WHERE I AM COMING FROM...

        Allow me to introduce myself, where I am coming from and my point of view. I was born, this time, in the U.S.A., State of Virginia (where the first Europeans landed on this continent and set up colonies to begin America; birthplace of the most U.S. presidents; major landing and slave market place for millions of kidnapped people from Africa; the first and only State of modern times to elect an African-American Governor, etc.), in the city of Petersburg (where the siege took place that resulted in the end of The Civil War), in the year 1943 (two years before the official end of World War II), on October 25^th (the cusp of Scorpio, 8^th house in the zodiac).

        My archetypes range from the Native American Shaman/Sorcerer/Person of knowledge to the inner Australian Aborigine to the African Allmuseri [Charles Johnson MIDDLE PASSAGE book] to the Eastern Vishnu—“The Preserver, Lord of the Waters”, and on into the European and Western “Son of Wands” depicted in the Mother Peace tarot deck, and described in the Mother Peace book as follows;

“The Son of Wands represents the Horned God of ancient shamanistic religion and contemporary witchcraft (derived from old English word wicca, which referred to healing).  Unlike the Son of Swords, this Son is not cut off from the Mother of the group, but dancing at the center of it.  He represents ‘pre-macho’ masculinity, the archetypal positive male principle whose elements are light and fire.  He is ‘untamed’ as Starhawk says of the Horned God.  ‘But untamed feelings are very different from enacted violence.’  Instead of going off to seek individual glory, he remains within the orbit of the Goddess; his power is always directed toward the service of life.  His sexuality though wild is also ‘gentle and tame’.  Traditionally the lover of the Great Mother, the Son delights, amuses and entertains.  He celebrates life in much the same way as his sister, the Daughter of Wands.

The Son, like the sun glowing behind him, represents the directed warmth of summer sunshine, ego expressing itself through a dance of life.  The I Ching describes the sun as 'the gentle, the penetrating’, and in this way this son represents the initiating force.  In his hands he holds a rattle and a prayer stick, wands that will focus the energy in sacred ways and keep it clean and light.

Ruled by Mercury, the Son also represents thought and the positive power of the mind fired by intuition and joy.  Not all Eros, he also represents Logos, the power of the mind.  ‘To witchcraft there is no opposition between the two.’  The God of the Witches is the untamed male presence in a world that predates patriarchal sex roles and control by males.  He represents for all of us, women as well as men, the untamed part of us that will ‘never be domesticated, that refuse to be compromised, diluted, made safe, molded or tampered with.’

A model of male power that is free from father-son rivalry or oedipal conflicts, the Horned God has no father.

He represents high energy, a penetrating mind and cheerful success in the world.”

Prior to beginning my second year on this planet, this time, we moved to the city of Hopewell, which is five miles from Petersburg, with the Fort Lee Army Base in between. The city was named after one of the three small exploratory ships that sailed up the James River in search of the most satisfactory sight for the first Europeans to settle after their trip across the Atlantic ocean in the three larger ships that you likely have had to remember the names of.  The captain of the exploratory party was Sir Christopher Newport. Captain Newport left some of the people in the exploratory party at the place now known as Jamestown and continued his exploration up the James River. He landed this time in the area now known as the City Point Historic District (site of General Grant’s headquarters during the last eight months of the Civil War) of the City of Hopewell where he was greeted by the Appomattuck tribe of Native Americans led by a female “queen” who “royally intertained” him.  He decided this was the place to settle and went back down river to get the rest of his people, whereupon he found they complained that they were too exhausted after their long arduous trip across the Atlantic, were satisfied enough with where they were, and the rest is the history of the First Settlers you likely have been taught.

(Notes: [1] The Hopewell Treaty may have been the first made and broken with the native Americans. [2] In 1765 the Revolutionary Way hero, Peter Francisco - “Washington’s one man army”, was put ashore at Old City Point whose early community was primarily engaged in shipping.  [3] In 1913 the Dupont Company bought some land in Hopewell and started a small dynamite plant that brought more than 40,000 people to Hopewell until that plant was shut down after the Armistice (W.W.I, 1914-18).  Dupont then “helped” Hopewell become the “Chemical Capital of the South” by “attracting” other industries, which included Hummel-Ross, Tubize, Allied Corporation, Hercules Inc., Continental Forest Industries, Inc., Firestone Synthetic Fibers Co., Stamscott, etc.: several of which have moved on.  Hopewell - 10 square miles is presently (1991) struggling to clean up from most recently being ranked number 16 in American, of the most polluted cities, with the population still in decline.  With the shift in the Western World - which includes Hopewell - from industrial based economy to ‘light and clean’ services, the city of Hopewell is, in conjunction with the National Parks Department and the Federal Bureau of Historical registry, in the process of developing, promoting and attracting tourist trade.)

My immediate bloodline is African, Cherokee - Native American, White/Caucasoid, and so on.  My biological mother, Nettie, and one of my aunts, Ada, say that I had blue eyes (now brown as well as my skin) when I was a baby. And my mother says that one of my uncles, Leverse, asked (when he first saw me as a baby) her father, Arthur Ford, “Where did Nettie get this white baby?”  My mother also says, the mid-wife who delivered me said I was born with a veil over my eyes.  My mother did not ask her what the veil looked like.  The person passed out of this life before I could ask her, what the veil looked like.

        The earliest thoughts I remember having, as a child of between 3 and 6 years, while sitting on our front steps looking up at the sun were, “If God made the angels, the earth, the stars, people and everything else, then who made God and who made whoever made God…?” I would later be taught beginning with the Baptist religion, that there were “some things that people are not supposed to know” and therefore “some questions that should not be asked.” 

        I read in Stephen W. Hawking’s book, A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, that on the occasion of his and a group of World renowned experts on cosmology attending a conference at the Vatican, which was organized by the Jesuits to, supposedly, advise the Catholic Church on cosmology -- “At the end of the conference the participants were granted an audience with the Pope.  He told us that it was all right to study the evolution of the Universe after the big bang, but that we should not inquire into the big bang itself because that was the moment of Creation and therefore the work of God.” Huh? 

        So, we have some of the most advanced thinkers on the planet Earth today, being told by the leader of the World’s largest, most powerful and influential religious organization, essentially the same thing that a poor little uneducated “Negro” boy-child was told in the segregated South half a century ago. This ludicrous attempt to limit what questions people are ‘permitted’ to ask and think about is all the more ridiculous, at best, when we consider the huge intellectual and technological advances that have been made in the last 50 years. Those advances include “smart bombs” and the computer named Deep Thought, capable of playing Grand Master level chess games. Deep Thought lost the match against the World’s Chess Champion, Gary Kasparov, – followed, some months to a couple of years later by the computer, Deep Blue, which ‘won’ when Kasparov quit in frustration.  We have also witnessed, in the last twenty years, the official acceptance by the Catholic Church, over three hundred years after the presentation of the facts, that Kepler, Copernicus and Galileo were right - the Earth is not the center of the Universe or of our planetary system.

        The latest is that that Pope John Paul on Sunday March 12, 2000 “Apologized to God, women, homosexuals, ‘blacks’, and the Jewish people…” for all the sins and atrocities of the leaders and people of the Catholic Church through all the ages”. Huh? Did they just recently become aware of these “…sins and atrocities…”, just in time for the 2000 year anniversary of the Catholic Church, and days before the pope’s historic visit to Israel? What about all the treasures and artifacts that are in the miles and miles of tunnels under Vatican city – all of which were plundered and stolen during the 2000 years of  the existence of the Catholic Church? And what about all the millions of people tortured, murdered, enslaved and/or cultures entirely wiped out? Maybe most important is what can and is he and the current leaders of the Catholic Church doing and intend to do in practical and tangible reality to compensate?

        How about, for a start, donating one half of the Catholic Church’s wealth to the impoverished “Third World” countries’ descendants of the millions of people who were tortured, murdered, had their most valuable financial assets and artifacts plundered and stolen, and so on – to substantiate their words with deeds? And immediately allowing archeologist, anthropologist, researchers, and other professionals and scientist, to access, photograph, and so on, all of the goodies that they’re hiding in those tunnels under Vatican City? In my opinion, all of that stuff truly belongs to all of us of this earth’s human species, and future generations, as we are all descendants of all of those who have gone before us. Even they must know the truth of this since they’ve apologized for how they came to possess it all, in the first place.

        Otherwise, if the rest of this earth’s human population is to follow the example of this world’s largest religious membership organization, then all criminals – murders, thieves and such, should, after they’ve accomplished their goal, be allowed to keep whatever they’ve gained from their criminal deeds, apologize and that’s that. Let’s just “forgive”—ignore and/or forget it ever happened. I’m betting that the leaders of the Catholic Church will continue to have as their priority, trying to accumulate more wealth, influence and power over Earth’s human population to their bitter end. But, in any event, the truth can only be hidden, repressed, suppressed, denied and all that, for a finite amount of time, and can not be ignored away or changed by papal bull.

I’ve heard that it is written somewhere in the current version of the “Christian” Bible that “The meek shall inherit the Earth”. Deceased former Harvard University professor and renowned Consciousness Frontiers person Dr. Timothy Leary was quoted as having said that “The meek shall inherit the Earth when the strong no longer want it”.

This species does not have time for any of us individuals to indulge in procrastination or waiting to change our ways of thinking and behaving -- say for another 300 years for “official” acknowledgement and permission – or for any other reason. We need to consider and take seriously the overwhelming and mounting evidence and facts that are available. These include a four page paper titled “WORLD SCIENTIST WARNING TO HUMANITY” [Web address is www.worldtrans.org/whole/warning.html] released on November 18, 1992 by a group of 1,575 of this world’s top scientist, among whom are 99 Nobel Science Prize winners. The truth is, most likely, as they informed, “No more than a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished. Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plants and animal kingdoms, and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know. Fundamental changes are urgent if we are to avoid the collision our present course will bring about”. 

I have been able to trace the tremendously awesome and persistent efforts by the misguided powers that be and have been in control of this earth for, at least, the last few hundred thousand years to pre-biblical Mesopotamia (it’s “written in stone”). To my satisfaction, via THE GODS OF EDEN by William Bramley [www.magnet.ch/serendipity/eden/tgoedesc.html] and on into Zecharia Sitchin’s [www.crystalinks.com/sitchin.html] books, and other experiences/real-I-zations, I have accessed conscious awareness back to before “The Beginning” – the Kundalini experience of “Samadhi without seed”.

Those beings that, at any and all cost, have distorted, stifled, repressed, suppressed and hidden, full disclosure and access to All, of known spiritual/fourth dimensional - invisible to most - universal and cosmic facts/truths must be exposed, to start with. The imbalance of  availability, access to and distribution of this earth’s resources caused by the misguided/corrupted beings, motivated by the most profound and deeply rooted defiance and insecurities, who have insisted on maintaining an artificial superior spiritual, mental and material status, at any cost, has to be corrected. Their justification has been and is an adaptable and changeable series of contrived religious doctrines, distorted truths and deceptive theories, judicial laws that primarily protect the wealthy, or whatever. These have included, “Most people can not handle knowing all of the Truth” - although this has never been proven. They need to be seen and understood for who and what they are.

         The net effect, of erroneously believing or pretending that some individual, religion or organization is responsible for everyone else’s “salvation” and/or is "the only way”, is the spiritual, psychological and physiological constipation [blocked energy and matter] causing the current World wide epidemic of consciousness crisis, mental confusion, physiological dis-ease and pervasive environmental pollution, pushing the Earth-life survival envelope to maximum capacity, with an Earth-life species extinction rate estimated to be approximately 100 extinction’s per day.

My biological mother and grandparents used to insist that I should be thankful for having something to eat, eat all of the food on my plate at meals and think about “all those hungry people over seas” who would be more than happy to have whatever I had on my plate, and sometimes did not want to eat.  I decided that when I grew up I wanted to do something to help feed the hungry people of the World.  This idea I now think about as my intention to continue to do what I can to help stimulate and motivate as many people as I may reach to feed themselves. With the priority emphasis on feeding Truths (known but unknown) into the conscious awareness of the individual’s minds, with the use of studies, meditations, communications, prayers, clear thinking and DOING THE BEST YOU CAN with whatever the circumstances and situations YOU have to deal with.  Which in turn will nourish all of this earth’s people of three-dimensional atomic body(s) existence, and more.

Although I graduated from the all “Negro” Carter G. Woodson High School - this was before the time of popularly demanded “Black History” courses – no one at the school ever told me who Carter G. Woodson was. There was no mention of the fact that he was an important historian who wrote the classic, The Miseducation of the Negro, originated Black History Month, et cetera - and, for sure, there was no emphasis on the person or his works.

The fact is that in the nascent spirit of 2001, at the beginning of  the “New Age” of the next millenium, it is rather apparent to some of us that what we have had is The Miseducation of the People on the Planet Earth, historically. Misdirecting us to the current situation involving the critical question of whether or not this earth’s human population will annihilate our species and all of the others that we take out before and with us within the next 100 or so years. Precipitated by the indoctrination of most people with the fundamental belief of not only the inevitability, but also the desireability and necessity of wars to apocalypse, promoted historically, by the misguided/corrupted secret societies and predominate institutionalized hierarchical religions on Earth, and so on.

Given these facts, the current predicament of the people of Earth was certainly predictable.  The “bottom line” is that too many of the people who have existed on Earth - and do exist - have been influenced and persuaded to accept, believe in and be extremely diligent about the priorities of conquering, and killing each other (and time). This earth’s human population has been continuously taught, influenced and persuaded to hate other people/“the enemy”, along with having fun “killing time”, our other human relatives (and everything else that goes before and with us) by the contrived perpetuation of wars.  English philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote, “The condition of man (people) . . . is a condition of war, of everyone against everyone.”

Is there any wonder that so many people, especially in the younger generation, have so little respect for self or others in an era where the President, George Bush, of the “greatest nation on Earth” and “The World’s only Super-power” says about the President of another nation, publicly, that “We’re going to kick his ass”?  And, the ‘great General’, Colin Powell was reported to have gone back to the high school that he graduated from in an economically poor area of Brooklyn, New York and told the students “When anyone causes a problem for you, make it someone else problem”.

There is no mystery about why there is so little confidence in any individual’s or institution’s credibility when we are being bombarded with a steady stream of  “news” about religious fraud, governmental/political fraud, business fraud, academic fraud, scientific fraud, police fraud, sports fraud, and so on. [Oxford Dictionary definition of fraud: “criminal deception, use of false representation to gain unfair advantage; dishonest artifice or trick (pious ~, deception intended to benefit those deceived, and especially to strengthen religious belief); person or thing not fulfilling expectation or description; (arch) deceitfulness.”]

The people who are most assured of being punished (from economic deprivation to intimidation and murder), in this psychological/mental environment of intense stress and dis-ease, are the “whistle blowers”, i.e., people who tell the Truth about wrong doings. 

        Who are the most well known, popular and influential modern idols/hero-ines? An athlete, movie star, Rock and/or Rap entertainer, “The richest man on Earth” – Huh? Certainly not any spiritual leader or consciousness frontiers person with a priority of assisting the best possible “harvesting of souls” or evolution to “HEAVEN” as well as the best possible life here now for each and every individual. Or, at least, to help as many as possible to the next highest dimension, density, frequency, plane, level or whatever term YOU prefer to refer to where we go from here -- when our guaranteed time comes to change from this life form.  Certainly not any with a spiritual/cosmic truth priority like some of  the judicial law breakers, mavericks, “trouble” making, consciousness pioneer types of individuals personified in Jesus, The Christ, Buddha, Joan of Arc, Harriet Tubman, Zora Neal Hurston, Dr. Chancellor Williams, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Peter Gersten and many others who exemplify(ed) this priority -- rather than the priority of personal fame and/or financial fortune, and trying to “die with the most toys” as the symbolic measure of the most desirable and greatest accomplishment attainable for any person during this Earth life.    

Deceased Professor Albert Einstein is quoted as having said that “Imagination is more important than knowledge”. So, try to imagine this. What if, somehow, the genuine priority, substantiated by the use (different from ab-use) of the World’s resources, were to shift to - as Ida B. Wells said to some incarcerated ex-“legal” slaves expressing a desire to die rather than suffer confinement and abuse - “Concern yourselves with living fully, not dying” . . . and unnecessary killing? This is quite different from the traditional “Machiavellian” version of  “saying one thing and doing another” which has evolved into what is now accepted as, or believed to be “human nature”, and used to one degree or another by too many, simply confused or downright deceitful, people, i.e., “Doublespeak”; the current contrived and sophisticated technique of the deceptive use of words.  Have you ever heard about the, not so distant past when “A man was as good as his word” and “A man’s word was his bond.”?

After all, at some time in the future, even The Sun will expend all of it’s energy and “die” (change form).  Death does not need any help. The idea is to individually, and as a species, DO THE BEST WE CAN to LIVE as well as we can with whatever we have to work and play with—which includes however much time any of us have. 

recently passed (3/90) out of this life, why she left him, but she thinks he may have been told by others or 

figured it out.

years later, lived next door to my grandfather’s house where we lived after my mother left Edward, 

basically ignored (and worst) my sister and I, his "step children", after we moved into a house with him.

over protective (always afraid of my being hurt playing with the other boys or "roughhousing", etc.), over 

affectionate (too much "my little Sweetie Pie", and stuff), over dependent on me for someone to tell her 

personal troubles to, unrealistic in teaching us that if we, just "Treat people right…they will treat you 

right". Nevertheless, I grew up thinking and behaving with those teachings as my strongest influences, 

and as a results was confused and disappointed a lot in my early adult years, to put it mildly.

left one month after graduating from high school at seventeen years old, into the Navy, and had the idea 

that I would shed all, or at least most, of my fear and confusion sometime shortly after I became 

twenty-one years old. It didn’t quite work out that way, as various encounters and experiences 

continue to highlighted for me.

experience", analyzing my own thinking and behavior, and studying the basics of everything I can get to 

and comprehend, from religions to philosophy, martial arts, writing composition, music, meditation, 

sales and marketing, business management, politics, yoga, film making, television production,

chemistry, mythology, poetry, movement/dance, medicine and surgery, war and street life...

troubles—as well as my best friend having been my sister, Veronica Montez—instilled in me a deep 

empathy with the opposite sex and attuned me to feeling comfortable communicating with females on 

any subject, which some women have told me is a rare quality in men that they have known. Yaaaahh!!!

emotionally and physically strong enough to avoid or get out of any relationship that I determine to be 

destructively out of balance. I am not "married" mainly because I do not believe in paper marriages 

sanctioned by a man made system which would dictate the "legal" requirements, obligations, rights

mental, spiritual and physical personal relationships, except for one brief, business necessity, paper 

one. My related principles are expressed in the lyrics of one of the songs that I have composed and 

recorded as ". . .one and one in a union of one . . . without trust, how can our lives be any fun?" I

or sadism. I do not like to be hurt or hurting anyone else, although I don’t have any psychological, 

physical, spiritual or ethical barriers to defending myself with as much force as necessary.

treat people with respect, consideration, and understanding. With the knowledge that this is how I relate 

to others from my heart and mind, I give myself the benefit of the doubt in questionable encounters, 

followed up by inner review when I find quiet space and appropriate time.

"The creative artist needs to retain healthy naiveté to remain open to creative ideas, wherever they may 

come from." This works for me. And by choice, I would rather be more opened than closed, restricted, 

narrow and shallow. Besides, I am blessed with the recuperative capacity of the scorpion, and I am now 

pretty good at sensing and determining when someone is trying to take unfair advantage, extricating 

myself from his or her direct influence and/or avoiding those types.

school (school of life that is), ain’t broke too many rules, don’t run around with no mobs, got myself a 

little job…I don’t bother to weep and moan - anyway, I’m… grown"—chronologically that is, and most 

importantly, experienced, knowledgeable, mature and responsible.

insignificant but it’s crucial that you do it". Mahatma Gandhi Or, in other words, if I (or YOU) fail to do 

whatever my (or YOUR) individual part is in this life, it won’t get done, because no one can do the life 

work for someone else .

and came clearly to the surface of my consciousness in my third decade here on this planet. That is, 

"Why do people think what we think and the way that we think, and behave the ways that we do?" Over 

some period of time I began to realize that most people don’t seem to know why they think what they 

think. They just turn on the recorded message from their memory bank and out comes, "…taught/told 

me" and/or "it says it in…" and or "that’s the way things are". When probed for details about this the 

range of emotions in reactions spread across the spectrum from stupefaction to defensiveness to 

offensiveness to hostility.

can I know I have My Mind if I can’t change My Mind? And use it to KNOW for Myself—without following 

so and so or having to accept, on ‘blind faith’, what

The All Mighty God-Dess Creator of all things in Heaven and on Earth (with several hundred 

billion suns/stars in our Milky Way galaxy, several hundred billion galaxies - and try to imagine 

how many planets - in our known Universe), transcendent—Omnipresent, Omnipotent and 

Omniscient would reduce itself to being "repented"/sorry (Genesis 6:6), cruel, wrathful, jealous, 

vengeful and the other petty, negative attributes reflecting a profound lack of "self esteem" and the 

characteristics and traits of a nitwit. Those characteristics and traits were and are projected on it 

(God-Dess) by the people who have espoused those things and projected that insidious image, 

historically?

responsibility for My Eternal Spirit and Soul, how and what I think—and so on. It became clear to me that 

my responsibility for having ‘my mind’ and using it to know for myself ultimately can not be escaped by 

following so and so and trying to force Myself to believe on ‘blind faith’ what so and so interprets for Me. 

Because, as far as The Truth is concerned, the analogy of "not knowing your (My) ass from a hole in the 

ground" would apply. These thoughts were followed by the real-I-zation that my choice is clear, as Jack 

Johnson said "I got my chance and I’m gonna take my chance".

dazzle, hocus pocus, confusion, deception and fear—will be the most liberating and gratifying 

experience you can ever have. The hardest part is getting started, which you have already done.

maximus), since your ass is indirectly linked to your Heart and on to your Mind, stay on the path at YOUR 

tempo and YOU inevitability will arrive at Knowing for YOUrself that YOU are functioning at the level of 

Your Heart and Mind in harmony with the Truth. SeeJ ?

years that some to most people believed it did because a few misguided "officials’ declared and 

insisted it did. And no other Truth will try to change to suit what anyone believes for whatever reason. 

Nor will intimidating, torturing or killing the bearers of the Truth, change the Truth. Oh yeah, and

doomed abuse of power [THE PRINCE by Nicolo del Machiavelli], which is the lesson of history.

organizations have existed long enough to prove this, by changing what they had previously claimed to 

be the Truth. And, despite the fact that many bearers of the Truth down through history have been 

isolated, intimidated or tortured into silence and killed, the Truth keeps rising to the surface,

apparently, is no escaping the Truth even with the most fervent false beliefs supported by the most 

elaborate ceremonies, rituals, guarded secrets, and military might sustained for thousands of years. A 

prime example is the Egyptian Pharaohs who had their human body remains mummified because they 

believed they were going to get physical body transport to The World of Immortality at some future time. 

What we know now is that a few of their mummified physical bodies are on display in some show 

places. And, people taking the treasures buried with their remains have destroyed some. I’ve read that 

some have even been ground into power and used as pigmentation in paints.

laws, attainment of power, fame and fortune such as Lee Atwater and Armand Hammer one is then 

confronted with the finite limitations of such endeavors. Which brings one back to where one started, 

i.e., face to face with the Truth and priority of expanding individual conscious awareness to

acknowledgment of and respect for the power and influence of the ‘invisible’, to most, ‘known but 

unknown’ realms of beyond this world origin, which requires re-cognition, acceptance and practice of 

it’s Divine principles. In this school of life on Earth we have the opportunity to manifest these Divine

are to attain and sustain the initial sought after personal "salvation" and satisfaction of accomplishments 

that last—and that one can, "Take it with YOU."

anyone else. As a matter of fact, I think we All owe anyone, who has gone before us and followed an 

erroneous path that they thought and believed was right, our love, respectful and gratitude for showing 

us what not to do. They paid the personal price and we need not repeat their mistakes if we are wise 

enough.

odds and involving suffering human body and material world sacrifices that most of us will not encounter 

at those levels of intensity—their experiences can help us to find the courage to do what is best for  

ourselves and future generations of Life on Earth. Our choice seems to me to be to "believe" and 

behave like "we are hopeless sinners" (self fulfilling prophesy) or to pursue, attain and sustain more and 

more of our individual and species maximum potential for consciousness enlightenment and 

consciousness evolution.

absolute honesty/Truth. When we meet the "angel" at the "gate to Heaven" representing our pure 

God-Dess consciousness, there can only be absolute Truth, as we can not "pull the wool" over our own 

eyes.

BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE

    As I see it, the fundamental problem at the root of the major surface problems (illiteracy, crime, poverty, racism, greed, psychological and physiological dis-ease, environmental degradation…) of life on the planet Earth, is that too many people have been and still are influenced (involuntarily and voluntarily) to direct their attentions away from individually responsible decisions and actions.  And instead, have been persuaded and steered to diversions and hopelessly “barking up the wrong tree(s)”, trying to find genuine self worth, peace of mind, purpose for living and the like.

In other words, consider this: It is clear to me that the surface problems, that threaten to extinguish human existence on Earth, can not be solved by following politicians, bosses of corporations and businesses, the leaders and hierarchy of religious institutions and such. Or, by worshipping athletes, movie and/or television stars or other celebrities.  Most people who have existed (in “traditionally recorded history”), and most of those now incarnate, have been trying these ways through out the course of “history”, and people and life on Earth are now in deeper do-do than ever before.

Two, recent and current (1993), glaring, examples are: [1] The man who claims to have been the single final decision maker on the matter of initiating the Desert Storm War, George Bush (against the advice of six or seven former United States Secretaries of Defense, and of other professional war people), and his governmental administration, which includes, quite possibly the most sophisticated public relations and information control people and network ever, have so far effectively obscured the most important issue concerning the so called victory, which is: Of what good, that is likely to last, did all that killing, destroying and expenditure of economic resources do?  [2] Shows business stardom, and sports in particular, are not the most important professions that a person can be a part of (despite the fact that the earnings amounts sharply contradict this).  I am athletic and a musician and I know what great fun active and vicarious participation can be, as ‘just plain long fun’ and a wonderful way to spend some time. But . . . the unbridled and obsessive consumption and influence of sports and other forms of entertainment in this society, and world, is sick.  What about the priority of INNER-TAINMENT? Or as the renowned and legendary sportscaster, Red Barber —now deceased— stated in one of his Friday morning commentaries on National Public Radio, when asked about the amounts of money involved in sports: 

“I keep hearing, through various media sources, about all the homeless and hungry people in America, the lack of money for health care, education and other things, and then I hear how much money is centered around sports these days, and it just seems to me that things have gotten out of whack.”

The cost of a major league baseball franchise today (1993) is ninety five million dollars ($95,000,000) plus another thirty million ($30,000,000) in order to “PLAY BALL!”, for a total of one hundred and twenty million dollars ($120,000,000) to start a new major league baseball franchise, and people with deep enough pockets for this, are waiting in line, impeded from rushing in, only by the fact that the baseball commission is “rather slow” in granting new franchise agreements/rights.

Can you imagine any one (1) day out of the three hundred and sixty five (365) days in a year that would be promoted as a ‘National Day of THINKING’?  On which day, there would be no broadcast of any sports events or scores, and all the sports sections of all the newspapers in this country, for that one (1) day, would be printed as the THINKING section (maybe just one sheet with the word THINK! on it). ESPN and other television and Internet sports channels would, for that one (1) day, become the THINK channel. And maybe practice a “A Golden Silence” for those 24 hours. To top it off, the United States Federal, State and Local government, leading the way, in cooperation with corporations, and businesses could promote this idea and encourage individuals and groups to not do or discuss sports for that one (1) day.  Pretty Out Rageous—and downright scary to imagine, huh?

Anyhow, uhmm, the reasons why now is the best and greatest time ever for a person to be alive on the planet Earth are: [1] We have the opportunity to benefit from all that has preceded and gone before us, as well as all that now exist.  [2] For the first time in human history, we have entered into The Age of Information, brought about by technological advancement which make it practically impossible to hide the TRUTH for longer than a few days, weeks or, at most a few years, as opposed to the hundreds and often times thousands of years[1] that it sometimes took the TRUTH to resurface after being forced into hiding or hidden by the corrupt reigning powers of the past (and there are direct connections between past and present corrupt “reigning powers”).  [3] For the first time in the history of this species, an individual can affirm by a substantial number of other individual’s personal experiences and knowledge, from a variety of cultures, races, geographical locations and chronological ages, one’s own personal revelations from the inner search of one’s heart and mind. With the understanding that they might be at odds with what most people, family, friends and associates might think and behave like.  These external source affirmations, from other individuals all over this planet - incarnate and discarnate - can often be attained/received without leaving one’s castle, house, apartment, room, sidewalk heating grate, park bench or what have you, via printed and electronic media sources who rate themselves according to how consistently and effectively intrusive into our/‘consumers’ lives they are, whether YOU like it or not.  [4] There has never been a time when the need has been so compellingly crucial, to the continuation of life on planet Earth in general, and human life on Earth in particular, for all uncorrupted individuals with sound minds and principles based on the TRUTH at all cost, to rise and actively contribute any and every “two cents worth” that we can.

The people who have and continue to defy, distort and abuse the truth for a variety of reasons - sincere to purely devious - ranging from claiming that they have an exclusive on the direct line to GOD-DESS, who is telling them how and where to lead the rest of us, through those who think and claim they have an exclusive hereditary right to rule, or once having been elected to serve, should then be allowed to do anything they want, anyway they want, and on into the international corrupt secret societies who instigate continuous wars and conflicts while cleverly fronting themselves with charities, donations to “good” causes, (sometimes) well meaning ambiguous front-line members going along to get along, and so on down to those individuals who are simply dedicated to their personal excessive gains and pseudo satisfactions at any and everyone else’s expense that they can manage, need to be exposed and seen for what they are, in order to have any realistic hope for a future worth living on Earth.

It is most important to keep in mind that people of the mind set described above are extremely intelligent, charming, clever, strong, addicted to winning at all cost, and determined to remain the same.  The key to which is, the only way that “they” can maintain those positions is with the do-nothing complicity and/or active cooperation of mostly all of the rest of us.

Most people are spiritually apathetic, oriented to, accepting of and in active (although often denied and sometimes unrealized, yet clear from actions or lack of) complicity with the corrupt ruling elite “King Rats”.  Too many are reinforcing the ‘hopeless’ way of thinking which says, “What’s the use of trying to change things, when, obviously, the most corrupt people control, and have controlled throughout (traditional) history, so why try to be individually effective against ‘them’”, and/or “It’s human nature to be cruel and stupid” . . . and so on.

The answer to which is simply, if more people commit themselves, quickly enough, to pursuing their IMP/individual maximum potential, we have a very good chance of improving the quality of life for humans on this earth, it may already be too late, but, if more people do not try, the situation will almost certainly continue to rapidly deteriorate into the extinction of people on this planet, and quite possibly right before the eyes of people who are here now.  As Mahatma Gandhi said: “Your individual acts may seem futile, but it is crucial that you do them.”

To not be able to think clearly is the worst affliction that any person can suffer with.  The next worst is to think of one’s self as essentially hopeless and/or useless, and therefore to settle for going along to get along.  In the final analysis, as far as personal fulfillment in this life is concerned, there is nothing worthwhile to loose (except your fear and volunteered slavery status), and everything to, potentially, gain (“genuine self worth, peace of mind, purpose for living and the like”) by trying [The risk – reward ratio].

When we leave this life, at most, what we may take with us shall be our pure personal memory records of what we did with our time here. The substance of which seems to narrow down to either: [1] “I consciously pursued the TRUTH and my I.M.P.[2], and tried to stimulate, influence and help anyone else that I could reach to do the same.”  [2] “I followed so and so or such and such individual, institutional faith and/or tradition. Most everyone else was doing something similar. So, I choose to go along with many things that I really did not agree with or understand, to get along with most everybody else; rather than taking the full personal responsible for seeking the TRUTH, no matter who or however many others said whatever else, however many times.”  [3] “I did not try to do my best or pursue my maximum potential for the evolution of my spirit and soul because I was scared/lazy/did not think it was worthwhile or would make any difference.”

Soooooo, “BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE(S)”, in this context refers to the fact that most people are living with their primary thoughts and actions centered around hopelessly trying to find happiness and self worth externally, and extending into, as has been said’ “Everybody wants to get to Heaven, but don’t nobody want to die.”  And most do not want to think about, much less talk about, their inevitable passing out of this life.  It has also been said, “If that which one seeks cannot be found within, it shall not be found without.”—Starhawk  

All in all, if anyone looks in the wrong place for whatever one is looking for, it will not make any difference how sincerely or long and hard one looks, what one is looking for will be impossible to find if it simply is not where one is looking.  Or, as Albert Einstein said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different results.”

And, whether one refuses to think about “it” or not, these biological bodies that our souls and spirits are now using, are going to die. That is, our present human body vehicle for our soul and spirit will, sooner or later, decay into changed matter that will not have the capacity to facilitate a soul and sentient spirit, or think.

The one thing that is for absolute certain, from our three dimensional perspective, is that we will be in the “after life” a lot longer than we will be in this life. And, we may be able to affect what that “after life” will be like for our souls, spirits and consciousness, by what we think and do with this comparatively short time that we have here now.

Where are YOU placing your long term bet?  There is no neutral in this matter.  YOU are in the game, and YOU are betting, one way or the other, your stake, which is, presently, your human life - and maybe . . . after . . . . .

DON’T BLAME GOD, or Anyone Else

The first thing that has to be done in the process of healing, whether it is an individual body or the single body of the species, is to recognize and acknowledge that whathear is wrong is wrong, however, disconcerting, psychologically and emotionally painful, and/or scary the experience may be.  Actually, this situation can be thought of as exhilarating, stimulating and motivational, in respect to the ultimate challenge and opportunity to use the greatest gift/asset that people have - our minds - the fullest.  I mean like wide open down the stretch when  the rest of the track behind you is in flames and there are only thousandths of seconds left (and right) to get safely across the finish line before the surface of the track under you is consumed and is no longer there to support you.  I mean like uh, a bat out of Hell!  Would Einstein comb his hair at a time like this, hum? here to support you.  I mean like uh, a bat out of Hell!  Would Einstein comb his hair at a time like this, hum?  This is no time to mentally dilly dally around, WE GOT A SERIOUS PROBLEM, HEAH!

This is a situation (imminent and immanent threat to the survival of the species - PEOPLE) that will not tolerate prolonging indoctrinated petty indulgences, such as thoughts and discussions about who is to blame, clever artificially sustained superior and inferior classifications, diverting attention away from one’s own devious behavior while scheming and manipulating, hidden behind a public image and/or scripted scenes being presented and/or broadcast, for others and/or mass consumption, to induce and/or sustain paralyzing confusion; and all the other tactics of the abuses of the capacity to think that have been so remarkably successful; in unnecessarily speeding up the end of peoples and other life forms time on Earth.

"Humanity’s challenge, as NASA’s Young Turks see it, is to re-create Creation ¾ to play God.  They propose that the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe and Japan attempt the most ambitious engineering project in human history: the ‘terraformation’ of Mars, the greening of the red planet.  They want to transform Mars into a new home for humankind ¾ and they believe they can do it in less than two centuries."

Anyhow ugh, back to the leading influences.  I can imagine that in their spiritually empty and miserable heart of hearts, those individuals[3] who are afflicted with the “King Rat” syndrome, might think that they are ultimately doing what is best for themselves and everyone else, or that it simply does not matter (that’s what this is all about - everything is matter-ing from the most elemental quark units through the electron, neutron and proton dance of the atom to us, homo sapiens, and beyond) what they do, so they may as well keep on doing what they are doing and what most others in their positions before them have done.  After all, what they’ve been doing, and the way that they have been doing it, has worked better than anything else (the equivalent of 12% brain capacity Max out ¾ what about the other 88%?  I mean, they’re courageous, powerfully influential, materially rich, sometimes physically healthy and/or intellectual giants, i.e., scholastically geniuses, and . . . most people want to be like “them”, which to some of “them”, who are aware of how empty they feel and how spiritually miserable they are, is proof that most people are too stupid to have any hope for.

"We all know the horrors . . . . But war is also a deep spiritual experience . . . What’s going on in this country now  part of the economic difficulty we’re in - is precisely that spiritual experiences in America have been leached out by eight years of Reagan . . . If you have no war at any cost then your have world cancer."

"But I quite agree with you that the human race needs war, though we’re not supposed to say that as good liberals or, indeed, good people.  But it seems true that the human race would not have gone in for way had there not been some biological necessity.  Genetic, whatever.  But this century’s new weapons are frustrating primal urges.  The destruction of the planet ¾ for us, anyway, is a distinct possibility . . . ."