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	<title>poetry, dreams, and the body &#187; materialism</title>
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		<title>commerce of god</title>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2009/12/29/commerce-of-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[materialism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[the rammer the fall the voltage our genetic code our technician. the function the knowledge the development the awakening human being of the universe. history justice love god the method the concepts the human alcohol. the animal the uniforms the fact the substance. the good ones the false people the ventilator the safe rotation predetermined [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the rammer<br />
the fall<br />
the voltage<br />
our genetic code<br />
our technician.</p>
<p>the function<br />
the knowledge<br />
the development<br />
the awakening<br />
human being of the universe.</p>
<p>history<br />
justice<br />
love<br />
god<br />
the method<br />
the concepts<br />
the human alcohol.</p>
<p>the animal<br />
the uniforms<br />
the fact<br />
the substance.</p>
<p>the good ones<br />
the false people<br />
the ventilator<br />
the safe rotation predetermined by the universe.</p>
<p>a fish<br />
a whale<br />
the surface<br />
the circuit<br />
the number.</p>
<p>the good people<br />
the pure<br />
the unspiritual instruction.</p>
<p>the zombie<br />
the jesus<br />
the birth of the papa of the sky<br />
our new age of the inoperative man.</p>
<p>the enormous game<br />
the audio one<br />
the marks of the attraction.</p>
<p>the truth<br />
the servant<br />
the attention with perspective<br />
the instrument of the development<br />
the eyes of the humanity.</p>
<p>the commerce of god<br />
the god of the mind<br />
god is the alcohol<br />
the scare of the age.</p>
<p>(<a href="http://rickbelden.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/commerce_of_god.32585253.pdf">PDF version</a>)</p>
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		<title>whose dream</title>
		<link>http://rickbelden.com/blog/2008/12/25/whose-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Body]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commercialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conditioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[materialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[it&#8217;s not so hard somewhere deep inside ourselves we know everything we need to know but we&#8217;ve been trained to forget conditioned not to listen we hunger for deep reality but settle for weak facsimile we aspire to courage but allow our fears to be manipulated we want to be free but concede and compromise [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it&#8217;s not so hard<br />
somewhere deep inside ourselves<br />
we know everything we need to know<br />
but we&#8217;ve been<br />
	trained to forget<br />
	conditioned not to listen<br />
we hunger for deep reality<br />
	but settle for weak facsimile<br />
we aspire to courage<br />
	but allow our fears to be manipulated<br />
we want to be free<br />
	but concede and compromise ourselves at every step<br />
to feel safe.</p>
<p>we have everything we need to live in paradise<br />
for everyone<br />
but we&#8217;re eating it all up<br />
and crapping it all out<br />
as fast as we can<br />
	faster faster faster<br />
		more more more<br />
			hoard hoard hoard<br />
		mine mine mine<br />
	consume dispose consume<br />
until it&#8217;s all gone<br />
while high-def flat screen phantoms<br />
shiny electrodistractors<br />
and cell phone brain parasites<br />
eat our time and our minds and our lives.</p>
<p>we live and die in a group trance<br />
a mass of mass dreams<br />
in which someone else&#8217;s dreams<br />
are more real to us than our own<br />
	whose dream is this<br />
	whose dream do you serve<br />
your conditioning is more than you realize.</p>
<p>stop<br />
take a moment<br />
take a breath<br />
check your body<br />
and ask yourself<br />
	am I awake right now<br />
or am I dreaming someone else&#8217;s dream.</p>
<p>(<a href="http://rickbelden.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/whose_dream.360161619.pdf">PDF version</a>)</p>
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