An Ounce Of Prevention

The UNHCR has sent me yet another heart-rending appeal for support for refugees from many war-torn countries experiencing dislocation.  My level-headed response: 

‘Dear Anne-Marie [Grey; Executive Director & CEO],

‘Alas, the UN’s cynical use of this terrible situation to slip military-age males from terrorist-infested countries into this county, to cause havoc here, precludes me from financially supporting your cause.  Accordingly, please take me off your mailng list.  Thank you.’

                                                                                                        (signed)

A guy named Sutherland has a lot to answer for in this regard, with the UN, under his Refugee ‘command,’ slipping such people into this country in the dead of night, and parceling them throughout the country, via various agencies working hand in fist with him.  He has all the earmarks of being one of ‘them’: our erstwhile masters, attempting to corral us into their NWO gulag.  We will get to these serious matters, alright.  Just as soon as we see these sinister characters off, can we get down to the further business, of cleaning this planet up, from our terrible job of stewardship.  But first things first.

And then there is the flood of such appeals for financial support, as for example from yet another in my daily mail; this one from the Edmundite Missions, doing their good work in the poorest of the poor areas in the country, in the Deep rural South.  (Who “serve more than 1,000 meals every day at [their Bosco Nutrition Center]…and feed more than 300 homebound people daily who would go hungry without our Meals of Hope [“to the elderly, the infirm, and the homebound”]…”  The Mission, under Chad McEchern, Missions Director, now setting up a program to give Breakfast Bags to schoolchildren for them to take home with them for over the weekends, when they often have nothing to eat.  And the same sort of thing being true under the ‘Americans Helping Americans in Appalachia’ program under the auspices of an outfit called Christian Relief Services.      

This, on top of such other worthy causes that I have sent some meager financial but moral support to: Long Beach Rescue Mission (closest to home) and Los Angeles Mission and Union Rescue Mission and Union Station and St. Vincent Meals on Wheels and the Salvation Army and Project Angel Food and United Way, and further afield: Red Cloud Indian School and St. Labre Indian School and St. Joseph’s Indian School and Sky People Higher Education, and Soaring Eagle and Native American Heritage Association, and…and……and………

I am saying that people are hurting everywhere.  

That it is a systemic situation.

And can be treated best at that level.

I well remember the story that the Prevention Magazine people recounted many years ago as explanation for their position.  The story goes that one day a man was walking alongside a river when he heard a cry for help emanating from it, and, looking over, saw a child caught in the tide being dragged downriver, struggling to stay afloat.   He quickly took off his shoes and dove in and swam out to the child and, holding its head above the water, swam with it slowly back to shore.  Where, while catching his breath, he heard another such cry for help emanating from the river again, and saw another child in the same predicament as the first one.  Still a little tired out from his first such trip, he nevertheless dove back in, and swam out to that child, and carefully brought it back to the side of the river, collapsing in exhaustion.  Whereupon he heard another such cry for help coming from the middle of the river.  At that point he hailed another passerby, and said to the person, ‘You dive in and save that child.  While I go upriver and get the s.o.b. who’s throwing these kids in.’

It is our system of social living that is ‘throwing these kids in’.  We live on a planet with an abundance of food, ready to eat and growable, to be able to cater for every incarnate soul here.  Furthermore, our ‘modern’ medical system is contributing to the problem, by being based on the principle that the sicker the people are, the healthier the economy is.  That is to say: by being based on the principle of profit.  The idea that people won’t provide each other with goods and services if it weren’t for being able to make a profit from the transactions.  The ‘economy’ being based on the idea - and that is all that it is; it’s a creation of our minds - of interest-bearing money.  Of money as debt.  Which leads to slavery.

I won’t go into all that here.  This is just to highlight the idea, that we really need to take another look at how we are ‘living’ on this planet.  At the level of consciousness by which we are living.

Am I talking about communism?

Not unless one thinks of spiritual awareness - awareness of our basic essence, as the ‘offspring’ of a wise and loving Creator - as communism.  Which it most certainly is not.  Communism is predicated on the idea that people should be forced to be ‘good’.  (With a superior ‘class’ running the operation.)  I am not talking about a system based on Force.

I am talking about a system based on Love.  And the understanding that we are involved in a reality far larger than the current one, that we are learning our lessons in.  Our classroom, if you will.

A classroom, for aspiring gods.

And that makes all the difference.

Come.  Acknowledge your essence.  Your true essence.

And grow Up.


There are two Ways.  The Way of Force.  Of Power Over.  Or the Way of Love.  Of Power With.

Choose your Way.

Or it will be chosen for you.

Because some of us are getting royally tired of dealing with your indecision.