Gaia Redefined

My purpose in joining Zaadz, later renamed the Gaia Community, was not to twitter. It was to change the world.

I took typing in high school in 1942. America was fully engaged in World War II. The first sentence I typed was, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” Were it not for America’s strong will to remain free, the world would have plunged into oppression. Today we are even more in danger of being taken over by oppressors. America is divided. We are sailing into unchartered water.

I’m a World War II veteran. I was in Nazi Germany during the war and in Japan immediately after the war, in the Army of Occupation. I’ve seen oppression and the results first hand. I know what it is to be free. Big government means big money, the root of all evil. Money goes where money flows, to Washington, D.C.’s cess pool.

In 1974, Member of Congress, Martha W. Griffiths (Dem) of Michigan, chair of the Joint Senate-House Fiscal Policy Subcommittee, told the news media: “We have ten legislative committees and eleven executive departments running entrenched social programs without anyone capable of seeing the overall picture. At the present time, middle-class persons are paying for better health care for the poor than they can afford for themselves. Legislators like myself, military men, etcetera, all have generous pension plans which cannot suffer default. But the private citizen is still vulnerable. In America, we virtually worship fairness, but too often we have not been fair to our most deserving citizens.”

In 1980, A. Gary Shilling, an authoritative and often quoted economist, applying Department of Commerce figures, found that fifty-four percent of America’s people depended on government spending for “a significant part of their incomes.” Since 1980, government spending has grown like Jack’s beanstalk. The nation’s high rollers, and foreign governments as well, lobby Congress for a cut of the pie.

Nobody heard Griffiths or Shilling. Attorney General Benjamin Civilette told a Senate Budget Committee: “Whenever we look deeply with focused investigation, significant fraud and abuse will be detected.” Nobody heard Civilette. At that time, U.S. News & World Report statistics derived from Department of Commerce figures showed that during the preceding 25 years retired federal workers gained 125.4 percent in pay, and Social Security recipients, 79.9 percent. They were indexed for inflation. Workers were not. Capital gains was not, though government took care of organized labor. Said Supreme Court Justice Jackson in U.S. v. Kahriger: “It will be a sad day if the good will of the people toward their taxing system is frittered away in efforts to accomplish by taxation moral reforms that cannot be accomplished by legislation.” Nobody heard Justice Jackson.

The American people want change but nothing has changed in the past 30 years. In fact, the corruption in high places has gotten far worse. We, the people, generally, have not come to the aid of our country. A few Americans who have had it have taken to the streets in protest. They are making their voices heard in town hall meetings. The politicians and news media call them unflattering names. The politicians shrug off evidence of corruption and look for ways to stop whistle blowers. The news media sees no evil, speaks no evil and President Obama speaks half truths.

Most Americans think we, the people, are government entitled. Entitled to what, pray tell me? Some other person’s money? Money doesn’t grow on trees. Every dime of government entitlement money comes from somebody’s pocket. Don’t tell me it is money working people save for a rainy day. It isn’t. It’s pay as you go. The young pay so the older generation can receive. It’s a self-serving, thoroughly corrupt government telling the American people it knows better than the individual how to distribute the national resources. Government is people with power. Government entitlement is political justice, whatever it happens to be at any given moment. Remember that politicians think in terms of how they can remain in office, not about future generations. So what happens when future generations wake up?

I’m government entitled. Should I be cut off? Yes, says President Obama in so many words. The politicians are struggling at the present, in an all-too-typical shell game, to give senior citizens the ax. The sane thing to do, something you never hear, is to phase out government entitlements the same way they were phased in. The sane thing to do, is to trade the grossly unfair tax on production to a tax on consumption. What you hear from Washington’s cess pool is more plans to increase the national debt, more redistribution of incomes, the thing that keeps politicians in office and the citizenry extending their palms for more of somebody’s else’s money.

For example, the Bush Administration and Congress loved the idea of giving the poor, those who didn’t have the money to buy a home, the means through creative financing. Bush and Congress put the pressure on banks. Bush, Congress, and creative financing, caused home prices to rapidly escalate in price. It’s called the law of supply and demand—the free enterprise system grossly distorted by the powers that be. It was taking from those people who were saving to buy a home.

Just before Bush’s term of office was over (the prices of homes had peaked and were on the way down) the awful truth came out. It was Bush bailout time—in order to save capitalism. It was socialist heyday. Obama was elected. He was forced to continue with the Bush bailout. In order to save the economy, Obama rushed through Congress, before anyone had a chance to read the stimulus package, the socialist’s plan, actually payback for all the hard work they had done.

Instead of the cure, all the stimulus package did was to astronomically increase the national debt. The next socialist hit, Obama’s health care plan he claimed was revenue neutral. It is going to pull a rabbit out of a hat: insure the health of 30 million non-insured. Actually the plan will save $500 million on Medicare payments and force those who can afford health care insurance to buy it.

In the end, the problem is control freaks putting off on future generations the problem past and present generations have imposed. The needed change is for the individual to take charge of his life.

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I’m making a “Golden Oldies” album. I found A Bird in a Guilded Cage. We’re like birds in a guilded cage, as the song goes, “You may think she’s happy and free from care, she’s not though she seems to be.” We’re the happiest when we are in control of our lives. In the song, “‘Tis sad when you think of her wasted life … her beauty was sold for an old man’s gold. She’s a bird in a guilded cage.”

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Here are some of my ”Golden Oldies”

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What a cheerful picture, Joseph! Very unusual hat - almost as if you're under the sky.

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I thought I had come with the reason to cope,
In spite of what I’d been told.
But as time went on I stumbled and fell,
And came to doubt my will.

The powers that be had the answer for me,
I was nothing but a cog in the wheel.
The advice to me was to go with the flow,
Don’t be a rock in the stream.

I was only a bird in a guilded cage,
A pitiful sight to see.
You my think I was happy and free from care,
I wasn’t though I seemed to be.

‘Tis sad when you think of my wasted life,
My youth did not mate with scold.
Another victim of man’s flap and trap,
I was a bird in a guilded cage.

Then came my bigger than life calling. It happened just when my stars predicted, in my forties. I cut my umbilical cord with my past—went strictly on my own. When everything should have gone wrong, everything went right. Was I not right in the first place? We have little idea of the power that lies within.

Climb every mountain, ford every stream. Know that you have within you the will to find your dream.

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Have you ever again cut  the “umbilical cord with my past”, Joseph?
Which mountain, and stream do you see ahead of you now? It's wonderful to share as we follow our dreams….

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The story of my life has a strange and mystical connection with man’s life. It can only be that it is written in the stars

Cultural historian, Richard Tarnas, after a thirty year study of the outer planets, wrote that starting in November 2008 and lasting until December 2012, coincidentally when the Mayan calendar says the world comes to an end, the world would go through a highly disruptive period, as did I in the early 1970s. I found my bigger than life calling and parted with my past. My old world ended and I never looked back. I replaced it with a more productive life.

Coincidently, when I was born the outer planets Saturn and Pluto were in their most favorable alignment. I would be blessed with an understanding of the more subtle workings of the universe, I learned in Astrologer’s Handbook. Also, when I was born my ascendant pointed to Aquarius, whose sign is the water-bearer to humanity. I’m Aquarius rising. In The Rising Sign, Jeanne Avery wrote that Aquarius rising means the forerunner in setting style, discovering new methods, and showing the rest of humanity the way. We are entering the Age of Aquarius. We Aquarians are the wave of the future.

James Redfield, astrologer and author of The Celestine Prophecy, sent me an audio tape. In the tape he said: “The emotional issue is pointed out by your Moon sign—how this feels as you go through life—talk about your Sun sign—again archetypically—how you naturally uplift people, to give you some good information as you try to find out what your spiritual mission is.”

“We have a new image of what it means to be a human being, how to think of ourselves as growing, evaluating, understanding, that we can connect with our God-self energy. You grow in a Virgo way. Virgo is that part of us that is oriented toward conscientious work. At first unconsciously—and everyone has a different way of reacting—the object is to bring into consciousness the reactions and determine whether or not the reaction is mature or immature—when we can step back and look at our higher self, when need becomes strength.”




“The Vigo ego integration with higher self, and the higher self perspective is going to be defined along the lines of the Virgo archetype, which is, of course, our need for organization: to be effective, to be conscientious about making things better.”




“We all start at immature levels of ego functions. We have a sense of security based on how much we feel in charge of our lives. We want to keep the idea that things are going fine. We have goals we want to achieve. We need to manipulate things to keep everything just right. We need to keep this allusion for security purposes. If new information comes in, we can act defensively. We don't want information that rocks the boat.”




“What happens is that this allusion, based on security control, has to shift to our inner connection, our God-self force that gives us a sense of well being no matter what's going on out there. We have to make that opening on the inside.”




“As you get in touch with your inner energy and start to get in touch with your higher self, you will be guided into how to find that true work expression. It will be shown to you intuitively. This becomes the way you uplift everyone who comes into your life. When you evolve into your higher self you energize those who cross your path. This becomes your greatest talent.”

We’re on the highway to the stars.

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The picture you see here is at the upper end of a mountain trail that starts at Transfer Park in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains. It has special meaning to me. In my old life in Texas, every summer for several years I spent a week camping at Transfer Park. I dreamed that one day I would retire in the mountains. My dream came true.

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What a beautiful way for things to turn around, Joseph. It makes one realize how important it is to have a dream, so that we can be in gratitude.

I'm wondering : What's on YOUR bucket list?  A few months ago we'd had this discussion here…

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Would anyone with good sense, with no sea experience, be so bold as to set sail in the South Atlantic Ocean, in the Bermuda Triangle, no less, on a 37 foot sloop? What made me do it? How did I survive?  I not only survived, I saved six other lives from a watery grave. 

I was in a time warp. I was looking at myself in a storm. I wasn't there. It's inexplicable. I'm not alone. Others report having such experniece in the Bermuda Triangle. After three failed marriages, how did I know the instant I met her that my fourth wife was the right mate for me?  There is so much in my life that is inexplicable.  My experiences don't connect with what we know. Is there anything on the bucket list to compare?  No.  I'm seen as dislusional.  We're not there yet. But mark my words: we are getting there.

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So my dream came true. That's all I have to offer. In 2003, thinking I had a best seller, I self-published my memoirs, An Aquarian’s Bold Venture: A Mind Search of Past, Present, and Future. A professional critiqued my book. She wrote that although it sounded plausible, it was so disconnected that it would have to be completely overhauled to sell.

How to connect the stars, my life story, and the world at large ain’t that easy. I’ve yet to convince others that what I know to be true is true for everyone. And the powers that be are doing everything they possibly can to see that I don’t convince anyone of my truth.

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Food for thought: In my memoirs, Chapter 1, “The Parting,” I begin with, “I was five years old. That would be in 1930, when I first had a hankering to do great things.  The cops found me hours later sitting on my tricycle several miles from home, chatting with a yard man.”

Chapter 1, The Parting—the male principle, the pioneer striking out alone; Chapter 2, Mystery of the Sea—the pairing, changable and adaptable; Chapter 3, Fulfillment—Combining the qualaity of 1 and 2, diversified; Chapter 4, Born for Justice—It stands for stability, system, order; Chapter 5, RVing with Karen and Joe—freedom, change, adventure; Chapter 6, The Mind-Body Connection—the desire to bring to fruition harmony, truth, justice;  Chapter 7, The Quantum Connection—a philosophy by which to live. It tries to penetrate the mystery behind our existence; Chapter 8, Transformation—Assumes power, for now has achieved control and responsibility; Chapter 9, Let Us Make Man in Our Image—Selflessness and compassion.

In numerology, these are the nine cycles in our lives.  

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My spiritual guides are quite active today. Two thousand years ago Plutarch, a leading Greek thinker, said, “an idea, having no form by itself, but giving figure and form to shapeless matter, becomes the manifestation.” Shapeless matter would be before man created something out of it. But an idea having no form by itself may not become matter. It depends on who had the idea. An idea that has to give figure and form to shapeless matter doesn’t apply in quantum physics. It only applies to classical physics.

I have to quality my statement. Renown quantum physicist Richard Feynman said, “I think I can safely say that no one understands quantum mechanics. Do not keep asking yourself, if you can possibly help it, ‘but how can it be like that?’ Nobody knows how it can be like that.” What did I tell you! We are supposed to ignore anything that remains inexplicable. I can’t ignore something I know happened to me.

My dear friends, there are those who do explain people like me. A closed mind can’t imagine anything without physical properties. The closed-minded call anything not physical supernatural and relegate it to the clergy to explain. Remember that my stars blessed me with an understanding of the more subtle workings of the universe. Could that be why the inexplicable is happening to me?

Ask a geneticist from whence our DNA code comes. He’ll tell you he does not get into that. He is blind as a bat about the why of it. He’s only concerned with the how. Before he starts messing with our genes, it would be nice if he knew the why. Does a cloned person have a soul of his or her own? We could end with all mechanical men. Where do our souls go when we die? To Heaven or hell, or in the Catholic’s case, to purgatory? It’s a great source of revenue. A priest gets you into Heaven. If you are a Muslim, kill your enemy and you go to Paradise. Too bad so many of us do not really know why we are here. When I was a Christian, I was told I was here to glorify God. Who is God? I never found Jesus until I rejected Christianity.

Some quantum physicists are “smuggling” God in to physics. What does this statement mean: “Let us make man in our image?” (Gen 1:26)? Meenakshi wants to know what I see ahead. For one thing, we are going to learn about a god we can all accept, and from that point the sky is the limit.

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Like I said, my spiritual guides have been active today. I went to bed at 9 p.m. and was awake at 10:30 with thoughts I wanted get down in writing before they escaped me.

How many events in your life that connect you with your astrological predictions would it take for you to believe it was not by coincidence?
In the 1970s, as predicted by my astrology, I made a radical change in my life, after which fact, coincidentally, an astrologer appeared. I’d not been into astrology but I paid him to make a chart on me and to interpret it. At the time, I’d been hung out to dry. I was uncertain of my future. His astrological analysis of my characteristics and events did not impress me. The first thing he asked me was if I was psychic. My chart had the configuration of the world’s foremost psychics. I was not psychic. Then he said, “it must have been like a sack of cement falling on your head.” “What,” I asked. “The pressure on you and your change.” One of the things he told me that I paid no attention to was that I’d meet a woman on or around April 4, 1976 who might get in my cash box. I met her on April 4, 1976 and she got in my cash box.

Most of what my astrologer said about me came true after the fact. He said that my chart was so clear that I could pick up a magazine or a book on astrology and read about me. He was right.

My bigger than life calling started the ball rolling. I had it in the county law library while reading about U.S. constitutional law. I felt that voices of the past were speaking to me. I read in The Rising Sign that the planet Uranus was on the ascendant of the United States on July 4, 1776, the day the United States was born. The planet Uranus was on my ascendant on the day I was born. I’m Aquarius rising. The United States lost its tax case against me. I’m not a lawyer but I beat the lawyers at their own game. What does that tell you? Abraham Lincoln’s sun sign was Aquarius, as was his rising sign. He emancipated America’s black slaves. I’m no tax slave.

All my life, I’ve been a nonconformist, in my early life a rebel without a cause. With my bigger than life calling, I had a cause, and coincidentally with my parting from my old life. I turned loose of the trunk of the tree, like a good Aquarian, and went out on a limb for the fruit, and found it. I met my future wife, Karen, and knew it the instant I met her. I’m psychic.

On our first date, a hike in the mountains near Mt. St. Helens, on the day Mt. St. Helens erupted, in nature, after the calamity comes the rebuilding, in my life, after the calamity it had become, came hope and then renewal.
Explain this: Just before the sky suddenly turned black to our northwest, Karen said to me: “I want our’s to be a platonic relationship.” Fifteen years later a friend did an astrological compatibility analysis on us from his software program and gave Karen a printout. In it I read, “The platonic thing was there from the start, and there is a sense of the brotherly and sisterly between you. Even if lovers, you will always be first and foremost, good friends.”

What made Karen say she wanted our’s to be a platonic relationship? Don’t you think it an odd thing to say on the first date? Karen didn’t know at the time that she was to be my future wife. I was trying to put the idea out of my mind. It is a mystery how the two of us seem to know what the other is thinking.

I could go on and on. In The Rising Sign, “what it reveals about your personality and how it describes the way you act,” under Aquarius, my rising sign, like my astrologer said, I read about the image of me.

At any rate, numerology says I’m here to use my mind and I should spend time by myself in the woods. Karen and I are living in our dream home in the tall timber near Mt. Hood. The change I made in my life has ended in the best of all worlds, and not by accident, I would say. I’m convinced that what goes on in my life can go on in everyone’s life, if they looked within for their answers.

We must be a reflection of what goes on the universe, for the universe is more than the sum of its parts.

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I’m convinced that what goes on in my life can go on in everyone’s life, if they looked within for their answers.

We must be a reflection of what goes on the universe, for the universe is more than the sum of its parts.

This is indeed a wonderful affirmation Joseph. Through all the ins and outs of our life, that deep inner spring is ever with us, guiding,  nourishing, inspiring, connecting

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Yes, Meenakshi, you are so right!

In numerology, we find the basic intelligence of the universe manifested in life, and in vibrations. The numbers 1 through 9, representative of vibrations, and universal principles through which all things and all life evolve, the ancients saw the universe in geometric patterns. Pythagoras, an astrologer, is remembered for the Pythagorean theorem: The square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. I learned in The Physics of Consciousness, written by quantum physicist Evan Harris Walker, that the Pythagorean theorem is employed in proving Bell’s theorem. Bell’s theorem proves that beyond the local forces of gravity and electromagnetism there is a non-local force, and that there is a oneness feature in the whole we call God.  it is the most important scientific discovery of all times and hardly anyone knows it.

Modern science finds that before anything else appeared in the universe there were hydrogen atoms, and from them came the pairing to form the present universe. This pairing process takes place in cyclic form. Strangely, numerology, although here thousands of years ago, understood that the process applied to us as well as things. Modern science uses the mathematics the ancients gave us to prove the material universe, and ignores the fact that the process also applies to humans. Modern science says that Evan Harris Walker is trying to smuggle God into physics.  It's a reaction to man's manufacture of a supernatural God. Anything can be supernatural. All that is necessary is to say it is supernatural.  We've got all manner of supernatural gods, and no god we can all except.  God is always on the side of the people who win the war.  So we keep going to war. It's unbelievable how we can be manipulated by the powers that be.  Rest assured that the powers that be will fight hard to stop nature's God—that is, the basic intelligence of the universe—from being accepted.  By the way, it was nature's God that Thomas Jefferson wrote about in The Declaration of Independence.  Why didn't we grasp it?  Look at the suffering we could have prevented!  It's mind-boggling.  The same as nature's God guided Jefferson's hand to write, nature's God guides my hand to write my thoughts.  

I applied numerology to my life experiences. I wrote a book about it. I was told it wouldn't sell. There is a lot we don't know.  Although not chronological, and overlapping, the nine cycles of life numerology gave me apply to my life. They connect me with the quantitative as well as the qualitative. The 1 principle applied when I cut from the herd and went on my own. I was the pioneer striking out alone. The 2 principle applied when I found the right mate for me. The 3 principle applied after I mated. 3 is diversification. The 4 principle applied when I studied the U. S. Constitution and challenged the IRS. 4 is stability, system, order, the law. The 5 principle applied when Karen and I sold out and hit the road in an RV. 5 is freedom, change, adventure. Every one of the 9 principles apply to my life. The 9 principle is selflessness and compassion. We grow to the point that we are more concerned with human interests than our own interests.

We are inextricably connected with the big picture and here for a purpose. What could it be? The ancients reasoned that we keep coming back to undo the mistakes we made in past lives. St. Augustine said: “Distinguish the ages and the Scriptures harmonize.” There is a progressive order taking place in our world, and it is not what the so-called progressives think. We are not here to socially engineer people. We have reached the point when the energy is building. We humans are about to make a quantum leap forward in our evolvement, about to learn the power that lies within the individual.

What's going to happen when we are in control of our own lives? Will we want to go to war? I don't think so.  Why would we want to control other people's lives?  Government will be the janitor to keep things neat and tidy, and do only the things we can't do as well or better ourselves.  A word to the wise: don't get left in a cloud of dust. When you think progressive, think about progressing to the person you, not society, was created to be. 

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Thank you for sharing your wisdom, Joseph. I got lost in Bell's theorem, but I loved Pythagoras' theorem when we first learned it. We used to call it the windmill theorem, because when we drew it, that's how those squares looked!

Q.E.D. we'd say after each theorem was proved. Not so easy to prove anything in life! But reliving our own experiences - perhaps each time when we look back, another layer unfolds.

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Why should life be so complex?  The simple explanation for Bell's theorem: In relativity, time became a mathematical formula. It added one-dimensional time. This one-dimensional relativity missed action at a distance. Par for the course, it includes only local forces. Bell's theorem finds in intertwined particles that there is a connection that relativity misses. There is time “outside,” in the macrocosmic, and time “inside,” so to speak, in the microcosmic. Classical physics doesn't buy that. What was it that world renowned quantum physicist Feynman said? “I think I can safely say that no one understand quantum mechanics. Do not keep asking yourself, if you can possibly help it, ‘but how can it be like that?’ Nobody knows how it can be like that.” Get over it, Feynman. You are still living in Einstein’s world.

Everything is macrocosmic that counts, as far as we're concerned is not true now nor has it ever been true. Quantum physics finds that time “inside” proves an event that happens at one place can instantly affect an event at another place. The ancient sages of India, in agreement with Bell's theorem, held that so is the microcosmic, so is the macrocosmic. Believe that everything that happens has an external explanation or accept Bell's theorem.  The universe is all one-inseparable mold.  I've experienced events that make Bell's theorem true.  Classical physics calls it “anecdotal.” In other words, you can believe it or not.  It can't be proven by conventional measurements. It is “inside” our quantum minds.  On the other hand, although it has yet to be proven, classical physics (most conveniently) has our minds located in our brains.  So, you have a choice. Are you all meat or a human being?  The powers that be, religious and otherwise, would much prefer you to be all meat, jumping through hoops in a Newtonian dog and pony show. 

As Jesus said, you are either with me or against me.

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Speaking of Bell’s theorem—and time “inside”—I viewed a TV presentation this evening on time. This man was lost in time and space. He remembered nothing of his past. His memory lasted only seconds. Before he lost his memory, he was an orchestra conductor. He could still play the piano and he remembered his wife, but no one else. Time “inside,” a very personal thing, subjective, time “outside,” objective, authority’s means of controlling the individual. One suit does not fit all.

The TV presentation spoke of our personal clock in us, which keeps us informed of the passing of time. Time can speed up for us or slow down. Drugs affect our inner clock. Drugs can speed up time or slow it down. The time of day affects our energy level. In the morning our energy is high, in the evening, low. Time “inside.”

Normally, we can’t jump in or out of time. Yet, it seems, we can on occasion. I have. We’re subjective. The higher law recognizes this. Our state of consciousness is not fixed in time and space. A state has no boundary. Our awareness is based on what we’ve been taught. We set the limits of our awareness, not the control freaks we put in high office, not if were sufficiently aware.

We come equipped with minds of our own, but subject to earthly influence. When I was forty-seven, I had a bigger than life calling. My thoughts led to inner control and belief in a higher power. How do we get bigger than life callings? It’s the sincere desire to make things better for everyone.

Bell’s theorem, in recognition of a non-local force—not part of the time-space consortium, we enter this time-space world an independent life, normally, to develop into a self-sufficient being. Bell’s theorem introduces a new age and a God of the future. Rather than ask God to forgive us for our sins, a guilt complex causes personal irresponsibility and dependence, we should ask ourselves, “how can I help?” It works wonders in the here and now and prepares us for our next appearance.

What were we before arrival? Get over the idea that we are from dust to dust. Look within for your answer. From nothing comes nothing and from dust, dust. What are we upon leaving? We had to be the essence of our being before arriving, and upon departing, back to the essence of our being. Surely, there’s no place called Heaven with golden paved streets, no beautiful land of eternal rest, and no hell. Surely, we’re beyond that supernatural hereafter. We had to be transformed into physical beings in space-time for a purpose, we know, because we are created with reason and logic. We come to a moving environment; that is, to improve our eternal existence. A new being here to make a new life for ourselves and posterity, we are transformed without memory of a past. It is left up to us to make it as good as possible during our allotted time here, for we will be back.

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Just tiptoeing in to thank you for these glimpses into the stream of your thoughts, Joseph.

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Hello, my good friend, and welcome to my home.
What is it that brings you to me?
I came for advice, said he.
I'm honored, said I, pray tell me what I can do.

I had a good thought I wanted to share,
But it was taken wrong.
I know how you feel, we can be so mean.
We live in our own little worlds.

Has it ever occurred to you, dear sir, that this was meant to be?
Each of us comes with a cause.
I know how you feel, we can be so mean.
We live in our own little worlds.

For God said, Let us make man in our image (Gen 1:26).  And just what is that image?  I know how hard it is to make the connection. I've tried for years to convince people. As Bell's theorem tells us, our image is someone with galactic consciousness.  If two photons, once connected, are always connected, even if on opposite sides of the universe, can our quantum based minds, once connected, not also be connected, even if on opposite sides of the universe? Even if there is no direct way to prove it, there is abundant circumstantial evidence. 

Our world, driven by ancient doctrines and dogmas, is imminently faced  with the proverbial Battle of Armageddon.  We are given a choice: become history written in the rocks or find our hidden souls.  The way to save our world is to look within and find the hidden God-self.  

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I know how hard it is to make the connection. I've tried for years to convince people.

The way to save our world is to look within and find the hidden God-self. 

Looks like we don't need to convince others – what they have is already within them.

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Right again, Meenakshi. Having written the above, I'm referred to Gaia member Anna’s July 23, 2007 post, “Embodiment.”

“i don't want to have a body anymore. i want to be it. i don't want to carry it around. i don't want to look out through it as if through chinks in the wall. i don't want it to be my pimp, to send it out looking for people to bring home to love me. i don't want to dress it up like a doll to show to my friends. i don't want to treat it like an enemy soldier when it causes me pain, and fight back with chemical warfare. i don't want to lie in bed, trembling and alone beside it, as if beside a solemn lover who refuses to be cheered. i am tired of having a body. i just want to be my body. not be in it. not be over here, relating to my body over there. let me remember that my buddha-nature is drenched in flesh.”

“i need my individual body to get to the big body of the universe. and i need this small self to get to Big Self. this is my buddhist practice; to pay such close attention to this body, this life, that it bursts apart.”

The above is a Susan Moon quote, Moon a writer and teacher of socially engaged Buddhism.

I’ve never studied Buddhism. How is it that there is a connection in my thoughts and Buddhism?

　

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I guess I’ll have to give you my answer of why my thoughts and Buddhism are the same.

Banking tycoon Morgan once said, “Give me ten men who think like I think and we will control the world.” That could happen. Money and power is the root of all evil. Julian Huxley, in his essay, The Future of Man, explains our increasing purpose with, “Man’s exploration and control of external nature has outdone his exploration and control of his own nature.”

Gaia Redefined: We Gaia members, potentially in the image of God, here with man’s increasing purpose, here to change the world, it is an awesome responsibility. We need to know who we are. We are more than flesh and bones.
What’s so special about us?  What really causes state selection itself? The state of consciousness arises out of quantum mechanical interactions between matter and the mind. The state of our human consciousness is obviously unlimited. If you understand quantum mechanics, the image of man is in the image of the universe’s Supreme Consciousness. Our self is immaterial and eternal.  It takes a self to know self.

General relativity is the geometrical theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915/16. It unifies special relativity. Newton's law of universal gravitation: gravitational acceleration can be described by the curvature of space and time. General relativity further calls for the curvature of space-time to be produced by the mass-energy and momentum content of the matter in space-time. So much for that. We’ve moved on. “The theoretical ropes and crampons for the final push to the top have at least been partially fashioned,” says Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading string theorists.

The old frame of reference is really the means of discussing the way science goes about measuring distances in any particular experiment, in which, of course, there must be some common reference point for all the measurements. String theory goes beyond point zero. It goes to the undivided. Actually, there really is no such thing as space. Space is just science's ordering of events. Why are we still looking externally for god? We are looking at empty space. How is it that there is a connection in my thoughts and Buddhism? God is internal.

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One last thing on redefining Gaia: If you believe the creator of all is one God, with rules that are in harmony with all, then you have no other gods before the creator of all.

The oppressive rulers of Iran don’t believe in a creator of all. They believe their personal creator is ordering them to obliterate all opposition. They make it abundantly clear to the world that their savior will not appear until they either kill or subdue all opposition, and the maniacs are about to possess the atomic bomb.

The leaders of Israel, in keeping with their people’s belief, are committed. They believe Israel is a gift of their God. They have made it abundantly clear that they have the right to defend their Jewish homeland. They have the atomic bomb.

The rest of the world is taking sides. The naive president of the United States has the hope that by doing away with the atomic defence, the good example will have the world following suit. He's egotistical enough to believe it.  His folly is losing America's allies, and sending a signal to Iran that he weak.  Furthermore, President Obama  is indecisive on what to do about Afghanistan. That sends a bad signal.

We, the people, are confused. As a Christian, I was taught that to be saved I had to confess my sins and accept Jesus as my personal redeemer. Clearly, the world will continue with blood baths until we annihilate the human race, unless we all face the truth: there is but one God.

What can we who believe in a single Creator do? First, our image of God has to change to an all-encompassing state in which we are personally inseparable, and that God is not an almighty external force; God is a personally empowering, non-local, natural internal force.

Long ago I had a bigger than life calling to sacrifice my self-interest and pursue a cause proven to be for the good of all: the U. S. Constitution, which is based on the principle that we are here under one God, with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Make no mistake about it, “one God” is not a Judeo-Christian God. One God is based on reason in the law and nature’s God. I know this truth because I’ve been empowered to turn my life around. I’ve found my bliss.

My bigger than life calling is what set me straight and empowered me. Just look at present day America and weep. We’re sailing in unchartered water, divided and not long for this world!

All it takes to put me in touch with you is to click “connect” on my computer screen. I’m authenticated and connected to my Internet provider, which allows me to connect with my Internet browser. I select my Gaia site and type the thoughts you are reading. Think about this: When the religions I refer to were created, communication was limited to word of mouth. You know how that goes. After the fact, I’ve learned from astrology and numerology—from the ancients—that my calling from the time of my birth was to use my mind and spread the truth. This is not word of mouth, my friends. It is written in the stars. It’s my karmic mission. It is God’s will from time immemorial!

I read this in Astrologer’s Handbook. I’m empowered to work slowly and make fundamental and irrevocable changes in my own and others’ lives. Often there is a sense of destiny or a peculiar karmic mission which people with my astrological makeup must fulfill. This Saturn trine Pluto alignment at my birth is one of the most profound of aspects. My whole astrological chart is strongly indicative of my calling. My Life Lesson in numerology says I’m here to use my mind, the mind of God, if you will.

My friends, you surely were not made in man’s image. Deep down, you know I speak the truth.
　
　

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Joseph, thank you for this fascinating thread. 

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Thanks, Helen, for letting me know that you found my discussion fascinating. I see that you are a technician turned to a path on Science of the Mind. Speaking on the “consciousness of Gaia,” you might find my discussion on ”Consciousness and Light” interesting.

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I also enjoyed this thread, many aspects are what I am learning on my path. Thank you for sharing your insight!