FIRE the GRID II

This is the second Fire the Grid event -
and I hope everyone will join in
http://www.firethegrid.com/

Although this link is posted in other pods- I will also
add it here in a thread exlusively for the event….

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Countdown -5 days 18 hours 58 minute  45 seconds -
http://www.firethegrid.com/eng09/FTGII.htm
At this link there is more information and you can change languages-

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It's an interesting idea about the energy being released from the giant crystal beds in Brazil, I read about them a few months ago…
Tai

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Hi Sandy,

Thanks for publicising this! I look forward to it,

Love,

Nicole

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I tried both links but no info available there.

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sanmugan, see the links available at http://www.firethegrid.com/eng09/FTGII.htm for many details (beautiful music too!)

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Great, lets fire it up then!

- Evo

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the more the merrier….peace..

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Firing the Grid in Las Vegas!!!  Participated in 2007 … nice to see it happening again!

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Great that it is happening again and that you participated in 2007, Elaine.

Fire the Grid in Las Vegas !!!

This is a link to the original event…
http://www.lunarplanner.com/EGM/FireTheGrid/

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July 28, 2009 at 19:19 Rio de Janeiro time

document.write(localTime);
— Wed, July 29 at 08:19 (8:19 AM) in your time zone —

http://www.firethegrid.com/eng09/FTGII.htm

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CAN'T SIGN IN TO FIRE THE GRID !!!
Am trying to sign in and I keep getting Network overload !!!!

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We shall have to “FIRE THE GAIA GRID”  instead!!

I'm all fired up -are you ???

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With 23 minutes into it -I AM  finally IN !
http://www.firethegrid.com/eng09/FTGII.htm

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Can't access anything though in the site -so will just hover in my
Networks and hope we feel the connection :)

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By inviting me to join the discussion, Sandy renewed my enthusiasm in the Gaia Community. I appreciate that. It’s very important. Sandy and I often disagree, but she is willing to listen.

Coincidental with my renewed interest in Gaia, my daughter called to recommend that I buy The I Ching or Book of Changes. The forward of the book was written by the famous psychologist Carl Jung. Every paragraph of the forward brings to mind a thought I’ve had.

Carl Jung wrote in the forward: “I have shown in the example as objectively as I can how the oracle proceeds in a given case. Of course the procedure varies somewhat according to the way the question is put. If for instance a person finds himself in a confusing situation, he may himself appear in the oracle (The I Ching) as the speaker. Or, if the question concerns a relationship with another person, that person may appear as the speaker. However, the identity of the speaker does not depend entirely on the manner in which the question is phrased, inasmuch as our relations with our fellow beings are not always determined by the latter. Very often our relations depend almost exclusively on our own attitudes, though we may be quite unaware of this fact.”

Too often I’ve found that Gaia members’ minds are made up. The facts go in one ear and out the other. It’s a waste of my time to state my views. What if the oracle’s speaker is a powerful political leader? Jung points out that he has shown us as objectively as he can, thus admitting that he is subjective; that it is impossible to be completely objective. It is not in our nature. We are not hive creatures. Jung informs us that the oracle can appear as, you, the speaker, or a powerful political leader, however, the identity of the speaker does not depend entirely on the manner in which the question is phrased. “Very often our relations depend almost exclusively on our own attitudes, though we may be quite unaware of this fact.”

Exactly! Very interesting, attitude could leave one to believe the oracle is fallacious or that the oracle is heaven sent. Jung wrote that one must add grace, as one meets all sorts of vicissitudes of fortune in the climb upward. I’ve had the attitude that “there but for the grace of God go I” is something people say who refuse to see evil. One must not bury one’s head in the sand. Evil in the world is real. We’re here to overcome evil, not to ignore it. We’ve a lacking of communication that must be overcome.

Rights are near and dear to my heart, and cannot be ignored herein if we are to change the world for the better. There is no argument that we all have the right to life and liberty. The argument arises over the pursuit of happiness. The attitude we adapt is all-important to our happiness. The test as to “right” is whether the right at issue is “of the very essence of the scheme of ordered liberty,” I read in a book on the law. Commons sense says that neither liberty nor justice would exist if the very essence of ordered liberty were ignored.

As I’ve earlier mentioned, I challenged the United States’ income tax as unconstitutional. I took the issue all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. I was dismissed without comment. What would the I Ching or the Book of Changes say? Says “the oracle,” the United States, the leader of the free world, is now in an economic meltdown, the U.S. leadership, copying the rest of the free world—moving away from the pursuit of happiness and toward tax enslavement. There is no grace, says “the oracle,” except for the grace leaders of the free world give themselves to do whatever it takes to maintain in control.

Let Justice Jackson, speaking as “the oracle,” tell it like it is (one of the cases I used in my Writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Court of Appeals, and before the U.S. Supreme Court) in West Va. State Board of Education v. Barnette.

“The very purpose of the Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property …and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections…”

The question now before us: Did God make man in his image, or does man make God in his image? Let there be the grace to correct the wrong of redistribution of the wealth according to man’s idea of “God’s chosen people,” actually those who follow this political leader or that political leader, and death be to the weaker of the two. God is always on the side of those who win wars. God favors the mightiest, so who is your’s truly to challenge the mightiest nation of earth, don’t forget, by virtue of the income tax?

The law of nature calls for equal rights and equal opportunity for the rich and the poor of the world, not on equal distribution of the wealth by the powers that be. “The oracle,” as well as Fire the Grid II, first of all ask: Are you a creation of nature or are you a mechanical man?
　
　
　
　
　

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Thank you Joseph for inviting me here. Experiencing the meditation this afternoon was amazing… Maybe later i will give more details of what I felt during it… In Love and Light now I will take a break…

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Asteri has had her experiences, if she cares to talk about them. If all had experienced what Asteri and I have experienced, all would be as inspired as Asteri and I are. We need to pay more attention to the symbols that mark our time on planet Earth. No question about it, good fortune comes from the prepared mind.

The giant crystal beds in Brazil are none other than the first hexagram in The I Ching, the creative, which is active, strong, and of the spirit. To my good fortune, and Asteri’s, it would be helpful for everyone to listen to one of the greatest of psychologists, Carl G. Jung. Out of the hexagram comes all the laws of creation, which separate us from the physical. We have the power within, individually, to control any situation. I know, and I think Asteri knows, because we’ve each been there.

Jung wrote the foreword to The I Ching. Reading his foreword, “I had not been feeling too happy in the course of writing this foreword, for, as a person with a sense of responsibility toward science, I am not in the habit of asserting something I cannot prove or at least present as acceptable to reason. It is a dubious task indeed to try to introduce to a critical modern public a collection of archaic ‘magic spells,’ with the idea of making them more or less acceptable…”

“I must appeal to the good will and imagination of the reader, inasmuch as I have to take him into the obscurity of an age-old magic ritual…”

”The I Ching insists upon self-knowledge throughout,” exactly what I’ve myself maintained, writes Jung. “My position in these matter is pragmatic, and the great disciplines that taught me the practical usefulness of this viewpoint are psychotherapy and medical psychology… Clearly the method aims at self-knowledge, though at all times it has also been put to superstitious use.” I don’t myself believe in the supernatural. Everything has a reason.

“Even to the most biased eye it is obvious that this book represents one long admonition to careful scrutiny of one’s own character, attitude, and motives. This attitude appeals to me and has induced me to undertake the foreword.”
“One cannot easily disregard such great minds as Confucius and Lao-Tse, if one is at all able to appreciate the quality of the thoughts they represent; much less can one overlook the fact that The I Ching was their main source of inspiration…”

“Indeed, in formulating my question I even invited the oracle to comment directly on my action. The answer was hexagram 2g, K’an THE ABYSMAL.

“Forward and backward, abyss on abyss.
In danger like this, pause at first and wait,
Otherwise you will fall into a pit in the abyss.
Do not act in this way.”

Wow! This exactly fits my second of three departures. I acted on impulse.

Jung: “Formerly I would have accepted unconditionally the advice, “Do not act in this way,” and would have refused to give my opinion of The I Ching, for the sole reason that I had none.” (At least he’s honest.)

“A jug of wine, a bowl of rice with it;
Earthen vessels
Simply handed in through the window,
There is certainly no blame in this.”

The author, Wilhelm, makes his comment here: “all this need not be humiliating if only there is the honest intention of mutual help in danger.”

Wilhelm: “The fifth line continues the theme of limitation. If one studies the nature of water, one sees that it fills a pit only to the rim and then flows on. It does not stay caught there:”

“The abyss is not filled to overflowing,
It is filled only to the rim.”

“But if, tempted by the danger, and just because of the uncertainty, one were to insist on forcing conviction by special efforts, such as elaborate commentaries and the like, one would only be mired in the difficulty, which the top line describes very accurately as that tied-up and caged-in condition. Indeed, the last line often shows the consequences that result when one does not take the meaning of the hexagram to heart.”

“Thus the superior man encourages the people at their work,
And exhorts them to help one another.”

Absolutely! This bears out the notion of a certain kind of anarchy never for long been practiced, as defined in my dictionary: theory that regard the absence of all direct or coercive government as a political ideal and that proposes the cooperative and voluntary association of individuals and groups as the principal mode of organized society.

“The less one thinks about the theory of The I Ching,” writes Jung, “the more soundly one sleeps.” True. I sleep less and think more. “Like a part of nature, it (The I Ching) waits until it is discovered… He who is not pleased by it does not have to use it, and he who is against it is not obliged to find it true. Let it go forth into the world for the benefit of those who can discern its meaning.” C. G. Jung.

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America’s Declaration of Independence tells us we have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That’s all we deserve. We need to mature into self-reliant, personally responsible adults. The government of the United States added a duty of government when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. Ever since then, we’ve been becoming less self-reliant, less personally responsible, and more dependent on government. President Obama, who says he is following Roosevelt’s legacy, says everyone is entitled to good health care, and no one should be left behind in any way. We already had the IRS the goon squads. Obama has added ACORN and 35 czars reporting to him, so Obama may see to it that everyone gets a cut of the action. Good of him, right? We need this guardian angel like we need the resurrection of Caesar.

There is a mind exercise in which you view two pictures, one after the other—over and over—and try to determine the difference in the two. There is a significant difference. There are lots of people in action in each of the pictures, which makes it difficult to spot the difference. And so it is with America’s government. The American people have yet to see the difference.

In government entitlements, originally, it was difficult to spot a significant difference. But as time went on, the change from life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to duty of government became more and more apparent. Many of us wondered why we could not see the significant change in the beginning, but here we are with the significant change and everyone knows it.

Some find that the change betters their lives; some find their lives worse for the change. Nice! Government can now make or break you. Money goes where money flows. The duty of government has shown everyone that while the individual’s life can be better or worse, in either case the politician’s life is better by far. He has powers he never before had over our lives. He’s got the high rollers to keep him in office. Once you have a duty of government to the individual, there’s really no difference in political parties. Bush gets the blame for running the nation into unprecedented debt. Obama, in six months, has quadrupled the debt, he says, because Bush left the nation in an economic meltdown. Obama, now forced to spend us out of hard times, by helping everyone who helped put him win the election—bankers, Wall Street, the poor, labor unions, special interests, such as environmentalists. How nice! One hundred percent of the help has gone to Obama’s voting constituencies. What determines the vote when trillions of dollars are spent? The fat cats and high rollers, who paid for Obama’s election, are being rewarded.

Some private business people put out quite a lot of energy and take financial risks. They make a difference. Obama is giving them a tax increase. Inasmuch as politicians have a duty to the individual, they look at the American people’s energy as their’s to redistribute, and according to their ideas of fairness, which always benefits politicians regardless of political party. Since there are more poor than rich, it is always politically fairer to tax the rich more. The reason some are rich is because they have lots of energy. Private business people hire 70 percent of America’s work force. Energy is often mistaken as greed. When you sock the energetic with excessive tax, workers lose their jobs, and the public pays more for the service or product. Have you noticed how many of the products you buy are imported, and especially from China. We borrow the money from China so we can buy their goods. Great! Less jobs; less tax; more government cost; more debt. Thanks to taxing the rich more, the national debt is so high now it will take generations of tax slaves to pay it. And worse, the nation’s debt is going up by leaps and bounds. At a dizzying pace, the nation is going bankrupt, and no answer has yet come forth of how to turn it around, in fact the only answer has been to spend more. More and more of the nation’s energy is going to help the needy and pay the interest on the debt. The thing missing in one of those two above mentioned pictures is energy, the people’s energy. Government is the fox watching over the henhouse.

The ancient Chinese had an abstract mind exercise, called The I Ching, in English, The Book of Changes. In this mind exercise, every situation demands the action proper to it. In every situation, there is a right and wrong course of action, and it works. The ancient Chinese used a graphical way of expressing the right and wrong way. It makes no sense, except that the individual shapes his own fate. That’s the key.

The mind is our immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life. States with boundaries do what they can to control the individual. We have a choice. State with boundary or boundless state of mind. When I was in my forties, I discovered that I had not used my mind to its fullest extent. I had not seen the particular acts that put me on the wrong course. I see it in the picture, now that I have my life to look back on.

Suddenly a sack of cement fell on my head. There was only one thing to do: begin again, the pioneer searching to find himself—without all the doctrines and dogmas I’d been taught for guidance. Low and behold, for the first time in my life I found the power that lies within me.(I would not think the recognized authorities would appreciate that.) If everyone discovered their personal power, we wouldn’t have much need of recognized authorities. Authorities work very hard to convince us that we need them. So, what does one do? My conclusion is that it makes no difference in the device one uses in shaping his life. Surely listen to the recognized authorities and then make your own judgement, keeping in mind that when in Rome, you do as the Romans do. If my life could be any better, I don’t know how. I’m one of those people being helped.

The authority that comes closest to my mind set is The Physics of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life authored by Evan Harris Walker. I reason that if you want to know how something works you take it apart and examine the pieces. Classical physics does not agree. An examination of the parts doesn’t fit the doctrines and dogmas. Like The I Ching, quantum mechanics works, but if you can possibly help it, says classical physics, don’t ask why. There’s only so much we’re supposed to know. Very interesting!
We’re created with limitless awareness. (Authority would just as soon we didn’t know this.) What would President Obama do if everyone questioned what he says. He can’t even tell us how his proposed health care plan will work.
If you care to know the truth of the matter, shortly before I set out to remake my life, I had a repeating dream that I was on the back of a giant bird flying through a narrow, winding canyon, terrified. I couldn’t see around the bends.

When I was a taxpayer, I knew a huge change in my life was coming and there was nothing I could do to stop it. My good life as a businessman was coming to an end. I accepted my fate and cut out, hoping to find a better life. Right away, I found myself in deep trouble and my faith weak. The idea I departed with, my bigger than life calling, gave me the determination I needed. Things changed for the better; I was on my way. The future is your’s. I’m in my twilight. I can only give you the benefit of my experience.
　
　

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Thanks inlink -as always very insightful and thankyou for sharing your
wisdom.
We did have a good discussion in Global Peace on “New President what happens
now” -and you have done a good follow up on Presidents!

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In the interest of those giant crystal beds empowering us, and in connection with my issue here on The Global Peace Pod, and my discouragement, the U. S. House of Representatives, supposedly representing the American people, has brought up H.R. 3247 for discussion. Introduced yesterday, this bill would establish a social and behavioral science research program, a program to help identify and understand social and behavioral factors that influence energy consumption. Ah yes, energy consumption. Al Gore jetting around, making millions talking about global warming. H.R. 3247's aim is to promote the utilization of the results of social and behavioral research, to improve the design, and to develop and demonstrate energy technologies, policies and programs, and alas, to appoint yet another czar, this one over social and behavioral research.  That's global warming for you.

Promote or direct, Nicole? President Obama, like a tribal chief, with his czars to watch over every last thing we do, all he needs now is war paint. He’s going to remake America in his socialist image. Is that what you want, Nicole? How does this weigh with the Constitution, which was ordained by the American people? Not only czars to watch over us, besides the IRS, we’ve now got ACORN. Chief Obama wants ACORN to be every bit as big and powerful as the U.S. military.  I heard him say it.  Get ready to change your ideas, you American wastrels. Big brother is watching you! Obama’s directors will soon be directing every single move the American people make, including who gets health care and who doesn’t. It’s a waste to keep the elderly alive. You Canadians know that. Once they get in control it is next to impossible to get rid of them.

With the government control issues on my mind, and studying The I Ching, I’ve suddenly received a revelation. Although The I Ching’s basic method makes no sense to me, it’s simply another ritual—akin to magic—but nevertheless helpful to the Chinese people for thousands of years, how come? A means of answering the issues that face them, the same can be said of any other means that causes one to look within for answers. Of course that can’t be said of many religions. One looks to an external God in a place called Heaven. Nicole is a expert on that. One adheres to long established doctrines and dogmas—and pays the preacher if one is to gain entrance to “the sweet bye and bye,” where there is eternal peace. If one doesn’t adhere to the doctrines and dogmas, one goes to a place of eternal damnation. Religion, the inventor of a supernatural God Almighty, no one can know why God does this or that. We don’t question God. We don’t question authority. Good citizens go with the flow. Not me. I cut out.

I placed myself in a situation when I was at sea that forced me to call upon my inner strength. Nicole says the sea is unfathomable. What, actually, is inner strength? Mine relies on the scientific explanation. Convention says my way is a means of smuggling God into physics. What is convention? Merely the interests of the strong. It’s expediency; the way societies go about ruling out inner strength. It brings to mind H.R. 3247. It brings to mind racial profiling. The strong use the term to force agendas they desire to be imposed on society. Another way of doing away with all ideas of inner strength is by flaunting a pedigree, such as a doctorate from a prestigious school of higher learning, like Harvard. It places you in a position to be elected or appointed to high office. It gives you the opportunity to control others. Birds of a feather flock together. Like in some religions, we don’t question God, we don’t question the Intelligentsia. We are being stupid if we question those demagogues. That's what Chief Obama said. Yet another way of ruling out inner strength is the claim that the successful are greedy and uncaring—getting laws passed to take from the rich and give to the poor.

All of the above mentioned methods of steering us away from relying on inner strength, by stealing our energy, are designed to place the strong in control of our lives. So there you have it: The I Ching, or in English, The Book of Changes, is meant to make you look within for your answers.

Before I went to sea and found inner strength, it came to me in a totally unorthodox manner that I, not the Intelligentsia, was in control of my life. I’m not a pedigreed attorney at law, yet I went to the county law library. (Many counties don’t allow lay people in their law libraries.) In the county’s law books, I felt that voices of the past were speaking to me. They told me that I had the right to practice law in any court, including the U.S. Supreme Court, if I had a personal stake in the outcome, which I did, and no question about it. I had a bigger than life calling. Attorneys of law, I learned, have to be specially qualified to practice law in the Supreme Court. Do you have any idea of how much it would cost to hire an attorney qualified to practice law in the U. S. Supreme Court? What if a thousand IRS abused taxpayers took their cases to the U. S. Supreme Court?

The IRS made a mistake. They refused to correct their mistake. What could I do? Even though the U.S. Tax Court corrected their mistake, the IRS refused to adhere to the court ruling. What could I do? After giving me what was mine in the first place, the IRS grabbed $2,500 from me in tax, penalty, and interest, in defiance of the tax court order. The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against me. That gave me the authority to take my tax issue to the U. S. Supreme Court, which dismissed me without a word. The IRS maintained that the mistake had been corrected in the U.S. Tax Court. Obviously, the Court never bothered to read my brief.  Expediently, I was lumped into all the other cases that disagree with the income tax.  An analysis of standing limitations did not preclude my being heard on IRS mistakes being made in defiance of lower court orders. What could I do? The Supreme Court was the last place I could go. Should I have given up? That was the government’s hope.

I took my tax issue to the press. The IRS was like a fish out of water. The press had the court record. I got a front page story, the IRS admitting that for 11 years it had made numerous mistakes. Think about a thousand such stories of the front pages of the nation’s newspapers. I venture to say that the case would be heard in the U.S. Supreme Court. American streets would be like the streets of Tehran, the American people demanding that their constitutional rights be adhered to.

There would be a drastic change in America. The individual would be back in control. Our representatives, instead of directing us, would be representing us.
In reading what the past said about the law, I was told the opposite of what pedigreed practitioners of the law are telling us. Today’s lawyers, politicians, judges, and as well teachers in prestigious schools of higher learning, are giving the American people a bum steer. The law I read in the county law library told me to look within for my answers.

When I’ve mentioned my case against the IRS, the answer is always, “I’m sorry the IRS made a mistake.” I’m led to believe the unmentioned thought is that we can’t expect the IRS to be perfect. We all make mistakes.  But it’s really that people shutter over the idea that the United States of America is the Wizard of Oz and we Americans are on the Yellow Brick Road. The idea that the IRS is a lawless fraud is like being told that your wife is cheating on you. You hope and pray it isn’t so. I wonder how many of those hoping and praying souls out there would feel if the IRS put them on the street by mistake. Would they accept their fate? The IRS made a mistake—too bad, and remain one of those people you see on the roadside with a sign begging for help? So sad. “Gee, I’m sorry the IRS made a mistake.”

You don’t need to go to sea to discover your inner strength. Take time every day to separate your thoughts from the everyday rat race. Think about the things that make you happy. Think that you can control any situation life imposes on you. It works like magic.

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Big brother is ALWAYS watching inlink!!

Do you think you could “break your posts” up a little?
Due ot feedback I have had -people do find them interesting-
but get a little deterred by the length and time to read ( in our busy little worlds) !
If you go through the pod- I think you will find that you could put shorter posts
-in more threads of revelence.

What do you think -do you understand what I mean -without being
sensitive about it? Because I truly believe you do have SO much to share :)

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The problem is our attention span. In ancient times, before the printing press, people used icons.  In these times, we have hardly any icons that fit my purposes.  Life is complex and each of us has a life of our own.  The world's control freaks don't accept that.  So it is essential that we know a lot to keep them at bay.

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Greets..

inlink - “Coincidental with my renewed interest in Gaia, my daughter called to recommend that I buy The I Ching or Book of Changes.” - do you remember what date this was? :) Let me know, if you know! Just for the fun of it.. I'll tell you why later ;)

Oneness,
Evo

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I don't know the exact date.

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Alright, never mind.. It was just that I've had a week where the I Ching has been mentioned a lot, a lot of different places, from a lot of different people. That's why I posted a get-it-recommendation a few days ago - and then I saw what you posted about your daughter recommending it and all..

Anyway - just probing for synchronicity.. ;)

Oneness,
Evo

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If you apply Carl Jung's synchronicity to the events of my life, and to oneness, you find many coincidences. My life can't be explained in a few words, but if you've the patience, I've demonsrated it in “My Bold Venture.”

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Oops. Wrong address.  My Bold Venture

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i look forward to reading it as soon as time permits,.inlink

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An American worker told me she pays her taxes so, like me, when she retires she will have an income.  Actually, she is paying her taxes so I can have my retirement income.  I wonder if she knows that.  Like me, her children will pay their taxes so she will have an income when she retires. When she retires a great many more Americans than now will be retired and the taxpayers will have to pay a great deal more in taxes.

The national news tells me that the American people have a debt to pay now they  can't pay, nor can their children pay, nor can their children's children pay.  The interest alone on the astromomical debt, double the interest rate before the debt got so large, is more than the United States spends on defense.  When the money needed can no longer be borrowed, the United States can print money and let inflation pay the debt service. I hear people saying that President Bush caused this.  President Obama has tripled the debt President Bush created.  Before he finishes his first year in office he will have quadrupled it.
    
Obama is now pushing  hard for universal health care.  As the unemployment rate goes up, according to the news, Obama says, just as planned, we're recovering from the recession. High unemployment means less tax collected, more government cost in unemployment benefits.  The government says when the new health care program goes into effect it will cost more than the present cost of health care, but later it will cost less.  Reason: Poor people now go to the emergency room. If they had been covered for health care they wouldn't have had to go to the ER.   Do you know of a single time a government program started high and got lower in cost later?  The numbers doen't add up.  What Obama says is quite  unlikely to happen. He's dreaming.  

As you read the story of my life, keep these thoughts in mind. When  you finish, I'd like to hear from you.  

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Peace? It is now 5:45 a.m. I’ve jotted down my thoughts for the day. Now I turn on my computer, connect with my “Window Internet Explorer,” click on “peacenetwork, conversations,” and “Fire Grid II.” I see I’ve a message. Siona informs me that Katherine wants to know why I believe there is still poverty in the world. My thoughts I’ve jotted down explain why there is still poverty. Mine is not theory. It’s a real life story.
Peace. Obviously, from nothing comes nothing. The something eternal and never-ending has to be consciousness. Without it, we are nothing. Before the so-called Big Bang, there had to be consciousness. It’s so simple. Quit thinking of “God!” The word is man’s creation. There are thousands of “Gods.”

When I think of “God,” I think of the one and only limitless conscious awareness. “Let us make man in our image” (Gen. 1:26). Many symbols in my life bear me out. The story of my life is about this “God” directed conscious being. Anything is possible. I started over from scratch at age 49. Today if life could be any better I don’t know how.

I’m reminded of America’s senior citizens. We are very unhappy with President Obama’s proposed health care plan. It’s going from the frying pan into the fire. That we could be considered not worth as much as younger people—that we are too expensive to keep—is an outrage. Senior citizens are making themselves heard in town hall meetings. But, clearly, senior citizens, under Medicare, are too expensive. Taxpayers can’t go on indefinitely paying this unaffordable cost. As usual, President Obama’s South Chicago community organizer answers don’t fly in the United States of America. Absolutely, we don’t need government setting a price on our lives.

What’s the right answer? It is worth your time to read the story of my life. Read about the miracles I performed. Why do we need authorities directing our personal lives? If we only knew the power that lives within us. What goes on out there doesn’t effect one’s life. Under external authority, we exist in poverty of the spirit. Why is that so hard to grasp? Why do we think so little of ourselves? My life is magically good because I look within for my answers.

Quite obviously, government has no business deciding who shall have what. Who knows better than I? We are not hive creatures. Socialism has never worked because we’re created with minds of our own, “IN OUR IMAGE,” “after our likeness,” and given dominion over all the earth. Government authority is our servant, not our master. Government does not have a duty to keep us. We need to become masters of our own fates, cease looking externally—quit depending on government. Look what seniors have wrought. During America’s Great Depression, which became the world’s depression, we Americans sold out to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, the beginning of government entitlements. And what happened? World War II was a symbol. The American people went against nature’s Higher Law, the background of America’s Constitution. You bet! There is still poverty of the spirit on the planet, Katherine, because we are not, as our Creator made us, looking within for our answers. When will we ever learn?

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From galaxies on down, everything is spinning toward nonexistence. Speaking of spin, a meteorologist attempting to predict the weather discovered that from the slightest movement of air can come a hurricane. It’s called the chaos theory. Picking up speed as we advance, our world is spinning toward chaos. It is theorized that for every black hole there is a white hole—speaking for consciousness after nonexistence, and a new beginning. 

The end of the world is predicted on the Mayan calendar to be on the winter solstice, December 21, 2012. The Mayan calender predicted the very day Cortez would land in Mexico.

Richard Tarnas, after a 30 year study of the bad alignments of Saturn and Pluto, found that they precisely predicted the archetypal patterns of human history. Saturn and Pluto went into their worst alignment in November 2008. Speaking for the white hole theory—after nonexistence there remains consciousness—the end will be in 2012, at the end of President Obama’s term of office. The end of Obama’s dream for America will be a new beginning for America, the same as my new beginning. On September 17, 1925, the day I was born, Saturn and Pluto were in their very best of alignments.

The sun moves across the surface of the earth at approximately 900 m.p.h. In astrology, there is an imaginary horizon where the sun rises. My rising sign is Aquarius because I was born at 4:51 P.M.C.S.T in Houston, Texas. At this moment in time, Uranus was on my ascendant. I get the symbol water-bearer to humanity. Astrologer Jeanne Avery wrote in The Rising Sign that The United States was born with Aquarius on the rise on July 4, 1776.
We are now entering the Age of Aquarius. It happens only once every 26,000 years, or thereabouts. We can only guess what it was like on earth 26,000 years ago. Myth has it that there was a continent called Atlantis, whose people were scientifically advanced. It supposedly sank in the ocean. We know less about the bottom of our oceans than we know about the surface of Mars. Some say the magnetic polls are going to change on December 21, 2012. It will cause great disturbances of the surface when the molten interior of the earth rotates 180 degrees.

There have been many sightings of UFOs rising from and disappearing in the seas. It is probably all coincidence, but who knows? We finite creatures don’t realize the great changes that occur, and more often than not, quite suddenly. Time will tell.

An omen: On my chart, the moon is in my Seventh House. From the song, Aquarius, in the musical Hair,

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!

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Since writing about magnetic pole switching and the end of the world, I’ve read on the Internet that magnetic poles actually do switch at intervals averaging 300,000 years; the last 780,000 years ago. The molten interior of the planet is like an ocean with currents and whirlpools that affect the earth’s magnetic force, at intervals of whirlpool activity causing poles to jump around. This happening is revealed on the ocean floor in uniform parallel ridges caused by cracks in the solid mantle. The molten interior pushes upward at these cracks at intervals of pole switches, expanding the crust. The ocean depression is uniformly deep but land masses have them shallower, and at various depths, these humps covering half of the crust, leaving continents above the ocean level. Due to the expansion of the crust, continents are on the move.

There is this geological fact and the mind. I was referred to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland. It is now operational but problems have prevented it from doing its intended job: “seeing” the theoretical Higgs boson. They estimate it may be 2010 before the LHC can generate enough power to prove the Higgs boson is real. Higgs is thought to give other subatomic particles mass? Gee, would that be mind over matter?

I’m reminded of “the self-fulfilling prophecy,” again on the Internet: “The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the original false conception come 'true'. This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.” The self-fulfilling prophecy, Chief Obama’s mainstay, reminds me of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Chief Obama, the former community organizer of South Chicago, is full of misstatements of fact.

Thanks to the Internet, I’m far better informed. Hello, progressive liberals! I’m one of “the mob of brown shirts” making our voices heard. It appears that advanced science is going to make your time on Earth short-lived. A new age will have us looking, instead of to the powers that be, namely Chief Obama, Queen Pelosi, and Prince Reid, within for the answers to our problems. Best that you take heed of the coming change.
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On the subject of world peace, and I assume Fire the Grid II, my experiences have told me why I’m here. I’m happy about that. I tell it like it is for me. My life is good.

For that reason I’d like to bring up my blog, “My Bold Venture,” I used the tag phrase, “scientific understanding.” In Gaia’s What Do You Seek, I wrote “scientific understanding.” There were 1319 blog results. Mine was not one of them. I read some of the 1319 blogs resulting from “scientific understanding.” They connected with my last two posts here.

For a reason never made known to me, and I’ve asked more than once, my blogs never appear when I use my tag words and phrases in Gaia’s search. I’m prone to think that Gaia’s management team does not approve of my approach. So what? I observe that two percent of the members do ninety percent of the posting. Perhaps management feels that I’m off the track of Gaia’s objective for changing the world. Perhaps they don’t like debate. LOL. Everyone agrees. It is so dull. No wonder there is practically no participation. I write something provocative. Nobody responds.

It is obvious that some of Gaia’s management team are political progressives; they believe Obama hung the moon. Obama wants to remake America in his image. LOL. It is not my image. To hell with his image! I might be liberal on this and conservative on that. To each his own, but don’t try to force me to think your way. My way is the best way for me. Pray tell me, what’s the point of this “discussion,” if could call it that?

I have my experiences. I look within for my answers. I wonder why political progressives are prone to believe they have the only answer, and the same for the far right. I witness this frequently. For the sake of world peace, would someone explain why many people, and especially political progressives, refuse to see the world through any eyes but their own? We are terribly divided. A house divided will not long stand. Shouldn’t we think again?

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Since Sandy invited me to come back, and we’re in the Global Peace Pod where I said goodbye and gook luck, speaking of scientific understanding, I've not heard this understanding here: there is no free lunch. Who’s going to take care of you in your future remains unaddressed.

When you read the story of my life, you learn that inexplicable events occurred commonly referred to as miracles—something God brought about. Since there are thousands of interpretations of God, the closest one can come to God is consciousness: it has no bounds. Miracles are natural events of which we’re not consciously aware.

Having said that, from the ranting and raving of senior citizens in America over Obama’s and Congress’ proposed health care change it is obvious the American people are not consciously aware that health care is not a fundamental right. It requires medical practitioners who do not work for nothing. The American people are not consciously aware that government does not have the obligation to provide everyone with health care, or, for that matter, senior citizens with health care, not anymore than government has an obligation to provide everyone with food, clothing, and shelter. It’s the obligation of the individual. Government gives the American people nothing. It redistributes the American people’s sweat according to what is politically the most rewarding to politicians. In the end, it’s politicians who are being helped, politicians calling the shots; we who pay the bill are being hurt. They’ve turned into our masters.

In the story of my life, you read the outrageous contradiction Federal income tax is. It robs Peter to pay Paul. By government taking on the duty of providing health care to senior citizens, the cost of health care has been escalating much faster than anything else. If a haircut was thought to be a fundamental right and government obliged to furnish this service, the cost of a haircut would be over a hundred dollars.

Government’s obligation to provide senior citizens with health care costs the taxpayers many times as much as it did at the beginning. Not only that, the taxpayers pay more for their health care than those they pay to get their’s. Since the senior citizen paid his dues, is it only right that he be given unlimited health care? When you ask government to take care of your needs, it seems to me, you should be prepared to take what you get and like it.

Government’s assumption that it has a duty to help the individual, and its eagerness, is leading the American people to bankruptcy. The government fix is going to take away the senior citizen’s help no matter the cost, and help younger people get their rightful healthcare. After all, they are paying dearly for it. But why, in the first place, give government the right to decide whether you live or die?

The right and just cure for the problem is for everyone to pay for his or her own health care—stop government from deciding whether you live or die. You would see the cost of health care go down. I’m old enough to remember what it was like in America before government assumed the obligation to help out the individual on a massive scale. The cost of health care in real dollars was a fraction as much. The average age was 63. Now its in the 80s and going up, along with cost to taxpayers. Get real. The cost is unsustainable.

The point of this writing is to say that the American people don’t know yet that there are no miracles, no fairy God-mothers, no caring government—just politicians feathering their own nests. You folks can’t hope and pray that things with all work out. You want peace? LOL You are not here as spectators. Don’t say “they” ought to do this or that. Don’t blame anyone but yourself. Just love everyone and take your choice: take care of your own needs or take what you get from government and like it. LOL

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Gee you HAVE done a lot of writing since I checked this thread last, inlink-
and good on you!!
It is so interesting to share all these facets of your life -and you have
years of wisdom behind you.

I wish I could offer more in comment- but as I am from Australia -
I shall have to leave that up to other Amercian's,who understand your
system.
I know some of my friends over there are involved with trying to
bring change sin your Health system- which sounds pretty archaic!

I don't think Gaia's management team “censor” political opinions
that may differ from their own though!
And I find if you have any problems, to put them up in the
Gaia Support thread- where you will be anwered and solutions found.

I think everyone here does their best to love everyone and be supportive
of each other in our common goals for the good of mankind:)

I also think -as this is getting slow to load and probaly the title is not
so appropriate now -we should start a new thread?
Any suggestions on what we should call it -and please feel welcome
to start one, inlink, everyone….

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I woke up today thinking about galactic consciousness.  Howto you like that for a name?

Taikumping: “It's an interesting idea about the energy being released from the giant crystal beds in Brazil, I read about them a few months ago…” In Brazil, you say? Hmmm! Any connection here: http://www.lawoftime.org/content/congress-review.html

Consciousness itself is without bounds. We limit our consciousness to that which we think plausible. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, composed of hundreds of billions of suns with planetary systems, as seen with the telescope, is but one unit of countless billions of galaxies. But until Galileo, merely 500 years ago, observed with his telescope that Earth circled our sun, Earth was seen as the center of the universe.

With atom smashers, more than with the invention of the telescope, the atom has changed more than the universe has changed. The atom is no longer a fixed system of particles circling a nucleus. Every time an atom is observed its appearance is different. We are learning, by far, more about how things come together to make our reality by the internal workings of matter.

Quantum physicist Evan Harris Walker: “The tests of Bell’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.”

Coincidentally, with my Saturn trine Pluto, Astrologer’s Handbook says “This trine gives natives the ability to understand the laws by which subtle forces are organized.…”

We do not directly see an atom. We see certain patterns on a screen that makes our determination of what is going on. What is going on in the microcosmic world doesn’t relate to what is going on in the world our sensibilities tell us is taking place. Quantum physics expands, through consciousness awareness, more than is seen. By lab examination of the microcosmic, quantum physics says that by observation of the aspects of matter, it can be determined that we make our reality.

The ancients, by observation of the heavens, determined that the events in our lives, as well as our individual characteristics, are reflections of the whole, and quantum physics, by studying the microcosmic seems to back the perception of the ancients. Said the ancient sages of India, so is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm.

Classical physics requires hard evidence. It doesn’t connect the microcosmic world with the macrocosmic world our sensibilities see, hear, and feel. Quantum physics connects the two worlds indirectly, by scientifically proven facts that lead to conclusions. Quantum physics theorizes that the subatomic particle responsible for the creation of matter is the Higgs boson.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, built and operated by CERN, is now running, however, with many problems. It is not expected to be up to its full potential before 2010. It is hoped that when it’s up to its full potential, the proof will be there that the last remaining particle not yet proved, the Higgs boson, will be proved and explain the mystery of how matter is formed.

From an idea, without form or shape, we create the manifestation. More than 2,000 years ago, a Greek priest and leading thinker of his time, Plutarch, held this idea; that we create our reality through conscious awareness. When you think about the individual with boundless conscious awareness, he would be extremely hard, or even impossible to control. Would this be a dangerous thing? If we all knew, individually, what to expect by taking a certain action, would we do anything harmful to society? I’ve found that when I act impulsively I pay a price. When I think things through, I’m rewarded. How long should it take to learn this? To listen to the powers that be, we never learn. They act impulsively and we pay the price.

We are paying a price because we think without government entitlements we could not make it. My barber tells me “ignorance is bliss.” She tries not to think about it. At town hall meetings, senior citizens are sounding off to their representatives. When government entitled, at taxpayer expense, government has the right and the responsibility to control the cost. The government entitled should take what they get and like it. I don’t buy the protests. If you don’t like it, why did you vote for government entitlements?

Millions have seen or even experienced extraterrestrials. It seems they have been around for thousands of years. There must be a reason they are here. It isn’t to conquer us. They are merely observing us. Are they in contact with the control freaks in government? Classified information for our defense is a bald-face lie. It’s frightening to think what government will do with extraterrestrial technology.

My take is that our knowledge of how it all comes together is leading to a quantum leap. We’re at the threshold of our next step of human evolvement, at the end of the world of self-serving authorities and dependents. The heavens predicted to the Mayans that the end of the world would happen on December 21, 2012. My guess is that we will see the sun rise as usual and go about our daily routines. The change will be mental. The cycle will have completed. Legend has it that in the past age of Aquarius, Earth people were scientifically advanced. We’re back to a new Aquarian age. A new mentality will sweep over the world. We will become consciously aware of our galaxy teaming with intelligent life. Our extraterrestrial visitors will be present to welcome us to galactic consciousness.

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I'm interested in UFOs. With the information now available, we can assume it is probable that we are being observed by intelligent beings not of our world, and that these extraterrestrials are beyond any known means of control. We are at their mercy.

Generally, not hostile—said extraterrestrials are not here to conquer us; they are beyond that—nevertheless, with their own purposes, which, on occasion, have been reported to have brought harm to certain individuals. (We can say the same for our own kind.) It is probable that the planet’s powers that be are being contacted and trade-offs are being made, naturally, for national security, keeping in mind that we have no control over extraterrestrials. To our world’s intelligentsia—they believe they are above the masses in intelligence—they know what’s best for us, I’ve my minority view: the intelligentsia is leading us down a garden path. In spite of the evidence, the masses remain in denial that anything like I say could possibly be occurring.

We so finite in our thinking.  Our planet has gone through vast changes. What if the powers that be were presently acquiring advanced technology that would leave the masses totally under the intelligentsia’s control, and the intelligentsia under control of said extraterrestrials? These external events could have irreversible results.  The external is governed by immutable laws; the mind is not.  We are potentially co-creators, our minds interacting with matter. We are inextricably part of the galaxy’s consciousness. We are the lords of our own thoughts. We can make ourselves whatever we will, but we have to believe it.

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You know inlink, sometimes I think it is US that are the aliens!!
We certainly are not good keepers of our planet -what with Global
Warming and the potential threat of Nuclear War -we seem at times
more the enemies!
IF extraterrestrials WHERE to land here they would wonder at our actions
I am quite sure of that!

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We, the people, surely are alien to our Creator's consciousness. I think we know that.  We don't know what to do about it.  We're being led down a garden path. We, like all life, were created to cope, and in our image, not a brute's image. I had to learn the hard way who I was and my purpose. It seems that we are all learning the hard way.  Anyway, my life is good. 

When you look at a star light years away, did you know you are looking at the past?  It takes so many years for a star's light to reach us. Extraterrestrials would have to be able to transfer themselves to a different time and place.  Time and space are but one of the universe's dimensions. Like I've said before, a long time ago I felt that voices from the past were speaking to me.  I'm marching to the beat of their drummer. I don't look externally to control freaks for my answers.  
We're diverted my materialism.  The powers that be use materialism against us.  More brings more, and at more affordable prices.  The material is becoming like water.

Quantum physics is bringing to bear a change of thinking.  Everthing and everyone is part of the same mold. We're becoming connected with galactic consciousness.  It is all written in the stars.