Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts

Sunday, October 23, 2011

LAW OF LOVE

LAW OF LOVE

Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra

Magandang araw! Good day!

Before we forget the greatest cementing force ever, let us iterate the law right away: Law of Love. Coherent with the articulations on the cosmic laws, I will focus on the Law of Love for this note.

“All we need is Love, all we need is Love, all we need is Love Love, Love is all we need!” says the very popular song by the Beatles. Love operates at many levels, we grow up to learn to love and feel the love of others toward us. Yet in the world we live in, there is so much superficiality about love.

It is the driving motive for the One Universal Principle—God of our daily living—to produce beings of all kinds and the objective worlds that can nurture the said beings’ needs. As the Guru Felix Fojas summarized the said law, in his manual on mysticism offered to my batch of mystics (1994), to wit: Love is the greatest force in the universe. God created the universe out of love.

All the beings, from mineral to sentient, were endowed with capacities for love. As the different beings evolve, they will also grow in love, grow in each one’s capacity to love, till the most evolved ones become perfected, by which the capacity for loving is endless compassion.

Losing the capacity to love, engaging in manipulative pursuits that enchain others, destructive in every way that the being bars others from moving up in the evolutionary path, doesn’t bode well with the Supreme Being. Like any father who will be saddened by the distancing and wayward behavior of an offspring, the Supreme Being’s infinite love works so strongly so as to give this being the space to come back.

True love is a liberating force, while false love tends to bind and enslave. True love is self-less and boundless, false love is selfish and narrow.

It is love that fuels devotion or bhakti, a theme or divine ray that I already articulated in other articles. Bhakti is centered in the heart chakra, and bhakti can propel an Aspirant to be liberated or attain Self-realization along very steep climb. That’s how wonderful bhakti is, that the granting of divine grace by the Supreme Being is willingly done to the most enthused practicing bhaktha.

Being so all-powerful, I even went to opine that the Rule of Love should govern the economic life of humanity. Today’s Rule of Reason has become suspect, as reason is being used to advance the selfish interests of very greedy elites. Transcendent a force, love is more potent than reason to guide action and decisions in the economic domain, as I said in past articles on economics.

Corrupted reason makes persons very dangerous, and reason itself is on the plates of agenda for reform. Spiritualized reason, reason immersed in love, is true reason, and so love and reason could be the behavior guides for the future worlds in a new global context or New Earth.

[Philippines, 08 October 2011]

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Friday, November 26, 2010

YOUR ESTEEMED RECOGNITION OF THIS BLOGGER WARMS THE HEART, THANKS!

Prof. Erle Frayne D. Argonza
November 2010

Felicitous greetings to you all!

Let me continue to reverb the message of a most heartfelt gratitude to you enthused readers and fellow analysts/writers who appreciate my notes on society, wisdom, and self-development.

My own eyes continue to witness the rise of end-users and discussants, as I visited the search engines to monitory those sites that have quoted or discoursed on my writings. My social blogs ensue being esteemed among the world’s top sociology blogs, warming up my heart ceaselessly.

With your impeccable appreciation and support of my cyber-crusade, information about me on the internet expanded by several folds.

Special thanks to the following online news, magazines and portals for citing my notes as among the top blogs on cyberspace:

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Thanks too to the following sites that have cited, discussed and debated on various notes of mine about a diversity of topics and themes:

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Gracious thanks to you all! Mabuhay!

Friday, October 1, 2010

SHAMBALLAH ENERGIES FLOWING

SHAMBALLAH ENERGIES FLOWING

Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra


Good evening! Magandang gabi!

So many energies are flowing to Earth’s lower dimensions at this juncture, a pattern that has been more less sustained since the ‘harmonic convergence’ yet (c. ’87). Let me share some notes about the matter.

The year 2004 was a threshold year, as the vibratory frequencies of Pisces and Aquarius equalized on that year. After the equinox of Sept. the 21st, 2004, the Piscean vibration began to downscale (this will reach around the 2070s yet) while Aquarius’ vibration dominates and will move up steeply for another 400 years before reaching plateau.

I will delimit my notes to the energy flows past 2004, which characteristically moved upwards on sharper curve (like in an exponential curve). From 2004 onwards, Light workers & helpers felt the impact of the enormous energy descent that converged with the vibratory ascent of planet Terra (Earth) itself, thus leading to physiological changes symptomatic of ailments.

There has been indeed a hyper-convergence of macro-energies since that time on. By macro-energy I would refer to large-scale energy emanations and transmissions of a planetary or trans-planetary scale. This will be distinguished from energy emissions within the planet specific regions, such as an energy spot, which I would signify as micro-energy.

What has been taking place is the hyper-convergence of macro-energies coming forth from planetary, inter-planetary, solar/stellar, and galactic sources. The same macro-energies were magnified by ascended or divine beings, with the aim of further accelerating the adjustments of the planet, biotic forms, elemental forms, and humans to finally fit into the desired frequency modulation levels comes post-2012.

Incidentally, the logoi of the planet, seated in Shamballah, have been monitoring the energy patterns as well as adding their contributions to the energy descent. The energy emanations from Shamballah are in fact continuing, at intervals of three (3) months for specific releases. Every solstice, the Lord Gautama Buddha himself releases ‘integrative energy’ that aids in Light workers’ integration of the seemingly disparate energy patterns.

Incidentally, during a monitoring of the events, I was permitted to see what was going on within Shamballah itself that could explain the ceaseless bombardment of energies on a planetary scale. I found out to my amazement that a gigantic transducer, sort of a huge equipment, sends off the Shamballah energies.

The vision of the method of emanating energies means that the frequency and amplitude levels of the energies can be modulated based on precise calibration system. The ascended beings in the Holy City cannot just release certain wave patterns without careful studies of them, and with the prudent approval of the planetary logoi.

As far as my inner knowledge is concerned, a wave of ascension energy will be released comes this June 21 solstice (summer in the north, winter in the southern hemisphere). This coming one is different from the previous ones, in that it will begin the physical ascension of a portion of the 144,000 White Robes (my intuition tells me that those who are now quite old and weary will go ahead and become Ascended Masters).

Those same Ascended Ones will reinforce the Chohans and ‘associates’ (masters all) in their council works in the astral-etheric domain. Many councils were formed up there recently, and those bodies would need newly ascended masters to operate. Together with the Ascended Host, they will all be blasting the lower dimensions with energies from the Councils which are separate yet from those of Shamballah.

Fact is, the energy emanations from the Councils, which emanate straight from out of the essence-beings of the masters, has been going on also for some time now. This is a parallel effort to that of Shamballah, the scale of impact being equally macro.

What Light workers should rejoice about is that integrative energies will be flowing out in greater ‘photonic’ impact along the way, thus alleviating the pains of transition that each one has been experiencing. The Lord Gautama himself emanates integrative energies straight from out of his essence-being, in so potent a manner that the energy outrightly softens the seemingly dis-integrative or near-schizoid effect of the disparate macro-energies.

So, Light workers & helpers, be gladdened by the news. God so loves Terrans that He would do everything, with the aid of the Ascended Host, to elevate the planet and its people via energy flows right within the Holiest of cities where seated are our planetary deities.

[Philippines, 04 May 2010]

[See: IKONOKLAST: http://erleargonza.blogspot.com,
UNLADTAU: http://unladtau.wordpress.com,
COSMICBUHAY: http://cosmicbuhay.blogspot.com,
BRIGHTWORLD: http://erlefraynebrightworld.wordpress.com, ARTBLOG: http://erleargonza.wordpress.com,
ARGONZAPOEM: http://argonzapoem.blogspot.com]

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

66-YEAR PHILIPPINE FREEDOM: POWERING HUMANITY’S KARMA YOGA

Erle Frayne Argonza / Guru Ra


Banal na araw! Sacred day!

One may wish to know how long will the Philippine republic last, and then reflect thereafter what is the significance of the ‘career’ of this new republic. To note, the Philippines comprises of remnant islands of ancient Lemuria, it being the Great Land (Maharloka) where the world’s greatest civilization ever was incubated and galvanized. It is the ‘womb of the Mother’, where ancient Adamic races were evolved by the spiritual Hierarchy. It housed Mt. Banahaw, the world’s solar plexus energy spot, and niche of the planetary chi for the duration of the Aquarian Age.

As a modern republic, it began only in 1898 when independence was first established. Modernity was partly to be carried on by the Americans, who introduced Anglo-Saxon culture and institutions upon their occupation of the republic in 1900. It was not till 1946, however, when the history of the Philippines as an independent state was truly experienced.

Using 1946 as the beginning of our measurement, we will assume, on the basis of accepted prognostications among Adepts of the Brotherhood, that the present history of nations will last only till the end of 2012. 2012 less 1946 yields the number 66, meaning 66 years of existence as an independent nation-state. 66 is 6 multiplied by 11. Let’s see what these numbers reveal in terms of the destiny of the nation.

• 6 is the 6th Ray of the Godhead, of which there are a total seven (7) mystical rays. 6 is the Ray of Service, the ray of servant of God and Divine Hierarchy. The conduct of service as a way to the Godhead is karma yoga. Service yoga or karma yoga is centered on the solar plexus/abdominal chakra, the center of association, of community extension and caring, of charity and philanthropy. Empowered by the heart chakra, service becomes a truly ‘service for others’. The number 6 is also found in the founding year 1946, and in the founding month of June that is the 6th month.

• 11 as a destiny number is a power number, together with 22 and 33 (also divisible by 11). 11 is the conqueror’s number, one who is bound to rise like a phoenix, or is capable of a meteoric ascent to public acclaim. It is bound to lead, and lead strongly like a conqueror. A nation with this number is destined to be a conqueror nation or a trend setter nation. It was the Philippines that set the trend for creating independent nation-states by breaking down the enchainment from colonial yokes. This country also set the trend for unifying its southeast Asian neighbors into the present ASEAN, a group of nations that is projected to turn into an economic and political union.

• Fusing 6 and 11 would yield a character of Being that is destined to lead the world’s nations in showing how collective karma yoga can liberate the entire nation from its own collective karma or sins. To be able to do this entails enormous sacrifice, including facing continuous discrimination by other nations for being the ‘servants for others’ (as the overseas workers have shown for decades now) and for behaving like a subordinated potentate to powerful nations (RP is pretty servile to
America, the IMF-World Bank, and yet retains its authenticity just the same).
Those pointers are enough to demonstrate the true powers of numbers being the very mystical code that encrypts the destiny of the nation. By examining the duration of the independent republic, we were able to uncover deep messages of the spiritual Brotherhood embedded in the same numbers as shown above.

Matching the numbers 6 X 11 with the planetary solar plexus (Mt. Banahaw) would move our reflections even a step ahead. If the Philippines was the very center of life in Lemuria, and that this was the manifestation of the very role of being the ‘womb of the Mother’ (womb is in the abdominal area, which amplifies Banahaw’s relevance), and that this is happening at a time of re-awakening of the dormant Lemurian spiritual zeitgeist among Filipinos both at the personal and collective levels, then it is facile to infer that in antiquity the propensity of the Lemurians to show devotion through service is a granite-rock trait.

The re-awakened zeitgeist somehow explains the reason why, development-wise, the Philippines is hard up in becoming a fully industrialized country with heavy industries at the core. Industry is fire element, and although fire is partly an element of Philippine/Lemurian life it isn’t the most focal one. Rather, the solar plexus trait that is attuned more to water element, is the determining category for diverse social and economic life forms in the islands, more so during its present and future stages. So, rather than galvanize a heavy industry-led industrial economy, RP’s economy moved quickly to the service economy type of development, rendering the country nearer to the post-industrial model.

To magnify the discourse about the solar plexus-driven growth here, do reckon with these facts:

• The services sector contributes 55% to the national income. Industry and agriculture together can only muster 45%. Over half of the domestic labor force is also in the services sector. Retail, tourism and transportation alone contribute to over 30% of national income and employ over 30% of the work force. There is also a large base for domestic helpers employed locally and overseas.

• Out of the 98 Million Filipinos, 8+ Million are located overseas as contract workers and immigrants. They are employed predominantly in the services sector, while their remittances contribute to the services section of the national income accounts. 12% of the national income comes from overseas Filipinos. Domestic helpers, nurses and caregivers are among the topmost employed, rendering them indeed as servants of other peoples and nations. 350,000 are seafarers, or 28% of the international maritime workforce, without whom the entire global maritime industry will collapse.

• Filipino professionals are also skewed in the service-oriented type of careers. Teaching employs the largest at half a million, while huge numbers are managers, engineers, health professionals, communications-related professionals, human resources, infotech-related services, and police/military services. The latter sector saw the ballooning of business processing professionals most specially call center agents, who will surpass teachers soon and may reach a million by 2012.

• Civil society is likewise a very large and powerful sector. Philippine civil society is reputedly the world’s most vibrant, a model for political science studies. Hundreds of thousands of staff and volunteers serve as its work force. It is able to leverage its strength to produce laws, public policies, enable good governance, and elect legislators as party list officials.

• Social development has become a powerful tool for change most specially from the 1980s onwards. The term ‘development worker’ has become a fashionable word and missionary, even as many professionals and artisans would also want to identify themselves as ‘development workers’. The social workers, their development siblings, comprise a large group of highly valued professionals, and surely the nation weeps every time that a social worker dies tragically.

• Even sports heroes have become heroes also due to their charitable spirit. Take the case of the legendary boxer Manny Pacquiao, who has openly been sharing his take home pay from his fights to the needy folks and struggling athletes. This is no longer the gung-ho individualistic hero of Victorian days, but the hero inspired by the Lemurian ethos of charity.

• The hospitality of Filipinos towards visitors and friends is classic. That is why the hospitality industry is also moving up the ladder. This behavior combines a goodly vibrating heart chakra and a well developed solar plexus chakra—collectively as a people, and individually manifesting in many Filipinos.

• In international diplomacy, the Filipino statesmen have become very important figures in enabling dialogue among nations that haven’t been seeing eyeball-to-eyeball for a long time now. The latest dialogue among Japan, Korea, and China, who have mutual grudges after centuries of mutual bellicosity, was largely done, thanks to the efforts of Filipino diplomats and the chief executive.

• Multi-level marketing, a business type that is strongly help-other oriented and emphasizes the power of team (community), has been making powerful waves among Filipino earners. About 2 million of the workforce are in this business today, who remain ecstatic over their having helped other team members prosper in life.
Judging by the exemplary conduct of the Filipinos in the field of service, and the diverse manifestations of the same, we can safely conclude that the Filipino is indeed the top exemplar of collective karma yoga worldwide. Exit all nurses in foreign hospitals where they are employed, and such hospitals will cease to run. As already mentioned, exit all Filipino seafarers, and the global maritime industry will collapse overnight, for no nation can parallel the service prowess and competencies of the Filipinos in this sector. Exit the Filipino people from the planet today, and a chasm will be created in terms of the karma yoga of the entire humanity.

That is not to say that the Filipino is the most important people of all. That sounds nauseatingly ethnocentric. What the facts are saying is that the Filipino is the exemplar for collective karma yoga as a way to the divine. Such an exemplary behavior is needed as the new races to emerge in the global canvass will exhibit high communitarian inclinations worthy of a successful balancing of the self and chakras.

Who knows that the Almighty’s reward for the Filipinos could be after 2012. The Philippines has always remained 4th Dimensional, vibrating at a modality known as 4th Density, so perhaps the collective behavior of the Filipinos will fast-track the mutation of the Philippines to 5th density modality. Individually, perhaps as many as 1/5 of Filipinos, both here and abroad, will be given passage to the New World by God Almighty after the polar shift, thanks to their communitarian ethos.

There are surely many surprises that could pop up unannounced around the corner. Let us see what those surprises will be after 2012. For now, let us all reflect on the need for building greater community and dedication to Godly service, for here lies a key to solving age-old problems of the human condition.

[Note: In case that anybody insists the Philippine as a modern nation-state began in 1898, let it be so. 1898 to 2012 yields a total of 114 years. 1 + 1 + 4, or a summation of the numbers in 114 years, yields a total of 6. So whether you begin counting in 1898 or 1946, you’ll end up with the number 6.]

[Philippines, 20 May 2009]


[See: IKONOKLAST: http://erleargonza.blogspot.com,
UNLADTAU: http://unladtau.wordpress.com,
COSMICBUHAY: http://cosmicbuhay.blogspot.com,
BRIGHTWORLD: http://erlefraynebrightworld.wordpress.com, ARTBLOG: http://erleargonza.wordpress.com,
ARGONZAPOEM: http://argonzapoem.blogspot.com]

Friday, July 30, 2010

FUTILITY OF POSTMODERN CHURCH

Erle Frayne Argonza


As I browsed over the various websites lately, I encountered some sites that featured the clarion call for a 'post-modern church'. Whether a post-modern church is viable is highly contentious.

Fact is, the term 'post-modern church' is an oxymoron. Postmodernity celebrates the micro-narratives, or those totality of terrains comprised by the domains of the individuated souls. Churches comprise the social institution of religion, and are largely progenitors of meta-narratives.

In postmodernity, meta-narratives make no further sense. To continue to peddle the sensibility or relevance of meta-narratives in today's context would only exacerbate the loose grounds from which such institutional templates are founded, for sooner or later such grounds will shatter and the meta-narratives or Discourse (with the capital D) will fragment and self-destruct.

Post-modernity is just but the beginning phase of a longer, more strategic phase in the evolution of mankind: the strategic era of the 'noosphere'. Post-modernity will come to pass, and with its passing will come forth a future world more grand than ever. And more grand is it precisely because the meta-narratives of the past are over, destroyed and shattered, taken over largely by the life fluxes of the individuated.

In the era of the noosphere, spirituality will largely be a knowledge-based pursuit, highly individualized and counter-institutional. There may be semblances of organizations to mediate the formation of Seekers, Mystics and Masters in the evolving contexts, but such organizations will be more of loose social networks of individuals rather than tightly-fit structures of fanatical devotees of Stone Age churches.

This is not to deny that there are today large numbers yet of Devotees, who in fact comprise the larger portion of humanity. These devotees are largely attuned to the mass mind, the mind that is now effacing and giving way to the individuated mind. The Devotees or Believers are largely non-authentic selves of herds, who unconsciously regard organizations such as churches as maternal structures that nurture the ever-infantile devotional types. And so these devotees, even if they leave their own churches today, are indeed prone to searching for some other churches to continue with their devotional works. And if such churches are not available for the moment, then it is but appropriate a response to create another church, and so on ad nauseaum.

And in the coming years or decades, we will still witness the morphing of new churches, even if in the long run such a phenomenon will seem like infantile acts of a population that is becoming extinct. For in due time the Devotee types will be replaced by the Freethinker, the Seeker types of souls, most of whom will come from planets and star systems far more evolved than ours. And the devotee populations will decline precisely because, unable to adapt well to the vibratory frequency of a planet that is now rapidly moving up the frequency ladder, the better will the same devotees survive and grow if they be transported en masse to planets less evolved than the Earth and of a lower vibratory frequency.

To those devotees who long for a 'post-modern church', the challenge confronts them head on to constitute such a church itself, complete with a hierarchy of priests and priestesses and rituals that are mere reconstructions of ceremonies for the ancient herds. They have the right to do so, if we were all to follow the logic of such action from the universal declaration of human rights concurred by the founders of the United Nations.

As a sociologist, I'll be glad to observe such a church as another behavioral species worth my observation. In the long run, it will prove utterly futile to maintain churches on earth, and before long such efforts to comprise new ones will crash back on the ground, unable to procure loyalties from a population of souls of seekers and freethinkers who would always regard churches with suspicion and ambivalence.

[Manila, 13 November 2007]

[See: IKONOKLAST: http://erleargonza.blogspot.com,
UNLADTAU: http://unladtau.wordpress.com,
COSMICBUHAY: http://cosmicbuhay.blogspot.com,
BRIGHTWORLD: http://erlefraynebrightworld.wordpress.com, ARTBLOG: http://erleargonza.wordpress.com,
ARGONZAPOEM: http://argonzapoem.blogspot.com]

Friday, May 14, 2010

POST-COURTSHIP EROS: FREE LOVE RISES

Erle Frayne Argonza


This freethinker-mystic is among those who are very indifferent to many institutional ways of life. Institutional ways are largely meant for the mass-mind herds that need customs or ‘routinized’ behavior to have a semblance of moorings in life. Groupthought, which institutions harness, stifles the creative and the individually authentic, even as it breeds alienation.

As a youth in the late 70s through the 80s, I was very sure of where I stood up in regard to Eros (love between the sexes): I was for free love, I was terribly indifferent to courtship that I despised it to the extremes, but I wasn’t for free sex. Love beyond the entrapments of the normative templates prescribed by society via the institution of courtship is truly liberating, and this is necessarily so: that love must be liberating.

Love that is stifling, encumbering, or love that consigns one to cul de sacs isn’t true love. Love that is selfish, love that is meant to procure the greatest attention to oneself, love that is Attention Deficit gratifying, love that forces one to accept the Self which in effect rationalizes inaction towards the greater goal of self realization or inner transformation, this is the love that isn’t love but domination, manipulation, conceit, abomination.

Love must be free, love must be liberating for both sexes, love must make lovers move forward in soul evolution. I heard the lines first from one my first philosophers in high school life, John Lennon, in his many songs. “Love is free, free is love!” summarizes his philosophy. I couldn’t but agree with this popular bard.

As I entered the halls of the university in the late 70s, Marcuse was the wave and I was drawn into the currents of his thoughts on Eros. Through him I discovered the Frankfurt School thinkers, notably Erich Fromm whose thesis on the ‘art of loving’ got me ecstatically swelling with delight over new philosophical and psychological thoughts about Eros. I was at home with Frankfurt School, and till these days my deep appreciation for its scholars’ thoughts remains. And I owe it so much to Marcuse and Fromm my early comprehension of the rising free love among free spirits.

I was lucky enough to meet early in life girls who likewise hated courtship, the free spirit girls of the 1970s. There weren’t so many of them, and there weren’t so many of us free spirit boys then. But somehow, as metaphysics declared that “birds of the same feather flock together,” we discovered each other’s presence, and were all enabled to discover the new Eros beyond the normative templates of courtship.

From 1982 onwards, the women I met in life were largely the free spirit types. Some of them were involved with radical movements, while some others were simply the unattached free spirits. Their behavioral responses to the call of the circumstance were highly original, indicative of their highly individuated psyche. They were very spontaneous with me as I was with them, from the first encounter through the galvanization of Eros. In my encounters with them, there was none of the rigmarole that marked the courtship practices observed in the Philippines nor anywhere else.

There was openness in expressing feelings. In most instances there wasn’t even a need to say things using the linguistic medium. It was largely body language & facial expression, or non-verbal semiotics, that mediated the interactions. There was symmetry in the interactions and relationship. Without the restraints posed by institutional life, both each partner and me were easily brought forth from Beta to Alpha brain wave, which further permitted us to unlock the meanings behind the signals elicited by the partner.

There was simply Oneness. There was the complete unity of the Yin and Yang. There was a free flow of the love frequency and other beneficial energies across each other’s body and aura. This free flow amid free love had powerful healing effects. Just the presence of a loved one alone instantly dissipates the other lover’s melancholic mood and thoughts.

Incidentally, as I look back at those wonderful moments, being now an advancing mystic, I’ve come to realize that the most sensitive souls I met among the women were the Old Soul types. Being an Old Soul myself, it wasn’t difficult to see that I was drawn to fellow Old Souls among women as they were to me, and so I got involved with some of them. We had the markings of what is now referred to as ‘star seeds’.

We are the types who can never be at home with the circumstances built by mainstream culture and society. We creatively build our own adaptation modalities, even as we are conscious in destroying the foundations of the Old World down to the last embers of its shambles. We are warriors, militants in the true sense of the term who were drawn to and became leaders of advocacy groups and mass movements. We are never parts of the mass, but we came here to lead and shape the mass.

Free love is now rising, and I guess rising rapidly. It rides astride urbanization that is now sweeping the entire planet. Urban life now dominates Philippine society, accompanied by the devastating demolition of many old modes of behavior, including those related to Eros. As I recently read through the pages of magazines intended for young adults, I discovered candid narratives about the greater opening up of feelings and inner intentions beyond normative facades, though the young ones still call this courtship.

Among urban Western peoples, the term ‘courtship’ had altogether disappeared, an indication that the individuated free-love pathway to Eros has become the dominant pattern itself. Only the sociologists and anthropologists now use the term ‘courtship’ in the West, the term reverberating yet in the pages of text books on general sociology and anthropology. My own fellow social scientists just can’t seem to do away with the Victorian orientation of our scientific disciplines, amid the free spiritedness of many of my colleagues.

I declare, at this moment, that the Era of Post-Courtship Eros has come, though its full sway won’t be observed till probably the end of the century yet. More and more ‘star seed’ children are coming to the planet, and with their arrival the old modalities of behavior must simply be totally thrown over to the dustbins of archaic life.

The situation of courtship’s demise is aptly captured by the favorite movie line, when a police officer pins down a criminal nemesis, “it’s over!” The Victorian pretenders and harbingers of the Old World should simply pack up and transfer to some planets where they can live forever in deceit, conceit, dogma and manipulation, and leave the more evolved souls here on Earth to build new worlds and creative modalities of behavior.

Hail to Post-Courtship Eros! Hail to free love! Hail the Free Spirit!

[Writ. 15 November 2007, Quezon City, MetroManila]