Too Little Too Late. It's 1:33 am early tuesday Morning January 22nd 2008, the Asian Stock markets are said to be off around 20% now since the first of the year. I'm wondering what is next? George Soros, a well known investor worldwide says that this is the worst thing to happen to the stock market since World War II. I'm inclined to agree with him if this continues.
There was no real reason for any of this to happen. That's what is really crazy about all of this. If the US Government had just jumped in and frozen interest rates on all Adjustable Rate Mortgages at the teaser rates before they reset none of this would be happening. Now, something worse than the Great Depression is possible worldwide. Even though the basics in the US Economy are okay, the vicious cycle of the financial destruction of peoples finances and lives in the United States from forced foreclosures will destroy the world economy. Why is the US Government letting this unnecessary debacle happen? That is my question. I feel like I'm watching the Hurricane Katrina Debacle multiplied by about 1 million as I write this.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
from The Bard
From the Bard. As I was composing this in my mind as I was trying to go to sleep tonight I started to think of the humor(humour England english)of titling my blog(article) this. I thought back to the legends of Francis Bacon(the supposed illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Since these legends say that he actually wrote the Shakespearean plays under the nom de plume of William Shakespeare and since when his grave was dug up and his coffin opened there was only rocks and no body and since because of this he is also thought to be "Saint Germain, Prince Ragocy of Transylvania etc. in the coming centuries as well as the famous "Man who never died" and as Francis Bacon before his feigned death he wrote the foremost book on clandestine codes that wasn't surpassed until computers were invented during World War II and since William Shakespeare is often thought of as "The Bard" you can see why this might in afterthought seem humourous(english spelling) to me.
However, actually it was my wife's doing when she called me recently "The Bard" and handed me a well researched historical fictional novel by the same name. It is by Morgan Llywelyn and published in the late 1980's in paperback by Tor Books. It's full title is "Bard The Odyssey of the Irish". I'm always a little guarded when I read such books as they always key me into past lives, most of which I don't want to remember in detail. However,I found a quote in the first few pages on the top of page 2 that I liked. Begin Quote "Druid vision, like druid talent, was a sometime thing, not under a man's control. It's occurance and usage were chosen by the spirits for their own communication." end quote.
This reminds me a lot of my life as a child and as a young man. Though I would know
most of the time what I needed to know, many times I wondered why I would be shown this and not that. I finally decided that this must be because God or the Universe has some kind of plan. By selectively showing me and other gifted people certain things in certain sequences time would naturally go down certain directions rather than others. Certain lives would be saved and others not known about would be lost along the way.
An old friend who is an Empath(knows what others are feeling and thinking without any words) held the hand of a man dying from a heart attack. She asked God if she was allowed to save his life and she was told "No. It is his time to go." She sensed she could get his heart going again but she was obedient when God(or the man's Guardian Angel) told her this.
Time and time again I have heard these kinds of stories from gifted people and of the people they had asked God if they were allowed to save from death and sometimes they were told "Yes" and sometimes they were told "no".
I think it is a lot like being an incarnate angel when one has gifts like this. Unless one is obedient to God one loses their gifts.
However, actually it was my wife's doing when she called me recently "The Bard" and handed me a well researched historical fictional novel by the same name. It is by Morgan Llywelyn and published in the late 1980's in paperback by Tor Books. It's full title is "Bard The Odyssey of the Irish". I'm always a little guarded when I read such books as they always key me into past lives, most of which I don't want to remember in detail. However,I found a quote in the first few pages on the top of page 2 that I liked. Begin Quote "Druid vision, like druid talent, was a sometime thing, not under a man's control. It's occurance and usage were chosen by the spirits for their own communication." end quote.
This reminds me a lot of my life as a child and as a young man. Though I would know
most of the time what I needed to know, many times I wondered why I would be shown this and not that. I finally decided that this must be because God or the Universe has some kind of plan. By selectively showing me and other gifted people certain things in certain sequences time would naturally go down certain directions rather than others. Certain lives would be saved and others not known about would be lost along the way.
An old friend who is an Empath(knows what others are feeling and thinking without any words) held the hand of a man dying from a heart attack. She asked God if she was allowed to save his life and she was told "No. It is his time to go." She sensed she could get his heart going again but she was obedient when God(or the man's Guardian Angel) told her this.
Time and time again I have heard these kinds of stories from gifted people and of the people they had asked God if they were allowed to save from death and sometimes they were told "Yes" and sometimes they were told "no".
I think it is a lot like being an incarnate angel when one has gifts like this. Unless one is obedient to God one loses their gifts.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Humanoids and Humans
Humanoids and Humans. Is what I'm going to write Science Fiction or just psychic musings? I'll let you decide for yourselves.
Humans were not the first bipeds with two five finger hands on earth. Yes, of course there were monkeys and apes and sometimes we are called the great naked apes. But I'm speaking here of something else.
When humanoids that we are genetically related to first came to earth from other planets, other dimensions and other galaxies they were used to much colder places than here on earth. In order to duplicate where they live they had to go to places like the Alps, the Himalayas, the Rockies, like that! They brought with them through time and space as that is the only useful way to travel that far in order to arrive the same second that you left your home world or dimension in this galaxy or another. They brought with them blank humanoid eggs with all dna removed. They also brought with them their own dna(plenty of cells) to impregnate the blank humanoid eggs with. But because the climate was so warm for them most places some of them died within a few months from horrible unknown tropical diseases. No animals were really a threat to their technology but tropical diseases that were unknown to them killed many. So the research scientists among them looked at the apes who were similar in size and physiology and decided to create a subspecies to help them survive better on earth. Since the humanoids were vulnerable in tropical or even semi arrid climates. They bred these new humanoids from their own dna mixed with ape dna. They were sad that their new children weren't very intelligent and didn't live very long but at least the humanoids could survive here at higher altitudes. They trained their 'children' as they called them to grow food and to harvest it for them. Later they trained their 'children' to make things that they needed. Some of their children stayed with the humanoids and learned from them and took care of the elderly humanoids when they got old.
Over time the humanoids decided either to stay and have children with the new breed of lesser intelligent and short lived humanoids or they left. So, over time the lesser intelligent and smaller humanoids were left to fend for themselves. Though they didn't live very long (their ancestors from other worlds lived 1000 to 3000 years or longer and had IQ's of 1000 or more)
As time went on the more intelligent of the new humanoids and the bigger and stronger and nastier survived when the others didn't. They also began all sorts of cultures, belief systems tribal religions and finally national religions until they had what we have today. However, now like our ancestors our intelligence and our lifespans are starting to grow, we are becoming better at sharing ideas, religions, cultures worldwide like our ancestors did on their home planets and so our ancestors more and more think of us as their prodigal sons and daughters returning to them once again.
Humans were not the first bipeds with two five finger hands on earth. Yes, of course there were monkeys and apes and sometimes we are called the great naked apes. But I'm speaking here of something else.
When humanoids that we are genetically related to first came to earth from other planets, other dimensions and other galaxies they were used to much colder places than here on earth. In order to duplicate where they live they had to go to places like the Alps, the Himalayas, the Rockies, like that! They brought with them through time and space as that is the only useful way to travel that far in order to arrive the same second that you left your home world or dimension in this galaxy or another. They brought with them blank humanoid eggs with all dna removed. They also brought with them their own dna(plenty of cells) to impregnate the blank humanoid eggs with. But because the climate was so warm for them most places some of them died within a few months from horrible unknown tropical diseases. No animals were really a threat to their technology but tropical diseases that were unknown to them killed many. So the research scientists among them looked at the apes who were similar in size and physiology and decided to create a subspecies to help them survive better on earth. Since the humanoids were vulnerable in tropical or even semi arrid climates. They bred these new humanoids from their own dna mixed with ape dna. They were sad that their new children weren't very intelligent and didn't live very long but at least the humanoids could survive here at higher altitudes. They trained their 'children' as they called them to grow food and to harvest it for them. Later they trained their 'children' to make things that they needed. Some of their children stayed with the humanoids and learned from them and took care of the elderly humanoids when they got old.
Over time the humanoids decided either to stay and have children with the new breed of lesser intelligent and short lived humanoids or they left. So, over time the lesser intelligent and smaller humanoids were left to fend for themselves. Though they didn't live very long (their ancestors from other worlds lived 1000 to 3000 years or longer and had IQ's of 1000 or more)
As time went on the more intelligent of the new humanoids and the bigger and stronger and nastier survived when the others didn't. They also began all sorts of cultures, belief systems tribal religions and finally national religions until they had what we have today. However, now like our ancestors our intelligence and our lifespans are starting to grow, we are becoming better at sharing ideas, religions, cultures worldwide like our ancestors did on their home planets and so our ancestors more and more think of us as their prodigal sons and daughters returning to them once again.
Mokens Survived the Tsunami
Mokens Survived the Tsunami. Here are two sites still available over 3 years after the Great Tsunami in the Pacific(December 26th 2004) that killed over one quarter million people in the western Pacific Basin. Here is the story of how all the tribe of Mokens survived the Tsunami.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/18/60minutes/main681558.shtml
http://www.progressiveu.org/014420-moken-sea-gypsies
We were eating dinner at the wharf on the ocean when once again we visited this subject. It has fascinated me because I have always been interested in cultural anthropology and how peoples survive things for thousands of years without the technology of the last few hundred years available.
The basic story goes something like this. The two sites one at cbsnews.com and the other at progressiveu.org above will give more information if you are interested.
The Moken tribe of about 2000 to 4000 people live off the coast of Thailand in the Surin Islands (a national park). They have lived in this general area for hundreds if not thousands of years. They have no word for (when or worry). Even as a western interviewer tried to make sense about what had happened through his translater he asked his translator why this Moken man was standing next to him. The translator said that the Moken man was waiting for him to leave his boat but that since there is no word for when in the Moken language he will just stand there until the interviewer left. It was okay. The western interviewer had some difficulty dealing with this. However, it all worked out okay in the end.
The morning of the tsunami an elder man in the tribe of Moken Sea Gypsies said to his daughter(who was a mother in her 30s) "We all either have to go to higher ground or we need to take our boats out to sea!" She said to him, "Old Man, have you been drinking?" He said, "No. I am just doing what the old tribal stories said if we want to survive a tsunami." She then started to wonder and consulted more of the tribal elders. They all agreed the signs were there for a Tsunami. These are the signs, the birds fly away to higher ground and all the animals that are not tied up or fenced in go to higher ground. The father, the daughter and all the Mokens got together and those with boats took them way out to sea to ride out the tsunami. The rest went to higher ground on their Islands. In this way they saved all the Moken people from the Tsunami. They also tried to save men on the local big fishing boats but they didn't believe the Moken people and those fishermen all died because they didn't believe.
This is a perfect example of how some people with a tribal memory similar to the singing of Bards in Europe kept their people alive by learning from their tribes histories through oral stories, song and dance and singing. This sort of oral rendition of tribal and national histories is one of the main ways civilizations survived without writing, paper or clay tablets to write or to put hieroglyphics on.
This was just the general way things were done worldwide until the first Gutenberg press was invented.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/18/60minutes/main681558.shtml
http://www.progressiveu.org/014420-moken-sea-gypsies
We were eating dinner at the wharf on the ocean when once again we visited this subject. It has fascinated me because I have always been interested in cultural anthropology and how peoples survive things for thousands of years without the technology of the last few hundred years available.
The basic story goes something like this. The two sites one at cbsnews.com and the other at progressiveu.org above will give more information if you are interested.
The Moken tribe of about 2000 to 4000 people live off the coast of Thailand in the Surin Islands (a national park). They have lived in this general area for hundreds if not thousands of years. They have no word for (when or worry). Even as a western interviewer tried to make sense about what had happened through his translater he asked his translator why this Moken man was standing next to him. The translator said that the Moken man was waiting for him to leave his boat but that since there is no word for when in the Moken language he will just stand there until the interviewer left. It was okay. The western interviewer had some difficulty dealing with this. However, it all worked out okay in the end.
The morning of the tsunami an elder man in the tribe of Moken Sea Gypsies said to his daughter(who was a mother in her 30s) "We all either have to go to higher ground or we need to take our boats out to sea!" She said to him, "Old Man, have you been drinking?" He said, "No. I am just doing what the old tribal stories said if we want to survive a tsunami." She then started to wonder and consulted more of the tribal elders. They all agreed the signs were there for a Tsunami. These are the signs, the birds fly away to higher ground and all the animals that are not tied up or fenced in go to higher ground. The father, the daughter and all the Mokens got together and those with boats took them way out to sea to ride out the tsunami. The rest went to higher ground on their Islands. In this way they saved all the Moken people from the Tsunami. They also tried to save men on the local big fishing boats but they didn't believe the Moken people and those fishermen all died because they didn't believe.
This is a perfect example of how some people with a tribal memory similar to the singing of Bards in Europe kept their people alive by learning from their tribes histories through oral stories, song and dance and singing. This sort of oral rendition of tribal and national histories is one of the main ways civilizations survived without writing, paper or clay tablets to write or to put hieroglyphics on.
This was just the general way things were done worldwide until the first Gutenberg press was invented.
Dream Yoga
Dream Yoga. Dream Yoga
I found out recently that the Last Karmapa(continuously reincarnating Buddha or Tibetan Tulku since the 1200s)became so enlightened that when meditating pictures could be taken of him and he appeared as a ghost with the wall visible behind him. His method of enlightenment was Dream Yoga. His present incarnation is about 23 years old and escaped from Tibet when he was about 15 to further study toward his present enlightenment this time around.(The only way I can presently think of to keep an enlightened being in a human body enlightened would be to start extending the lifespan of Buddhas through diet, medicine, consciousness, exercise, etc.)until we have more enlightened beings than we do now that live 100s and thousands of years.
Beings on earth presently that live beyond 100 or more years with youthfulness of there 30s and 40s still intact have to be careful who they tell about this and most simply take on new lives and say nothing except possibly to their closest students who are likely to live a long time like them.
We all live or die by our definition of the universe. Most of us are conditioned to believe one thing or the other as we grow up to our health or detriment. However, at some point if we are to become full adults sometime between ages 20 to 40 normally, we must totally define our own realities or else we do not become the gods that each human is potentially capable of becoming. Just like plants who are not put on good soil but upon cement die as babies or plants not given water or sun die, likewise humans who are not given what they need either by others or as adults by their seeking it die without becoming the literal gods that they are potentially capable of.
So, in the interests of defining the universe that is beneficent toward all beings in it I am writing the following:
The Dream Yoga of the Universe according to Fred
I will start defining the universe with my first real experience of this lifetime. My Grandmother was singing (Hark the Herald Angels Sing) and I was sitting in her lap(I was between 1 and 2 years old). As she sang Archangel Michael and his band of Archangels appeared in the room with us. They were bright and shiny and wore jeweled armour(I thought I would use the British Spelling for some reason of Armor- Armour). The seemed like a group of soldiers on leave visiting a fellow comrade in the way they related to me. The power of this experience and all of Gods Grace from it has stayed with me all my life as well as Archangel Michael who has continued to appear to me throughout my life whenever there was real danger.
Though my perfect innocent sight as a child changed into the adult sight of a Seer I did not lose my ability to see angels and Archangels like many people do just by people telling them that they cannot see angels. My parents allowed me to keep my sight of angels by encouraging these abilities.
Later, when I was at a religious school my senior Class was dedicated to the Great Divine Director who is also known as the Lord Maha Chohan or the Master R. Then when I left the Saint Germain Foundation because Saint Germain had other work for me to do I was in Summit University in 1977 my Class was dedicated to Archangel Gabriel and Faith (his girlfriend angel?)
It is my understanding that Archangel Gabriel came to Mary the mother of Jesus to tell her that she was with child. I believe Archangel Gabriel was with Archangel Michael when I was one or two years old. Though Archangel Gabriel was present, Archangel Michael was in charge of protecting me throughout my life.
However, when Father Charles Moore (a Catholic Priest friend) who was a Seer in the same way I am passed on and he came to me then to tell me about the 2nd Coming of Christ through Jesus rebirth into human form around December 21st 2012 I believe Archangel Gabriel was present for that. And since Archangel Michael and Gabriel gave me 3 signs the same day that this was accurate I now fully believe that this date signals the second coming of Christ. The reason I believe it is that I have learned to trust Archangel Michael and Archangel Gabriel with my life over the years. So I believe this is completely accurate about the 2nd coming of Christ. He will be born around this date. There will be no fanfare and no one who is not a wise man or woman will even know when it happens. Thirty years later he will announce himself and some will believe and some will not just like before. The real difference this time is that he is coming for all beings not only on earth but for the whole galaxy and beyond. So since this date is nearing UFOs from all over will be seen more and more. Though governments will want to deny their existence it will become more and more problematic for all governments on earth to do this. I am not sure how all this will work itself out.
I found out recently that the Last Karmapa(continuously reincarnating Buddha or Tibetan Tulku since the 1200s)became so enlightened that when meditating pictures could be taken of him and he appeared as a ghost with the wall visible behind him. His method of enlightenment was Dream Yoga. His present incarnation is about 23 years old and escaped from Tibet when he was about 15 to further study toward his present enlightenment this time around.(The only way I can presently think of to keep an enlightened being in a human body enlightened would be to start extending the lifespan of Buddhas through diet, medicine, consciousness, exercise, etc.)until we have more enlightened beings than we do now that live 100s and thousands of years.
Beings on earth presently that live beyond 100 or more years with youthfulness of there 30s and 40s still intact have to be careful who they tell about this and most simply take on new lives and say nothing except possibly to their closest students who are likely to live a long time like them.
We all live or die by our definition of the universe. Most of us are conditioned to believe one thing or the other as we grow up to our health or detriment. However, at some point if we are to become full adults sometime between ages 20 to 40 normally, we must totally define our own realities or else we do not become the gods that each human is potentially capable of becoming. Just like plants who are not put on good soil but upon cement die as babies or plants not given water or sun die, likewise humans who are not given what they need either by others or as adults by their seeking it die without becoming the literal gods that they are potentially capable of.
So, in the interests of defining the universe that is beneficent toward all beings in it I am writing the following:
The Dream Yoga of the Universe according to Fred
I will start defining the universe with my first real experience of this lifetime. My Grandmother was singing (Hark the Herald Angels Sing) and I was sitting in her lap(I was between 1 and 2 years old). As she sang Archangel Michael and his band of Archangels appeared in the room with us. They were bright and shiny and wore jeweled armour(I thought I would use the British Spelling for some reason of Armor- Armour). The seemed like a group of soldiers on leave visiting a fellow comrade in the way they related to me. The power of this experience and all of Gods Grace from it has stayed with me all my life as well as Archangel Michael who has continued to appear to me throughout my life whenever there was real danger.
Though my perfect innocent sight as a child changed into the adult sight of a Seer I did not lose my ability to see angels and Archangels like many people do just by people telling them that they cannot see angels. My parents allowed me to keep my sight of angels by encouraging these abilities.
Later, when I was at a religious school my senior Class was dedicated to the Great Divine Director who is also known as the Lord Maha Chohan or the Master R. Then when I left the Saint Germain Foundation because Saint Germain had other work for me to do I was in Summit University in 1977 my Class was dedicated to Archangel Gabriel and Faith (his girlfriend angel?)
It is my understanding that Archangel Gabriel came to Mary the mother of Jesus to tell her that she was with child. I believe Archangel Gabriel was with Archangel Michael when I was one or two years old. Though Archangel Gabriel was present, Archangel Michael was in charge of protecting me throughout my life.
However, when Father Charles Moore (a Catholic Priest friend) who was a Seer in the same way I am passed on and he came to me then to tell me about the 2nd Coming of Christ through Jesus rebirth into human form around December 21st 2012 I believe Archangel Gabriel was present for that. And since Archangel Michael and Gabriel gave me 3 signs the same day that this was accurate I now fully believe that this date signals the second coming of Christ. The reason I believe it is that I have learned to trust Archangel Michael and Archangel Gabriel with my life over the years. So I believe this is completely accurate about the 2nd coming of Christ. He will be born around this date. There will be no fanfare and no one who is not a wise man or woman will even know when it happens. Thirty years later he will announce himself and some will believe and some will not just like before. The real difference this time is that he is coming for all beings not only on earth but for the whole galaxy and beyond. So since this date is nearing UFOs from all over will be seen more and more. Though governments will want to deny their existence it will become more and more problematic for all governments on earth to do this. I am not sure how all this will work itself out.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Dividends
Dividends. When the stock market changed rapidly after 2001 it became very obvious that if one were a conservative investor(by the way 'conservative' in this sense is not political but the way one positions investments so they make money in a less risky way) that the only practical way to own stocks was then to own dividend bearing stocks both for the safety of companies that give dividends and for the actual dividends themselves which make it worthwhile to invest in stocks at all. I wrote a Blog recently that I titled "11,000" being the number at which my wife and I were considering to be a good number to sell all our stocks so we didn't have the same problems we encountered in 2001 when the market crashed big last.
However, now I'm beginning to see some signs that things might not be as bad as I thought a few days ago. The first Change is the 150 Billion that the President and Congress want to give to companies and the public to infuse the marketplace with money to jumpstart the economy. The second change is that the price of oil is dropping and that is a potentially very good thing for the world economy. These two factors plus several more on the horizon are beginning to give me personally a little hope that 11,000 won't be reached in the next 6 months.
This is not to say that factors beyond possibly anyones control are not in place now worldwide. Factors like Governmental Hackers from China, Russia, Iran or wherever. Factors like the price of oil or severe weather in too many places at once. In other words too many Hurricane Katrinas or droughts or the like. All these things must be factored in daily to make any sense at all of the worlds stock markets
However, now I'm beginning to see some signs that things might not be as bad as I thought a few days ago. The first Change is the 150 Billion that the President and Congress want to give to companies and the public to infuse the marketplace with money to jumpstart the economy. The second change is that the price of oil is dropping and that is a potentially very good thing for the world economy. These two factors plus several more on the horizon are beginning to give me personally a little hope that 11,000 won't be reached in the next 6 months.
This is not to say that factors beyond possibly anyones control are not in place now worldwide. Factors like Governmental Hackers from China, Russia, Iran or wherever. Factors like the price of oil or severe weather in too many places at once. In other words too many Hurricane Katrinas or droughts or the like. All these things must be factored in daily to make any sense at all of the worlds stock markets
A Mind
A Mind.
"A mind not governed by the heart only takes one to suicide and self destruction."
I was having a great conversation lately with a young person. She said, "It hurts my mind to think about everything in the universe and God."
I said, "The mind cannot comprehend all things in the universe. However,the heart naturally comprehends everything. So the mind must look to the heart for guidance."
A TRULY ENLIGHTENED BEING IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS A "HEART MIND".
"A mind not governed by the heart only takes one to suicide and self destruction."
I was having a great conversation lately with a young person. She said, "It hurts my mind to think about everything in the universe and God."
I said, "The mind cannot comprehend all things in the universe. However,the heart naturally comprehends everything. So the mind must look to the heart for guidance."
A TRULY ENLIGHTENED BEING IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS A "HEART MIND".
Adversity takes us to God
Adversity takes us to God.Living in America can be wonderful or terrible depending upon ones circumstances but it is important to understand that any adversities in our lives take us to God. Why do you think we say, "Oh my God!" or "Jesus Christ!" in scary situations or as a last desperate plea and yes, as we die unexpectedly or as we are being murdered. Yes, adversity takes us to God.
Most of the time our adversities are not that great. However, it is quite possible that America and the world might be entering a slowdown, a recession or even another Great Depression. During these types of times there is usually not enough of anything, food, shelter, warmth, survival---anything. "These are the times that try men's souls!"
Starting with Viet Nam(I was 17 in 1965 when it really started going) and I was 25 in 1973 when it finally ended in disaster for our country. I don't believe America or the world has ever completely recovered from Viet Nam, the Soviet Union or the Cold War. It has left a residue of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder on all the citizens of the world in many ways.
Likewise, it will take 25 or 30 years (or more) for the world to even begin to recover and understand what has happened and how the world has changed since 2001 from this last "Terrorist War". And it may be going on and become another 100 years war because of its very nature.
All the big adversities and little individual adversities take us to God, make us cynical or make us give up completely and commit suicide directly or indirectly.
One of the most important things to do in these kinds of times is to be very aware of all our motivations, because if we start slipping into hopelessness it can be like a game of Russian roulette with a loaded gun. It doesn't take much then to die or go crazy. I'm not sure which is worse at that point.
So, the healthiest thing to do in times of adversity is to reach out to God. Whether it is in the expletives, "Oh My God!" or "Jesus Christ" or being in tears at the side of our beds or roads and begging for God's help I think any and all these things are necessary to stay alive and functional and useful to our nations, our friends, our families, the world, the universe and to God!
Most of the time our adversities are not that great. However, it is quite possible that America and the world might be entering a slowdown, a recession or even another Great Depression. During these types of times there is usually not enough of anything, food, shelter, warmth, survival---anything. "These are the times that try men's souls!"
Starting with Viet Nam(I was 17 in 1965 when it really started going) and I was 25 in 1973 when it finally ended in disaster for our country. I don't believe America or the world has ever completely recovered from Viet Nam, the Soviet Union or the Cold War. It has left a residue of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder on all the citizens of the world in many ways.
Likewise, it will take 25 or 30 years (or more) for the world to even begin to recover and understand what has happened and how the world has changed since 2001 from this last "Terrorist War". And it may be going on and become another 100 years war because of its very nature.
All the big adversities and little individual adversities take us to God, make us cynical or make us give up completely and commit suicide directly or indirectly.
One of the most important things to do in these kinds of times is to be very aware of all our motivations, because if we start slipping into hopelessness it can be like a game of Russian roulette with a loaded gun. It doesn't take much then to die or go crazy. I'm not sure which is worse at that point.
So, the healthiest thing to do in times of adversity is to reach out to God. Whether it is in the expletives, "Oh My God!" or "Jesus Christ" or being in tears at the side of our beds or roads and begging for God's help I think any and all these things are necessary to stay alive and functional and useful to our nations, our friends, our families, the world, the universe and to God!
Thursday, January 17, 2008
On Meditation
On Meditation. Though there are many different types of meditation I would like to share some quotes from Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat Pray Love”.
I’m sure many of you have had difficulty with mastering one form of meditation or another. There is a particularly poignant and humorous difficulty with Meditation that Elizabeth Gilbert mentions on pages 94 to 97. However, here I would like to share a successful meditation as well as other mystics of all religions experiences also outlined by Gilbert.
She mentions previous to this that the mantra "Ham-Sa" means “I am That”. Which in a Christian context is interesting because when Moses asked God what his name is translated he said, “I am that I am”. So from this point of view one is through both mantra and meditation one is acknowledging oneness with God. By acknowledging oneness with God the real experience of this naturally follows. However, for me it is a lot like jumping off a cliff and never hitting the ground. It is bound to take ones breath away for awhile.
I should mention that Elizabeth Gilbert at this point in the book is practicing meditation in an Ashram in India near Mumbai for a month with people from the United States, India and all over the world.
Begin quote page 141, "Ham-sa In Sanskrit it means "I am that"
The Yogis say that Ham-sa is the most natural mantra, the one we are all given by God before birth. It is the sound of our own breath. 'Ham' on the inhale,'sa' on the exhale. (Ham by the way, is pronounced softly, openly, like 'hahhhm', not like the meat you put on a sandwich. And 'sa' rhymes with "Ahhhh...) As long as we live every time we breathe in or out, we are repeating this mantra. I am That. I am divine, I am with God, I am an expression of God, I am not separate, I am not alone, I am not this limited illusion of an individual. I've always found 'Ham-sa' easy and relaxing. Easier to meditate with than (my mantra) Om Namah Shivaya, the---how would you say this---"Official mantra of this Yoga. But I was talking to this monk the other day and he told me to go ahead and use 'Ham-sa' if it helped my meditation. He said, "Meditate on whatever causes a revolution in your mind.
So I'll sit with it today.
Ham-sa
I am That.
Thoughts come, but I don't pay much attention to them, other than to say to them in an almost motherly manner. "Oh, I know you jokers---Go outside and play now--- Mommy's listening to God."
Ham-sa
I am That
I fell asleep for a while. (Or whatever. In meditation, you can never really be sure if what you think is sleep is actually sleep; soemtimes it's just another level of consciousness)When I awake or whatever, I can feel this soft blue electrical energy pulsing through my body, in waves. It's a little alarming, but also amazing. I don't know what to do, so I just speak internally to this energy. I say to it, "I believe in you," and it magnifies, volumizes, in response. It's frighteningly powerful now, like a kidnapping of the senses. It's humming up from the base of my spine. My neck feels like it wants to stretch and twist, so I let it, and then I'm sitting there in the strangest position--perched upright like a good Yogi, but with my left ear pressed hard against my left shoulder. I don't know why my head and neck want to do this, but I'm not going to argue with them; they are insistent. The pounding blue energy keeps pitching through my body, and I cn hear a sort of thrumming sound in my ears, and it's so mighty now that I actually can't deal with it anymore. It scares me so much that I say to it, "I'm not ready yet!" and snap open my eyes. It all goes away. I'm back in a room again, back in my surroundings. I look at my watch. I've been here--or somewhere--for almost an hour.
I'm panting, literally panting." End quote page 142 end of Chapter 45
Though on one level I should end it there to give your spirit a chance to take all this in I'm also drawn to share the beginning of Chapter 46 on page 143. Begin quote
"To understand what that experience was, what happened in there(by which I mean both 'in the meditation cave' and 'in me') brings up a topic rather esoteric and wild--namely the subject of 'kundalini shakti'.
Every religion in the world has a subset of devotees who seek a direct transcendent experience with God, excusing themselves from fundamentalist scriptural or dogmatic study in order to personally encounter the divine. The interesting thing about these mystics is that, when they describe their experiences, they all end up describing exactly the same occurance. Generally their union with God occurs in a meditative state, and is delivered through an energy source that fills the entire body with euphoric, electric light. The Japanese call this energy 'ki', the Chinese Buddhists call it 'chi', the Balinese call it 'n/um' (their holy men describe it as a snakelike power that ascends through the spine and blows a hole in the head through which the gods then enter). The Islamic Sufi poets called that God-energy "The Beloved", and wrote devotional poems to it. The Australian oborigines describe a serpent in the sky that descends into the medicine man and gives him intense, other-worldly powers. In the Jewish tradition of Kabbalah his union with the divine is said to occur through stages of spiritual ascension, with energy that runs up the spine along a series of invisible meridians.
Saint Teresa of Avila, that most mystical of Catholic figures, described her union with God as a physical ascension of light through seven inner "mansions' of her beings, afer which she burst into God's presence. She used to go into meditative trances so deep that the other nuns couldn't feel her pulse anymore. She would beg her fellow nuns not to tell anyone what they had witnessed as it was 'a most extraordinary thing and likely to arouse considerable talk.' (Not to mention a possible interview with the Inquisitor) The most difficult challenge, the saint wrote in her memoirs, was to not stir up the intellect during meditation, for any thoughts of the mind-- even the most fervent prayers--will extinguish the fire of God." Endquote bottom of page 143.
My personal experiences with the meditative state is that I prefer to live there. Now you may say this isn't possible. However, I have found that if I have the 'Leisure to Practice' and so if I am not plaqued with the workaday world that much I can stay in a meditative "Dream Yoga" state 24 hours a day. In this dream yoga state I notice that there is a quality of both dreams and reality merging. Now you may think this odd but I find it very natural. What is merging is the divine and the mundane into one Holistic 24 hour a day experience. What I'm finding is that less and less do Any disturbances whether they be physical or on any other level interfere with my ongoing union with the Divine.
I think as a young person one might have difficulty with understanding what the divine actually is and therefore believe that only the physical is real. In actuality the physical is only one of many levels of reality and is in actuality one of the least real of those actual levels. There is a saying, "Don't believe everything you hear." Well, in regard to the physical "Don't believe everything you See!" However, learning what actually is real takes a lot of time and a lot of testing. That is why you don't see fully actualized enlightened children very often.
I’m sure many of you have had difficulty with mastering one form of meditation or another. There is a particularly poignant and humorous difficulty with Meditation that Elizabeth Gilbert mentions on pages 94 to 97. However, here I would like to share a successful meditation as well as other mystics of all religions experiences also outlined by Gilbert.
She mentions previous to this that the mantra "Ham-Sa" means “I am That”. Which in a Christian context is interesting because when Moses asked God what his name is translated he said, “I am that I am”. So from this point of view one is through both mantra and meditation one is acknowledging oneness with God. By acknowledging oneness with God the real experience of this naturally follows. However, for me it is a lot like jumping off a cliff and never hitting the ground. It is bound to take ones breath away for awhile.
I should mention that Elizabeth Gilbert at this point in the book is practicing meditation in an Ashram in India near Mumbai for a month with people from the United States, India and all over the world.
Begin quote page 141, "Ham-sa In Sanskrit it means "I am that"
The Yogis say that Ham-sa is the most natural mantra, the one we are all given by God before birth. It is the sound of our own breath. 'Ham' on the inhale,'sa' on the exhale. (Ham by the way, is pronounced softly, openly, like 'hahhhm', not like the meat you put on a sandwich. And 'sa' rhymes with "Ahhhh...) As long as we live every time we breathe in or out, we are repeating this mantra. I am That. I am divine, I am with God, I am an expression of God, I am not separate, I am not alone, I am not this limited illusion of an individual. I've always found 'Ham-sa' easy and relaxing. Easier to meditate with than (my mantra) Om Namah Shivaya, the---how would you say this---"Official mantra of this Yoga. But I was talking to this monk the other day and he told me to go ahead and use 'Ham-sa' if it helped my meditation. He said, "Meditate on whatever causes a revolution in your mind.
So I'll sit with it today.
Ham-sa
I am That.
Thoughts come, but I don't pay much attention to them, other than to say to them in an almost motherly manner. "Oh, I know you jokers---Go outside and play now--- Mommy's listening to God."
Ham-sa
I am That
I fell asleep for a while. (Or whatever. In meditation, you can never really be sure if what you think is sleep is actually sleep; soemtimes it's just another level of consciousness)When I awake or whatever, I can feel this soft blue electrical energy pulsing through my body, in waves. It's a little alarming, but also amazing. I don't know what to do, so I just speak internally to this energy. I say to it, "I believe in you," and it magnifies, volumizes, in response. It's frighteningly powerful now, like a kidnapping of the senses. It's humming up from the base of my spine. My neck feels like it wants to stretch and twist, so I let it, and then I'm sitting there in the strangest position--perched upright like a good Yogi, but with my left ear pressed hard against my left shoulder. I don't know why my head and neck want to do this, but I'm not going to argue with them; they are insistent. The pounding blue energy keeps pitching through my body, and I cn hear a sort of thrumming sound in my ears, and it's so mighty now that I actually can't deal with it anymore. It scares me so much that I say to it, "I'm not ready yet!" and snap open my eyes. It all goes away. I'm back in a room again, back in my surroundings. I look at my watch. I've been here--or somewhere--for almost an hour.
I'm panting, literally panting." End quote page 142 end of Chapter 45
Though on one level I should end it there to give your spirit a chance to take all this in I'm also drawn to share the beginning of Chapter 46 on page 143. Begin quote
"To understand what that experience was, what happened in there(by which I mean both 'in the meditation cave' and 'in me') brings up a topic rather esoteric and wild--namely the subject of 'kundalini shakti'.
Every religion in the world has a subset of devotees who seek a direct transcendent experience with God, excusing themselves from fundamentalist scriptural or dogmatic study in order to personally encounter the divine. The interesting thing about these mystics is that, when they describe their experiences, they all end up describing exactly the same occurance. Generally their union with God occurs in a meditative state, and is delivered through an energy source that fills the entire body with euphoric, electric light. The Japanese call this energy 'ki', the Chinese Buddhists call it 'chi', the Balinese call it 'n/um' (their holy men describe it as a snakelike power that ascends through the spine and blows a hole in the head through which the gods then enter). The Islamic Sufi poets called that God-energy "The Beloved", and wrote devotional poems to it. The Australian oborigines describe a serpent in the sky that descends into the medicine man and gives him intense, other-worldly powers. In the Jewish tradition of Kabbalah his union with the divine is said to occur through stages of spiritual ascension, with energy that runs up the spine along a series of invisible meridians.
Saint Teresa of Avila, that most mystical of Catholic figures, described her union with God as a physical ascension of light through seven inner "mansions' of her beings, afer which she burst into God's presence. She used to go into meditative trances so deep that the other nuns couldn't feel her pulse anymore. She would beg her fellow nuns not to tell anyone what they had witnessed as it was 'a most extraordinary thing and likely to arouse considerable talk.' (Not to mention a possible interview with the Inquisitor) The most difficult challenge, the saint wrote in her memoirs, was to not stir up the intellect during meditation, for any thoughts of the mind-- even the most fervent prayers--will extinguish the fire of God." Endquote bottom of page 143.
My personal experiences with the meditative state is that I prefer to live there. Now you may say this isn't possible. However, I have found that if I have the 'Leisure to Practice' and so if I am not plaqued with the workaday world that much I can stay in a meditative "Dream Yoga" state 24 hours a day. In this dream yoga state I notice that there is a quality of both dreams and reality merging. Now you may think this odd but I find it very natural. What is merging is the divine and the mundane into one Holistic 24 hour a day experience. What I'm finding is that less and less do Any disturbances whether they be physical or on any other level interfere with my ongoing union with the Divine.
I think as a young person one might have difficulty with understanding what the divine actually is and therefore believe that only the physical is real. In actuality the physical is only one of many levels of reality and is in actuality one of the least real of those actual levels. There is a saying, "Don't believe everything you hear." Well, in regard to the physical "Don't believe everything you See!" However, learning what actually is real takes a lot of time and a lot of testing. That is why you don't see fully actualized enlightened children very often.
Google Philanthropy: $25 million
Google Philanthropy:$25 million. I was happy to hear that Google is putting 25 million toward helping find solutions to Global Warming, Poverty and disease. I believe that that the Gates Foundation because of its philanthropic efficiency has inspired many silicon Valley types of Companies to efficiently go about trying to solve some of the worlds greatest ills.
If you are interested in reading the article it's name is:
Google philanthropy targets global warming, poverty and disease.
It is at yahoo.com
Since many of you might not know know how to key in URL's at the top of your screen I think I'll start this new format of how I refer to articles I'm commenting on.
If you are interested in reading the article it's name is:
Google philanthropy targets global warming, poverty and disease.
It is at yahoo.com
Since many of you might not know know how to key in URL's at the top of your screen I think I'll start this new format of how I refer to articles I'm commenting on.
Being Right Isn't Always Fun
Being Right isn't Always Fun. If you've read many of my Blogs(articles) you know that I am very intuitive. Some might call me a psychic or a Seer. Relatives on both sides of my family have this potential too. They just didn't have to survive childhood epilepsy without any medications like I did. (My father being similar to Christian Science wouldn't let me take medications) so I was on my own and the survival process made me a remarkably accurate Seer.
Most of the time family and friends are uncomfortable when I'm right all the time. They, by now just consider it an eccentricity of their husband, Dad or friend. So I've learned to say what is going to happen when I get information and then when people want something else to happen go along with them mentally(as long as there is no physical harm coming) and then I can be happy or disappointed when what I said would happen happens. I know it is all very odd but this is my life and I have lived this way almost all of it.
I'm presently recovering from another bout of this kind of strangeness only this time it is a disappointment at being right once again.
My oldest biological daughter was going skiing(I ski and she snowboards although she is an expert skier too) with us this weekend. However, back on January 1st I told both her and my wife that if we didn't ski that week (January 1st through 4th) the weekend they were planning to ski wouldn't happen. They said, "Oh Fred. I don't think you're right." So? I'm right once again. I knew that something would stop it. I was laying in bed this morning wondering whether we were going or not. My youngest daughter had a fever of about 100 degrees and my wife was starting to get it too and my oldest daughter had a cold( she told me on the phone) so it's not happening. So, it's not fun always being right. And because I bought into all the family excitement concerning this trip I pushed my predictions to the back of my mind hoping I was going to be wrong. Nope. I was right!
Most of the time family and friends are uncomfortable when I'm right all the time. They, by now just consider it an eccentricity of their husband, Dad or friend. So I've learned to say what is going to happen when I get information and then when people want something else to happen go along with them mentally(as long as there is no physical harm coming) and then I can be happy or disappointed when what I said would happen happens. I know it is all very odd but this is my life and I have lived this way almost all of it.
I'm presently recovering from another bout of this kind of strangeness only this time it is a disappointment at being right once again.
My oldest biological daughter was going skiing(I ski and she snowboards although she is an expert skier too) with us this weekend. However, back on January 1st I told both her and my wife that if we didn't ski that week (January 1st through 4th) the weekend they were planning to ski wouldn't happen. They said, "Oh Fred. I don't think you're right." So? I'm right once again. I knew that something would stop it. I was laying in bed this morning wondering whether we were going or not. My youngest daughter had a fever of about 100 degrees and my wife was starting to get it too and my oldest daughter had a cold( she told me on the phone) so it's not happening. So, it's not fun always being right. And because I bought into all the family excitement concerning this trip I pushed my predictions to the back of my mind hoping I was going to be wrong. Nope. I was right!
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
11,000
11,000. My wife and I were talking about the stock market recently. It has become relatively unpredictable. Even a friend of ours who is a full time investor is worried. Since its high of about 14,000 recently it is now less than 90% of that or a 10%+ loss of value of the average stock. My investor friend said that this is really hurting him financially at this point. My wife and I are conservative investors even though we know someone who lost 80% of their stock values in the 2001 crash after 9-11 because their investments were too aggressive.
However, even the conservative investors are worried. Especially with Countrywide having to be bought by Bank of America and Citigroup's subprime roller coaster. My wife said she thought that the stock market at 14,000 was overvalued and thought about 12,500 was appropriate. However, we both are thinking that we don't want to wait 5 years again like we did after 9-11 for our stocks to return to their pre 9-11 values.
It is definitely a time to already be invested in dividend bearing stocks for a variety of reasons. But it is approaching a time to convert to cash, safe money market funds or treasury bonds. We were thinking that 11,000 might be a time to convert to cash or other safer investments.
In a previous article I mentioned what I see as the three black holes of our now Globalized world economy.
1. Subprime Black hole
2. gas and oil pricing black hole
3. Global weather changes black hole
These three Black holes make it extremely difficult for the world economy to avoid a slowdown, recession or outright world depression reminiscent of the 1930's in the United States and Europe.
Predicting what will happen economically is likely close to impossible. However, preparing for the worst is how people who are the survivors have always found ways to go on through anything. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. That's the pioneer spirit!
However, even the conservative investors are worried. Especially with Countrywide having to be bought by Bank of America and Citigroup's subprime roller coaster. My wife said she thought that the stock market at 14,000 was overvalued and thought about 12,500 was appropriate. However, we both are thinking that we don't want to wait 5 years again like we did after 9-11 for our stocks to return to their pre 9-11 values.
It is definitely a time to already be invested in dividend bearing stocks for a variety of reasons. But it is approaching a time to convert to cash, safe money market funds or treasury bonds. We were thinking that 11,000 might be a time to convert to cash or other safer investments.
In a previous article I mentioned what I see as the three black holes of our now Globalized world economy.
1. Subprime Black hole
2. gas and oil pricing black hole
3. Global weather changes black hole
These three Black holes make it extremely difficult for the world economy to avoid a slowdown, recession or outright world depression reminiscent of the 1930's in the United States and Europe.
Predicting what will happen economically is likely close to impossible. However, preparing for the worst is how people who are the survivors have always found ways to go on through anything. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. That's the pioneer spirit!
Anger and Enlightenment
Anger and Enlightenment.
Though anger in the form of Righteous Anger against injustices might begin ones path to enlightenment in any given lifetime it does not end there. Eventually, one must evolve to compassion for all life in the universe and a state of equanimity to complete ones enlightenment. In this state one experiences injustice as ignorance rather than malice as one does as a young person. One realizes that the core of injustice is truly not malice but group ignorance. Therefore, as an enlightened person one looks for ways to address the ignorance of mankind in order to create the permanent end of suffering for all beings. At some point in ones evolution toward enlightenment one must address this problem not only for mankind but for all beings everywhere and every-when.
I would like to give an example of this in the life of Mila Repa who lived in the "Valley of Happiness" in Tibet 1000 years ago. He is the most beloved Tibetan Saint as he attained complete enlightenment in one lifetime which is a very rare occurrence.
Mila Repa was born the son of a rich tibetan man who then died while Mila Repa was just a boy. However, as Mila's father died he entrusted his wealth to his brother so it could be given to his wife and son, eventually. However, as soon as Mila's father died Mila's uncle enslaved Mila, his mother and sister and beat them as his slaves. He took all the wealth and treated Mila, his mother and sister like farm animals.
Mila's mother wanted justice for this travesty of life they were living. So she sent Mila Repa at about age 15 to a Black Magic Sorcerer to gain revenge on Mila's uncle. Within a couple of years of study, Mila Repa stood on a hill near the wedding of one of his uncle's children and brought hail and lightning down upon the wedding party and killed 30 people, including his Uncle and many relatives of Mila's.
Though MIla's mother had her revenge no one would speak to her because they were afraid of her because of what she had done. Her daughter now grown wandered away.
Mila Repa felt great remorse at supernaturally killing so many relatives. Though he felt his uncle deserved this the rest of the relatives were not directly responsible for what had happened to his mother, his sister and himself. When he told his "Black Magic Teacher" what he had done his teacher was very upset with him. He said something like, "Mila, you have endangered us both with this bad karma. I am sending you to a good Dharma teacher. If he accepts you you will be able to work off this bad karma and become enlightened. It is the only way for good to come out of this. I am sending you to Marpa, the Translator, who is the best of the best in this way."
So, Mila dutifully went to Marpa who said he couldn't accept him as a student. However, he said that if Mila built him a house made of stone many stories high that he might consider accepting him as a student.
Mila worked for years building and rebuilding this stone house for Marpa. It is said Mila's back was one massive sore open wound from carrying stones over 100 pounds each on his back that he quarried for Marpa's home. Each time Mila had almost completed the home Marpa would say something like, "I want you to move this home ten feet in this direction or I want you to do this different or that different." So, Mila Repa would cry at the injustice and beg Marpa to reconsider. Marpa, being a taskmaster and a master teacher would not give in to Mila.
Finally, Mila tricked Marpa's wife into helping him out of pity. While Marpa was away she got Marpa's ring, symbol of his authority, and gave it to Mila to take to the first teacher that Marpa would naturally send Mila to for training. Mila took the ring and received both the training and the initiations toward enlightenment. When Marpa returned he was enraged at both Mila and his wife. He said, "Wife, you have ruined everything! Mila had almost worked off enough bad karma to begin his training. Now, it might go badly!"
He then sent Mila to Meditate in a cave for several years and gave him practices to accomplish his goal. While meditating in the cave he had no food so he ate Nettle leaves until his skin turned green from eating so many of them. He grew so skinny that he became just skin and bones but still he persevered on his path to enlightenment. When he had attained his goal he returned to Marpa. Marpa was pleased and told Mila that he had had a dream and that Mila was going to be his foremost student and would change the lives of thousands of people through time toward enlightenment.
After Marpa passed away or before Mila returned home to find his mother. He found her home or hut disheveled and the remains of her body there as she had died alone and uncared for and unburied as the relatives had been to afraid to enter her house because of Mila's powers. He visited her in the Bardo and helped her soul to a good place while sleeping on her bones. He then took her bones and put them in a good place.
Though Mila was sad all this only renewed his quest for even more enlightenment. When he had returned to his cave at one point his sister started to bring him food. She eventually became one of his students. He spent most of his life meditating in caves and growing in spirit until he could heal people and fly and many other wonderful miracles. He was a singer and would create lyrics and song like a Bard to teach people how to move toward enlightenment. People came from hundreds of miles to study and learn from him until today he is he most revered Tibetan Saint who became enlightened in one lifetime! I believe he lived to around 85 years of age.
Though anger in the form of Righteous Anger against injustices might begin ones path to enlightenment in any given lifetime it does not end there. Eventually, one must evolve to compassion for all life in the universe and a state of equanimity to complete ones enlightenment. In this state one experiences injustice as ignorance rather than malice as one does as a young person. One realizes that the core of injustice is truly not malice but group ignorance. Therefore, as an enlightened person one looks for ways to address the ignorance of mankind in order to create the permanent end of suffering for all beings. At some point in ones evolution toward enlightenment one must address this problem not only for mankind but for all beings everywhere and every-when.
I would like to give an example of this in the life of Mila Repa who lived in the "Valley of Happiness" in Tibet 1000 years ago. He is the most beloved Tibetan Saint as he attained complete enlightenment in one lifetime which is a very rare occurrence.
Mila Repa was born the son of a rich tibetan man who then died while Mila Repa was just a boy. However, as Mila's father died he entrusted his wealth to his brother so it could be given to his wife and son, eventually. However, as soon as Mila's father died Mila's uncle enslaved Mila, his mother and sister and beat them as his slaves. He took all the wealth and treated Mila, his mother and sister like farm animals.
Mila's mother wanted justice for this travesty of life they were living. So she sent Mila Repa at about age 15 to a Black Magic Sorcerer to gain revenge on Mila's uncle. Within a couple of years of study, Mila Repa stood on a hill near the wedding of one of his uncle's children and brought hail and lightning down upon the wedding party and killed 30 people, including his Uncle and many relatives of Mila's.
Though MIla's mother had her revenge no one would speak to her because they were afraid of her because of what she had done. Her daughter now grown wandered away.
Mila Repa felt great remorse at supernaturally killing so many relatives. Though he felt his uncle deserved this the rest of the relatives were not directly responsible for what had happened to his mother, his sister and himself. When he told his "Black Magic Teacher" what he had done his teacher was very upset with him. He said something like, "Mila, you have endangered us both with this bad karma. I am sending you to a good Dharma teacher. If he accepts you you will be able to work off this bad karma and become enlightened. It is the only way for good to come out of this. I am sending you to Marpa, the Translator, who is the best of the best in this way."
So, Mila dutifully went to Marpa who said he couldn't accept him as a student. However, he said that if Mila built him a house made of stone many stories high that he might consider accepting him as a student.
Mila worked for years building and rebuilding this stone house for Marpa. It is said Mila's back was one massive sore open wound from carrying stones over 100 pounds each on his back that he quarried for Marpa's home. Each time Mila had almost completed the home Marpa would say something like, "I want you to move this home ten feet in this direction or I want you to do this different or that different." So, Mila Repa would cry at the injustice and beg Marpa to reconsider. Marpa, being a taskmaster and a master teacher would not give in to Mila.
Finally, Mila tricked Marpa's wife into helping him out of pity. While Marpa was away she got Marpa's ring, symbol of his authority, and gave it to Mila to take to the first teacher that Marpa would naturally send Mila to for training. Mila took the ring and received both the training and the initiations toward enlightenment. When Marpa returned he was enraged at both Mila and his wife. He said, "Wife, you have ruined everything! Mila had almost worked off enough bad karma to begin his training. Now, it might go badly!"
He then sent Mila to Meditate in a cave for several years and gave him practices to accomplish his goal. While meditating in the cave he had no food so he ate Nettle leaves until his skin turned green from eating so many of them. He grew so skinny that he became just skin and bones but still he persevered on his path to enlightenment. When he had attained his goal he returned to Marpa. Marpa was pleased and told Mila that he had had a dream and that Mila was going to be his foremost student and would change the lives of thousands of people through time toward enlightenment.
After Marpa passed away or before Mila returned home to find his mother. He found her home or hut disheveled and the remains of her body there as she had died alone and uncared for and unburied as the relatives had been to afraid to enter her house because of Mila's powers. He visited her in the Bardo and helped her soul to a good place while sleeping on her bones. He then took her bones and put them in a good place.
Though Mila was sad all this only renewed his quest for even more enlightenment. When he had returned to his cave at one point his sister started to bring him food. She eventually became one of his students. He spent most of his life meditating in caves and growing in spirit until he could heal people and fly and many other wonderful miracles. He was a singer and would create lyrics and song like a Bard to teach people how to move toward enlightenment. People came from hundreds of miles to study and learn from him until today he is he most revered Tibetan Saint who became enlightened in one lifetime! I believe he lived to around 85 years of age.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
US Subprime Lenders Targeted the Poor
US Subprime lenders targeted the Poor
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080115/lf_afp/
uspropertyfinanceminority
begin Quote from yahoo article above: "The report by the United for a Fair Economy (UFE) advocacy group said subprime mortgages, home loans issued to Americans with scant finances, were "ruthlessly hawked" and that a solid majority of subprime loan recipients were people of color."endquote.
Begin quote over halfway down page same article, "The report estimated the total loss of wealth 'for people of color' including latinos to be between 163 and 278 billion dollars for subprime loans taken out during the past eight years.
We believe this represents the greatest loss of wealth for people of color in recent US history." the UFE said, saying America was entering an economic downturn that could match the Great Depression." endquote
Begin quote further down page,"Communities across the nation are being torn apart. As mortgages go into foreclosure, people move out, houses are boarded up, crime and fires increase, neighboring properties are devalued, and the tax base erodes." Brenda Cotto-Escalera, one of the reports co-authors, said."end quote.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080115/lf_afp/
uspropertyfinanceminority
begin Quote from yahoo article above: "The report by the United for a Fair Economy (UFE) advocacy group said subprime mortgages, home loans issued to Americans with scant finances, were "ruthlessly hawked" and that a solid majority of subprime loan recipients were people of color."endquote.
Begin quote over halfway down page same article, "The report estimated the total loss of wealth 'for people of color' including latinos to be between 163 and 278 billion dollars for subprime loans taken out during the past eight years.
We believe this represents the greatest loss of wealth for people of color in recent US history." the UFE said, saying America was entering an economic downturn that could match the Great Depression." endquote
Begin quote further down page,"Communities across the nation are being torn apart. As mortgages go into foreclosure, people move out, houses are boarded up, crime and fires increase, neighboring properties are devalued, and the tax base erodes." Brenda Cotto-Escalera, one of the reports co-authors, said."end quote.
Orion Nebula Musings
Orion Nebula Musings. I was using Google Earth to look at the Orion Nebula and found as I meditated on it that it took my breath away. I couldn't help thinking that "What if something like this is a lifeform and that it is incubating stars. As an intuitive Seer this was my experience as I meditated on the Orion Nebula.
The size of a life-form shouldn't matter, it would still be a life-form. Whether or not it breathed air or oxygen through gills from water shouldn't matter, it's still a life-form. I was amazed at my experience while meditating on Google Earth's amazing pictures of Orion Nebula and then the Crab Nebula. Somehow though, I experienced Orion's Nebula as my place, my home as a spirit.
I had this kind of experience when I went to Scotland and also when I went to Switzerland. My mother's parents grew up in Scotland, both near Glascow. My father's relatives originated in Switzerland before traveling to Germany and then Philadelphia Harbor by ship in about 1725. Since my mother's people had lived in Scotland multi-generationally, when I was in the Cairngorm mountains in Aviemore I felt the spirit of my ancestors call to me. It was like I could hear all my Scottish ancestors being grateful that I had returned to my roots. They were like friendly ghosts welcoming me back to my ancestral lands. This was in fall 1999.
Later I rented a motorhome in Munich, Germany and drove to Switzerland where I had an experience that was very amazing to me. I had dropped my son and his friend off in Italy(they were both 25 and had Eurail passes for a month or two around Europe). My experience was during an extremely windy and snowy night high in the Alps. The wind was so strong I had to stop the motor home as it was getting very dangerous because of the snow and ice on the roads. So I just pulled off the the side of the road at about 8000 feet elevation and parked for the night. My 80 year old mother and my 10 year old daughter were with me. I was amazed that the motor home was almost blowing over in the winds. As I went to sleep the motor home was rocking and I hoped it wouldn't blow over in the winds. When I went to sleep I dreamed my mother and daughter and I were with the (gnomes?) of the Alps. They had very craggy faces like the wooden figures one can buy of them in Switzerland. I and my daughter were with the king and Queen and they wanted to keep my daughter, who also had red hair like them. "I said, "NO!" and then I woke up. However, my dream experience had been more real that being awake. When I awoke the motorhome was still rocking but it seemed very surrealistic compared to my experience with the Swiss Gnomes.
The size of a life-form shouldn't matter, it would still be a life-form. Whether or not it breathed air or oxygen through gills from water shouldn't matter, it's still a life-form. I was amazed at my experience while meditating on Google Earth's amazing pictures of Orion Nebula and then the Crab Nebula. Somehow though, I experienced Orion's Nebula as my place, my home as a spirit.
I had this kind of experience when I went to Scotland and also when I went to Switzerland. My mother's parents grew up in Scotland, both near Glascow. My father's relatives originated in Switzerland before traveling to Germany and then Philadelphia Harbor by ship in about 1725. Since my mother's people had lived in Scotland multi-generationally, when I was in the Cairngorm mountains in Aviemore I felt the spirit of my ancestors call to me. It was like I could hear all my Scottish ancestors being grateful that I had returned to my roots. They were like friendly ghosts welcoming me back to my ancestral lands. This was in fall 1999.
Later I rented a motorhome in Munich, Germany and drove to Switzerland where I had an experience that was very amazing to me. I had dropped my son and his friend off in Italy(they were both 25 and had Eurail passes for a month or two around Europe). My experience was during an extremely windy and snowy night high in the Alps. The wind was so strong I had to stop the motor home as it was getting very dangerous because of the snow and ice on the roads. So I just pulled off the the side of the road at about 8000 feet elevation and parked for the night. My 80 year old mother and my 10 year old daughter were with me. I was amazed that the motor home was almost blowing over in the winds. As I went to sleep the motor home was rocking and I hoped it wouldn't blow over in the winds. When I went to sleep I dreamed my mother and daughter and I were with the (gnomes?) of the Alps. They had very craggy faces like the wooden figures one can buy of them in Switzerland. I and my daughter were with the king and Queen and they wanted to keep my daughter, who also had red hair like them. "I said, "NO!" and then I woke up. However, my dream experience had been more real that being awake. When I awoke the motorhome was still rocking but it seemed very surrealistic compared to my experience with the Swiss Gnomes.
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