 citizens. Now we are 9.900!
Most of our citizens (around 4 000) come from Sweden, or rather did, as other countries have dominated during the last half year. And this is important, as we fight a simple war where Ladonia slowly will register all Swedes as Ladonians. In the following list you can see from what countries our citizens are coming and in what number. Hungary became a Ladonian stronghold in 1997-98 due to a campaign by Sandor Posvari, who at that time was minister. The reason for England as number three came mostly during the last month when BBC 2 was presenting Ladonia. The invasion from Pakistan, to a large extent misunderstood by many Pakistanis, has become an important landmark in the history of Ladonia. Pakistanis asking for jobs and housing became news all over the world, and that explains the wide spreading of our citizens.
| 1. Hungary 717 2. USA 602 3. England 412 4. Spain 340 5. Pakistan 275 6. Mexico 239 7. Norway 217 8. France 186 9. Germany 165 10. Portugal 156 11. Canada 154 12. Brazil 147 13. Russia 145 14. Belgium 143 15. Denmark 140 16. India 116 17. Poland 109 18. S Korea 103 19. Turkey 96 20. Italy 96 21. Holland 93 22. Argentina 90 23. Nigeria 82 24. Israel 80 25. Rumania 77 26. Peru 64 27. Bulgaria 59 28. China 53 29. Yugoslavia 47 30. Colombia 44 31. Croatia 42 |
32. South Africa 40 33. Australia 36 34. Finland 29 35. Iran 28 36. Austria 27 37. Swiss 24 38. Japan 23 39. Latvija 23 40. Ireland 23 41. Vietnam 20 42. Bangladesh 20 43. Slovakia 20 44. Skottland 16 45. Algeria 15 46. Greece 15 47. Ukraina 15 48. New Zealand 13 49. Thailand 13 50. Hongkong 12 51. Estonia 11 52. Venezuela 11 53. Wales 10 54. Indonesia 10 55. Slovenia 10 56. Macedonia 9 57. Libya 8 58. Bosnia 8 59. Belorussia 8 60. Uruguay 7 61. Malaysia 7 62. Chile 7 |
63. Catalonia 6 64. Egypt 6 65. Cuba 6 66. Dominican Republic 5 67. Marocko 5 68. Nepal 4 69. Iceland 4 70. Sri Lanka 4 71. Georgia4 72. Philippines 3 73. Panama 3 74. Tjeckia3 75. Bolivia 3 76. Armenia 2 77. Cyprus 2 78. Luxembourg 2 79. Azerbaijan 2 80. Etiopia 2 81. Uzbekistan 2 82. Kurdistan 2 83. Liberia 2 84. Ecuador 1 85. Kuwait 1 86. Uganda 1 87. Burkina Faso 1 88. Togo 1 89. Honduras 1 90. Oman 1 91. Ghana 1 92. Albania1 93. Tanzania 1 94. Andorra 1 |
 Mars and potatoe by James Hartman |
Other highlights were pictures of the Ladonian Football Team playing against the Penguins (yes, real penguins, Ladonia has a colony in Antarctic as can be seen in the map above), a design by Carlos André, Minister of the Dark Side, Ladonian Ants by Kicki Hankell, Minister of Guardian Angels. A portrait of the candidate for a noble wedding, count Onto Distro, Minister of Avatars. Extraordinary Minister Vera Porad Falk was showing a textile version of her wellknown creation, the Ladonia Coat of Arm.
"Duct Tape Day is August 12! Celebrate or I'll make ye walk the plank!" This piece by Minister Tammaro was in the Malmoe show:
Duct Tape Wallet |
http://www.csel.com/ladonia Ladonian Nights / Meet the ambassador / Photo Gallery / Footwaall / Dragonflies and more
Hatred, on the other hand, is one of the major negative ones.
Ascende vostre
Lord Jörgen, Minister of Offense
THE MINISTRY OF OFFENCE
This ministry should not be confused with the ministry of offenSe (see above)
Definition Of Ministry: (HERE YOU SHOULD IMAGINE A KNIFE INTO)
All the issues related with any offensive attempts of human kind (or animals) are the subject of the Ministry of Offence, which accepts those actions as an essential part of human soul. Hence, one of the most important duty of ministry is controlling these kind of self-expession of human soul with surrounding environment. In today’s neo-barbarian world, if there is a need to be offensive in some area or matter, this situation will not be operated in the name of defence or war against something, if there is a need to be offensive commited by the cabinet, these operations honestly will be handled by The Ministry of Offence. Targets:
First target of the ministry is redefining the ‘crime’. As it’s known, crime and offence terms are quite various from individual to individual. This also reflects the fact that most nation has differences from each other in their law terminology regarding crime and offence. Those differences pave way to different views and perceptions. Therefore, this relativity can also be a catalyst for offensive behaviours between nations in international relations. To be able to understand today’s international dynamics, such facts should be discussed and well determined within countries. In this case, my ministry will serve to make a healty stand for Ladonia about this issue in the country and in international area. I, as minister of offence, see this ministry and Ladonia as a precious opportunity to evaluate all of those subjects in a comitted manner. Today, while some nations violate the human rights by the hand of state, in some micro cases, individuals may defy and reinterpret all commited concepts by their actions and theories just like Dostoyevsky’s Raskolnikov. In my opinion, all of these facts are worth to consider. And I believe all Ladonian citizens and ministers with different background covering the world can arrive a perfect solution in those matters. Therefore, I appreciate all contribution regarding this issue and I hope our solution will create a great model for the world. On the other hand, Ministery of Offence will also serve to make an ‘offensive system’ for our evil enemies. For this reason, I would like to introduce ‘offensive enough’ concept. Here the purpose is to make all of our evil enemies feel our existence and protect our Ladonia from the danger. Therefore:
MINISTERY OF OFFENCE WORKS AS THE KNIFE ABOVE
A USEFUL TOOL, BUT ALSO A THREAT...
VIVA LADONIA !
Cihan Ergul — Minister Of Offence
g-han@superonline.com
"My investigations did find a site whose 'members' always wear a green sock on a Tuesday." As green is the colour of Ladonia, Ladonians could, if they like, use a green sock on Tuesdays. Also this message from the ministry:
L "Announcing a department inside the Ministry of Zen.... the department of
Missing the Point." Lisa, Minister of Mythological Beasts made a comment:
"As I am a still a bit wet behind my Ladonian ears, I'm still enjoying our nation's flag! Yet, you make a quirky point and I'm in favor of the quirky whenever I find it. Hmm. One green sock on Tuesdays. I like it! Those among us who wish to be subtle might wear two green socks but with one slightly lighter, darker or more toward yellow or blue. Those who are utterly daring might wear only one sock, it being green? Would depend on the overall climate I guess or yP?
Waaalling and deepest respect,
Lisa
Minister for them thar critters"
"There is a chance that the Ladonian National Anthem could be played on Europa somewhere around 2010 - 2015. (Europa is a large moon of Jupiter that is thought to have liquid water oceans under a water ice surface.) I proposed an experiment to be flown on the proposed Europa Orbiter mission under consideration for a launch in about five to ten years. Look at http://www.iaanet.org/symp/lcpm2000.html for the title Post-Game at Europa: Possible Low Cost Modification to the Proposed Europa Orbiter Mission B.J. Mitchell -- PhD candidate, The Johns Hopkins University; Paper IAA-L-0606P.
The experiment is to intentionally crash the Europa orbiter into the surface of Europa once the satellite reaches its end of useful life. The ejecta spectra from the high speed crash would be examined by telescopes for chemical makeup (including signs of biological activity).
The plan is to try to aim for an area where the ice crust is very thin and try to break through to the water below. Think about this: a big metallic stone (the probe) thrown into a big ocean (Europa's) -- the Ladonian National Anthem!
There is a question for the assembled ministers -- would it still count if the "cosmic" stone is thrown into frozen water if we can't find a seam in the crust to hit liquid water directly? Keep in mind that in the case of a high speed impact with ice, part of it would be melted into water. Perhaps this could be considered an "alternative" arrangement of the Ladonian National Anthem.
I hope for the support of the Ladonian Space Administration (LSA - headed by the honorable James Hartmann, Minister of Future Science) on this matter.
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 The bridge that will connect Ladonia with Sweden. |
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THE UNCONSCIOUS AND BEYOND CONSCIOUSNESS.
Transpersonal Psychology, allegedly the crown of East-West integration, according to my limited experience, seems to include an abundance of treatises on psychology, philosophy, and spirituality all over the West, Tibet, India, and the Far East. But, all based on exoteric literature, not esoteric knowledge. It remains forever struggling with consciousness, which it fails to separate from the Godhead. All endeavours seem to amount to One Atman, in our fullest evolution we are thought to realise that somehow sacrificing illusions about ourselves as separate entities will bring us eternal bliss which to my mind falls quite close to a regression back to participation mystique subject to the pre/trans fallacy axe which Ken Wilber so mercilessly swings around in most modern theories on psychology. (The p/t-fallacy: Belief that man evolves from the lower, is likely to deny spiritual experience /e.g. Freud/. Belief that man has a spiritual origin is likely to confuse regression and loss of ego with spiritual experience (e.g. New Age) (Eye to Eye, 1996). The world famous modern Processwork Psychology maybe thinks following natural processes will guarantee a safe lead around this fallacy, but I am not so sure, it would amount to admitting that certain clients need to regress, and then considering the process-wisdom that if only one person follows his process, all will benefit (Mindell A, Rivers Way, 1985), we end up in a very complex situation. To circumvent the invitation to chaos involved, I strongly feel we need to distinguish between a Group Mind in us, and Individual Mind. They just might have very different destinies. Without this separation, we could run into a process-fallacy.
If our total being would satisfy various parts of some group mind, our identities would very likely be conditioned rather than results of free choice, and we could easily turn out as city shadows, crazy teachers, whatever that would mean. We might strongly believe we had to live just that. Again, whatever it really means. I think, as long as there is no pivoting individual destiny, no stronger individuality, it could mean that every street bum, drug addict, hit-man, rapist, racist, sexist, terrorist, ordinary murderer, Middle East ethnic daughter murderer, machete-gangster, you name it, could be taken as our wise teacher, and that is probably not quite what Rumi had in mind in his famous Guest House poem (lovingly invite what comes, it's to teach you·).
„If you want to know this, do this‰ (Ken Wilber, quote in 'The Spirit of Science, ed. David Lorimer, 1997, p 24). I have accidentally published (sic; theTao! As the processworkers exclaim whenever something moves them), and earlier described on the string my almost silly dice experiments for you, the same kind many have tried and marvelled at, to indicate how will works in a realm beyond physical instruments, and without them. This phenomenon cannot be overestimated in understanding the psyche.
It is time we turn to a part of the world not usually mentioned in connection with the perennial philosophies Central Asia where it actually survived, in the sense that esoteric knowledge was brought out from that region a hundred years ago (See e.g. Bennett JG, Witness, Bennett Books, 1997).
Esoteric perennial philosophy indicates a purpose for the creation of man in Zoroastrian scriptures, „for assisting the good forces‰ whatever the symbolic expression, his existence matters. Exactly for what?
Man as he usually is, ordinary man, lives in a very low place, far from this mystery, has many identities, and doesn't even notice how they replace one another like a bunch of disagreeing back-seat drivers in a motor-car all the while struggling for a few minutes behind the wheel. Such an ordinary man proudly ascribes to himself free will. In reality, he is just an arbitrary part of a social field so amply described by Processwork Psychology (and unfortunately seeing nowhere beyond this). Often the Œevolved human state is described as an ability to shuffle between these roles. Likewise, in perennial philosophy, this is a way to begin experiencing reality and wake up to ones illusions about oneself. But to actually be able to enter another and see the real needs of the other is a very difficult and advanced art hence too, very wisely, we only follow a person's process, without any interpretations whatsoever.
In looking for „inner contradictions‰ last Sunday, a young woman played her professional role as a flat road-killed animal, while her liveliness danced about as inaccessible colour blobs. This is what so easily happens, life energy goes out of our humdrum existence, and a dull mechanical energy is all that remains that one which allows us to function without paying attention, like inner chemical processes or driving a car while at the same time being engaged in maybe small talk conversation. And this is how many adults already die in their twenties, to spend the rest of their lives as robots. By the force of social momentum only, however, such people can become very successful, and the more conformist and mainstream and less eccentric they are the better, they will run multinational companies, terrorist networks, compile learned books and perform the right kind of art 'in vogue', and win the Nobel prize even, while in reality, they are quite dead.
Life energy, sensitivity, is something much higher than the auto-pilot existence described above or the chemical and mechanical operations in our bodies. It is there, or not there, and we don't quite see how it arrives and leaves, but we sure know the difference. At the same time it is divinely uncomplicated, spanned between our likes and dislikes, a simple „yes‰ and „no‰ world. All life knows its favourite habitat, and is selective in this way.
Beyond the splendour of life energy comes the power to renounce immediate gratification, which is desire, the desire to change, to find something better or find something else. But we may be pulled in two directions, towards the here and now as it already is, and towards an essence deeper in ourselves, to access creativity. The energy of desire, to have this or to have that, high or low, confused or firm, is in esoteric terminology named conscious energy, able to command the yes/no world of sensitivity. It can establish deeper meaningful relationships. This part of the psyche lies beyond life, it is the first genuinely spiritual realm we will encounter, and it is usually little developed. Here is the seat of character. People without individual character belong to a "type" and follow their sensitivity within cultural confines, in group mind.
>From this level, however, the next may look like Unity of All, with no definite you, no definite me, where all seem to share everything, the same knowledge, the same social field, the same non-local experience but it is not that simple. Our consciousness cannot differentiate what might lie beyond it, and be its master, and thus consciousness also becomes a barrier, and a barrier which seems to include God even, it makes us believe we are united with God!
To find our true deeper selves, we must pass through this barrier of consciousness itself, to that which can direct our desires. When desires are fixed in character, like in animal species, we still share something with the animal kingdom. To fully assume our human nature, this needs to be transcended.
The master of desire is free will free, not conditioned, by no group field or anything which is everybody's (actual or potential) very own contribution to the universe, as required in the Zoroastrian texts. This contribution is bound not so much with our temporal fate as with our eternal destiny, it is potential, always there in the 'now'.
Before taking action, we cannot know our deeper selves. In order to undertake the hard work involved, to find our creativity, we must already have something, to make us believe in it. So there is the Tao, by following its calling, we might be given what we need. The Tao can be named in different ways, also as Sacred Influences. In his book, Seven ways of Work, J.G. Bennett names one of these ways ŒHelp. Much of the perennial is about understanding eternity. Our life myths, from childhood dreams to old age struggles, must be unfolded in the here and now, to reach eternity.
And what could be the master of free will if not Love? But how could we ever understand the full depth of Love before we begin to understand our deeper selves?
Many levels of being are described in perennial philosophy. Each is a "world". Thus, our bodies belong to the world of things, or the world of physics. Life in us belongs to "the next world", or the world of spirits. It's no coincidence that Processwork Psychology is based precisely on modern physics and on shamanism, besides its Jungian, slightly styled origin (to say the least). After the world of spirits follows the first truly spiritual world, with energies higher than Life, the world of possibilities, the place of the Self Archetype, beyond time and space. This is the highest level our consciousness can reach. Here we could develop creative ability, rather than fix our performance according to character. And beyond is the Unfathomable, Love, Bodhisattwas, Arhats, Christ-like souls, not even to begin to speak about God.
Interestingly, CR and NCR are not defined according to different levels of being, but according to consensus with highly arbitrary boundaries. Provided the perennial philosophies are true, both could reach astonishing riches and possibilities. But even if all the 'unconscious' would be conquered, 'beyond consciousness' still would remain an entirely different realm.
Put very simply, if we have free will, there will be nothing to stop us - save for what we have not been talking about yet, the all permeating, reconciling, and directing Divine Love, synonymous with the 'Holy Ghost', so refined that we cannot feel it directly in any remote or low place in eternity. The suffering and humiliation of Christ is a metaphor about becoming prepared for this extremely refined and powerful energy. It is not for us to try, struggling as we are at best on the first spiritual level, of consciousness, albeit higher than Life with associated archaic worlds of ghosts.
Although entering a spiritual path, by the action of Tao or synchronicity, reduces thwarting events associated with fates of other people, hazard is always present. Without hazard unconditioned free will is not possible. If development goes wrong on the conscious level, a dangerous hasnamuss (in persian, 'shit-soul') may result, somebody like the former Soviet Union's leading henchmen or important figures in the present Islamic network. Such a soul cannot advance further without returning all the way back to the ordinary crowd, and the ordinary crowd has no "crazy teacher" to be found in him.
On the path of ascent, we may find the elevated as well as the evil, but by far the bulk of events and strivings around us pertain to ordinary man, prone to living through his auto-pilot, habitual preferences, and cultural code, and I think the marvellous collected experiece of Processwork might perhaps one day be used to corroborate this view.
The fate of ordinary man is very different from that of ascending man, and that is linked with the purpose he was created for.
This esoteric knowledge has not been given to me, I have dug it out myself, and I am thus free to pass it on as I feel fit.
Yours forever, Emanuel von Bock, Minister of Health
Emanuel von Bock, Minister of Health in Ladonia
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