Until we move up in consciousness on this planet and eliminate money, for our next steps, into a planetary society (to begin to prepare us for engaging with our material dimension in a further way than ever heretofore), we need to deal with our terrestrial situation as it is. I feel drawn here and now to look at some aspects of that challenge.
Item. Occasioned by the recent (and still current) banking crisis, the new UK government is looking at a major slashing of public spending, to bring the national debt under control. That review has surfaced a number of atrocious spending facts, including in the widely circulated story of one fecund teenager who has been spreading his seed around liberally to all nubile comers, of whom there have been quite a few. Most of whom have no income, except for the largesse of the welfare system (and hence their willingness, and even, it would appear, eagerness); both in direct child support (and housing benefits; and...and), and indirectly with a pittance deducted from our NEET's own welfare support.* For yes, our young Lothario has no job either. And many such young women come from generations of females who have had neither jobs nor partner support.
How has the matter - the matter, stripped to its bare bones, of a welfare underclass - come to this? Out of a misguided sense of sympathy. Can't let the child bear the burden of mistakes of its parents.
Sorry; not good enough of an excuse in the creation of generations of people trapped in poverty.
The word 'entitlement' would appear to bear a lot of the responsibility here. The UK welfare system has led some - too many - of its citizens to believe they are 'entitled' to child support, housing benefits, etc etc. Excuse me? Fact of life: No one is, or should be, 'entitled' as a matter of right to the earnings of any other person. Taxes are for social basics: roads, education, and in this exampled country, health care. But it is immoral to force taxpayers to pay for other people's children - in many cases, for their lifetimes - especially when often they can't even afford to have their own children.
People can give support to other people out of a sense of charity. But this business of 'entitlements' should stop. It has spawned generations of feckless citizens.
The state can legitimately provide monies for contraception advice and even, in particularly straitened circumstances, materials. But should spend not one cent for tribute. If someone wants to have a child, they need to be able to provide for it (or with the help of their own family). Full stop.**
Item. There is a move afoot in the US to call for what is called, in the Constitution, a constitutional convention, for the announced purpose of passing an amendment forcing the federal government to live within a balanced budget. This brings up a couple of issues in particular.
(1) Some citizens fear that this can be an excuse to break open the Constitution for further amending - as happened in the creation of the present Constitution itself, after some years of the fledgling country living under something called Articles of Confederation, and some of the political leaders of the time feeling the need for a better working arrangement. Their response to this, to-them dangerous initiative: The US citizens already have all the amending process they need: the ballot box. Stop electing irresponsible spenders of the people's money.
(Not a bad point. But it overlooks the power of the corporate world in today's America. Money talks big time; and to the folks on both sides of the political aisle. There is a Grand Turning needed here; not just a little tinkering around the edges.)
(2) The US citizenry need to face a particular fact of political life in the country, regarding the Constitution. And that is that there are many people - and of much political substance - who have already left the Constittuion behind, in their minds, and so are not bovvered with its terms anyway. So, playing with the amending process misses the essential point: that the liberal intelligentsia in particular already ignore the Constitution.*** Already amend the Constitution constantly. They call it recognizing it as 'a living document'. Subject to interpretation by the Wise Beings sitting on the Supreme Court, and bringing socio-economic-political policies up to date by virtue of applying to the law their own personal socio-economic-political proclivities. So a formal amending process would be superfluous. To them. And they have the momentum, now; with a man sitting in the presidential seat**** who has already appointed two new members of that august body who believe in this 'living document' persiflage.
Hear ye, hear ye: The Constitution of the US - like any constitution - is a contract (in this case, between the States and the federal government). It cannot be amended from its original intent except by virtue of its formal amending process. Otherwise there is no rule of law. There is only rule of men. Oligarchs.
Despots.
The people have been led to believe that there are two legitimate judicial perspectives in this matter: those who believe in 'original intent' - aka 'originalists' - and those who believe in whatever sophistry the relativists try to slip by the public. (N.B. They seem also to be known as 'legal positivists'. Whatever that phrase means, precisely.) This is all also encompassed by the debate-point terms 'strict construction' vs.'broad construction'.
It's time for this farce to be brought to an end.
Either the Constitution is a contract or it is not. Either its terms mean what was meant by and to those who entered into the process of making inclusions into the contract - and then getting the necessary quota of States to agree to those contractual terms - or they do not. If they do not, then the law has become an arbitrary and capricious weapon, to be employed by those in power to achieve their ends, irrespective of the means employed.
By, in a word: despots.
They can appear all emollient. But appearances can be deceiving. Don't trust them. Bind them down from mischief with the chains of the Constitution - as one of the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, specifically warned all subsequent generations of Americans about.
That includes us.
In spades.
You have been warned.
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* Not In Eduction, Employment or Training
** It is a measure of the mental attitude in the country that no one, not even the Toriest of the Tories, has called for a major, root-and-branch reform of the welfare system. They fear the wrath of 'the people'. (And taunts like 'Thatcher Thatcher milk snatcher'.) I've got news for them. 'The people' will follow an intelligent lead in this matter. Because 'the people' can see the system as is is not working. If the state will crack down on the 'spivs and gamblers' in The City who caused the economic meltdown, and thereby shows its commitment to fairness, 'the people' will trust them to do a proper cleanup. Otherwise, it's simply a matter of one end of the town against the other, and each looking out for its own interests. So the key to a change for the better is honesty, and sincerity, and fairness - across the board.
*** Not to overlook George W. Bush's purported expression of the Constitution as being "just a damn piece of paper". So 'the Right' is not exempt from this critique. People can be totalitarians from either the Right or the Left of the political aisle.
**** Notice I did not say 'the president'. The man in that position today has not proved his eligibility to have run for that particular office in the first place. But I have dealt with this matter elsewhere. (A shame it hasn't been dealt with. Yet.)
Sunday, 26 September 2010
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Neither Left Nor Right But Up
...subtitled: 'Nancy Pelosi: Are we serious? Are we serious? Er, Yes.'
The 17th of September was an anniversary of the signing of the US Constitution. It established a federal system of government with a central government of limited and delegated powers; "few and defined," in the Federalist Papers' words of 'the Father of the Constitution,' James Madison. Time has passed, and there have been attacks on that principle, by people wanting a stronger central government to rule the country from that center. But the 9th and 10th Amendments still hold, against such a potential encroachment, now made manifest, and in spades, at a key historical juncture, between 'capitalism' and 'socialism' - between those roughly aligned with the idea of 'natural rights' and a dispensation of such by a caring Creator God, and those roughly aligned with the idea of rights derived from the state, in order to establish government reflecting the values of a rejection of religion, and the substitutive enthronement of the philosophy of secular humanism (or just simply outright despotisms). And hence Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's comment, to someone querying the constitutional rationale for a central-government healthcare system mandating health insurance: "Are you serious? Are you serious?" A typical atheistic socialist's attitude, and retort. Occasioning this response from me, on the Comments thread of an article, honoring Constitution Day, on a constitutionalist (and very capitalist) web site, that of the Heritage Foundation:
"[17/9]
John Rossi @11:12am says:
"Let us stand as a nation and retake our country and end this tyranny that Oblama has begun and reverse the course of history."
I don't see it as a need for a reversal, John. I see it as a pushing through to a new level of civilization on fair Earth. Consider:
The socio-economic order has gone global. That is putting pressure on nation states to follow suit (see, in its regional way, the EU). But that level of power and control creates tensions between democratic and authoritarian elements - the difference between top-down and bottom-up government. The top-down types made a move in America, under the latter Bush administration in particular (as part of the process I am positing), to take control of and weaken civil rights (the Patriot Acts, etc.). Obama came along and promised 'change' - but appears to be bent on delivering 'change' from the left with the same commitment to authoritarianism as had been raised on the right. I'll see you, and raise you. So far, so thesis-antithesis.
Enter the Opportunity of a Turning Point, that will resolve the contradictions of both sides of the civilizatory equation, and add the ingredient that can lift the process out of the level of its problem and take it up a notch: the spiritual fact of life. That is, that life is more than merely material. Given that factor - the God factor, as it were - we can see our way out of our current dilemma.
Neither side of the current equation has the answer en toto. The answer is to eliminate money as it has become - ie, an end in itself; via the seductive effects of interest-bearing money and fractional-reserve banking - and replace the profit motive with a higher motive: the motive of giving our best to one another, in the providing of goods and services and ingenuity, out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.
It is the answer that evaded the monkey with his fist in the jar of goodies. It is time we moved out of our monkey stage as a species, and inherited our higher identity, as spiritual beings having a human experience. And if we will, all else will be added unto us.
Until then, indeed we should honor the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, and keep a solid system of checks and balances between the three branches of government: that America does not fall under the sway of tyrants, of any stripe. And remains steadfast in its spiritual potential, until the new, higher stage of government on the planet can come into being.
So not in reverse, John. But full speed ahead. So that we can get through the rough patch leading up to the promised land; on another level of consciousness than we inhabit, in large part, today."*
So: a Turning Point time. THE Turning Point?
We will see.
But 'it' has all the earmarks of being so. And I think here not only of the general subject of '2012', and the dangers of nuclear holocaust occasioned by present-day unresolved geopolitical factors. But of the likes of the damage wrought by the Gulf Oil spill on the Gulf Stream Current. If there is even one left, to be so named.
Clearly: a major time in the history of human life on Earth.
Ah, to be alive then. To say: now.
In Our Time.
To use our free will for good. Or ill.
It is up to us.
Choose, friend.
And choose wisely.
Much depends on it.
Including your personal journey, as a spark of the One.
P.S. As for the philosophy of secular humanism: I really don't get how professors of that philosophy think that it can prevail, anymore than the communist experiment in Cuba prevailed (its demise as recently announced) - an experiment in living a merely materialistic existence, sufficient unto itself for its meaning and purpose. Think: If there is no 'God' - and all that that implies; a meaning to life beyond its boundaries** - then nothing really matters anyway, and one might as well live simply for oneself, independent of the effect of that pursuit on others, as not; for the end of the closed system of life can, then, as easily be seen as that as anything else, a presumed 'social gene' gracing one with a concern for the welfare of others, or whatever.
Now I know that, eg, Prof Richard Dawkins claims that in the natural world, a sense of social consciousness - or a perceived 'altruism' - helps in the natural selection process; that nature selects for those individuals who give to and receive from a social construct, out of the protection that it brings. But there is something far larger going on in life than this simple mammalian template can account for. And I encourage secular humanists - who presume to have a scientific mind, and to be guided by that consciousness - to look at the whole picture of evidence, and not just select those parts of such that agree with their current philosophy. A philosophy that might well owe much to mere reaction against the bearer's upbringing in what they come to perceive as an unenlightened familial situation. This is a warning, to say, not to throw the baby out with the bath water.
We are conditioned. We are also capable of releasing our conditioning, and seeing the larger picture. For we are, in essence, 'spiritual beings having a human experience'. Not merely a species of great ape. We are, then, coded for a far greater outcome than simply ashes to ashes, and dust to dust. And it is this coding that gives rise to moral impulses. Otherwise we would, indeed, return to our animal natures, if given half a chance. To that part of our nature. Which extends far beyond just it. And, as part of that deal: in having been given free will - set free to do as we will - we are far more dangerous to ourselves and our environment than animals operating solely from their coding for instinct. We are, in short, capable of what can be called 'evil'.
But, being phototropic beings, we will turn to the light in the end.
All, of us.
Just some sooner than others.
Which brings up the subject of 2012. But of that, another time...
---
* Actually, for some reason my comment never appeared on that thread. It may have been due to faulty technology - on my part or theirs - or the decision of the moderator. Such is life. At least them's my thoughts.
(N.B. I tried again later, very carefully and dutifully this time. Same result. I can only conclude that the Heritage Foundation does not want to support looking outside of their given paradigm. Fair enough, in a sense. They are, after all, constituted to honor the American heritage. I would only wish that they would consider to look at that deeper heritage. The primacy of the individual, yes. But in its spiritual context, in a social construct. Landing the fullness of the Golden Rule.)
** And I'm not talking about a 'fear of God's wrath'. I'm talking about the clear gift of a Plan to and Purpose in life, as reflected in such indicators thereby as the evidence of a reincarnational path leading upwards in consciousness, whereby indeed our efforts are 'rewarded' - but not in a crude sense, ie, by a God passing out merit or demerit badges. We are our own judges.
The 17th of September was an anniversary of the signing of the US Constitution. It established a federal system of government with a central government of limited and delegated powers; "few and defined," in the Federalist Papers' words of 'the Father of the Constitution,' James Madison. Time has passed, and there have been attacks on that principle, by people wanting a stronger central government to rule the country from that center. But the 9th and 10th Amendments still hold, against such a potential encroachment, now made manifest, and in spades, at a key historical juncture, between 'capitalism' and 'socialism' - between those roughly aligned with the idea of 'natural rights' and a dispensation of such by a caring Creator God, and those roughly aligned with the idea of rights derived from the state, in order to establish government reflecting the values of a rejection of religion, and the substitutive enthronement of the philosophy of secular humanism (or just simply outright despotisms). And hence Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's comment, to someone querying the constitutional rationale for a central-government healthcare system mandating health insurance: "Are you serious? Are you serious?" A typical atheistic socialist's attitude, and retort. Occasioning this response from me, on the Comments thread of an article, honoring Constitution Day, on a constitutionalist (and very capitalist) web site, that of the Heritage Foundation:
"[17/9]
John Rossi @11:12am says:
"Let us stand as a nation and retake our country and end this tyranny that Oblama has begun and reverse the course of history."
I don't see it as a need for a reversal, John. I see it as a pushing through to a new level of civilization on fair Earth. Consider:
The socio-economic order has gone global. That is putting pressure on nation states to follow suit (see, in its regional way, the EU). But that level of power and control creates tensions between democratic and authoritarian elements - the difference between top-down and bottom-up government. The top-down types made a move in America, under the latter Bush administration in particular (as part of the process I am positing), to take control of and weaken civil rights (the Patriot Acts, etc.). Obama came along and promised 'change' - but appears to be bent on delivering 'change' from the left with the same commitment to authoritarianism as had been raised on the right. I'll see you, and raise you. So far, so thesis-antithesis.
Enter the Opportunity of a Turning Point, that will resolve the contradictions of both sides of the civilizatory equation, and add the ingredient that can lift the process out of the level of its problem and take it up a notch: the spiritual fact of life. That is, that life is more than merely material. Given that factor - the God factor, as it were - we can see our way out of our current dilemma.
Neither side of the current equation has the answer en toto. The answer is to eliminate money as it has become - ie, an end in itself; via the seductive effects of interest-bearing money and fractional-reserve banking - and replace the profit motive with a higher motive: the motive of giving our best to one another, in the providing of goods and services and ingenuity, out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.
It is the answer that evaded the monkey with his fist in the jar of goodies. It is time we moved out of our monkey stage as a species, and inherited our higher identity, as spiritual beings having a human experience. And if we will, all else will be added unto us.
Until then, indeed we should honor the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, and keep a solid system of checks and balances between the three branches of government: that America does not fall under the sway of tyrants, of any stripe. And remains steadfast in its spiritual potential, until the new, higher stage of government on the planet can come into being.
So not in reverse, John. But full speed ahead. So that we can get through the rough patch leading up to the promised land; on another level of consciousness than we inhabit, in large part, today."*
So: a Turning Point time. THE Turning Point?
We will see.
But 'it' has all the earmarks of being so. And I think here not only of the general subject of '2012', and the dangers of nuclear holocaust occasioned by present-day unresolved geopolitical factors. But of the likes of the damage wrought by the Gulf Oil spill on the Gulf Stream Current. If there is even one left, to be so named.
Clearly: a major time in the history of human life on Earth.
Ah, to be alive then. To say: now.
In Our Time.
To use our free will for good. Or ill.
It is up to us.
Choose, friend.
And choose wisely.
Much depends on it.
Including your personal journey, as a spark of the One.
P.S. As for the philosophy of secular humanism: I really don't get how professors of that philosophy think that it can prevail, anymore than the communist experiment in Cuba prevailed (its demise as recently announced) - an experiment in living a merely materialistic existence, sufficient unto itself for its meaning and purpose. Think: If there is no 'God' - and all that that implies; a meaning to life beyond its boundaries** - then nothing really matters anyway, and one might as well live simply for oneself, independent of the effect of that pursuit on others, as not; for the end of the closed system of life can, then, as easily be seen as that as anything else, a presumed 'social gene' gracing one with a concern for the welfare of others, or whatever.
Now I know that, eg, Prof Richard Dawkins claims that in the natural world, a sense of social consciousness - or a perceived 'altruism' - helps in the natural selection process; that nature selects for those individuals who give to and receive from a social construct, out of the protection that it brings. But there is something far larger going on in life than this simple mammalian template can account for. And I encourage secular humanists - who presume to have a scientific mind, and to be guided by that consciousness - to look at the whole picture of evidence, and not just select those parts of such that agree with their current philosophy. A philosophy that might well owe much to mere reaction against the bearer's upbringing in what they come to perceive as an unenlightened familial situation. This is a warning, to say, not to throw the baby out with the bath water.
We are conditioned. We are also capable of releasing our conditioning, and seeing the larger picture. For we are, in essence, 'spiritual beings having a human experience'. Not merely a species of great ape. We are, then, coded for a far greater outcome than simply ashes to ashes, and dust to dust. And it is this coding that gives rise to moral impulses. Otherwise we would, indeed, return to our animal natures, if given half a chance. To that part of our nature. Which extends far beyond just it. And, as part of that deal: in having been given free will - set free to do as we will - we are far more dangerous to ourselves and our environment than animals operating solely from their coding for instinct. We are, in short, capable of what can be called 'evil'.
But, being phototropic beings, we will turn to the light in the end.
All, of us.
Just some sooner than others.
Which brings up the subject of 2012. But of that, another time...
---
* Actually, for some reason my comment never appeared on that thread. It may have been due to faulty technology - on my part or theirs - or the decision of the moderator. Such is life. At least them's my thoughts.
(N.B. I tried again later, very carefully and dutifully this time. Same result. I can only conclude that the Heritage Foundation does not want to support looking outside of their given paradigm. Fair enough, in a sense. They are, after all, constituted to honor the American heritage. I would only wish that they would consider to look at that deeper heritage. The primacy of the individual, yes. But in its spiritual context, in a social construct. Landing the fullness of the Golden Rule.)
** And I'm not talking about a 'fear of God's wrath'. I'm talking about the clear gift of a Plan to and Purpose in life, as reflected in such indicators thereby as the evidence of a reincarnational path leading upwards in consciousness, whereby indeed our efforts are 'rewarded' - but not in a crude sense, ie, by a God passing out merit or demerit badges. We are our own judges.
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
And Closer We Get to Ascension
So a major review of the western banking system, and the relationships of the governments of the US and the UK in particular to it, has this week been completed. And the result is: a damp squib.
More of the same.
Business as usual.
And even better, for the corrupt in place. For they have now established that they can get away with the likes of creating a major crisis in the economic system, for personal gain, and they can blackmail governments to use 'their' money - ie, the taxpayers' money, to bail them out, and then give themselves bonuses with this largesse, and loan some of it back to its original owners, with interest. Or not loan it, as they see fit; in order to build up their reserves, so that they can engage in the sort of fancy 'financial products' shenanigans that got them in trouble in the first place. And left the taxpayers holding the bag.
Oh, but now they need to hold 'over three times what they used to!' in reserves, to cover possible contingencies? Right. From 2% to 7%.
And over a comfortable period of time at that...
I don't know about you, but I am reminded of Br'er Rabbit and the briar patch. And, of course, no wonder the stock market jumped at the news.
Of a slap on the wrist.
And a slap in the face of the public.
The long-suffering public.
Who don't have to suffer long much longer.
Because change is afoot.
Brought about by just such 'internal contradictions' as this response by the capitalist system to the Crisis it created.
Whereby the people are mad as hell, and are not going to take it any longer.
As well they should be; and nor should they have to.
Because there's something new under the sun.
Brought about by the civilizational process, and a level of technology that can now help humanity live at a higher level than it has heretofore.
And thereby now do away with the 'likes' of war.
As I wrote recently in a comment on a blog talking about the ineffectual (or worse: intentional) response of Barack Obama to the economic problem in the US - where his attempts to deal with the matter will just exacerbate it:
"Well spotted and commented on, Delores.+ But let's step back a little further, and look at the even larger picture here.
* The Right was getting too extreme, heading for unbridled corporatism, aka fascism. (Surveillance, loss of civil rights in general, etc.) On a global scale, now. (Hence, something new under the sun.)
* The Left saw its opportunity, and denounced that 'change' as bad. Which it was. And charismatic Obama pounded it home, offering a better 'change'.
* But in actuality, he was just offering the same change only from the Left. Aka totalitarianism.++
* Through this whole dialectical process, of thesis-antithesis, the missing piece is 'up' - ie, spirituality (in a word). The process itself is just on a materialistic level: Who's in control. But the outcome can be a synthesis, of the best features of each 'camp': the development of a community spirit from the left, caring for 'the commons', and the importance of the individual from the right, and his/her free will.
I see this whole process leading to a major Opportunity for breakthrough, on to a new level of civilization on the planet, where we do away with money - ie, the motivation of personal aggrandizement - and give to each other of our best, in goods and serves and ingenuity, out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.
Ah. But that would require us to realize fully, and accept fully, that we are, first and foremost, 'spiritual beings having a human experience'?
Well; yes. But that's where we're at.
The civilizational process has got us here.
It's time to recognize it. 'It': the fact that neither the 'left' nor the 'right' has the complete answer. The answer is to transcend the level of the dichotomy, moving to a higher level.
There, we can meet.
And only there.
To say: We've run out of wriggle room, as it were, in exploring the further limits of free will.
It's time to recognize the Truth of our situation.
And act accordingly.
And then: Watch us fly.
Together.
As One.
And give thanks in doing so.
And thus endeth the lesson.
The lesson, of separation.
Seeming, separation."
And in this context, I note, with respect, the quote that Daniel Pinchbeck puts at the beginning of his important book '2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl':+++
'Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophecy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.' 1 Corinthians 13:8
He dedicated his book: 'For my daughter.'
I dedicate this blog to all those who have ears to hear.
---
+ The person, one Delores Smith, had posted a comment - on a blog by one Bobby Eberle, titled 'Obama's Titanic About to Hit Iceberg' (GOPUSA Eagle 9 September) - pointing out how Obama's strategy fit precisely the model recommended by a couple of his Columbia University professors (known as the Cloward-Piven strategy) to overload the system so that it would collapse, and allow a socialist takeover. Thus their support for mass agitation by groups like ACORN for welfare handouts, and for policies like forcing the loaning of 'government' mortgage money to people who would not be able to keep up their payments. Anything to bring things to a head. Which has now happened. And in more ways than one...
++ Check the writings of his advisors. Very statist.
+++ "...the Mesoamerican deity...'Sovereign Plumed Serpent', depicted in sculptures and temple friezes as a fusion of bird and snake, representing the union of spirit and matter. Mexican archaeologist Enrique Florescano writes: 'Quetzalcoatl is the god who hands down civilization, reveals time, and discerns the movement of the stars and human destiny.'..."
More of the same.
Business as usual.
And even better, for the corrupt in place. For they have now established that they can get away with the likes of creating a major crisis in the economic system, for personal gain, and they can blackmail governments to use 'their' money - ie, the taxpayers' money, to bail them out, and then give themselves bonuses with this largesse, and loan some of it back to its original owners, with interest. Or not loan it, as they see fit; in order to build up their reserves, so that they can engage in the sort of fancy 'financial products' shenanigans that got them in trouble in the first place. And left the taxpayers holding the bag.
Oh, but now they need to hold 'over three times what they used to!' in reserves, to cover possible contingencies? Right. From 2% to 7%.
And over a comfortable period of time at that...
I don't know about you, but I am reminded of Br'er Rabbit and the briar patch. And, of course, no wonder the stock market jumped at the news.
Of a slap on the wrist.
And a slap in the face of the public.
The long-suffering public.
Who don't have to suffer long much longer.
Because change is afoot.
Brought about by just such 'internal contradictions' as this response by the capitalist system to the Crisis it created.
Whereby the people are mad as hell, and are not going to take it any longer.
As well they should be; and nor should they have to.
Because there's something new under the sun.
Brought about by the civilizational process, and a level of technology that can now help humanity live at a higher level than it has heretofore.
And thereby now do away with the 'likes' of war.
As I wrote recently in a comment on a blog talking about the ineffectual (or worse: intentional) response of Barack Obama to the economic problem in the US - where his attempts to deal with the matter will just exacerbate it:
"Well spotted and commented on, Delores.+ But let's step back a little further, and look at the even larger picture here.
* The Right was getting too extreme, heading for unbridled corporatism, aka fascism. (Surveillance, loss of civil rights in general, etc.) On a global scale, now. (Hence, something new under the sun.)
* The Left saw its opportunity, and denounced that 'change' as bad. Which it was. And charismatic Obama pounded it home, offering a better 'change'.
* But in actuality, he was just offering the same change only from the Left. Aka totalitarianism.++
* Through this whole dialectical process, of thesis-antithesis, the missing piece is 'up' - ie, spirituality (in a word). The process itself is just on a materialistic level: Who's in control. But the outcome can be a synthesis, of the best features of each 'camp': the development of a community spirit from the left, caring for 'the commons', and the importance of the individual from the right, and his/her free will.
I see this whole process leading to a major Opportunity for breakthrough, on to a new level of civilization on the planet, where we do away with money - ie, the motivation of personal aggrandizement - and give to each other of our best, in goods and serves and ingenuity, out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.
Ah. But that would require us to realize fully, and accept fully, that we are, first and foremost, 'spiritual beings having a human experience'?
Well; yes. But that's where we're at.
The civilizational process has got us here.
It's time to recognize it. 'It': the fact that neither the 'left' nor the 'right' has the complete answer. The answer is to transcend the level of the dichotomy, moving to a higher level.
There, we can meet.
And only there.
To say: We've run out of wriggle room, as it were, in exploring the further limits of free will.
It's time to recognize the Truth of our situation.
And act accordingly.
And then: Watch us fly.
Together.
As One.
And give thanks in doing so.
And thus endeth the lesson.
The lesson, of separation.
Seeming, separation."
And in this context, I note, with respect, the quote that Daniel Pinchbeck puts at the beginning of his important book '2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl':+++
'Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophecy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.' 1 Corinthians 13:8
He dedicated his book: 'For my daughter.'
I dedicate this blog to all those who have ears to hear.
---
+ The person, one Delores Smith, had posted a comment - on a blog by one Bobby Eberle, titled 'Obama's Titanic About to Hit Iceberg' (GOPUSA Eagle 9 September) - pointing out how Obama's strategy fit precisely the model recommended by a couple of his Columbia University professors (known as the Cloward-Piven strategy) to overload the system so that it would collapse, and allow a socialist takeover. Thus their support for mass agitation by groups like ACORN for welfare handouts, and for policies like forcing the loaning of 'government' mortgage money to people who would not be able to keep up their payments. Anything to bring things to a head. Which has now happened. And in more ways than one...
++ Check the writings of his advisors. Very statist.
+++ "...the Mesoamerican deity...'Sovereign Plumed Serpent', depicted in sculptures and temple friezes as a fusion of bird and snake, representing the union of spirit and matter. Mexican archaeologist Enrique Florescano writes: 'Quetzalcoatl is the god who hands down civilization, reveals time, and discerns the movement of the stars and human destiny.'..."
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Fings Ain't Always Wot They Seem Ta Be
News item of a couple of days ago:
The (Glasgow) Herald, 28/8/10 -'Swine flu drug is linked with sleep disorder'
"A flu vaccine widely distributed in Scotland is under review over a possible link to narcolepsy, it has been announced.
"The European Medicines Agency is investigating the swine flu drug Pandemrix after a number of those who received the vaccination in Sweden and Finland reported symptoms of the sleeping disorder.
"On Tuesday, Finland's National Institute for Health and Welfare recommended that vaccination with Pandemrix be stopped until the suspected link with narcolepsy had been thoroughly evaluated.
"As there have been no such cases reported in the UK so far, use of the drug will not be suspended in Scotland..."
Ah, yes. The old no-cases-have-been-reported-in-the-UK-so-far, so-use-of-the-drug-will-not-be-suspended-in-Scotland routine... That is to say: if it hasn't been reported...
That is to say: We only know what we've been told. Or actually, we only really know what we've experienced personally. All else has to come to us through various filters. And even our senses are filters...
Where am I going with this. Let me go there through telling a little story.
'So, Mr. Stardust, you've called a press conference here at the National Press Club, on 'Changes in the Status Quo', and a couple of us at least have turned up; what is it you would like to say to us?'
'Well, first of all, I'd like to appreciate you, and your organizations, for your turning up. I note that the turnout is a couple of reporters less than those who turned up for Larry Sinclair's press conference in this same venue; but I realise that there are many pressing issues of the day, and we all have to set our priorities. So let's begin.
'The purpose of this press conference is, firstly, to announce that the medical-pharmaceutical-government complex has two weeks to engage in some Confession-stroke-Reconciliation activity, particularly, but not exclusively, with respect to the damage done by vaccines, and then we will go from there.
'This has been occasioned by - '
'Hold it, hold it. What do you mean, "And then we'll go from there"?'
'I mean that I want to emphasize the Reconciliation process, not an assigning of blame. I want all those individuals who have had concerns about these matters - this particular matter, and others to be addressed - to have an announced window of opportunity to share their concerns. To set the historical record straight. Before our societal next steps.'
'I...see. I think. Are you meaning to do this sort of thing in a lot of other areas, too? This - Confession-time stuff?''
'Yes.'
'I...see. And, why would anybody...take you up on it?'
'Because it's time.'
'...It's time for......?'
'For moving on.'
'...For moving on, from...what; precisely?'
'From a way of being that is not serving humanity any longer, and needs to give way, to a larger, more honest, more holistic way of being.'
'...Because... - '
'It's time.'
' - it's time; right....Can you back this up a bit, and give me - us here - a little more background, as to what you're on about?'
'Okay. Let's take fluoridation.'
'...Fluoridation. As in...'
'As in propaganda. The big sell. Back in the '40s it was proving to be rather a major problem, both as a toxic waste by-product of industry - particularly the aluminum and artificial fertilizer industries - but in particular to the secret atom bomb-developing project, known as the Manhattan Project. It was causing cattle to be ill and dying downwind from the atomic manufacturing plants, and farmers were starting to sue for their losses of income. The government authorities hushed the matter up as long as they could; but it all triggered some brain-storming as to what to do about the problem. A scientist hired by the aluminum industry hit on the idea of metering it into the water supply - because fluoride, albeit in a different form in nature, was at least there - and so its toxic form could be smuggled into the environment that way, rather than being emitted in the direct way, which was going to cost these various corporate sources a lot of money to clean it up before it polluted the environment. And 'the industry' even slipped one of their lawyers in to the federal government to head the US Public Health Service, to steer government policy in the 'right' direction. Which is how things are run down to our day as well.
'So the Big Sell started; as part, incidentally, of the new Public Relations 'science' that had started to be developed, looking into ways to sell people on things; products and ideas. The Nazis took it on. And so did shadowy corporate forces in America. And one of their great successes - right along with TV ads of doctors smoking Chesterfields - was the TV ad campaign for fluoridation of the public water supplies. People saw a respectable man in a white coat - obviously a scientist - explaining to an interviewer about this new substance being added to the water supplies, to cut the number of cavities in the American children's teeth. Never mind that what the fluoride was really doing, as an enzyme disrupter, was delaying the eruption of the children's teeth, so that it was a statistical chimera that made it look as though there were fewer cavities at a given age in children in the treated city, as opposed to those in the control city.'
'You're saying...'
'Fewer teeth, fewer cavities.'
'Yes, I thought that was what you were getting at.'
'What I was really getting at, with this example, of how we get our information in life, was how little we really know about life, from personal experience. And, how easily we can be persuaded to believe things that aren't actually so.
'Take the Kennedy assassination. - '
'Hold it! - Where are we going now?'
'To Dallas. On that fateful day. A good example of what I'm getting at is from a book on that event, entitled Best Evidence, wherein the author soon realized that he needed to apply the philosophy of 'checking one's premises'. He - we all - had a premise that the body as seen in the Emergency operating room at Parkland Hospital in Dallas was the same, that is, in the same condition, as that seen later the same day (evening by then) in the autopsy room at Bethesda Naval Hospital outside Washington, D.C. Well of course it was, you might say.'
'Yes...And you don't?'
'I'm saying: Not necessarily. We jump to conclusions too soon in life, often. Especially when there are factors involved, that should cause us to be a little more cautious. As in the fact that there was a lot of corporate interest in selling the American public on the wondrous virtues of fluoride. When people have an agenda - or even just a possible agenda - the public should take care, that they are possibly being sold something. The way they were sold a pig in a poke for their president in the last election.
'But I'm getting a bit ahead of myself. - '
'Ah - yes. Yes, that would...You were talking about Kennedy's body...'
'Yes. The lesson here - the point I'm making, is: don't always believe what you 'saw with your own eyes', quote.
'The public saw, on their TV screens - this flat version of history, with its projected images - a casket being taken out of Parkland Hospital in Dallas, and then being loaded onto Air Force One at Love Field; and then sometime later - in the night - that casket - or at least a similar-looking one - being unloaded at Andrews Air Force Base, into an ambulance; and then, sometime later - it was about forty-five minutes later, as I recall the chronological report - an ambulance unloading a casket at the dock at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Now, did you notice my change of words?'
'...Tell.'
' We saw 'an' ambulance, and 'a' casket at Bethesda. But the premise was that it was 'the' ambulance, and 'the' casket. That's all it was. A premise.'
'...You're saying...'
'I'm saying that there is good reason to believe that it was not necessarily the same ambulance, and - shockingly - not the same casket. That something happened between the time the public saw a casket coming off the plane at Andrews, and then saw, some forty-five minutes later, a casket coming off an ambulance at Bethesda, and sitting on the dock briefly.
'I won't go into all that in detail here. But the author of the book does an excellent job of walking this matter through its possible permutations. Including how the switch could have happened, that allowed the perpetrators - and you can spell that with a t-r-a-i-t-o-r-s at the end if you want - time to smuggle the body itself, in a body bag, out of the far-side front door of the plane, while all the cameras and lighting were trained on the near back door, where the casket had been loaded onto the plane and then came out from. It is even part of the historical record that there was a bogey ambulance that night, ostensibly to keep the reporter pack from being too intrusive in this sensitive matter, which led them on a wild goose chase, while the 'real' one delivered the body to Bethesda. But the 'best evidence' is that it was delivered elsewhere first, in a body bag, for a quick operation to try to 'fix' the facts to fit the policy - do you recall where you have heard that sort of expression, in our day and age?'
' - What? Wait - I was trying to follow you. You said...'
'That there is evidence that the body was taken first to another hospital, the caper under the control of the (very politically powerful) perps,* and operated on - to make it look as though there were only rear-entry wounds, in order to assign the assassination to Oswald and only Oswald - then zipped back up in its body bag, loaded into a casket, and sent on its not-so merry way. Just a couple of problems here, for the perps.'
'Being...'
'Being that the body was not in a body bag when it left Parkland Hospital in Dallas. And that the casket on the loading dock at Bethesda was not the clearly-identifiable bronze casket that left Parkland, and came off of Air Force One at Andrews.'
'Can this all be? Both factors? Body bag, and casket?'
'Read the literature. Not that of the scoffers. They play a game with their readers. It's an old lawyer's trick: If you can't argue the facts - the true facts, as opposed to the facts that you distort for your adversarial argument - engage in bluster. Don't buy into it. Painstakingly follow the evidence; including the evidence that the wounds seen at Bethesda didn't match those reported by the surgeons at Parkland.
'And don't ever take anything in life for granted. Especially not the evidence simply of your senses. Or the information that is fed to you in your mainstream media. You may not be getting a true picture of things. And especially not, when there are forces at wok, to get you to believe certain things, because they have an agenda.'
'Which is...'
'To enslave you. Into believing what they want you to believe About a lot of things.'
'...So...What does one do.'
'There's only one thing you can do, to be certain.'
'And that is...'
'Go inside.
'And even that is not certain.'
'...So...'
'So: Do your best. Check your premises. Doubt anything given to you to believe. Listen deeply. And you'll get there. Sooner or later.'
'...And in the meantime...'
'Know that it's time, for a major shaking of the status quo, for a brighter tomorrow to come out of the whole process. With just one basic motivation, and intention.'
'..Which is...'
'To give of your best, to each other, out of gratitude to your Creator for life with meaning.
'And if you do, all else will be added unto you. Including knowledge, finally, of the truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth.
'Now, about the rest of the changes in the status quo that are about to take place...'
'Hold it! I'm still just trying to digest the fact that such key details about the Kennedy assassination could have been overlooked at the time and in all these years. It's..outrageous.'
'If you think that's outrageous, let's look at what we were led to believe about 9/11. A cover-up right before our very eyes. Well, that is, images on our TV sets; and commentary to suit an agenda. Including from supposedly random eyewitnesses.'
'Are you linking the two events?'
'Not necessarily. Except through the common denominator of events that were not what they appeared to be. Or were sold to us to be.
'Think for yourself, friend. Collect all the information you can about a subject, before making up your mind. And even then, keep an open mind. New information may come along. And actually, it usually does.
'But back to what we've been sold about vaccines...'
(N.B. A little on that subject, to close this blog with. These comments of mine, on a Comments thread to an online article in the UK Guardian headed 'MMR -The vaccine damage myth that will not die':
kibitzer
1 September 2010 11:26PM
matstuff:
"There are two approaches: vaccinate, or don't vaccinate."
Rather oversimplified, wouldn't you really say? Do you really not understand that another "approach" is to acknowledge the adverse effects of various vaccines - the true total, as near as can honestly be determined - and respond by making them safer? And another being to acknowledge said adverse effects, and do the research to understand why some children are genetically predisposed to be damaged by vaccines - and so should be excused from having to take that risk?
Some such research has already been done - triggered by parents determined to try to get the bottom of the damage done to their children by various vaccines; no thanks to the health authorities, who have tried to stonewall this eminently sensible approach to this matter from the beginning - and it has been found eg that some children have a genetic polymorphism to be low in glutathione. Thus they can't clear heavy metals/toxins as readily as other children; thus they should be spared being injected with these substances. And so forth.
'And so forth' also means the disturbing information that the UK government gave the MMR provider immunity from liability; so the parents of those cases trying for justice for their children in the courts didn't realise that they were trying to sue the wrong party. And what does such an arrangement say about the responsible government bodies being impartial in this matter?
In sum - and to paraphrase Dr. Peter Fletcher, former CSO [Chief Science Officer]: 'This is a scandal of major proportions.' It needs to be aired, and as quickly as possible. Justice deferred is injustice.
kibitzer
2 September 2010 7:58PM
tilliesmom:
Good points, but in relation to peanut allergies et al, it is not a matter of our immune systems "attacking harmless food proteins". It is attacking them because either they themselves are in various vaccines - and so the body is just doing its job BY attacking them, along with the vaccine's other immune-system-triggering substances, all recognized as 'foreign' - or there are similar-weighted proteins in them, that the body attacks because of a recognizing process called molecular mimicry.
What in heaven's name are they doing in vaccines? Good point. The same question, and comment, as using squalene in vaccines; which is a substance found in the body. So the body is going to attack itself with its presence in a vaccine. The same as myelin basic protein (MBP) found as a contaminant in the MMR, via the chick embryo cells that the measles component is cultured on. And on. And on. And on.
Vaccines are hardly the product they have been touted as. They are extremely dangerous. This is what I meant, in my comment above, about a 'scandal of major proportions'.
But we're getting there. Thanks to so many parents, who are not going to give up the battle for justice to be served for the damage done to their children - autoimmunological and neurological - without a fight.
---
* See the testimony of LBJ's mistress on YouTube video.
The (Glasgow) Herald, 28/8/10 -'Swine flu drug is linked with sleep disorder'
"A flu vaccine widely distributed in Scotland is under review over a possible link to narcolepsy, it has been announced.
"The European Medicines Agency is investigating the swine flu drug Pandemrix after a number of those who received the vaccination in Sweden and Finland reported symptoms of the sleeping disorder.
"On Tuesday, Finland's National Institute for Health and Welfare recommended that vaccination with Pandemrix be stopped until the suspected link with narcolepsy had been thoroughly evaluated.
"As there have been no such cases reported in the UK so far, use of the drug will not be suspended in Scotland..."
Ah, yes. The old no-cases-have-been-reported-in-the-UK-so-far, so-use-of-the-drug-will-not-be-suspended-in-Scotland routine... That is to say: if it hasn't been reported...
That is to say: We only know what we've been told. Or actually, we only really know what we've experienced personally. All else has to come to us through various filters. And even our senses are filters...
Where am I going with this. Let me go there through telling a little story.
'So, Mr. Stardust, you've called a press conference here at the National Press Club, on 'Changes in the Status Quo', and a couple of us at least have turned up; what is it you would like to say to us?'
'Well, first of all, I'd like to appreciate you, and your organizations, for your turning up. I note that the turnout is a couple of reporters less than those who turned up for Larry Sinclair's press conference in this same venue; but I realise that there are many pressing issues of the day, and we all have to set our priorities. So let's begin.
'The purpose of this press conference is, firstly, to announce that the medical-pharmaceutical-government complex has two weeks to engage in some Confession-stroke-Reconciliation activity, particularly, but not exclusively, with respect to the damage done by vaccines, and then we will go from there.
'This has been occasioned by - '
'Hold it, hold it. What do you mean, "And then we'll go from there"?'
'I mean that I want to emphasize the Reconciliation process, not an assigning of blame. I want all those individuals who have had concerns about these matters - this particular matter, and others to be addressed - to have an announced window of opportunity to share their concerns. To set the historical record straight. Before our societal next steps.'
'I...see. I think. Are you meaning to do this sort of thing in a lot of other areas, too? This - Confession-time stuff?''
'Yes.'
'I...see. And, why would anybody...take you up on it?'
'Because it's time.'
'...It's time for......?'
'For moving on.'
'...For moving on, from...what; precisely?'
'From a way of being that is not serving humanity any longer, and needs to give way, to a larger, more honest, more holistic way of being.'
'...Because... - '
'It's time.'
' - it's time; right....Can you back this up a bit, and give me - us here - a little more background, as to what you're on about?'
'Okay. Let's take fluoridation.'
'...Fluoridation. As in...'
'As in propaganda. The big sell. Back in the '40s it was proving to be rather a major problem, both as a toxic waste by-product of industry - particularly the aluminum and artificial fertilizer industries - but in particular to the secret atom bomb-developing project, known as the Manhattan Project. It was causing cattle to be ill and dying downwind from the atomic manufacturing plants, and farmers were starting to sue for their losses of income. The government authorities hushed the matter up as long as they could; but it all triggered some brain-storming as to what to do about the problem. A scientist hired by the aluminum industry hit on the idea of metering it into the water supply - because fluoride, albeit in a different form in nature, was at least there - and so its toxic form could be smuggled into the environment that way, rather than being emitted in the direct way, which was going to cost these various corporate sources a lot of money to clean it up before it polluted the environment. And 'the industry' even slipped one of their lawyers in to the federal government to head the US Public Health Service, to steer government policy in the 'right' direction. Which is how things are run down to our day as well.
'So the Big Sell started; as part, incidentally, of the new Public Relations 'science' that had started to be developed, looking into ways to sell people on things; products and ideas. The Nazis took it on. And so did shadowy corporate forces in America. And one of their great successes - right along with TV ads of doctors smoking Chesterfields - was the TV ad campaign for fluoridation of the public water supplies. People saw a respectable man in a white coat - obviously a scientist - explaining to an interviewer about this new substance being added to the water supplies, to cut the number of cavities in the American children's teeth. Never mind that what the fluoride was really doing, as an enzyme disrupter, was delaying the eruption of the children's teeth, so that it was a statistical chimera that made it look as though there were fewer cavities at a given age in children in the treated city, as opposed to those in the control city.'
'You're saying...'
'Fewer teeth, fewer cavities.'
'Yes, I thought that was what you were getting at.'
'What I was really getting at, with this example, of how we get our information in life, was how little we really know about life, from personal experience. And, how easily we can be persuaded to believe things that aren't actually so.
'Take the Kennedy assassination. - '
'Hold it! - Where are we going now?'
'To Dallas. On that fateful day. A good example of what I'm getting at is from a book on that event, entitled Best Evidence, wherein the author soon realized that he needed to apply the philosophy of 'checking one's premises'. He - we all - had a premise that the body as seen in the Emergency operating room at Parkland Hospital in Dallas was the same, that is, in the same condition, as that seen later the same day (evening by then) in the autopsy room at Bethesda Naval Hospital outside Washington, D.C. Well of course it was, you might say.'
'Yes...And you don't?'
'I'm saying: Not necessarily. We jump to conclusions too soon in life, often. Especially when there are factors involved, that should cause us to be a little more cautious. As in the fact that there was a lot of corporate interest in selling the American public on the wondrous virtues of fluoride. When people have an agenda - or even just a possible agenda - the public should take care, that they are possibly being sold something. The way they were sold a pig in a poke for their president in the last election.
'But I'm getting a bit ahead of myself. - '
'Ah - yes. Yes, that would...You were talking about Kennedy's body...'
'Yes. The lesson here - the point I'm making, is: don't always believe what you 'saw with your own eyes', quote.
'The public saw, on their TV screens - this flat version of history, with its projected images - a casket being taken out of Parkland Hospital in Dallas, and then being loaded onto Air Force One at Love Field; and then sometime later - in the night - that casket - or at least a similar-looking one - being unloaded at Andrews Air Force Base, into an ambulance; and then, sometime later - it was about forty-five minutes later, as I recall the chronological report - an ambulance unloading a casket at the dock at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Now, did you notice my change of words?'
'...Tell.'
' We saw 'an' ambulance, and 'a' casket at Bethesda. But the premise was that it was 'the' ambulance, and 'the' casket. That's all it was. A premise.'
'...You're saying...'
'I'm saying that there is good reason to believe that it was not necessarily the same ambulance, and - shockingly - not the same casket. That something happened between the time the public saw a casket coming off the plane at Andrews, and then saw, some forty-five minutes later, a casket coming off an ambulance at Bethesda, and sitting on the dock briefly.
'I won't go into all that in detail here. But the author of the book does an excellent job of walking this matter through its possible permutations. Including how the switch could have happened, that allowed the perpetrators - and you can spell that with a t-r-a-i-t-o-r-s at the end if you want - time to smuggle the body itself, in a body bag, out of the far-side front door of the plane, while all the cameras and lighting were trained on the near back door, where the casket had been loaded onto the plane and then came out from. It is even part of the historical record that there was a bogey ambulance that night, ostensibly to keep the reporter pack from being too intrusive in this sensitive matter, which led them on a wild goose chase, while the 'real' one delivered the body to Bethesda. But the 'best evidence' is that it was delivered elsewhere first, in a body bag, for a quick operation to try to 'fix' the facts to fit the policy - do you recall where you have heard that sort of expression, in our day and age?'
' - What? Wait - I was trying to follow you. You said...'
'That there is evidence that the body was taken first to another hospital, the caper under the control of the (very politically powerful) perps,* and operated on - to make it look as though there were only rear-entry wounds, in order to assign the assassination to Oswald and only Oswald - then zipped back up in its body bag, loaded into a casket, and sent on its not-so merry way. Just a couple of problems here, for the perps.'
'Being...'
'Being that the body was not in a body bag when it left Parkland Hospital in Dallas. And that the casket on the loading dock at Bethesda was not the clearly-identifiable bronze casket that left Parkland, and came off of Air Force One at Andrews.'
'Can this all be? Both factors? Body bag, and casket?'
'Read the literature. Not that of the scoffers. They play a game with their readers. It's an old lawyer's trick: If you can't argue the facts - the true facts, as opposed to the facts that you distort for your adversarial argument - engage in bluster. Don't buy into it. Painstakingly follow the evidence; including the evidence that the wounds seen at Bethesda didn't match those reported by the surgeons at Parkland.
'And don't ever take anything in life for granted. Especially not the evidence simply of your senses. Or the information that is fed to you in your mainstream media. You may not be getting a true picture of things. And especially not, when there are forces at wok, to get you to believe certain things, because they have an agenda.'
'Which is...'
'To enslave you. Into believing what they want you to believe About a lot of things.'
'...So...What does one do.'
'There's only one thing you can do, to be certain.'
'And that is...'
'Go inside.
'And even that is not certain.'
'...So...'
'So: Do your best. Check your premises. Doubt anything given to you to believe. Listen deeply. And you'll get there. Sooner or later.'
'...And in the meantime...'
'Know that it's time, for a major shaking of the status quo, for a brighter tomorrow to come out of the whole process. With just one basic motivation, and intention.'
'..Which is...'
'To give of your best, to each other, out of gratitude to your Creator for life with meaning.
'And if you do, all else will be added unto you. Including knowledge, finally, of the truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth.
'Now, about the rest of the changes in the status quo that are about to take place...'
'Hold it! I'm still just trying to digest the fact that such key details about the Kennedy assassination could have been overlooked at the time and in all these years. It's..outrageous.'
'If you think that's outrageous, let's look at what we were led to believe about 9/11. A cover-up right before our very eyes. Well, that is, images on our TV sets; and commentary to suit an agenda. Including from supposedly random eyewitnesses.'
'Are you linking the two events?'
'Not necessarily. Except through the common denominator of events that were not what they appeared to be. Or were sold to us to be.
'Think for yourself, friend. Collect all the information you can about a subject, before making up your mind. And even then, keep an open mind. New information may come along. And actually, it usually does.
'But back to what we've been sold about vaccines...'
(N.B. A little on that subject, to close this blog with. These comments of mine, on a Comments thread to an online article in the UK Guardian headed 'MMR -The vaccine damage myth that will not die':
kibitzer
1 September 2010 11:26PM
matstuff:
"There are two approaches: vaccinate, or don't vaccinate."
Rather oversimplified, wouldn't you really say? Do you really not understand that another "approach" is to acknowledge the adverse effects of various vaccines - the true total, as near as can honestly be determined - and respond by making them safer? And another being to acknowledge said adverse effects, and do the research to understand why some children are genetically predisposed to be damaged by vaccines - and so should be excused from having to take that risk?
Some such research has already been done - triggered by parents determined to try to get the bottom of the damage done to their children by various vaccines; no thanks to the health authorities, who have tried to stonewall this eminently sensible approach to this matter from the beginning - and it has been found eg that some children have a genetic polymorphism to be low in glutathione. Thus they can't clear heavy metals/toxins as readily as other children; thus they should be spared being injected with these substances. And so forth.
'And so forth' also means the disturbing information that the UK government gave the MMR provider immunity from liability; so the parents of those cases trying for justice for their children in the courts didn't realise that they were trying to sue the wrong party. And what does such an arrangement say about the responsible government bodies being impartial in this matter?
In sum - and to paraphrase Dr. Peter Fletcher, former CSO [Chief Science Officer]: 'This is a scandal of major proportions.' It needs to be aired, and as quickly as possible. Justice deferred is injustice.
kibitzer
2 September 2010 7:58PM
tilliesmom:
Good points, but in relation to peanut allergies et al, it is not a matter of our immune systems "attacking harmless food proteins". It is attacking them because either they themselves are in various vaccines - and so the body is just doing its job BY attacking them, along with the vaccine's other immune-system-triggering substances, all recognized as 'foreign' - or there are similar-weighted proteins in them, that the body attacks because of a recognizing process called molecular mimicry.
What in heaven's name are they doing in vaccines? Good point. The same question, and comment, as using squalene in vaccines; which is a substance found in the body. So the body is going to attack itself with its presence in a vaccine. The same as myelin basic protein (MBP) found as a contaminant in the MMR, via the chick embryo cells that the measles component is cultured on. And on. And on. And on.
Vaccines are hardly the product they have been touted as. They are extremely dangerous. This is what I meant, in my comment above, about a 'scandal of major proportions'.
But we're getting there. Thanks to so many parents, who are not going to give up the battle for justice to be served for the damage done to their children - autoimmunological and neurological - without a fight.
---
* See the testimony of LBJ's mistress on YouTube video.
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
On the Subject of Fools, and the Fooled
Two things of particular note have just come up in my life: one on the 'macro' level, and one on the micro. First, on the macro:
I weighed in on a conversational thread on the ronpaul.com website, on the subject of the proposed Muslim cultural centre near Ground Zero in NYC, thusly:
"137 responses to “Ron Paul to Sunshine Patriots: Stop Your Demagogy About The NYC Mosque!”
"Stan
"August 23, 2010 at 7:44 pm | Permalink | Reply
"Good points, Dr. Paul (although you did misunderstand the Nancy Pelosi comment, as someone here has pointed out). Yes, people can be stampeded, by people with an agenda (in this case, neocons & their corporate buddies pushing for Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace). But it’s all a matter of perspective, isn’t it. And there is a perspective here that Muslims will be getting one on America by slipping an if-not-an-outright-mosque-at-least-a-Muslim-dedicated building into the Ground Zero meme (for which many of them feel they have been unfairly blamed & framed). Which feeds into the ‘average’ American’s uneasiness that some changes are afoot that they don’t like or trust.
"One of them is the rise of Islam – and its Sharia law – over and against the basic western Christian/Judeo-Christian cultural position. That is a major threat to their way of life and institutions (already under ‘attack’ by the rise of secularism). And that sense of a threat has been exacerbated by their uneasiness over the man who made his way into the presidency, by charisma, and other impulses going for him, like a desired change in the body politic from what had been going down. But: Is he a Christian or a Muslim? What about all the questions about his background? Why won’t he clear up all those questions, about his birth, and his passport, and his school records, etc. – in sum: Who is he, really? It all has fed into a spirit of paranoia. And then the Muslims come along and want to build something (perceived as) ‘on’ hallowed ground – hallowed to the American experience…
"In short: I feel you were insensitive to these serious and sincere feelings, Dr. Paul. It’s not really about freedom of religion at all, or your vaunted property rights. It’s about sensitivity – and more. If the Christians built their churches on the ‘heathen’ sites they superseded, and the Muslims have done the same sort of thing…
"I trust you see what I am getting at, and what others have tried to convey, also: that you missed the essential point.
"You may feel that your son is not aware enough of the ‘agenda’ of the neocons in stirring up this sort of brouhaha, to serve their own ends. But at least he doesn’t have a tin ear on the matter. Please take another look at this matter, and consider a wider perspective on it than the one you took. Yes, there is truth in what you shared. And there is also error.
"Which there is plenty of on both sides of the issue. A little more light, and a little less heat, would go a long way in moving through this confrontation of two cultures. A dialogue held by a neutral moderator, anyone??"
And what did I get for my pains? One written response, 4 thumbs up, and 40 thumbs down (and maybe counting). The written response:
"Stan, you are a moron."
While we're on the subject, a word about causation: specifically, about the roots of 9/11. Such roots are always all intertwined; but the tap root was, and is, capitalism, and, in this instance, capitalism's imperialistic bent, in its search/voracious hunger for resources, that antagonised the Muslim world in the first place. Was a stick to a hornet's nest, in a piece of the dialectical process unfolding with such culmination in our time.
Capitalism, to give it its due, was a good way to distribute scarce resources; having them go to the resource-ful, first in a free-enterprise mode (until Monopoly began to rear its ugly head, out of that nurturing nest). But it was not the only way that that end could have been accomplished. And, it was, in the event, accomplished in a way that seeded the current global crisis, with the creation of interest-bearing money (needing endless growth to pay off the debt money), and fueled by the concept of fractional-reserve banking. That is, with and by merely materialistic means. Means, which became an end in itself, when 'money' took on a life of its own, and moved from being simply a medium of exchange - in regards to scarce resources, with varying degrees of value - to an object of glorification.
The Christian tradition has a 'take' on this subject, with its parable of how it would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
What is that all about? On to my micro level experience.
Last night I was with a small group of 'fresh' (as in freshmen) members newly on their way into 'my' community - the 'spiritual' community I belong to - whom I am being a mentor of sorts to, where the member of the group who was holding the evening's meeting led a meditation on the subject of forgiveness. It brought up some fundamental feelings for me.
The object of the meditation was to think of someone in our lives whom we needed to forgive, for whatever seemingly good reason, and then to move on to trying to access what we may have to forgive in ourselves, as having given fuel to that process. I don't remember the precise steps of the meditation, but I remember what came up for me. And what came up for me was on this subject of, in a word, money; and in the synchronistic context as well of a book that I have been reading recently.
My sharing with the group afterwards went along the following lines. The person I thought of, for the sake of the exercise, that I needed to forgive for something was a person in the community who was constantly harping about money, in the sense of the community not paying its members enough. Brief background. The community of which I am a member - known as the Findhorn Foundation - is an international, nondenominational spiritual community structured as a nonprofit charitable trust, with a trust-deed purpose of engaging in educational programmes of a (roughly) 'religious' nature, with a particular connection with Nature. Our basic motto is Work is Love in Action, ie, our very purpose for being is in the spirit of Service - Service to all those attracted to come here and experience the place, and, through them returning to their daily lives, Service to the Planet, in whatever way they 'land' that intention, in common unity (community) with us. We call ourselves a centre of Light and demonstration, assisting in the transformation of human consciousness on Earth. Our whole reason for being, then, is to Serve; first the individuals who come through here, and through that service, the planet.
It is not to 'make money'. To have a comfortable lifestyle, and existence. To be, then, part of the problem: the rapacious plundering of the planet's resources. Unmindful brutes, soiling our nest. We are here, not to be motivated in our lives by money, but by the principle of Service. And this fellow's constant harping about 'not having enough' personally has been, then, a threat to my belief system - that the answer to the future of life on Earth is to do away with money, ie, with the 'principle' of profit-making, and replace it with the principle of Service. And if we will (once we will??), 'all else will be added unto us' - that mind-shift will open the doors to sufficiency, if not abundance itself. Because people will not be motivated, to give of their best to one another in goods and services, by the opportunity for personal aggrandisement, but by the concept of service to others, in gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.
So we here in 'my' community are modeling the way of the future, if we can keep the snake of 'money' out of our Eden, and stay true to our roots in Service. And this guy...this - harper... -
simply stands for something in me. I realise.
The part of me that doubts. That we can really do it. On this planet. On this level of existence.
Do 'it': bring spirit to bear, in such a way that we can create an Eden, and take next steps as a race of beings, yes with one foot in the animal world of our nature, but also with a part of our being in connection with the higher realms. As, essentially, spiritual beings having a human experience.
And does that reach exceed our grasp...
So I recognised that that fellow is just a part of me. That I created him in my experience. For a reason.
Not just to recognise that anything 'out there' is just a reflection of something in me.
But to practice forgiveness.
As the final frontier.
To forgive him. (Because he's not really real. Is just a projection.)
And also, finally - ultimately - to forgive myself.
For what.
And that's where the book comes in. Because its message is that we will not gain our immortal reality until we have forgiven ourselves - for the unconscious guilt we carry in our being for separating ourselves from our Source.
For which we have already been forgiven.
Because it wasn't ever real, anyway, to have to be forgiven for.
Was an illusion.
Just part of the process.
Of experiencing the sense of separateness.
In order to return home.
The wiser for the experience.
And thus does the Christian parable of the Prodigal Son come to mind.
Can we do it?
Oh, yeah.
But can we do this other? This superseding of the training wheels of interest-bearing money on the one hand and fractional-reserve banking on the other? This rickety device we are relying on, all unmindful of the Tao?
Remains to be seen.
I think we can.
And I would bet my life on it.
But I see that that fellow is still a part of my reality......
P.S. And I trust that people realise that the population question will take care of itself, once people grok that they will be secured in their old age - as part of the New Order of the Ages (Novus Ordo Seclorum) - and so don't need to propagate to the numbers that they have in the past. So we don't need to resort to population culling scenarios like wars, and famine, and pestilence.
But then what do I know. I'm a moron.
But perhaps we can learn something from The Fool.
*********
Bibliography:
'Your Immortal Reality' by Gary Renard
'The Financial Oligarchy Reigns: Democracy's Death Spiral From Greece to the United States' by David DeGraw; ampedstatus.com
I weighed in on a conversational thread on the ronpaul.com website, on the subject of the proposed Muslim cultural centre near Ground Zero in NYC, thusly:
"137 responses to “Ron Paul to Sunshine Patriots: Stop Your Demagogy About The NYC Mosque!”
"Stan
"August 23, 2010 at 7:44 pm | Permalink | Reply
"Good points, Dr. Paul (although you did misunderstand the Nancy Pelosi comment, as someone here has pointed out). Yes, people can be stampeded, by people with an agenda (in this case, neocons & their corporate buddies pushing for Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace). But it’s all a matter of perspective, isn’t it. And there is a perspective here that Muslims will be getting one on America by slipping an if-not-an-outright-mosque-at-least-a-Muslim-dedicated building into the Ground Zero meme (for which many of them feel they have been unfairly blamed & framed). Which feeds into the ‘average’ American’s uneasiness that some changes are afoot that they don’t like or trust.
"One of them is the rise of Islam – and its Sharia law – over and against the basic western Christian/Judeo-Christian cultural position. That is a major threat to their way of life and institutions (already under ‘attack’ by the rise of secularism). And that sense of a threat has been exacerbated by their uneasiness over the man who made his way into the presidency, by charisma, and other impulses going for him, like a desired change in the body politic from what had been going down. But: Is he a Christian or a Muslim? What about all the questions about his background? Why won’t he clear up all those questions, about his birth, and his passport, and his school records, etc. – in sum: Who is he, really? It all has fed into a spirit of paranoia. And then the Muslims come along and want to build something (perceived as) ‘on’ hallowed ground – hallowed to the American experience…
"In short: I feel you were insensitive to these serious and sincere feelings, Dr. Paul. It’s not really about freedom of religion at all, or your vaunted property rights. It’s about sensitivity – and more. If the Christians built their churches on the ‘heathen’ sites they superseded, and the Muslims have done the same sort of thing…
"I trust you see what I am getting at, and what others have tried to convey, also: that you missed the essential point.
"You may feel that your son is not aware enough of the ‘agenda’ of the neocons in stirring up this sort of brouhaha, to serve their own ends. But at least he doesn’t have a tin ear on the matter. Please take another look at this matter, and consider a wider perspective on it than the one you took. Yes, there is truth in what you shared. And there is also error.
"Which there is plenty of on both sides of the issue. A little more light, and a little less heat, would go a long way in moving through this confrontation of two cultures. A dialogue held by a neutral moderator, anyone??"
And what did I get for my pains? One written response, 4 thumbs up, and 40 thumbs down (and maybe counting). The written response:
"Stan, you are a moron."
While we're on the subject, a word about causation: specifically, about the roots of 9/11. Such roots are always all intertwined; but the tap root was, and is, capitalism, and, in this instance, capitalism's imperialistic bent, in its search/voracious hunger for resources, that antagonised the Muslim world in the first place. Was a stick to a hornet's nest, in a piece of the dialectical process unfolding with such culmination in our time.
Capitalism, to give it its due, was a good way to distribute scarce resources; having them go to the resource-ful, first in a free-enterprise mode (until Monopoly began to rear its ugly head, out of that nurturing nest). But it was not the only way that that end could have been accomplished. And, it was, in the event, accomplished in a way that seeded the current global crisis, with the creation of interest-bearing money (needing endless growth to pay off the debt money), and fueled by the concept of fractional-reserve banking. That is, with and by merely materialistic means. Means, which became an end in itself, when 'money' took on a life of its own, and moved from being simply a medium of exchange - in regards to scarce resources, with varying degrees of value - to an object of glorification.
The Christian tradition has a 'take' on this subject, with its parable of how it would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
What is that all about? On to my micro level experience.
Last night I was with a small group of 'fresh' (as in freshmen) members newly on their way into 'my' community - the 'spiritual' community I belong to - whom I am being a mentor of sorts to, where the member of the group who was holding the evening's meeting led a meditation on the subject of forgiveness. It brought up some fundamental feelings for me.
The object of the meditation was to think of someone in our lives whom we needed to forgive, for whatever seemingly good reason, and then to move on to trying to access what we may have to forgive in ourselves, as having given fuel to that process. I don't remember the precise steps of the meditation, but I remember what came up for me. And what came up for me was on this subject of, in a word, money; and in the synchronistic context as well of a book that I have been reading recently.
My sharing with the group afterwards went along the following lines. The person I thought of, for the sake of the exercise, that I needed to forgive for something was a person in the community who was constantly harping about money, in the sense of the community not paying its members enough. Brief background. The community of which I am a member - known as the Findhorn Foundation - is an international, nondenominational spiritual community structured as a nonprofit charitable trust, with a trust-deed purpose of engaging in educational programmes of a (roughly) 'religious' nature, with a particular connection with Nature. Our basic motto is Work is Love in Action, ie, our very purpose for being is in the spirit of Service - Service to all those attracted to come here and experience the place, and, through them returning to their daily lives, Service to the Planet, in whatever way they 'land' that intention, in common unity (community) with us. We call ourselves a centre of Light and demonstration, assisting in the transformation of human consciousness on Earth. Our whole reason for being, then, is to Serve; first the individuals who come through here, and through that service, the planet.
It is not to 'make money'. To have a comfortable lifestyle, and existence. To be, then, part of the problem: the rapacious plundering of the planet's resources. Unmindful brutes, soiling our nest. We are here, not to be motivated in our lives by money, but by the principle of Service. And this fellow's constant harping about 'not having enough' personally has been, then, a threat to my belief system - that the answer to the future of life on Earth is to do away with money, ie, with the 'principle' of profit-making, and replace it with the principle of Service. And if we will (once we will??), 'all else will be added unto us' - that mind-shift will open the doors to sufficiency, if not abundance itself. Because people will not be motivated, to give of their best to one another in goods and services, by the opportunity for personal aggrandisement, but by the concept of service to others, in gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.
So we here in 'my' community are modeling the way of the future, if we can keep the snake of 'money' out of our Eden, and stay true to our roots in Service. And this guy...this - harper... -
simply stands for something in me. I realise.
The part of me that doubts. That we can really do it. On this planet. On this level of existence.
Do 'it': bring spirit to bear, in such a way that we can create an Eden, and take next steps as a race of beings, yes with one foot in the animal world of our nature, but also with a part of our being in connection with the higher realms. As, essentially, spiritual beings having a human experience.
And does that reach exceed our grasp...
So I recognised that that fellow is just a part of me. That I created him in my experience. For a reason.
Not just to recognise that anything 'out there' is just a reflection of something in me.
But to practice forgiveness.
As the final frontier.
To forgive him. (Because he's not really real. Is just a projection.)
And also, finally - ultimately - to forgive myself.
For what.
And that's where the book comes in. Because its message is that we will not gain our immortal reality until we have forgiven ourselves - for the unconscious guilt we carry in our being for separating ourselves from our Source.
For which we have already been forgiven.
Because it wasn't ever real, anyway, to have to be forgiven for.
Was an illusion.
Just part of the process.
Of experiencing the sense of separateness.
In order to return home.
The wiser for the experience.
And thus does the Christian parable of the Prodigal Son come to mind.
Can we do it?
Oh, yeah.
But can we do this other? This superseding of the training wheels of interest-bearing money on the one hand and fractional-reserve banking on the other? This rickety device we are relying on, all unmindful of the Tao?
Remains to be seen.
I think we can.
And I would bet my life on it.
But I see that that fellow is still a part of my reality......
P.S. And I trust that people realise that the population question will take care of itself, once people grok that they will be secured in their old age - as part of the New Order of the Ages (Novus Ordo Seclorum) - and so don't need to propagate to the numbers that they have in the past. So we don't need to resort to population culling scenarios like wars, and famine, and pestilence.
But then what do I know. I'm a moron.
But perhaps we can learn something from The Fool.
*********
Bibliography:
'Your Immortal Reality' by Gary Renard
'The Financial Oligarchy Reigns: Democracy's Death Spiral From Greece to the United States' by David DeGraw; ampedstatus.com
Sunday, 22 August 2010
The Devastating Corruption of the Profit Motive
As steeled as I try to make myself against the horror stories of our time and place - in order not to lose my objectivity, to keep my equanimity, to change the things I can and let the others go - I come up against a wall sometimes. Cases in point.
* Email notices recently of a return of the swine flu shot for the coming 'season' - this time to be included (buried) in the seasonal shot, whatever all it contains. Of flu strains, and other possible constituents. Which need to be investigated in depth. Since 'they' seem to be making major moves now for people control.
The public has not been told the whole story about the side effects of the last H1N1 shot, especially including how 'they' tried to put an adjuvant named squalene in it - which would make the body produce antibodies to its own supplies of this substance; as if 'they' didn't know that (another of the myriad autoimmune effects of vaccines) - and how one (already suspect) company sent shipments of a particularly toxic form of (bird) flu virus that would have found its way into formulations for vaccines except for an alert health authority in one country in Europe that tested it on ferrets, which were killed by it, and which fortuitous event stopped its use. (A mistake? Hardly; especially not in the context of what is going down in our day and age.) And now here we are again, with this renewed opportunity for The Authorities to inject whatever all into the populace at large - including pregnant women, for whom proper safety testing has not been done; and babies, a class of persons for whom the flu vaccine has been demonstrated not to be effective; and ditto retirees.
* And speaking of vaccines: the to-and-fro continues, seemingly ceaselessly, about their connection with autism or not. The more I read about this matter, the more anger-inducing it is, how The Authorities and their acolytes continue to stonewall on this matter. (No, correlation is not causation; and you can get off your high horse when you keep saying that, and continue merrily to cite epidemiological studies paid for by the drug companies. We're talking about children here, not widgets. If there is evidence that suggests even a possible correlation, let alone causation, it should be explored. Stat.)
* And speaking as well of the 'tool' of vaccines: Notice how there is action afoot to take away children from parents who don't submit their children to their recommended shots, via the rationale of 'child abuse'. And as for that rationale:
* Notice how there is action afoot to take away children from parents who want to homeschool them.
Could there be real cases of child abuse going on here, which don't see the light of day because the children don't attend public schools and thus can't be monitored for tell-tale signs? Very possibly. But again: consider the current context. Any government that wants exclusive power to educate the children under its jurisdiction can be up to no good; for no true good government would be up to such a thing. Total control is the marker for totalitarianism.
In America, the Left, under the Obama administration, would like to take over the raising of the children, and release them from the responsibility and control of their parents, in order to free them from their parents' religious beliefs, and for other 'socializing' purposes. (This is the purpose behind the UN Convention On the Rights of Children, which the US government has so far refused to adopt. For good reason.) Unfortunately, this same clique would also like to have a national health insurance system in order to further similar control desires (thus the idea, which has basic merit, is agenda driven). And unfortunately, that also extends to a desire to force all children (or as many as possible as can be corralled into their holding pens) to be subjected to mandated vaccines; under the same rationale, of 'child abuse'; also, as being 'in the national interest'.
* The danger is not just from the Left (in this dialectical process working its way out to a higher level). Email notices that I take from various sources indicate how the western world is still up against major economic woes - woes which are eliminating a strong, independent middle class, and strengthening the power of the elite over their populaces.
It is a scandal of major proportions that the banks are still sitting pretty, with their same corrupt practices that caused 'the system' to nearly collapse in the first place. But that's part of 'their' agenda - ie, the elite wanting to run the world.
Look at it. Look - at - it. America was seduced into going hugely into debt, at the same time as its manufacturing base was stripped, and shipped overseas, by the corporations running things these days, in cahoots with 'the bankers'. And then the plug was pulled, on 'toxic mortgages', and the populace was conned into bailing out the banks. Not the people. But the creators of the problem in the first place. Putting 'the people' further into debt to them; and with less of an ability to recover, now, with a smaller economic base. Thus being wholly in 'their' grasp - at long last. The system to collapse, in order for the elite to create a world safe for corporatism - ie, them.
News flash. Let the system collapse. It needs to. It is reflecting the level of corruption of the human spirit that was inherent in it in the first place. A system founded on the concept of service to self. Not service to others.
Prime example. Pharmaceutical companies are in business in order primarily to make money. For their stockholders, but in particular for their management. And their partners in their crimes, the members of the allopathic medical profession that they have seduced into doing their bidding, in exchange for cushy incomes.
Cushy lives, on top of the heap of humanity...
* ...and some 200,000 Indian farmers are estimated to have committed suicide, after going so far into debt, after contracting with the likes of Monsanto to attempt to increase their yields, and getting terminator seeds in the faustian bargain, that they saw no other way out.
Well, there is a way out, humanity.
Which is to release the control of the concept of 'profit' over your lives.
And replace it with Love at your core of being. In gratitude to your Creator for life with meaning.
And when we sort out our global community after the evolution, and really take off on this planet - ultimately to soar out into the further space of our material realm - remember one thing.
Well, two things.
One: Remember how it was, in the bad old days.
And two: Don't get too comfortable here.
It's a school.
The point is to graduate.
* Email notices recently of a return of the swine flu shot for the coming 'season' - this time to be included (buried) in the seasonal shot, whatever all it contains. Of flu strains, and other possible constituents. Which need to be investigated in depth. Since 'they' seem to be making major moves now for people control.
The public has not been told the whole story about the side effects of the last H1N1 shot, especially including how 'they' tried to put an adjuvant named squalene in it - which would make the body produce antibodies to its own supplies of this substance; as if 'they' didn't know that (another of the myriad autoimmune effects of vaccines) - and how one (already suspect) company sent shipments of a particularly toxic form of (bird) flu virus that would have found its way into formulations for vaccines except for an alert health authority in one country in Europe that tested it on ferrets, which were killed by it, and which fortuitous event stopped its use. (A mistake? Hardly; especially not in the context of what is going down in our day and age.) And now here we are again, with this renewed opportunity for The Authorities to inject whatever all into the populace at large - including pregnant women, for whom proper safety testing has not been done; and babies, a class of persons for whom the flu vaccine has been demonstrated not to be effective; and ditto retirees.
* And speaking of vaccines: the to-and-fro continues, seemingly ceaselessly, about their connection with autism or not. The more I read about this matter, the more anger-inducing it is, how The Authorities and their acolytes continue to stonewall on this matter. (No, correlation is not causation; and you can get off your high horse when you keep saying that, and continue merrily to cite epidemiological studies paid for by the drug companies. We're talking about children here, not widgets. If there is evidence that suggests even a possible correlation, let alone causation, it should be explored. Stat.)
* And speaking as well of the 'tool' of vaccines: Notice how there is action afoot to take away children from parents who don't submit their children to their recommended shots, via the rationale of 'child abuse'. And as for that rationale:
* Notice how there is action afoot to take away children from parents who want to homeschool them.
Could there be real cases of child abuse going on here, which don't see the light of day because the children don't attend public schools and thus can't be monitored for tell-tale signs? Very possibly. But again: consider the current context. Any government that wants exclusive power to educate the children under its jurisdiction can be up to no good; for no true good government would be up to such a thing. Total control is the marker for totalitarianism.
In America, the Left, under the Obama administration, would like to take over the raising of the children, and release them from the responsibility and control of their parents, in order to free them from their parents' religious beliefs, and for other 'socializing' purposes. (This is the purpose behind the UN Convention On the Rights of Children, which the US government has so far refused to adopt. For good reason.) Unfortunately, this same clique would also like to have a national health insurance system in order to further similar control desires (thus the idea, which has basic merit, is agenda driven). And unfortunately, that also extends to a desire to force all children (or as many as possible as can be corralled into their holding pens) to be subjected to mandated vaccines; under the same rationale, of 'child abuse'; also, as being 'in the national interest'.
* The danger is not just from the Left (in this dialectical process working its way out to a higher level). Email notices that I take from various sources indicate how the western world is still up against major economic woes - woes which are eliminating a strong, independent middle class, and strengthening the power of the elite over their populaces.
It is a scandal of major proportions that the banks are still sitting pretty, with their same corrupt practices that caused 'the system' to nearly collapse in the first place. But that's part of 'their' agenda - ie, the elite wanting to run the world.
Look at it. Look - at - it. America was seduced into going hugely into debt, at the same time as its manufacturing base was stripped, and shipped overseas, by the corporations running things these days, in cahoots with 'the bankers'. And then the plug was pulled, on 'toxic mortgages', and the populace was conned into bailing out the banks. Not the people. But the creators of the problem in the first place. Putting 'the people' further into debt to them; and with less of an ability to recover, now, with a smaller economic base. Thus being wholly in 'their' grasp - at long last. The system to collapse, in order for the elite to create a world safe for corporatism - ie, them.
News flash. Let the system collapse. It needs to. It is reflecting the level of corruption of the human spirit that was inherent in it in the first place. A system founded on the concept of service to self. Not service to others.
Prime example. Pharmaceutical companies are in business in order primarily to make money. For their stockholders, but in particular for their management. And their partners in their crimes, the members of the allopathic medical profession that they have seduced into doing their bidding, in exchange for cushy incomes.
Cushy lives, on top of the heap of humanity...
* ...and some 200,000 Indian farmers are estimated to have committed suicide, after going so far into debt, after contracting with the likes of Monsanto to attempt to increase their yields, and getting terminator seeds in the faustian bargain, that they saw no other way out.
Well, there is a way out, humanity.
Which is to release the control of the concept of 'profit' over your lives.
And replace it with Love at your core of being. In gratitude to your Creator for life with meaning.
And when we sort out our global community after the evolution, and really take off on this planet - ultimately to soar out into the further space of our material realm - remember one thing.
Well, two things.
One: Remember how it was, in the bad old days.
And two: Don't get too comfortable here.
It's a school.
The point is to graduate.
Friday, 20 August 2010
America is For a Reason
At an early stage of my spiritual journey in life - starting to be engaged with in earnest during my junior year in university - I spent some time looking into the curious historical reports of a wise white male Teacher appearing in the Americas, and instructing the peoples in agriculture, and living in harmony with each other and the earth, and so forth. What was that all about? I wondered. It apparently well predated the time of the Spanish conquistadores, and the Catholic Church priests that accompanied them, in their conquest - attempted conquest - of the New (to them) World. One theory was that the prototype for such a personage in what has become present-day America and for Quetzalcoatl/Kukulcan in Central America (and to some extent Viracocha in South America; although he was much more of a creator god) was an early apostle, having traveled to that part of the world to 'save' the heathen. (How he would have known about it was a further question.) Another theory was that espoused by 'the Mormons' - the church I was born into, and researched more closely due to my 'awakening' in university, and finally left on the basis of my research: that it was in point of fact Jesus Himself, having transported Himself (somehow) to this part of the world to spread His message further. (And left them with the sense that He would return. And walked away on the water. For how else could He have gotten there?...) For whatever actual historical reasons for the reports from the indigenous peoples themselves, it was an intriguing 'message'. And its investigation caused me to come across the idea/concept of Aztlan: the home base for the peoples who became known to the wider world culture as the Aztecs.
No one knew precisely where this land/area was; at least according to all the books on these matters that I read. But there was a general sense that it was from north of present-day Mexico, somewhere. And I see (from reports out of Arizona, where 'the radicals' are gaining a firm foothold in the school system; that initiative now under major governmental reactive response) that the present-day movement called La Raza places it precisely: the larger part of southwest America, stretching over several states (including my growing-up state of California). Which the more radical of the adherents of the concept of La Raza - The Race - want to take back over, and incorporate into a Larger Mexico. (Somewhat akin to the Israeli-Zionist concept of Eretz Israel.)
Thanks, no thanks.
It's fine to have pride in one's roots. And I have pride in my roots as an American by birth; so I know the feeling. But there's a larger picture, here. One vaguely assumed under the concept of time; of progress; of, in a word, development. Historical, social, economical, political - and spiritual - development.
America is for a reason, folks: for The People to be free - in line with their essence, as being free moral agents - from unlimited government, and as an example thereof. Also, to be free from its control by vested interests; as the military-industrial complex, and the pharmaceutical industry, and other corporations, are engaging in today.** That's why the American constitutional system of government - a federal form of government - was set up to have elections for the lower legislative House every two years: to try to help keep The People in charge of their government, in a more hands-on way than with longer terms of governmental service for representatives of The People. Unfortunately, things haven't quite worked out that way. But that is, and was, the purpose of the template. Government 'of, by, and for The People', as Lincoln intoned so meaningfully, and clearly, at Gettysburg; that such government "shall not perish from the Earth".
Too many people today are in too great a rush to break down the American experiment in self-government - from both the Left and the Right. Those voices should not be listened to - or rather, should be listened to, for the awareness of that presence in the human psyche; but not acted on. America still has a work to do.
Help it be about that better business; and we will all benefit from the experience.
* Interestingly, one 'take' on His departure was that it was on 'a raft of snakes'. Not a bad descriptive attempt to convey a sense of a craft with fire plumes coming out of it...Now, they could have figured that their great Teacher, appearing as if out of nowhere, came to them from the sky in the first place, and went away the same way. But with the added description of something like snakes....
Chariots of the Gods, anyone??
And Zecharia Sitchin's learned 'take' on all this???...
** Thanks, Ike, for the early warning on this front. A young American living in Southern California at the time heard you, and opened his eyes a little wider in response, at what all was going on in the world in his time and place.
No one knew precisely where this land/area was; at least according to all the books on these matters that I read. But there was a general sense that it was from north of present-day Mexico, somewhere. And I see (from reports out of Arizona, where 'the radicals' are gaining a firm foothold in the school system; that initiative now under major governmental reactive response) that the present-day movement called La Raza places it precisely: the larger part of southwest America, stretching over several states (including my growing-up state of California). Which the more radical of the adherents of the concept of La Raza - The Race - want to take back over, and incorporate into a Larger Mexico. (Somewhat akin to the Israeli-Zionist concept of Eretz Israel.)
Thanks, no thanks.
It's fine to have pride in one's roots. And I have pride in my roots as an American by birth; so I know the feeling. But there's a larger picture, here. One vaguely assumed under the concept of time; of progress; of, in a word, development. Historical, social, economical, political - and spiritual - development.
America is for a reason, folks: for The People to be free - in line with their essence, as being free moral agents - from unlimited government, and as an example thereof. Also, to be free from its control by vested interests; as the military-industrial complex, and the pharmaceutical industry, and other corporations, are engaging in today.** That's why the American constitutional system of government - a federal form of government - was set up to have elections for the lower legislative House every two years: to try to help keep The People in charge of their government, in a more hands-on way than with longer terms of governmental service for representatives of The People. Unfortunately, things haven't quite worked out that way. But that is, and was, the purpose of the template. Government 'of, by, and for The People', as Lincoln intoned so meaningfully, and clearly, at Gettysburg; that such government "shall not perish from the Earth".
Too many people today are in too great a rush to break down the American experiment in self-government - from both the Left and the Right. Those voices should not be listened to - or rather, should be listened to, for the awareness of that presence in the human psyche; but not acted on. America still has a work to do.
Help it be about that better business; and we will all benefit from the experience.
* Interestingly, one 'take' on His departure was that it was on 'a raft of snakes'. Not a bad descriptive attempt to convey a sense of a craft with fire plumes coming out of it...Now, they could have figured that their great Teacher, appearing as if out of nowhere, came to them from the sky in the first place, and went away the same way. But with the added description of something like snakes....
Chariots of the Gods, anyone??
And Zecharia Sitchin's learned 'take' on all this???...
** Thanks, Ike, for the early warning on this front. A young American living in Southern California at the time heard you, and opened his eyes a little wider in response, at what all was going on in the world in his time and place.
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