My "quest" for this blog, even though it was not really 'realised' until recently. Has been to apply the Law of One and other ideas in order to improve my life.
This is partly because I have quite a serious health condition. So while a lot of people kind of set their direction and soon enough have a lot of commitments such as that they can no longer spend time introspecting, dream interpreting, meditation, and reading the Law of One. When you have a serious illness, (and the effect on my psyche has been very serious indeed. I have lost decades). But when you have a serious illness. It takes a lot more energy and tools to move forward and experience some kind of improvement.
But I am wondering if that when I do get to some sort of state where "yes, the improvement has happened". It will change the state of this blog somewhat? In line with the Law of One. I already do almost daily meditation, prayer and affirmations, and frequent dream interpretation. I have been reading the Law of One daily and things have improved.
Most recently. A mega health improvement. I said it on this blog the other day. I am drinking a lot of water. Since my specific health condition leads to me being very dehydrated. This is a massively positive thing. And overdosing on the caffeine free Pepsi Max, which I did recently. Has lead to this recent improvement. So now, in line, I stopped caffeine, stopped with alcohol, which I was only using for communion, but then I did take a few extra glasses of wine when they were offered, and now improving by drinking masses of water.
I can feel that improvement. I say all this because it might be that I have to simply experience that improvement and might not do a blog for a little while.
It is also why I will not do a longer blog like the past few days and will only focus on some things I think are generally interesting today:
Sci fi in general.
Throughout my entire life I have been massively into science fiction. I have watched it all. All the Star Treks except the first one. I say all, I mean The Next Generation, Voyager and Deep Space Nine are the only ones that matter. Stargate SG- 1, Stargate Atlantis, Dark Matter, The Expanse, The Orville, Buffy, Angel, Grimm. Etc. Etc. You get the idea.
But recently, for the first time in my life. I am suddenly getting bored of sci fi. Maybe I am growing up. I am able to watch tense emotional drama for leisure now. I understand these things. Maybe I have just run out of said sci fi.
But I realise there is a difference between good and bad quality sci fi. That when you have seen the three Star Treks, and maybe Stargate SG-1. You have kind of seen it all. I would say that those shows contain the full substance of what is good within sci fi.
I want to recognise a central problem that some sci fi has. One of the things that happens in some sci fi is that an enemy is created. They come in very impressively. But the more the show goes on and that enemy has to come away from it's impossibly powerful introduction. The more that you realise, as you are watching it, that the show just hasn't been written that well.
An example of this is Earth Final Conflict and Babylon 5. In these shows. The central antagonist. Has no particular depth or relevance to them. No internal politics. No other reason for their existence but just "to exist".
In Babylon 5, the central antagonist from Season 2 onwards were called 'The Shadows'. They were invisible spider creatures that wanted to invade... Why? Well, to invade. It was their life philosophy.
A lot of the times as well with these shows. They set up an antagonist like that. But they do not have the commitment to actually make a compelling war. So they have to solve the issue with some kind of weird 'just because' issue. So with Earth Final Conflict, which is such an obscure show that no one is going to mind spoilers. The demonic, vampire like creatures that became the antagonist in later seasons. And they had to fuse with another alien creature there which was their more evolved counterpart. So when the Taylons evolved, they left their darker, vampire selves behind. The Unas or something.
It is, in general, such a cop out. It is so stupid as well. The idea a being would ascend and leave a darker version of its own self behind. That these two would have a long war and eventually involve humans whom would somehow get the two back together. It is childish.
I am also sick and tired, in general, of shows where there is some sort of love and peace takeaway at the end. That non violence is some sort of solution to an extremely violent opponent. Star Wars did this very much. Luke doesn't fight the Emperor so, what? an entire army spanning hundreds of worlds just... gives up? Because of Lukes love and peace? There are other shows that have done this in more annoying ways which I won't name. Since that would be a spoiler. But it is just ridiculous.
A show that did it well.
This is my favourite science fiction. Now reflecting on it.
Star Trek Deep Space Nine:
The show went on for seven seasons.
The depth of the characters in Star Trek was just fantastic. Characters had powerful, interesting, defined arcs. The station was run by Benjamin Sisko:
This character, had a link to "wormhole aliens" called the Prophets. Who were also the kind of gods of Bajour. A planet and people relevant to the story.
The spiritual things that Benjamin goes through. Are the most accurate I have seen as to what spirituality is like. He has flashes, moments of compulsion where he reveals something the Prophets have shown to him. The whole thing is mixed with the possibility it all might be madness. When his enemies learn of the a celestial adversary that can take down the Prophets. He is asked: "Why do the Prophets matter?". And Dukat, the bad guy, says: "Because without the Prophets, Benjamin Sisko is just another Starfleet captain".
Interestingly, Benjamin Sisko is a baseball player (The kind of personality detail missing from most of these kinds of shows) and he keeps a baseball with him. Which we actually first see when an alien kind of turns a holographic ball real:
It reminds me vaguely of the ball shown in the major arcana after the book 4 of the Law of One's refinement of these concepts:
Star Trek Deep Space Nine. In contravention of a lot of these sci fi shows and in contravention of even other Star Treks at times. Disposes of the utopian "we don't work for money" ideas. And in many conversations stresses that these are real life stakes, and the people involved that are talking with high minded ideals are often incorrect and delusional:
Youtube: JohnKY: "It's easy to be a saint in paradise" January 25 2022
https://youtu.be/EcGO1qjIr5E?si=lxsep7kfJg5KVl2n
And when they went to war, they really went to war. There was one episode where the group here have to defend an outpost with another group that have been doing it for a while. They are often attacked by the shows antagonists. Who are brutish, purely animal people. Bred for such a purpose. There are many episodes where these brutish peoples philosophies are talked through.
Well, the Deep Space Nine group are predictable in Star Treks kind of cosey sentiment. And they go to Sisko and say that these people are suffering from PTSD. That Starfleet needs to send replacements. To which Sisko responds; "We are at war, everyone is stretched thin. Yes it sucks, but that's what happens in a war".
This was a scene from that episode:
Youtube: JC Denton: Quark tells his nephew something about humans. July 3rd 2010.
https://youtu.be/-D2SHNqkjbY?si=auOr2Ye7EZaClcjR
There are many, many good aspects to this show. Many good characters. There is Garak, who is a Cardassian. Left out from his own people. We don't know why. But as the show goes on it becomes clear that he is in deep with the intelligence apparatus of his own people. That he lives and breathes as a person like that. An assassin.
Youtube: trekclips123: DS9 Garak the boy who cried wolf (Improbable Cause) February 22nd 2012:
https://youtu.be/cl66ilQCCNs?si=YWnwuQuyETUH7U77
While there is an explanation for his character. He does not get a redemption arc in the way a lot of shows would have him. He is still as he is, at the end of the show. Despite all the pain the somewhat tyrannical habits of his people cause and have shown. He is still a Cardassian, and proud to be one.
There is chief O'Brien. Who is the best representation of the working class genius I have ever seen. Really honours the type in a non patronising way. There were some slightly odd choices. Some things that don't quite add up for me. But overall, the show seemed to me to be genuinely inspired. To have a lot of hints in it about spiritual matters that I don't think the writers had any idea of.
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