This, dear reader, I find a very disturbing image. I keep having bad dreams. and so do more people.

This, on the other hand (talking about 'radiant'), I find inspiring:

It's taken from the famous Isenheimer Altar and it shows Christ, triumphantly raising from the cross.  It's amazing how much light the artist has brought into this image.
To me, the meaning is clear: you don't have to worry about death and suffering. You're eternal and you'll trancend death, and you'll smile. Don't worship Christ, but internalize His image and know it is YOU. Nothing can really harm you, and although your earthly life is very real, it is just a fleeting moment in an ocean of time and space.
You're not cut off from a distant God and you don't live by His mercy, you are an essential part of God and he is experiencing Himself through you. As a matter of fact He is experiencing Himself through is entire creation, so everything around you is Divine too. In my humble vision Christ will return, but not on a cloud and not to rescue a bunch of Christian fundamentalists, but through us. 

It's just a matter of remembering.

**click**

It's called 'Survival Acres Blog' 

 Two quotes:

… Part of gearing up, is gearing yourself up. The human body was not intended to sit in a cubicle and type on computer screens for months on end. This type of sedentary lifestyle is one of the worst things you can do to yourself. Get up and get moving. Get that body active, daily.

And:

… On the economics – get out of debt asap. You cannot do this fast enough. Collapse will NOT protect you from the creditors, or a debtors prison camp. Don’t even risk it. Do whatever it takes and clear out your debts. Simplify, reduce and downgrade if you have to – everything. Houses, land, jobs, cars, consolidate bills and get rid of superflous junk and simplify your life as fast as you can.

Check out this weblog! It covers a very broad range of topics and is centered around the subject of crash survival, and offers a lot of practical advice. I have to agree on most of his pessimistic future predictions, which are pretty dark and leave little doubt about what is coming up, who is to suffer and who are to benefit (the usual suspects). Then again, although the weblog is obviously written with great passion and holds much truth, I still think it tries to cover everything from a material point of view. As for me, I think there's far more to the upcoming crisis than resource depletion and the global rise of fascism; in my view the entire 'crisis' is a thing that has been carefully and secretly prepared for centuries; as such it's purely occult, in a black sense. I really believe we have more options than being slaves to the System or a marginal existance as destitute and desperate fugitives outside The Zone. Ultimately, and primarily, this battle is spiritual. We have to take sides, and remember who we really are. The only way to defeat darkness is by spreading LIGHT. If we allow ourselves to be obscured by fear we will be complicit to the dark side.

Ugh. More of this later.