Searching for divine solitude
Towards the end of last summer I’ve stumbled upon Repušnica, which is known as the first ghost village in the Stara planina mountain in eastern Serbia. Unfortunately, the depopulation trend in this century has rendered many more villages unpopulated, but this is where it all started.
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There’s a saying “If you don’t grow up until you’re 50, you don’t have to” 🙂 Being 53 and having a gray beard that makes me look even older, I often get funny looks from guys I meet in the remote corners of this planet, when I suddenly stumble on them, either in my Jeep or on foot. It’s probably not normal for a guy at the right age to be someone’s grandfather to roam around remote places for no reason other than to find out what’s there 😉 Continue reading “Geography as an addiction”
Today I’ve announced a substantial cut of my Facebook use. And it seems like some people are taking it too dramatically, as if I’m just about to “disappear”. Hey, it’s not the end of the world! I’m still here, I’m going nowhere, you can reach me in at least 6-7 remaining ways (in case I’m not agile enough to notice your Messanger messages in the future), and there are other social networks, which are also free, and which you’re welcome to join (Gab, MeWe), so we can be together in a better place.
Why am I tired of Facebook? It’s simply consuming too much of my time, and too much of my nerves. It’s an addiction very similar to drug addiction. So getting yourself “off” Facebook is truly a way to restore your mental health. Continue reading “Eliminating mental pollution”
Hodanje prija, priznajem. Biti u tišini na čistom vazduhu, disati ravnomerno, koračati ritmično, razmišljati dok koračaš i osmatrati svet oko sebe. Zašto onda češće ne odlučujem da pešice pređem neku planinu, na način kako to planinari čine?
Kada sam bio mlađi previše sam idealistički posmatrao svet. Bio sam ubeđen da ljudi imaju mnogo više slobode nego što je zaista imaju. Nisam video nevidljive niti uslovljavanja i kontrole ljudi, kojima je naša svakodnevica protkana kao kakva paukova mreža. Nisam razumeo sve ono od čega su ljudi ovisni. Nisam razumeo njihove strahove. Kretao sam se kroz ovaj svet kao što neka pčela ide s cveta na cvet, bez previše svesti o tome kako ljudi posmatraju moju različitost, i kako me sistem vidi. Vremenom su se čula i intuicija malo razradili, postao sam svesniji svog okruženja i sopstvene pozicije u njemu, i počeo sam da primećujem tanane reakcije ljudske psihe “između redova”. Continue reading “Nevidljive niti neslobode”
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand wayPink Floyd
That is exactly what Facebook is doing to our lives. If we let it. When I summed up all the hours, days, years that I’ve spent reading the huge amount of bullshit people are posting on Facebook (and even more time spent actively contributing to it), I was devastated by the thought what good and creative things could have been done with that time instead. Years ago I made a self-liberating decision to stop following the mainstream media news. To stop polluting my brain with completely unnecessary facts that the rulers of this world call “news”, using the media to insert them in people’s heads in order to manipulate them. And now I’ve found myself as a participant in a cyber-reality show throwing around the same kind of garbage, only in a slightly different, interactive way. Is there a way out? Continue reading “Use Facebook, don’t let Facebook use you”
Hajde da počnemo otvoreno da govorimo o tome. Zvanična državna ekološka doktrina zemalja zapada (koja ima najjače uporište u EU), kao i ideologija i politika koju zastupaju “zelene” stranke je izuzetno štetočinska. Sve se svodi na tobožnju ugroženost planete emisijama CO2 (što jednostavno samo po sebi nije tačno, CO2 je potreban za razvoj biljaka, i ne dovodi do efekta staklene bašte i rasta temperatura) i ničim utemeljenu tvrdnju da čovekova aktivnost proizvodi alarmantne količine dotičnog. Sva rešenja koja se predlažu za tobožnju “borbu” protiv CO2 imaju za cilj da enormno povećaju životne troškove stanovništva kroz poskupljenje energije i nove poreske namete, temeljno razore određene industrije i na veštački način poguraju određene tehnologije čija je ekološka smislenost vrlo upitna, a koje forsiraju određeni lobisti koji svojim kapitalom direktno finansiraju “zelene” stranke i NVO sektor. Vetar u leđa tom pogubnom projektu daje i većina zvaničnih medija, koji su u vlasništvu istih tih lobista. Samo neko ko uopšte ne razmišlja svojom glavom, već prihvata zdravo za gotovo ono što mu mediji serviraju, može da nasedne na tu ispraznu, i potencijalno veoma opasnu priču. Krajnji cilj je ne samo enormno povećanje životnih troškova, već i ideološka promena karaktera savremene civilizacije, koja bi od jednog prilično liberalno orijentisanog društva prerasla u autoritarno, sa gomilom zabrana i restrikcija, koje unose snažne elemente diktature i drastično ograničavaju ljudske slobode.
Dakle, ta oficijelna “zelena” ideologija koja se na globalnom nivou gura (a koju vidim da kao papagaji fura i Trivanovo ministarstvo i njegovi domaći sateliti nakačeni na tu globalnu “eko” sisu) barem je jednako opasna kao i nekadašnja komunistička diktatura. I zapravo predstavlja vid levičarskog ekstremizma. Rat sa njima nam tek predstoji.
How many more years of freedom in the nature do we have? Some say no more than 5. People are constantly hurded into towns by the global regime, as into some concentration camps where they can be easily monitored. And nature lovers are like cancer patients, knowing that their days are numbered, and it’s just a question how much longer they’ll live. All activities that represent individual freedoms are being banned, such as wild camping, or lighting campfires. People will not be allowed to stay in places where the regime doesn’t have control over them anymore, and where they’re staying for free. Everything is being commercialized, you have to pay for the right to live. Travelling in cars through the wilderness is being banned with the excuse that it is not ecological, but the true reason is the fact that an overland traveller is far too independent from civilization, and far too capable to move fast and be uncontrolled for the preferences of a police state. In the future we will not be entitled to do what we like to do anymore, but what the regime tells us to do, and what will be profitable, and easy to monitor for them. Soon we shall all say farewell to freedom. And for some of us, that will probably be the end of life. Because, a life without freedom is no life at all.
Čovek kao životinjska vrsta je rob sopstvenih konvencija i navika. Začaureni da sve merimo prema tradicionalnom modelu stacionarnog života u kućama, potpuno smo nesposobni da sagledamo prednosti nomadskog života. Na prvi pogled, čovek pomisli da ne može da živi u pokretu, putujući, da je to nešto mnogo skupo, mnogo neudobno i nesigurno, ne razmišljajući o tome kakve on živeći stacionarno enormne obaveze i troškove ima – kupovina zemlje, kupovina/gradnja kuće (ili plaćanje zakupa), kupovina nameštaja, plaćanje raznih dozvola i taksi, poreza na imovinu, plaćanje komunalija, plaćanje grejanja… Ne treba biti veliki matematičar da bi se shvatilo da je stacionarni život zapravo najskuplji oblik života. Continue reading “Život u pokretu”
I travel a lot, and music is an important part of my travels. Music that inspires me, music that paints the soundscapes which guide me through the landscapes. Music that fills the solitude, music that gives divine strength and insight into the Other Side.
There are many kinds of music, many artists that make me transcend my physical body and become one with the universe. There are different moods that can take me on that journey. And every year, every month, every moment has a specific vibration, a colour, a thought that comes into resonance with certain kind of music to create bliss.
During the Autumn of 2017 Lisa Gerrard and her divine voice often left me speechless. Brought me to a state of awe towards the great outdoors, an almost religious admiration of the ultimate, and only true god – the nature that surrounds us. Made me become one with it.
Here is a selection of some of her great work. Relax, and be prepared to leave this world, without fear.
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