Back Again

Been kinda busy, runnin the canvass office while my boss has been out in Vietnam, or 'Nam, as I like to refer to it, on vacation. Things have definitely been fairly stressful, but rewarding in a way as far as being a personal test. Sounds like my boss is having fun, even though it looked like he almost got himself in a little bit of trouble with some of the locals from the video he emailed me...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sRHd5pngWE

Anyhow, some interesting stuff has been going on upon the world stage, and since I've been fairly delinquint We'll hop right into...



NEWS AND WHATNOT:

Ron Paul, Ralph Nader agree on 'progressive-libertarian alliance' http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/ron-paul-ralph-nader-agree-on-progressive-libertarian-alliance/

Nader: Progressive-libertarian alliance ‘the most exciting new political dynamic’ in US http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/progressive-libertarianism-the-exciting-political-dynamic-ralph-nader/#

Progressives Should Target the Real Robber Barons http://dailypaul.com/node/150655

WASHINGTON STATE JOINS MOVEMENT FOR PUBLIC BANKING

http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/washington_state.php

Olbermann Ouster: Immelt Helps Obama with his Left Flank on the Eve of a Monstrous State of the Union Address http://tarpley.net/2011/01/22/olbermann-ouster-helps-obama/

Shut Down The Federal Reserve, Break Up The Big Banks And 16 Other Ideas Barack Obama Could Have Proposed If He Actually Wanted To Fix The Economy

http://blacklistednews.com/Shut-Down-The-Federal-Reserve%2C-Break-Up-The-Big-Banks-And-16-Other-Ideas-Barack-Obama-Could-Have-Proposed-If-He-Actually-Wanted-To-Fix-The-Economy-/12465/0/13/13/Y/M.html

America Plundered by the Global Elite http://www.augustreview.com/issues/globalization/america_plundered_by_the_global_elite_2005051812/

Rethinking Veganism

http://www.realitysandwich.com/rethinking_veganism

Angels and Demons: Polar Energies http://newagegathering.com/News/article/sid=353.html

Ask the Unicorn: Introduction to the Five Bodies http://asktheunicorn.com/2011/01/12/introduction-to-the-5-bodies/

Time Control Technology Disclosure

http://www.realitysandwich.com/time_control_technology_disclosure

The Mystery Airship of 1896

http://www.unmuseum.org/airship.htm

HAPPY GREGORIAN NEW YEAR!!!!!!

Albeit over a week late. Sorry, it's been a few days since I posted anything, I was bouncing around New England for the holidays visiting family and friends. I have, especially over the past few years, found myself intrigued by the concept of time, and the different human perceptions of it and how it effects our lives. From the earliest use of the sun and stars and the cycles of the moon and seasons by prmitive man, to the amazingly sophisticated calendars of the ancient peoples like the Egyptians, the Chinese and of course, the Mayans with their infamous calendar and the facts, theories, and falsehoods surrounding that. Then we have the Roman Julian calender named after one Julius Caesar. Finally Rome, (via the Vatican) and eventually the entire world, for all standard purposes, adopted the Gregorian calendar and method of tracking and viewing time. The Gregorian calendar, which is the calendar we use today was implemented by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. A long ass time ago. As we find ourselves in the early part of the 21st century, there have been many breakthroughs in the field of quantum physics, due to the work of such intellectual heavyweights like Albert Einstein, Steven Hawking, and many others.
Time is ingrained in nearly every aspect of modern life. People need to be on time to work; people always ask 'what time is it?'; people always say they don't have enough, if any time; then people kill time; people know, that in time, they will eventually die. Our view of time is very linear, with a "set" beginning and a presumable end. As a result of these impositions, many people feel time as a cruel slave master that will ultimately kill them. This is especially true for the debt slaves that find themselves in the "rat race" to work and consume and eventually be discarded when they become too old or sick to serve the machine's purpose and left isolated until their time runs out. Our modern linear view of time is a prison in and of itself.
Perhaps a new way of viewing and relating to time is in order to achieve a progressive evolution for humanity. What I mean by that is the human species living up to its highest potential, while honoring the sanctity of individual free will while having every sentient being realize the interconnectedness of all beings. A lofty goal I'm well aware, but I do believe achievable at some point given the right actions taken by all participants, including myself.
But enough ranting, here's the good shit...







Going round in circles
In contradiction to most cosmologists’ opinions, two scientists have found evidence that the universe may have existed for ever
http://www.economist.com/node/17626874

Time, Experience and Reality
http://www.abia29.hemscott.net/riveros_time.htm



Foundation for the Law of Time
http://www.lawoftime.org/home.html



NEWS AND WHATNOT:


US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords shot in Arizona
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12143774

Peter King, Leading Republican To Introduce Strict Gun-Control Legislation
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/11/peter-king-strict-gun-control_n_807323.html

Outlaw That Speech Because it MIGHT be a Threat
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/01/outlaw-that-speech-because-it-might-be.html

Wage Drop Has Been Worst In Decades
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/11/pay-cut_n_807241.html

US Says Too Much Fluoride Causing Splotchy Teeth
US Says Fluoride Is Causing Splotchy Teeth, Maybe Other Ills; Calls For Lower Levels In Water
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/07/ap/health/main7222263.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride_poisoning

'Second Thoughts about Fluoride,' Reports Scientific American
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS108377+02-Jan-2008+PRN20080102

Fluoride water 'causes cancer'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/jun/12/medicineandhealth.genderissues

Use of Sodium Fluoride for Population Behavior Control
http://nukesylo13.com/component/content/article/21-health/863-use-of-sodium-fluoride-for-population-behavior-control

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1016

Why is Fluoride Bad for You?
http://hubpages.com/hub/Why-is-Fluoride-Bad-for-You

An Untested Type of Flouride is Used in the Overwhelming Majority of US Water Supplies
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/01/untested-type-of-fluoride-used-in-vast.html

Obama's Internet ID Plan: Here's What You Need To Know http://www.businessinsider.com/obamas-internet-id-2011-1#ixzz1AoV1I9kg

WikiLeaks: Julian Assange 'faces execution or Guantánamo detention'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/11/julian-assange-wikileaks-execution-gantanamo

12/26/10

I hope you all had a very, very happy Materialistic Consumer Day!! I hope it was filled with lots of crap that you didn't need, but wanted to fill the hole left in you that is itself, but a fabrication of the Corporate Madison Avenue machine that serves the forever-profit-hungry beast of Big Corporate Business, which, in turn is but a slave to Big Wall Street and offshore Finance Investment. Whew. Now that I got that out I'm sure a few of you also celebrated, (hopefully) the real reason I have any endearment for this originally pagan holiday, (yeah, if Christ was an actual flesh in blood man, which I do believe, but will not deny that legitimate argument exists to the contrary, he wasn't born on December 25th http://www.history.com/topics/christmas ) is the love of my family and being with them, the joy of giving, and the concept of charitas and good will towards men. Ultimately that birth of "Christ Consciousness" within humankind that is celebrated. The opening of the "heart" which is all about the love of your fellow man that ultimately needs to be a 24/7, 365 days a year thing if true change is EVER going to happen on this planet. The most effective way to combat darkness is to create something beautiful. One superb example comes from a man I met canvassing a couple years back. His name is Michael Chase, and he lives in Biddeford, ME. Michael runs a nonprofit called The Kindness Center. To quote the Kindness Center website, "Michael J. Chase, began The Kindness Center with the vision of creating a more peaceful and kindhearted world. Located in the beautiful state of Maine, he is accomplishing this by inspiring kindness in schools, the workplace, and in everyday life. Through his programs and events, Michael reveals the secrets to true happiness and the incredible benefits of a heart-centered lifestyle" http://thekindnesscenter.com/the_kindness_center/Home.html
I remember meeting Michael after knocking on his door randomly, (kinda what political canvassers do) and within moments of speaking with him and being in his presence, I picked up on his energy. He was one of those people that just made you feel good just being around them. He seemed to radiate positive energy in a manner that few people do. He told me about how he was on a negative path in his life when one day a chance encounter with a turtle in his car caused an epiphany that changed his outlook on the world, which changed his life. Here's more...







And truly inspirational, is his 24 Hours of Kindness...




Gnostic Nativity of Christ

It would be worthless for the Christ to be born one thousand times in Bethlehem if he is not born in our hearts as well. We have to form Christ within ourselves in order to enter through the doors into the triumphant and victorious city on Palm Sunday.
Christmas is a cosmic event that must be performed in each one of us. The Nativity (Christmas) is absolutely individual. It is necessary for the Christ to be born in each one of us... (read more): http://gnosticteachings.org/courses/path-of-the-bodhisattva/516-02-gnostic-nativity-of-christ.html



... and a little about the author, Samael Aun Weor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samael_Aun_Weor


NEWS AND WHATNOT:

Lobbyists Write the Tax Bill
http://www.thedailycrock.com/?p=1709

How Do We Shift Power to the People and Away from Concentrated Corporate Power?
http://blacklistednews.com/How-Do-We-Shift-Power-to-the-People-and-Away-from-Concentrated-Corporate-Power%3F/12040/0/39/39/Y/M.html

Pentagon’s Christmas Present: Largest Military Budget Since World War II
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/pentagons-christmas-present-largest-military-budget-since-world-war-ii/

Coming HomeHomeless; The New Homeless Among Veterans
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/coming-home-homeless-homeless-veterans/story?id=12478952&tqkw=&tqshow=TW

More Anti-war Activists Subpoenaed for Supposed Al-Queda Ties
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-anti-war-subpoenas-20101223,0,6520316.story

Homeland Security Coming to Hotels, Malls
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/homeland-security-coming-hotels-malls/

Mexico Says its Troops Killed U.S. Citizen, Covered It Up
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/26/joseph-proctor-killing-me_n_801282.html


Janet Napolitano: TSA Screenings with Full-Body Scanners, Pat-Downs, Not Likely to Change in near Future

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/26/janet-napolitano-tsa-scre_n_801311.html

Haiti Voodoo Killings Rise as Cholera Epidemic Increases http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/25/haiti-voodoo-killings-ris_n_801213.html

New Zealand Military Releases UFO Files http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/22/new-zealand-military-rele_n_800275.html

The Incorruptibles: A Requiem for Civilization
http://www.realitysandwich.com/incorruptibles_requiem_civilization

12/24/10

Remember the Progressive anti-war movement that surged under Bush? Where are their voices? Remember our Nobel Prize-winning president's call for hope, change, and peace? What happened to that? Remember ALL that has come out of this "War on Terror" after the events of 9/11? You know, a war in Afghanistan that has taked the lives of 1, 368 Americans and injured 9,828 more (as of two days ago); a Patriot Act that our new president resigned after saying he opposed it which allows for unapolagetic spying on the American people; Homeland Security and their extra-precautious and extra-invasive security measures; an influx of heroin production and distribution; a society of increased fear; Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. Fear, lies, and control is what it's all about. Geopolitical control and domestic control. I have some tidbits about war, lies, corruption, tragedy, some out-of-the-box-thinking, and perhaps a dash of hope today, but first, I think I'll start with a prayer. The prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. A prayer for peace.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

NEWS AND WHATNOT:

NATO Attacks Official Convoy, Killing Two Afghans

Afghanistan: Obama Capitulates to the War Makers
http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/jan10_lerner_editorial_afghanistan

Number of Civilian Casualties in Afghan War Rises 20% U.N. Report Shows
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/23/AR2010122303521.html

"New START" Ratification Likely End of Obama's "Disarmament Vision," and of Arms Control Era, as New Political Alignments, Fresh Crises Loom
http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/20101222183707366

9/11 First Responders Health Care Bill Passed By House & Senate
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/22/911-first-responders-heal_1_n_800326.html

Woman arrested at ABIA after refusing enhanced pat down
http://www.kvue.com/news/local/Woman-arrested-at-ABIA-after-refusing-enhanced-pat-down-112354199.html

Passengers And ACLU Critique Random Baggage Checks
http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=126175&catid=188

Seth Walsh: 1997-2010
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt-rights/seth-walsh-1997-2010

LBJ-CIA Assassination of JFK
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/12/my-files-on-lbj-and-cia-assassination.html

No More Secrets: A Call for Transparency
http://www.realitysandwich.com/no_more_secrets

Carnival 2012—A Psychological Study of the 2012 Phenomenon and the 22 Classic Pitfalls and Blind Spots of Esoteric Research
http://www.zaporacle.com/carnival-2012-a-psychological-study-of-the-2012-phenomenon-and-the-22-classic-pitfalls-and-blind-spots-of-esoteric-research/

THE KEY TO DREAMSPELL
http://edj.net/mc2012/fap6.html


MOVIES AND STUFF:

12/22/10

Sooo, back again with an another piece of new work, some more thought provoking news and witings, and I might throw in a movie or two to boot. I'm a little upset that I missed the eclipse last night. It was the first lunar eclipse on a winter solstice since like 1338, and I didn't even realize it was happening til it was long since done. C'est la ville, I suppose. Anyhow, I'm back in Maine for the holidays hangin with the family, taking a much-needed two weeks off work, but the mind never rests... So first I'm posting up an interesting essay by a gentleman named Peter Wilberg entitled, "New Gnostic Politics, which is a unique take on the concept of implementing true social change. Enjoy!


"This spiritual and political essence of socialism is not collectivism but individualism fulfilled through relation – the recognition that by freeing human relations from the alienation created by their practical social relations, conditions could be created for a communist society as Marx defined it – one in which "the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all." The ideal of a communist society will forever remain a utopian one unless soul is put back into ‘socialism’. Only by recognising the reality of the soul world (‘in heaven’), can soul communities attain reality in the social world (‘on earth’) as social communities. The sole means by which this can happen is through a Relational Revolution which shows each individual how to sense and realise their inner soul relationships with others through bodily relational practices – practices which break down the illusory bodily boundaries of personal identity itself." (extract) ... continue to read more
http://www.thenewgnosis.org/newgnosticpolitics.htm


NEWS AND WHATNOT:

Arlen Specter's Farewell Speech Slams GOP 'Cannibalism'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/21/arlen-specters-farewell-speech_n_799893.html

START Treaty Clears Major Senate Hurdle
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/21/start-treaty-senate_n_799671.html

Attorney General's Blunt Warning on Terror Attacks
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/attorney-general-eric-holders-blunt-warning-terror-attacks/story?id=12444727&tqkw=&tqshow=GMA&tqkw=&tqshow=GMA&tqkw=&tqshow=GMA

BEWARE: The Real Terrorists Are Upping Their Chatter
http://www.activistpost.com/2010/12/beware-real-terrorists-are-upping-their.html

'Teleportation is Year's Biggest Breakthrough
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/17/beam-teleportation-years-biggest-breakthrough/

A Promise and a Threat: WikiLeaks' "Anonymous" and the Shaping of Online Protest
http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2010/12/21/a-promise-and-a-threat-wikileaks%e2%80%99-%e2%80%9canonymous%e2%80%9d-and-the-shaping-of-online-protest/

Wikileaks: a Big Dangerous US Government Con Job
http://www.voltairenet.org/article167733.html

Washington’s Geopolitical Nightmare: China and Russia boost economic cooperation
http://www.voltairenet.org/article167735.html

Extremes of Unequal Wealth in the U.S. Actually Impacts Directly on YOUR Life and the Life of Your Family and Friends
http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/article.php/20100414064237554

Responsibility Instead of Tax Demagoguery
http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2010/12/20/responsibility-instead-of-tax-demagoguery/

Take On the Corporate Bullies
http://www.progressive.org/sanders1210.html

Rethinking Veganism
http://www.realitysandwich.com/rethinking_veganism

Psychic Self Defense: Tower of Light
http://www.pathcom.com/~newmoon/defence.htm

Remote Viewing, Psychic Self-Defence & Remote Psychotherapy
http://www.viking-z.org/

Psychic Self-Defense (classic 1930 book by "white" occultist, Dion Fortune)
http://www.tarotinstitute.com/free/psychic.pdf


MOVIE TIME:

12/17/10

Gnostic Christianity and the Myth of Sophia
by Bette Stockbauer

1. An in-depth survey of early Gnostic Christianity, its teachers, its relationship to modern esoteric thought, and the religious/political environment which shaped its expression.
In 1945, near the banks of the River Nile, a jar was unearthed which contained one of the richest manuscript finds of modern history — the Nag Hammadi codices. Like the Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered two years later, this library of ancient documents (dated AD 350) contained texts relating to early Christianity that the world had never seen. The Dead Sea texts belonged to an earlier, Jewish branch of Christianity, and the works from Nag Hammadi to a later philosophical movement, called Gnosticism. Since their discovery scholars have long pondered their contents, questioning their relation to original Christianity.
In Share International, May 1994, Benjamin Creme refers to these two sets of documents, saying that their discovery "... was inspired by the Master Jesus to shed a clearer light on the events of that time in preparation for the Christ's return today." We suggest that the "clearer light" of the Christian Gnostics was their understanding of esoteric wisdom or "gnosis" — those sacred truths of the spiritual universe which sustain all human progress. These writers of the Nag Hammadi documents belong to a long and ancient line of similar teachers who, throughout the world and over the ages, have kept these truths alive. In many ways they can be considered the true early Christians, the real inheritors of a wisdom tradition which Jesus relayed, in secret, to a select group of his disciples. Between 50 and 250 AD their ideas flourished and were largely tolerated, but reactionary voices began to prevail and by the end of the 4th century they were practically silenced, their writings, until now, lost to history...

read more: http://www.essene.com/Gospels/GnosticAndSophia.html

NEWS AND WHATNOT:

House Passes Tax Deal 277-148, Sending Bill to President
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/17/house-tax-cut-vote_n_798062.html

Ron Wyden Undergoing Prostate Cancer Surgery, May Miss Votes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/16/ron-wyden-prostate-cancer_n_797969.html

Mighty Bernie has struck out. We’re on our own
http://dailycensored.com/2010/12/16/mighty-bernie-has-struck-out-were-on-our-own/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Dailycensored+%28Daily+Censored%29

The Top Censored Stories of 2009-2010
http://dailycensored.com/2010/10/10/top-25-censored-stories-released/

US Troops 'Beheaded' Iraqi Detainee
http://fnitimes.com/2010/10/28/us-troops-beheaded-iraqi-detainee

'Web of Debt': The Inner Workings of the Monetary System
http://fnitimes.com/2009/05/06/web-of-debt-the-inner-workings-of-the-monetary-system

Obama: A Tale of Betrayal
http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2010/12/16/obama-a-tale-of-betrayal/

Wal-Mart Manager Warns Employees Not to Post Negative Comments About DHS Partnership on Facebook

The FDA is a clearing house for Food and Drug Corruption
http://www.naturalnews.com/030455_FDA_corruption.html#ixzz18LdkgkUe


Receiving Feedback as Spiritual Practice
http://baynvc.blogspot.com/2010/12/receiving-feedback-as-spiritual.html

Secrets Hidden in the Rocks: The Spirituality of the South African Pre-Historic Paintings
http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2010/12/14/what-can-we-learn-from-the-world%e2%80%99s-oldest-art/#more-17893

Earth's Forbidden Secrets Part 1: Searching for The Past
http://thecrowhouse.com/Documents/Earths%20Forbidden%20Secrets%20Part%20One.pdf


MOVIES AND STUFF:

12/16/10

" When Sophia saw what her desire had produced, it changed into the figure of a snake with the face of a lion. Its eyes were like flashing bolts of lightning. She cast it away from her, outside that realm so that none of the immortals would see it. She had produced it ignorantly.

She surrounded it with a bright cloud and put a throne in the middle of the cloud so that no one could see it except the Holy Spirit, who is called, 'Mother of the Living'. Sophia named her offspring Yaldabaoth.
Yaldabaoth is the first ruler, who took great power from his mother. Then he left her and moved away from the place where he was born. He took control and created for himself other realms of luminous fire, which still exists. He mated with the mindlessness in him and produced authorities for himself.
Yaldabaoth stationed seven kings, one for each sphere of heaven, to reign over the seven heavens, and five to reign over the depth of the abyss. He shared his fire with them, but he did not give away any of the power of the light that he had taken from his mother. For he is ignorant darkness.
When light mixed with darkness, it made the darkness shine. When darkness mixed with light, it dimmed the late and became neither light nor darkness, but rather gloom.
This gloomy ruler has three names: the first name is Yaldabaoth, the second is Sakla, the third is Samael.
He is wicked in his mindlessness that is in him. He said, 'I am God and there is no other god but me.', since he did not know where his own strength had come from."


- excerpt from the creation story in The Secret Book of John from the Gnostic works known as The Nag Hammadi Codex.

NEWS and WHATNOT:

ESRA: Constitutional Amendments to preserve democracy & require corporate environmental responsibility http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/article.php/20100905073234646

Samasource: Giving Work http://www.realitysandwich.com/samasource_giving_work

The World After Abundance

http://www.realitysandwich.com/world_after_abundance

Failing to Prosecute Wall Street Fraud is Extending Our Economic Problems

http://washingtonsblog.com/

Tax Cut Deal- The Latest Threat to Our Children

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rose-ann-demoro/tax-cut-deal-the-latest-t_b_796834.html

Russian Armed Forces on High Alert Over North Korea

http://www.670kboi.com/rssItem.asp?feedid=113&itemid=29609277

Patriot 'app' to help fight terrorism

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/brevard_news/121510-patriot-app-to-help-fight-terrorism

‘Perverse’ Carbon Payments Send Flood of Money to China

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/perverse_co2_payments_send_flood_of_money_to_china_/2350/

Constitutional Judo

http://neithercorp.us/npress/2010/12/constitutional-judo/

Ellsberg, Other Anti-War Protesters to Chain Themselves to White House Fence

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/15/ellsberg-antiwar-protesters-white-house-fence_n_797410.htm

Energy, Ego, and Entheogens: The Reality of Human Liberation from Illusion

http://www.realitysandwich.com/energy_ego_and_entheogens

MOVIE TIME: