Nature, Nurture or is there something else?

Well, first of all, I have to tell you that I start from a premise that our little bit of consciousness does not start out like random spark from a flint. In other words, it has a source, and that source is another consciousness. (What that consciousness is, is a different subject.) Let's throw in another premise that that source doesn't exist in space/time like our new consciousness does. (Could we get into a sort of genealogy here? But I digress.)

We, us and our source, choose this vessel from a time without time, with all it's biological functions and encodements (hormones, DNA, genealogy, etc.,), talents and infirmities, and the milieu of cultures, families, and programs that we are born into, among other things.

In that beginning state, time is not linear, the fun with retroactive enchantment being one example. Our path is one of an infinite number of possible paths we could have chosen. Our path is not certain, then, ever, except our footprint in the now--our point of power--our AP or the point on which we focus. Neither our past or future is given, only a range of possibilities.

We create our own reality in the now from all of those possibilities. We create this animal body every moment of every lifetime simply by will power and focus. That's where we intend our focus to be, so that's what we perceive at the moment. The next moment, and all the other parallel moments are a different matter, pardon the pun. The future and past are composed of waves of probabilities from the now, our focus, will and intent. The creative possibilities are not just infinite, they are eternal.

You, we, are only as bound by our DNA, culture, family and the rest as we intend to be. None of us really realizes how powerful we really are.

Experience is more than what's before the eyes.

This really bugs me

Okay, I don't normally get into mass cause celebre'. But, not to do so in this case just doesn't seem to me the right way to live. So, please look at this site, that sets a protest day to stop the Japanese fisheries from slaughtering en mass dophins and other toothed whales in order to have more fish for themselves. I think these guys need to find other work. What do you think?
http://www.earthisland.org/saveTaijiDolphins/japanDolphinDay.html

The Gales of September, the Ides of October

Here are some of my feelings, gnosis, or whatever for the coming month of October. I was asked elsewhere what I felt, and here 'tis.

What I do is start from mass perceptions, things in the Conventional Reality and quasi-Conventional Reality (like alternate and new age stuff), and while describing them in writing, gnosis takes over and interpretations spill out.

First, I have to say there was a lot of energy released by the gales of September, which was attracted to LA and TX by the energy present. What I mean is that mass consciousness energy tends to attract similar energy and that's the way the mass reality is created. At the end of September going into October, that mass energy in the US is shifting to politics, as the indictments of political figures, the vote for Supreme Court Chief Justice, and the nomination for Associate Justice take place. I think the energy is going to stay there in politics for the month of October. The energy released by the hurricanes by no means depleted the energy available to be released. More to come.

October starts with a solar eclipse on the third, the window for that starting on the 1st. I don't believe that eclipses are causes, but they are signs that people believe in, consciously or not, and this one happens in Libra (my ascendant sign), the sign of life's purposes and balance. Eeewww, balancing the scales can be painful, especially drastic movements. The unbalanced energy is significant, as any sensitive person here can attest. The lunatics running the asylum is just one symptom. Something eerie to add: the path of the eclipse travels right over the headwaters of the Nile, and is at its most complete at that point, too. The Nile to most people symbolizes Life, and the beginning of our current program (civilization). The headwaters are the beginning of both the river, and the symbol of the inception of the program.

October 16, very near the Ides, is a lunar eclipse, when Earth Changes and Human Consciousness coincide. Did I say above that mass events are triggered by mass consciousness? Hmmm. Remember, eclipses are just mass events given metaphorical significance. What this symbolizes to me is "a break between the way we experience a certain reality and the way we represent it, leading to a sharp adjustment." --Ellie Crystal's words. Your mileage may differ.

The height of the partial lunar eclipse passes over the US Mississippi Valley down to the Mayan Highlands, and the Indus Valley in Northwestern India. Both were centers of high culture at the inception of the programs in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Again, this may mean nothing to you, consciously or unconciously, but it feels to me like it will be noticed at the mass consciousness level, at the point the events are created.

Any way you look at it, October looks to be even more interesting than September, and not just conceptually or spiritually, either. Look for physical and emotional manifestations that are on the mass scale. We all create our own realities, solo and en mass. Stay as independent as you can from mass movements and from taking sides. It's a all a game that the world is playing, and no side is "right" or "wrong". They just are.

The Pledge of Allegiance Unconstitutional?

An interesting ironic twist:

The Pledge was originally written without the words, "under God" by Francis Bellamy in 1892. He was a Christian Socialist preaching in the Baptist churches of his day. He was kicked out the Baptist Church for his socialist sermans, and later was a member of the National Education Association during its formative years. The words, "under God", were added in 1954 when Congress adopted the Pledge. These words were added at the instigation of the Knights of Columbus, a quasi-Masonic fraternal organization. According to many on the Christian Right, the Masons are run at the top by a cabal of international conspirators, the Illuminati.
http://history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm

On Removing the Jews From Gaza

If it's wrong and fascist to remove those Jews from the Jewish Settlements, what was it when those folks moved in back in 1974 after dispossessing and bulldozing Palestinian homes so the Jews could move in? Why is one any better or worse than the other? One could wonder if the Jews really didn't know they were living on borrowed time and borrowed property.

SAY WHAT?

Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed, a British Muslim cleric, said today that Islam contained "a message of peace for those who want to live with the Muslims in peace."

"But Islam is a message of war for those who declare war against Muslims," he said.

"I condemn any killing and any bombing against any innocent people in Britain or abroad, but I expect the British people to condemn the killing of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan."

However, asked about Islamist attacks on British and U.S. troops and on Israelis, he said: "If violence is pro-life I don't condemn it."

The Follies of the Powers that Be

June 29, 2005

Negroponte to Head New National Security Division

By DOUGLAS JEHL

WASHINGTON, June 29 - President Bush ordered today changes intended to break down old walls between foreign and domestic intelligence activities by creating a new national security division within the Federal Bureau of Investigation that will fall under the overall direction of John D. Negroponte, the new director of national intelligence. The directive by Mr. Bush is aimed at consolidating the power of Mr. Negroponte, whose authority over the F.B.I. had been left ambiguous. It also sets in motion a major restructuring intended to dissolve the barriers that have often kept the Central Intelligence Agency and the F.B.I. at arm's length, and elevates intelligence operations to new prominence within an F.B.I. that has remained firmly oriented toward traditional law enforcement, even since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/politics/29cnd-intel.html?ex=1277697600&en=afd0b2a1ec47ea64&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

MY TURN:

They've been trying to do this since J. Edgar Hoover's days. The FBI under Hoover distrusted the Yale Skull and Bones guys over at the CIA. Those in the know knew what these sons of opium dealers did, while the FBI and the DEA risked their lives with no anticipated fortunes or senior government appointments after their law enforcement careers were over. They were incensed beyond toleration when Nixon and Halderman used the CIA to trump FBI investigations of Watergate. The FBI, before Louis Freeh, Pres. Clinton's director and Bush patsy respected the law and the legal restrictions on their investigations.

The PTB tried all during the '50's and '60's to use Communism and the racial and anti-war disturbances to breach this wall to no effect. Then came the '80's and Iran-Contra and the drug running escapades involving Clinton/Bush I, circumventing the necessity of breaching the wall. They passed the RICO acts and the property/drug seizure laws as well as the IRS to do the same things. During the late Bush I years and during the Clinton administration, they tried using civil unrest, the racist/militia armies, WTC bombing, Branch Davidians, and other local bred terrorists to extend the powers of investigation, enact gun bans, and extra-judicial seizures of property. However, local bred terrorism didn't instill the proper level of fear in the public so that the people would trade their rights for security. Besides, the local boys were of our own.

So, along comes 9/11 and now we have a xenophobia that created great fear in the public, at the same time manifesting that time worn phrase, "As long as it's them damn furriners, more power to ya!"

Now, the FBI has finally been given the powers of extra-judicial, star chamber investigations and trials without jury, all in the name of national security. "Those that sacrifice liberty for security will soon find that they have little of either." Wasn't that James Madison who said that? May he rest in peace.

I'm like my dad, now. I don't really give a shit, because it's all folly to me. In the mean time, I will try to live a life that's enlightened enough that it spreads to enough people, including my kids and their peers, so that these control freaks find their efforts in vain. Who can control the human spirit? No one.

Namaste'

The Point of Power

I read something yesterday while doing my Seth/Jane Roberts reading. This was something I missed growing up in the '70's.

Came across this in Personal Realty

THE PRESENT IS THE POINT OF POWER

Sorcery speaks a lot about power, personal power, and creating your own reality. When you sit still and do not think of the past that got you here, or the future of the next moment, you realize that everything depends on NOW. You can change the past from the present, and change the future from the present. By doing so, you change the present. What you want to create, or fix, is done from the NOW, not living or reliving the past and thus reinforcing the present. Nor is it hoping or fearing for the future and ignoring the Present. In that space between past in future is the point of the present. The Point of Power.

One thing I have discovered the truth of is--Neither shit nor anything else that happens doesn't just happen. Every tiny bit, from the cactus rose to the stuck water pipes is created by us on some level of consciousness. The only question is, are we ready to take responsibility for it?

Good and Evil

He who hates evil merely creates another one. --Seth Speaks/Jane Roberts

The Cherry Tree Blooms in the Garden

Just figured something out. I had to right it down before I forget it.

We are all Masters
To remind others they know
Then, we disappear

Nee and Non to the EU Constitution

This is real interesting to me, a lawyer, and a one-time historian of the Constitutional debates in the US 216 years ago. The same issues are brought up by the people that were brought up back then: Small states v. Big states; individual sovereignty; guarantees of individual rights; corporate interests v. individual interests; economic haves v. have nots. This occurs after 50 years of the Europeans having their heads in the sand over these issues, and 200 plus years of ignorance of why we Yankees fought the British Crown and its puppet parliament compared to the French revolutionary nihilism.

I'm rubbing my hands with glee over this. AT LAST THEY SEE THE LIGHT!!

Now, may we Yankees recover our senses and throw our political/corporate establishment out with the bathwater, both parties and their corporate/banker financiers and the goddam insurance companies that hold legal title to nearly everything.

Facing Fears and You Create Your Own Reality

*epiphany*

I used to do what I could to assuage the other's fears. What that did was to put more focus on them. I get more of what I focus on. So, I got more fear until it was a snarling pitbull of irrational monster. Bad idea.

Keep voicing everything: fear, love, insecurity, confidence. And, I won't try to fix them like I used to. Just release them into the Universe.

As for me, my fears include fear of others' insecurities--HAH! What a hypocrit am I!! My own insecurity fearing their's. Self-deprecating humor allows me to laugh at myself, not derisively but to put things into perspective and to change the focus from heaviness to laughter. That's why I laugh at the "Psycho" image--"NEE NEE NEE", whenever I think of this. We are our worst petty tyrant, I think. Laughing at it diminishes its, and our own, self-importance.

Let 'em rip, m'dear. Facing our fears is a legitimate way of teaching us what we need to learn. What's the worst thing that could happen? We'll die? We're gonna have pain? We're gonna do that, anyway.

I'll love you all come what may.

Haiku

Infinity swirls
Crystaline nexus connects
Two hearts entwining

Haiku

Petals of pink roses
Rain showers cool the ardor
Poems for the mind

"L"

Love

Lust...mmm

Learning

Living

Labyrinth

Legs

Layers

Late

Lassez Nous Faire

Laptop

Lunch Date

Lucky

Lapdog...

To be continued

How To Peel An Apple

These things must be done delicately. The apple must be washed, in vanilla scented water. Then the hands should be washed in glycerin soap. Next, your cutting tool must be sharp and fit well in your hand. Cradle the apple in the palm of your hand, the knife in the other. Pressure is applied with the last two fingers. The first two fingers and the thumb guide the blade. Hold the blade so it faces your thumb. Slip the blade under the apple's skin, not too deeply or you'll bruise the flesh. Slowly spin the apple toward the blade. Too fast and you'll cut your thumb. Starting at the top of the apple, spiral the slice downward across its surface. When you are out of skin, your apple is naked in front of you, and her clothes lie neatly on the floor. Perfect!!

A Koan

The bodhisatva’s say that there are 64,000 moments in the snap of your fingers. How many eternities are in a pause? How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

Namaste'

I wish I could paint you
Walking down the path
Squatting over baby ladybugs
Standing against the sky

Nothing so ephemeral
As Oil on Canvas
Just something to show others
How I see you there

An awareness of body and limb
Gliding over the grass
Sliding between tables
Leaving sparkles in your wake

The spice of vanilla everpresent
On my clothes, my hands, my memory
I regretfully washed the shirt
It will always be there with me

You are a layer under everything
A carrier wave of tide
Traveling across the spider web
I am just that into you

Todd
May 9,2005