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We are the reasons for health and light, for illness or weakness.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Take the sword, cut the ties.









Silence is the warriors art and meditation is his sword. With it I cut through limiting illusions. The swords usefulness depends upon the one who wields it. If you do not know how to use a sword properly you can hurt yourself. It can be dangerous, deluding or a useless tool. Meditation can initially help you relax. You may put your sword on display, proudly show it to friends. The gleam of this sword distracts many meditators until they abandon it to see other techniques. In contrast the warrior uses the sword with skill and understanding. With it, he cuts the mind to ribbons, slashing through thoughts to reveal their lack of substance.



"Iron is full of impurities that weaken it; through forging, it becomes steel and is transformed into razor-sharp sword. Human beings develop in the same fashion."- Ueshiba





The sword frees the knots in the mind, until the day you transcend your need for it at all. Until then use the sword to cut the connections of unhealthy relationships, habits and feelings. Sever the strands of myopic thoughts and critical perspectives of ourselves and our world. The associations we forge in life which limit us from seeing things as they really are can be cut, devalued to reveal their worth; nothing. Meditation is not sitting and attempting to mimick what we see from statues and pictures. Meditation is in every action. It is rising awareness and the choice to creatively act rather than respond to our world. It is easiest to practice meditation and mindfulness when life seems to be going your way. But the task is to stay grounded and focuses when things seem toughest.



Life will never go your way, life has a way of its own. You will suffer however when you contend with the great current of life. Going with the flow is to steer our own path while going with the flow of life. Any pain, suffering or dissatisfaction we feel is a result of us not moving with life. Our attachments, desires and expectations don't allow much room for movement, for change. We need to cut ourselves from them. We operate on painful past experiences and react to life, recreating our past. We destroy opportunities for new relationships, careers, connections because our attachments to past experiences design our responses to predicatively react. We can stumble into patterns of dependency, feeling that we need validity, recognition, love and admiration. If we didn't get both rain and sunshine, life on this planet could not go on, could not grow. When we hang on to things beyond a certain point- youth, beauty,power, roles, success- we suffer. Because just like food, these ambitions, desires and feelings don't last forever. They constantly change as we constantly change.



It can feel hard to change or grow if we are anchored down to the past and to our memories and feelings. We all seem to have a role to play; identities from sources that we feel original to become. Clothes, beliefs, music, tastes, interests, all these things are how we are not who we are. When we take these things away all that is left is the true self; who we work at being every day. Is there someone there when you remove all the things you attach to? Do you talk, act and behave according to your chosen identity, who you are supposed to be according to the world which has created you? Or do you have enough strength to forge your own self outside of the restrictions and impressions of the world around you? Can you NOT respond to the world when it doesn't go your way? Can you let go?






"The Art of Peace does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain peace in our own realms, nurture life, and prevent death and destruction. The true meaning of the term samurai is one who serves and adheres to the power of love."- Ueshiba



I train with a sword, rather the sword trains me. It helps me meditate in movement, to perfect motion, breathing, thinking and being. To extend myself and develop sensitivity to something outside the reaches of my sense perception. Meditating in action is letting go of the role you have to play and the person you are required to become, and embracing who you really are no matter what the world thinks.



Most people have friends and relationships that would be in jeopardy if they changed, even in the slightest. If you choose to be spontaneous, rather than a set of reactions and repetitive emotions, people will not be able to identify with you. If you don't act thug, hardcore, vegan, buddhist, christian, etc. people become uncomfortable and begin to question you. You are not expected to be yourself, you are expected to remain attached to the limits of ego, who you are supposed to pretend to be. All the things the world has shown you and you picked up along the way. But what has come from inside your own experience? What has been applied to you that has not come from something you have read, seen or heard? What is behind the mask and how far can you go when you take up the sword and cut the attachments?



You cannot master the art of the sword, the sword helps you master yourself.





"When you feel fear. Use the sword, take it up here and cut the mind to ribbons, slash through all those regrets and fears, anything else that lives in past or the future"- Ueshiba






Tuesday, May 25, 2010

The truth about your cleaning products.

Links as the bottom!

Note TRICLOSAN - “Lab studies link triclosan to cancer, developmental defects, and liver and inhalation toxicity.” It is in your soap, anti-bacterial soap, toothpaste, and more. Present in urine of more than 75% of Americans.

In cleaners: Phthalates are linked to lower testosterone levels, decreased sperm counts, poor sperm quality, malformations of the male reproductive tract and testicular cancer, obesity, reduced female fertility, preterm birth and low birthweight, a worsening of allergy and asthma symptoms, behavior changes, as well as being linked to autism in the first trimestr and ADHD in the third trimester of preganacy.


A recent conversation regarding being healthy and hygienic prompted me to write this article. We live in a time of pseudo health. The PR display of health is all campaigning for products and pharmaceutical companies. All this dieting and health talk and yet people get sicker each year. Modern medicine has created an amazing image in the minds of everyone; they have made people believe natural things like real organic food and products will not help you, yet chemicals and synthetic substances will. They created a war on germs and bacteria. But the truth is we have 10 or more times the amount of bacteria than we do cells. In fact we need bacteria both good and bad to survive and build immunity.

The reality is we are breeding super bugs by chemically dumbing down our food, soil and bodies. Superbugs that are ravaging our bodies, crops the soil and hospitals. On the other side of that coin, we not only take a vast amount of chemicals and drugs that kill healthy bacteria needed in the body for immunity, but we dump these gender bending chemical cocktails in the food and water supply leaving the population open to a host of health threats. Could this be why we have an epidemic of sick and terminally ill people in this country? People who rely on medicine which if worked would be needed less rather than more and more each year?

People eat meat from animals pumped with hormones, antibiotics, that are sick with cancer, leukemia and various diseases. After processing the animal its fecal matter is not washed off the meat. Instead it is eaten by the consumer. With vegetables, not only are pesticides linked to autism, Alzheimer, cancers and a plethora of health issues, but they create superbugs. These superbugs become resistant to the chemicals used as pesticides and destroy the soil. Humans need the soil to be fertile and healthy in order to survive. Most people have never actually eaten real food, but they do have a wide range of early deteriorating signs as a result of malnutrition. The human body needs certain nutrients to survive, nutrients that you cannot get from processed synthetic supplements that leave out the important co-factors that enable the synergistic properties of vitamins and nutrients.

Our soil needs 20 percent or more of organic matter in order for human life to thrive. Today our soil has 2-4 percent organic matter and if people actually knew the number of sick individuals in this country they would awaken to see the link between the soil and health. So our immunity beaten by a diet pumped with harmful chemicals and then increased by drug pushing doctors that destroy our digestive health and immune building bacteria is then compromised further by attacking our first line of defense; our skin. Women in particular put over 1000 carcinogenic chemicals on their body a day. Most frequent are parabens which have been discovered in breast cancer and tumors of individuals who use lotions and products containing parabens. We try to practice fake synthetic hygiene by using antibacterial soap. Soaps containing triclosan, a rip roaring carcinogen. Disinfectants train superbugs to resist antibiotics and the FDA is concerned about dangers of triclosan, the chemical used in antibacterial soaps. Makes you think about hospitals who use nothing but chemicals to clean, do the have problems? Superbugs caused by chemical cleaners in hospitals kill 48000 patients a year.

So if our food, water and health wasn't bad enough people believe that spraying the air with known cancer causing chemicals will actually clean it and leave you unharmed. People who have allergies and what they consider "regular" health conditions do not consider what they are spraying around them all the time. Using a spray cleaner only once a week increased the risk of developing asthma by almost 50 percent.

Chemicals are all around us. Childrens bodies and fetus's are riddled with thousands of deadly chemicals and heavy metals contributing to the pandemic of autism and degenerative diseases in children. What is worse, the vaccines and drugs given to children as they age destroy their immunity and can even make them sterile.

"The combined profits for the ten drug companies in the Fortune 500 ($35.9 billion) were more than the profits for all the other 490 businesses put together ($33.7 billion). Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution that might stand in its way, including the US Congress, the FDA, academic medical centers, and the medical profession itself."

-- Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine


Medical science has absolutely failed 100 percent, failed in the curing and prevention of illness, sickness, and disease. Consider the following startling bits of data:

*More people get colds and flus than ever before

*More people get cancer than ever before

*More people have diabetes than ever before

*More people have heart disease than ever before

*More people have multiple sclerosis, lupus, muscular dystrophy, asthma, migraine headaches, joint, neck and back pain than ever before

*More people have acid reflux, ulcers, and stomach problems than ever before

*More women have menopause problems than ever before

*More women have more frequent PMS and more severe PMS than ever before

*More kids have attention problems and hyperactivity than ever before

*More people have chronic fatigue than ever before

*More people have insomnia than ever before

*More people have skin, acne, and dandruff problems than ever before

*More people suffer from depression, stress, and anxiety than ever before

*More men and women suffer from sexual dysfunction and infertility than ever before

*More people suffer from allergies, arthritis, constipation, fibromyalgia, cold sores, and herpetic breakouts than ever before

*More men suffer from prostate problems than ever before

*More women suffer from yeast infection than ever before

Yet surprisingly enough...

*There are more people going to visit doctors than ever before

*There are more people getting diagnostic testing, such as blood tests and x-rays, than ever before

*More people are taking nonprescription and prescription drugs than ever before

*Not only are more people taking drugs, but each person is taking more drugs than ever before

*There are more surgeries performed than ever before

There is a true and very real epidemic hiding under the glitter and distractions of modern society. We have retroviruses and autism peaking around every corner of every town, of every state. We have millions of people on psychotropic drugs and tranquilizers. The conventional approach to cleaning, hygiene and medicine has failed you. Doctors write over 3 billion prescriptions a year. That does not exemplify a healthy society. That is curing sickness, that is controlling and profiting by it.



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Free your mind

Your own mind, not people or your surroundings, is the source of your mood. It is better that you take responsibility for your life as it is instead of blaming others or circumstances for what arises in your life. As your eyes open you will see that the state of your health, happiness and every circumstance in your life has largely, been arranged by you, consciously or unconsciously. Look deeper and you will see there is a direct relationship between the people and circumstances we are opposed to and our own shortcomings. Neither your disappointment nor your anger are caused by other people or events. These things are out of your control. What does upset you however is how people expose internal feelings. Feelings that should be in your control are easily manipulated by others, and the vulnerability, leaving us feeling exposed, drives us insane.



Not many people know what it is like to spend a day outside the daily recreated sufferings, drama and conflict we maintain for ourselves. We respond to the world through a thick layer of predictive programming and emotional dependency. When emotions are dominate, the mind is in control and the senses are dead. We lose the sense that we are connected to others and our environment. We should learn to become sensitive to subtly. Their actions in life are often very habitual, programmed, and reactive to forces outside of them. In other words, their lives are ruled by forces beyond them, and not by a true inner self or spirit.



This is why people have all sorts of addictions (to junk food, tobacco, alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, money, and so on). People respond to all kinds of influences from outside themselves, but remain disconnected from within. And, the busier they are, the less likely they even try to connect with the Supreme Ultimate spiritual source. They are connected as if by strings to everything else. If we are angry at someone else, we are dependent on them to guide our emotional responses, this is why we cannot stop being angry. We are weak and are deeply subjugated by others, so we suffer. In order to be free and not respond to the whim of emotional flareups we have to face our own shadow.You experience the world through your five primary senses; visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory. But you do not take in these impressions directly as they are. They pass through multiple filters, colored and often distorted by your interpretations, expectations, beliefs, associations, fears, desires and opinions. You also perceive through cultural, religious, professional, educational, and gender filters created by your own unique experiences.



Our perspectives are always colored by the experiences that we've had, and an emotional response that we're having to what we're bringing in. Who is in the driver's seat when we control our emotions or we respond to our emotions? The body is a protein-producing machine. In the hypothalamus, we take small-chain proteins called peptides and we assemble them into certain neuropeptides or neurohormones that match the emotional states that we experience on a daily basis. So there's chemicals for anger, and there's chemicals for sadness and there's chemicals for victimization. There's chemicals for lust. There's a chemical that matches every emotional state that we experience.



And the moment that we experience that emotional state in our body or in our brain that hypothalamus will immediately assemble the peptide and then releases it through the pituitary into the bloodstream. The moment it makes it into the bloodstream it finds its way to different centers or different parts of the body.Now, every single cell in the body has these receptors on the outside. Now one cell can have thousands of receptors studding its surface, kind of opening up to the outside world. And when a peptide docks on a cell it literally,like a key going into a lock sits on the receptor surface and attaches to it and kind of moves the receptor.



What happens in adulthood is that most of us who've had our glitches along the way are operating in an emotionally detached place or we're operating as if today were yesterday. In either the disconnected place or the overly emotional reactive place they've gone to an earlier time in reality. We bring to ourselves situations that will fulfill the biochemical craving of the cells of our body by creating situations that meet our chemical needs. "It always happens to me", "Every day!"," Why me?",And the addict will always need a little bit more in order to get a rush or a high of what they're looking for chemically."Don't tell me to calm down!","You're always bossing me around."




So my definition really means that if you can't control your emotional state you must be addicted to it. So how can anyone really say they're in love with a specific person? For example: They're only in love with the anticipation of the emotions they're addicted to. Because the same person could fall out of favor the next week by not complying. My goodness, doesn't that change the landscape of our emotional outlook on personal needs and identities? We are emotions and emotions are us.



Again I can't separate emotions. When you consider that, every aspect of your digestion every sphincter that opens and closes every group of cells that come in for nourishment and then moves out to heal something or repair something--Those are all under the influence of the molecules of emotion. So you ask if emotions are bad. Emotions are not bad. They're life. Heroin uses the same receptor mechanisms on the cells that our emotional chemicals use. It's easy to see then that if we can be addicted to heroin then we can be addicted to any neural peptide, any emotion. The relevant search command that's going on is related to finding a certain emotional state. I mean, we can't even direct our eyes without having an emotional aspect to it.



If we're bombarding the cell with the same attitude and the same chemistry over and over again on a daily basis when that cell finally decides to divide when it produces a sister cell or a daughter cell that next cell will have more receptor sites for those particular emotional neuropeptides and less receptor sites for vitamins, minerals, nutrients, fluid exchange or even the release of waste products or toxins. Now, all aging is the result of improper protein production. What happens when we age? Our skin loses elasticity. Well, elastin is a protein.What happens to our enzymes? We don't digest as well. What happens to our synovial fluid? Those are proteins tha tbecome brittle and stiff.What happens to our bones? They become thin.



So all aging is a result of improper protein production. Nutrition can only do so much if the cell doesn't even have the receptor sites after years of emotional abuse to even receive, or to let in the nutrients that are necessary for its health. From what seems like simple emotional patterns, personal characteristics that we classify as "us", our conditioning runs deep and inevitably impacts our quality and length of life on this globe. If you practice mindfulness, sensitivity and cultivation and open your eyes to the chemical desire for drama and victimization you can free yourself of prison that limits your life. The bars to this prison are invisible, and we do not see its walls. We have a set amount of options in consumption and entertainment that our rulers place before us so we feel we exercise freedom to choose, but the truth is just the opposite. Freedom comes when we stop responding to the world and life and start acting out of experience and choice.

Creative visualization

First an exercise to introduce the power of imagination: Look at your self in the mirror and tell your saliva glands to fill your mouth with saliva. How did that go? Now, close your eyes and focus very hard on the saltiest food you can think of. If your concentration is strong you should have produced saliva. To some, the imagination is like day dreaming and while day dreaming does have its place, it does not have the power & thrust of vivid mental pictures that have been written, produced and directed by your mind with you as the star. Imagination is the ability to create an idea or mental picture in your mind. In creative visualization, you use your imagination to create a clear image of a goal.



Science has discovered that the human brain does not know the difference between what it sees in its environment and what it remembers. The same activity is happening in the brain, at all times a matter of fact. This is how the eyes filter the the images we see before us and shape them into recognizable patterns- a result of our associative memory.



Take a moment to think about a time in your life where the thought of a future event excited and enlivened you. Think about how you felt, how you went through that day and felt more aware, more alive and happy. What if that desire was unfulfilled? Where do the feelings go? Nothing gave you those feelings, they were already inside of you. Though it seems to the contrary, we are not dependent on outer circumstances to generate feelings. The conscious mind believes people and situations make us feel, but this is not true. Your outer circumstances are complimentary to your inner circumstances.



When we realize we are in the driver seat and responsible for our own emotions, we can begin being creative and learn to discipline our minds to create outcomes in our lives. The association you might have to the word "create" might be a little out of date, keep in mind to create through visualization one must actually go with the flow, surrender and work with governing universal laws. There are principles to creative responsibility.



In order to understand creative visualization, lets look at several interrelated principles:




*The physical universe is energy: The physical world we live in is composed of sub-atomic levels, seemingly solid matter is seen smaller and smaller particles within particles, which eventually turn out to be just pure energy.



*Energy is magnetic: An immutable law of energy states that energy of a certain quality or vibration tends to attract energy of a similar quality & vibration. Thought and feeling have their own magnetic energy which attracts energy of a similar nature.



*Form follows idea:To create, thought comes first. Philosophically speaking, if we are to believe that God or a divine force created all of life, this God had to think of us first. Thought is the ground floor of being and the connecting force in consciousness. Understand that thoughts held long in consciousness pass into the subconscious where you will begin to open to and manifest situations in your life that resonate with your held thoughts.



*The law of radiation & attraction: This is the principle that whatever you put into the universe will be reflected back to you. As you sow so shall you reap. What this means from a practical standpoint is that we always attract into our lives whatever we think. Whether we fear something, hate something or love something we will experience what the mind holds in focus the most. Are you paying attention to what you life gives you daily?



*The law of subjective attention: The brain is a dual instrument & in its functioning is divided into objective and subjective or subconscious phases. The objective attunes with the external world, while the subjective is the seat of all manifestations. The more you plant seeds in your subconscious, the more these seeds with turn from thoughts to physical situations in your life.




To use creative visualization you have to change how you feel and perceive your thoughts. Learn the difference between half conscious fantasies and a cultivated imagination. One technique I learned years ago which helps with this is called journeying. We take time to sit with our eyes closed and be in control of where our imagination goes. You can discover places within yourself that bring about feelings, sensation or even insight. These "worlds" as they are called can become places of power where phenomenon happens. The mind can let go, and we can connect with our true self; the inner guide that is the source of our natural knowing and understanding.



Science and psychology have shown the relationship between our imagination or "self image" and our happiness. We now know that we can release powerful chemicals in the body and even aid the body in healing simply through visualization. If you are to technically define reality as it is perceived and filtered in the brain, you might be surprised that there is no difference between your imagination and what you believe to be the physical world.



When you are working at a goal, any struggle you encounter will be a reflection of a deeper state of your own consciousness. Perhaps we see only what we wish to see and not the whole picture. Maybe we are being selfish, foolish or myopic in our efforts and life is only giving us what we hold deep down; energy that is stagnant and not outflowing. In order to utilize cultivated imagination you have to outflow or give. You can plant as many seeds as you want but if you don't learn to tend to the soil and nurture the seeds growth you will have nothing. Outflowing is another way of learning to go with the flow. We don't create goals because we have desires rooted in caused happiness. We have clear outcomes from the wisdom gained through past experiences that help shape the world we seek to create for ourselves. And going with the flow will naturally help us move around obstacles and take the potential that reveals itself to us, rather than push against life and make our demands.



Visualization techniques are not for the sake of visualizing. Visualization is used to reach a state of void in though, to enter a meditative state, and be aware of the union that is the human cosmos. When visualizing, one condenses thoughts by concentrating on one visualization to eliminate all other thoughts. Once all scattering thoughts are stopped, the visualize void: void body, void mind, everything void. These techniques are widely used by many cultures; Tantric Buddhist Qigong, Yoga Pranayama, Kuji Kiri, Taoist practices, Western magick systems, Native American spirituality, and in Christianity St. Ignatius Loyola's "Spiritual exercises."







Paper thin prosperity part 3: why the media lies about money

Major relationships and interests entangle the media and the monetary system. The media has kept a distance in its duty to educate the unknowing public about the fed and our monetary system. It's no wonder why our present media and their investigative journalists haven't discussed the detrimental effects caused by the Federal Reserve Act. They're not allowed to tell the whole' truth regarding the Federal Reserve. This is due, in part, to the fact that the mainstream press (GFP) was and still

is controlled by members of the Federal Reserve board and the proponents of Global Government. In July, 1968, the House Banking Subcommittee reported that the Rockefellers, through Chase Manhattan Bank (JP Morgan's company), controlled 5.9% of the stock in CBS. Furthermore, the bank had gained interlocking directorates with ABC. In 1974, Congress issued a report stating that the Chase Manhattan Bank's stake in CBS rose to 14.1% and NBC to 4.5% (through RCA, the parent

company of NBC).



The same report said that the Chase Manhattan Bank held stock in 28 broadcasting firms. After the report, the Chase Manhattan Bank obtained 6.7% of ABC, and today the percentage could be much greater. It only requires 5% ownership to significantly influence the media. By the way- To control the media all a Fed banker has to do is call in any loans made to any media network with outstanding loans.Rockefeller also controls the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the sole purpose of which is to aid in stimulating greater interest in foreign affairs. Nearly every major newscaster belongs to the Council on Foreign Relations. Many members of the CFR also own and operate countless media enterprises. And many people think they get all the information they need' from them? The information we, the people get is cooked; cooked and sauteed to absolute deception. Their form of perfection' is deception'. As a nation we've been cheated informational, educationally, monetarily and politically, in ways we can't even imagine. As for the world, what better way to create a cashless society' than on the back of the most widely used yet misunderstood currency of all; The Federal Reserve Note/ US Dollar.

Paper thin prosperity part 2: Fiat currency

Most don't know anything about real money compared to the fiat monetary system. Printing money as they loosely say is illegal, you could call this counterfeiting. The federal reserve created a system where banks only had to hold a fraction of reserves in order to create credit, this is another way the government debases currency. They print money, create credit, as it goes through the banking system we further expand the supply of money, diluting the value of money which is the inflation we see. This is an immoral and unjust tax on the people which many are unaware of.



Did you know that in the 1950's you could buy one loaf of bread for one (1) silver dime. Remeber all coin back then was made from a silver alloy (90% silver and 10% alloy for durability. The Federal Reserve wanting to keep the coin in circulation longer had to strengthen it by adding metals like copper or nickle etc.)




Did you know that today you can still buy one loaf of bread for one (1) silver dime? It's true! Divide the present value of one ounce of pure silver by 10 in order to see the present value of a silver dime. On Jan 25th 2008 silver was at $16.47 per ounce and rising - progressively. Divide $16.47 by 10 and you end up with a pure silver dime being worth $1.64. Imagine that. One pure silver dime can still buy a loaf of bread today. Silver has not lost it's intrinsic value but that green trash we call cash'- sure has. There is nothing of tangible nor intrinsic value backing the Federal Reserve Note.



Fiat Currency.The term "fiat" money is often used to distinguish it from Representative or real' Money, which is fixed to a mass of precious metal- usually Gold or Silver hence, Paper representing the thing of value. Unlike representative money, fiat money is not convertible to specie (a weight

of precious metal).The value' of fiat money is based primarily on faith that the money will remain relatively stable in value (which is by faith) and continue to be accepted as a means of exchange and will be accepted by creditors. (The Arab oil conglomerate - OPEC- has been considering halting purchases of their oil via the US Dollar due to it's continuing drop in value and instability. OPEC has been looking at switching to the EURO regarding all OPEC oil purchases. If and when this happens it will harm our US economy in many ways. Presently the EURO is worth' more - and the US Dollar is worth less. Fuel prices will only get higher and higher, once the speculated conversion' takes place. And, as the gap between the two fiat currencies increases, the harm it will cause will be devastating.) Representative money is often associated with a legal requirement that the bank of issue pay in fixed weights of a given precious metal, fiat money generally has no inherent value. Instead, it derives its value' as a medium of exchange when it is believed' to have value. Therefore- things are NOT getting more expensive. No. It's what we call money that's becoming worth less and less making things appear' to cost more. The press will call it inflation when, in fact, it's just the opposite. It's not inflation. It's the depreciation' or the devaluation- loss of value- regarding our currency; In this case-the Federal Reserve Note/Dollar it now takes more and more of these pieces of paper' (the green trash we call cash) to buy everyday items. And it's gonna get worse. Alan Greenspan quote: "In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. ... This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold.



Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this

insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard".The first beast- world fiat currency- will die when the dollar does. The second beast- a cashless society- is on the rise. Is this a reason why the GFP is pushing identity theft' so hard? It's called social engineering'. The Federal Reserve Board and their foreign counterparts already have their fall back position' created. They have built the perfect beast. "No one will be able to buy or sell anything without going through their New Economic System of Commerce and Currency." As a nation of trusting people now, as well as in 1913, we were fed' a very limited amount of knowledge on this subject. So, who has withheld the truth? Who has withheld the knowledge? Answer: Every level of Government including our

public school system, the Federal Reserve itself and the Press/GFP. They have been feeding the people information that has been cooked and sauteed' to absolute deception' for almost one hundred years. So, now that you know- what will you do about it? Michael Rivero".






BARON NATHAN MAYER ROTHSCHILD

"I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the

Empire on which the sun never sets. The man that controls Britain's

money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British

money supply."



The Federal Reserve is not Federal. It's no more Federal than Federal Express is. For the Federal Reserve to use the name Federal' in it's name gives anything Federal including Federal Express- a bad name. Both are- for profit- corporations. One is privately held in the hands of a few deceitful men and the other should be used as often as possible for all immediate shipping purposes. What we should have been taught about the Federal Reserve has been cleverly kept from us. Yet many people

have tried to warn us. Some of them did so long ago. Let's start with Louis T. McFadden;



" Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders. In that dark crew of financial pirates there are those who would cut a man's throat to get a dollar out of his pocket; there are those who send money into states to buy votes to control our legislatures; there are those who maintain International propaganda for the purpose of deceiving us into granting of new concessions which will permit them to cover up their past misdeeds and set again in motion their gigantic train of crime."




So who is this Louis T. McFadden guy? In 1892 Louis T. McFadden entered the employ of the First National Bank in Canton, Pennsylvania. In 1899 he was elected cashier, and became its president on January 11, 1916, serving until 1925. He served as treasurer of the Pennsylvania

Bankers' Association in 1906 and 1907, and as president in 1914 and 1915.



In 1914, McFadden was elected as a Republican Representative to the Sixty-fourth Congress and to the nine (9) succeeding Congresses. He served as Chairman of the United States House Committee on Banking and Currency during the Sixty-sixth through Seventy-first Congresses,

or from 1920-31. So, he knows what he's talking about regarding the Federal Reserve and the Act that gave it the power to steal the wealth of the people.

Paper thin prosperity part 1

Abundance is not something to find or receive, it is the way. Universal laws are not dependent upon your ability to comprehend them. Economic patterns existing in our time are the result of what exactly? Do you know? The truth is ignored by many because people interpret their feelings as reality and believe information is negative or not happy making. The mind wants to be free of responsibility, it wants only what feels good. It is time to go beyond the tendencies of our enslaved senses.

There are fashions in thinking that allow people to console their feelings about their place in time during this economic weather. Many people live too much in judgments of right and wrong, thus they experience life as they believe it is, instead of what it actually is. When we resist understanding, we choose to ignore information and remain part of a cycle that will inevitably repeat the lesson until it is learned. The TRUTH is not negative, or bad, it is what you make of it.

A fundamental level of spirituality is expanding ourselves and thinking of others before our own ideologies, beliefs or thoughts. There is an old saying "a recession is when the problem is happening to you, a depression is when it happens to me." These "problems we see are the result of lack of awareness and understanding of the world we live in. Many people reject and have conflict with things the way they are. If you do not understand how you got here you will never know how to move on. And if you believe for a second that other peoples positions in life have nothing to do with you, you simply need to click away from this article. People live in the half conscious state of their day dreams and fantasies that free them from engaging in what is happening all around them. Reality makes them or their philosophies feel inadequate so they use buffers to console themselves. Buffers like " I will not participate in the recession, I won't acknowledge it, its not abundant thinking etc." In honesty, remaining ignore-ant to what is actually happening is disassociating with reality, and disconnecting from the world so many preach to be at one with. They will refuse the lesson time is teaching and thus repeat it as time goes on. We are all in the same boat. I don't offer solutions, I don't believe in cures; I KNOW balanced results come from correct knowing and proper action based on true understanding. You may say you are outside, above or refusing what is economically happening. That is a lie you may get away with telling yourself but the buck stops here.

Let me break this down easily. You have the world central banks owned by less than 15 families ( the Rothchilds , Rockefellers etc) but mostly royalty (all private). They control the banking and flooded the world with fiat numbers, not even currency and liquidity. They then bought real assets, infrastructures , defense stocks, energy stocks and positioned themselves . They bough t real assets with fiat by which they place us in debt through fiat, they are now artificially restricting the credit to the general public while giving themselves unlimited credit to buy up what they don' t have, and are purposely using these walls and 100' s of trillions of dollars to forcibly buy up governments, police and military and much, much more.

How did we get into the current financial mess? Great question..

In 1910, seven men held a meeting on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia. It's estimated that those seven men represented one-sixth of the world's wealth. Six were Americans representing J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and the U.S. government. One was a European representing the Rothschilds and Warburgs.

In 1913, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank was created as a direct result of that meeting. Interestingly, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank isn't federal, there are no reserves, and it's not a bank. Those seven men, some American and some European, created this new entity, commonly referred to as the Fed, to take control of the banking system and the money supply of the United States.

In 1944, a meeting in Bretton Woods, N.H., led to the creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. While the stated purposes for the two new organizations initially sounded admirable, the IMF and the World Bank were created to do to the world what the Federal Reserve Bank does to the United States.

In 1971, President Richard Nixon signed an executive order declaring that the United States no longer had to redeem its paper dollars for gold. With that, the first phase of the takeover of the world banking system and money supply was complete.

In 2008, the world is in economic turmoil. The rich are getting richer, but most people are becoming poorer. Much of this turmoil is directly related to those meetings that took place decades ago. In other words, much of this turmoil is by design.


There are three major problems with the events of 1913, 1944, and 1971. The first is that the Fed, the World Bank, and the IMF are allowed to create money out of nothing. This is the primary cause of global inflation. Global inflation devalues our work and our savings by raising the prices of necessities.

For example, when gas prices soared, many people said that the price of oil was going up. In reality, the main cause of the high price of oil is the decreasing value of the dollar. The Fed, the World Bank, and the IMF, like Zimbabwe, are mass-producing funny money, thereby increasing prices and devaluing our quality of life.

The second problem is that our economic crises are getting bigger. In the 1970s, the Fed faced and solved million-dollar crises. In the 1980s, it was billion-dollar crises. Today, we have trillion-dollar crises. Unfortunately, these bigger crises mean more funny money entering the system.

The third problem is that in 1913, the Fed only protected the large commercial banks such as Bank of America. After 1944, the Fed, the World Bank, and the IMF began bailing out Third World nations such as Tanzania and Mexico. Then, in 2008, the Fed began bailing out investment banks such as Bear Sterns, and its role in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacle is well known. By 2020, the biggest of bailout of all will probably occur: Social Security and Medicare, which will cost at least a $100 trillion.

Even if we find more oil and produce more food, prices will continue to rise because the value of the dollar will continue to decline. The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created. The U.S. dollar will continue to decline because of those seven men on Jekyll Island in 1910.

Alan Greenspan, years before he became Federal Reserve Board Chairman in charge of flagrantly debasing the U.S. dollar, wrote about this connection between sound money, prosperity, and freedom. In his article “Gold and Economic Freedom” (The Objectivist, July 1966), Greenspan starts by saying: “An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is an issue that unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense…that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.” Further he states that: “Under the gold standard, a free banking system stands as the protector of an economy’s stability and balanced growth.” Astoundingly, Mr. Greenspan’s analysis of the 1929 market crash, and how the Fed precipitated the crisis, directly parallels current conditions we are experienced under his management of the Fed. Greenspan explains: “The excess credit which the Fed pumped into the economy spilled over into the stock market- triggering a fantastic speculative boom.” And, “…By 1929 the speculative imbalances had become overwhelming and unmanageable by the Fed.” Greenspan concluded his article by stating: “In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.” He explains that the “shabby secret” of the proponents of big government and paper money is that deficit spending is simply nothing more than a “scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.” Yet here we are today with a purely fiat monetary system, once managed almost exclusively by Alan Greenspan, who once so correctly denounced the Fed’s role in the Depression while recognizing the need for sound money.

Not what you think

A person says "You are not me, you don't know who I am! Look at where we say " I am." I am this body, this flesh, this blood. We touch our own face and skin and say I am me, I am this person, my own individual personality. Well, you are and you are not.

If you look beyond, you will see the bigger picture. What is left of you if the food you eat, the water you drink, the air you breathe is taken away from your body? What you call your "individual personality did not drop from the sky. Take away your mother and father, take away your ancestral influences you have inherited, take away all the culture, language and perceptions you have aquired: then what will be left of you? In this bigger picture, you carry within you the entire history of your evolution as well as millions of years of the future to come, the entire network of relationships, the continuous dance of life; you are much more than this small individual.

REAL PATRIOTISM: seeing through the false left, right political paradigm.

Edwin Vieira, Prof. Constitutional law: " The desires of the people have no consequence, they go out and they vote and it really makes no difference."



I vote for myself. No, it's not narcissistic. Neither is it egotistic. It is the one and only world the individual can change. There is no left or right, only common sense. Real change throughout history has come not from dictators and rulers chanting mindless slogans, but from the hard work and resistance of the collective hearts and minds of brave individuals. Our current political paradigm has two runners in the same race, yet financed by the same people and carrying out the same policies. Our society is built on PR, so people remember candidates for words and ideas, not the actual policies and actions that occurred.



Congressional hearing 2004: " Mr Curtis, are there programs that can be fixed to secretly rig elections? Yes."



Peoples views are dimensionally challenged with world politics and social understanding. In my experience, the so called "free thinking" individuals who speak about knowledge of the unknown are more likely to have two dimensional views; left and right only exist. That must be it then, all the potential of the human being is flat and goes in only one of two directions. Can there be no other option? I say a history lesson is in order.



James Warburg, the senates foreign relations committee: "we shall have a world government whether or not you like it."




People believe we are a democracy, they think their vote counts. Belief and understanding are two different things. Our current Presidents advisers are CFR/TLC members. Mr. Pres gets council from John Holdren, known for Eco-science where he outlines mass sterilization and food/water contamination to control the population, and Zbigniew Brzezinski who trained Bin Laden in 1981. The President with more power than king George, has CFR and the Trilateral commission at every single position in his cabinet. Note: Mr. Biden, also part of the new ruling cabinet was close with ISI director Mohammod Ahmed (director of Pakistan secret service) who wired $ 100, 000 to alleged hijacker Mohamed Atta through M16 Asset Saeed Sheikh. During the commission report they not mention Ahmed though they were mandated to, thus ignoring the plea of the families of 911.



So who is the CFR? Who controls the decision making in this country? The same financiers who have funded both sides of every war, especially in the last century. They have manufactured opposition in the left/right paradigm to give the illusion of freedom of choice, in a society that is the equivalent of human farming. Lyndon Johnson brought in CFR interest to the U.S. so much that by the early 60's they were so extensively interbred with the intelligence and other communities. The same financial powers that build the U.S into the worlds foremost superpower also created communism.



Before we discuss who they are, if you have any doubts remaining over the real intent of the CFR a good reference are statements made over the years by the CFR itself, advocating world government. For example, on 17 February, 1950, CFR member James Warburg, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stated: "We shall have world government whether or not you like it--by conquest or consent."



The Council on Foreign Relations was formally established in Paris in 1919 along with its British Counterpart the Royal Institute of International Affairs. The Council on Foreign Relations and Royal Institute of International Affairs can trace their roots back to a secret organization founded and funded by Cecil Rhodes, who became fabulously wealthy by exploiting the people of South Africa. Rhodes is the father of Apartheid.



"The ultimate aim of the Council on Foreign Relations ... is ... to create a one world socialist system and make the United States an official part of it." -Dan Smoot, former supervising member of the FBI headquarters staff in the Washington Office



The Council on Foreign Relations was founded by a group of American and British imperialists and racists intent on ruling the world. Many of the American members were American intelligence officers that belonged to the first American Intelligence Agency -- THE INQUIRY. Many of the British members were British Intelligence Agents. THE INQUIRY and its members, who included such notable Americans as Col. Edward Mandel House, Walter Lippmann, Isaiah Bowman, and James Shotwell, wrote most of Woodrow Wilson's 14 points.




The CFR/RIIA method of operation is simple -- they control public opinion. They keep the identity of their group secret. They learn the likes and dislikes of influential people. They surround and manipulate them into acting in the best interest of the CFR/RIIA.



The Council on Foreign Relations, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs are adept at using the media to create massive psycho-political operations used to manipulate public opinion. The psycho-political operations are often designed to create tensions between different groups of people. The object is to keep the world in a state of perpetual tension and warfare to maximize profits from CFR/RIIA munition, medicine, media, energy, and food businesses.



The CFR has only 3000 members yet they control over three-quarters of the nations wealth. The CFR runs the State Department and the CIA. The CFR has placed 100 CFR members in every Presidential Administration since Woodrow Wilson. They work together to misinform and disinform the President to act in the best interest of the CFR not the best interest of the American People. At least five Presidents (Eisenhower, Ford, Carter, Bush, and Clinton) have been members of the CFR. The CFR has packed every Supreme court with CFR insiders. Three CFR members (Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Sandra Day O'Connor) sit on the supreme court. The CFR's British Counterpart is the Royal Institute of International Affairs. The members of these groups profit by creating tension and hate. Their targets include British and American citizens.



The 100 CFR members that surround the president are "the Secret Team." The "Secret Team" help carry out psycho-political operations scripted by CFR members in the state department and the Intelligence Organizations. The psycho-political operations are coordinated by a group of Council on Foreign Relations members called the Special Group. The Special Group evolved from the Psychological Strategy Board.



President Truman issued an executive order establishing the Psychological Strategy Board. The Board was run by CFR members Gordon Gray and Henry Kissinger. The PSB has close ties to the State Department and Intelligence Organizations. The purpose of the PSB was to co-ordinate psycho-political operations. Many of those operations were focused at Americans. The people became wary of the Psychological Strategy Board. Eisenhower issued an executive order changing its name to the Operations Coordination Board. The OCB was a bigger more powerful PSB. Gray and Kissinger ran the OCB too. President Kennedy abolished the OCB. It became an ad hoc committee called the "Special Group," which exists today. The PSB/OCB/Special Group always has CFR members running and sitting on it. Since the Special Group was not formed by Executive Order it cannot be abolished.



On September 12, 1939, the Council on Foreign Relations began to take control of the Department of State. On that day Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Editor of Foreign Affairs, and Walter H. Mallory, Executive Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, paid a visit to the State Department. The Council proposed forming groups of experts to proceed with research in the general areas of Security, Armament, Economic, Political, and Territorial problems. The State Department accepted the proposal. The project (1939-1945) was called Council on Foreign Relations War and Peace Studies. Hamilton Fish Armstrong was Executive director.




In February 1941 the CFR officially became part of the State Department. The Department of State established the Division of Special Research. It was organized just like the Council on Foreign Relations War and Peace Studies project. It was divided into Economic, Political, Territorial, and Security Sections. The Research Secretaries serving with the Council groups were hired by the State Department to work in the new division. These men also were permitted to continue serving as Research Secretaries to their respective Council groups. Leo Pasvolsky was appointed Director of Research.



In 1942 the relationship between the Department of State and the Council on Foreign Relations strengthened again. The Department organized an Advisory Committee on Postwar Foreign Policies. The Chairman was Secretary Cordell Hull, the vice chairman, Under Secretary Sumner Wells, Dr. Leo Pasvolsky ( director of the Division of Special Research) was appointed Executive Officer. Several experts were brought in from outside the Department. The outside experts were Council on Foreign Relations War and Peace Studies members; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Isaiah Bowman, Benjamin V. Cohen, Norman H. Davis, and James T. Shotwell.



In total there were 362 meetings of the War and Peace Studies groups. The meetings were held at Council on Foreign Relations headquarters -- the Harold Pratt house, Fifty-Eight East Sixty-Eighth Street, New York City. The Council's wartime work was confidential.17



In 1944 members of the Council on Foreign Relations The War and Peace Studies Political Group were invited to be active members at the Dumbarton Oaks conference on world economic arrangements. In 1945 these men and members of Britain's Royal Institute of International Affairs were active at the San Francisco conference which ensured the establishment of the United Nations.



In 1947 Council on Foreign Relations members George Kennan, Walter Lippmann, Paul Nitze, Dean Achenson, and Walter Krock took part in a psycho-political operation forcing the Marshall Plan on the American public. The PSYOP included a "anonymous" letter credited to a Mr. X, which appeared in the Council on Foreign Relations magazine FOREIGN AFFAIRS. The letter opened the door for the CFR controlled Truman administration to take a hard line against the threat of Soviet expansion. George Kennan was the author of the letter. The Marshall Plan should have been called the Council on Foreign Relations Plan. The so-called Marshall Plan and the ensuing North Atlantic Treaty Organization defined the role of the United States in world politics for the rest of the century.



In 1950 another PSYOP resulted in NSC-68, a key cold war document. The NSC (National Security Council) didn't write it -- the Department of State Policy Planning Staff did. The cast of characters included CFR members George Kennan, Paul Nitze, and Dean Achenson. NSC-68 was given to Truman on April 7, 1950. NSC-68 was a practical extension of the Truman doctrine. It had the US assume the role of world policeman and use 20 per cent of its gross national product ($50 billion in 1953) for arms. NSC-68 provided the justification -- the WORLD WIDE COMMUNIST THREAT!




NSC-68 realized a major Council on Foreign Relations aim -- building the largest military establishment in Peace Time History. Within a year of drafting NSC-68, the security-related budget leaped to $22 billion, armed forces manpower was up to a million -- CFR medicine, munition, food, and media businesses were humming again. The following year the NSC-68 budget rose to $44 billion. In fiscal 1953 it jumped to $50 billion. Today (1997) we are still running $300 billion dollar defense budgets despite Russia giving up because it went bankrupt.



America would never turn back from the road of huge military spending. Spending that included the purchase of radioactive fallout on American citizens in the 50's, and buying thermonuclear waste from the Russians as we approach the year 2000. Spending resulting in a national debt of $5.5 Trillion Dollars that continues to grow, and interest payments of over $270 billion a year. Is the Council on Foreign Relations trying to make the United States economically vulnerable to influence from outside sources? Isn't that treason?



The way to make a difference is not in a voting booth . Difference s are made by saying no, that is not acceptable . Change is made by protest. When political power loses hold of the reign s of the populace, the oligarchy in charge has no choice but to concede.



Note on Trilateral commision:

As author Holly Sklar has noted, in “1973 the Trilateral Commission was founded by David Rockefeller, Chase Manhattan Bank chairman, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter’s national security advisor, and other like-minded ‘eminent private citizens (like George H.W.Bush)’ Some 300 members (up from about 200 members in 1973) are drawn from international business and banking, government, academia, media, and conservative labor. The Commission’s purpose is to engineer an enduring partnership among the ruling classes of North American, Western Europe, and Japan—hence the term ‘trilateral’—in order to safeguard the interests of Western capitalism in an explosive world. The private Trilateral Commission is attempting to mold public policy and construct a framework for international stability in the coming decades.








"Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals." Lucy Parsons









Aspirin

For people who use various forms of aspirin, such as BC Powder, Bayer brand, Excedrin, and Advil, they are risking their health for short term pain relief. Yes, you may obtain the illusion of pain relief, but do you know how the various aspirins work against pain? ANSWER: By deadening your nerves! Long term aspirin use is sure to corrode your nerves and entire nervous system leading to certain central nervous system pathologies such as Parkinson’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease, and even stroke.

Aspirin breaks down or converts into ascetic acid inside the body and eats up red blood cells, just like white distilled vinegar does. Therefore, aspirin use pollutes the blood which is the essence of life. In addition to polluting and eating up the blood, aspirin greatly thins the blood. Many people take aspirin daily as a blood thinner.



Some people’s arteries are so clogged, rather than cleansing the arteries in order to improve or enhance blood flow, doctors unwisely prescribe aspirin to thin the blood which is very dangerous because lack of blood equals lack of oxygen flow, and lack of oxygen flow to the brain will undoubtedly result in stroke.



Aspirin use also causes intestinal and stomach ulcers. Aspirin burns a hole through the lining of the intestines and the stomach causing internal wounds (ulcers) and bleeding. Drinking cabbage juice is the best remedy for this problem. Aloe vera juice will also help to heal ulcers.



One serious but hidden problem that is commonly overlooked is that of drug-induced nutritional deficiencies. Aspirin is a glaring example of this problem. It is an antinutrient. Marketed and prescribed for daily use to prevent heart attack, aspirin depletes the body of the life-saving nutrient folic acid (as well as iron, potassium, sodium, and vitamin C). Symptoms of folic acid depletion include anemia, birth defects, elevated homocysteine (itself a significant risk factor for heart disease), headache, fatigue, hair loss, insomnia, diarrhea, and increased infection.



This should be taken as a warning about this drug and it should not be taken lightly. Studies show that the side effects of aspirin are so severe they can increase the risk of death in people who take it regularly.






Many people have been using an aspirin a day to prevent a stroke and heart attack. But a recent major study in Canada found it may actually increase the risk of stroke and heart attack in 40% of the people who took it! It also shows that such long- term aspirin use can make you blind by increasing your risk of macular degeneration, and even increasing your risk of cataracts by up to 44 percent. Three other studies from Germany, Britain, and the U.S. support these discoveries.

Happiness, truly.

Happiness has no reason, happiness cannot have a reason to it. If happiness has a reason to it, it is not happiness at all. Happiness can only be without any reason uncaused. When you talk about moments of happiness they are not really moments of happiness but rather moments of less misery. We easily give up happiness for misery. Review past experiences, give your awareness to emotional tendencies, conditioned love and relationships, how if we really wanted to be happy we would simply align ourselves with it. But rather we relinquish the ability to feel happy from within for something that makes us feel miserable.

There is only one happiness, one joy and it is not dependent upon your perspective and distracting pleasures to exist. Everyday we strive to find new ways to feel valid, full and thriving. Instead of knowing the value of emptiness, uselessness. People are afraid of being empty, of losing that which they identify with even though it is that very thing which brings them grief; association. when you are nothing you will become all, dissolve and you will become whole. Claim that you are and you will be miserable. Happiness needs only understanding, no other cause. And understanding is also not a cause of it- understanding simply unveils it; it is inside you.

But when we can't get what we want we aren't happy, yet even when we get exactly what we are we still aren't happy because we can't hold onto it forever. And with people, we can't control them so anything outside our realm of association with them leaves us in a angry state. If a person cannot act and behave as we see fit, we are not happy. Key word " we are not happy." Life is uncertain, we are not in control of people, circumstances, we are only in control of ourselves. And we choose what to feel. Become comfortable with uncertainty.

A quick story: Paradox, humor and change. Life is a mystery don't waste time trying to figure it out, keep a sense of humor especially about yourself and know nothing stays the same. The student said to his teacher, " after thinking I had it all, after losing my friends, my girl how do I know what really makes me happy?" The teacher replied, " I have a place I'd love to show you I think you'll be pleased." The next day they arrived on a hill after 3 hours of traveling. Where are we said the student? This is what I wanted to show you, said the teacher. But what did we come to see? Looking around, the teacher glanced down and said " next to your foot." The rock? Yes said the teacher. Come on this is what you wanted to show me, that I would be please with? We traveled for 3 hours! But the entire time up here you were as excited as kid on Christmas morning, you've been talking about it all day the teacher said. Why are you upset? Because for the past 3 hours Ive been waiting to see this wonderful thing and obviously you had no idea where we were going. The teacher replied, well I wasn't sure where we were going, or what we were going to see. Sorry you're not happy anymore the teacher said. The student thought about it, realizing his moods were based on distractions, what could be or might be instead of what is. Fabrications of the mind, the intangible, existential musings of the unreal. Coming to this realization he turns to the teacher and says " the journey.. the journey is what brings us happiness, not the destination." The teacher smiled.

Unhappiness is our minds creation or version of reality and preconceptions against what really is. And suffering comes when we cannot accept what really is but choose to invest in the non existent version we preferred in our heads to be the outcome of circumstances. On a religious and scientific level all of life is a whole, directly impacted by and impacting the entire cosmos. The idea of separation is what we call ego. We believe we are separate in many ways from all things, especially each other but this couldn't be further from the truth. When the part exists in the whole, everything is harmonious. When the part starts existing on its own, everything becomes disharmonious, there is discord, conflict, confusion. To take our mind and create a path in finite thinking that has nothing to do with the reality that is taking place before us is an example of this. When you are not fused with the whole, there is confusion. If the fusion is not happening with he whole, there is bound to be confusion. Whenever you are not with the whole you are unhappy. Let this be a definition of happiness: to be with the whole is to be happy, to be with the whole is to be healthy, to be with the whole is to be holy. To be separate is antagonist to all of those qualities.

Emptiness: The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space (for the axle), that the use of the wheel depends. Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness, that their use depends. The door and windows are cut out (from the walls) to form an apartment; but it is on the empty space (within), that its use depends. Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.

The utility of the wheel, as of everything in the Universe, depends also on its empty space. In other words, everything is made of emptiness and fullness. This is the philosophical view of the Universe taught by the Taoists.

If there is a cause to happiness then happiness is in the past. Causes are found in the past. If you are happy. the question is " what has made you happy?" and that which has made you happy has gone into the past. So a caused happiness is past oriented. Past oriented means that which is no morel it is fictitious, it is imaginary, it is illusory.

The real happiness is present oriented, it is never past oriented. The real happiness arises here now, this very moment, there is no time for it to be caused. It is cause and effect all together. try to understand it. If you say " I am happy because I was given a noble prize ten years ago- your happiness is very dusty. Ten years.. so much dust has accumulated; it is not fresh, its gloating in the past, not living in the now. You are a poor person in spirit and life if you are eating food from ten years ago. The real happiness is here now. It has no concern with the past, it has no concern of the future. Sometimes you become happy about the future: you are hoping that you are going to win the lottery, or get married, or that your girlfriend is coming tomorrow and you are getting excited. For what? For tomorrow, which has not come yet ? One must be mad. Either your happiness is past or future oriented; both are false because neither exist. Real authentic happiness is here now, a conscious elevation beyond responding emotions where we choose to be happy, even in our darkness, even in our challenges to still maintain a joyful mind. Happiness arises out of this moment, out of nowhere. Because for cause and effect to exist, at least two moments are needed: one to cause it, another to effect it. But only this moment- total, alone, single- is available.


Embrace emptiness, for emptiness creates form, form manifests the whole. The space in a note, the gaps in your breath, the void in a pot, the walk through of a door all demonstrate the value of emptiness. Be useless, in uselessness there is the complete potential of use but more so the unattached flow of the changing constant called life. A tree that does not fit the needs of a lumber jack is free to continue living because it is useless, a small deer who does not fit the needs of a hunter keeps its precious life do to its uselessness, a person who does not have material possessiveness cannot suffer a lack of theft due to their uselessness. This is not avoiding life, this is living it at its most fundamental level. Finally don't be happy because you have your health, your partner, your job or your life for all these things are transient. Be happy because happiness is being.

The warriors way of eating

The Warriors way of eating is how I describe the way I eat, especially on the days when I am busy and want to be productive. This diet consists of small meals eaten every two to three hours throughout the day. These are simple meals involving simple foods, such as a handful of nuts, seeds, an apple, avocado, kale and living raw shake. Consuming the contents of one small to medium snack should generate sufficient fuel to continue energetically along the day's path. The consciousness of the diet is based around a vegan, raw and living diet, though many vegans do not realize the food they eat has been pollinated by bees, brought to the farms and used to make the food. I believe these diets present the best quality of nutrition and regulate the immune system, but many vegan and raw foodist's end up with long term problems due to lack of vitamin B12, calcium and other sources. Unless the diet is very balanced, it will not work out.



A warrior is always ready for action, with energy available whenever he or she is called. Big meals or lots of different foods can act as a mental and physical sedative, as they cause a lot of our energy and blood to be shunted to our abdomen ( liver, stomach, intestines) to digest and assimilate our food. The warrior eats large meals more in rituals such as family events, gatherings, celebrations. ( Think of animals such as deer who eat light, small quantities of energy ready food such as grass and sprouts and are always vibrant and fast paced; compared to the carnivore who eats the deer, and then sleeps most of the day as carnivorous animals do to integrate all the waste and dead meat in their system)



The warriors concept is that food is our fuel; a living force of its own that becomes part of us once consumed. Each item of food you eat has a personality a make up that is as unique as you are. We give our body what it needs for continued combustion and energy. When I refer to being a warrior, I am talking about embracing the challenges of life with feeling and passion. Food nourishment should support this and not devitalize us or generate excess aggressiveness or moodiness.

Mindful eating, spiritual practice

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The way I eat may seem spartan to some, but I take real pleasure in what I eat because I've developed the capacity to enjoy the simplest foods. Eating is a deep practice, a truly sacred act. It connects the physical world with the unknown or the spiritual as some call it. I choose not to discuss religious or ideological eating, but if we are going to use ideas and theories to support our choices we must be consistent if we wish to not look foolish. I may not know everything about my body, of this time or universe, but I do know from experience that mindful eating and proper nutrition heals and gives life to this body. The quality of our body and thinking share a personal relationship to our food.

As we shed old, stressful beliefs and repressed emotional tendencies, we become sensitive to the interconnectedness with the world and others. Naturally during this process our diet will change. As our diet changes, other areas of our life also being to expand. The food we eat and our choice to consume are constantly interacting with our state of consciousness. Any improvement we make in our diet represents a very real form of spiritual progress.

Your body is built of an infinite number of molecular planets which are inhabited by an infinite number of beings no less conscious than yourself. Be good to yourself- Viktoras H. Kulvinskas

There are those who seem very happy in their position and do as they please. They may say things like 'I will eat whatever I want because life is short" or " I'm living life to its fullest" or " When God wants to take me he will". These are hollow, empty words. They are also, in essence, contradictory to the acceptance of life that we call faith. Many people think with their head, instead of their body in total. As the body aches and feels pain, the mind continues to produce the actions that further the pain; this is almost masochistic in nature. The mind does not want the responsibility of connecting our choices to our current painful state. The mind does not want responsibility , the mind wants to be free and do as it wishes. But it is so fragile because the second you challenge that mindset, it falls apart and emotion overrides logic.

When emotions are dominate, the mind is in control and the senses are dead. We lose the sense that we are connected to others and our environment. We should learn to become sensitive to subtly. Learn to enjoy the entire process of eating; the hunger beforehand, the careful preparation, chewing, breathing, smelling, tasting, swallowing and feeling light and energetic after you eat. The irony with those who believe they enjoy food is most people will fear missing a meal, yet they are not fully aware of the meals they do eat. And if we are not aware in life, we will not be aware in death.


We must be more than a slave to our tendencies and dogmatic in our choices. When the state of our thinking and the state of our body are out of sync there is a mis-communication happening. You may trick your mind into believing you enjoy life, but it is a nervous distraction to numb the fear of death. Just as the happiness projected is more so less misery than unreasonable happiness. Clinging to food, beliefs, choices that bring no change is like never leaving home. It is choosing to operate within a small box of predictable behaviors. It is fear of change, and the fears of change are the branches growing from the fear of death. Death is not sad, what is sad is that some never choose to actually live. Living isn't being physically present throughout the events of your life; it is an act of awareness and presence that allows one to contribute and connect with others and their surroundings. To truly be human we must refine every human function; sleeping, eating, breathing, thinking, walking and so on.

Eat as you please, but do not blame the seasons and time for your degeneration. Do not cop out of responsibility by exclaiming unseen forces may do as they wish and that your choices are a series of predetermined events you have no control over. This is directly asserting the omnipotent powers of divinity into the arena of our awareness, saying what you see and think is ultimate truth. Yet your disregard for life through ignoring the suffering of the body is wasting a gift from that which you believe created you. I pay little attention to people who do not understand the understandable such as food and health, yet proclaim to understand the unseen and mystical forces we are unable to comprehend.

Many people view the spiritual separate from the physical and do not accept the world they see. They console themselves that something better will come and this ultimately doesn't matter. They suffer life rather than live it. And the suffering is a result of distortion. They have mistaken their view of life and death for what it actually is. They now little to nothing of the worlds that exist within them. Disillusioned they proudly choose to stay on a sinking ship because they never took they never wanted to learn to swim.


The most spiritual thing one can do is nourish their life through proper sustenance. It means doing more for your being than your car, more so than your house or belongings so you can honor and treasure the gift of life by consciously providing for it. So many would injure another person to protect their money and belongings, but little realize the devastation they do to their own person through ignore-ant consumption. Consumption that poisons the body, kills the cells and is in essence, anti-life. To see the life in your food, in the mystery that is you and to preserve, respect and give to your body daily is to resonate and be natural with the deepest truth there is.. Love.

For me, living life to its fullest does not mean clinging to old habits, and poor results form those choices. It means braving the unknown, becoming more of myself by giving and expanding. It means becoming human by learning to develop my senses through a quieting of the mind. I have a faith that things are as they should be, that through the development of my mind and body I can become more awakened to the blessings of this life and live in accordance with what is natural. After all, what is natural is created by and a part of the ultimate, and there is no deeper connection than the natural connection to our source.