NORMAN, OK — As fate would have it, I was one of the estimated 1.5 million people who travel from city-to-city in America each day on the tenth anniversary of the now infamous demolition of the World Trade Center complex in New York City on September 11, 2001. While some drama was noted on a few flights, my flight went…
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A Dream to Live For; A Dream to Love
Delivering Ourselves, Not from ‘Evil,’ but from Fear The broadcast media machine continues the campaign to sell the idea that Osama bin Laden is actually dead, and that this act unto itself, initiated and orchestrated by the United States, is a good thing. Even Al-Qaida has issued a statement to that effect. It’s like someone is desperately trying to tell…
Read MoreThe bin Laden Perception Campaign: Who is Being Served?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNYmK19-d0U&w=448&h=252&hd=1] President Obama, in his own words (or that of his speech writer). President Obama’s announcement of the killing of Osama bin Laden on May 1 has triggered a massive ORCHESTRATION and MANIPULATION of public perception, not only of Americans, but anyone who thinks they have a legitimate axe to grind about AMERICA. However, we should make a distinction between…
Read MoreTo 'Consume' or Produce? It Shouldn't be a Question
While I have written two of the greatest books rarely to be read (I Am My Body, NOT! is one), the following quotation is as relevant today as it was when I first wrote it over 12 years ago. The People of the United States are creativity and innovation standard setters of the world because freedoms of speech and trade…
Read MoreThe Best Protection from a Dirty Bomb is Peace
There is some concern going around about our vulnerability to a “dirty bomb” attack. It’s not enough that we’ve been attacked by “dirty” chlorine and fluoride in our water, mercury in vaccines, hormones and additives in our foods, synthetics in dairy products, chem trails, and who knows what else, for many years. We’ve given all of these culprits a pass,…
Read More'Shift' Has Happened: Hail to the New Chief
The major event of my day on January 20, 2009, was returning home from a quick trip to Northern California, where I interviewed two remarkable people. The major event of the world was the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States. While I’ve yet to see his entire address, the light of the shift that…
Read MoreElection Day 2008 Reflections
I just came back from voting. No matter who wins, it’s important to have one’s voice heard in the affirmative. To not vote is to vote by abdication, and is the best way to allow others to assume what your point-of-view actually is. Recently, I’ve heard some very intelligent men scoff at the idea of voting because, according to them,…
Read MoreLooking Beyond 'The Collapse' with Open Eyes
While most of the world is now on “collapse watch,” it seems that very few are giving much attention to what’ll we do if (or when) “the worst” of what we’re watching for actually comes to pass. I’m not convinced that the collapse of the monetary system, as presently practiced, is a bad thing. Its demise may arbor tough times,…
Read MoreTranscending the Fear Syndrome
Reflections on ‘9/29’ Have you noticed that the media is quick to deliver information about the next scourge or menace that we should brace ourselves for, quick to offer hope for a possible solution, but slow to present real ones? The net result of this syndrome is that “bated” listeners, readers, and viewers are put “on alert”… and they stay…
Read MoreA Note from Chelan
I’m submitting this note from Chelan, Washington, preparing to drive to Seattle, and return home to Arizona. This is the end of a momentous week. The beginning of a new world. For all the predictions and dire forebodings of the future, I am excited about what lies ahead. Congratulations on Senator Obama’s emergence as the presumptive candidate on the Democratic…
Read MoreThoughts on Health and Healing: Just 'Who' or 'What' Cures Disease?
The Acidity of Fear and Balance of Love My most recent podcast conversation with Jim Humble on cancer treatment and MMS confirms (click here to listen), at least in my mind, that it has beneficial properties that we are yet beginning to appreciate, and perhaps more that remain to be discovered. BUT, it would be delusional to think that MMS…
Read MoreMRSA 'Superbug' and MMS: Dialogue with a Reader
My article, A Stupor for Superbugs, stimulated quite a few thoughts for Rett, who wrote the following. Thank you, in advance. An interesting article to say the least…but there are some points that I must challenge. Go right ahead. No sacred cows here. Domestic terrorism? Why is it domestic terrorism to state what is happening to people. It’s terrorism because…
Read MoreThoughts on God: Empowered in Oneness to Heal
Slot Canyon Contrasts, originally uploaded by phaelosopher. Bringing Heartfelt Results into Being What are your thoughts on healing? Do you ever think about them? It doesn’t matter what form the healing takes. It could be to heal your body, a financially stressing situation, or a relationship. How about healing racial tension, political or religious strife and war? Or it could…
Read MoreThoughts on God: Why 'S%&t' Happens
Last December I published an essay titled, Thoughts on God: When ‘S%&t’ Happens. After reading a flurry of books (the flurry continues, because three more are on the way), let’s take a “behind the scenes” look why “S%&t” happens. While many of you know exactly what I’m talking about, some of you might be inclined to ask, “What is ‘S%&t?’”…
Read MoreThoughts on God: Dealing with the Day-to-Day Pt. II
Examining Our Beliefs Cacti In Bloom, originally uploaded by phaelosopher. Beliefs manifest on an individual as well as a collective basis. My beliefs — about myself, relationships, “women,” life, money, health, “right and wrong,” etc., supersede collective beliefs. They set the stage, and become perceptual filters for the interactions and relationships that I have day-to-day. The outer life…
Read MoreThoughts on God: Religion, Spirituality and Beingness
Bringing Our Highest Self ‘Out of the Closet’ with Love America’s forefathers had the profound wisdom to inculcate a fundamental separation of “church” from matters of “state” into the very fabric of governance. How could the other foundations of freedom, such as of assembly, worship (or not to), and speech (including the press), be ensured if a religion — doesn’t…
Read MoreForgiving a Madman, Releasing the Madness
In a blaze of gore, Sueng-Hui Cho went from anonymous to infamous in a matter of minutes; a “nobody” in his mind, to a somebody in ours, whose name is on the lips of a nation, and around the world… whose image, and madness became the subject of prime time television. In their silence, the victims don’t get nearly the…
Read MoreThoughts on Peace: Consciousness, Observation, Inner Truth, and its Amplification
Technorati tags: Consciousness, Spirituality, Truth, Peace, Quantum Mechanics, Physics One of the central components to the science of quantum mechanics is the role of the observer. It is, in fact, remarkable that the observer is acknowledged as even having a role. The term, “observer” is a scientific euphemism for the human consciousness, which itself can be further broken down to…
Read MoreThoughts on God: Embracing My Magician
del.icio.us tags: Peace, God, Philosophy, War on Terror, Freedom If you have taken an interest in the missives that I publish in this space, I want to thank you. I believe these ideas can be life changing, if we want to change our lives in joyful, magical ways. That was and is my desire in contemplating these issues, and in…
Read MoreThoughts on Peace: Standing Down the Military in Iraq
I’ve suggested that the wisest thing for president Bush to do would be to issue an order to STAND DOWN military action in Iraqi, as a matter of official and unofficial policy. This does not mean that our troups would become sitting ducks or target practice. It does not dishonor the troops, nor the United States. It is an action…
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