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      <title>The Truth Hurts</title>
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&lt;p&gt;      &lt;p&gt;We&amp;#39;ve got The New York Times flapdoodle and my pod. All the peas in this pod are mine, and not one agrees with The New York Times. It says I&amp;#39;m either way ahead or way behind the norm. (An astrologer told me I&amp;#39;m too far ahead of the times to be understood.) I may be writing this for my own amusement, but here goes. Personally, I don&amp;#39;t think the left hand knows what the right hand is doing in America. Senate leader Harry Reid says we&amp;#39;ve lost the war in Iraq. President Bush says we&amp;#39;re winning it. It&amp;#39;s difficult for me to understand it, but we&amp;#39;ve yet to figure out what happened at Virginia Tech. We can&amp;#39;t figure out Social Security, health care, how to balance the budget, how to fight the war on terror. On and on the list goes. I&amp;#39;m wondering if we Americans are not so far out of it that we can&amp;#39;t figure out anything. Our democracy has turned into bickering weak willed wimps. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m in political no man&amp;#39;s land, undoubtedly offensive to many progressive liberals. Conservatives can&amp;#39;t understand my thinking. They are wrapped up in the past. Fat chance I&amp;#39;ll ever be published. I wasn&amp;#39;t going to write anymore of my thinking, but I&amp;#39;m reading &lt;em&gt;A Brief History of Everything &lt;/em&gt;by Ken Wilber, &amp;quot;one of the most widely read and influential American philosophers of our time.&amp;quot; Writes Wilber: &amp;quot;From virtually every inception of every major knowledge quest, East and West alike, the various approaches have fallen into one or another of these two great camps, interior versus exterior.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;ve been saying to look within for answers. I&amp;#39;m expecting Wilber to agree. But no, Wilber maintains that it is almost impossible to understand higher and spiritual developments without taking both the exterior and interior path into account. That&amp;#39;s the way to get widespread agreement, right? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can&amp;#39;t let him get away with that idea without comment. You can take both exterior and interior paths into account but you better not take the exterior path, say I, if you know what&amp;#39;s good for you. The record proves there is most assuredly a right and a wrong way to go. But if you want to be wide read, you take neither path. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The exterior is well-known by the senses, says Wilber. &amp;quot;You don&amp;#39;t have to try to get into the interior, at their consciousness. . . you are looking at the exterior,&amp;quot; reasons Wilber. Absolutely! You are looking at what is good for the birds. It&amp;#39;s tweedle-dee-dee-tweedle-dee-dumb with Wilber. Actually, you are looking at Ayn Rand&amp;#39;s, &lt;em&gt;Atlas Shrugged &lt;/em&gt;philosophy, at objectivity, neither here nor there: we live only to serve the many. My, oh my! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no such thing as objective reality. There is only subjective reality-your reality, my reality. (There goes my audience of the brainwashed.) Objective reality serves only enslavement of the soul. It was objective thinking that kept black people enslaved, and sadly, that which keeps them enslaved to Rand&amp;#39;s mindless aspirations external of the mind. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are in the image of God, a God-self. God is not objective. There is no external animating you. Your energy is your&amp;#39;s, if you know what is good for you. My friends, Wilber does not know everything. If you don&amp;#39;t first love self, you can never be selfless. Sorry, folks, but you are not born in sin. Wilber does not know that all evil is of exterior origin. Know thy self and know goodness. Know the right way to know you are a being of power, intelligence, and love. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Know that American lawyers would not know the truth in the law if it smacked them in the face. They are taught to stand before you with fish eyes and lie like dogs. America&amp;#39;s judges know no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil. I aught to know. I&amp;#39;ve personally appeared before 18 of them. The law is what they say it is, but for a fact, they don&amp;#39;t know the law; I know the law. My understanding clears the fog the makers and keepers of the law are making for the American people. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America&amp;#39;s present culture looks at me like I&amp;#39;m a leper, but the law was written for me, not for the present culture. The authorities&amp;#39; law says we are all created equal and then contradicts itself in many ways. There are principles of right and justice -leave out government entitlements-which are entitled to prevail of their own intrinsic excellence, altogether regardless of the notions of those who wield the physical resources. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Politicians, lawyers, and judges all have their self-serving agendas, but there is only one law, the Higher Law, spelled out in the American Constitution. America&amp;#39;s present culture be damned. You don&amp;#39;t expediently take anything in my Constitution out of context. The Higher Law is for the individual, not for judges, not for the majority. Speaking for the Court, Justice Jackson: &amp;quot;The very purpose of the Bill of Right as to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and establish them legal principles to be applied by the courts.&amp;quot; Know thyself and know the law. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world, engulfed in the energy of action and reaction, is heading for the annihilation of humanity. A change from this fool&amp;#39;s paradise is long overdue. Sorry, Ken, but a change will only come if we look within for the answers. We are subjective observers, &amp;quot;co-equals in the foundry of creation,&amp;quot; says my guru, quantum physicist Even Harris Walker. Says Walker, who is accused by his colleagues of trying to smuggle God into physics, &amp;quot;The tests of Bell&amp;#39;s theorem have shown us that objective reality as it has been conceived is not the true fabric of reality. The observer interacts with matter. Consciousness, the substance of this new-found reality that defines the observer, has fundamental existence. It is the quantum mind that is the basic reality.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Walker happens to be the first with a detailed quantum model of the synaptic function. What do today&amp;#39;s shrinks know about the human mind? They treat &amp;quot;mental disorders.&amp;quot; They didn&amp;#39;t enough about Cho&amp;#39;s thinking to prevent his massacre of his classmates. This that Walker speaks of is a reality wave that will sweep the world clean of the mind set of today&amp;#39;s meatheads. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The supreme law is the supreme consciousness of the universe. Somewhere in-between there is an exterior universe separated by time and space but the law never changes. Only man&amp;#39;s laws expediently change. America is going in reverse down a one-way street to a dead end. Hello Sodom and Gomorrah! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not terribly difficult to understand the new reality if we open our minds to new ideas. Only you can determine how long it will take to do away with might makes right. If we Zaadsters are ever to change the world, we are going to have to put things and people into logical perspective. We are going to have to realize that we&amp;#39;ve evolved. We have choices. If we are going to change the world, know that we are all individuals with the right to pursue our individual destinies free of interference. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

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