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    <title>Zaadz: Fireside Chats</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:37:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Power v. Enslavement</title>
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      <description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;With so many people mindlessly wandering through life,&amp;nbsp;so many led down a garden path,&amp;nbsp;how do we make them understand that&amp;nbsp;our world is not&amp;nbsp;a place where&amp;nbsp;we can ignore the fact that predators are always lurking?&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;There is alot of judgement in that statement, most people are not mindlessly wandering, they are caught in the drama of their lives and have no map or compass...there needs to be some compassion....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joe, have you ever mindlessly wandered? Hurting, and blaming and being judged, and not able to take ownership for all the bad things that you have created in your life?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What was it that caused your awakening? &lt;br /&gt;What have you learned&amp;nbsp;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then apply that to everyone you meet..they are just still in the lesson process, still getting that life is a series of choices and the lessons sometimes come at a very high price. (As you well know- as do I)&lt;br /&gt;Do you blame a child for soiling their pants, or do you help them learn to use the bathroom???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spirituality is like that; &amp;nbsp;we are all children in different levels of learning...none wrong, just undereducated...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even predators bring lessons...but they too have their story.. no child wakes up a predator, they usually start by being a victim......&lt;br /&gt;Love&lt;br /&gt;Marianne</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:41:41 -0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Power v. Enslavement</title>
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      <description>I give everyone credit for being unique.&amp;nbsp; The saying is that you can lead a horse to water but you can&amp;#39;t make it drink.&amp;nbsp;My approach is to talk about my experiences and my take on them.&amp;nbsp; Some pick up on it, some don&amp;#39;t.&amp;nbsp;If they don&amp;#39;t listen, it&amp;nbsp;isn&amp;#39;t my problem.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another of my principles is that you can slap me in the face once.&amp;nbsp; But you better not do it again.&amp;nbsp; There will definitely be consequences. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess I&amp;#39;m dense, but if&amp;nbsp;one doesn&amp;#39;t have a map or a compass, from my perspective,&amp;nbsp;one doesn&amp;#39;t have a mind of his own.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;He obeys authority without quesiton.&amp;nbsp; My parents critized me for asking too many questions.&amp;nbsp; I was told to be a team player, put my shoulder to the wheel. I never was a team player. I didn&amp;#39;t come to be a team player. I&amp;#39;m the type that questions everything. What if no one questioned authority. We&amp;#39;d live in a hive society.&amp;nbsp; Jesus questioned&amp;nbsp; authority and he judged&amp;nbsp;authority when he turned over the money changers tables.&amp;nbsp; He was crucified, but he remains the most influential man&amp;nbsp;who ever lived.&amp;nbsp; In my view, we should judge evil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My wife is a people person.&amp;nbsp; People come to her for advice.&amp;nbsp; She has her way. I have mine. She doesn&amp;#39;t question me and I don&amp;#39;t question her. We&amp;nbsp;are soul mates.&amp;nbsp; My wife&amp;nbsp;says I live on some other plane.&amp;nbsp; She is awed.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; My wife is in the here and now. I&amp;#39;m in the future.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sadly,&amp;nbsp;a great many people are living in the past, in a world that is rapidly changing. The past world of optimization is being replaced with a world of innovation.&amp;nbsp; If you saw a blind man walking toward a cliff, would you not try to stop him?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Hundreds of millions&amp;nbsp;are being brainwashed to live in the past.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;It is downright irresponsible, even predatory to play to&amp;nbsp;the brainwashed.&amp;nbsp; </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:40:20 -0000</pubDate>
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      <title>power vs enslavement</title>
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      <description>I just discovered this post so will add my two cents.&amp;nbsp; I love these kind of discussions. To the question &amp;quot;is there a book&amp;quot; out there yes mine is one that offers empowerment.&amp;nbsp; There are many,&amp;nbsp; many on every level of consciousness. For me I spent the first 40 yrs in religion and the next 20 trying to get out!(Just a little joke).&amp;nbsp; Seriously I am into creating a world of love and peace that works for everyone.&amp;nbsp; I envision little Rainbow Houses all over the planet where people can live,&amp;nbsp; learn,&amp;nbsp; share and deprogram from religion. My book is the first one of it&amp;#39;s kind.&amp;nbsp; Written in the most simple way so that all people can understand it.&amp;nbsp; It gives an entirely different perspective on Jesus,&amp;nbsp; the Bible and Jehovah.&amp;nbsp; Coming from the perspective that we are all the gods who created everything and what we have created and allowed to be created we can uncreate.&amp;nbsp; To me Jesus was a great teacher as was all of the Masters that the world religions are based upon.&amp;nbsp; But their truth was perverted in order to enslave the people through worship-looking outside of the self instead of within.&amp;nbsp; Jesus boldly stated that all could do greater things than he did.&amp;nbsp; He had faith that this was possible.&amp;nbsp; He came to show us the way out of religion not to create another.&amp;nbsp; He was the orginal Freedom from Religion fighter.&amp;nbsp; Of course that could not be allowed to be taught so the love the people had for him was crossed with Jehovah,&amp;nbsp; the war god so the fear could continue. The teachings were purposely mixed together in order to make people believe that two opposites were one.&amp;nbsp; Knowledge is just coming to the world of this great hoax. My book reveals the first steps out of religion by changing the perspective of what most have been taught so that the old teachings reveal new meanings.&amp;nbsp; The title is Jesus or Jehovah and will be out soon at Barnes and Noble and Bordens Books. I post on several sights and hope that iI can post here and engage some meaningful conversations that provide insight for all of us.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:33:57 -0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Power v. Enslavement</title>
      <link>http://pods.gaia.com/blessings/discussions/view/127187#127791</link>
      <description>the centerpoint of this conversation revolves around the "premise of evil".  i don't believe in evil and therefore have no evil to talk about.  it makes it hard for me to be an active participant in this discussion... si i guess i'll butt out and let it take its course- ill be watching though!

with admiration,
dave</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:00:02 -0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Welcome to the New Age</title>
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      <description>There are some posts on &lt;a href="http://www.fourwinds10.com/"&gt;www.fourwinds10.com&lt;/a&gt; on government that might interest all.&amp;nbsp; Also check out the one of Stem Cell Therapy done mostly in other countries for limb regeneration,&amp;nbsp; disease, helping people walk (non-embryonic) and many other uses.&amp;nbsp; Ode magazine had a story of a dr healing cancer using a persons own blood to refuse back into them.&amp;nbsp; Same dna,&amp;nbsp; all from ones own body-noninvasive.&amp;nbsp; Great stuff&amp;nbsp; .Also Bush overturning the Posse Comitatus Act that protects the people from the military being used against them(as in Branch Davidians).</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:00:48 -0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Esoteric Love</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I started a pod, &lt;em&gt;Esoteric Love. &lt;/em&gt;A Zaadz friend suggested &lt;em&gt;Fireside Chats.&lt;/em&gt; I liked the sound of it better. I&amp;#39;ve left &lt;em&gt;Esoteric Love, &lt;/em&gt;but I think it is worth a post. Esoteric means only for a select few who have special knowledge or interest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;ve been divorced three times, the reason being that I was not fully prepared from the start. My doubts grew. With my fourth marriage, there was never a doubt from the first moment I met Karen. It was like meeting an old friend I&amp;#39;d not seen for a long time. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No one who knew me would have given my fourth marriage half of a chance. An astrologer told me that a wife would have to hold me with &amp;quot;velvet rope.&amp;quot; What makes my fourth marriage so special? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karen and I are on different planes. She is a people person. She mixes well. I&amp;#39;m reserved, more in my own world, a much bigger world than my wife&amp;#39;s world. The important thing is that I&amp;#39;ve kept my independence and I respect my wife&amp;#39;s independence. I&amp;#39;ve learned a great deal in our 25 years of marriage. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I ran across Zaadz this past February, I immediately felt like I&amp;#39;d run into an old friend. While I may differ in my approach, I feel we are pulling together for the same end: universal love.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel that I can trust some people. Others I doubt, and it doesn&amp;#39;t take long to know. I&amp;#39;m unconsciously aware of a greater inner truth. I just know. It isn&amp;#39;t logical or reasonable. I suppose those I doubt have the same gut feeling about me. How do we bridge that gap?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I&amp;#39;m compassionate, up to a point. President Bush calls himself a compassionate Republican. I see it as political manipulation. To me, Bush is as phony as a three dollar bill. Speaker of the House Nancy Polosi is another phony. I trust politicians as far as I can throw the capital building. Furthermore, I don&amp;#39;t trust people who allow the powerful to lead them around by the nose. I don&amp;#39;t trust western democracies. They are showing their weakness, certainly not humanitarianism. When they allow ruthless dictators to rub their noses in the dirt, look out! We&amp;#39;re in big trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like I say, I look at the big picture. Because of the distorted use of the word, when I hear compassion, I automatically equate it with weakness. My love for Karen is tough and resilient. Our differences are like the wind, here today, gone tomorrow. Our love is deep, warm, durable. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will you folks please tell me where I&amp;#39;ve gone wrong. Karen and I are leaving for Portland in a little while, to visit family for a few days. My good friends, we need to know where we are going with this venture. When I return, I want to see a lot of response. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:26:07 -0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Power v. Enslavement</title>
      <link>http://pods.gaia.com/blessings/discussions/view/127187#127959</link>
      <description>To people who don&amp;#39;t believe in evil, say I: evil means morally wrong. I refer you to the &amp;quot;unfallen man,&amp;quot; the man who knew only good.&amp;nbsp; That man was not human. Humans know morality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Came the temptation of Eve, the serpent in the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and this message: &amp;quot;Ye shall surely not die. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, does knowing evil mean I&amp;#39;m born in sin? I don&amp;#39;t think so.&amp;nbsp; Was it an afterthought that God created me with reason and logic?&amp;nbsp; I think you people who don&amp;#39;t know evil don&amp;#39;t&amp;nbsp; believe the Bible&amp;#39;s interpretation, but you know&amp;nbsp;immorality when you see it. Am&amp;nbsp; I right or wrong?</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:12:21 -0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Power v. Enslavement</title>
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      <description>well.  for starters, im not christian in the modern accepted sense.  jesus was a man to me.  i do not reject the scriptures- but i disagree vehemently with those who proclaim jesus as god- and reject the rest of humanity.  the bible that i see on my shelf has a lot of books in it that were removed by the catholic church- hundreds of years after jesus died.  these books influence my thinking a lot, if it helps.

i do not believe in evil, good, morality or sin.  period.  they are to me illusions.  it is not that i want to act nastily- or not take responsibility for my actions.  im not destructive.  its just that i reject modern notions on morailty.  just as socrates once did.  

if we redefined morality in an unusual way, i COULD say that i resonate with it.  but this would be silly because the ideas of good and evil would be so different as to be unrecognizable as they were.  better to invent a new word.

i resonate with the idea of being creative.  being truly creative does not have a flip side- destructive.  truly creative encompasses being destructive also.  it sees decomposition as a creative process.  being truly creative, as a form of moraility, means recognizing that god is INSIDE of every single thing.  the prime mover accepts all things as they are, so why should not i?  the prime mover even accepts that i will stand up to change things sometimes, so why should not i?  this does not mean, "god accepts violence, so shall i be violent."  this is a different way of thinking.  it means, "god accepts that violence is, therefore it exists at god's behest and is naturally good.  there must be no evil in the universe as god created it.  therefore, having real faith in god, i will look at all existing phenomenon as good- as having a lesson- as having the divine spark." 

it means discerning instead of judging.  the words are very different.  

"know immorality when we see it"  yes- but it is an entirely DIFFERENT morality which holds no evil and no good.  it simply is, self-arising as an aspect of divine intelligence.  morality springs directly forth from god- whatever god is- and something like creativity- in that it too is a mysetery and cannot be ratiocinated.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:15:58 -0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Power v. Enslavement</title>
      <link>http://pods.gaia.com/blessings/discussions/view/127187#129455</link>
      <description>The question goes beyond enslavement. On the theory of good and evil, Eve, being a woman, would naturally have wanted power. She was persuaded by the serpent to eat the forbidden fruit, and therefore to have the power of the gods, and she persuaded Adam. The two of them were kicked out of the Garden of Eden. Since he was the stronger of the two, Adam was forced to plow the ground. That was the beginning of male dominance in the Middle East, which still exists unchanged. &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The West industrialized, thus giving women their place in the sun. How do we deal with the Middle East&amp;#39;s male dominance, the atomic bomb, and with the West&amp;#39;s submissive female influence? Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, laughably, went to the Middle East for the purpose of negotiating peace with dominant males, which, of course, would have to be strictly on their terms. They&amp;#39;ve been in unquestioned control for 5,000 years. No woman is going to change their views in the slightest. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congress, to help the submissive female peace process along, is forcing American troops out of the Middle East by cutting off funding. With the present influence of women in the West, and the unflinching male dominance in the Middle East (at this point they have not given an inch of ground), this scenario could, in the end, easily reactivate male dominance in the West, and ultimately to wipe out all life on Earth, leaving the universe, as far as we know, devoid of all life. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, would the reactivation of male dominance in the West, in your view, be creative, and therefore good, or at least not evil. Moreover, if life ceased to exist, would there be a reason for God or creation? If I&amp;#39;m not mistaken, you&amp;#39;ve said that non-existence is preferable. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:39:42 -0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Power v. Enslavement</title>
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      <description>You are mistaken.

I don't buy the "being a woman, would naturally have wanted power."
I do buy that the middle east buys this baloney and that it affects their thinking.

Jung once noted that you can't play into the delerium of a crazy person to help them escape their delerium.  I agree with him.  You can't play into male dominance to fix male dominance.

Female or male dominance is all the same- dominance.  Dominance is the root of suffering.  When dominance ends, there will be peace.  Dominance cannot be fixed with more domination.  Whether we play a queen of hearts or a jack of spades is irrelevant.  We, as a whole nation, ought to play what we believe is most integritous- dismissing the dramatic desires of other nations.

What I think we ought to do in the Middle East is beyond the scope.  

I feel that my words are being seen through some strange lenses- that they are really being read as someone wants to read them.  Without an open mind, so to speak.  

I appreciate having learned something of my own nature here, but I don't think there is anything else I can learn in a non-cooperative atmosphere of argument.  Argument is different than discussion- discussion is the trading of ideas which continuously alter each other.  There is no flexibility here.  My words are misused and so I shant share tehm further.

Love and thanks,
dave</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:46:17 -0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Water of Life</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Authorities, dating back to our archetype, have had the bad habit of maintaining that the end result justifies the means; that is, their conceived ends are best. America&amp;#39;s government has a duty to the American people, no matter at what price. It doesn&amp;#39;t matter what I think, what you think, what is rational, reasonable, or logical. According to America&amp;#39;s authorities, when we are all made to understand, we will realize that their way is the best way. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Authorities&amp;#39; cultures are best; their gods are best; their distribution of wealth is best. It is never what is natively best. Let&amp;#39;s compare nature with the authorities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Raindrops come from clouds of water vapor that come from the ocean. Raindrops fall in the mountains, form trickles that find their way to streams, that find their way back to the ocean. Gravity is the governing force. We are blessed with minds that think-that are not subject to the physical forces of the universe. We are whole entities within the whole, from individual to infinity. We find our way to like-minded folks, who find their way back to the ocean from whence they came.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whenever we deviate from our native selves, we are taken back in time, subjecting ourselves to the hazards associated with more advanced times, which is exactly what we&amp;#39;re doing now. Islamic law, at the same time that it produces atomic bombs, takes us back in time. To go with advanced technology, we are here with increasing purpose. The multitudes don&amp;#39;t understand that Islamic law, quite apart from other religions, is dangerously against nature&amp;#39;s higher law. Islamic law is a grave threat to our existence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The naive West seeks a peaceful solution through negotiating with authorities who are no different than Nazis, who have since the sixth century believed, successfully, in conquering the wills of anyone in opposition. We have their Nazi view: the holocaust never happened; Israel has no right to exist, only Mohammad&amp;#39;s will is allowed-only the god of Islamic authority&amp;#39;s making. Our weak peace at any price Western wills, the lords of the Middle-east absolutely leaving one choice: fight them or submit to their totalitarian wills, I was there and witnessed the same rhetoric I&amp;#39;m hearing now. It is exactly the same as before we entered World War II. We peace loving Americans bent over backwards to avoid offending the Nazis, and at the expense of Jews. We refused to see. We looked the other way. It took the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. But even the sneak attack on the World Trade Center has not motivated the American people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With long established values and principles to guide us, we will finally evolve into a new, higher level of thought. Our new way will be more inclusive of our inner selves. The new way will produce a more adaptable, innovative self. From ancient sages to the latest science, based on consciousness, the state of human awareness, which can&amp;#39;t be weighed or measured, consciousness that can only be determined by my mind and your mind, millions of independent minds, building in energy, this energy will ultimately be the quantum leap that blasts the authoritarian establishment out of existence for good. We will finally live together in peace.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:20:35 -0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Inexplicable Occurence of Human Life</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;d be surprised to get much commentary on this post. The fact that I&amp;#39;m not cut out of the same cloth as most folks accounts for the many mysterious coincidences in my life, starting in the spring of 1975, which I think are worthy of at least my comment. I can&amp;#39;t to this day fully explain how it was that when everything should have gone wrong everything went right. I can partially explain it but there remains uncertainty. Dr. Evan Harris Walker calls it the &amp;quot;Supreme Consciousness.&amp;quot; See my following comments in &lt;a href="http://pods.zaadz.com/zkabbalah/discussions/view/130154"&gt;Explaining the Boundary: Science &amp;amp; Spirituality&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The strange events in my life commenced shortly after my departure from everything with which I was familiar. I engaged myself in the totally unfamiliar, where it was strictly up to me whether I lived or died. I&amp;#39;m important enough to have lived through the experience, because, not only did I live through it, I saved six other lives from a watery grave. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In one instance, I mentally homed in on three scuba divers who got caught in an ocean current and were miles from their dive boat. Nobody knew but me and the three scuba divers, who were total strangers. I sailed straight to them. It was dusk when I pulled them into my boat.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In another instance, I was caught, with three crew members, in a violent storm in the Bermuda Triangle. You&amp;#39;ve heard of ships and aircraft disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle and never seen again. The storm should have blown me far off course. For some inexplicable reason, I arrived at my destination at my estimated time of arrival. By all reason, I should not have been there. Breakers extended completely across Lake Worth Inlet. I sailed straight through them. Seas were breaking on both sides. I slid down the sea behind to safety. It never broke. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do terrible things happen to good people? I&amp;#39;ll tell you. I don&amp;#39;t think many have lived the charmed life I&amp;#39;ve lived since I went on my own in 1975. I&amp;#39;m surely no paragon of virtue. However, this charmed life never would have happened had I remained in my old puritanical life, looking down my nose at people who didn&amp;#39;t think and act like me. The worst problem in this world, proven over and over, is being convinced that one&amp;#39;s concept of life is right and all others are wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In May 1980, I met my fourth wife in the singles bar at Greenwood Inn in Portland, Oregon, two weeks after my third wife departed. I never put wife number three on the pedestal she demanded. She brought out the independent me. I&amp;#39;d never seen Karen before, but it was like meeting an old friend I hadn&amp;#39;t seen for a long time. Call it intuition. I&amp;#39;m certain that it was my unconventional life. I AM that I am, you are who you are, that gave me the feeling I should have had for married bliss. Karen is still the best friend anyone could ever ask for and we don&amp;#39;t think alike on lots of things. Because we&amp;#39;ve got the right chemistry, something neither of us ever learned in our former marriages, we&amp;#39;ve adjusted to being on equal terms. It suits both our natures that I&amp;#39;m out to save the world and Karen is wrapped up in family matters. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We&amp;#39;ve been retired for the past seven years, living in our RV. I&amp;#39;m 81 and Karen is 71. Last year I figured that we&amp;#39;d be flat broke in another seven years, but I didn&amp;#39;t worry. Something always had turned up, and it did. I applied for financial help as a disabled veteran. This February, financial help came. I was a combat infantryman during World War II. It resulted in my current 70 percent hearing loss. Thanks to the Veteran&amp;#39;s Administration, we now have no financial worries. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the past five years, I&amp;#39;ve been writing my memoirs. It turns out that it isn&amp;#39;t just my life that I&amp;#39;m writing about. The book of my life keeps getting more and more involved with universal consciousness. The strange thing about it is that I keep running into coincidences that make me believe my mind is far ahead of the conscious me. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The more I use my mind, the stronger, mentally, I become, the more my awareness expands. In quantum mechanics, there is the uncertainty principle. Blessed with human consciousness, my life reveals that chance favors the prepared mind, which ties in with the Bible&amp;#39;s Genesis 1:26. &amp;quot;Let us make man in our image.&amp;quot; It seems to me that our image is the galactic image. When I think about our being in that sense, I&amp;#39;m awed by the fact that we are placed exactly the right distance from the sun to sustain life as we know it, in a universe that is hostile to life. We&amp;#39;ve been placed with conscious awareness far in excess of any other life form on Earth, and potentially far more aware than we are now. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus, if it is true that we are placed with increasing purpose-and everything points to this-the facts don&amp;#39;t bear me out. The facts say that we are driving in reverse down a one-way street that ends at a cliff, but rather than face this fact, although we know better, we prefer to look at the street we&amp;#39;ve left and let the future take care of itself. How some of us can rationalize reality is a puzzle to me. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I get my kicks out of being heavily involved with life. Would someone please explain to me why it is desirable, as much as possible, to remove the world from the mind. We are driving in the reverse of the philosophy in the &lt;em&gt;Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Matter is derived from mind, and not mind from matter&lt;/em&gt;. How can we take that to mean we should strive to clear the mind of thought? If we were able to successfully do that, it seems to me, it would be the utter obliteration of all consciousness, the end of all matter. I don&amp;#39;t mean that we should never remove ourselves to take stock. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is taken as a great compliment to say of a person, &amp;quot;I never heard him say a bad thing about anyone.&amp;quot; If we could only partially remove ourselves, as a matter of principle see only good, never evil, it would restrict our reality, leave us removed from the best that life can bring us, it seems to me, yet I&amp;#39;m offensive to some folks. If I&amp;#39;m wrong, since there is always going to be evil in our world, please explain in detail why it is better to be like the three monkeys, seeing no evil, hearing no evil, speaking no evil.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;How One Muslim American Thinks; How One Non-Secular American Thinks&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Muslim: &amp;quot;Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians - whoever believes in God and the Last Day and does good, they shall have their reward from their Lord. And there will be no fear for them, nor shall they grieve&amp;quot; (Holy Qur&amp;#39;an 2:62, 5:69, and many other verses).&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Now, some Muslims may behave differently. Can you judge Christians by the actions of KKK? &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;How do I know that you are misinformed? Because you allege that Islam is not tolerant, allege that Iran is out to get a nuclear bomb, allege that people burn flags on the streets. You admit that you believe what you see on TV. Can you pause a moment and think outside of the TV box?&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Can I show Columbine event on TV and then say: &amp;quot;Look! American teens are out to kill, they are savages.&amp;quot; Would this be fair? There is always more to the story, my friend.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;What did Saddam want? I don&amp;#39;t know. Ask the CIA, they are ones who put him in power and gave him chemical weapons. It&amp;#39;s no secret, it&amp;#39;s now all declassified. Saddam was the homeboy of the US and UK. It was the US government and the Europeans who fed him with chemical weapons, and he used it on innocent Iranian women and children...and Iranians in return and in anger burnt the American flag.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Let me ask you this: what makes an Iranian child a lesser of a human being than of a white child? Didn&amp;#39;t God create ALL men equal?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Eight full years of support for Saddam by Reagan administration. Saddam was a tyrant created by the CIA. So was Noriega in Panama and so were the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. Chicken comes home to roost, doesn&amp;#39;t it?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;You have to see the whole picture not just what is picked and chosen in a 30-minute news at night.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our universe has grown over the ages to vastness beyond comprehension, to minuteness that is incomprehensive. Physics, the study of mass, energy, motion and force, has finally added consciousness to the mix, this from the study of the microcosmic, which doesn&amp;#39;t behave like the world we know. There appears to be communication in the particle world. Put it all together in the terrain of one&amp;#39;s consciousness and the truth is stranger than fiction. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The ancient sages of India reasoned, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Both ancients and modern science have found that isolated parts recognize one common wholeness. Thus, from isolated parts to common wholeness, somewhere in-between exists human consciousness; that is, the state of human awareness. I&amp;#39;ve named the story of my life &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Highway to the Stars&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quantum physicist Niels Bohr said, &amp;quot;Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.&amp;quot; They wouldn&amp;#39;t be so shocked if they but knew the molecule transcends the state of awareness of the atom. The cell transcends the state of awareness of the molecule, the quantum mind transcends the state of awareness of the cell. Quantum, the smallest excitation of a quantified wave, in quantum physics we humans have been found to possess a mind that actualizes possibilities. In turn, these actualized possibilities act on the physical nervous system to produce internal perception and external action. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the whole transcends the parts but the parts are all included-all the way up to the stars and all the way down to the atom, in a perfectly ordered universe. On our &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Highway to the Stars, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;we are&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;reaching out for increasing wholeness, for greater consciousness of nature&amp;#39;s Higher Law, for progressive order in man&amp;#39;s dealings with God and humanity, &amp;quot;the increasing purpose,&amp;quot; wrote Reverend C.I. Scofield in his Introduction to America&amp;#39;s most popular, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Scofield&amp;nbsp; Reference Bible&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;But Scofield warns us to avoid taking isolated passages from the Bible for God&amp;#39;s law. We are advised to keep the whole divine revelation in view when considering our increasing purpose.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Therein lies the crux of the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Non-Secular: Just as we Americans take things out of context, Muslims do the same. Our Muslim friends should take the Qur&amp;#39;an as Reverend Scofield advises Christians and Jews to take their scriptures; that is, if we individuals want to take charge. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In response to my Muslim friend: &amp;quot;Would I harm a hair on anyone&amp;#39;s head? What would I have to gain?&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Have I one time said that I trust any authority? You are building a strawman. I&amp;#39;m 100 percent for the individual. What could it possibly be that makes one authority better than another authority? If they are not killing and maiming innocent men, women and children, or condoning it, they are killing each other. The name of their game is power, the individual be damned. The United States is as guilty as any nation on earth of exploitation of the individual. This is not my America. If it were my America, the world would love we Americans. My sworn enemies have taken control of my America. By the way, &amp;quot;Dirty Bird,&amp;quot; Senator Robert Bird was a leader of the KKK. He claims now to be holier than thou. You can say what you want about the frauds in control in the Middle East. I give them my middle finger.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Nothing the world thinks today can possibly last, not with the technological development. It can&amp;#39;t last. We&amp;#39;ll obliterate all life on the planet.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m pushing a higher state of consciousness. It is dwarfed by present sanctions of the world&amp;#39;s cultures. The truths I&amp;#39;ve pieced together are woven into the tapestry of the ancients and the cutting edge of science, from the very beginning of civilization, which, by the way, began in the Middle East.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;It is not I but you who should be living your life with increasing purpose, leading the world&amp;#39;s peoples to live together in peace. Your authorities, as much as America&amp;#39;s authorities, have miserably failed to serve the cause of peace. I suggest that you explore your own Middle Eastern primordial awareness. Address that place you have never left: your deepest nature, your own original, most sacred God-self. Peace be with you, my friend.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This non-secular has had the notion, based on information I&amp;#39;ve received, that you can&amp;#39;t tell a Muslim anything. They know it all. I&amp;#39;ve been misinformed. My Muslim friend&amp;#39;s response: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I agree. Very inspiring thoughts and very true. Thank you.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is what comes from one on one communication. Thank God for the means!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All people want to prosper and enjoy peace of mind. The United States has carried its &amp;quot;duty&amp;quot; to the individual too far both at home and abroad. What it has done is to make the United States a self-serving super-power the world wants to take down. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let the military leave, but no way should we cut and run from Iraq! We have not and will not get the guidance we must have to save us from utter destruction. One and all, the authorities have totally failed in their responsibilities. If we American Muslims, Christians, Jews, and non-seculars want to lead the world to peaceful co-existence-change the world-we need to look within for guidance and communicate with one another.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;As a Zaadz Ambassador, I&amp;#39;m supposed to celebrate Earth Day. If nothing else, I&amp;#39;m good at bursting balloons. Sorry to disappoint you, folks, but our survival is threatened by more than greenhouse gas. However, since Al Gore doesn&amp;#39;t listen to the likes of me, will someone please tell this award-winning environmentalist for me that it is first things first. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like a chain, society is only as good as its weakest link. Society&amp;#39;s strongest link is the personally responsible, self-reliant, resourceful, innovative God-self, its weakest link the duty-bound, power-based authority that steals the individual&amp;#39;s energy and pollutes the environment with his hot air, the very reason for the saying, &amp;quot;the least government is the best government.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The least government comes from a government of laws, not of men, for the best of men in authority, reasoned philosopher Aristotle, are liable to be corrupted by passion. The answer, said Aristotle: &amp;quot;To invest the law then with authority is, it seems, to invest God and reason only.&amp;quot; Where else, I ask you, but from our most sacred God-self?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The story is long and convoluted. The current great concern over the environment diverts attention from the undeniable pattern of authoritarian corruption, going back to the beginning of civilization in the Middle East. It is one long story of one authority after another, one war after another, one civilization after another. And here we are back at square one in the Middle East, folks. Clearly, the reason is the lust for power and control. So why are you looking to authority for the answers?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From Time-Life&amp;#39;s &lt;em&gt;The Divine Campaigns&lt;/em&gt;, we read about authority&amp;#39;s noble heritage:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;On an April day in the year 1127, a glittering company (not in Hollywood but near Bruges) assembled on the broad open ground called the Sands, just west of the town of Bruges near the North Sea coast. From (Gore&amp;#39;s ancestors&amp;#39;) manor houses on the surrounding plain, from fortresses towering over the gray estuaries, from the rich abbeys of Saint Bertin and Saint Omer, nobles and churchmen had gathered (they didn&amp;#39;t have private jets back then) to do homage to William, the new count of Flanders.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;A notary named Galbert of Bruges stood by to record the words and deeds of this solemn ceremony. One after another, in a sequence prescribed by rank and dignity, the men laid aside their swords, uncovered their heads, and knelt before the count, who asked each one the same question: &amp;#39;Do you wish, without reservation, to become my man?&amp;#39;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The count enclosed the hands of the petitioner between his own and sealed the compact with a kiss on the lips. Then he motioned for an attendant to bring forward a jeweled casket holding the relics of the saints-fragments of bone, nail parings, ringlets of hair-sacred objects on which each nobleman swore his oath: &amp;lsquo;I promise by my faith that from this time forward I will be faithful to Count William and will maintain toward him by homage entirely against every man, in good faith and without any deception.&amp;#39;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Count William was empowered because Charles, the Good had been murdered by his enemies while attending mass. In a matter of months, William, too, would be dead: done in by Flemish rebels. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In those dismal days of feudal Europe, the lord of the land held absolute power. He could flog hapless peasants into obedience, hang them when they committed crimes or disobeyed him and his rules. The lord and master could withhold their right to marry. Those who had strength and fighting skills, and the financial wherewithal to arm themselves, were treated with more respect. They became the warriors and vassals of the lord. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the way it was when people listened to and didn&amp;#39;t question authority.&amp;nbsp; Why is it not that way in America today? I hear people calling Al Gore a great man. Why couldn&amp;#39;t Al Gore, for instance,&amp;nbsp;be our lord, and&amp;nbsp;hold absolute power?&amp;nbsp; Because we have freedom of speach, and people like me who would not give Al Gore the time of day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notwithstanding environmental concerns, let&amp;#39;s take a hard look at Aristotle&amp;#39;s thought: to invest authority with God and reason, namely,&amp;nbsp;one&amp;#39;s God-self. The individual, given authority, can perform miracles. My proof is the original America, the self-reliant, resourceful, innovative people who made America. Today&amp;#39;s divided America is a far cry from my America. This America is flabby and weak willed. There is much to say for giving the individual authority, and I&amp;#39;m sorry to say, nothing to say for the powerful. Should we all ride bicycles and quit mowing with gasoline powered lawnmowers? If we must, lets go back to individual authority and move forward. The&amp;nbsp;environmentalists would have us move backward.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;ve been told many times that I&amp;#39;m badly misinformed. I don&amp;#39;t think so. The American people are on an environmental snipe hunt. None of the rules apply to the hierarchy. Clearly, we are controlled by greed and the lust for power. So quit worrying about the environment for a moment, please, and bear with me while I briefly restate American history since World War I. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After World War I, America&amp;#39;s economy boomed. As a matter of fact, after World War II, America&amp;#39;s economy boomed. World War II ended America&amp;#39;s Great Depression. It put everyone to work. In any event, America&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;roaring twenties&amp;quot; ended in the &amp;quot;stock market crash of 1929.&amp;quot; Everyone thinks the crash caused the Great Depression. Think again. You are wrong, dead wrong!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Similar to the huge stock market adjustment of 1929, the huge stock market adjustment of 2000 barely caused a ripple in America&amp;#39;s economy. It is now roaring again. The FED&amp;#39;s policy after World War I was much the same as current policy. After World War I, Benjamin Strong ran the FED&amp;#39;s policy. A year before the 1929 stock market crash, Strong died. His death resulted in a power struggle and a reverse of policy. Also, the nation was full of Jew haters and Nazi sympathizers. The famous aviator, Charles Lindbergh, was a Nazi sympathizer. Because my sister&amp;#39;s mother was Jewish, she was denied membership in a college sorority. Coincidentally, the Bank of the United States had thousands of borrowers, most of them Jewish merchants, and its closing would certainly mean bankruptcy for many of those merchants. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new, power hungry Federal Reserve bankers were Jew haters. Also, British economist John Maynard Keynes shifted the opinions of these power hungry bankers to the extreme opposite of what it had been. History has taught us that the depression was not caused by the failure of private enterprise but by the nonsensical theories of the powerful in managing money. The FED continued with their tight money policy until there were numerous bank runs. The Bank of the United States, included. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, my friends, you can talk all you want about President Bush&amp;#39;s failures in Iraq, and the same for the FED after Strong died, it is anybody&amp;#39;s guess why, but the FED caused the Great Depression. The FED caused worldwide depression. The FED caused the rise of Hitler, the Jew hater. Of one thing we can be sure, after Strong&amp;#39;s untimely death, the FED was controlled by corrupt, power hungry men totally wrapped up in self-glorification, totally blind to all the suffering they caused. Indeed, they built a colossal monument to themselves in Washington, D.C., and we are awestricken! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lest you forget, the authorities were blind to the fact that the code breakers knew in advance that the Japanese were planning an attack on Pearl Harbor. And don&amp;#39;t forget that the authorities were blind to the fact that the Japanese were flying for Pearl Harbor. They had radar reports that told them. Why would they believe it was a flock of birds? Like I say, it is anybody&amp;#39;s guess why the authorities do the things they do, but these are historical facts I&amp;#39;m bringing to your attention. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Given the facts, how do you know Al Gore&amp;#39;s great concern for the environment is valid? Oh, how he rants and raves, especially over George Bush! No question! Gore was cheated out of his rightful place as President. We should put the man in office by acclimation! On the other hand, you can&amp;#39;t depend on a warming trend, simply to make the point, limited to a time period. We had a mini-ice age in northern Europe in relatively recent times. The planet has been heating and cooling, the ocean rising and falling, since long before industrialization. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is historical fact that I was there during the Great Depression; there when a third of America&amp;#39;s workforce was jobless; there when droves of homeless people wandered around the nation, thanks to America&amp;#39;s Jew haters and glory seekers in Washington. I see it all now. The poor wreches came to our door offering to work for something to eat. It was a terrible thing. My family gathered around our radio to listen to President Franklin D. Roosevelt offer his solutions. He called these his &amp;quot;Fireside Chats.&amp;quot; He gave us the &amp;quot;New Deal,&amp;quot; a mounting debt, massive dependence on government, and last but not least, the most powerful government on the planet, therefore, the most corrupt. Yes, there it all is, recorded history. In 1933, in those terrible days of the Great Depression, said Roosevelt: &amp;quot;While it isn&amp;#39;t written in the Constitution, nevertheless, it is the inherent duty of the Federal Government to keep its citizens from starvation.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; There you have the man&amp;#39;s words!&amp;nbsp; It&amp;#39;s a repeat of history, President Roosevelt&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;New Deal Law.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; Witness the results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is historical fact that I was a combat infantrymen in World War II, on the high seas heading for the invasion of Japan&amp;#39;s main island when the atom bomb ended the war. I&amp;#39;ve lived through a lot of American history, the history of being led by the nose. What have we got? A weak willed America. We are the proverbial house divided that will soon fall. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My advice from James Redfield, author of&lt;em&gt; The Celestine Prophecy:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;As you get in touch with your inner energy and start to get in touch with your higher self, you will be guided into how to find that true work expression. It will be shown to you intuitively. This becomes the way you uplift everyone who comes into your life. When you evolve into your higher self you energize those who cross your path. This becomes your greatest talent.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My good Zaadz friends, don&amp;#39;t listen to Al Gore. Once we know whether we are afoot or horseback, the environment will take care of itself. We should look within for guidance. We have our work cut out for us. Look at history and know it isn&amp;#39;t any of the things the authorities want.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Consciousness</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I take it that zero comments means either you wholeheartedly agree with me, or my thoughts are so far off the wall that they don&amp;#39;t deserve a comment. This thought leaves me with this following piece of my mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evan Harris Walker, my guru, is not the kind of revolutionary who makes the news. Walker and I agree that you have a will you control. You can be weak willed or strong willed. Hitler was strong willed. We call him a maniac. Were the German people under Nazi law maniacs or realists-thought in terms of the way things really are? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jesus was strong willed. He is said to be the most influential man who ever lived. We understand the difference in Hitler and Jesus. Could your pet dog or cat? Walker, who recently died, was a quantum physicist. After learning that in the world of the very small there was a choice process going on, nothing was certain, he wondered what was going on in our brains. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This physicist at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland proposed in 1970 the first quantum model of synaptic function. For those of you who don&amp;#39;t know, trillions of electrical signals travel through the brain&amp;#39;s nerves. Nerves have endings. Between the endings is a moat called the synapse. This moat is called a &amp;quot;Maybe Gate.&amp;quot; Some signals are allowed to pass through, some stopped at the synapse. It must have something to do with consciousness, thought Walker. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Walker wrote a book I read entitled &lt;em&gt;The Physics of Consciousness. &lt;/em&gt;The dead giveaway is that his colleagues accused Walker of trying to smuggle God into physics.&amp;nbsp; Physicists are supposed to stick with their field of expertise. Walker envisioned a &amp;quot;super consciousness&amp;quot; Wrote Walker: &amp;quot;We can understand mind as including conscious experience and will. We can see how these fit into the physical processes of the brain that are involved in thinking, the data-processing operations at synaptic junctions in the brain.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you understand how offensive this idea would be to authority-that we have choices? We can either be led to believe we are simply playing out our allotted time, circus animals jumping through hoops, or, according to Walker, we can operate on our own wills. Just think, God allowing us choice! Never in a million years, if authority has anything to say about it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first grade teacher used to walk up behind me and whack me on the head with a ruler for writing with my left hand. I nearly jumped out of my skin. It infuriated me. I was naturally left-handed. My father told me that God gave Adam everything a man needed but Adam disobeyed God&amp;#39;s command. All that I had was because men and women gave their lives, said he. He accused me of not appreciating all that had been done for me. I was taught that if I even thought about sex I was committing a mortal sin. It&amp;#39;s outrageous! It is not human. Starting very early in life, authority teaches us to be puppies all of our lives-stigmatizes us, eliminates our God-given choices. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can be sure that scientific authorities, in cooperation with religious and legal authorities, would search for conscious awareness in the brain. Never in a million years could consciousness come from a super consciousness of the universe. The universe, from nothing, started with a Big Bang. Common sense should tell everyone that from nothing you get nothing. Common sense tells us that without order all you would ever have is atoms floating around. Convention has no idea of what the forces of gravity and electromagnetism are. It&amp;#39;s good enough to know what they do, and the same for human beings. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are supposed to live under the phony reality authority places on us. It all goes back to the tiny synapse, the mystery of what controls those trillions of electrical signals. You can accept the puppy-dog answer authority gives you: the world of the very small has nothing to do with our world, or mine and Walker&amp;#39;s answer: there is a non-local force not subject to the forces of gravity and electromagnetism that gives us choices. In other words, our choice is to think for ourselves or be obedient and dependent on the commands of the authorities. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I joined Zaadz from the idea expressed to me of changing the world. My idea of change is to kick authority out and put the individual in charge of his life. I can get along with other people without laws that rob Peter to pay Paul, without the notion that might makes right, but with the understanding that I should do unto others as I expect them to do unto me. It isn&amp;#39;t authority&amp;#39;s choice; it is my choice.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;One of the things I note about aging is that I forget names. However, I still remember the first thing I learned to type in my high school typing class. &amp;quot;Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.&amp;quot; America was in World War II. I came to the aid of my country.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I&amp;#39;m a disabled veteran the taxpayers are helping. I&amp;#39;m exceedingly grateful, knowing, however, that the American people would have done better had government stayed out of private lives, had left the individual independent and self-reliant. The Great Depression ended with World War II. There was absolutely no reason for government to take over our lives. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From my perspective, the truth about America is not pretty. I wasn&amp;#39;t rich but the IRS was on my back the whole time I was productive. The IRS put me on the street in the name of tax when I was an entry level worker and couldn&amp;#39;t pay my rent after my payroll tax. The authorities in Washington know nothing about my cost of living. Should it be a choice of buying gasoline to get to the job or eating, or the choice of paying rent or going to the doctor? Should I be forced to go to government begging for a handout of my own tax money? The United States is the biggest, most costly fraud the world has ever witnessed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lee Harvey Oswald defected to Communist Russia and then came back to murder President John F. Kennedy, all on his own. Only yesterday, an individual from Communist China murdered in cold blood 32 innocent young people, all on his own.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m a capitalist. All that means is that I believe in private enterprise. A capitalist is not necessarily a powerful scumbag exploiting the meek and poor. A person who believes in private enterprise, first of all, believes in himself. A communist believes in the state. I&amp;#39;m not saying that a capitalist is always good and communists always bad. A capitalist can be greedy and exploitative. A communist can have little regard for human life. And it isn&amp;#39;t confined to communists. Include religious extremists. You might say it can apply to all kinds of authorities who have a grant of power. All I know is that America became a great nation under a capitalistic system. The Soviet Union collapsed under a communist system. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sadly, America&amp;#39;s authorities have divided the nation, roughly between people who depend on the state and the self-reliant who are against big government and high taxes. Most &amp;quot;people of color,&amp;quot; the low paid, depend on the state. Most &amp;quot;white males,&amp;quot; the high paid, are against big government and high tax. There is a reason for this. People of color and women have been exploited by the powerful, mostly white males. It does not mean capitalists exploit. It means the powerful are prone to exploit. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe in restraining the powerful, be they government authorities or capitalists. If America had restrained both government authorities and capitalists America would have remained the envy of the world. Rosy McDonald called former congressman Tom DeLay a crook. Of course they don&amp;#39;t think of themselves as crooks. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Powerful crooks in high office have tricked the American people. I say they are all crooks. I&amp;#39;m the one they crooked. Both government authorities and capitalists got to the little guy by means of the current redistribution system. Just because it is big and powerful doesn&amp;#39;t make it right. America&amp;#39;s powerful capitalists have the money to buy America&amp;#39;s moral weaklings holding public office. Take from the rich and give to the poor it is the biggest lie ever told. The rich are getting richer and the poor poorer. The rich go where the big money is, and you wonder why your drug cost is so high? The American people are complacently looking in other directions while they are being stripped of every right they have. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And worst of all, The United States of America, on the backs of the taxpayer, is the number one bully in the world. You don&amp;#39;t see taxpayers marching. No, the taxpayers listen to political platitudes, like, &amp;quot;yes, taxes are unfair, and we are doing everything we can to make them fairer.&amp;quot; Right! Whatever anyone suggests is not the way to do it. The frauds in control of your sweat and your life say do as I say not as I do. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh how we love to blame others! Our young are being indoctrinated by intellectual nutcakes. You people who believe anything your are told brought down the World Trade Center. Bin Laden would not have done it had it not been for the fact that America&amp;#39;s elected officials have robbed the American people of their most sacred right: the right to the fruits of their own labor. So where are the fruitcakes coming from you hear day in and day out? Those of you who blame President Bush should do what Bin Laden did: point the finger of blame at yourselves. Ask him! He will tell you I&amp;#39;m right&amp;nbsp; America is becoming the Bagdad of the West. The senseless killing of those innocent young American college students is too much. It sends a message. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those millions of people around the world who hate the American people should realize that the same as the American people, they have been hoodwinked by the powerful. The same as I know it, Bin Laden knows the United States is a juggernaut out of control. If you want to end terrorism, take charge of your life. That&amp;#39;s what I did and that&amp;#39;s why I&amp;#39;m here before you. If we humans expect to continue as a human race, best we learn who we are and what we are about. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>The Monster Works</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The all-too-common monster killer is on the national news again. They all fit a pattern. They are the loner who feels the world is responsible for their problem. This monster was a well known wierdo who never communicated, who wrote frightening messages of what was going on in his mind.&amp;nbsp; But the most frightening thing about this instance is authority that is more concerned with its own interests than with the safety of the students. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One moment after a massacre the leftist media was pointing the finger of blame at Virginia&amp;#39;s lax gun laws. In a reverse of philosophy, they are reporting American troops in Iraq killing innocent women and children. Imagine how you would feel if you had lost a son or a daughter. The officials at the university are coping out. They could have and should have taken measures to stop this killer from carrying what he made abundantly clear his intentions were. The heartless frauds are more concerned over the their own agendas than the lives of innocent people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The existentialist philosopher Nietzsche had an interesting answer. Did God make a mistake in man or did man make a mistake in God? An existentialist is a self-determined individual. The term existentialism brings to mind the God is dead idea. I surely hope so. It brings to my mind the personalized God idea that brings about so much killing. It does not necessarily bring to mind a godless universe. The latest scientific theory is that a supreme consciousness existed before any thing existed. One can wonder how anyone could think the universe just appeared out of nothing, or that we conscious beings appeared out of nothing. Do monster killers appear out of thin air? The leftist extremists in the media would have you believe that guns make monster killers. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only questions now should be whether to allow people to carry guns to defend themselves from the monsters allowed to move freely among us; or do we lock up the weird acting supreme self type here to pass judgement on us; or do we deny that evil even exists. Are we the good people some say we are; we should talk to homicidal maniacs and leave them be? It isn&amp;#39;t their fault, so the theory goes. The homicidal maniac surely agrees with that idea. It is society&amp;#39;s fault that they are monsters. Who is insane? We are all good people, right? Listen to the leftist extremist&amp;#39;s&amp;nbsp;rationalizations and end the slaves of these frauds. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are we individuals simply living out our allotted time in a clockworks universe?&amp;nbsp; Suspiciously, more gun controls need to be put in place by the intelligentsia. God is created by the intelligentsia. The world is run by the intelligentsia. We note that the intelligentsia, in 5,000 years of civilization, has yet to stop the killing and destruction, has yet to bring about peaceful coexistence. Time is running out for you. You best take control of your life.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have a different idea of what makes monster killers-whether they be limited to lonely individuals or to include the world&amp;#39;s greatest authorities. Most Americans blame Bush for the deplorable situation in Iraq. Some people have great admiration for themselves and little for anyone else, and have nothing to offer but criticism, not one positive thing to do. The opposition&amp;#39;s mistakes are all that we hear from the leftist media. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a great difference in the supreme self, who can be an individual or an intellectual movement, and the God-self, a drop in the ocean of self-consciousness. The supreme self we see in the leftist media is in love with self. He is the narcissist, the totalitarian dictator type we generally associate with evil. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And don&amp;#39;t forget the God Almighty self.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;#39;ve been called the anti-Christ, told that God will never speak to me. A Christian lady called me a secular humanist. I promote human values without reference to God Almighty. These folks must have God in a place-Heaven, or Paradise, in a tree, in an idol, or whatever, but never a supreme consciousness. This particular type must feel that his or her particular faith is superior to every other faith. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basically, it is no different than the monster&amp;#39;s faith. The idea causes death and destruction. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is interesting that mentally ill patients are not allowed Bibles in most mental institutions? A mother reported that she killed her five children because God told her to. Who am I to question her?&amp;nbsp; Of one thing I&amp;#39;m sure, had she been in touch with her inner self, five innocent children would not have had their lives snuffed out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Should we deny that evil people are out there, believe that we are all good, some merely mixed up and need to be talked to; it is never the individual&amp;#39;s fault, always society&amp;#39;s fault? Light a candle for the psycho who killed 32 innocents in a senseless massacre. Pray for those departed souls, and then let us put this unfortunate matter behind us. Let us make the best of all that we have in this great nation, for we are a forgiving people.&amp;nbsp; After all, it is by the grace of God, and don&amp;#39;t forget Congress, that we exist. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I frequently hear platitudes. I shutter to think what I&amp;#39;d have been had I listened to authorities. The bumblers wanted to help me out by cleaning me out and offering in return a pittance. Instead of blaming society for my problem, I looked within for my answers. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was impressed by the interviews with students who witnessed the massacre. They didn&amp;#39;t have any answer, these young people trying to make something of their lives. I&amp;#39;m so outraged I can hardly stand it. They got no warning, no protection. They were locked in and methodically slaughtered by a known psycho. Of course they are bewildered. Pitifully, America doesn&amp;#39;t have answers. America has nothing&amp;nbsp;but criticism for everything that has gone wrong, and wouldn&amp;#39;t you know it? America is going down the tube! &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>"I've done nothing illegal"</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;When someone credited with being knowledgeable comes before me on one of the electronic marvels, I listen with the thought of whether his thinking is more for my benefit or his. Almost always, I conclude his thinking is more for his benefit. Is there something innately selfish about my attitude if I grant you the same right, to think what you want? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m poor in higher math but fascinated by discrete numbers, or rational numbers that are eventually periodic, like numbers representing harmony and symmetry, the fundamentals of nature. My life lesson number is the discrete number 7. Numerologists say that number means I&amp;#39;m here to use my mind. Certain angles between the planets say I&amp;#39;m able to understand the laws by which subtle forces are organized. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frankly, I was bored with my formal education. I was not a good student. My interest in learning is triggered by practicality, not for the sake of learning. For instance, I spent thousands of hours studying the law with the idea of putting the IRS in its place. Not many laymen take the IRS to the U. S. Supreme Court. America&amp;#39;s judges could have cared less about my constitutional issues concerning tax. A reporter for The Palm Beach Post, after reviewing my court papers, was interested in how the IRS reacted. It resulted in a front page story, with the IRS apologizing for its numerous mistakes. Neither the IRS, nor Congress, nor the President apologized for putting me on the street by mistake. To said high and mighty individuals, I&amp;#39;m no more than an ant they stepped on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;ve sublimated my thinking. Understanding the makeup of man is a natural for me. I&amp;#39;ve taken a keen interest in quantum mechanics because it deals with the world of the very small and the state of awareness. I love that idea. You don&amp;#39;t learn how things work by looking at the finished product. Likewise, you don&amp;#39;t successfully govern by making the end result justify the means. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The root of all American evil: money concentrated in Washington, D.C. Big money goes where big money does the most good. You frequently hear the high and mighty say, &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;ve done nothing illegal.&amp;quot; The high and mighty say the psychopath who murdered 32 Virginia Tech students did nothing illegal prior to the slaughter. Law professors stand before you maintaining that officialdom did nothing illegal. We, the people, don&amp;#39;t get the connection of our right to exist with our Constitution. I hear this from Virginia Tech students who witnessed the horror of their classmates being slaughtered. Those murdered students were ants compared with the political agenda. The American people are brainwashed. Wake up, America!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The truth of the matter: Under &amp;quot;lawful&amp;quot; in &lt;em&gt;Black&amp;#39;s Law Dictionary, &lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;legal&amp;quot; is defined as the form of law. Nazi law was a form of law. By world standards, it was not considered legitimate, moral, or principled. I didn&amp;#39;t get my legal education in a law school. I got mine in the school of hard knocks. America&amp;#39;s legal institution is an out and out fraud against the people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bottom line truth is that might makes right. How does America&amp;#39;s law basically differ from Nazi law? Big money controls America&amp;#39;s laws. Big money put me on the street. Big money, in support of psychopaths put 32 Virginia Tech students in their graves. Is there no such thing as evil, only sick people who need help? America is sick in the head. Big money and Nazi law makes the world hate you. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is interesting. Under &amp;quot;anarchy&amp;quot; in my &lt;em&gt;Webster&amp;#39;s College Dictionary: &lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;a theory that regards the absence of all direct or coercive government, as a political ideal and that proposes the cooperative and voluntary association of individuals and groups as the principle mode of organized society.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can&amp;#39;t think of any form of law in practice that fits the above definition. However, in theory, America&amp;#39;s law follows the definition. We call it a government of the people for the people. The ancient Greek Demosthenes, the father of democracy, said, &amp;quot;Every law is a discovery, a gift of God.&amp;quot; President Coolidge persisted in the notion. Said Coolidge: &amp;quot;Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.&amp;quot; Law Professor Edward S. Corwin, in his essay &lt;em&gt;The &amp;quot;Higher Law&amp;quot; Background of American Constitutional Law, &lt;/em&gt;wrote that the identification of &amp;quot;Higher Law&amp;quot; with custom does not hold. In practice, &amp;quot;Higher Law&amp;quot; is not the final word. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wrote Corwin: &amp;quot;The discovery that custom was neither immutable nor invariable even among the Greek city states impelled the Sophists to the conclusion that justice was either merely &amp;lsquo;the interest of the strong,&amp;#39; or at best a convention entered upon by men purely on considerations of expediency and terminable on like considerations.&amp;quot; (I&amp;#39;m reminded of America&amp;#39;s slavery.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Something marvelous and mysterious took place in me at midlife, according to numerologists, a feeling of wanting to break free. I had a bigger than life calling. I went to sea on a sailboat and let the wind take me where it would. It put me on my course of destiny. It changed my life for the better. Wouldn&amp;#39;t you know that I&amp;#39;m here with my Zaadz friends? One of my Zaadz friends wrote me, &amp;quot;I just know you are having so much fun at Zaadz.&amp;quot; Absolutely! We are going to change the world. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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      <title>The Truth Hurts</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#39;ve got The New York Times flapdoodle and my pod. All the peas in this pod are mine, and not one agrees with The New York Times. It says I&amp;#39;m either way ahead or way behind the norm. (An astrologer told me I&amp;#39;m too far ahead of the times to be understood.) I may be writing this for my own amusement, but here goes. Personally, I don&amp;#39;t think the left hand knows what the right hand is doing in America. Senate leader Harry Reid says we&amp;#39;ve lost the war in Iraq. President Bush says we&amp;#39;re winning it. It&amp;#39;s difficult for me to understand it, but we&amp;#39;ve yet to figure out what happened at Virginia Tech. We can&amp;#39;t figure out Social Security, health care, how to balance the budget, how to fight the war on terror. On and on the list goes. I&amp;#39;m wondering if we Americans are not so far out of it that we can&amp;#39;t figure out anything. Our democracy has turned into bickering weak willed wimps. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m in political no man&amp;#39;s land, undoubtedly offensive to many progressive liberals. Conservatives can&amp;#39;t understand my thinking. They are wrapped up in the past. Fat chance I&amp;#39;ll ever be published. I wasn&amp;#39;t going to write anymore of my thinking, but I&amp;#39;m reading &lt;em&gt;A Brief History of Everything &lt;/em&gt;by Ken Wilber, &amp;quot;one of the most widely read and influential American philosophers of our time.&amp;quot; Writes Wilber: &amp;quot;From virtually every inception of every major knowledge quest, East and West alike, the various approaches have fallen into one or another of these two great camps, interior versus exterior.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;ve been saying to look within for answers. I&amp;#39;m expecting Wilber to agree. But no, Wilber maintains that it is almost impossible to understand higher and spiritual developments without taking both the exterior and interior path into account. That&amp;#39;s the way to get widespread agreement, right? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can&amp;#39;t let him get away with that idea without comment. You can take both exterior and interior paths into account but you better not take the exterior path, say I, if you know what&amp;#39;s good for you. The record proves there is most assuredly a right and a wrong way to go. But if you want to be wide read, you take neither path. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The exterior is well-known by the senses, says Wilber. &amp;quot;You don&amp;#39;t have to try to get into the interior, at their consciousness. . . you are looking at the exterior,&amp;quot; reasons Wilber. Absolutely! You are looking at what is good for the birds. It&amp;#39;s tweedle-dee-dee-tweedle-dee-dumb with Wilber. Actually, you are looking at Ayn Rand&amp;#39;s, &lt;em&gt;Atlas Shrugged &lt;/em&gt;philosophy, at objectivity, neither here nor there: we live only to serve the many. My, oh my! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no such thing as objective reality. There is only subjective reality-your reality, my reality. (There goes my audience of the brainwashed.) Objective reality serves only enslavement of the soul. It was objective thinking that kept black people enslaved, and sadly, that which keeps them enslaved to Rand&amp;#39;s mindless aspirations external of the mind. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are in the image of God, a God-self. God is not objective. There is no external animating you. Your energy is your&amp;#39;s, if you know what is good for you. My friends, Wilber does not know everything. If you don&amp;#39;t first love self, you can never be selfless. Sorry, folks, but you are not born in sin. Wilber does not know that all evil is of exterior origin. Know thy self and know goodness. Know the right way to know you are a being of power, intelligence, and love. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Know that American lawyers would not know the truth in the law if it smacked them in the face. They are taught to stand before you with fish eyes and lie like dogs. America&amp;#39;s judges know no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil. I aught to know. I&amp;#39;ve personally appeared before 18 of them. The law is what they say it is, but for a fact, they don&amp;#39;t know the law; I know the law. My understanding clears the fog the makers and keepers of the law are making for the American people. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America&amp;#39;s present culture looks at me like I&amp;#39;m a leper, but the law was written for me, not for the present culture. The authorities&amp;#39; law says we are all created equal and then contradicts itself in many ways. There are principles of right and justice -leave out government entitlements-which are entitled to prevail of their own intrinsic excellence, altogether regardless of the notions of those who wield the physical resources. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Politicians, lawyers, and judges all have their self-serving agendas, but there is only one law, the Higher Law, spelled out in the American Constitution. America&amp;#39;s present culture be damned. You don&amp;#39;t expediently take anything in my Constitution out of context. The Higher Law is for the individual, not for judges, not for the majority. Speaking for the Court, Justice Jackson: &amp;quot;The very purpose of the Bill of Right as to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and establish them legal principles to be applied by the courts.&amp;quot; Know thyself and know the law. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world, engulfed in the energy of action and reaction, is heading for the annihilation of humanity. A change from this fool&amp;#39;s paradise is long overdue. Sorry, Ken, but a change will only come if we look within for the answers. We are subjective observers, &amp;quot;co-equals in the foundry of creation,&amp;quot; says my guru, quantum physicist Even Harris Walker. Says Walker, who is accused by his colleagues of trying to smuggle God into physics, &amp;quot;The tests of Bell&amp;#39;s theorem have shown us that objective reality as it has been conceived is not the true fabric of reality. The observer interacts with matter. Consciousness, the substance of this new-found reality that defines the observer, has fundamental existence. It is the quantum mind that is the basic reality.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Walker happens to be the first with a detailed quantum model of the synaptic function. What do today&amp;#39;s shrinks know about the human mind? They treat &amp;quot;mental disorders.&amp;quot; They didn&amp;#39;t enough about Cho&amp;#39;s thinking to prevent his massacre of his classmates. This that Walker speaks of is a reality wave that will sweep the world clean of the mind set of today&amp;#39;s meatheads. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The supreme law is the supreme consciousness of the universe. Somewhere in-between there is an exterior universe separated by time and space but the law never changes. Only man&amp;#39;s laws expediently change. America is going in reverse down a one-way street to a dead end. Hello Sodom and Gomorrah! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not terribly difficult to understand the new reality if we open our minds to new ideas. Only you can determine how long it will take to do away with might makes right. If we Zaadsters are ever to change the world, we are going to have to put things and people into logical perspective. We are going to have to realize that we&amp;#39;ve evolved. We have choices. If we are going to change the world, know that we are all individuals with the right to pursue our individual destinies free of interference. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;A conception, the state of being conceived, by opinion, an interpretation, whereas a perception is to know by means of intuition, or appreciation, one can be made consciously aware by opinion, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This is not an opinion; it is a perception. If I ask you how you feel about this or that, not how you think about it, your answer is not an opinion; it is your perception. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My question: Do you have a right to your perception, for example, on the right to life, and if so should the question be decided by vote? A conception deals with external matters, perception with the inner self.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I say look within for answers, how do I feel about it? I&amp;#39;m granting you the privilege of deciding the right answer for you. Is the right to life an external or an internal issue? Is God, the giver of life, an external or internal issue? When I say you possess God internally, an external God does not possess you, I&amp;#39;m removing all concepts of God, allowing you, individually, to perceive God. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you know how you would perceive God? Would you perceive God frowning on everyone who does not believe in your perception? I don&amp;#39;t think so. It is only those who conceive God who say others are going to hell. Were that concept true we&amp;#39;re all going to hell.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are aware that you are a conscious entity, perhaps like a drop in the ocean of consciousness? Would a drop in the ocean not want to contribute to the whole? If we exist in a state of conscious awareness, without boundary, endless, then there is more than we conceive. Would we conscious beings not sanctify human life if we perceived of our coming from one universal consciousness? Is it not the numerous conceptions of God that bring about human suffering? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&amp;#39;t allow anyone to conceive God. They are making themselves God. It is dangerous to my health. Would I be willing to grant you the privilege of individual perception, say on the right of life, were I not certain of my own perception? I&amp;#39;m confident that you would not perceive a God that would deprive me of life, or liberty, or pursuit of happiness.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What kind of a world would it be if we each were granted the right of perception; authority would not have the right to conceive an end, concerning our lives, and pass laws that justify that end. Would we perceive a brutal, uncaring world for all those who do not favor that end? I don&amp;#39;t think so. Would not each and every one of us count? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By turning our lives over to authority, we are saying we don&amp;#39;t have the right to perceive; we should jump through authority&amp;#39;s hoops. Like father, like son, like mother, like daughter. What was true yesterday is true tomorrow. We are living 5,000 years in the past. We don&amp;#39;t know what kind of a world this would be if the individual had the privilege of perception. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The facts say we&amp;#39;ve never yet believed we are fully human, that we have the gift of limitless conscious awareness, but let me tell you the energy is building for a vast change.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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