Tim Bob: It’s Just a Movie

Michael C Ruppert & Guy McPherson - It's Just a Movie

A tribute to Michael C Ruppert

Remembering Mike Ruppert
Seemorerocks

This is my first attempt to record a short podcast which I have divided into two parts. This is my way of remembering my friend, Mike Ruppert on the second anniversary of his passing. 



The first part is a discussion with Carolyn Baker in which she discusses how she met Mike, what he meant for her as well as discussing Mike's shadow and the question of depression in general.

Part two contains my reflections on Mike and relationship with him. I talk about his very important final New Year's message as well as play some of his music.

Please forgive the little technical imperfections.It is the first time that I have attempted to do this!

Two years since the death of Michael C Ruppert

Today, give or take a few hours, marks the second anniversary since the passing of the friend of many of the readers of this blog, Michael C Ruppert.

Mike is someone who turned my life upside down and began for me a process of reassessing all my preconceptions about the way the world works.

For me it was hearing a piece from the movie Collapse:

“It isn’t that Bernie Madoff is a ponzi scheme: the whole economy is a ponzi scheme”

That set me off to find as much as I could about Michael Ruppert.

In the end he became a friend and confidante that I never met or spoke to.

Mike was touched with brilliance but also had a central flaw that gave him to the world but took him away long before his time.

Mike, you are missed by me  - and so many. 

May you rest in peace.

Mike Ruppert (February 3, 1951 - April 13, 2014) - RIP

Lee Nelson from Britain, a good friend of Mike's has made this program dedicated to Mike that also features Kevin Hester

Global Collapse HQ Radio Show MCR Special

No doubt it, the movie Collapse along his book Crossing the Rubicon were the most significant of Mike's life

Made just a few months before he died this, for me, is one of the most significant of his speeches - on the three guarantors of human extinction.




This was Mike's final broadcast on the Lifeboat Hour, recorded almost EXACTLY two years go.

For people living Down Under (and for myself,since I facilitated it against all the odds) this interview with Chris Laidlaw of Mike is highly significant. 

It was a favourite of Mike's and one where he talked about 9/11.

Michael C Ruppert - Beyond Petroleum Man

Michael C Ruppert is a one-off. He's an American author, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer, investigative journalist and peak oil theorist. Until 2006 he published and edited From The Wilderness, a newsletter and website covering a range of topics including international politics, the CIA, peak oil, civil liberties, drugs, economics and corruption in high places. He is currently CEO of Collapse Network, a website-based pressure group seeking alternative energy and other lifestyle choices

Mike Ruppert, 29 December, 2013

It is a little over six months now since Mike left us.

Prepare to Die, Eschaton Human - The End of More

‪Michael C. Ruppert 'Tracker of Truth'‬

Mike Ruppert - a selection

This is my own selection of key speeches and interviews of Mike Ruppert

Former LA Police Officer Mike Ruppert Confronts CIA Director John Deutch on Drug Trafficking

On November 15, 1996, there was a town meeting in Los Angeles on allegations of CIA involvement in drug trafficking. Former Los Angeles Police Narcotics Detective Mike Ruppert seized the opportunity to confront then CIA Director John Deutch. You can buy a recording of the town hall meeting here

9/11 - Mike Ruppert - The Truth And Lies Of 911 -(Full length)

Collapse by Michael Ruppert

It was this speech to the Vermont secession movement in 2011 and watching the movie Collapse that aquainted me with Miek Ruppert and what he was saying. His message electrified me and spurred me into action Michael Ruppert - Confronting The Peak Oil Crisis Video of Michael Ruppert speaking in Vermont on the topic of coming to terms with Peak Oil when it truly begins to impact our way of life. His presentation begins around the six minute mark

Michael Ruppert - Confronting The Peak Oil Crisis

 

9-11-2011

The Greatest Speech EVER! "THE GREAT AWAKENING"

The Great Awakening Speech that deserves much more attention. Empowers and invites humanity to change the way it thinks and perceives reality. On 9-11-2011 The 'tracker of truth' Mike Ruppert evoked a powerful, inspiring, selfless message of incorruptible truth and awareness; shining a bright light in an age of darkness and deceit.

Arrival of the Post-Petroleum Human

Peak Moment 196: "Petroleum Man is dead. Infinite Growth Man is dead. Post Petroleum Human is alive," announced Michael C. Ruppert on May 22, 2011. Members of this emerging "species" know they must live in balance with the Earth, while remembering the lessons of industrial civilization. The star and subject of the documentary "Collapse", Mike founded CollapseNet.com in 2010 to empower people to connect and relocalize

Recorded in Sebastopol shortly before Mike's departure for Colorado when it looked as if the world was moving towards nuclear war over Iran.

Mike Ruppert - Crumbs

The Joe Rogan Experience Michael C Ruppert

I was proud to be able to organised for Mike to be interviewed by Chris Laidlaw on Radion New Zealand. I know this is one interview he enjoyed doing. He talks more about 9/11 than at any time that I had hears

Michael C Ruppert - Beyond Petroleum Man

Sunday Morning, Sunday 22 May 2011

Michael C Ruppert is a one-off. He's an American author, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer, investigative journalist and peak oil theorist. Until 2006 he published and edited From The Wilderness, a newsletter and website covering a range of topics including international politics, the CIA, peak oil, civil liberties, drugs, economics and corruption in high places. He is currently CEO of Collapse Network, a website-based pressure group seeking alternative energy and other lifestyle choices.

Guy McPherson and Mike Ruppert - Game Over for Humans

Mike Ruppert and Guy McPherson on Climate and Methane Danger.

Excerpt from Mike Ruppert's podcast Lifeboat Hour of Dec 22nd 2013 with Guy McPherson where they discuss the dire situation.

Please listen to the complete podcast at:
http://prn.fm/lifeboat-hour-guy-mcphe...

or alternatively:
http://lifeboathour.podbean.com/2013/...

The Eschaton

Prepare to Die, Eschaton Human - The End of More, Michael C. Ruppert 'Tracker of Truth'

Michael C. Ruppert is the host of The Lifeboat Hour, a live internet radio talk show, every Sunday evening at 9 pm, on the Progressive Radio Network. This is a short excerpt from the Lifeboat Hour show dated December 29, 2013

Michael C. Ruppert's Last Radio Show - RIP

Michael C Ruppert (3 February 1951 - 13 April 2014)

Michael's last broadcast of the Lifeboat Hour on PRN 13 April 2014.

Mike Ruppert

Apocalypse, Man – part 2

The Lifeboat Hour

Michael Ruppert and Guy McPherson

To listen to podcast GO HERE

Mike Ruppert on the Gary Null show

Progressive Commentary Hour - 07/01/13

TOPIC:  A look at America’s history of government and intelligent agency assassinations and lost persons who whistleblow on government corruption or interfere with politicians’ designs

Michael Ruppert is a former LAPD narcotics investigator and whistleblower who later became an investigative reporter and an author focusing on America’s War on Drugs, the oil cartels, peak oil, and a post-oil society. Michael was best friends with Pulitzer prize winner Gary Webb, the journalist who exposed the Iran-Contra scandal and the CIA running cocaine into Los Angeles, resulting in his suicide. Michael has written several important books including “Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World”, which explore the relationship between the forces of power and wealth behind oil and the 2008 financial collapse, and became the basis for Chris Smith’s award-winning documentary “Collapse”

Daniel Hopsick is an investigative journalist, documentary film producer and director, publisher of the ezine Mad Cow Morning News. His investigations into the Saudi-Raytheon-911 connections, much which is described in his documentary Mohamed Atta and the Venice Flying Circus and a book entitled Welcome to Terrorland. He is also the author of “Barry and the Boys: The CIA, the Mob and America’s Secret History” and “The New American Drug Lords.”  Daniel has investigated many mysteries killings and activities conducted by American intelligence, including the US attempts to induce cancer in Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez with cancer-inducing technologies developed by a Dr. Ferris. His website is www.MadCowProd.com

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Peak Oil

What about shale oil?

Recently we have seen claims of “huge” deposits of shale oil in Australia ('You're talking Saudi Arabia numbers. It's massive, it's just huge.').

We are told that Peak Oil is a myth because of discoveries of unconventional oil, and even some people who should know better, are believing the hype.

What is the reality? Part of the answer comes from this explanation from Mike Ruppert in Confronting Collapse.

Unless they've come up with some miraculous discovery to get around the laws of physics in the meantime, what was written some years ago still remains as true as when it was written.

--- Seemorerocks

“Here's the theoretical process to turn shale into oil:

“Production of oil from oil shale has been attempted at various times for nearly 100 years. So far, no venture has proved successful on a significantly large scale. One problem is there is no oil in oil shale. It is a material called kerogen. The shale has to be mined, transported, heated to about 4500C (8500F), and have hydrogen added to the product to make it flow. The shale pops like popcorn when heated so the resulting volume of shale after the kerogen is taken out is larger than when it was first mined. The waste disposal problem is large. Net energy recovery is low at best. It takes several barrels of water to produce one barrel of oil. The largest shale oil deposits in the world are in the Colorado Plateau, a markedly water-poor region. So far shale oil is, as the saying goes: “The fuel of the future and always will be”. Fleay (1995) states “Shale oil is like a mirage that retreats as it is approached. Shale oil will not replace oil”

Alternative Energy Sources” Walter Youngquist, Consulting Geologist, Eugene, Oregon, October, 2000, http://hubbertspeak.com/Youngquist/altenergy.htm....

....If it would take one ton of rocks to power one car for two weeks, how many tons of rock would it take to power 270 million cars for one year? Answer 7.02 trillion tons. Now add the hydrogen adn orobably the equivalent of all the fresh water flowing in the Colorado River every year and you migh thave something. Oops. We forgot about the infrastructure costs, didn't we?

We forgot about irrigating crop lands and drinking water. We forgot about the hydroelectric power generated at the Hoover Dam.

How much energy is used to heat shale to one third the temperature of the sun?"

(Michael C Ruppert, Confronting Collapse, Chelsea Greeen, 2009, P 129-31)

The Lifeboat Hour - 13 January, 2013

Mike Ruppert on memes

Mike talks about memes, cultural blueprints that are being challenged – climate chaos, the Idle No More movement in Canada and the growing challenge to the male-dominated paradigm from women

THe Lifeboat Hour

Mike Ruppert on the Lifeboat Hour

Mike talks about earth changes, moral degradation and the connection between violence against women and the rape of the planet. He sees the outrages in India as the outburst of the old patriarchal paradigm.

The eleventh hour

Message from the Hopi Elders

The Q'ero are saying it, This is the New Pachakuti, we are in it.. the sun has risen… it is two things at once.. the world turned upside down and the time to find ourselves…through the shaking of things as we know it we remember who we really are.. we come together.. we grow into beings of greater light than we have known before. this is possible and it is up to us! It is time to speak your truth.. it is time to open your heart and live from this place. The Illumined doorway is open now and the way is through your heart. it is time for the people of the heart, the munay tribe to gather, and lead the way.

deepest munay to you all, deep deep l'lankay and yachay.

Good Morning

xxx

Message from the Hopi Elders

You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.

Now you must go back and tell people that THIS is the hour.

And there are things to be considered:

Where are you living?

What are you doing?

What are your relationships?

Are you in right relation?

Where is your water?

Know your garden.

It is time to speak your truth.

Create your community.

Be good to each other.

And do not look outside yourself for the leader.

This could be a good time!

There is a river flowing now very fast.

It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.

They will try to hold onto the shore.

They will feel they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.

Know the river has its destination.

The elders say we must let go of the shore,

Push off into the river.

Keep our eyes open,

And our heads above the water.

See who is in there with you and celebrate.

At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally,

Least of all ourselves.

For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey

Comes to a halt.

The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves!

Banish the word struggle from your attitude and vocabulary.

All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

We are the One's we've been waiting for.

The Elders

Oraibi, Arizona

The Lifeboat Hour

Mike this weeks interviews researcher and neighbour, Robert Hastings and the subject is UFO's

Robert Hastings on the Lifeboat Hour

More information on Robert Hastings and his work HERE

UFO's

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

- Hamlet (1.5.166-7), Hamlet to Horatio

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RobertHastings will be my guest on this Sunday's Lifeboat Hour. It is not by coincidence that we have both (been) moved within the last six months to the same place, the San Luis Valley. 

Note how hard Larry King seeks to implant the idea that the ETs are hostile. -- In fact the opposite is true. 

They are here to prevent us from destroying the planet. That's what all the evidence suggests. That is also what indigenous spirituality and ancient prophecies all over the world tell us. And that is also what folks like Dolores Cannon and many other scientists, channelers and regression therapists tell us. 

If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

There can be no understanding or remediation to multiple crises until we become fearless enough to stop excluding clues that fall outside a meme created by the Powers That Were, a meme that is passing.

--- Mike Ruppert

From the conservative British "Daily Telegraph" - 

Britain visited by one UFO a month but MoD rules they pose no threat

The Ministry of Defence will no longer investigate UFO sightings after ruling there is “no evidence” they pose a threat to the UK despite a senior aviation official admitting the country is visited by one unidentified flying object a month.

The Telegraph,

19 August, 2012



It is official at last: Britain is not at risk from unidentified flying objects.
Those who have long feared an invasion from Mars or further afield can relax – at least, that is, if they believe the Ministry of Defence.


An end has been ordered to all official investigations of Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, after the ministry ruled they do not pose a threat to the nation’s security.


It comes as the head of UK Air Traffic Control admitted the country is visited by around one unidentified flying object a month.


Asked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme about the existence of UFOs, Mr Deakin confirmed they were still being seen by his staff.


He said: "Occasionally there are objects identified that do not conform to normal traffic patterns. It does not occupy a huge amount of my time. There are approximately one a month."


Yet despite this, the MoD insists it will no longer investigate UFO sightings.


The ruling came after the careful collation over the years of reports of strange lights in the skies, odd noises and apparent close encounters.


The move to end all investigation was disclosed after a dedicated hotline for UFO sightings was discontinued for cost grounds, and the “UFO desk”, which cost £44,000 a year was also removed.


Now officials say that any UFO investigation would divert valuable resources and instead a sophisticated network of radar infrastructure and anti-ballistic missile systems to monitor British airspace will spot any genuine threat.


An MoD spokesman said: “In over fifty years no UFO report revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom.


“The MoD had no specific capability for identifying the nature of such sightings and there would be no benefit in such an investigation. Furthermore, responding to reported UFO sightings diverted MOD resources from tasks that were more relevant to defence.”


The abandonment of the UFO hotline and dedicated desk officer in 2009 had already caused concern among those who believe in the phenomena.


Now the decision to abandon investigations entirely has frustrated some members of the public convinced they have glimpsed the extraterrestrial – and those who are simply unsure of what they have seen.


Jane Randall, a housewife from Woking, Surrey, captured a strange looking object in the skies above Silbury Hill in Wiltshire when she took a photograph using her mobile phone while taking part in a field trip to learn about the archaeology in the area.


She said: “I didn’t see anything at the time, nor did the ten people I was with, but when I looked back over the photos there were two pictures a second apart with this strange conical shape hovering behind the hill.


“The pictures I took either side of this didn’t have any mark on them so I don’t think it could have been dust on the lens.


“I’m just an ordinary person, but thought I should report it to someone so they could take a look. When I phoned the police, they said it was not a police matter and I spoke to someone at the RAF who said they did not investigate UFOs any more.”


Nick Pope, who ran the MoD’s UFO desk from 1991 to 1994 and now researches UFO sightings privately, said: “One of the problems was that an increasing number of the reports the MoD was getting were low quality.


“When someone has a photograph though, that should be considered to be a different situation. The MoD has the personnel and equipment to very quickly analyse an image to tell whether it has been altered and identify what an object might be.


“A lot of ordinary members of the public feel it is their duty to report anything out of the ordinary.


"I get a lot of people contacting me now about sightings and it is frustrating that there is no where official that they can report them – it has become a black hole.”

Towards the end of the Mayan calender

Do not expect a logical argument from the following words.  They are purely my random thoughts and reflections on the rising tide of geopolitical and earth events as we head towards the end of the Mayan calender

--Seemorerocks

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"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy".

-- Hamlet (1.5.166-7), Hamlet to Horatio

"What is love?"

"The total absence of fear," said the Master.

"What is it we fear?"

"Love," said the Master.

--Anthony de Mellor

"Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha."

– Ajahn Chah

Making Sense of it all

Seemorerocks

Today has been a day of sorting out my thoughts and feelings.

There has been such a flood of information indicating that something big is afoot – it is rapidly becoming impossible to keep up with all the details, much less make sense of it all.

A good friend sent me a text this morning wondering aloud whether the fact that the UN is asking Israel to account for its nuclear weapons indicates a turning of the tide.

I don't believe in such 'turnings-of-the tide” in the dimension of political action. Things have reached such a turn that we cannot look for hope in the mundane human realm.

There is too much collective insanity, too much corruption of the political system at every level.

The world fiddles, it celebrates a royal pregnancy, “the Hobbit” - or whatever other trivia comes the way of the media, while the world burns.

The media has acknowledged that we are looking down the barrel of catastrophic climate change (although that appears in some notice buried somewhere at the back of the paper).

Meanwhile, If you look there is a growing cascade of earth events – earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, strange explosions and sink holes oozing methane and oil. From where I'm sitting it all means that Gaia has had enough. Mother Earth is awakening.

I have little doubt that on 22^nd December the world will wake up and the media will be able to scoff that the end of the world didn't happen, so we can all go back to sleep.

Well, they will be wrong.

People will say “it didn't happen” - but it already IS happening.

I recall a very memorable a very memorable exchange between Mike Ruppert and Derrick Jensen. They were talking about those people who continually carp on about “when's IT going to happen?”

Essentially, they replied, these are very small-minded, selfish people who are asking 'when is it going to happen to ME', 'when is it going to affect MY life'.

It is self-evident to me that for the people of Japan, of NYC and New Jersey, to the people of Christchurch IT has already happened. For the poor of Bangladesh, the Philippines and anywhere else you want to throw a stick, IT has already happened. For the people that live homeless in the bushes not a mile from where I live IT has happened.

So for the rest of us whose lives have not yet collapsed but have an acute awareness of what Is happening around us there is still the challenge of making sense of it all.

What DO we do?

Perhaps a time has come to stop being lost in the details.

….

There are many ways to describe what has befallen humanity and why we, as a species have so completely lost our way.

The answer can be found in this quote from Genesis 1: 28:

“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth”

Whether Jew or Christian or 'heathen' this has become the modus operandi of the patriarchy and the reason for why the elite is following infinite growth on a finite planet.

Quite simply, as Joseph Campbell pointed out many years ago, we need another mythology.

Amongst ordinary folk, looking at comments that one finds everywhere on the internet, the scorn (and foul language) that is directed at good, well-meaning, thoughtful folk,is yet another indication as to how and why we have lost our way.

At its simplest it is a question of transformation of consciousness – in the words of Mike Ruppert “evolve or perish”.

It is also a question of Consciousness.

Several times I have heard a quotation from Anthony de Mello, used on various occasions by Mike Ruppert – along the lines that you reach the stage where you are either going to go stark, raving mad …. or you become a mystic.

I had heard of de Mello, but never read nor knew anything much about him.

In one of those synchronicities that one encounters so often, when I searched I found that de Mello, a Catholic mystic, was based at the Sadhana Institute of Pastoral Counseling near Poona, India (where my wife visited to practice yoga) and was criticized by the church for his views largely because he was profoundly influenced by the Thai Buddhist monk, Ajahn Chah, who has, indirectly, exercised a huge influence over my own life.

As with any of the great spiritual teachers it doesn't matter where you open the book – you'll always find something that is appropriate to the moment.

The first thing I found was de Mello talking about prayer.

He talked first of all about what it wasn't – the sort of prayer where we forget to do what we have to do (“have faith in God and tether your camel) or beseeching God for some egotistic outcome (“winning the lotto”).

When it comes down to it prayer is what we actually DO, but in a more profound sense WHO WE ARE.

Getting back to the matter at hand.

I have always been somewhat of a rationalist – not at all in the sense of putting my trust in materialsm (at least not since my teens when I explored Marxist materialist dialectics) – but more in the sense of staying with the 'WHAT IS” rather than the 'WHAT SHOULD BE”. The influence of J Krishnamurti is quite deep.

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A part of me has been quite allergic to any teachings about a 'golden age' when this manifestly imperfect world is to be replaced by 'perfection'.

I have not been drawn to any of the 'new generation' of teachers.

However my attention was drawn to this explanation of the Mayan calender by a hypnotherapist named Dolores Cannon.

I listened to a part of a long talk she gave, where she explained that we are not bodies, but have a body, and that we are reincarnated, not only on this earth but at other planets in the universe. This earth is regarded as a very hard place to be incarnated as it represents the coarsest possible form of energy.

Those of us that have incarnated here have to keep coming back until we have learned our lesson.

This was said with such simplicity and sincerity that I must at the very least open myself to the possibility that it may be true.

In any case, it provides a very good myth, a basis to make sense of a period of great suffering, great turbulence and of transition – transition to what I have to say, in all sincerity, I know not what.

I think that now is a period for prayer and meditation, for taking time out just being in Nature, for finding whatever is going to sustain us in these uncertain times.

I believe strongly in fully acknowledging the full reality of what is happening and of  being very aware of the strong emotions that this brings up.  

All the wisdom traditions tell us that the feelings we experience are universal, not individual.  There is more to bring us together than there is to draw us apart.

I would like to finish off with these wonderful lines from Anthony de Mello as well as the timeless poetry of TS Elliot.

"What is love?"

"The total absence of fear," said the Master.

"What is it we fear?"

"Love," said the Master.

--Anthony de Mellor

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Burnt Norton


TS Elliott

I

Time present and time past

Are both perhaps present in time future

And time future contained in time past.

If all time is eternally present

All time is unredeemable.

What might have been is an abstraction

Remaining a perpetual possibility

Only in a world of speculation.

What might have been and what has been

Point to one end, which is always present.

Footfalls echo in the memory

Down the passage which we did not take

Towards the door we never opened

Into the rose-garden. My words echo

Thus, in your mind.

But to what purpose

Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves

I do not know.

Other echoes

Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow?

Quick, said the bird, find them, find them,

Round the corner. Through the first gate,

Into our first world, shall we follow

The deception of the thrush? Into our first world.

There they were, dignified, invisible,

Moving without pressure, over the dead leaves,

In the autumn heat, through the vibrant air,

And the bird called, in response to

The unheard music hidden in the shrubbery,

And the unseen eyebeam crossed, for the roses

Had the look of flowers that are looked at.

There they were as our guests, accepted and accepting.

So we moved, and they, in a formal pattern,

Along the empty alley, into the box circle,

To look down into the drained pool.

Dry the pool, dry concrete, brown edged,

And the pool was filled with water out of sunlight,

And the lotos rose, quietly, quietly,

The surface glittered out of heart of light,

And they were behind us, reflected in the pool.

Then a cloud passed, and the pool was empty.

Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children,

Hidden excitedly, containing laughter.

Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind

Cannot bear very much reality.

Time past and time future

What might have been and what has been

Point to one end, which is always present.

II

Garlic and sapphires in the mud

Clot the bedded axle-tree.

The thrilling wire in the blood

Sings below inveterate scars

Appeasing long forgotten wars.

The dance along the artery

The circulation of the lymph

Are figured in the drift of stars

Ascend to summer in the tree

We move above the moving tree

In light upon the figured leaf

And hear upon the sodden floor

Below, the boarhound and the boar

Pursue their pattern as before

But reconciled among the stars.

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;

Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,

But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,

Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,

Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,

There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where.

And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time.

The inner freedom from the practical desire,

The release from action and suffering, release from the inner

And the outer compulsion, yet surrounded

By a grace of sense, a white light still and moving,

Erhebung without motion, concentration

Without elimination, both a new world

And the old made explicit, understood

In the completion of its partial ecstasy,

The resolution of its partial horror.

Yet the enchainment of past and future

Woven in the weakness of the changing body,

Protects mankind from heaven and damnation

Which flesh cannot endure.

Time past and time future

Allow but a little consciousness.

To be conscious is not to be in time

But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden,

The moment in the arbour where the rain beat,

The moment in the draughty church at smokefall

Be remembered; involved with past and future.

Only through time time is conquered.

III

Here is a place of disaffection

Time before and time after

In a dim light: neither daylight

Investing form with lucid stillness

Turning shadow into transient beauty

Wtih slow rotation suggesting permanence

Nor darkness to purify the soul

Emptying the sensual with deprivation

Cleansing affection from the temporal.

Neither plentitude nor vacancy. Only a flicker

Over the strained time-ridden faces

Distracted from distraction by distraction

Filled with fancies and empty of meaning

Tumid apathy with no concentration

Men and bits of paper, whirled by the cold wind

That blows before and after time,

Wind in and out of unwholesome lungs

Time before and time after.

Eructation of unhealthy souls

Into the faded air, the torpid

Driven on the wind that sweeps the gloomy hills of London,

Hampstead and Clerkenwell, Campden and Putney,

Highgate, Primrose and Ludgate. Not here

Not here the darkness, in this twittering world.

Descend lower, descend only

Into the world of perpetual solitude,

World not world, but that which is not world,

Internal darkness, deprivation

And destitution of all property,

Dessication of the world of sense,

Evacuation of the world of fancy,

Inoperancy of the world of spirit;

This is the one way, and the other

Is the same, not in movement

But abstention from movememnt; while the world moves

In appetency, on its metalled ways

Of time past and time future.

IV

Time and the bell have buried the day,

the black cloud carries the sun away.

Will the sunflower turn to us, will the clematis

Stray down, bend to us; tendril and spray

Clutch and cling?

Chill

Fingers of yew be curled

Down on us? After the kingfisher's wing

Has answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still

At the still point of the turning world.

V

Words move, music moves

Only in time; but that which is only living

Can only die. Words, after speech, reach

Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern,

Can words or music reach

The stillness, as a Chinese jar still

Moves perpetually in its stillness.

Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts,

Not that only, but the co-existence,

Or say that the end precedes the beginning,

And the end and the beginning were always there

Before the beginning and after the end.

And all is always now. Words strain,

Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,

Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,

Will not stay still. Shrieking voices

Scolding, mocking, or merely chattering,

Always assail them. The Word in the desert

Is most attacked by voices of temptation,

The crying shadow in the funeral dance,

The loud lament of the disconsolate chimera.

The detail of the pattern is movement,

As in the figure of the ten stairs.

Desire itself is movement

Not in itself desirable;

Love is itself unmoving,

Only the cause and end of movement,

Timeless, and undesiring

Except in the aspect of time

Caught in the form of limitation

Between un-being and being.

Sudden in a shaft of sunlight

Even while the dust moves

There rises the hidden laughter

Of children in the foliage

Quick now, here, now, always-

Ridiculous the waste sad time

Stretching before and after.