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Yesterday I heard a piece of nonsense on NPR.
Commenting on the financial peril of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the NPR talking head said ‘..officials said that bad mortgages will be covered by reserve funds from the Federal Reserve…’
The only difficulty is that the Federal Reserve is not a reserve. It has no funds. The Federal Reserve is a money-creating factory.
The Fed’s liabilities are Federal Reserve Notes. What’s a note? A promise to pay: a certificate of debt. Look on any bill and you’ll see the inscription, “This Note is Legal Tender for all debts, public and private.”
What are the assets of the Fed? U.S. Treasury securities. A Treasury security is a piece of paper from the Treasury that says that it will pay the amount denominated on the security.
How does the Fed pay for these securities? By simply crediting the account of the United States. It can do this because a U.S. Treasury is considered an asset: it is essentially a future promise to pay by the American people, through taxes.
So whenever the government goes into debt, the Fed makes money: the interest payments that the U.S. pays on those Treasury securities. Nice trick, eh? Don’t you wish you could print money every time your debts exceeded your liabilities? And then get people to pay you interest on that self–created money? The interest on the national debt is about $373 billion dollars, and rising every year. This is the money the government must pay the Fed for money we’ve already spent.
But of course, when the Fed creates more money to “fund” the debt of the United States, it creates inflation. Inflation is a depreciating currency brought about by too much currency chasing too few goods and services. Notice I said currency, not money. Federal reserve Notes are not real money, because they have no value. They are backed by nothing except the ability of the government to levy taxes.
So where are the funds coming from that will guarantee the debt created from the sub–prime mortgage crisis? Why, either from taxes, or from the printing and creating of more money. Which one do you bet on?
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae will be “funded.” That means, more debt will be created, and that means, of course, more inflation and a further depreciation of our already battered currency. Do you think prices are high now? Just wait until the government gets finished “handling” the sub–prime crisis!
People, never believe newscaster talking heads or politicians, when they talk about funding government agencies. The only honest way for government to get money is through the collection of taxes. But politicians don’t like to raise taxes. So instead, the government borrows more and more money from the Fed, which creates the tax called inflation. Inflation erodes your purchasing power, just as surely as if you had to write the government a tax check.
Freedie Mac and Fannie Mae are known as GSE’s, or government Sponsored Enterprise, unlike the FHA (Federal Housing Administration), which is an actually federal agency, and which is self–supporting. The FHA has strict guidelines for mortgage issuance and the program is paid for by homeowner insurance premiums.
There are basically 3 mortgage finance GSE’s, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and the 12 Hone Loan Banks. The important thing to remember here is that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are privately owned but publicly chartered; this means that the Federal government guarantees the profits of private investors. And when this trust is abused, as it has been during the past decade,we pay the price. Although GSE securities carry no explicit governmental guarantees, in practice all funds guaranteed by GSE’s are covered, because politicians do not want to be responsible for people losing their homes.
The problem is that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have been stuck with bad mortgages. In their greed for profits, bankers abused their mortgage underwriting privileges and left the government to foot the bill.
Freddie Mac is a stockholder-owned corporation established by Congress in 1970 to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the nation's residential mortgage markets. That’s a fancy way of saying that it will bail out mortgage bankers if they get into trouble with bad loans. Fannie Mae was created by Congress in 1938 and rechartered in 1968 to expand the flow of mortgage funds in all communities.
Unfortunately, greed and abuse by mortgage bankers, and a lack of oversight, has caused the dire financial difficulties at these GSE’s. Basically, what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac do is bail out banks that make bad loans.
Now bad debt is a problem in any legitimate business, so there’s no problem there. However, in recent years, banks have gotten greedy, and sent their mortgage brokers around the country, writing mortgages that they knew were bad. “What the heck,” they said, “we can collect the interest until the borrowers can no longer make the payments. Then the government will foot the bill.” Well guess what folks, the “government” is me and you.
The projected budget deficit for the 2008 fiscal year is projected to be $410 billion. The national debt is over $9 trillion and growing every year. Our current account deficit (exports – imports) average over half a trillion every year. But the Republican and Democratic parties blithely keep borrowing and spending, year after year. The mainstream press thinks this is just ducky. The citizenry has no clue that our government is rapidly going bankrupt, if it has not already done so. I wrote about this in an earlier blog post called “Nero Fiddles While Rome Burns.”
What happens if you max out your credit cards and can’t make the minimum payments? You declare bankruptcy. And that is exactly what will happen with the Federal government. Either the dollar will be “refloated” –– which means it will be lowered in value relative to other currencies (something which is long overdue) –– or the government will announce one day that the 60,000 in your savings account is now worth 6,000. Or $600. Don’t laugh; that’s what happened in the old Soviet Union between 1991 and 1994, when the ruble, which had previously been valued at over a dollar, fell to its low of about one-fiftieth of one cent (that is, one dollar fetched 5,130 rubles). * In 1991, the Central Bank of Russia announced its first great ruble reform: it froze all savings accounts and declared all 50- and 100-ruble notes worthless. This led a Russian electrician standing outside the bank that had confiscated his life savings to famously proclaim, "First there was nothing to buy, and now there is no money to buy it with. In the Soviet Union, this is economic reform." **
Think it can’t happen here? Well, it can, and it looks like it will, unless we wake up and smell the coffee. In 2008, the positions of the U.S. and Russia are reversed. The U.S. is the world’s largest debtor nation, and Russia now has a currency reserve of $413 billion, the largest per capita foreign currency reserve of any major economy, including China’s. ***
You see, we don’t live in a fantasy–land, even though the Republican and Democratic parties think we do. Reps and Dems see nothing wrong with borrowing and spending more every year, creating inevitable economic disaster! Yet the electorate continue to vote them in. It just astounds me. If you ask 100 people about the government’s deficit spending, 50 will just shrug and say, “so what?” The other 49 will say, “oh, does the government run a deficit?” Maybe 1 out 100 citizens really understand what’s going on. I think that’s an optimistic estimate, actually.
An ignorant citizenry cannot remain strong and free. When the government plays fast and loose with your money, you should be outraged. But apparently, it is business as usual in the good ol’ USA. People will, apparently, continue to vote Democratic or Republican, rewarding the very people who are destroying our economy and our currency.
All I can say is, WAKE UP AMERICA!
Before it’s too late.
______________________________
* Michael Lewis, “The Capitalist; Ruble Roulette” The New York Times Magazine, August 13, 1995.
** Ibid.
*** Andrew E. Kramer, “The Almighty Ruble,” The New York Times World Business, August 8, 2007.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Weak and strong
What is the difference between a weak person and a strong one?
Some people might say that a weak person is easily influenced by the opinions of others. Others might say that a weak person is always physically inferior.
If we apply the vibrational universe concept we can see more clearly.
When the weak person gets within the range of a passionate person, he or she is easily influenced, because the more powerful vibration entrains the weaker one to it. A person’s physique has nothing to do with it. A smaller man or woman with a strong intention can influence much larger and more powerful men. Napoleon Bonaparte was a short man, yet he was able to lead an entire nation. Gandhi was also a small man, yet he led a nation of 400 million to independence from Great Britain. The key is vibrational entrainment.
Entrainment is defined as the tendency for two oscillating bodies to lock into phase so that both vibrate in harmony. Two pendulum clocks placed on a wall near each other will eventually wind up with their pendulums swinging at the same rate. This occurs because of their mutual influence on one another. However, a stronger vibration will have a much greater influence on the system than the weaker one, so the resulting vibration will be much closer to the stronger. This is called vibrational entrainment.
Vibrational entrainment occurs even when the stronger vibration is lower on the scale of emotion / vibration. It is the amplitude of the vibration ––it’s strength and power –– that determines its influence. Such influence is often called strength of will, or force of character, but boils down to the impact of a person’s intention on the field of subtle energy in which we all live. One may refer to this as “the force” or anything you like, but anyone who has ever been around a person with a strong will can feel the effects on our consciousness.
Weakness has a pejorative connotation, but weakness is simply the failure to decide. When one has not made up one’s mind, one’s vibration is not strong. That is all weakness is. Clarity of thought and intention is brought about by finding a desire and going with it. Desire aligns thought and intent, and creates a strong vibration that aligns others to it.
President Bush, for example, has declared an irrational “War on Terrorism” that has resulted in the passing of legislation that has gutted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He can do this because the universe fully supports all choices. Mr. Bush clearly has strong intent, even though the results are, for intelligent and self–aware persons, nutty.
So weak or strong has everything to do with intent, with decision, with desire. And that is something each one of us has total control of.
The weak one decides that it would be better to get stronger. How does he or she go about this? Why, by attempting to overcome that which is stronger! It’s a natural human impulse. This occurs be cause we are vibrationally stuck in the resonance of the situation we are in. The most familiar and comfortable way out is to start punching against that which is holding you down.
This course of action is self–defeating, but perfectly logical when looked at vibrationally. It is a reflexive, knee–jerk reaction to the problem, which further exacerbates the problem.
George Bush’s War on Terrorism is a perfect example. By fighting terrorism, we match vibrations with it, thus feeding it energy and making it stronger. We do this despite the logic of Einstein, who once said, “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” But this is precisely what the human race does. We do it in our personal lives as well!
What is reality? It is a matching of vibrations. The only way something appears real and solid is when two vibrations are close enough to each other. It’s a fundamental property of this universe. When the dog whistle goes beyond the range of the human ear, we are no longer aware of the sound. When the frequency of light changes from the visible light spectrum to the infrared, we can no longer perceive it.
How do you get strong, if you are weak?
Find something to resonate to that makes you feel strong! A feeling is a vibration, and emotion. It’s a sign that you are connected to a desire. If you go through life feeling little or nothing, it’s because you haven’t found anything to resonate to. Your thoughts are probably vague and unformulated.
Let’s now introduce Joey, a young kid who feels peer pressure to break the rules even when he doesn’t want to. At this point, Joey is in a weak position, for he is confronted by those who have very strong intention. “You are either with us or against us,” Joey is told. Joey understands that life is nuanced, but the characters who challenge him see only black and white. Joey knows that if he chooses to fight, he gets his butt kicked. If he doesn’t fight, he gets his butt kicked anyway!
What should Joey do?
Well, the solution often requires that you utterly ignore the problem that is staring you in the face. Why? Because you are weak there! Young Joey has no interest in roughnecking, so what should he do? Concentrate on his music! That’s what floats his boat, that’s where he feels strong.
“Hah!” You say, “that’s great, but meanwhile he is getting rolled!”
Well look: you don’t get involved in anything unless you are already resonating to it, even if just a little bit. The guy who is looking for trouble will pick out the one guy in the crowd who is afraid, and attack him. Events don’t just happen randomly you know. That’s a deluded philosophy promoted by mechanists, behaviorists, and others who deny their own spirituality.
Might Joey get kicked around a little? Yeah, maybe, but it will depend on how quickly he can get into his music vibe. Remember, when there is vibrational disparity, there is invisibility. You can’t see or hear frequencies that are out of range! The roughnecks only see Joey because he’s afraid, or because he’s vibrationally weak. The passionate person walks proud and tall, he or she is their own transmitter, entraining others to them.
It doesn’t matter how little you are, or how poor. The universe doesn’t discriminate that way. The solution to weakness is to find something that lights you up, and go DO it!
Think about it, talk about it, find as much time in your day as you can for it. You will find yourself growing stronger, and watching as more and more people begin to resonate to you, and come under your vibrational sphere of influence. If you are truly passionate –– not obsessed –– you will be connected strongly to the creative energy of the universe, and you will be acting not only for your greatest good, but for the greatest good of all.
That’s what Joey did. Soon he is playing in a band and his paying customers are the bullies who wanted to beat him up. And now they want his autograph!
What is the difference between a weak person and a strong one?
Some people might say that a weak person is easily influenced by the opinions of others. Others might say that a weak person is always physically inferior.
If we apply the vibrational universe concept we can see more clearly.
When the weak person gets within the range of a passionate person, he or she is easily influenced, because the more powerful vibration entrains the weaker one to it. A person’s physique has nothing to do with it. A smaller man or woman with a strong intention can influence much larger and more powerful men. Napoleon Bonaparte was a short man, yet he was able to lead an entire nation. Gandhi was also a small man, yet he led a nation of 400 million to independence from Great Britain. The key is vibrational entrainment.
Entrainment is defined as the tendency for two oscillating bodies to lock into phase so that both vibrate in harmony. Two pendulum clocks placed on a wall near each other will eventually wind up with their pendulums swinging at the same rate. This occurs because of their mutual influence on one another. However, a stronger vibration will have a much greater influence on the system than the weaker one, so the resulting vibration will be much closer to the stronger. This is called vibrational entrainment.
Vibrational entrainment occurs even when the stronger vibration is lower on the scale of emotion / vibration. It is the amplitude of the vibration ––it’s strength and power –– that determines its influence. Such influence is often called strength of will, or force of character, but boils down to the impact of a person’s intention on the field of subtle energy in which we all live. One may refer to this as “the force” or anything you like, but anyone who has ever been around a person with a strong will can feel the effects on our consciousness.
Weakness has a pejorative connotation, but weakness is simply the failure to decide. When one has not made up one’s mind, one’s vibration is not strong. That is all weakness is. Clarity of thought and intention is brought about by finding a desire and going with it. Desire aligns thought and intent, and creates a strong vibration that aligns others to it.
President Bush, for example, has declared an irrational “War on Terrorism” that has resulted in the passing of legislation that has gutted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He can do this because the universe fully supports all choices. Mr. Bush clearly has strong intent, even though the results are, for intelligent and self–aware persons, nutty.
So weak or strong has everything to do with intent, with decision, with desire. And that is something each one of us has total control of.
The weak one decides that it would be better to get stronger. How does he or she go about this? Why, by attempting to overcome that which is stronger! It’s a natural human impulse. This occurs be cause we are vibrationally stuck in the resonance of the situation we are in. The most familiar and comfortable way out is to start punching against that which is holding you down.
This course of action is self–defeating, but perfectly logical when looked at vibrationally. It is a reflexive, knee–jerk reaction to the problem, which further exacerbates the problem.
George Bush’s War on Terrorism is a perfect example. By fighting terrorism, we match vibrations with it, thus feeding it energy and making it stronger. We do this despite the logic of Einstein, who once said, “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” But this is precisely what the human race does. We do it in our personal lives as well!
What is reality? It is a matching of vibrations. The only way something appears real and solid is when two vibrations are close enough to each other. It’s a fundamental property of this universe. When the dog whistle goes beyond the range of the human ear, we are no longer aware of the sound. When the frequency of light changes from the visible light spectrum to the infrared, we can no longer perceive it.
How do you get strong, if you are weak?
Find something to resonate to that makes you feel strong! A feeling is a vibration, and emotion. It’s a sign that you are connected to a desire. If you go through life feeling little or nothing, it’s because you haven’t found anything to resonate to. Your thoughts are probably vague and unformulated.
Let’s now introduce Joey, a young kid who feels peer pressure to break the rules even when he doesn’t want to. At this point, Joey is in a weak position, for he is confronted by those who have very strong intention. “You are either with us or against us,” Joey is told. Joey understands that life is nuanced, but the characters who challenge him see only black and white. Joey knows that if he chooses to fight, he gets his butt kicked. If he doesn’t fight, he gets his butt kicked anyway!
What should Joey do?
Well, the solution often requires that you utterly ignore the problem that is staring you in the face. Why? Because you are weak there! Young Joey has no interest in roughnecking, so what should he do? Concentrate on his music! That’s what floats his boat, that’s where he feels strong.
“Hah!” You say, “that’s great, but meanwhile he is getting rolled!”
Well look: you don’t get involved in anything unless you are already resonating to it, even if just a little bit. The guy who is looking for trouble will pick out the one guy in the crowd who is afraid, and attack him. Events don’t just happen randomly you know. That’s a deluded philosophy promoted by mechanists, behaviorists, and others who deny their own spirituality.
Might Joey get kicked around a little? Yeah, maybe, but it will depend on how quickly he can get into his music vibe. Remember, when there is vibrational disparity, there is invisibility. You can’t see or hear frequencies that are out of range! The roughnecks only see Joey because he’s afraid, or because he’s vibrationally weak. The passionate person walks proud and tall, he or she is their own transmitter, entraining others to them.
It doesn’t matter how little you are, or how poor. The universe doesn’t discriminate that way. The solution to weakness is to find something that lights you up, and go DO it!
Think about it, talk about it, find as much time in your day as you can for it. You will find yourself growing stronger, and watching as more and more people begin to resonate to you, and come under your vibrational sphere of influence. If you are truly passionate –– not obsessed –– you will be connected strongly to the creative energy of the universe, and you will be acting not only for your greatest good, but for the greatest good of all.
That’s what Joey did. Soon he is playing in a band and his paying customers are the bullies who wanted to beat him up. And now they want his autograph!
Thursday, June 19, 2008
I don’t know about you, but I am not happy every single second of every day. I experience roller coasters of emotion like everybody else, but I have discovered something that makes the job of staying happy a little easier. It revolves around the concept of wholeness.
Wholeness is a feeling of completeness, a feeling that everything is right. Unfortunately, our belief systems and our philosophies support fragmentation, and a feeling of separateness from life. Fragmentation leads to a feeling of incompleteness, and then you find yourself on a descent into negative emotion.
Fragmentation
We are told that it is not possible to feel happy all the time, because the universe itself is polarized. This is an absolute fact. Hot–cold, weak–strong, light– dark, positive–negative, etc. However, these are qualities that describe matter and energy! Of course, it appears to us in our physical incarnations that we ARE matter and energy, does it not? Even for those who understand our spiritual heritage, the physical experience has led us to formulate and buy into core beliefs like these:
· Souls are born with original sin (or karma). [tainted before you ever begin]
· You have to struggle and work hard for everything you get. [the universe is lined up against you]
· Challenge builds character. [only by overcoming the negative can you reach the positive]
· You’ll get your reward in heaven. [you can’t really find joy while on earth, so shut up and get to work]
· Human nature is animalistic and primitive; therefore, human beings need to be controlled and disciplined. [you can’t know what’s best for you, because your instincts are inherently flawed]
· If you don’t behave you should be punished. [thus reinforcing negative behavior]
· Things never go as smoothly as you plan them [obstacles are inevitable]
· And finally, the formula that succinctly expresses mankind’s worldview: All good things must come to an end. [But the bad stuff, that can last forever].
All of these beliefs lead to a feeling of separation, and fragment our consciousness. Is it any wonder that this sort of thinking extends even into how we define consciousness itself?
We divide the psyche –– something that no one has ever been able to define, precisely because it is non–physical –– into artificial compartments, such as the ego, the id, the subconscious, the conscious, the super–conscious, the “inner child,” and many more. We subdivide our psyche into separate boxes like we were cutting up a pie. We then assign these parts magical powers to influence our behavior in undesirable ways.
For example, we are taught that the ego is bad, and that we should strive to overcome and transcend it. We are taught that the inner child is wounded and needs healing, that the id contains harmful negative emotions, and that the subconscious is a vast, murky repository of neurotic and unhealthy impulses that can affect our behavior without our conscious consent. If these aspects of our consciousness are part of our very nature, then how can we possible achieve wholeness? Well, we cannot!
This sort of fragmentary thinking regards our own psyche as a battleground of competing factions, and leads inevitably to a feeling of tension and frustration. We must then invent complicated processes and 12–step programs to try to overcome this self–created conflict. No wonder there are so many self–help books, seminars, and courses out there!
If you understand your spiritual nature, you understand that these artificial designations of the psyche don’t exist, and that you aren’t any of them. These psychic constructs have been invented by well intentioned people in an attempt to explain the complex gamut of human behavior; but they have somehow taken on a life of their own, just like the “monsters of the id” in the famous science fiction movie, “Forbidden Planet.”
Wholeness
What I have discovered is that a feeling of wholeness can result from openness, honesty, and transparency. A person can begin to regain wholeness by simply accepting themselves, and being honest and open with themselves.
Wholeness does not mean that you have to be perfect in every moment. The road to wholeness begins by understanding that it is perfectly OK to feel what you are feeling, even if you feel rotten.
I have discovered the value of simply being myself in every situation. At work, at home, with friends, in public, at family gatherings, during my radio shows. For me, it is a great temptation to alter my behavior to suit the crowd I am currently interacting with. My main motivation is to help and support others, and that often leads me to want to keep things going smoothly. What I’ve found, however, is that although it’s easy to “go along to get along,” I find myself wearing different masks depending upon which social situation I’m in. And that is very tiring!
So I finally just gave it up. I decided to be me, even if I’m feeling grumpy, and no matter who I’m with. I’ll tell people, “you know, I’m feeling irritable right now, so just bear with me.” I’ve discovered that people appreciate that sort of honesty, and a funny thing happens. When I’m open to people, even when I’m not feeling so great, I get out of my funk a lot faster. There’s something about an open and transparent person that other people can really relate to. And you know why? Because we’ve all been there! I’ve discovered that when I’m openly and honestly angry, it takes the edge off my negative emotion, people can understand me in the moment, and I begin to feel better a lot quicker.
What I’m trying to say is that openness, transparency, and honesty is the road to wholeness. It is the road to personal integrity, for that’s what wholeness is. And you can begin to practice this right now.
To act in this way is bringing out an inner strength I didn’t know I had.
I’ve also discovered that baring your soul to people takes a lot of courage. I’ve discovered that being open to people can only come from a position of inner strength. It’s only when I am frustrated inside that I am truly angry, and that frustration almost always comes from not being honest and open with myself, or being afraid that others will not perceive me the way I would like. But of course, being dishonest puts a mask between me and the world, and that naturally turns people off!
I’ve found that I can be polite and social, and still express who I am in the moment. Openness doesn’t mean obtuseness if you are genuine, authentic, and are willing to open yourself up.
Every one of us is a perfected spiritual being. That is the quality of the creative principle, which is non–physical, non–polarized, and exists in a state of bliss. But we are also human, and even though it is easy to slide along by conforming to society’s version of “normal,” “normal” doesn’t really feel that great a lot of the time. Successful and happy people go their own way, not in a resistive and “f – you” fashion, but in a way that open them up to themselves, and to the world at large.
My spiritual guides tell me that when you fully accept yourself, you will feel bliss.
They say that polarity dissolves when there is a feeling of wholeness, and that wholeness is just the acceptance of who you are. They are always telling me how important feelings are, and that everything worthwhile in life boils down to a feeling.
Love is a feeling, happiness is a feeling. Success is the feeling of having accomplished something worthwhile. Integrity is a feeling of wholeness and internal strength. You feel good when you help another because giving touches the soul. Everything we strive for in life is motivated by the desire to feel love and happiness, and that begins with openness and self–honesty.
The question is, how is it possible to maintain a sense of wholeness while still living a crazy life on earth that exposes us to such great polarity?
By recognizing that you do not have to think a certain way, or to be a certain way. It is sufficient, in other words, to be yourself. What I mean by “being yourself” is simply the acceptance of who you are, right now. All of you! This will generate the feeling of wholeness.
I am talking about a feeling of wholeness, not a condition of wholeness!
Wholeness doesn’t mean that your life has to be perfect! Your life might be a disaster, but you must begin by being honest with yourself emotionally. If you feel rotten in this moment, that is perfectly fine. That feeling occurs because you do not fully accept yourself. The solution is not to beat yourself up or take another seminar or search for the "secret" to success.
The way to get out of that trap is to be open and transparent. Pull back those psychic curtains, unlock those emotional doors, throw away those masks, and open up those windows of feeling! Air out your psyche. Throw away all of those psychic boxes marked “ego” “subconscious” “inner child,” etc., and feel the fresh air of life force flowing through you.
Begin by deciding to just be who you are, no matter how that is, or how it might affect others. I think you’ll find that being yourself is the greatest gift you can give to yourself, and everyone you interact with.
Meditation to promote the feeling of wholeness:
Sit or lie anywhere you like, as long as it is comfortable.
Imagine that you are surrounded by a sphere of soft, golden light, and that you are inside this sphere. Why a sphere? Because the Sphere is the geometric equivalent of wholeness. It is smooth, unbroken and has no beginning and ending. The golden energy within this sphere penetrates and warms every cell in your body. Feel yourself as whole and complete. Fragmentary thoughts and emotions simply dissolve, and you feel a delicious warmth and a feeling that all is right within you. You may, if you are a sensitive, see or feel color.
Once you feel this energy, you can get up and go about your business. This feeling should stay with you for a while, because the color gold has the peculiar property of warmth and wholeness. It is a very fundamental energy that lasts a long time, like a warm breakfast on a cold day.
You can do this exercise at any time. You do not have to close your eyes. Just imagine being surrounded by golden light and feel the sense of completeness that accompanies it.
Wholeness is a feeling of completeness, a feeling that everything is right. Unfortunately, our belief systems and our philosophies support fragmentation, and a feeling of separateness from life. Fragmentation leads to a feeling of incompleteness, and then you find yourself on a descent into negative emotion.
Fragmentation
We are told that it is not possible to feel happy all the time, because the universe itself is polarized. This is an absolute fact. Hot–cold, weak–strong, light– dark, positive–negative, etc. However, these are qualities that describe matter and energy! Of course, it appears to us in our physical incarnations that we ARE matter and energy, does it not? Even for those who understand our spiritual heritage, the physical experience has led us to formulate and buy into core beliefs like these:
· Souls are born with original sin (or karma). [tainted before you ever begin]
· You have to struggle and work hard for everything you get. [the universe is lined up against you]
· Challenge builds character. [only by overcoming the negative can you reach the positive]
· You’ll get your reward in heaven. [you can’t really find joy while on earth, so shut up and get to work]
· Human nature is animalistic and primitive; therefore, human beings need to be controlled and disciplined. [you can’t know what’s best for you, because your instincts are inherently flawed]
· If you don’t behave you should be punished. [thus reinforcing negative behavior]
· Things never go as smoothly as you plan them [obstacles are inevitable]
· And finally, the formula that succinctly expresses mankind’s worldview: All good things must come to an end. [But the bad stuff, that can last forever].
All of these beliefs lead to a feeling of separation, and fragment our consciousness. Is it any wonder that this sort of thinking extends even into how we define consciousness itself?
We divide the psyche –– something that no one has ever been able to define, precisely because it is non–physical –– into artificial compartments, such as the ego, the id, the subconscious, the conscious, the super–conscious, the “inner child,” and many more. We subdivide our psyche into separate boxes like we were cutting up a pie. We then assign these parts magical powers to influence our behavior in undesirable ways.
For example, we are taught that the ego is bad, and that we should strive to overcome and transcend it. We are taught that the inner child is wounded and needs healing, that the id contains harmful negative emotions, and that the subconscious is a vast, murky repository of neurotic and unhealthy impulses that can affect our behavior without our conscious consent. If these aspects of our consciousness are part of our very nature, then how can we possible achieve wholeness? Well, we cannot!
This sort of fragmentary thinking regards our own psyche as a battleground of competing factions, and leads inevitably to a feeling of tension and frustration. We must then invent complicated processes and 12–step programs to try to overcome this self–created conflict. No wonder there are so many self–help books, seminars, and courses out there!
If you understand your spiritual nature, you understand that these artificial designations of the psyche don’t exist, and that you aren’t any of them. These psychic constructs have been invented by well intentioned people in an attempt to explain the complex gamut of human behavior; but they have somehow taken on a life of their own, just like the “monsters of the id” in the famous science fiction movie, “Forbidden Planet.”
Wholeness
What I have discovered is that a feeling of wholeness can result from openness, honesty, and transparency. A person can begin to regain wholeness by simply accepting themselves, and being honest and open with themselves.
Wholeness does not mean that you have to be perfect in every moment. The road to wholeness begins by understanding that it is perfectly OK to feel what you are feeling, even if you feel rotten.
I have discovered the value of simply being myself in every situation. At work, at home, with friends, in public, at family gatherings, during my radio shows. For me, it is a great temptation to alter my behavior to suit the crowd I am currently interacting with. My main motivation is to help and support others, and that often leads me to want to keep things going smoothly. What I’ve found, however, is that although it’s easy to “go along to get along,” I find myself wearing different masks depending upon which social situation I’m in. And that is very tiring!
So I finally just gave it up. I decided to be me, even if I’m feeling grumpy, and no matter who I’m with. I’ll tell people, “you know, I’m feeling irritable right now, so just bear with me.” I’ve discovered that people appreciate that sort of honesty, and a funny thing happens. When I’m open to people, even when I’m not feeling so great, I get out of my funk a lot faster. There’s something about an open and transparent person that other people can really relate to. And you know why? Because we’ve all been there! I’ve discovered that when I’m openly and honestly angry, it takes the edge off my negative emotion, people can understand me in the moment, and I begin to feel better a lot quicker.
What I’m trying to say is that openness, transparency, and honesty is the road to wholeness. It is the road to personal integrity, for that’s what wholeness is. And you can begin to practice this right now.
To act in this way is bringing out an inner strength I didn’t know I had.
I’ve also discovered that baring your soul to people takes a lot of courage. I’ve discovered that being open to people can only come from a position of inner strength. It’s only when I am frustrated inside that I am truly angry, and that frustration almost always comes from not being honest and open with myself, or being afraid that others will not perceive me the way I would like. But of course, being dishonest puts a mask between me and the world, and that naturally turns people off!
I’ve found that I can be polite and social, and still express who I am in the moment. Openness doesn’t mean obtuseness if you are genuine, authentic, and are willing to open yourself up.
Every one of us is a perfected spiritual being. That is the quality of the creative principle, which is non–physical, non–polarized, and exists in a state of bliss. But we are also human, and even though it is easy to slide along by conforming to society’s version of “normal,” “normal” doesn’t really feel that great a lot of the time. Successful and happy people go their own way, not in a resistive and “f – you” fashion, but in a way that open them up to themselves, and to the world at large.
My spiritual guides tell me that when you fully accept yourself, you will feel bliss.
They say that polarity dissolves when there is a feeling of wholeness, and that wholeness is just the acceptance of who you are. They are always telling me how important feelings are, and that everything worthwhile in life boils down to a feeling.
Love is a feeling, happiness is a feeling. Success is the feeling of having accomplished something worthwhile. Integrity is a feeling of wholeness and internal strength. You feel good when you help another because giving touches the soul. Everything we strive for in life is motivated by the desire to feel love and happiness, and that begins with openness and self–honesty.
The question is, how is it possible to maintain a sense of wholeness while still living a crazy life on earth that exposes us to such great polarity?
By recognizing that you do not have to think a certain way, or to be a certain way. It is sufficient, in other words, to be yourself. What I mean by “being yourself” is simply the acceptance of who you are, right now. All of you! This will generate the feeling of wholeness.
I am talking about a feeling of wholeness, not a condition of wholeness!
Wholeness doesn’t mean that your life has to be perfect! Your life might be a disaster, but you must begin by being honest with yourself emotionally. If you feel rotten in this moment, that is perfectly fine. That feeling occurs because you do not fully accept yourself. The solution is not to beat yourself up or take another seminar or search for the "secret" to success.
The way to get out of that trap is to be open and transparent. Pull back those psychic curtains, unlock those emotional doors, throw away those masks, and open up those windows of feeling! Air out your psyche. Throw away all of those psychic boxes marked “ego” “subconscious” “inner child,” etc., and feel the fresh air of life force flowing through you.
Begin by deciding to just be who you are, no matter how that is, or how it might affect others. I think you’ll find that being yourself is the greatest gift you can give to yourself, and everyone you interact with.
Meditation to promote the feeling of wholeness:
Sit or lie anywhere you like, as long as it is comfortable.
Imagine that you are surrounded by a sphere of soft, golden light, and that you are inside this sphere. Why a sphere? Because the Sphere is the geometric equivalent of wholeness. It is smooth, unbroken and has no beginning and ending. The golden energy within this sphere penetrates and warms every cell in your body. Feel yourself as whole and complete. Fragmentary thoughts and emotions simply dissolve, and you feel a delicious warmth and a feeling that all is right within you. You may, if you are a sensitive, see or feel color.
Once you feel this energy, you can get up and go about your business. This feeling should stay with you for a while, because the color gold has the peculiar property of warmth and wholeness. It is a very fundamental energy that lasts a long time, like a warm breakfast on a cold day.
You can do this exercise at any time. You do not have to close your eyes. Just imagine being surrounded by golden light and feel the sense of completeness that accompanies it.
Friday, May 16, 2008
The Scale of Emotion / Vibration and how to use it
In a vibrational universe, all things are vibrational in nature, including thoughts and emotions. Fortunately, emotions can be graphed on a scale from lowest to highest. This scale is one of the most important life tools in your toolbox. This scale is actually 3 dimensional. It represents
1) the amount of life force energy a person is allowing
2) emotional well–being
3) intelligence, intellectual ability
As you go up the scale you experience increasing amounts of all three factors. As you go down the scale, you experience less.
Excerpted from the book, The Vibrational Universe
“Barb and Jill
(The full conversation from chapter 2. Barb calls her friend Jill and discovers she is feeling down about herself. Barb uses the scale of emotion / vibration to cheer her friend up)
“What’s wrong Barb?” says Jill.
“Oh, I just don’t care anymore,” Barb says apathetically.
Jill is just about to fire off an angry comment about Thorpe, (Barb’s former boyfriend) but she realizes that apathy is very low down on the scale and doesn’t want to overwhelm her friend, so she says gently, “It’s Thorpe isn’t it?”
Emotion Attitude
Apathy “I give up.”
Grief
Propitiation “I’ll do anything to make it up to you!”
Sympathy “I feel your pain.”
Fear
Anxiety
Hidden Hostility He's smiling in your face and stabbing you in the back.
Callousness “Tough for you. Just do it.”
Anger Out of control, lashing out at the world.
Antagonism “Hey! Come over here and let me kick your butt!” Feistiness.
Boredom/Complacency Yawn
Conservatism “Things are fine just the way they are”
Interest “Hey that's cool!”
Enthusiasm “Wow! Let's do that again!”
Exhilaration “I feel fantastic!!!!!”
Serenity/bliss Complete connection to Source, or God force, or life-force energy. This is the feeling consciousness has in its native, non–physical state.
Fig. 2-5. The Emotional Scale
Suddenly Barb bursts into tears, an activity that used to really anger Thorpe. “Darn woman,” he’d think, “what’s wrong with her now?” But Jill knows that grief is the next harmonic of vibration up on the scale of emotions, so to her Barb’s reaction is perfectly logical. Barb is wailing on about Thorpe and how lonely and rejected she feels. Jill is a good counselor, and even though she thinks to herself, “You’re a whole lot better off without that loser honey,” she says nothing and lets Barb vent. She knows that although being around grief is uncomfortable, matching Barb’s vibration would result in failure, for two vibrations of grief would just reinforce the other, sticking both women right in it. Jill knows that only by maintaining a high emotional level can she be of any use to Barb at all.
After several minutes Barb is cried out and looks up at her friend. Jill recognizes that Barb is poised at an emotional brink; and that a word or gesture from her can send her friend up the scale, or downward again. She also knows that people can hit an emotion and pass by it very quickly on the way up or down, so she’s not sure exactly where Barb is going next, but she knows it’s going to be some version of negative emotion, and is prepared for it.
Jill says, “You had some good times together, didn’t you?” hoping to bring Barb up a little. She doesn’t say, “Still feeling sad about Thorpe?” because that might stick Barb back in grief.
Barb says, sympathetically, and a little defensively, “Yeah we did! I remember the time we went to the putt–putt golf course and he put his arms around me…”
Jill let’s Barb go on a bit, because she recognizes the emotion of sympathy, which is a little bit up from grief.
After a time Jill suggests, “Maybe you’ll meet somebody else.”
A look of anxiety comes over Barb’s face and she says, “Do you really think I can? All the guys I’m attracted to treat me like crap.”
Jill immediately recognizes the vibration of fear, and understands that it is a step up. “Yes I think you can,” she says. “You’re such a great person.”
Barb says fearfully, “I don’t think so. Thorpe didn’t think so anyway. Maybe I’m doomed to be lonely forever.”
Jill puts a little anger in her voice and says, “Remember how he cussed you out at the amusement park when you didn’t want to go on the rollercoaster?” That was a little reach by Jill, because anger is the next major harmonic on the scale, but it could backfire and put Barb right back into grief. Even if it does, Jill knows it’s not a problem, for it just means Barb needs to cry a little more and fully release it. Barb’s face is a study in emotion as she goes up to anger, down to grief and up to fear again. But Jill’s statement hit home, because Jill knows something about Barb’s life and how her friend thinks.
Barb remembers many more incidents almost as bad, and her face hardens. “That bastard,” she says.
Jill is secretly thrilled, for her regard for Thorpe is like a gooey mess on the kitchen floor, but she keeps her opinions to herself and recognizes Barb has reached callousness, and that if she’s successful, the dam will burst. Jill hates anger but she steels herself for it anyway, knowing it’s the next harmonic. After probing around a bit on that subject, Barb starts screaming. “Did I ever tell you what he said to me after I made dinner for him???@!@!!” etc. This goes on for a while as Barb recounts all the times Thorpe was mean to her. Jill is holding it together in the face of Barb’s anger, even when her friend picks up a glass of water and hurls it against the wall. Jill knows that even if the session ended right now, a lot of progress has been made, for anger is a big step up from apathy.
After a while Barb calms down and begins to tease herself about Thorpe. “Maybe I should go over to his house and put a dent in his truck.” All of a sudden she bursts out laughing, realizing that Thorpe liked his new truck, and paid a lot more attention to it, than he ever did to her.
Barb says, “Why did I ever hook up with that guy?”
Jill smiles and says, “I don’t know sweetheart, but I do know that there are plenty of guys out there a lot better than him.”
Barb says, “There better be!”
She’s feeling a lot better now and Jill suggests they go out and get something to eat. Barb is eager to talk some more to her friend and agrees. Jill hopes to get her up to at least interest on the subject of the opposite sex.
In a vibrational universe, all things are vibrational in nature, including thoughts and emotions. Fortunately, emotions can be graphed on a scale from lowest to highest. This scale is one of the most important life tools in your toolbox. This scale is actually 3 dimensional. It represents
1) the amount of life force energy a person is allowing
2) emotional well–being
3) intelligence, intellectual ability
As you go up the scale you experience increasing amounts of all three factors. As you go down the scale, you experience less.
Excerpted from the book, The Vibrational Universe
“Barb and Jill
(The full conversation from chapter 2. Barb calls her friend Jill and discovers she is feeling down about herself. Barb uses the scale of emotion / vibration to cheer her friend up)
“What’s wrong Barb?” says Jill.
“Oh, I just don’t care anymore,” Barb says apathetically.
Jill is just about to fire off an angry comment about Thorpe, (Barb’s former boyfriend) but she realizes that apathy is very low down on the scale and doesn’t want to overwhelm her friend, so she says gently, “It’s Thorpe isn’t it?”
Emotion Attitude
Apathy “I give up.”
Grief
Propitiation “I’ll do anything to make it up to you!”
Sympathy “I feel your pain.”
Fear
Anxiety
Hidden Hostility He's smiling in your face and stabbing you in the back.
Callousness “Tough for you. Just do it.”
Anger Out of control, lashing out at the world.
Antagonism “Hey! Come over here and let me kick your butt!” Feistiness.
Boredom/Complacency Yawn
Conservatism “Things are fine just the way they are”
Interest “Hey that's cool!”
Enthusiasm “Wow! Let's do that again!”
Exhilaration “I feel fantastic!!!!!”
Serenity/bliss Complete connection to Source, or God force, or life-force energy. This is the feeling consciousness has in its native, non–physical state.
Fig. 2-5. The Emotional Scale
Suddenly Barb bursts into tears, an activity that used to really anger Thorpe. “Darn woman,” he’d think, “what’s wrong with her now?” But Jill knows that grief is the next harmonic of vibration up on the scale of emotions, so to her Barb’s reaction is perfectly logical. Barb is wailing on about Thorpe and how lonely and rejected she feels. Jill is a good counselor, and even though she thinks to herself, “You’re a whole lot better off without that loser honey,” she says nothing and lets Barb vent. She knows that although being around grief is uncomfortable, matching Barb’s vibration would result in failure, for two vibrations of grief would just reinforce the other, sticking both women right in it. Jill knows that only by maintaining a high emotional level can she be of any use to Barb at all.
After several minutes Barb is cried out and looks up at her friend. Jill recognizes that Barb is poised at an emotional brink; and that a word or gesture from her can send her friend up the scale, or downward again. She also knows that people can hit an emotion and pass by it very quickly on the way up or down, so she’s not sure exactly where Barb is going next, but she knows it’s going to be some version of negative emotion, and is prepared for it.
Jill says, “You had some good times together, didn’t you?” hoping to bring Barb up a little. She doesn’t say, “Still feeling sad about Thorpe?” because that might stick Barb back in grief.
Barb says, sympathetically, and a little defensively, “Yeah we did! I remember the time we went to the putt–putt golf course and he put his arms around me…”
Jill let’s Barb go on a bit, because she recognizes the emotion of sympathy, which is a little bit up from grief.
After a time Jill suggests, “Maybe you’ll meet somebody else.”
A look of anxiety comes over Barb’s face and she says, “Do you really think I can? All the guys I’m attracted to treat me like crap.”
Jill immediately recognizes the vibration of fear, and understands that it is a step up. “Yes I think you can,” she says. “You’re such a great person.”
Barb says fearfully, “I don’t think so. Thorpe didn’t think so anyway. Maybe I’m doomed to be lonely forever.”
Jill puts a little anger in her voice and says, “Remember how he cussed you out at the amusement park when you didn’t want to go on the rollercoaster?” That was a little reach by Jill, because anger is the next major harmonic on the scale, but it could backfire and put Barb right back into grief. Even if it does, Jill knows it’s not a problem, for it just means Barb needs to cry a little more and fully release it. Barb’s face is a study in emotion as she goes up to anger, down to grief and up to fear again. But Jill’s statement hit home, because Jill knows something about Barb’s life and how her friend thinks.
Barb remembers many more incidents almost as bad, and her face hardens. “That bastard,” she says.
Jill is secretly thrilled, for her regard for Thorpe is like a gooey mess on the kitchen floor, but she keeps her opinions to herself and recognizes Barb has reached callousness, and that if she’s successful, the dam will burst. Jill hates anger but she steels herself for it anyway, knowing it’s the next harmonic. After probing around a bit on that subject, Barb starts screaming. “Did I ever tell you what he said to me after I made dinner for him???@!@!!” etc. This goes on for a while as Barb recounts all the times Thorpe was mean to her. Jill is holding it together in the face of Barb’s anger, even when her friend picks up a glass of water and hurls it against the wall. Jill knows that even if the session ended right now, a lot of progress has been made, for anger is a big step up from apathy.
After a while Barb calms down and begins to tease herself about Thorpe. “Maybe I should go over to his house and put a dent in his truck.” All of a sudden she bursts out laughing, realizing that Thorpe liked his new truck, and paid a lot more attention to it, than he ever did to her.
Barb says, “Why did I ever hook up with that guy?”
Jill smiles and says, “I don’t know sweetheart, but I do know that there are plenty of guys out there a lot better than him.”
Barb says, “There better be!”
She’s feeling a lot better now and Jill suggests they go out and get something to eat. Barb is eager to talk some more to her friend and agrees. Jill hopes to get her up to at least interest on the subject of the opposite sex.
Friday, April 18, 2008
In this hilarious 8 minute video from two of Britains premiere satirists, discover what's behind the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the turmoil in the credit markets.
If it wasn't so funny, I'd be crying!
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/187.html
If it wasn't so funny, I'd be crying!
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/187.html
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Joy
(Occasionally I will post channeled spiritual messages from the Interview With Spirit program on Blog Talk Radio. (Hear the show every Thursday at 4PM Eastern time US)
Our message to you this week is about joy, and positive emotion. Joy is a feeling of lightness and expansiveness, as are all positive emotions. But these feelings come in many flavors, and this is what we want to talk to you about this week.
Joy is when your loved one opens the door and announces, “I’m Home!”
Joy is when you laugh at a funny joke.
Joy is when you look at the setting sun and it fills you with a feeling of beauty and awe for the world.
Joy is your first bite of birthday cake.
Joy is a brilliant passage in your favorite piece of music
Dear Ones, all of these things remind you, of YOU. Joy is a celebration of YOU and who you are! Ultimately, when you feel good, you feel yourself in your true and divine state of being.
What is joy for you, dear ones?
Joy is only one of the many millions –– or shall we say trillions –– or maybe infinity –– of positive feelings.
Ken says –– “well, when I feel good I feel good–– there aren’t a lot of different feelings that go along with that.” We tell Ken that he is wrong –– ha ha!
We tell you that the bandwidth at the top of the scale is miles wide compared to that at the bottom of the scale!
Does it surprise you that there are practically an infinite number of positive emotions? Well, there are! You don’t feel or recognize them because you classify them under one broad category called “feeling good,” or “well–being.” But we assure you that if you were to take the time to identify each positive emotion you experience, you would find yourself discerning between them more and more. Then, like the landscape that appears flat from a distance, your perception will open up into far greater detail and your emotional range will expand upward.
Your Eskimo’s, for example, have dozens of different names for snow, because they experience a world of cold and ice. And natively, we tell you that you have spiritual sensors that can pick up on the incredibly broad spectrum of vibration at the top of the scale, even while you experience in the physical.
The universe is one of well–being, as we tell you over and over. This is the true message of spirit. Like the Eskimo’s with snow, it is possible to identify a practically infinite number of positive feelings. Think about it! If you felt good all the time, in only one way, it might get boring! But if you can imagine that each thought has it’s own signature, it’s own feeling, then you can imagine what it is like to experience natively. You might say that we exist in a beautiful light and sound show, although this description severely limits the actual experience. But remember that your world is also one of light and sound! You have the ability to experience the positive and the negative in your physical incarnations, but in our message this week, we want you to practice discerning the emotions at the top of the scale of vibration.
The scale of vibration/emotion that Ken has in his book, The Vibrational Universe, has apathy and depression at the bottom, then grief, fear, callousness, anger and hatred, then antagonism, boredom, conservatism, interest, enthusiasm, exhilaration ad serenity.
In your books and in your literature, human beings have described in great detail the nuances of suffering, struggle, illness and challenge. But no one spends much time cataloging the positive emotions!
If you do, you will begin to understand how many of them there are.
Let’s list a few:
1) the feeling you have when you are on a perfect vacation.
2) The feeling after making love
3) The feeling of having a great idea
4) The feeling after listening to an inspirational speaker
5) The feeling after giving a successful presentation in front of a large group.
6) The feeling of giving a gift to someone who appreciates what you have given.
7) The feeling of receiving a gift that you really, really like.
8) The feeling you have when you look into the eyes of your pet.
9) The feeling of your first kiss
10) The feeling when seeing something you’d really like to have.
11) The feeling when on a hike in new country, of wanting to look over that next rise
12) The feeling of the sun as it gently warms your skin and the feeling of a war, spring breeze on your face..
13) The feeling you get when you spade the garden and smell the fresh earth.
14) The feeling of waking up in the morning knowing you have an exciting day planned.
15) The feeling when you have solved a difficult problem, and you see the elegant solution in front of you, and you know you did it!
There are infinitely many more, and each of them is a discrete, positive vibration, which translates to a distinct feeling.
Now we ask you, how often during your day do you discriminate between the variety of positive emotions? How many of you are even aware that you are feeling positively? How many of you dismiss that positive feeling by saying, “it can’t last.” That’s how Ken does it. There is the idea that a positive feeling is like a balloon: it gets blown up, and expands, and then explodes and dissolves into nothingness. We want you to get the idea that the positive feeling is the norm, and what feels most natural to you, and that the negative feeling is the exception!
“How can that be,” you ask, “when I feel blah most of the time and only occasionally feel great?”
That is the million dollar question, dear ones.
A negative feeling occurs when you block the well–being that is natural. If there is one message from Spirit that is consistent, it is this one, for it is the fundamental truth of consciousness, and of existence.
For your homework this week, dear ones, we want you to make a list of 30 distinct positive feelings that you have personally experienced.
We want you to learn to recognize these feelings in the moment when they happen, and dwell upon them. We want you to learn to discern the difference between positive emotions, just as you do negative ones. In this way you will focus more and more of your attention on the positive, and less on the negative. And the more time you spend on these good feelings, the more the universe will bring you the good things in life! If you do this consciously, you will find your thoughts turning, almost magically, toward what you want.
http://www.kjmaclean.com
(Occasionally I will post channeled spiritual messages from the Interview With Spirit program on Blog Talk Radio. (Hear the show every Thursday at 4PM Eastern time US)
Our message to you this week is about joy, and positive emotion. Joy is a feeling of lightness and expansiveness, as are all positive emotions. But these feelings come in many flavors, and this is what we want to talk to you about this week.
Joy is when your loved one opens the door and announces, “I’m Home!”
Joy is when you laugh at a funny joke.
Joy is when you look at the setting sun and it fills you with a feeling of beauty and awe for the world.
Joy is your first bite of birthday cake.
Joy is a brilliant passage in your favorite piece of music
Dear Ones, all of these things remind you, of YOU. Joy is a celebration of YOU and who you are! Ultimately, when you feel good, you feel yourself in your true and divine state of being.
What is joy for you, dear ones?
Joy is only one of the many millions –– or shall we say trillions –– or maybe infinity –– of positive feelings.
Ken says –– “well, when I feel good I feel good–– there aren’t a lot of different feelings that go along with that.” We tell Ken that he is wrong –– ha ha!
We tell you that the bandwidth at the top of the scale is miles wide compared to that at the bottom of the scale!
Does it surprise you that there are practically an infinite number of positive emotions? Well, there are! You don’t feel or recognize them because you classify them under one broad category called “feeling good,” or “well–being.” But we assure you that if you were to take the time to identify each positive emotion you experience, you would find yourself discerning between them more and more. Then, like the landscape that appears flat from a distance, your perception will open up into far greater detail and your emotional range will expand upward.
Your Eskimo’s, for example, have dozens of different names for snow, because they experience a world of cold and ice. And natively, we tell you that you have spiritual sensors that can pick up on the incredibly broad spectrum of vibration at the top of the scale, even while you experience in the physical.
The universe is one of well–being, as we tell you over and over. This is the true message of spirit. Like the Eskimo’s with snow, it is possible to identify a practically infinite number of positive feelings. Think about it! If you felt good all the time, in only one way, it might get boring! But if you can imagine that each thought has it’s own signature, it’s own feeling, then you can imagine what it is like to experience natively. You might say that we exist in a beautiful light and sound show, although this description severely limits the actual experience. But remember that your world is also one of light and sound! You have the ability to experience the positive and the negative in your physical incarnations, but in our message this week, we want you to practice discerning the emotions at the top of the scale of vibration.
The scale of vibration/emotion that Ken has in his book, The Vibrational Universe, has apathy and depression at the bottom, then grief, fear, callousness, anger and hatred, then antagonism, boredom, conservatism, interest, enthusiasm, exhilaration ad serenity.
In your books and in your literature, human beings have described in great detail the nuances of suffering, struggle, illness and challenge. But no one spends much time cataloging the positive emotions!
If you do, you will begin to understand how many of them there are.
Let’s list a few:
1) the feeling you have when you are on a perfect vacation.
2) The feeling after making love
3) The feeling of having a great idea
4) The feeling after listening to an inspirational speaker
5) The feeling after giving a successful presentation in front of a large group.
6) The feeling of giving a gift to someone who appreciates what you have given.
7) The feeling of receiving a gift that you really, really like.
8) The feeling you have when you look into the eyes of your pet.
9) The feeling of your first kiss
10) The feeling when seeing something you’d really like to have.
11) The feeling when on a hike in new country, of wanting to look over that next rise
12) The feeling of the sun as it gently warms your skin and the feeling of a war, spring breeze on your face..
13) The feeling you get when you spade the garden and smell the fresh earth.
14) The feeling of waking up in the morning knowing you have an exciting day planned.
15) The feeling when you have solved a difficult problem, and you see the elegant solution in front of you, and you know you did it!
There are infinitely many more, and each of them is a discrete, positive vibration, which translates to a distinct feeling.
Now we ask you, how often during your day do you discriminate between the variety of positive emotions? How many of you are even aware that you are feeling positively? How many of you dismiss that positive feeling by saying, “it can’t last.” That’s how Ken does it. There is the idea that a positive feeling is like a balloon: it gets blown up, and expands, and then explodes and dissolves into nothingness. We want you to get the idea that the positive feeling is the norm, and what feels most natural to you, and that the negative feeling is the exception!
“How can that be,” you ask, “when I feel blah most of the time and only occasionally feel great?”
That is the million dollar question, dear ones.
A negative feeling occurs when you block the well–being that is natural. If there is one message from Spirit that is consistent, it is this one, for it is the fundamental truth of consciousness, and of existence.
For your homework this week, dear ones, we want you to make a list of 30 distinct positive feelings that you have personally experienced.
We want you to learn to recognize these feelings in the moment when they happen, and dwell upon them. We want you to learn to discern the difference between positive emotions, just as you do negative ones. In this way you will focus more and more of your attention on the positive, and less on the negative. And the more time you spend on these good feelings, the more the universe will bring you the good things in life! If you do this consciously, you will find your thoughts turning, almost magically, toward what you want.
http://www.kjmaclean.com
Forgiveness
(Occasionally I will post channeled spiritual messages from the Interview With Spirit program on Blog Talk Radio. (Hear the show every Thursday at 4PM Eastern time US)
Our message to you this week is about upset, and forgiveness. We take this message directly from Ken’s life.
This week, Ken was upset with Neil, because he has decided to leave the Interview with Spirit program.
Ken felt betrayal and loss, before he found his balance once again.
The question is, How do you regain your balance and overcome emotional pain? How does forgiveness help you to do that, if at all?
Forgiveness begins the process of re–connecting with love. It requires a decision to release the emotional pain you are in, and that can be a very big decision, for a strong vibration entrains similar thoughts to it. When you are upset you feel surrounded by emotional pain, do you not? That is literally true! When two people have a relationship, an energetic connection is established. Imagine filaments of subtle energy reaching out from the chakras, or energy centers, of each person and into the other. When one person severs that connection, the other feels something missing. This is the origin of the feeling of loss or abandonment.
Now we want you to understand that that connection is never broken!
Although the other withdraws their energy from you, you are still connected to them! Neil may put up blockages or barriers to Ken that he can feel, but Neil can never alloy Ken’s affinity for Neil, for it is up to Ken to break his connection to Neil, do you see? The actions of the other are an invitation to break a spiritual connection, but only you can decide to do that from your end!
The power of love, the fundamental and most powerful vibration in the universe, includes and embraces all other vibrations. Deciding to remain in affinity is the definition of strength. Refusing to permit a diminution of your affinity for anyone or anything is the definition of power, and personal integrity. And forgiveness is the first step on the path to regaining your equilibrium. Forgiveness is that first but very important step to regaining your personal power.
We say first step, because in forgiveness there is still upset with another, but when you forgive, you are 90% of the way toward love. Forgiveness overcomes the inertia of your vibrational upset, and makes it so that you can move forward. The decision to forgive is the hardest one! It is literally the most painful decision, because you are immersed in emotional pain! But like a crack in the door, forgiveness lets in that first ray of light to penetrate the darkness.
We tell Ken that his upset had nothing to do with Neil, and everything to do with his own decisions, beliefs, and the consequent personal vibration that he resonates to.
Ken did not want to hear this at first. “That is absurd,” Ken said. “If your boss insults you, or your partner hurts your feelings, or someone acts in a way that betrays trust, that is on them, not on you.”
That is precisely the point. All of you have free will! You cannot determine the actions of another, but you CAN determine how you react to another. It all depends upon whether you decide to withdraw your own feeling of affinity. We tell you that you cannot have a relationship, even a casual one, without the presence of affinity. And affinity means that both of you resonate to similar things.
You always make a conscious decision to withdraw your affinity from another. You may not recognize it, because a thought occurs in no–time. Thought is spiritual energy, and the decision to withdraw your affinity from another can happen so fast that you dismiss it.. We tell you that your subconscious mind does not dictate your actions. When you become mindful enough, you begin to understand that you are truly sovereign. You begin to reach that place of stillness that is your powerful, creative source.
Dear ones, all interaction, all relationships, are a dance of vibration! Your thoughts, beliefs and feelings determine the pattern of energy that surrounds you, and how others perceive you, and react to you. When you become upset with another, you strengthen the unwanted vibration that caused the upset in the first place!
To forgive is to pardon another for inappropriate actions toward ones self; but as we have said before in previous messages, there are no inappropriate actions! This is something human beings find very difficult to accept, for it is easy to point to pain and suffering. This pointing, however, strengthens the vibration of suffering. It is a circular vibrational reinforcement, and is precisely what occurred for Ken, and what has been occurring on your planet for thousands of years.
There are ALWAYS good reasons to become upset; we do not deny that. If Joe gets out of bed feeling surly one morning, he may come to work with a chip on his shoulder and insult his employees. If you are one of Joe’s employees, there are two ways to approach him: the most obvious one is to accept his invitation and match his apparent vibration. “Well get out of my face, Joe! Who do you think you are? Just because you are my boss doesn’t mean you can gratuitously insult me!”
The other is to recognize that Joe has gotten off on the wrong foot, and smile. “Hello, Joe, I can see you’re a little grumpy this morning. Anything happen last night?” Soon the boss is telling you about the upset he had with his wife, he blows off some steam, and leaves. Here is what we call the matching of TRUE vibration. What is true vibration? It is the underlying, foundational feeling of love and recognition of a fellow spirit playing the Game of Earth. When you identify this fundamental vibration, it subsumes the lower, apparent vibration, and the lower emotion dissolves. Love is the healing vibration. It is so powerful because it is who you are, and reminds the other of their intimate connection with you.
All of you are spiritual comrades. The warriors in battle, or those who play sports, or compete in business, soon bond together strongly and form a team, a “band of brothers” (or sisters). This feeling is called camaraderie. Camaraderie comes from shared experience, and is a recognition, on the deepest possible level, of your shared divine spiritual origins.
All of you on earth are spiritual warriors, playing a challenging and magnificent game. Oh, if you could only see yourselves as we see you! Imagine a spiritual mirror in front of you, with your own person angel guide holding it. Isn’t it beautiful? We hope you can see or feel a little bit of your own magnificence and power. This is your true, spiritual vibration, and it resonates within every cell, every atom of everything in the universe.
How often do you resonate to the apparent vibration, and not the true one, in your relationships?
Last week we talked about your pets, and how easy it is to feel love for them. Remember that the angry one, the upset one, has temporarily turned away from love and from himself or herself. He or she is presenting you with an image or a mask that covers the true self, and is asking you to resonate to that image, just as our friend Joe did. He or she is saying, ”will you play this game of upset with me? Perhaps we can find adventure in this drama together.”
There is nothing wrong with playing this game, of course, and many do. But you know better than we, that love and joy feels better than anger and upset. Anger and upset only feel appropriate when you have already been resonating to them for a long enough time.
Forgiveness begins the process of releasing your own upset. In other words, forgiveness is much more about you than it is about the other. In order to forgive, you must first recognize your own fundamental vibration of love, which is your true self, and let it in. That feeling is then recognized by the one on the other end of the communication line. Forgiveness, in other words, begins to dissolve the upset with the other.
Forgiveness is a powerful subject, because it begins the process of a return to love, and your own personal integrity. When you decide to forgive, you have already decided to step back into your zone of power. This zone of power is peaceful, but strong, whereas the lower emotions are turbulent.
If there is anyone in your life with whom you are upset, begin now to forgive. Remember that forgiveness is most beneficial to you! So do it for yourself, and feel better!
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(Occasionally I will post channeled spiritual messages from the Interview With Spirit program on Blog Talk Radio. (Hear the show every Thursday at 4PM Eastern time US)
Our message to you this week is about upset, and forgiveness. We take this message directly from Ken’s life.
This week, Ken was upset with Neil, because he has decided to leave the Interview with Spirit program.
Ken felt betrayal and loss, before he found his balance once again.
The question is, How do you regain your balance and overcome emotional pain? How does forgiveness help you to do that, if at all?
Forgiveness begins the process of re–connecting with love. It requires a decision to release the emotional pain you are in, and that can be a very big decision, for a strong vibration entrains similar thoughts to it. When you are upset you feel surrounded by emotional pain, do you not? That is literally true! When two people have a relationship, an energetic connection is established. Imagine filaments of subtle energy reaching out from the chakras, or energy centers, of each person and into the other. When one person severs that connection, the other feels something missing. This is the origin of the feeling of loss or abandonment.
Now we want you to understand that that connection is never broken!
Although the other withdraws their energy from you, you are still connected to them! Neil may put up blockages or barriers to Ken that he can feel, but Neil can never alloy Ken’s affinity for Neil, for it is up to Ken to break his connection to Neil, do you see? The actions of the other are an invitation to break a spiritual connection, but only you can decide to do that from your end!
The power of love, the fundamental and most powerful vibration in the universe, includes and embraces all other vibrations. Deciding to remain in affinity is the definition of strength. Refusing to permit a diminution of your affinity for anyone or anything is the definition of power, and personal integrity. And forgiveness is the first step on the path to regaining your equilibrium. Forgiveness is that first but very important step to regaining your personal power.
We say first step, because in forgiveness there is still upset with another, but when you forgive, you are 90% of the way toward love. Forgiveness overcomes the inertia of your vibrational upset, and makes it so that you can move forward. The decision to forgive is the hardest one! It is literally the most painful decision, because you are immersed in emotional pain! But like a crack in the door, forgiveness lets in that first ray of light to penetrate the darkness.
We tell Ken that his upset had nothing to do with Neil, and everything to do with his own decisions, beliefs, and the consequent personal vibration that he resonates to.
Ken did not want to hear this at first. “That is absurd,” Ken said. “If your boss insults you, or your partner hurts your feelings, or someone acts in a way that betrays trust, that is on them, not on you.”
That is precisely the point. All of you have free will! You cannot determine the actions of another, but you CAN determine how you react to another. It all depends upon whether you decide to withdraw your own feeling of affinity. We tell you that you cannot have a relationship, even a casual one, without the presence of affinity. And affinity means that both of you resonate to similar things.
You always make a conscious decision to withdraw your affinity from another. You may not recognize it, because a thought occurs in no–time. Thought is spiritual energy, and the decision to withdraw your affinity from another can happen so fast that you dismiss it.. We tell you that your subconscious mind does not dictate your actions. When you become mindful enough, you begin to understand that you are truly sovereign. You begin to reach that place of stillness that is your powerful, creative source.
Dear ones, all interaction, all relationships, are a dance of vibration! Your thoughts, beliefs and feelings determine the pattern of energy that surrounds you, and how others perceive you, and react to you. When you become upset with another, you strengthen the unwanted vibration that caused the upset in the first place!
To forgive is to pardon another for inappropriate actions toward ones self; but as we have said before in previous messages, there are no inappropriate actions! This is something human beings find very difficult to accept, for it is easy to point to pain and suffering. This pointing, however, strengthens the vibration of suffering. It is a circular vibrational reinforcement, and is precisely what occurred for Ken, and what has been occurring on your planet for thousands of years.
There are ALWAYS good reasons to become upset; we do not deny that. If Joe gets out of bed feeling surly one morning, he may come to work with a chip on his shoulder and insult his employees. If you are one of Joe’s employees, there are two ways to approach him: the most obvious one is to accept his invitation and match his apparent vibration. “Well get out of my face, Joe! Who do you think you are? Just because you are my boss doesn’t mean you can gratuitously insult me!”
The other is to recognize that Joe has gotten off on the wrong foot, and smile. “Hello, Joe, I can see you’re a little grumpy this morning. Anything happen last night?” Soon the boss is telling you about the upset he had with his wife, he blows off some steam, and leaves. Here is what we call the matching of TRUE vibration. What is true vibration? It is the underlying, foundational feeling of love and recognition of a fellow spirit playing the Game of Earth. When you identify this fundamental vibration, it subsumes the lower, apparent vibration, and the lower emotion dissolves. Love is the healing vibration. It is so powerful because it is who you are, and reminds the other of their intimate connection with you.
All of you are spiritual comrades. The warriors in battle, or those who play sports, or compete in business, soon bond together strongly and form a team, a “band of brothers” (or sisters). This feeling is called camaraderie. Camaraderie comes from shared experience, and is a recognition, on the deepest possible level, of your shared divine spiritual origins.
All of you on earth are spiritual warriors, playing a challenging and magnificent game. Oh, if you could only see yourselves as we see you! Imagine a spiritual mirror in front of you, with your own person angel guide holding it. Isn’t it beautiful? We hope you can see or feel a little bit of your own magnificence and power. This is your true, spiritual vibration, and it resonates within every cell, every atom of everything in the universe.
How often do you resonate to the apparent vibration, and not the true one, in your relationships?
Last week we talked about your pets, and how easy it is to feel love for them. Remember that the angry one, the upset one, has temporarily turned away from love and from himself or herself. He or she is presenting you with an image or a mask that covers the true self, and is asking you to resonate to that image, just as our friend Joe did. He or she is saying, ”will you play this game of upset with me? Perhaps we can find adventure in this drama together.”
There is nothing wrong with playing this game, of course, and many do. But you know better than we, that love and joy feels better than anger and upset. Anger and upset only feel appropriate when you have already been resonating to them for a long enough time.
Forgiveness begins the process of releasing your own upset. In other words, forgiveness is much more about you than it is about the other. In order to forgive, you must first recognize your own fundamental vibration of love, which is your true self, and let it in. That feeling is then recognized by the one on the other end of the communication line. Forgiveness, in other words, begins to dissolve the upset with the other.
Forgiveness is a powerful subject, because it begins the process of a return to love, and your own personal integrity. When you decide to forgive, you have already decided to step back into your zone of power. This zone of power is peaceful, but strong, whereas the lower emotions are turbulent.
If there is anyone in your life with whom you are upset, begin now to forgive. Remember that forgiveness is most beneficial to you! So do it for yourself, and feel better!
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The Wall
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The human race is approaching the Wall.
Marathon runners describe the Wall as that place where you feel you just can’t go on anymore. But if you persevere, you get a second wind and can finish the race.
If you study human history, you see that civilizations rise and fall. Human cultures begin with ideas of tolerance and cooperation, but are inevitably destroyed by the memes[1] of greed, exclusion, and personal power–seeking. The methods used are treachery, guile, confrontation, conflict and war. Nowhere is this cycle so aptly demonstrated than in the story of Camelot. An all too brief Golden Age is soon corrupted by jealousy and hatred. For millennia, this play has been enacted over and over again. And it is
occurring once again in 2008. As a species, we have been living through this cycle for so long that our collective psyche is exhausted. We are ready for a quantum leap to a new paradigm of thought.
Long ago in the history of our planet, at the end of the last great human civilization, a series of events occurred that placed traumatic energy into the species consciousness, twisting and distorting the templates of subtle energy associated with human awareness, and establishing a powerful duality of "good" and "bad" within the psyche of humanity. The exact events are obscured, because emotional trauma encapsulates and shrouds the underlying thought forms which created it. But ever since, the human race has operated from the embedded memes of scarcity, confrontation, and conflict resolution through competition and war. A cursory examination of history is enough to prove this point, for history is mainly a study of who started what war to gain what resource.
If you follow politics and economics, and can look past the sanitized mainstream press, you know that the world is facing a political and economic crisis of planetary proportions. This scenario was inevitable, in some form or other.
The duality is so powerful, and has been imprinted so strongly within the human psyche that, like biological automatons, many of us reenact our roles from generation to generation.[2]
Now, as the population of earth approaches critical mass, the human race is once more presented with an opportunity to transcend this powerful duality. Those on the “dark side” of the duality wish to control population growth and have been doing everything in their power over the past 70 years to convince humanity that the planet earth cannot supply the necessary resources to support an expanding population, and that the planet earth herself is in imminent danger. This is a myth, ladies and gentlemen, a belief perpetrated by the duality. It is, however, a myth surrounded by fear and negative emotion, which makes it seem utterly real.
The players on the “other side” are not evil, just traumatized. As a consequence, their actions are irrational and illogical. Like a toboggan that must follow the groove in the icy track, these people feel the necessity to act in the way they do, because that is how it happened before. The vibrational rut is so well established that the actors in the play are incapable of moving out of it.
This scene played out previously in the destruction of Atlantis, the true events of which have been lost in the trauma. Each planetary cycle follows the script, and each one contributes more traumatic energy to the whole, further obscuring the reasons for our actions. We are living in a time loop, in which we continue to play similar roles. The script changes, but the plot remains the same. Civilizations rise and fall, and we must start over again.
Why is the cycle continually perpetrated? Because the universe, and everything in it, is self–referencing. Information, and energy, is never lost. This idea is expressed in the Law of conservation of energy. Just as the cells in your body will disassociate and return to their elementary forms, so too does information recycle. Imagine the universe as a torus (a donut) with energy cycling into the hole and back out again.
Torus. Energy continuously flows into and out of the vortex in the center and back in again, creating a dynamically changing structure of energy
In a torus, energy flows into the vortex and comes out again, circling and changing in a dynamic fashion. Every cell in the body is a vortex for this life force energy; it nourishes the body through the chakras, and sustains and maintains life. But it also carries information. Each one of us affects the system as a whole, through our choices. The system breathes in and out, and the information content recycles. However, events never play out the same way twice, because all of us have free will. In the past, the actors have changed, but the play has remained eerily self-similar. But there is good news: in this dynamical system, each one of us is a vortex through which chi, the energy of the universe, flows. Each of us is connected to each other, and the planet herself, through the universal field of consciousness. Our choices determine the information content of the system and what happens locally, in our own lives, and globally, to the whole of our species. Each of us plays a vital and integral role in the unfolding play. We are writing the script as we go along.
Now, once again, the play is being re–enacted, this time on a planetary scale. As the human population of earth approaches critical mass, we are once more presented with the opportunity to work out of our shared traumatic incident. Will we?
Will we listen to the misguided nay–sayers, and those who deny their basic divinity?
Most of us are unaware of the drama. The majority of humanity is under the fat part of the Bell curve. The important players are on either side.
The “Bell Curve.” 68% of the population is within 1 standard deviation of the norm. Many psychological measurements and physical phenomena can be approximated well by the normal distribution.
As the human population grows larger and larger, however, the opportunity for a leap to a higher state of consciousness becomes more and more possible. Those of us who are spiritually awakened affect those around us, and the vibration of humanity raises, creeping up the sides of the curve to encompass the middle, and the consciousness of humanity shifts. We are, in effect, spiritual infiltrators, but in a good way!
In chaos theory, which describes the behavior of non–linear systems, growth occurs in quantum jumps. The universe is not a mechanical clock winding down to some inevitable or pre–ordained outcome. Life itself is non–linear, dynamic, and can potentially evolve past any barrier.[3] The fractal nature of our world means that we potentially have the ability to perform magic, because within the fractal is an extra dimensionality. [4]
To see this extra dimensionality, we only need look at the Mandelbrot Set, the most famous and powerful fractal in chaos theory.
Mandelbrot Exploration (slow zoom)
A Mandelbrot Set the size of the known universe (video, fast zoom)
For a greater understanding of these concepts, see the excellent summary of chaos and fractals by R.C.L. here: http://www.lawsofwisdom.com/
LawsofWisdom/chapter6.html
The point is that our physical universe is composed of energies that are manipulable. The atom itself is 99% space; it is a vibration. Thoughts and emotions are vibrations, and each interfaces with the other. The system has been designed to be responsive to our thoughts and intent, and if we find ourselves running on the same old track, it is because we have not understood how powerful we are, and our ability to change the system.
The magic we perform is, however, of a subtle nature, as we influence the responsive field of consciousness in which we all exist.
Our individual thoughts and choices are the engine that drives the system. We are all the center of our own universes, for each of us is a vortex within the system, and each of us affect the whole. If we do not change the information content of the system,however, it will continue to operate in a self–similar fashion, and the new millennium will evolve like the last one.
There is no immutable, unbreakable law of rise and fall. There is no natural law of golden age and destruction. There exists no natural law of peace, harmony and cooperation inevitably destroyed by barbarian savages. Yes, there is polarity, because polarity is a quintessential property of any universe: the physical structures of our world are discrete, and they are discrete because they are separate from each other. This separation leads to the duality we experience. However, all things seek balance, and that balance can exist at a high vibration, or a low one!
On earth this destructive play is the norm, but only because we continue to create it that way. Thought is continually evolving. The question is, where will we evolve it to? To a new attractor that enables us to jump past the wall, or will we follow the same old vibrational channels of conflict, scarcity, and war? The Law of Free Will assures us that we can transcend the ancient destructive memes and create a new paradigm of thought on planet earth.
Will we? That answer is up to you and me.
One of the major difficulties is that problem solving itself is affected by the trauma, for we are taught to fight and destroy that which is unwanted. However, this method merely leads to the propagation of the old attractor and the continuation of its self–destructive memes.
An attractor, technically speaking, is a set to which a dynamical system evolves after a long enough time. An attractor can be a point, a basin, a torus or a chaotic structure ( a "strange attractor") around which other energy orbits. Like the gravitational attraction of the sun, an attractor holds specific patterns of energy in place, and the system will exhibit typical behavior (like war and conflict). Here is a diagram of the famous Lorenz attractor:
Lorenz attractor: energy continuously cycles around the two basins. The Lorenz Attractor has many different forms, depending upon the parameters you use in the equations. But the patterns, although complex, are always similar, yet never exactly the same. Just like life!
Humanity, until very recently, has not been able to break free of the old attractor, because we simply did not have enough oomph within the consciousness of mankind to disturb the system enough. Moreover, the Law of Vibration and the Law of Attraction continue to bring us more of what we are already resonating to. But now, with the increasing human population, we do! In order to break free of the old patterns of thought we MUST consciously choose a new, more positive direction for our lives. This is the vital role that belongs to all spiritually awakened individuals.
It is vital to understand that it is impossible to precisely identify the ancient thought forms that created the trauma in the psyche of humanity, until the emotions surrounding them are confronted. This is precisely what is occurring in the species consciousness at this time. If you think that our government is behaving in an insane fashion, you are correct! But the policies of the U.S. government (and other governments) are merely a reflection of the current consciousness raising that is going on. Consciousness raising does not occur in a vacuum! If you are stuck in a muddy bog, you are going to create quite a mess before you extricate yourself! The apparency is that humanity–– and the planet –– is going down the tubes, but what is happening is a species–wide clearing of trauma! As the vibration of the human race accelerates, so too do the old memes become more powerfully activated. We are given a choice: do we fight and destroy the old, or create the new? We must create a new attractor based upon abundance and respect for all, cooperation, and acceptance of ALL viewpoints.
Those who have succumbed to the trauma are working desperately to drug and influence the population through mass media, and through other means. This too was inevitable, because emotion encapsulates thought. If you have ever had successful therapy, you know that you must first work through the negative emotions surrounding the events before you can even remember the events clearly in your mind, and get a resolution. When that resolution occurs, there is a release, and the thought forms that created the incident become visible. You have an “aha!” moment, because your intent for positive change has vibrationally become more powerful than the trauma, and it vanishes.[5] When Light penetrates the darkness, Truth is revealed. This is the mission of the healer, the Lightworker, and all those motivated by love.
It was inevitable that when the human population grows as large as it is now, an awakening of consciousness would occur. This has happened before in previous civilizations. There is now enough psychic energy to vibrationally sublimate the trauma, and create a new attractor. That is why your positive thoughts and your heart-centered actions are so vitally important at this time.
Do not look to governments and power structures for the solution. These are always a reflection of the current mass consciousness. The solution is for individuals to continue to reach for the Light, to think, speak and act their truth of love and our shared spiritual nature to the world.
For the past several decades, the play has been focused on the United States and Great
Britain. The U.S. has always been dangerous to those who are stuck in the ancient trauma, for our Constitution and Bill of Rights outline universal freedoms that are the rights of all beings under the common law. That is why the current administration -- corrupted internally, in my opinion -- has been feverishly attempting to dismantle these fundamental freedoms. In the United States, the economic dismantling of the Federal structure began with the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, and the political destruction with the National Security Act of 1947. Signed into law by President Harry S. Truman, it realigned and reorganized the United States' armed forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community apparatus in the aftermath of World War II. This legislation created the Central Intelligence Agency, which has evolved over the years to allow the commission of criminal acts under the cover of “national security.” [6] It has allowed for the creation of structures that have penetrated and infiltrated the Executive, the Congress, and the military of the United States. Like the old Camelot story, it has corrupted the strong ideals upon which our country was founded. Rational and spiritually aware persons simply cannot understand what is happening in the United States, because the actions of our government are totally irrational. This occurs as the inevitable result of the self referencing and self similar nature of the old play once again being reenacted, but with different actors. The underlying theme is always the same.
However, those of the Light have a great advantage. As the vibration of humanity raises, it makes impossible an entire series of outcomes that before were probable. The actions of the ‘dark actors playing games’ become more and more difficult to hide. The Light penetrates underneath the rocks, exposing the cockroaches and bringing that which was hidden into the open. (The war in Iraq, for example, was primarily a bank raid. Saddam’s personal bank, the Rafidain Bank, contained trillions of dollars in assets and gold. These funds were stolen. For details, see International Currency Review, published by the independent U.K. intelligence analyst Christopher Story).
What was this powerful traumatic incident that has seemingly entrapped the human race? I don’t know, and I don’t think anyone does. The events are obscured behind a wall of trauma, which we are working through as you read this, but I believe the essential issue revolves around the questions “What is consciousness?” and “What is human nature?” The fundamental aberration of incarnated Spirit is the denial of our divine, spiritual nature. All trauma, all evil, all lower emotions stem from the incorrect assumption that consciousness is dependent upon physical matter. This idea is a complete inversion of the truth, and must lead to cruelty, conflict, greed and war, for it is a complete denial of who we are.
The destructive memes within the species trauma are always triggered when growth and development reach a certain stage, and act always to feed negatively upon itself. As the population of earth increased significantly during the 20th century –– the bloodiest century in recorded history –– the destructive memes became more strongly activated. There were two world wars and several incidents that could have resulted in nuclear annihilation.
You can see the play acting out within your family, at work, in political organizations, and in fact, anyplace where humans get together to improve conditions. The actors assuming the roles are almost irrelevant. In other words, getting angry at George Bush or Dick Cheney or your boss, or anyone else is pointless, for it just feeds the self–referencing loop, keeps the old memes in place, and adds similar energy and information to the existing state of affairs!
Jung called these ancient memories archetypes. Whatever they are, the human race appears to be collectively trapped within them. The good news is that we created them, and we can release them.
So how do we as a species, “get over” the wall?
Systemically, we can vote for people who are spiritually oriented. Even though a political solution does not address these deep-seated memes, it’s a start. Far more important is how each of us live our daily lives. What do we think about? What do we talk about? Do we feed the loop by bashing the players we do not like? I am as guilty as anyone, for I am interested in politics and disgusted by the actions of our government. But I am determined to turn my mind even more toward that which inspires me, and feel that wonderful rush of creativity that sublimates all negative emotions. In this way I contribute positive vibes into the system, and do my part to support the quantum leap in consciousness that will move the human race out of the old attractor and into the new one. This leap is an inter–dimensional leap, similar to El–Naische’s description of the hands on the table top that move from the second dimension into the third.
The most important part of the drama has always been on the subtle energy level of consciousness. The physical, three dimensional aspect is just the tip of the iceberg, for thought and emotion guides action. The important informational and emotional content of the system exists on a far more powerful, but subtler and invisible level. And in order to gain a resolution, we must begin to recognize the important role our thoughts and our emotions play in maintaining the current system, and their effect on the universal field of consciousness. This universal field contains the templates for thought, and the choreography, if you will, the lines and the motivations and intentions of the actors. Solutions that concentrate on changing the direction of the players and their piles of stuff on the gameboard cannot succeed. We have been trying unsuccessfully for millennia to resolve these memes through political action, but all we have done is change the actors, and not the play. The real action is not in the three physical dimensions, but in the interdimensional universe of thought. Fortunately, we are players who are, finally, understanding the interdimensional power of our thoughts and choices!
Now, as spirituality has reached into the mass consciousness with popular acceptance of the Law of Attraction and other spiritual principles, we have a window of opportunity to finally change the play and move human consciousness out of the old!
What should we do?
Well, it is not necessary to sit in meditation all day, or think profound thoughts (although this would certainly help!). The idea is that each of us raises our individual vibration, and collectively, the planetary vibration. This has been my message consistently, since I have been writing these newsletters. I try to find different ways of expressing this idea, attempting to resonate to as many people as I can.
What can you do to help?
Find something that is inspiring to you, and DO it! Even if you only have 5 minutes a day, do something that gets your creative juices flowing and that makes you feel excited and positive. In this way you connect and interface directly with the universal field of consciousness, and re–program it. That connection to the creative energy of the universe will not only change your life, but will help to re–channel the information and the vibration of the old attractor, to a new one based upon harmony, abundance, love and mutual respect. And when that happens, we will literally see a changing of our entire species mindset, and it will happen quickly. We are rapidly approaching the denouement, ladies and gentlemen. The frightened ones, the insecure ones in power, recognize this and are doing all in their power to prevent the coming quantum leap in consciousness. But their pathetic actions are futile, as long as you and I keep our vibration oriented to the Light.
Those of you who were around to see the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and the destruction of the Berlin Wall, understand that the evolution of consciousness can cause dramatic changes. Of course, Communism in Eastern Europe and Russia merely evolved into another corrupt system based upon feudal capitalism, but that is only because the vibration of the old paradigm in 1989 – 1991 was still too powerful.
However, it was an exciting precursor for what is to come!
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[1] A meme is a self-replicating idea that is transferred from person to person. Richard Dawkins, who coined the term, says that a meme should be regarded as a living structure, not just metaphorically but technically. Examples of memes are tunes, catch-phrases, fashions, and ways of doing things. Dawkins presents the meme as a biological entity, analogous to genes in biological evolution. Nevertheless, the meme is now recognized as a unit of intellectual or cultural information that can pass from mind to mind. In that sense, it is alive.
[2]
Because consciousness in non-physical, each of us incarnates pure and clean. Our souls do not carry stains or karma or sins from previous lives. However, thoughts are permanent. Each physical incarnation leaves a series of impressions within the subtle energy that surrounds our planet. Each species has its own templates of thought, which guide the formation of physical DNA, the form of the physical body, and the archetypal species memory, which consists of every thought, word and deed that has ever
occurred within that species. This energy has an energetic, or vibrational stamp upon it, especially if the incarnating personality has had
a previous lifetime. Even though souls do not carry karmic attributes, there IS a karmic impression left from previous lives which matches the vibrational imprint of the incarnating spirit. In this way, a being may find himself or herself feeling tendencies toward a certain way of being and acting.
[3] Consider the famous two–slit experiment in physics, which demonstrates the wave nature of light. If you hold a light up to a piece of cardboard with two slits in it, a concentric, wavy pattern will appear on the wall. As the genius physicist Mohammed El–Nasche says, “The paradoxical nature of the two-slit experiment is explained in numerous popular scientific writings and books and may be summarized in the inescapable conclusion that a photon or an electron—or, for that matter, any quantum particle,..—could be said to have passed through both slits in the screen simultaneously without splitting in two.”
Taken from the Science Watch website at
http://esi-topics.com/nhp/2006
/september-06-MohamedElNaschie.html
[4] In the same article. Dr. El–Nnaische goes on to say, “A fictitious macroscopic analogue of this experiment would be equivalent to a skier sliding on both sides of a tree simultaneously without hitting the tree or injuring himself. Through my work on E-infinity theory, I realized that, in a spacetime manifold which is infinite-dimensional, a dimensional fractal, such as a classically impossible skiing trick, is possible in fractal land. The extra dimensions are the logical loop holes. For instance, in two dimensions, by putting both our hands on a table, it is impossible, no matter how hard we try, to bring our left and right hands to be congruent. However, by turning one hand in the extra third dimension, we can rotate it and bring it to exactly cover the other hand on the table.”
[5] Thought and emotion are interconnected. Angry thoughts create an angry emotional state, and these emotions encapsulate thought, obscuring it. In order to reach the thought forms that are at the center, the onion must be peeled layer by layer. All effective therapy first deals with emotions and feelings.
[6] Only three times since the CIA’s creation in 1947 has the intelligence community revealed what it spends, according to Steven Aftergood, a secrecy expert and director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy. This is in direct violation of the Constitution, in the Statement and Account clause of Article I: "...a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time." U.S. Const., Art. 1, Sect. 9, Cl. 7.
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Monday, March 10, 2008
Honesty vs Duplicity
What is the difference between integrity and criminality?
The difference is that one is open and confident, the other requires secrecy and results in insecurity. Before one decides to abandon integrity there is already a pulling away from trenchant and correct observation. Secrecy requires a veil of obscurity.
For example, an honest business person keeps a set of books that describe the activities of the business. An honest person would never think of keeping two sets of books, because he or she wants an accurate representation of his business.
A criminal, on the other hand, keeps two duplicate sets of books. One to show the tax man, the auditor and the stockholders, the other he hides. He must hide the second set, because behind the veil of secrecy he is engaging in illegal activities, or cheating his customers or stockholders in some way.
Secrecy always results in a lowering of intelligence.
This is because secrecy obscures truth.
Double–dealing is perfect word for such a fellow, for his stock in trade is confusion and obfuscation. This occurs through unnecessary duplication.
Geometrically speaking, open–ness is the One, and duplicity is the two.
Funny how that works, is it not, for without two–ness a universe could not exist! A universe by definition must involve polarity, or “double–dealing.” In mitosis, a cell divides, creating a duplicate cell. There is nothing wrong with this, unless the intent is to hide or confuse.
In a cancer, for example, cell division occurs too rapidly, creating too many new cells in a disorganized fashion, killing the organism. Ordered division or duplication is growth, unordered duplication is chaos and illness.
Integrity is strength, for an honest person sees clearly, with open eyes. Duplicity is weakness, for it sullies and pollutes perception, weakening conviction and intention. Intention to harm may be powerful, but it is always misdirected! Thus the seeds of destruction are contained within the criminal.
Lets make a diagram of this:
You ––––––––––––> A.
You create some thing –– a business, a product, whatever. You are totally open and transparent. Anyone who looks at A can see that its is A with no hidden agendas. Everything is up front. You are proud of what you have done, and you want everyone to see it.
Shady character Jake the Snake also creates something:
Jake ––––––––––> A
But Jake has ulterior motives. He’s trying to fool people. For Jake, his business is just a cover for some hidden agenda. Maybe he’s a politician who likes power, and he’s trying to sell his political campaign as something that will “help the people” or “move the nation forward.” Maybe he’s an embezzler who keeps two sets of books. What happens?
There are now TWO creations, not one: the front, and the hidden:
Hidden Duplicate <–––––––– Jake –––––––> A
Two poles set up an energetic gap. If two things were exactly the same, they would BE the same thing. Therefore, A and Hidden Duplicate are different and there is an energy imbalance, causing a flow between them.
But of course, people look at A and say, “there’s something fishy going on here.” That’s because Jake isn’t open and honest about his business. He’s got two sets of books. People pick up on what he’s trying to hide! When you look at Jake, you can FEEL the energy moving from A to Hidden Duplicate and back again. It exudes out from Jake’s every pore, no matter how hard he tries to hide it. That fake smile doesn’t fool an honest being! The best crime fighters can pick up on this energy and it will lead them to Jake’s second set of books, and he winds up in jail.
Because Jake is lying, he has to create another lie to support the inauthentic structure he has built. When George Bush lied about WMD’s in Iraq, he had to create another lie: that Saddam was linked to Al–Qaeda. Then when that was exposed, he created another lie, and another, and another…that’s what happens when you are not open and transparent. Your lies create more and more lies, and more and more energy begins to flow between them. Soon you have a structure that is, like a cancer cell, totally out of control:
Click Here to see image
This is duplication in the form of duplicity.
When you create something that is open and transparent, however, order and logic results. This is how the universe itself is built. Healthy cells divide and grow with perfect order. Atoms come together based upon geometric order.
Lying and cover–ups are what Marx and Lenin called the Dialectic:
Thesis–antithesis–synthesis. The Leninist model, however, is built upon duplicity and deception. The thesis is the apparency: A. The hidden agenda is the antithesis, B. This leads inevitably to a synthesis built upon falsehoods, each of which requires the creation of another falsehood:
Click Here to see image
In this diagram, each synthesis takes Jake further away from the truth. Chaos and disorder is the inevitable result. Jake begins to feel very uncomfortable, and he can’t figure out why. Because he is trapped in his lies, Jake’s solutions always revolve around his current vibration, and never result in a good solution.
Example: The economy is in a recession. The dollar is weak because so many have been printed and borrowed over the past 50 years. Inflation is rising as a result.
The President announces an “economic stimulus package” and claims that creating more money –– which is what the stimulus package does –– will “benefit the economy.” The President knows that this is a lie. An economic stimulus package will only increase inflation, leading to further economic erosion.
To understand this, pretend you are playing a game of monopoly. The “bank” has only a limited supply of money. Let’s say that it costs $10,000 to buy Park Place and $500 to buy Ventnor Place. The poor players in the game are sick and tired of the rich folks and their domination. So they convince the Bank to print more money. “If everybody had more money, we’d be better off,” they say. So the Bank doubles the money supply from $50,000 total to $100,000. Now the poor people have enough money to buy Park Place, right? Wrong!!! That’s because Park Place now costs $20,000 instead of $10,000. So no one is better off. In fact, the poor are worse off because their money buys less. Instead of a loaf of bread costing $4, it now costs $8. They don’t make any more money at their job than before, but now everything is twice as expensive.
Richard Nixon imposed wage and price controls in the early 1970’s to stop inflation, but of course that didn’t work, because rising prices aren’t the cause of inflation. Increase in the money supply is the cause of inflation: too much money bidding up the price of products and services.
Think about it: if it costs a shopkeeper $3 to buy a loaf of Wonder Bread, she can sell it for $3.25 and make a reasonable profit. But if she has to pay $6 for a loaf of Wonder Bread, she has to raise prices to $6.25.
Is it the fault of the shopkeeper that prices are going up? Is she a greedy price–gouging profiteer? Of course not!
The blame lies with the Congress –– who spend more money every year than the gov’t takes in –– and the Fed, who continually print more money to cover up the politician’s lack of integrity.
Criminality ALWAYS leads to chaos, confusion and disorder. When you ask dishonest people to explain themselves, you get more lies, because the entire structure of their lives is utterly dependent upon more lies to sustain it!
By it’s very nature, duplicity creates illness and pain and economic and political turmoil.
A fine line exists between duplicity and duplication. Both words involve creation, which is essential to the very existence of the universe itself. Both words stem from the Latin duplicare, to double. But the manner of doubling makes all the difference!
Honesty and openness creates transparency and order. People LOVE to look at something and be able to see it for what it is. “I love ACME Corp. Their products are so well–made, and they always deliver on time. And when something goes wrong, I know I can always call up and get my problem handled satisfactorily.”
Privacy is over–rated, folks. Openness is strength. Only someone who truly has nothing to hide can be unafraid. If you are afraid, you are dishonest in some area of your life: most likely, the area in which you experience fear.
If you are ever in doubt about how to act, act honestly and aboveboard. BE honest and aboveboard. Avoid lies.
As we have seen above, lies and secrecy create an energetic structure that quickly moves out of your control. You WILL be found out!
The more open you are, the stronger you will feel.
That’s why therapy, when it is done correctly, is so beneficial: the unburdening process is just the acknowledging of secrets; bringing them out in the open, for inspection.
That person is truly strong who can allow others into every nook and cranny of his or her life. The most successful people are those who have bared their souls!
When the criminal is confronted by the truth, he or she very often caves. That’s because it requires so much energy and work to keep lies in place. It drains you, makes you weak. Whereas a person who is open and honest knows who he is and what he is doing, and can point proudly to his creations, and his life.
The phrase “crime doesn’t pay” isn’t some moralistic phrase. It’s the absolute truth. Sure, criminals make money. But what good does it do them? The criminal who lies and kills for money is never satisfied. He always wants more, he is always fighting with others to keep his possessions from other crooks who are vibrationally the same as he is. That’s the Law of Vibration and the Law of Attraction at work. Such people have lost themselves in their own lies.
We are seeing a great awakening of consciousness in the world today. The rocks underneath the “national security” apparatus are being lifted, exposing the cockroaches who have, through their own version of the dialectic, created chaos and disorder for their own temporary benefit. If you are interested in politics, read the narratives of Christopher Story, one of the bravest people on earth, who is exposing corruption in the very highest places. These exposes may seem strident on the surface, but if you look beneath you will see their beauty, for they expose the light of Truth to the darkness.
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What is the difference between integrity and criminality?
The difference is that one is open and confident, the other requires secrecy and results in insecurity. Before one decides to abandon integrity there is already a pulling away from trenchant and correct observation. Secrecy requires a veil of obscurity.
For example, an honest business person keeps a set of books that describe the activities of the business. An honest person would never think of keeping two sets of books, because he or she wants an accurate representation of his business.
A criminal, on the other hand, keeps two duplicate sets of books. One to show the tax man, the auditor and the stockholders, the other he hides. He must hide the second set, because behind the veil of secrecy he is engaging in illegal activities, or cheating his customers or stockholders in some way.
Secrecy always results in a lowering of intelligence.
This is because secrecy obscures truth.
Double–dealing is perfect word for such a fellow, for his stock in trade is confusion and obfuscation. This occurs through unnecessary duplication.
Geometrically speaking, open–ness is the One, and duplicity is the two.
Funny how that works, is it not, for without two–ness a universe could not exist! A universe by definition must involve polarity, or “double–dealing.” In mitosis, a cell divides, creating a duplicate cell. There is nothing wrong with this, unless the intent is to hide or confuse.
In a cancer, for example, cell division occurs too rapidly, creating too many new cells in a disorganized fashion, killing the organism. Ordered division or duplication is growth, unordered duplication is chaos and illness.
Integrity is strength, for an honest person sees clearly, with open eyes. Duplicity is weakness, for it sullies and pollutes perception, weakening conviction and intention. Intention to harm may be powerful, but it is always misdirected! Thus the seeds of destruction are contained within the criminal.
Lets make a diagram of this:
You ––––––––––––> A.
You create some thing –– a business, a product, whatever. You are totally open and transparent. Anyone who looks at A can see that its is A with no hidden agendas. Everything is up front. You are proud of what you have done, and you want everyone to see it.
Shady character Jake the Snake also creates something:
Jake ––––––––––> A
But Jake has ulterior motives. He’s trying to fool people. For Jake, his business is just a cover for some hidden agenda. Maybe he’s a politician who likes power, and he’s trying to sell his political campaign as something that will “help the people” or “move the nation forward.” Maybe he’s an embezzler who keeps two sets of books. What happens?
There are now TWO creations, not one: the front, and the hidden:
Hidden Duplicate <–––––––– Jake –––––––> A
Two poles set up an energetic gap. If two things were exactly the same, they would BE the same thing. Therefore, A and Hidden Duplicate are different and there is an energy imbalance, causing a flow between them.
But of course, people look at A and say, “there’s something fishy going on here.” That’s because Jake isn’t open and honest about his business. He’s got two sets of books. People pick up on what he’s trying to hide! When you look at Jake, you can FEEL the energy moving from A to Hidden Duplicate and back again. It exudes out from Jake’s every pore, no matter how hard he tries to hide it. That fake smile doesn’t fool an honest being! The best crime fighters can pick up on this energy and it will lead them to Jake’s second set of books, and he winds up in jail.
Because Jake is lying, he has to create another lie to support the inauthentic structure he has built. When George Bush lied about WMD’s in Iraq, he had to create another lie: that Saddam was linked to Al–Qaeda. Then when that was exposed, he created another lie, and another, and another…that’s what happens when you are not open and transparent. Your lies create more and more lies, and more and more energy begins to flow between them. Soon you have a structure that is, like a cancer cell, totally out of control:
Click Here to see image
This is duplication in the form of duplicity.
When you create something that is open and transparent, however, order and logic results. This is how the universe itself is built. Healthy cells divide and grow with perfect order. Atoms come together based upon geometric order.
Lying and cover–ups are what Marx and Lenin called the Dialectic:
Thesis–antithesis–synthesis. The Leninist model, however, is built upon duplicity and deception. The thesis is the apparency: A. The hidden agenda is the antithesis, B. This leads inevitably to a synthesis built upon falsehoods, each of which requires the creation of another falsehood:
Click Here to see image
In this diagram, each synthesis takes Jake further away from the truth. Chaos and disorder is the inevitable result. Jake begins to feel very uncomfortable, and he can’t figure out why. Because he is trapped in his lies, Jake’s solutions always revolve around his current vibration, and never result in a good solution.
Example: The economy is in a recession. The dollar is weak because so many have been printed and borrowed over the past 50 years. Inflation is rising as a result.
The President announces an “economic stimulus package” and claims that creating more money –– which is what the stimulus package does –– will “benefit the economy.” The President knows that this is a lie. An economic stimulus package will only increase inflation, leading to further economic erosion.
To understand this, pretend you are playing a game of monopoly. The “bank” has only a limited supply of money. Let’s say that it costs $10,000 to buy Park Place and $500 to buy Ventnor Place. The poor players in the game are sick and tired of the rich folks and their domination. So they convince the Bank to print more money. “If everybody had more money, we’d be better off,” they say. So the Bank doubles the money supply from $50,000 total to $100,000. Now the poor people have enough money to buy Park Place, right? Wrong!!! That’s because Park Place now costs $20,000 instead of $10,000. So no one is better off. In fact, the poor are worse off because their money buys less. Instead of a loaf of bread costing $4, it now costs $8. They don’t make any more money at their job than before, but now everything is twice as expensive.
Richard Nixon imposed wage and price controls in the early 1970’s to stop inflation, but of course that didn’t work, because rising prices aren’t the cause of inflation. Increase in the money supply is the cause of inflation: too much money bidding up the price of products and services.
Think about it: if it costs a shopkeeper $3 to buy a loaf of Wonder Bread, she can sell it for $3.25 and make a reasonable profit. But if she has to pay $6 for a loaf of Wonder Bread, she has to raise prices to $6.25.
Is it the fault of the shopkeeper that prices are going up? Is she a greedy price–gouging profiteer? Of course not!
The blame lies with the Congress –– who spend more money every year than the gov’t takes in –– and the Fed, who continually print more money to cover up the politician’s lack of integrity.
Criminality ALWAYS leads to chaos, confusion and disorder. When you ask dishonest people to explain themselves, you get more lies, because the entire structure of their lives is utterly dependent upon more lies to sustain it!
By it’s very nature, duplicity creates illness and pain and economic and political turmoil.
A fine line exists between duplicity and duplication. Both words involve creation, which is essential to the very existence of the universe itself. Both words stem from the Latin duplicare, to double. But the manner of doubling makes all the difference!
Honesty and openness creates transparency and order. People LOVE to look at something and be able to see it for what it is. “I love ACME Corp. Their products are so well–made, and they always deliver on time. And when something goes wrong, I know I can always call up and get my problem handled satisfactorily.”
Privacy is over–rated, folks. Openness is strength. Only someone who truly has nothing to hide can be unafraid. If you are afraid, you are dishonest in some area of your life: most likely, the area in which you experience fear.
If you are ever in doubt about how to act, act honestly and aboveboard. BE honest and aboveboard. Avoid lies.
As we have seen above, lies and secrecy create an energetic structure that quickly moves out of your control. You WILL be found out!
The more open you are, the stronger you will feel.
That’s why therapy, when it is done correctly, is so beneficial: the unburdening process is just the acknowledging of secrets; bringing them out in the open, for inspection.
That person is truly strong who can allow others into every nook and cranny of his or her life. The most successful people are those who have bared their souls!
When the criminal is confronted by the truth, he or she very often caves. That’s because it requires so much energy and work to keep lies in place. It drains you, makes you weak. Whereas a person who is open and honest knows who he is and what he is doing, and can point proudly to his creations, and his life.
The phrase “crime doesn’t pay” isn’t some moralistic phrase. It’s the absolute truth. Sure, criminals make money. But what good does it do them? The criminal who lies and kills for money is never satisfied. He always wants more, he is always fighting with others to keep his possessions from other crooks who are vibrationally the same as he is. That’s the Law of Vibration and the Law of Attraction at work. Such people have lost themselves in their own lies.
We are seeing a great awakening of consciousness in the world today. The rocks underneath the “national security” apparatus are being lifted, exposing the cockroaches who have, through their own version of the dialectic, created chaos and disorder for their own temporary benefit. If you are interested in politics, read the narratives of Christopher Story, one of the bravest people on earth, who is exposing corruption in the very highest places. These exposes may seem strident on the surface, but if you look beneath you will see their beauty, for they expose the light of Truth to the darkness.
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Friday, February 15, 2008
What is Love?
Love is the fundamental vibration of the universe. Love is attraction. It binds all things together. It is the carrier wave upon which all things communicate. It is a frequency infinitively high, that permeates and composes the All–That–Is.
When you feel love, you are in the moment. You feel a sense of glorious well being. You know that everything is absolutely perfect; and yet, at the same time, you feel a sense of eagerness, excitement, and exhilaration as you look over that next hill for the next adventure.
Is it possible to feel perfected and complete, and at the same time fresh, eager and excited for new experiences!
Yes!
It is the most wonderful, magnificent feeling in the world. It is how you feel when you connect to Source, to who you are. Exhilaration, excitement, joy, playfulness, eagerness, all of these wonderful feelings have their basis in love, for love is the glue that binds all things together. Love is attachment, you see, the innate and quintessential harmonious bonding that draws all things together in unity consciousness. Ken must use words to express these ideas, and words are pitiful representations of the real thing –– but we hope you can feel the love from us, that comes through these words.
If love is who you are, then why do not human beings experience this feeling of love more often?
It has to do with the vibration of your species consciousness and the inherent properties of thought. You see, every physical experience you have ever had has been imprinted upon the grid of subtle energy that is an inherent part of the makeup of your planet. All of your experiences have a vibrational stamp with your name upon them. As a magnificent being of Light, you enter the physical realm completely free of any “karmic” influences. As a spirit, you know who you are and you feel love permeate your consciousness. However, the vibrational imprints left over from your previous physical experiences still exist within the planetary envelope. You re–connect with these vibrational imprints according to the law of like attracts like –– and so you carry a background vibration that may or may not influence your life, depending upon the intensity of your previous experiences, and your choices in the present life.
Now we are going to say something that may shock you: you have never, ever made a mistake! That’s right! As human beings, you consider yourselves to be imperfect. “To err is human,” the saying goes. But we want to modify that to say, “The perception of error is human.”
You see, all of you have free will. Free will is part and parcel of unconditional love. Free will and unconditional love are intimately bound up with each other, for true love IS unconditional. This means that no matter what you think, say, or do, you are loved and are supported by love.
“But what about pain, torture, poverty, pollution and injustice?” you say? Well, these ideas only exist when you are not feeling love. These ideas are very real when you experience them, but when you allow yourself to BE who you ARE, these negative emotions disappear like a foggy mist after the sun comes out. When you truly feel love, worry, anxiety, hatred and fear are seen for the phantoms they are –– utterly without power, and totally dependent for their very existence upon the fundamental vibration, the OM.
We want you to recall the last time you felt wonderful. What happens? All of your cares, all of your worries simply dissolve. If you were to feel complete and total love, you would feel the ultimate serenity and bliss, and an intimate union with every single thing in the universe! You would, literally, BE the entire universe!
It is literally true that love conquers all. Well, this is how humans say it! We would rather say, Love transcends and encompasses all feelings, all emotions, all thoughts, all action. The universe and everything in it literally exist in a container of love!
Does this surprise you? Does it not seem irrational that love could lead to not–love? To pain and misery? Dear Ones, this is the only way it can be, for the vibrations that compose the physical universe and which you perceive with your human senses, must, to some extent, be lower harmonics of something infinite. For us, the drop off is negligible. But in the human game of earth, the possibility exists for a great attenuation! It is, of course, always your choice how you feel and what you experience.
We want you to look at your human existence from a higher perspective. You came to earth to experience yourself in fullness. In order to do that, you have created an environment that includes the possibility of disconnection.
What if the concept of love were to be expanded? you asked. What if it were possible to re–discover love even in an environment where there is separation from Love? This is the glorious game that you are playing on earth! To us, you see, this idea is so magnificent that we can only imagine it, but not experience it. It is an idea of love that expands the boundaries to unknown and unimaginable heights! This is what you, the earth bound masters, are exploring. To love someone despite another’s harmful intent is a definition of love that expands the notion of unconditional! Unconditional love means unconditional allowing. Unconditional allowing means that all actions, all thoughts, are lovingly supported! Why? Because all endings are happy endings! Death is a glorious release back to joy, and Native State. So you cannot make a mistake, do you see?
We assure you that only the very strongest and most powerfully connected beings can do this. Unconditional love always comes from a position of power. Anger, hatred, violence, all of these emotions come from weakness and insecurity, despite appearances to the contrary. Those who stand in their power are the greatest allowers, did you know that? These are the people with the greatest reach and scope of possibility in their lives. The more love, the greater is your reach into the world.
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Friday, January 25, 2008
Politics: Bread and Circuses, Part II
"You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent."
- Morton Blackwell, conservative activist
The current political debate in the United States is completely divorced from economic reality. Candidates are discussing domestic and foreign affairs as if current events were just “business as usual.” Typically, political theater ignores fundamental economic realities.
The United States is bankrupt. Our major banks and financial institutions now have majority foreign (China -- Arabs) ownership. The Chinese have kept our economy afloat by buying our worthless FRN debt securities -- they own us. So of course, the Chinese could crash our economy any time they feel like it. That's why the political debate is so ludicrous -- "national security" is just a joke, nowadays. Nero fiddles while Rome burns, and history repeats itself. The only thing holding the Chinese back is that the world is awash in FRN's and that if the dollar goes, everybody gets hurt, including them.
Of course Bush is way out on the extreme – but everyone in the Dem-Rep party understands the economic realities, but they do nothing. That's because of the "off the books" economy that has developed over the past 20 years, which is a story that is too complicated to go into here, and anyway, I am not an expert. Suffice it to say that since the first Bush administration (poppy, Bush 41), the Fed, in cooperation with Congress and successive administrations, including the two Clinton administrations, have played fast and loose with the dollar. The debts of most of the world (including our own) have been monetized, using the authority of the Monetary Control Act of 1980, a little known piece of legislation that has done more harm to our economy and our nation that a million Saddam’s and Bin Laden’s.
If you want to know how the dollar has become hyperinflated planet–wide –– and, as a result, why it is losing value and purchasing power –– Google CDO (Collateralized Debt Obligations** ). These are financial instruments that in many cases resemble (IMHO) monopoly money, because they are created using fancy accounting gimmicks that often have little to do with financial and economic reality. Most of these paper securities are dollar denominated, and many of these financial instruments are generated off the books (see footnote and emphasis).
According to Wikipedia, approximately 86% of CDO’s are arbitrage motivated, which means that CDO managers are betting on the spread between higher yielding assets and lower yielding bonds. What’s the difference between this and sports betting, you ask? Not a lot, IMHO!
The whole idea of the new Basel II banking regime is to eliminate "off the books" transactions and clean up international finance, making the system more accountable. The problem is that US banks are awash in these derivatives. According to Thomson Financial, the top underwriters of CDO’s are Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Wachovia, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America Securities, the institutions that are in the most trouble.
Our major banks literally cannot balance their books. Which is why the Chinese (who have the world's greatest accumulation of legit, on the books wealth) have been able to buy us at firesale prices.
So what’s the point?
The point is that the United States, far from being “the world’s only superpower,” is an empty shell, existing on borrowed money. Our politicians, however, bleat and preen as if the underlying economic realities didn’t exist.
There is only one candidate who understands the issues, and is facing them: Ron Paul. Which is probably why he is scorned by the rest of the political world, and the mainstream media. This isn’t a diatribe for Ron Paul, but it IS a plea to wake up and smell the coffee!
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** From Wikipedia (emphasis mine) : “a CDO investor takes a position in an entity that has defined risk and reward, not directly in the underlying mortgages or asset backed securities. Therefore, the investment is dependent on the quality of the metrics and assumptions used for defining the risk and reward of the tranches, as well as the quality of the inventory. The qualities of the CDO that are defined by the CDO issuer can define the outcome of an investment in a CDO, in some cases as much or more than the quality of the inventory.
"The manufacturer of this entity, typically an Investment Bank, takes a cut of the value of the inventory and obtains management fees. The bank also typically does not have to maintain the underlying assets on it's own accounting ledgers, a significant financial advantage ( Note under Basel II, which went into effect In Jan 2008, this is no longer true, which is why U.S. some major U.S. banks are in such deep do–do). An investment in a CDO is therefore an investment in the cash flows of the assets, and the promises and mathematical models of this intermediary, rather than a direct investment in the underlying collateral. This differentiates a CDO from a mortgage or a mortgage backed security (MBS).”
Kenneth James Michael MacLean
http://www.kjmaclean.com
http://www.vibrational-universe.net
http://www.marketingwithspirit.com
"You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent."
- Morton Blackwell, conservative activist
The current political debate in the United States is completely divorced from economic reality. Candidates are discussing domestic and foreign affairs as if current events were just “business as usual.” Typically, political theater ignores fundamental economic realities.
The United States is bankrupt. Our major banks and financial institutions now have majority foreign (China -- Arabs) ownership. The Chinese have kept our economy afloat by buying our worthless FRN debt securities -- they own us. So of course, the Chinese could crash our economy any time they feel like it. That's why the political debate is so ludicrous -- "national security" is just a joke, nowadays. Nero fiddles while Rome burns, and history repeats itself. The only thing holding the Chinese back is that the world is awash in FRN's and that if the dollar goes, everybody gets hurt, including them.
Of course Bush is way out on the extreme – but everyone in the Dem-Rep party understands the economic realities, but they do nothing. That's because of the "off the books" economy that has developed over the past 20 years, which is a story that is too complicated to go into here, and anyway, I am not an expert. Suffice it to say that since the first Bush administration (poppy, Bush 41), the Fed, in cooperation with Congress and successive administrations, including the two Clinton administrations, have played fast and loose with the dollar. The debts of most of the world (including our own) have been monetized, using the authority of the Monetary Control Act of 1980, a little known piece of legislation that has done more harm to our economy and our nation that a million Saddam’s and Bin Laden’s.
If you want to know how the dollar has become hyperinflated planet–wide –– and, as a result, why it is losing value and purchasing power –– Google CDO (Collateralized Debt Obligations** ). These are financial instruments that in many cases resemble (IMHO) monopoly money, because they are created using fancy accounting gimmicks that often have little to do with financial and economic reality. Most of these paper securities are dollar denominated, and many of these financial instruments are generated off the books (see footnote and emphasis).
According to Wikipedia, approximately 86% of CDO’s are arbitrage motivated, which means that CDO managers are betting on the spread between higher yielding assets and lower yielding bonds. What’s the difference between this and sports betting, you ask? Not a lot, IMHO!
The whole idea of the new Basel II banking regime is to eliminate "off the books" transactions and clean up international finance, making the system more accountable. The problem is that US banks are awash in these derivatives. According to Thomson Financial, the top underwriters of CDO’s are Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Wachovia, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America Securities, the institutions that are in the most trouble.
Our major banks literally cannot balance their books. Which is why the Chinese (who have the world's greatest accumulation of legit, on the books wealth) have been able to buy us at firesale prices.
So what’s the point?
The point is that the United States, far from being “the world’s only superpower,” is an empty shell, existing on borrowed money. Our politicians, however, bleat and preen as if the underlying economic realities didn’t exist.
There is only one candidate who understands the issues, and is facing them: Ron Paul. Which is probably why he is scorned by the rest of the political world, and the mainstream media. This isn’t a diatribe for Ron Paul, but it IS a plea to wake up and smell the coffee!
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** From Wikipedia (emphasis mine) : “a CDO investor takes a position in an entity that has defined risk and reward, not directly in the underlying mortgages or asset backed securities. Therefore, the investment is dependent on the quality of the metrics and assumptions used for defining the risk and reward of the tranches, as well as the quality of the inventory. The qualities of the CDO that are defined by the CDO issuer can define the outcome of an investment in a CDO, in some cases as much or more than the quality of the inventory.
"The manufacturer of this entity, typically an Investment Bank, takes a cut of the value of the inventory and obtains management fees. The bank also typically does not have to maintain the underlying assets on it's own accounting ledgers, a significant financial advantage ( Note under Basel II, which went into effect In Jan 2008, this is no longer true, which is why U.S. some major U.S. banks are in such deep do–do). An investment in a CDO is therefore an investment in the cash flows of the assets, and the promises and mathematical models of this intermediary, rather than a direct investment in the underlying collateral. This differentiates a CDO from a mortgage or a mortgage backed security (MBS).”
Kenneth James Michael MacLean
http://www.kjmaclean.com
http://www.vibrational-universe.net
http://www.marketingwithspirit.com
Friday, January 18, 2008
I found this fascinating quote from Erich Fromm, author of Escape From Freedom:
"A person's main task in life is to give birth to oneself."
This quote really resonated with me because this morning I woke up and realized that being myself doesn't mean egotism or arrogance or detachment from others. The only way for me to really connect with others is to be who I am without reservation.
Sometimes that can be scary, because anything done without reservation might go overboard and upset others. It all depends on the place you are coming from!
When I can be myself totally, I connect to my spiritual side, and the common bond we all have with each other. A person's unique and fascinating personality and perspective then has a chance to show itself to the world, and admire and be admired.
What do you think?
"A person's main task in life is to give birth to oneself."
This quote really resonated with me because this morning I woke up and realized that being myself doesn't mean egotism or arrogance or detachment from others. The only way for me to really connect with others is to be who I am without reservation.
Sometimes that can be scary, because anything done without reservation might go overboard and upset others. It all depends on the place you are coming from!
When I can be myself totally, I connect to my spiritual side, and the common bond we all have with each other. A person's unique and fascinating personality and perspective then has a chance to show itself to the world, and admire and be admired.
What do you think?
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