“We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its prisoners. The predator is our lord and master. It has rendered us docile, helpless. If we want to protest, it suppresses our protest. If we want to act independently, it demands that we don’t do so…
Sorcerers believe that the predators have given us our systems of beliefs, our ideas of good and evil, our social mores. They are the ones who set up our hopes and expectations and dreams of success or failure. They have given us covetousness, greed and cowardice. It is the predators who make us complacent, routinary and egomaniacal.” – Carlos Castaneda
The Hijacking of a Blueprint
Elva Thompson – There are many illustrations in the ‘natural’ world that show how parasites hack the programme of their hosts and replace it with their own survival mechanism. Take the case of the worm Dicrocoelium dendriticum better known as the lancet liver fluke. To reach the liver of grazing animals it first infects a snail. Continue reading