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Re: Growth or Decay II

http://inlink2009.gaia.com — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:58:39 GMT

Sooner or later societies end controlled by the powers that be and self-destruct. It is believed by some that an advanced Atlantis decayed and destroyed itself. Twenty years after Jesus was crucified, so I read, the Romans destroyed the Hebrews’ temple and took them into slavery, only to be taken over by the barbarians from the north.

The American people are helplessly watching as history repeats itself. The most important thing in life, self-control, seems to always evade us. Why? We find ways—lavish ourselves with things, heavy metal music, booze, and/or drugs, actually, anything it takes to make us feel good—to avoid personal responsibility and self-reliance. Then it’s help me through the night. What about Elvis? What about the most recent “King of Rock?” It’s unbelievable.

My father’s father was ill and unable to work much of the time, forcing my father to quit school in the eighth grade and go to work. To be sure, my father was a self-made man. During World War I, he applied for Officers Candidate School. The requirement was two years of college. My father lied and passed the entrance exam. My father was one of General Pershings 100 heros. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

After the war, my father became a successful businessman. He married his secretary, my mother, at age 33. I was born in 1925. The picture is me at age two.It all sounds very good for me, but something was missing in my father’s life. Success went to his head. He turned into an alcoholic. He supported us well but never gave us his love. In my youth, I felt unloved and insecure. I had abundance but I deeply resented my father.

I married at age 25. My first wife was withdrawn. I provided for her well. That’s not the point. I married someone who would keep me living in a lie. After 13 years, I divorced her and was married again within a year. Ten years with my second wife ended in divorce. Twenty-three years of marriage and I still didn’t know love. I was living a lie.

I craved independence, but from what? Over the years, I developed a deep resentment for authority, especially the federal government and income tax. I was a tax slave. At the same time that my second marriage failed my business enterprise of 25 years was on the rocks. I found that it was written in the stars. My life was due for a great change.

I challenged Uncle Sam in court, took my claim all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and did not get the time of day. The IRS hung itself with its own rope. I took the court record to The Palm Beach Post and got a front page story on the lawless IRS. I may not have proved my case in court but I did prove it to the public in the newspaper.

There is no question that we are being taken by political frauds, but more people feel they are helped than hurt by big, intrusive government (including me, now that I’m one of the government entitled). I didn’t ask for this but when you live in Rome you do as the Romans do.

I studied the U.S. Constitution. The United States has done away with my rights, replaced them with social justice, or the end result justifies the means. That is to say, the good of all overrides the rights of the individual. It is the surest way to moral decay. The authorities only know what is best for them.
Government entitlements keep politicians in office and the people dependent on them.

Rather than bury my head in the sand, the emotion of blaming the world for my woes, this was overwhelmed by the inborn determination I inherited from my father. I looked within for my answers. My father lost his determination, drowned his sorrows in booze, I set out to remake my life.

When I was young, I thought I knew it all. Rather than spend my time feeling sorry for myself over my unfortunate fate, like my cynical father, I departed my old life and never looked back. The more I’ve learned, the more I’m aware of how little I know. Once I threw out the insecure me, found the real me, the better my life became. There is much uncertainty in life, but chance favors the prepared mind. I found the right mate. There is nothing better than loving someone and being loved back.

Things are looking pretty bleak in America, the same as they looked for me. It’s quite a challenge. Once again, society is faced with moving on or turning back. The energy is building. Are we going to decay and loose all that we’ve gained? In my life, after the calamity, hope and renewal. My life is an omen. I’m betting that this time we are going to cross the threshold and move on to our intended advanced selves.

Re: Inspired / Inspiring quotes about age

http://ingebrita.gaia.com — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:20:09 GMT

"Age is reforming our bodies to better roll with the punches!"
~ Sue Patton Thoele (Freedoms After 50)

Re: Growth or Decay II

http://inlink2009.gaia.com — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:22:58 GMT

Classical physics can’t turn loose of the idea that the mind is in the brain. Common sense tells you better.The human anatomy has not changed in 250,000 years but human intelligence has changed. If the brain were to grow any bigger a baby could not pass through the birth canal. Logic tells you that your mental growth is not confined to the brain. You are beyond animal. You are spiritual. You have a soul.

In my case, I clung to ideas put in my head by various earthbound autorities, which prevented awareness expansion. Five hundred years back the Holy Roman Empire believed the earth was flat and at the center of the universe. A few years back there was the sound barrier. Today we take for granted that which 50 years ago would have been judged impossible. Nothing is impossible.

Half of us now believe extraterrestrial life is here with us. The authorities deny it. It is a control thing. Add it all up and you have to accept that your mind is not in your brain. Your mind is your state of awarness, how much your are conscious of—behavioral or made in the image of God or universal consciousness. Think about it. If we could believe that within each of us exists universal consciousness, would we not live together without the heavy hand of government, without war—live together in peace and prosperity? It is a control thing that prevents us from becoming that which we were intended to be.

Re: Growth or Decay II

http://Meenakshi.gaia.com — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:36:39 GMT

Inlink, I am enjoying your posts tremendously. I think of the process of what unfolds; and how each unfolding is because of something that happened earlier. In the same way that decay follows growth follows decay ad infinitum....and also, as each subsumes the other, and is present in the other.

Re: Growth or Decay II

http://inlink2009.gaia.com — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:13:08 GMT

As we age, do we decay? To look at us, yes, but to look within, maybe, maybe not. Maybe we learn from our experiences. What we know and what we want is at the heart of much great literature. It is easy to be overwhelmed by emotion, to allow emotion to overrule the thinking, deliberating parts of our brains. Older heads seem to be calmer, writes Psychiatrist Gene Cohen in The Mature Mind.

I write my thoughts every day. I was surprised to learn in The Mature Mind that autobiographical writing and storytelling among older people is common. It stems from the desire to find meaning in life. Cohen finds in his 35 years of practice that older people tend to be more resilient, adaptable, and capable than we thought. They are also more optimistic.

Science has now learned that new experience and learning creates new brain cells. A healthy workout expands your mental potential. Use the brain like a muscle. It grows stronger. Like the foundation of a building, our “hardwired” brain is capable of adapting, growing, and becomes more complex and integrated as we age.

All of these things we learn. But at the same time, our minds grow and evolve, writes Cohen. Here’s the issue: Is the mind in the brain? Writes Cohen: “how we evolve and grow psychologically affects the brain itself. . .” Psyche, the mind, spirit, soul, the psychological structure of a person—that which makes the whole person: conscious awareness. Thus, who or what makes the determination, society, the law, science, religion? None of the above. You make the determination. I have looked at my moral decay as the sole reason for my rebirth into the person I was meant to be.

This thought comes to mind. Many of my Gaia friends confine their remarks to love, understanding, caring, giving, the idea that thinking only positive thoughts makes positive things happen. President Reagan called the Soviet Union "the evil empire." He said: "Mr. Gorbachov, tear down your wall." The wall came down. Morality comes as the result of good and evil experiences.

America's problem today is avoiding reality, the refusal to face any situation squarly that makes one feel insecure.

Re: Growth or Decay II

http://inlink2009.gaia.com — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:46:38 GMT

For Christmas I received The Mature Mind by psychiatrist and gerontologist Gene D. Cohen. After reading a few pages, I understood where he was taking me. I looked in the index for spiritual and found the word “spirituality.” I was referred to page 31 and “Some people are driven by a spiritual quest.” Speaking of “higher” drives, the author adds creativity and giving to others—these three as human development.

He writes that he doesn’t believe that nature set us up for failure. We agree on that. Is all that is going on in our brains electrical and chemical impulses Cohen calls the mind? That simply cannot be. Neither can it be an external supernatural force that controls us.

I guess it is good to know exactly how an automobile gets us quickly, efficiently, and comfortably from point to point, but that doesn’t concern me. I guess it is important to know how the brain works. The point is that it does.   But there is more to building a life. My dictionary, as one of the definitions, defines the mind as the totality of conscious and unconscious mental processes. Other definitions include thinking, reasoning, perceiving, intellectual power, the qualitative rather and quantitative.

The word “conscious” is not mentioned in the index of The Mature Mind. Which comes first, the qualitative or the quantitative? Electrical and chemical action is quantitative. Consciousness is qualitative. We exist in a state of conscious awareness. States have no boundaries. You cannot confine consciousness to a place, namely, the brain.

Medical brain specialist, as well as quantum physicist, Evan Harris Walker, knew all about the electro-chemical workings of the brain. He wrote The Physics of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life. Walker wrote that the observer interacts with matter. Consciousness, the “substance” of this “new-found” reality that defines the observer “interacts” with matter. The quantum mind has “fundamental” existence. “

The quantum mind is basic to reality. You can’t confine the mind and reality to the brain. Before reality, there is a quantum world, one that is yet to be. Observation is what makes reality. Consciousness exists. You cannot leave it out. Science can now see how conscious experience and the will works.

“Will” is not in the index of The Mature Mind. The universe is fundamentally conscious awareness. Out of awareness springs physical manifestation. Thoughts of accomplishment bring about the physical appearance of our world. Also, conscious thought brings about destruction of our world. I’m not as interested in the how as I am in the why. The why is not found in the workings of the brain. Will is not found in the workings of the brain.

America has moved from self-willed to a position of external will. I’m reminded of the Garden of Eden and the forbidden fruit. Authority has the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the reverse. In the branches of said tree was a serpent, representing Satin: evil. God, represented as good, forbid Adam and Eve from partaking of the fruit of said tree. The serpent advised Eve to eat the fruit and know as much as the gods—know good and evil.

We are taught from early childhood not to question authority. Isn’t that nice! We are created with reason and logic but educated to have blind faith in the impossible. No, our minds do not originate in electro-chemical processes in the brain. Sin doesn’t originate in our brains. Authority conjured up being “born in sin”—made us feel guilty. Secular authority is riding on the back of a lie: a means of control.

The belief that our understanding originates in our brains leaves out the fact that we are both qualitative and quantitative. Our qualitative life is eternal. We are here to correct the wrongs of our past.

Growth or Decay II

http://inlink2009.gaia.com — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:07:28 GMT

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
                                                                                        - Henry Miller

I stumbled upon Siona’s Growth or Decay. Living in the woods makes me more aware of growth and decay. Near my home lies a large fallen, heavily decayed tree, my source of mulch for my garden. At age 84, I’m aware of my decaying body, at the same time my growth in awareness.

What was it that brought me to the point of despair? From the deprivation manmade authority brought the West with the Holy Roman Empire came the Renaissance, defined as being reborn; springing again into being or vigor. As I look at history, came Newton’s laws of motion and Einstein’s theory of relativity, out of which emerged the high tech age and the abundance of things. Rather than springing again into being or vigor, we’ve laid aside the spiritual beings the high tech age allowed us to become with more leisure time.

Like many Americans, instead of looking to my spiritual side, I devoted myself to acquisition. Due to America’s abundance and self-serving politicians, many have looked to Washington for help. They’ve made of themselves jellyfish drifting to and fro on the tides—with little or no will of their own.

I’d acquired a 15 acre spread and large home. I was living the life of a country squire. My business enterprise of 25 years failed. My second wife decided to leave me. My life was over. I had the choice of starting over or ending it all.

I’ve asked myself, what is wonderful about decay? My answer: Fortunately, I had a bigger than life calling: my inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—my constitutional rights! Instead of blaming the world for my misfortune, and looking to Washington for help, the common thing the American people do, I looked within for my answers, discovered the real me, and grew to be the person I was meant to be. I don’t know what to tell the American people, other than If it worked for me, it can work for you. Ask not what your country can do for you!

Re: Growth or Decay?

http://inlink2009.gaia.com — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:25:49 GMT

We may all have years ahead of us here, but we may also each be dying. I wonder how many of us get the full meaning of Siona’s remark. It is astonishing how close we are coming to my bigger than life calling in 1973. It came when I read my constitutional rights. I felt that voices of the past were speaking to me.

We are looking now at the “Higher Law” opposed to the law of the jungle—might makes right. Some Members of Congress are claiming that it is unconstitutional to require the purchase of health care insurance. It makes sense to require everyone to buy health care insurance if health care is a “right.” If one doesn’t have insurance, he, nevertheless, has the “right” to health care. Why should he get out of paying his fair share of the cost?

Is health care anymore a right than food, clothing, and shelter? It makes no sense to say one is a right if you don’t say all are rights. It comes down to the question of life, liberty, and property. My issue in 1973 was my right to health care, food, clothing, and shelter, the fruits of my labor exceeding the authority of federal income tax. The tax I was asked to pay exceeded my ability, though work, to pay for the essentials. I was locked out of my apartment for non-payment of rent—put on the street in the name of tax.

I took my issue to the U.S. Supreme court. I was not heard. Might made right. Lawful is defined in Black’s Law Dictionary as the substance of the law, opposed to the form of law: done in accordance with common usages, or the will of the majority. Lawful implies an ethical content—reason without passion: something natural and constant. A right is not a construction of opinion. If a right were simply the will of the majority, then owning slaves would be a right.

That which is deemed to be for the good of all is the demise of the individual. If health care is a right, then the individual does not exist. If you ask for government help, you tacitly agree to take what you get. We may all have years ahead of us here, but we may also be tax slaves, left out in the cold—our individual freedom dead and gone forever. This we’ve got is surely not what you want. I say look within for your answers.

Re: Gaia Soulmates

http://inlink2009.gaia.com — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:28:43 GMT

“There came the time in Karen’s and my life to leave the pressures of work and the big city. We opted for a life of travel.” These are the first two sentences of my narration of a slide show I’m creating from my computer software of our RV travels. I’ve hundreds of digital pictures.

We lived on wheels for nine years. One day Karen said, “Joe, I hate to think about living in this RV the rest of my life.” “Well,” said I, “quit thinking about it. We can’t afford to buy a home.” (Homes had tripled in price since we sold ours.)

At that very moment, not known by us, my application for disabled veteran benefits was up for review at the Veteran’s Administration. A week after Karen’s remark I received notice in the mail that my application had been approved.

We purchased a manufactured home and had it placed on a site in the tall timber 30 miles east of Mt. Hood, Oregon. This will be our second Christmas in our new dream home. We are grateful for the generosity of the American people, but there is a lot more to this story no one but me seems to be aware of.

Numerology and The Divine Triangle informs us that we have personal numbers. These numbers tell us the lessons to be learned during our lives, as well as our spiritual growth. I’m given the number 7 as my life lesson number. “You are here to use and develop your mind. Your words should be full of wisdom when you decided to talk. . .You should learn to spend time by yourself, in the woods or by the seashore, where you can get in touch with your inner self and your deepest thoughts because your destiny is to use your mind.” I’m following my path of destiny now, but not always.

First, I’d like to mention that a hologram is a three dimensional image of an object produced by intersecting laser beams. When divided into two parts, you see two images of the complete object. Divide it into as many parts as you like and every part is an image of the complete object. An example would be placing two mirrors so that you see yourself to infinity.

The ancient sages of India said, “So is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm.” We’ve got an archetype out of which we are copies.

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Roosevelt and the Democrats, our "public servants," made an impulsive decision. They established permanent individual aid for the unfortunate. The rattlesnakes felt it their “duty” to the individual. In 1933, Roosevelt: “while it isn’t written in the Constitution, nevertheless, it is the inherent duty of the Federal Government to keep its citizens from starvation.”

Grants in aid to the individual began very small and grew to astronomical proportions. Once on the narcotic of grants in aid to individuals, we continued, good times and bad times, indulging evermore. Presently, addicted America is on a course of unsustainable spending and debt creation.

We borrowed on our homes to the extent that the price was tripled. Then the government bailed out the lenders with our tax money, the very frauds who made millions on their irresponsible lending to unqualified borrowers, leaving the responsible without enough downpayment to buy a home. They couldn’t do anything else! Give me a break!

Going back to August 1981, double digit inflation and low housing construction for the second time had put me out of work. I made an impulsive decision to return to Florida, buy a second boat, and set sail on the South Atlantic Ocean. My second sea adventure, this time with Karen, ended on the rocks. I would have sailed a safer course had I been on my own. It meant four days at sea to get to my destination, the Virgins. We took an island hopping course.

After we went aground, Karen wanted to return to Oregon, but I had different ideas. We remained in Florida. We had insurance. Our boat was brought back to Florida, repaired, and returned to us. We sold it. My two business ventures never made any money. Karen supported us on her medical assistant income. I count my blessings that she stayed the course I’d put us on. After twelve years of failed business ventures, I retired. Karen worked for another five years.

I had the idea of selling out, buying an RV, and hitting the road. Karen jumped on the idea like a mockingbird on June bug. I spent two years landscaping, painting and remodeling our home, at a cost of $6,500. We sold our home ourselves for half again as much as a real estate agent’s offer. My plan worked. I got off my guilt trip. We had the money to buy an RV and a tidy sum left over.

We lived in our RV and traveled for less than it had cost us living in the city in our home. I’d like to mention that nobody else we knew thought much of our idea. We easily adjust to our circumstances.

The prophets and mythologists tell us we’re heading for the rocks. The egomaniacs in Washington, D.C. don’t have the right answers. Does our national fate not begin with you and I? Whether you like it or not, you do not have a choice. You are going to have to adjust. It is abundantly clear that the government does not have a duty to you. It is making you a tax slave.

If I’d looked within for my answers in 1981, I’d saved Karen and I a lot of grief. Government people are no different than you and I. What would you and I do if we had the right to print money? It’s a good idea that we cease depending on impulsive, self-serving government people and start looking within for answers.

Re: Growth or Decay?

http://inlink2009.gaia.com — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:29:31 GMT

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. Henry Miller

We may all have years ahead of us here, but we may also each be dying. Siona

In my book of memoirs (published on my blog site), The Disembodied Hand, Chapter 1, “The Parting,” I wrote:

“In the infinite blackness of space, heavenly bodies more numerous than grains of sand on all of our world's beaches, our water planet appeared six billion years ago, we humans the end product of two thousand million years of evolution on the planet, here was I on a body of water covering four-fifths of the planet.”

“Like a child in ocean's arms,
We strive against the stream Each moment farther from the shore
Where life's young fountains gleam;
Each moment fainter wave the fields,
And wider rolls the sea,
The mist grows dark-the sun goes down-
Day breaks-and where are we? Oliver Wendell Holmes"

Day breaks and I’m on my 37 foot sloop Bold Venture on the South Atlantic Ocean, in the Bermuda Triangle, the only entity in sight, besides water and the heavens. Tropical storm Dottie is bearing down on me. On that day, August 28, 1976, miracles occurred. I’ve been spared to tell my story, one that concerns our future, that we might have life.

Re: Growth or Decay?

http://inlink2009.gaia.com — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:17:47 GMT

My family members, at least in my view, are limited in their understanding of the universe. I don't talk about the things I write here when I'm with my family. They wouldn't understand. This is with the exception of my youngest daughter. Suddenly, we've gotten on the same wave length. And to think, she and I were not even speaking to each other. She deeply resented me for my independence.

My family is what you could call the salt of the earth. Their lives are good now, but I'm convinced that our world is in for a radical change. The energy is building, as I see it, for a change in the direction of my thinking.

The world is living in blind faith of a past that is soon to be left in a cloud of dust. Long ago I cut from the herd. My family thought I was nuts. I'm living on the crest of the wave of the future. If my life could be any better, I don't know how. Nice that my daughter has decided to join me.

Re: Growth or Decay?

http://Meenakshi.gaia.com — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:16:31 GMT

I'll tell her - thanks Inlink! She does read the postings here once in a while, and just sees it as such a wonder. But neither she nor my father want to be directly involved! How I wish my father would share his wisdom and learning this way.

Re: Growth or Decay?

http://inlink2009.gaia.com — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:05:21 GMT

Please tell your mother for me that being a member of the Gaia Community gives me the privilege of posting my far-out-of-the-mainstream views. It gives me the sense of doing the thing I was put here to do--the sense of accomplishment, at least for me. It is something that gives me a reason for being. As a consequence, for an octegenerian, I'm feeling much younger than my years.

Re: Gaia Soulmates

http://inlink2009.gaia.com — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:59:35 GMT

More to think on, this comes to mind. Many times I’ve had the feeling of having been in the same conversation before: déjà vu—French for “already seen.” Nobody can explain it but everyone has had the feeling. So much in our lives has not been explained. The answers are there, I can tell you, but few know the answers.

The most outstanding event in this vein of thought was the time when I telepathically received cries for help—actually heard voices! How many can say they actually saved lives? During my two years at sea I actually saved seven lives, including my own, from a watery grave. What was power in me to perform such miracles?

I was sailing with a friend a few miles off the Palm Beach, Florida coast when I heard the voices. My friend didn’t hear them. I was compelled to sail in the direction from whence I heard the voices. I sailed straight to three scuba divers who got caught in an ocean current. They were miles from their dive boat. Nothing like this ever happened in my “old life.” It was after my departure, when I cut from the herd and went on my own, that miracles happened. It is an omen of our future. I’m an Aquarian message bearer.

Before my departure, I received a bigger than life calling, and most astonishingly, when I studied my constitutional rights. America, the home of the brave and the free, was born when the sun shone on Aquarius, my “rising sign.” We, the people, are being called upon to take our nation back.

The hologram is a lab setup that produces a three dimensional picture. At each point in the image is the data to construct the whole image. Could the same be true in déjà vu? So is the macrocosm, so is the microcosm. What is time and space but the time it takes to travel from point to point? It is uncertain, said physicist Werner Heisenberg. His uncertainty principle was the forerunner of quantum mechanics. Coincidentally, he published his uncertainty principle in the month and year of my birth: September, 1925.

Incidentally, the turning point of events came when I was on the high seas heading for the invasion of Japan. Heisenberg was Hitler’s atom bomb builder. The Allies bombed his plant to the ground. The Americans dropped two atom bombs on Japan and ended World War II. I’ve been spared to tell the story. It is déjà vu! What has come around is coming around. Atlantis!

Gaia Soulmates

http://inlink2009.gaia.com — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:21:37 GMT

I took my title from actual Gaia Soulmates—Is your soul mate waiting? It seems mine was—once I decided to cut from the herd and go on my own. Not only did I become successfully paired but my larger family emerged—people on my wave length.

I was taught to be a cog in the wheel. As a nation, America’s gears are stripped. This is the me generation—anything that makes me feel good. We are starting to roll backwards. We are not cogs in the wheels of progress, my friends. We are all individuals with power potential we’ve never dreamed we have.

It has to do with life, liberty, and property. You are not the government’s property. Rather than admit, omit from your life Obamanation baloney. You have the duty to be yourself.

I purchased astrological software. I took all my friends and family birth dates, and where they were born, programmed them into my software, and received astrological charts on them. None seemed to fit. I personally went to an astrologer who created a chart on me. It didn’t fit; that is, until I decided to go on my own. I came to know the real me and my astrological chart fit. I was on my path of destiny. When everything should have gone wrong, according to the establishment, everything went right.

I’m a three-time loser in marriage. I was fifty-four years old when my fourth wife appeared, two weeks after wife number three departed—at a time when the last thing I wanted was another wife. The minute I met Karen, I had the feeling she was meant for me. I’ve never looked at another woman. We’ve been married twenty-eight fantastic years.

On our first date, a hike to Multnomah Falls near Portland, Oregon, on May 18, 1980—how can I forget—Mt.Saint Helens erupted. Karen and I were sitting on a log chatting. Karen said, “I want ours to be a platonic relationship.” I wondered why she would say that. At that moment, the sky in the northwest turned black. We hurried back to the car and learned that the mountain had erupted.

Many years after I met Karen, a friend offered to create a compatibility report on Karen and I, with his software. I read in the report, “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.” Every word of the statement is true. Peculiar, yes?

Legend has it that the Phoenix, a bird that lived five or six centuries, immolated itself on a pyre and rose from the ashes to begin a new cycle of years. It is seen as an emblem of immortality or of reborn idealism or hope. The eruption of Mt. St. Helens—from the ashes comes new growth—could be taken as a symbol of hope and renewal. What was the 9-11 event? What was the crucifixion of Christ? In nature, out of the ashes comes new growth; in our lives out of calamity comes hope and renewal. The Power of Myth is a book and six part television documentary originally broadcast on PBS in 1988 as Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. The documentary, six one-hour conversations between mythologist Joseph Campbell and journalist Bill Moyers, left me with the feeling that myths have a way of explaining things nature does not directly reveal. In physics, it is called the uncertainty principle. In law, it is called circumstantial evidence—testimony not based on actual personal knowledge or observation of the facts in controversy, but of other facts from which deductions can be drawn, showing indirectly the facts sought to be proved. People v Yokum, 145 C.A.2d 245, 302 P.2d.

The prophets tell us our world is soon to end. Legend has it that long before recorded history there was a continent of advanced people that ended—its name Atlantis. Astrologers say that during the Age of Leo, 10,600 BCE-8440 BCE, during the destruction of Atlantis, the golden age referred to in legends, learning self rule rather than being subject to external authority—what a coincidence! Legends of Atlantis point to the fact that this lesson was not fully learned then, and it has not been learned today by the American people.

Though government entitlements, we’ve turned our lives over to the government to control. “Greenhouse gases” is political blather. We live in a hothouse with government turning values and pulling levers.

You could say, and very likely will say, my ideas are farfetched. I cut my umbilical cord with the establishment, looked within for my answers, got on my path of destiny; my life changed for the better. Karen was sent to me. I’m content to say that our marriage was made in heaven. Today, in the twilight of life, I can say my life is good. Louis Pasteur said chance favors the prepared mind. All I can say is that my ideas worked for me.

Re: The Aquarius-Atlantis Connection

http://inlink2009.gaia.com — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:07:41 GMT

Oh! By the way, Hope, as an anchor so steadfast, from Whispering Hope, a song I play and sing on my keyboard, I've added it to my country music at
http://www.Isound.com/Joseph_Smith

Re: The Aquarius-Atlantis Connection

http://inlink2009.gaia.com — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:30:57 GMT

For a brief period, America’s Founding Fathers broke away from the world’s power struggle and gave the individual “unalienable rights;” that is, rights that are not capable of being surrendered or transferred, without the consent of the one possessing such rights.

Having said this, at 1:00 A.M. in July, 1975, my key would not open my one room apartment door. I’d not paid my rent. The IRS had illegally frozen my rightful tax refund that would have paid my rent. They did it because I petitioned the Tax Court for a hearing on their illegal assessment of tax.

For the moment, I was homeless, and nobody knew it but me. I’d been on the night shift of a Miami, Florida boatyard job. Down the street from my pad, there was a mile long food stamp line—unemployed snowbirds from the North in South Florida for the winter. I could have become one of those “poor mes”on some street corner with a sign begging for help. You could say I was a victim of circumstances, but God helps those who help themselves.

I walked across the street to a payphone and called the police. The police woke up the apartment manager and gave me the new key. You can’t lock out a tenant until you go through a legal process. On that fateful night, I was on the first steps of a thousand mile journey to a new life.

When everything could easily have gone wrong, everything went right. I’ve given myself the name peacemaker. When the moon is in the Seventh House, and Jupiter aligns with Mars, Then peace will guide the planets, And love will steer the stars. Aquarius! Aquarius!

This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius,The age of Aquarius.Aquarius! Aquarius! Harmony and understanding, Sympathy and trust abounding, No more falsehoods or derisions, Golden living dreams of visions, Mystic crystal revelation, And the mind's true liberation. Aquarius! Aquarius!

I know from personal experience that in the end the belief in God in self will bring us hope. For-- Hope, as an anchor so steadfast,Rends the dark veil of the soul.Whither the Master has entered,Robbing the grave of its goal.Come then, O come, glad fruition,Come to my sad weary heart;Come, O Thou blest hope of glory, Never, O never depart.

A very merry Christmas to all!

Re: The Aquarius-Atlantis Connection

http://inlink2009.gaia.com — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:25:06 GMT

And this thought: The Senate, by deceit and bribery, is going to pass government controlled health care before Christmas.

Whether a myth or real, and I don't profess to know, the story of Christ's birth, those three Zoraster wise men, led by the Star of Bethleham, finding the baby Jesus, brings a message far more lasting than the Senate's Christmass gift to the the American people. Christmas is more than tinsel and gift giving. Wake up, America!

Re: The Aquarius-Atlantis Connection

http://inlink2009.gaia.com — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:36:32 GMT

My infantry training in World War II began with a bugle blasting over a loudspeaker, I can't get em up, I can't get em up, I can't get em up in the morning . . . Well, we got up and saved freedom in the world. Now we're back where we were, only this time with our own government bent on controlling us.

Re: The Aquarius-Atlantis Connection

http://inlink2009.gaia.com — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:57:19 GMT

President Obama, the former South Chicago community organizer, was born with Mercury in Cancer, which means he would see the world through the eyes of an emotinally sensitive cosmic nurturer, that of a mother with uncnditional love. Naturally, he would be for the underdog.

This Aquarius rising was born with mith Mercury in Virgo. By the way, in my chart I see my Sun, Moon, Mars, and Mercury in my Seventh Houste, and I see Virgo there opposing Pisces. In the song Aquarius: When the moon is in the Seventh House, and Jupiter aligns with Mars, Then peace will guide the planets, And love will steer the stars.

Mercury in Virgo means I would be an organizer. Rather than the cosmic nurturer, I would desire high standards of ethics and morality through reason, logic and methodical analysis. I would be exacting and bring coherence to the world.

None of this is my thinking. I'm reading it all in my astrology books.