ST136 ... San Patricio Festivities Re: St Patricks Day
sounds like bombs exploding to celebrate life
Here in San Patricio Jalisco Mexico they celebrate St Patrick's day for ten days before the 17th of March, his day. Mexicans love fiestas. Sometimes this includes fire cracker explosions with twinkly lights glazing the skies. Kachi (my dog) is traumatized from these bombs going off at all hours without notice. Sometimes as early as 5 am and into the am in the evenings. Feels like being you’re in a war zone, can’t imagine what it does to war-traumatized-veterans… not any here, well, a different kind. There is a history of the relationship of the town of San Patricio to St Patrick. Google has all the details and if not some cousin ai tool will give you the accepted versions of his saintly deeds.
What kind of mentality turns the sounds of bombs going off to a celebration of life. A slight-hidden madness of sorts, justified as traditions, bla bla bullshit. A form of stupidity justified for some male youth and morons of the world to disturb the peace and integrity of the human heart. My opinion; and observations of the horrors of this sound crashing disturbance to a many sensitive ear, especially the elderly, infants and animals, as my dog expresses to me with her fear and trauma. Under the bed day and night lately. Many stories of traumatized animals, birds, disappeared forever…. sad tales. Predominately a boys-toy volume-controlled war-like activity camouflaged and accepted into tradition.
There are so many wonderful aspects of living here in Latin America, Mexico, but this is not one of them. I have heard that these explosions are to ward off evil spirits but i suspect it has produced more evil than it has warded off; in the disgust, mental turmoil tending towards hate, disturbances of all kinds….. and the poor animals, horrified, all for some human fantasies that obviously ignores realities surrounding. Many love the excitement of flashing light glistening across the skies with high bangs blasting the air into our ears. I am not one of them, though the light show can be fantastic. My enjoyments in life are quiet mostly, though, there are the waves smashing, slapping unto the shore and thunder roaring across the skies… somehow that sounds alive, fresh, natural to the soul.
We love noice and an over abundance of light, a subject dangerous and touchy with many. A flood of conditioned sensitive light alarms, sound alarms, useless harley flapping and other noises that technologically could be quieter… normalized disruptions against the back drop of a natural state once revered.
I heard these explosions have been banned in Spain, harley cycles banned in a couple of countries in Europe. I have not done my research…. don't care to, i get the picture and where sanity is leading. There is a movement in the UK called ‘No Piped-In Music’, to eliminate the constant annoying piped in music everywhere, banks, boxed in stores, airports, cars, clubs, everywhere you go, this is what the many demand, apparently… with a combination of unwanted marketing. Indoctrinated, numbed, normalized, hypnotized, we are heading towards a post-human total-techno-monocratic-world and this is a part of the grooming-package. Call it what you want, are you helping to build it, tear it down or walking away from its dark chains to nurture the peaceful plains where the human heart lays.
Noice and light pollution…. Is it possibly a deeper problem, a threat to have to face ones own thoughts about, yes, who else, yourself, who ever that is. That is another topic, on-going, a forever quest to understand what we are, where we are heading, what we can know, what is knowing…. a whole life time and more, with no absolute answers - and yes that is one, a paradox…. and it too will fade down the tubes to infinity, eternity, the NYTimes.
Happy St Patricks Day.. he desecrated many of the Druid and Celtic sacred sites when he ventured into Ireland, all so many centuries ago, canonized by the vatican for doing so, he demonized the sacredness of the symbol of the snake…. another story, another time…… patrick thomas, named after an irishman, after saint patrick, san patricio. A strange world and here i live. Happy St Patrick’s Day…. patrickwey.com
A blog written Dec 30 2014 in reference to the sacredness of the Snake to the Huichol of Mexico
snake luck....excerpts from journals
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St Patrick is not revered from freeing them from snakes but from the dark forces controlling them. Ireland is an island that always had few snakes on its land. The snake is a symbol for a low belly person who crawls and cannot reach up to the true light. So were these pagans, and Druids of the Celt tribes who embraced this symbol. The Irish people were being persecuted by these people of dark forces who worshiped the snake in their rituals to conjure up demonic spirits through sorcery to fight against their enemies or to manipulate the weak Irish folk and taking them as slaves. They made human sacrifices, especially children to their various false gods of Baal and Molloch, along with cannibalism. The Celts/Druids were a warring people. Just read up on their documented wars. They did not want the growing Christian belief in one true God. So they persecuted these Christian people or anyone who might become one. The Irish people wanted to be freed from this tyranny so St Patrick gave them freedom through the power of God Almighty, not through war. This is why he has continued to be revered by Irish Christians for centuries, since the 5th century time of St Patrick because he only used the fire of the Holy Spirit. What would Ireland be like today if the Druids would have continued? It would be a country of people worshipping the dark forces. Thank goodness Pagan practice today is not the dominant way of life in Ireland. Many of their sites are still there today to remind us of who they were and how St Patrick brought spiritual freedom to the Irish by converting the very willing Druids and not by war. It was a country enslaved to Satan and then freed. Something to think about.
County Cork eh? Happy St.Patricks Day~ Nice misty photo with cemetery below?!