{"id":24905,"date":"2011-03-22T19:19:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T23:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/24905\/power-trip\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T19:19:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T23:19:16","slug":"power-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/24905\/power-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: purple\"><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fgwr3wrenkQ&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">Jean Sibelius &#8211; Finlandia<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: purple\">The Gaian Dragon<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/pages\/nature\/ca.html\" target=\"_blank\">Clouds 10<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/nature\/clouds\/cat1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Power Trip<br \/>\nPeople who do not have power over their own selfish desires, feel the lack within themselves, which they try to satisfy by obtaining power over other people. It never works. Instead of becoming happy, their thirst for power and control consumes them, and they become barbaric monsters<br \/>\nAs they focus more and more upon obtaining power, they get very good at it, as follows from the Law of Momentum. These are people, who through diligence, and cunning, find ways to rise into positions of power and authority in Society, where they generate all kinds of suffering and misery. This malice, and opposition to Life, is at the core of all the conflict, greed, and ignorance that we find in the world<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/pages\/politics\/powertrip.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the rest of the article<\/a><br \/>\nThese animated Moving Mandalas are very large files. Please click on the pic, and wait for it to load. The Contemplation will be very enabling, carrying your Mind beyond the mundane world<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/pages\/animation\/singles\/lunarlandscape.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lunar Landscape<\/p>\n<p>51.8 MB<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/animation\/thumbs\/lunarlandscape.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/24822\/techniques-transformation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Previous Blog<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/animation\/thumbs\/spiral.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Sibelius &#8211; Finlandia The Gaian Dragon Clouds 10 The Power Trip People who do not have power over their own selfish desires, feel the lack within themselves, which they try to satisfy by obtaining power over other people. It never works. Instead of becoming happy, their thirst for power and control consumes them, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}