According to the Old Religion

The evolution of men reached a point after the creation of God by their subconscious minds, that drove the species apart from a whole. Those that found comfort in the crutch of an ultimate being to represent them, they formed the majority of man kind. For those that discovered the power of creation residing within them, they colonized the landmass that came to be called Atlantis. Whether that landmass was a continent or just a large island, that is unknown.

With the creation of the division of man, the people of Atlantis reached a society of heightened technology as it was at that time in the world... not by the technology standards we know today, but of elemental harmony with the 5 elements. Their very mastery of the 5 is what set them apart from normal humanity, as they were able to control the elements in order to maximize their standards of living. This meant that nothing weather related was ever a mystery (as tends to still be the case today) and that everything went according to their plans.

Eventually, those that studied the manipulation of nature would become a new race unto themselves, but not for many hundreds of years. Along with them, another group of humans would follow a similar path, and become the masters of fate. Thus on the island nation, three new races emerged. In time, it was because of the power struggle that the world gained so many of its ancient mythologies. But it was also because of the resulting wars that we lost a great civilization, only to gain races that became known as demons.

But that is another story...

Help or Hindrance? Part 2

Much like the animals on the planet and the human interaction that threatens to remove them in almost selfish manners, people question whether or not they should really be abusing the planet as much as they do. Well, who decides this level of abuse and the actions that cause it? Who tells another what they can and cannot do, so long as they try to maintain the balance?

Of course, humanity still has much to learn about balance. Sure it is easy to claim that cutting the rainforest down will benefit people by producing more farming land, but how do they compensate for the oxygen quantities that they will be depleting by such an effort? Starve or suffocate, which is more appealing? True, it would take far too long for world wide levels to be overwhelming depleted, but the carbon dioxide that remains in the atmosphere will only help to accelerate the rate at which the planet warms. Isn't that the problem everyone concerns themselves about, and for what reason?

As masters of their environment, humans already have the knowledge they need to transform this world into the place they want it to be, they just don't want to even try for it. It's better to complain. It's better for the planet to provide a solution and to just sit back and suffer if the weather isn't doing what they want it to. Humanity loves its destruction and disasters. They crave it constantly, and if they can't have it, they create it through wars and other degrees of foolishness.

It's quite sickening to watch.

Who decides, and who gets the choice? Isn't it everyone? Aren't we all inhabitants together?

The balance is something that can be maintained. The future is not out of our control if we simply take the effort to make things reality. But would we? And are our actions really a help... or just another hindrance?

That's the question. So what do you follow?

Help or Hindrance? Part 1

People always wonder what their role is on the planet, and whether their efforts are more harmful than helpful... but what does that matter? It's true that people can't just eliminate important environmental factors at will, but this is because they can't provide the proper balance and the system fails. Is it wrong to do randomly kill animals and drive certain species to extinction? Well, sure it is sad, but who has the right to decide?

Whether it is driving a certain predatory species into extinction for the gain of nothing more than the satisfaction of the kill, acquiring a few trinkets of little value from a certain animal, or taking a part of the living animal and leaving the rest to die a horrible death, that is human choice, but it is too wasteful to respect. If people want to topple the scales of nature, then that is their choice as one of the inhabitants of this planet, but they better provide the counter balance to make things right.

Let's stop for a moment and look at the ancient world.

In the ancient society people fought to live and largely eliminated the threats to their existence by eliminating large predators around them. However, they became the top predator and kept the former prey in check. It was the simple at of removing the competitor for personal gain. When this system that was provided by nature no longer worked, they domesticated the prey animal and made their farmer and the prey became livestock that kept them alive. It is a system in place to this day.

This approach wasn't a bad one. It was wrong for one predator to replace another. That and the prey animal has survived to this day. It was a good thing for both parties, despite that they became our food. This was right because humanity replaced the weight and maintained the balance.

Fast forward to today.

There are many predators out there in the world and because of a gentle heart they are coming back in increasing numbers. However, these creatures do not have the prey counts they used to, so they are starting to glance our way. Is this really what we want? If it were the ancients and our ancestors, they would have a solution: Kill and replace. It isn't a wrong approach, but can people stomach the decision?

Imagine a world where all major predators and their spots at the top of the food chain are taken over by us. A sparse few are left alive in captivity for our enjoyment or confined to special wildlife parks where they can continue to live without our interference. People would feel safe to go into woods, into the ocean, and into vast plains knowing the only threat would be something that would otherwise be our dinner.

Flash forward into the future some more...

The prey animals that were disruptive to other animals and fish that we eat are at insane numbers because we couldn't count on their predators keeping them in check and we didn't do our jobs of maintaining the balance. In this respect we are wrong, but to correct it we could be right. So what do we want to do?

Isn't that up to us to decide?

Wise about the Water

According to this cnn article on oceanic current turbines, people are wising up about the perpetual forces and how to use them. Much like a river, the Gulf Stream flows on a continuous basis and never powers down, which is a great constant power source for those wishing to utilize the energy. A great Blue&Yellow (water and chaos (electrical energy) combination) solution to growing energy needs, it would far outweigh the White&Yellow generation that wind turbines provide. This means constant power around the clock... if the can figure out how to harness it correctly.

Now if only people would learn that 'waste' heat, water, air flow, etc... isn't really waste if they used it correctly. But it might be too early for this society to adapt to the interconnected world workings that work so well. For now at least, this is one step closer to the right direction.

For those concerned about environmental effects and other concerns, everything changes. It's just a matter of when and how.

The Colors of the World

Just as a thermal imaging of the planet will reveal the various areas with many different colors that indicate the presence or absence of heat, an elemental overview in terms of usage would reveal the same. Going one step back, if the world simply showed the elements of the world, it would reveal a fairly balanced system with all the main colors of red, brown, blue, and white, with equal greater quantities of green (the transitional earth element), black (animal life, including people), and wide distributions of yellow throughout the white and some below the brown. However, when a usage map would fall in place, there would be almost no brown, green and black; some white and blue; mostly red and an additional amount of yellow.

Of course, red would dominate most of the planet, yellow would be focused where people use electricity, and the others would be in various areas. As mentioned before, this is bad, and needs to change. Just how it could change is a topic for another time.

Color Code

Although the symbol of the 5 Follow blog is still under artistic construction, the concept involves pre-established colors for the five, although they can vary based on what is being described. This color coding will be useful for later discussions of uses and application at a much later time. The following is a basic code designate:

Chaos: Black when general, Yellow when dealing with energy.

Earth: Brown when general, Green when dealing with transitional earth elements like plants*.

Water: Blue

Air: White though it should be transparent, that doesn't translate as a color well.

Fire: Red

*Though plants are life, they contain very little chaotic energy and behave more like living crystal, which is an earth element.

Part of the Chaos

For as long as it's been a word, chaos has always been portrayed as the bad guy. Of course, that's simply because people got used to repetitive chaos, also known as "order". It's difficult to favor anything that is alien from what you know and love, and the principle of chaos is just that.

But for the co-creator of everything and that which moves us, that is a devastating blow. Unfortunately for everyone who loves to go against it, chaos is the life element, thus anything living can be said to exist in chaos. Hence the free will aspect of men and the other organisms on the planet.

Aside from life, our society takes the various energies that forms between the other elements and uses it to further our own needs without recognizing it for anything but our own success story. However, the truth is that this world functions on the energies of chaos, and we ourselves are just a part of that energy system. The sooner we come to accept it and ourselves for what things truly are, the better off everyone will be.

The Earth on which we Live

Earth, the element that shares the name of the planet that contains the other element. Originally derived from the word that meant "ground", Erda. So in a more accurate view point the earth element is the Terra element, or effectively everything that doesn't belong to the water, fire, air, or chaos class. It would be complicated to refer to the dirt on Mars as 'earth', but that's how it is at present.

The earth beneath us is vitally important and always has been as it contains the inner heat/fire of the planet, supports the water, holds the air through gravity, and allows for the workings of chaos across its entirety. The soil also is one of the supports of terrestrial life, as it gives us a home on which to live on. A rock floating in space is also a form of earth element, but it is certainly nothing that would support us, as it is only the single class element.

In the ancient times and today the earth holds everything we need to live and thrive, and it is only up to us to best use it through our understanding. Since it is the best balance we have, shouldn't everything start from this ground and work its way up? There's still a lot we have to learn.

The Way of the Wind

Because of the warming and cooling of the planet, wind is always a constant factor of this world and one that should be invested in more heavily. In the past, this use was necessary for travel with ships and for drying clothes and such things, but what is it today? Wind isn't utilized much more than laundry and some electricity on the side.

Surprisingly enough, this valuable aspect of the world is more an enemy than a commodity. After all, everyone tries to overcome wind resistance and the bad effects of the wind when there are more lasting solutions. Buildings can be built in ways to use wind and overcome some costs formerly associated with electricity, wind mills and turbines can be used for the right situations (not all things are run purely off electric energies, there's still mechanical), destructive tornadoes and hurricanes really don't need to happen when they can be defeated early on, and so on. Considering that as a world-over resource, wind is barely tapped in its entirety. Something for the generations of now and the future to consider a little more.

World of Water

This world is blessed with water, but all people care to do is complain about it. Droughts. floods. food sources from the water, the resources under it, whose drinking water is whose... isn't there a point at which it stops? This world is one with water, with only a small amount of creatures consuming it, there should be enough for many generations without worry.

Water management is what people think is needed when it's simply water re-distribution. Something that was much harder in the past with limited understanding is now nothing with the technology available. Not just technology now, but with technology that is hundreds of years old, just that the problems are only noticeable now. Well, there is plenty of water to go around. Isn't everybody saying that there is too much water in the world's oceans currently anyways? So why not take the water from the oceans and redistribute it around the world using natural energy to do it. This is why the elements are there, simply because they work well with each other and sometimes even solves themselves.

People without even a basic understanding of this process of element interaction are amusing. For this reason and many others, following the 5 is well worth the effort.

Fire Society

There's nothing wrong with fire. As a co-creator of everything and a necessary creature in the food chain (yes, it can be argued that it's a form of life) fire is vitally important for everything. But in terms of society, dating back from when man first 'tamed' it, fire has never left us.

As a society people love to say that we are beyond fire and have progressed from the simple days. After all, we have cars, powerful ships, planes, and a world of electricity... unfortunately, those people who think like this have to remember, that those things rely on fire to run. It is a world based on oil, and fire is what eats it, so that's what gets to help us. Too bad its waste is quickly turning the world into something that is bad for us.

Perhaps now it's a time to remember that there are other elements besides just fire. After all, there can't be a balance by simply focusing on one of the 5.

Atlantean Theory

There are many stories and theories surrounding who the Atlanteans were, but there is no disagreement when it comes to their being a force to be reckoned with. Whether being people of a lost continent, members of a scholarly circle, a religious following, or just a sub-culture of another country altogether, they were known for their vast abilities in understanding and awareness of the natural world. As some of the few to recognize chaos for what it was, they dutifully tried to understand all the elements to their fullest, either achieving very interactive systems or physical beings reflective of those elements. Either one, the other, or both together, would make them a truly superior force to respect and fear.

But that power would also ultimately lead to their undoing, as the ability to control the human aspect of it forced their hand in an unfortunate direction. But before all that, they were able to maximize their efficiency of living by structuring their lives along with the elements, and not against them. Just as nature tries to structure itself accordingly, so too did the Atlanteans.

Long before the fall, the Atlanteans decided that man's ingenuity was something that was best used when it could forward change, rather than placing false hopes into waiting for change or desiring an outcome that would satisfy a lazy existence. If it was a problem in the environment, they'd fix it with their intelligence. If it was a problem with the weather, then they would make the weather work for them. It wasn't exactly clear whether a god existed for them and their culture, but they became their own god, and that was partially a reason they became the existence they were.

It would only be truly beneficial for everyone living in the world today if they were only half as capable with their intelligence as this fallen society was those many thousands of years ago. How sad for that...

The Open Story

After the beginning... there's everything else, right?

Following the formation of everything, the stage is moved to our world, Earth, where the 5 elements are abundant and interact on a daily basis. In the ancient civilizations there was much debate over the use and practicality surrounding each element and the different mindsets split the opinions of the people. With the split in opinions and the devotion towards different aspects of everything, the elements themselves were split into different personifications of gods within early religions and explanations pertaining to existence. Everything beyond this point leads to the innumerable quantity of beliefs in being today.

As to not offend any religions from this point on (as 5 Follow is made to be appreciated by people of any religious order) non-historical 'facts' will be presented with the Label "Open Story". Where the Open Story connects bits of truth and fiction and presents them as interesting bits of information that could be either believed or rejected entirely. Basically, Open Story = fiction, but with all fiction there is no certainty when it comes to the amount of truth it contains.

At the Beginning

It is said often from repeated sources that everything begins with nothing and the universe and what is known today is no exception. In fact, the nothingness state that was present at the beginning of time and space within this plane of existence still exists, it just has been displaced by the spherical formation of this particular universe and its entirety, which as infinite as it seems is limited by its boundaries yet to be discovered. Beyond those boundaries is the timeless, colorless nothingness that for lack of a better word is the void between realities, or the separator of the multiverse expanse.

Without getting into too many details, the nothingness is formless and boundless, but serves as the edge of a perpetual constant commonly known as zero, or as in special sense, the null barrier. This null barrier is what separates numbers and their opposites, as well as quantitative fragments of reality. Without going further than necessary into the explanations of the null barrier and its crossings, the mystery of everything begins with the division by zero, or in quantitative perspective, the act of forcing something positive into the world of negative. Where the correct answer to something divided by zero is some negative fractional infinite value.

That being said, in order to cross the barrier, it is necessary to match the barrier with a force and size proportion equal to the constant of size time. When the time sized quantity of energy matches as it does through forces beyond gravitational extremes, it is forced across the barrier and into the opposite plain of existence, in a phenomenon known as the Grand Reset. With this breach, the small rift pulls this building block of existence through the null barrier and causes a saturation of null energy and acceleration as positive is pulled negative. This acceleration event has up until this time been referred to as the “Big Bang” and the start of the universe, and in terms of elements, it is the beginning of chaos.

As this chaos swept through the void of nothingness and created something, it established time and started building larger particles on a continuous basis as the everything continued to spread out, with more null energy coming through the breach until everything on the positive side came through to the negative side (or negative to positive) relatively in a time span that would be rather instantaneous. Eventually the spread of energy and the saturation lessened as the expansion covered more area, and the particles of existence became larger.

The next element to be formed after chaos was air, which consisted of hydrogen quantities accumulating in the section of dark matter that is known as space. Whether the process of the gravitational compression set it off or a direct impact of the null energy ignited it, nuclear fusion in the hydrogen spheres began the formation of stars, and the birth of fire in the young universe. With the fusion-furnaces in place, the elements of the periodic table began to form, eventually creating a great range of atoms from the hydrogen gas start to the heavy metals and radioactive world (earth, ground, etc) elements. Only after the death of the early stars did the heavier substances seed the greater expanse of space. At what time and through what process after that or during the event, water came into being.

From chaos, to air, to fire, to earth, to water, and then with the formation of planets and the collection of all the later four elements, chaos energy re-emerged as life. Thus it could be said that the god at the beginning and the ever present god is no more than the null barrier and its energies that gave substance to everything, only to take it away again at the point before the next reset. For now however, to best understand and work with the five elements is the key of following.

What is 5 Follow?

5 Follow is an awareness movement that tracks the progress of humanity and its growing relationship with the five elements, based on the Atlantean system. Like the classical and alchemic listings, four remain unchanged. These four are (in no particular order) as follows:

Fire
Earth
Water
Air

The fifth from previous records would be Ether, Space, Void, or so on, which represents the aspects of the universe that doesn't line up with the main four elements, like energy, nothingness, and life. However, Atlantean scientists recognized the initial condition as a continual one, and not just a starting point like many cultures and religious orders. They recognized the Chaos from which everything started as the fifth of the five elements, or even as the first element.

Thus the five elements are Chaos, Air, Water, Earth, Fire.

To follow the 5 is merely to be aware of humanity's use and interaction with them and how to best utilize nature in standard practice of living. Quality, harmony, and balance only comes when all 5 are followed equally.