I wish to share my lifetime of experience with people who are already dead or who are dying. First of all, just like drivers of cars worldwide, everyone drives pretty much the same no matter their religion or philosophy worldwide. Likewise, what happens to all souls after they leave their body or as they leave their bodies is very similar. How it is perceived by each being might be different because of religion or philosophy but scientifically what happens to the souls of all beings in passing out of whatever body they are occupying presently is pretty much the same for everyone.
It is in this quest for understanding by most beings that I am writing to lessen your suffering as a being living in a mortal body.
What I am going to recommend is not for everyone and I must say along the way to gain my understanding I have crapped my pants especially in my teens and 20s to obtain some of my knowledge of death and dying. However, after I theoretically found out about the Mahayana and the Vajrayana and then went on to actually experience them both as a scientifically based reality, fear permanently left me in regard to death and dying.
I also believe there is a scientific basis for all religions, it is just that experiencing fearlessness and peace and wisdom in regard to death and dying I find incredibly useful for those of us living in mortal bodies still.
It is easier for me to start by sharing what I experience now even though it took me about 30 years to get to even the beginning of what I'm talking about and then I now have had about another 30 years to get used to it all.
What I experience now at age 60 when someone I know and am close to dies is still very difficult at first unless the soul is very advanced and can protect both itself and me from harm. One of the easiest transitions was a Catholic Priest named Charles Moore that was also a lawyer and a friend to me. Another was my Aunt who recently passed who also seems to be very spiritually advanced.
I recounted two personal experiences with friends here but they came to me and asked me not to print those experiences so I honored their wishes. One of the first things I have to say to you is that it is very important to honor the wishes of the dead so they have no reason to seek revenge upon you. As long as you honor them they are honor bound to honor you. If they don't honor you then you can call in angels and Archangels like Michael or Jesus or whoever you pray to in your religion to protect you from harm.
Many many people have come to me at their time of passing for help as I am gifted in this way. I know who to call in to help them if they are scared or confused. It is very important to pray for relatives that don't believe in God also so they don't just hang like a grey blob over their grave or cremation urn because whenever an angel comes they just think it is a phantasm and unreal because of their earthly beliefs. So praying for your friends and relatives that believe in nothing is important for everyone's well being.
I have seen this gray blob kind to thing and have learned to pray for angels to come take the being to a place of spiritual healing.
Often times the dying are afraid, panicked or just plain confused for one reason or another. They will have a better time of it if you can reassure them that everything is okay. Whether they completely believe you or not is not what is important. What is important is that the more peacefully one can pass over the easier time that one usually has. The hardest times on the other side can come from the most traumatic and violent deaths. This is why it is so important for soldiers facing death every day to pray together and to help each other wherever possible to the other side when one goes on. This lessens greatly the trauma of the event on the soul.
My mother and I were both gifted in some of the same ways. When I was in my late twenties and visiting my mother, sometimes we would be shown just to drive somewhere on the freeway and there would be an accident and we both would help the dead and dying there transition to the other side. We would be mystically guided to these events just after they had occurred to help those in transition. Often this would bring tears to our eyes as the angels we had called arrived and took the dying away.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Deaths in Previous Wars
I was thinking about the death tolls in wars and police actions the last 20 years or so. I thought it would give some perspective to list war dead from World War II and Viet Nam so people can see how much better they have had it than then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
World_War_II_casualties#Total_human_losses
The above wikipedia address is my source for fatalities.
The total losses recorded worldwide from all nations in World War II was
72,763,500
The United States alone had 416,800 military deaths and 418,500 civilian deaths attributed to World War II.
However, the Soviet Union had 10,700,000 military deaths and 11,400,000 civilian deaths. So their total losses were 23,100,000 or 13.71% of their population as of 1939.
Whereas the United States only lost .32% of their population.
China also lost 20,000,000 people, mostly civilian during World War II as well.
Germany lost 7,293,000 total of their population, mostly military deaths.
Japan lost 2,700,000 also mostly military deaths.
However, even though the Soviet Union and China lost over 20,000,000 people each, the most meaningful statistic is the total dead of 72,763,500 worldwide which is more than the total living population of many individual nations on earth right now!
The statistics that were commonly given at the end of the Viet Nam war that I cannot find documented now online for some reason were: 50,000 American dead, 250,000 seriously wounded and maybe 1,000,000 veterans scarred mentally or physically or both for life.
If you compare these death statistics to the losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, one thinks more of police action than full out war. However, if one looks at these last two wars(Iraq and Afghanistan) in regard to the economic and political damage done to the U.S. and the Western World long term, I guess one will have to see how history decides to see all this in a longer term perspective.
Were these last two wars necessary? I think a longer view is necessary just like with Viet Nam. No one is happy about any of these wars. However, can anyone tell me what the alternative might have been? One might conjecture all sorts of things but in the end, no one really knows what might have been because that is not what actually happened.
Now, all we really have is the present and future. All those on all sides are both dead and gone no matter what their point of view was. We are alive and they are dead and in the end we all have to live with that somehow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
World_War_II_casualties#Total_human_losses
The above wikipedia address is my source for fatalities.
The total losses recorded worldwide from all nations in World War II was
72,763,500
The United States alone had 416,800 military deaths and 418,500 civilian deaths attributed to World War II.
However, the Soviet Union had 10,700,000 military deaths and 11,400,000 civilian deaths. So their total losses were 23,100,000 or 13.71% of their population as of 1939.
Whereas the United States only lost .32% of their population.
China also lost 20,000,000 people, mostly civilian during World War II as well.
Germany lost 7,293,000 total of their population, mostly military deaths.
Japan lost 2,700,000 also mostly military deaths.
However, even though the Soviet Union and China lost over 20,000,000 people each, the most meaningful statistic is the total dead of 72,763,500 worldwide which is more than the total living population of many individual nations on earth right now!
The statistics that were commonly given at the end of the Viet Nam war that I cannot find documented now online for some reason were: 50,000 American dead, 250,000 seriously wounded and maybe 1,000,000 veterans scarred mentally or physically or both for life.
If you compare these death statistics to the losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, one thinks more of police action than full out war. However, if one looks at these last two wars(Iraq and Afghanistan) in regard to the economic and political damage done to the U.S. and the Western World long term, I guess one will have to see how history decides to see all this in a longer term perspective.
Were these last two wars necessary? I think a longer view is necessary just like with Viet Nam. No one is happy about any of these wars. However, can anyone tell me what the alternative might have been? One might conjecture all sorts of things but in the end, no one really knows what might have been because that is not what actually happened.
Now, all we really have is the present and future. All those on all sides are both dead and gone no matter what their point of view was. We are alive and they are dead and in the end we all have to live with that somehow.
The Bush Legacy
It has never been easy for wartime presidents or the soldiers who fought for them and their country in times of need. It claimed the lives of many presidents: Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and President Johnson after Kennedy was assassinated which also might have been a wartime assassination because of the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
In Reagan we had a people person that the world loved. In Clinton we had a very brilliant and public man who led us into prosperity and an international positive view of the United States that was unparalleled since President Kennedy and Reagan.
Bush's Presidency will always be defined by 9-11. Bush will be seen as the western world leader that truly drew a line in the sand and said "Thus far and no further." What will come next is anyone's guess. How efficiently this was done will be debated for decades to come.
However, just after 9-11 I predicted as a psychic that Bush would be seen when leaving office as similar to President Truman who dropped the two A-bombs and firebombed Japan's cities killing millions of civilians in order to end World War II. Though Americans were happy to end the war only losing 900,000 Americans, they were embarrassed to have had to kill so many Japanese in order to end the war in the face of Kamikaze suicide warriors. However, the Japanese finally gave up in desperation in order that their whole nation wasn't rendered extinct by Truman.
Likewise, many things have been done by the United States that it wouldn't have normally done when it perceived its way of life facing extinction. Our way of life these days is facing extinction again from the price of oil and food and from Global Climate change. But that will be the job of the next president to solve.
In Reagan we had a people person that the world loved. In Clinton we had a very brilliant and public man who led us into prosperity and an international positive view of the United States that was unparalleled since President Kennedy and Reagan.
Bush's Presidency will always be defined by 9-11. Bush will be seen as the western world leader that truly drew a line in the sand and said "Thus far and no further." What will come next is anyone's guess. How efficiently this was done will be debated for decades to come.
However, just after 9-11 I predicted as a psychic that Bush would be seen when leaving office as similar to President Truman who dropped the two A-bombs and firebombed Japan's cities killing millions of civilians in order to end World War II. Though Americans were happy to end the war only losing 900,000 Americans, they were embarrassed to have had to kill so many Japanese in order to end the war in the face of Kamikaze suicide warriors. However, the Japanese finally gave up in desperation in order that their whole nation wasn't rendered extinct by Truman.
Likewise, many things have been done by the United States that it wouldn't have normally done when it perceived its way of life facing extinction. Our way of life these days is facing extinction again from the price of oil and food and from Global Climate change. But that will be the job of the next president to solve.
Precognition
First I would like to say that my experience with both life and precognition is a very personal experience for me. It might be said that life trusts me to be precognitive and to keep these gifts because I am very responsible with my gifts and because I consider all life as my family so I am trusted. Trust is very necessary for life to allow you to be as gifted as I. If you are not trusted life will find a way to take either your gifts or your life itself.
That being said I find that if I look at all this scientifically all this most closely resembles things I hear about particle physics. For example, in particle physics there is no objective reality because every experiment is affected directly by the consciousness of the observer of any experiment. So in any experiment the result is partly the product of the consciousness of the observer.
This puts the observer in the position of being a potential or actual God in regard to their lives and all the lives they affect with their consciousness and actions. Once one understands they are responsible in this way a higher level of responsibility is necessary. I can remember when life asked me to become more responsible. No. I think demanded a higher responsibility on pain of death would be more accurate. It started when I was 10 and I achieved a high enough level of consciousness to be allowed to live and have my gifts by age 15. This was a very terrifying but necessary experience.
So, at this point I'm 60 and I see all this gifted stuff in a slightly different way now.
When I look at precognition as it affects my life and others I see myself as a natural intuitive precognitive psychic that has been accepted by life and nature as being a responsible shaman or Merlin type of being who sees himself as both a Christian Mystic and as a Tibetan Buddhist also. You might say "How do you reconcile all this." My answer would be experientially "God is where you find Him" (her, it, the Being). Yes. This is a very mystical experience. But it is recognizable to you if you compare it to when you see someone you immediately fall in love with. For me, this experience can be found in any person, place, condition or thing, so I am constantly looking for God, the Beloved, everywhere and every-when. Often I find God(him, her, the Being) and am overwhelmed with love and peace with God in those moments.
My experience of being a precognitive psychic is in the context of being a servant of God. I guess the most useful way I could say it is I appear to be an incarnate angel or Archangel and in this context work for God to restore order and harmony and balance.
Things are just so in transition or "out of balance" depending upon your point of view right now on earth that "Balance" seems to be the only worthwhile goal(at least for the life that will remain on earth). Many souls will be leaving earth for other realms in this cycle though it is likely that earth will remain for many types of souls to incarnate on for millions or more years to come.
One of the reasons I write is to create a better future for all beings. Since I see the future I also see that if I write about what I see the future changes to a better one. So it is a lot for me like riding in a car and seeing potential hazards and accidents ahead and telling the driver to slow down and watch out. If the driver heads my warning things will be ok. If the driver doesn't heed my warnings then I might ask the driver to stop and let me out. The time it takes him to stop might save his life. Either way I have done what I can as God has gifted me so in my heart I have peace about it.
That being said I find that if I look at all this scientifically all this most closely resembles things I hear about particle physics. For example, in particle physics there is no objective reality because every experiment is affected directly by the consciousness of the observer of any experiment. So in any experiment the result is partly the product of the consciousness of the observer.
This puts the observer in the position of being a potential or actual God in regard to their lives and all the lives they affect with their consciousness and actions. Once one understands they are responsible in this way a higher level of responsibility is necessary. I can remember when life asked me to become more responsible. No. I think demanded a higher responsibility on pain of death would be more accurate. It started when I was 10 and I achieved a high enough level of consciousness to be allowed to live and have my gifts by age 15. This was a very terrifying but necessary experience.
So, at this point I'm 60 and I see all this gifted stuff in a slightly different way now.
When I look at precognition as it affects my life and others I see myself as a natural intuitive precognitive psychic that has been accepted by life and nature as being a responsible shaman or Merlin type of being who sees himself as both a Christian Mystic and as a Tibetan Buddhist also. You might say "How do you reconcile all this." My answer would be experientially "God is where you find Him" (her, it, the Being). Yes. This is a very mystical experience. But it is recognizable to you if you compare it to when you see someone you immediately fall in love with. For me, this experience can be found in any person, place, condition or thing, so I am constantly looking for God, the Beloved, everywhere and every-when. Often I find God(him, her, the Being) and am overwhelmed with love and peace with God in those moments.
My experience of being a precognitive psychic is in the context of being a servant of God. I guess the most useful way I could say it is I appear to be an incarnate angel or Archangel and in this context work for God to restore order and harmony and balance.
Things are just so in transition or "out of balance" depending upon your point of view right now on earth that "Balance" seems to be the only worthwhile goal(at least for the life that will remain on earth). Many souls will be leaving earth for other realms in this cycle though it is likely that earth will remain for many types of souls to incarnate on for millions or more years to come.
One of the reasons I write is to create a better future for all beings. Since I see the future I also see that if I write about what I see the future changes to a better one. So it is a lot for me like riding in a car and seeing potential hazards and accidents ahead and telling the driver to slow down and watch out. If the driver heads my warning things will be ok. If the driver doesn't heed my warnings then I might ask the driver to stop and let me out. The time it takes him to stop might save his life. Either way I have done what I can as God has gifted me so in my heart I have peace about it.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Conversations with Vegetables
Yes. You read this right. It all started at a Greek Restaurant with my grown son, my 12 year old and my wife and I. My wife said after we all laughed until we all almost fell out of our dinner chairs, "Fred. You need to write about this." I said, "You know this would make a great title for a book." I thought to myself about the book called "The Secret Life of Plants" that came out I believe in the 1970s.
What I said to my family has to be put in context or you will surely think me a loon. First of all, I have been a lifelong telepathic and psychic. Even at age 2 I knew what people thought and wondered why no one (at least adults) ever said what they actually thought about anything. I would wonder as a child about the mental gymnastics that adults went though not to infuriate other adults with the truth of what they actually thought and felt and by 12 to 15 began to understand that basic politeness was how wars and fights were prevented by adults and how civilization actually functioned as well as it did at least where we live in the U.S. and Europe and other civilized places.
As I grew older being a psychic made me naturally gravitate toward animism as a personal experience of life all the time. An animist experiences all things as being alive. An animist who is extremely telepathic and a precognitive psychic like me can communicate with anything, sometimes with very humorous results. What is even funnier is that many times plants, animals, and even inanimate objects save my life by telling me how not to die or be maimed. This happens all the time so I have just grown used to it like many country people worldwide. I find that only country people and those city people who have learned to slow down and process intuitively with common sense all the time live in this "safe" world that I live in. As long as I am "in tune" with all life around me I am safe. They take care of me and I likewise take care of all beings around me all the time as best as I can.
So, when my daughter said, "People who are vegetarians are funny because they are against eating living things, plants are alive. Imagine what a piece of celery could be thinking while it was going down one's throat?" the conversation came to a perfect timing point for me to mention that I have conversations with apples, tomatoes, celery, lettuce and especially potatoes before I bake them in the microwave. I said, "The potatoes say to me 'what are you doing?' and I will say I'm going to cook you and they usually say something like, 'well this should be an interesting experience'". I don't tell the potatoes too much because that would be unkind and make them afraid.
I have made this mistake before and since I have to eat the potatoes to stay alive it is sort of like native americans when they kill a deer they say, "I'm sorry dear, my family needs your meat to live. Please forgive me for taking your life. I will use every part of you so I won't have to kill another deer very soon. You will become my tent, my winter clothes, your horns I will use as knives and your brains I will use to cure your skin to make a soft buckskin for my wife. I will use all of you so I won't have to kill again soon". This is the kind of thing native Americans say when taking a life to survive.
Likewise, if an innocent tomato or potato or apple asks me something I try to be kind and to think how I would feel while being eaten and what I would like to hear. So I try to treat all beings as my friends or relatives even while I know I have to eat to live. I feel less obligation with more processed food because it is not alive in the same way anymore. But whole tomatoes, apples, carrots, heads of lettuce etc. are very alive and consciousness is usually very innocent in these beings so they deserve respect. If you cannot respect your food then you cannot respect yourself.
What I said to my family has to be put in context or you will surely think me a loon. First of all, I have been a lifelong telepathic and psychic. Even at age 2 I knew what people thought and wondered why no one (at least adults) ever said what they actually thought about anything. I would wonder as a child about the mental gymnastics that adults went though not to infuriate other adults with the truth of what they actually thought and felt and by 12 to 15 began to understand that basic politeness was how wars and fights were prevented by adults and how civilization actually functioned as well as it did at least where we live in the U.S. and Europe and other civilized places.
As I grew older being a psychic made me naturally gravitate toward animism as a personal experience of life all the time. An animist experiences all things as being alive. An animist who is extremely telepathic and a precognitive psychic like me can communicate with anything, sometimes with very humorous results. What is even funnier is that many times plants, animals, and even inanimate objects save my life by telling me how not to die or be maimed. This happens all the time so I have just grown used to it like many country people worldwide. I find that only country people and those city people who have learned to slow down and process intuitively with common sense all the time live in this "safe" world that I live in. As long as I am "in tune" with all life around me I am safe. They take care of me and I likewise take care of all beings around me all the time as best as I can.
So, when my daughter said, "People who are vegetarians are funny because they are against eating living things, plants are alive. Imagine what a piece of celery could be thinking while it was going down one's throat?" the conversation came to a perfect timing point for me to mention that I have conversations with apples, tomatoes, celery, lettuce and especially potatoes before I bake them in the microwave. I said, "The potatoes say to me 'what are you doing?' and I will say I'm going to cook you and they usually say something like, 'well this should be an interesting experience'". I don't tell the potatoes too much because that would be unkind and make them afraid.
I have made this mistake before and since I have to eat the potatoes to stay alive it is sort of like native americans when they kill a deer they say, "I'm sorry dear, my family needs your meat to live. Please forgive me for taking your life. I will use every part of you so I won't have to kill another deer very soon. You will become my tent, my winter clothes, your horns I will use as knives and your brains I will use to cure your skin to make a soft buckskin for my wife. I will use all of you so I won't have to kill again soon". This is the kind of thing native Americans say when taking a life to survive.
Likewise, if an innocent tomato or potato or apple asks me something I try to be kind and to think how I would feel while being eaten and what I would like to hear. So I try to treat all beings as my friends or relatives even while I know I have to eat to live. I feel less obligation with more processed food because it is not alive in the same way anymore. But whole tomatoes, apples, carrots, heads of lettuce etc. are very alive and consciousness is usually very innocent in these beings so they deserve respect. If you cannot respect your food then you cannot respect yourself.
Speculation on Iran
Both as an intelligent person and as a precognitive psychic I think that there is a 75% chance that Israel will take out Iran's nuclear facilities and succeed at that between August 1st and December 1st 2008. Israel sees no other option. This is a given.
Now at this point the future becomes very murky if this takes place. If this takes place then I think there is an 80% chance that all hell breaks loose in the middle east. It is difficult to say if Israel is the same or not. The end result likely would be the collapse of the present Iranian government within 5 years because of a wide area of nuclear poisoning similar to Chernobyl in Russia. Chernobyl was one of the reason the Soviet Government collapsed as well.
The Iranian oil tankers waiting near Iran that are filled with oil waiting for higher oil prices to finance further military enhancements might also be blown up by Israel. This might be a given as well.
The attack on Iranian nuclear facilities (if it happens) will also create McCain as the next American president which Israel might feel is in its best survival interests.
However, I believe a better outcome in the long run for the world is Obama as president. It would have a worldwide calming affect like when Kennedy was president from 1960 until his assassination in 1963. The danger of Obama becoming president is that there is above a 50% chance he would be assassinated like Kennedy.
However, it is also true that every president elected on a zero ending year since 1849 has either been assassinated in office or has died in office or has died shortly after leaving office. Reagan is the only exception to this and this was accomplished by Nancy Reagan consulting and astrologer so he was sworn into office at a different time in order to keep him alive as long as he lived. So, it is possible since Reagan avoided the death zero curse it is also possible that Bush can too.
Now at this point the future becomes very murky if this takes place. If this takes place then I think there is an 80% chance that all hell breaks loose in the middle east. It is difficult to say if Israel is the same or not. The end result likely would be the collapse of the present Iranian government within 5 years because of a wide area of nuclear poisoning similar to Chernobyl in Russia. Chernobyl was one of the reason the Soviet Government collapsed as well.
The Iranian oil tankers waiting near Iran that are filled with oil waiting for higher oil prices to finance further military enhancements might also be blown up by Israel. This might be a given as well.
The attack on Iranian nuclear facilities (if it happens) will also create McCain as the next American president which Israel might feel is in its best survival interests.
However, I believe a better outcome in the long run for the world is Obama as president. It would have a worldwide calming affect like when Kennedy was president from 1960 until his assassination in 1963. The danger of Obama becoming president is that there is above a 50% chance he would be assassinated like Kennedy.
However, it is also true that every president elected on a zero ending year since 1849 has either been assassinated in office or has died in office or has died shortly after leaving office. Reagan is the only exception to this and this was accomplished by Nancy Reagan consulting and astrologer so he was sworn into office at a different time in order to keep him alive as long as he lived. So, it is possible since Reagan avoided the death zero curse it is also possible that Bush can too.
Friday, July 4, 2008
For the Airlines
For me, personally, the problems associated with airlines have become so extreme that I usually don't choose to fly unless it is over a large ocean. Car or train is usually now a much better option because Amtrak for example, costs about half as much as paying for gas to drive my car most places now over about 100 miles.
However, I was listening to an airline executive say that airlines would have to eventually go out of business if oil was sustained above 130 dollars a barrel. It looks like we are already there.
I was thinking about this problem and it made sense to me for airlines in the United States to whenever possible to fill up their planes in Mexico because jet fuel likely costs less there, as long as there was a way to assure quality of fuel as equal to the United States. Otherwise, airlines who don't send as many flights through Mexico as possible will soon be out of business because of the price of jet fuel. Other countries where jet fuel might be less expensive might be Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, China etc. Do the research.
Mexico, at around $2.50 a gallon for regular might sell jet fuel less as well if it is refined there. So, for example, a Los Angeles to Miama flight might route through Mexico City or a more northern Mexico town to fill up with jet fuel. There might be other considerations than I might be aware of but without thinking outside the box the only airlines left alive will be out of Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Venezuela, China and a few others within a few years. Hopefully, the oil bubble will burst soon just like the dot com bust. But until then airlines must be very creative to stay in business.
However, I was listening to an airline executive say that airlines would have to eventually go out of business if oil was sustained above 130 dollars a barrel. It looks like we are already there.
I was thinking about this problem and it made sense to me for airlines in the United States to whenever possible to fill up their planes in Mexico because jet fuel likely costs less there, as long as there was a way to assure quality of fuel as equal to the United States. Otherwise, airlines who don't send as many flights through Mexico as possible will soon be out of business because of the price of jet fuel. Other countries where jet fuel might be less expensive might be Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, China etc. Do the research.
Mexico, at around $2.50 a gallon for regular might sell jet fuel less as well if it is refined there. So, for example, a Los Angeles to Miama flight might route through Mexico City or a more northern Mexico town to fill up with jet fuel. There might be other considerations than I might be aware of but without thinking outside the box the only airlines left alive will be out of Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Venezuela, China and a few others within a few years. Hopefully, the oil bubble will burst soon just like the dot com bust. But until then airlines must be very creative to stay in business.
Hancock
Hancock is a strange superhero movie. It is very unconventional. About halfway through it takes a completely unexpected turn. I won't say what it is so I don't give it away for those of you who haven't seen it yet. After this turn it is difficult to see how they are going to resolve everything.
When my family left the theater we didn't exactly know what to feel. However, the one thing we did know is that there might be a sequel if enough people like this movie. I'd like to see a sequel. If there is one it likely would be better than the first Hancock since after the first movie most of the plot setup has already happened.
Hancock has had amnesia for about 80 years(he doesn't age) so that is the basic superhero setup right there.
When my family left the theater we didn't exactly know what to feel. However, the one thing we did know is that there might be a sequel if enough people like this movie. I'd like to see a sequel. If there is one it likely would be better than the first Hancock since after the first movie most of the plot setup has already happened.
Hancock has had amnesia for about 80 years(he doesn't age) so that is the basic superhero setup right there.
Dreams and Reality
One way to look at all religions would be to say that each one is a dream version of reality. From this point of view no religion would either be right or wrong, valid or invalid but only a shared dream of a group of people on earth.
It reminds me a lot, for example, of two men in love with the same woman. The woman might be in love with both men or one of them or neither of them. However, if these men decided that their dream of love with that woman was necessary to be lived to stay alive then both men as well as the woman might die even if she wasn't interested in either of them. I see war caused by religion a lot like this. People dying because of conflicting versions of their dreams.
Being able to step back from ones religion or even from all religions for a moment might bring sanity for our world and prevent the mass extinction eventually of humankind because of conflicting dreams(religions).
It reminds me a lot, for example, of two men in love with the same woman. The woman might be in love with both men or one of them or neither of them. However, if these men decided that their dream of love with that woman was necessary to be lived to stay alive then both men as well as the woman might die even if she wasn't interested in either of them. I see war caused by religion a lot like this. People dying because of conflicting versions of their dreams.
Being able to step back from ones religion or even from all religions for a moment might bring sanity for our world and prevent the mass extinction eventually of humankind because of conflicting dreams(religions).
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Denmark 'world's happiest nation'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7487143.stm
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Our research indicates prosperity is linked with happiness. It does contribute," he says, "but it is not the most important factor.
"Personal freedom is even more important, and it's freedom in all kinds of ways. Political freedom, like with democracy and freedom of choice." end quote.
If I look at my own life, for example, after 60 years, the happiest times were not necessarily associated with Great Wealth but with freedom of choice and good physical health. Now, wealth is nice but I would likely trade it for the physically pain free 20s or the wise 30s with less physical pain than one tends to have at 60. I felt more free then because of my health and because I at least seemed to have less obligations and responsibilities.
However, the least happy times of my life were probably from age 18 to 24 when I had the most girlfriends and my life mostly was just about me. My highest level of satisfaction has always been about being a good father but not necessarily being a good husband. However, now I have the best of all worlds because I am married to my best friend in this lifetime, my wife. In this way I'm married to my best friend and being faithful to my best friend is always easy for me. Being there for my kids whether or not they are there for me always also makes my life worthwhile. A house that's paid for and being mostly retired is nice too.
Begin quote from above internet address:
Our research indicates prosperity is linked with happiness. It does contribute," he says, "but it is not the most important factor.
"Personal freedom is even more important, and it's freedom in all kinds of ways. Political freedom, like with democracy and freedom of choice." end quote.
If I look at my own life, for example, after 60 years, the happiest times were not necessarily associated with Great Wealth but with freedom of choice and good physical health. Now, wealth is nice but I would likely trade it for the physically pain free 20s or the wise 30s with less physical pain than one tends to have at 60. I felt more free then because of my health and because I at least seemed to have less obligations and responsibilities.
However, the least happy times of my life were probably from age 18 to 24 when I had the most girlfriends and my life mostly was just about me. My highest level of satisfaction has always been about being a good father but not necessarily being a good husband. However, now I have the best of all worlds because I am married to my best friend in this lifetime, my wife. In this way I'm married to my best friend and being faithful to my best friend is always easy for me. Being there for my kids whether or not they are there for me always also makes my life worthwhile. A house that's paid for and being mostly retired is nice too.
Putting the county First
This following is a quote by John McCain from an article he recently wrote. Even though I presently support Obama because I think he is what the world needs now to survive I greatly respect McCain's patriotism and sacrifice for this country. If McCain was younger and if Bush hadn't just been president for 8 years I think McCain might have made a good president if he were elected in 2000.
Begin quote:
Two of our greatest statesmen, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, took their last breaths on July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after they presented America with our Declaration of Independence. They had been fellow revolutionaries, the closest of comrades, who went on to become bitter political rivals. Then, as the new era of the 1800s dawned, they reconciled, reminded of their old friendship and the momentous history they had made together. "Who shall write the history of the American revolution?" Adams asked Jefferson in one of the 158 letters they exchanged after they'd rediscovered their bonds. "Nobody," responded Jefferson, suggesting that while writers could understand the facts, they might never grasp the sacrifices.endquote
All of us make varying sacrifices for what we believe in. For example, when I graduated High School, my mother needed and operation so I didn't go to college for one year and worked full time to help pay for this operation and put off returning to college for this purpose. Other boys my age joined the military or were drafted and went to Viet Nam. I wasn't drafted because I had had childhood epilepsy and sunstroke. At the time I was embarrassed by this and usually told people I had a student deferment when I was in college. Each of us make the sacrifices necessary to keep our family and friends alive. Some people take this even further and give up their lives and personal fortunes for the future of their country. It is all a matter of what gifts we have and how we want to use them.
Whatever gifts you have be sure to be kind and wise and efficient, all the time doing whatever you can to help all beings. Living in this way always creates success of all kinds in ones life and in the lives of those around you.
Begin quote:
Two of our greatest statesmen, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, took their last breaths on July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after they presented America with our Declaration of Independence. They had been fellow revolutionaries, the closest of comrades, who went on to become bitter political rivals. Then, as the new era of the 1800s dawned, they reconciled, reminded of their old friendship and the momentous history they had made together. "Who shall write the history of the American revolution?" Adams asked Jefferson in one of the 158 letters they exchanged after they'd rediscovered their bonds. "Nobody," responded Jefferson, suggesting that while writers could understand the facts, they might never grasp the sacrifices.endquote
All of us make varying sacrifices for what we believe in. For example, when I graduated High School, my mother needed and operation so I didn't go to college for one year and worked full time to help pay for this operation and put off returning to college for this purpose. Other boys my age joined the military or were drafted and went to Viet Nam. I wasn't drafted because I had had childhood epilepsy and sunstroke. At the time I was embarrassed by this and usually told people I had a student deferment when I was in college. Each of us make the sacrifices necessary to keep our family and friends alive. Some people take this even further and give up their lives and personal fortunes for the future of their country. It is all a matter of what gifts we have and how we want to use them.
Whatever gifts you have be sure to be kind and wise and efficient, all the time doing whatever you can to help all beings. Living in this way always creates success of all kinds in ones life and in the lives of those around you.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Millions of Years of Saving Lives
First of all I have believed in reincarnation since my parents taught me to believe. Second, since I was in my early to late teens I started to remember my lifetimes, past, present and future. There seems to be a theme in all these lives and it is saving lives. So whether I was a priest, soldier, diplomat, farmer or whatever, my goal was always to save lives any way I could either according to the rules or by making my own when necessary to save lives. My own life has always in all these lives has been about living for others, so that others could stay alive. Sometimes, this wasn't always true as a child but eventually I had suffered enough to value the lives and health of my family and friends. So all my lives have been lived to save lives, to protect lives any way I could.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Choppy dreams
In times of extreme change on earth I have noticed all my life that my dreams get choppy and seem to make less sense than usual. You may have noticed the same thing. I could say that because I am a livelong precognitive psychic that I am more sensitive to this than other people. I don't think this is necessarily true. What might be true is that because of my gifts I am just more observant of these things than most people tend to be. People tend to value what keeps them alive. My gifts early on because of childhood epilepsy and a father who didn't believe in Phenobarbitol as a medicine meant that I had to go it alone. The only way I had to survive it was watching my emotions and thoughts like a hawk all the time in order to perfectly gauge what was going on inside of me. This meditation makes me now the way I presently am. I am very aware of all emotional and internal goings on all the time waking and sleeping.
What I'm noticing is how all life is being affected by all the changes, weather, oil prices, food prices, and more. This greatly affects all our dreams. In times of serious stress dreams tend to get more extreme and vivid. Night and day dreams tell us a lot about how to survive these times. We tend to be more observant in our dreams and sometimes less panicked about these changes than while awake. This is why it is important to watch your dreams for useful signs to help you survive your lives and to protect yourself and your families on into the future.
So, I guess what I'm trying to say is there will be those choppy dreams that one can make no sense at all with, and there will be once in a while a very clear vivid dream that just might save your life and the life of your family.
What I'm noticing is how all life is being affected by all the changes, weather, oil prices, food prices, and more. This greatly affects all our dreams. In times of serious stress dreams tend to get more extreme and vivid. Night and day dreams tell us a lot about how to survive these times. We tend to be more observant in our dreams and sometimes less panicked about these changes than while awake. This is why it is important to watch your dreams for useful signs to help you survive your lives and to protect yourself and your families on into the future.
So, I guess what I'm trying to say is there will be those choppy dreams that one can make no sense at all with, and there will be once in a while a very clear vivid dream that just might save your life and the life of your family.
Mars and Beyond
With the latest probes on Mars comes the realization that Mars soil can grow some foods right now and there is water there. This opens many doors that were relatively or completely unexpected or at least unknown before.
http://www.sitchin.com/
There is a book called "the 12th Planet" by Zecharia Sitchin. This website seems to be related to all this. He purportedly translated ancient Sumerian clay tablets and in the translations it talked about space travle 450,000 years ago,and a space base on Mars. I believe this same book speaks about the Asteroid belt which was once a planet. a Soviet Probe that was sent to the Asteroids in the 1970s discovered that the Asteroids were a planet that had been destroyed by thermonuclear weapons. This makes me think that the Asteroid planet and Mars were both inhabited and something blew one up and this blew off most of Mars atmosphere and Mars became uninhabitable too. Likely, the survivors of those planets came to earth after the dinosaurs died from a piece of the Asteroid Planet hitting earth and killing most large dinosaurs. So, possibly we are the descendants of the people who blew up the Asteroid belt planet with thermonuclear weapons. I was told by a friend of mine who had an IQ of over 200 and spoke 20 languages including Russian, that one of the main reasons the Soviet Union collapsed was this information about the Soviet Probe and the thermonuclear war destroying that planet in the solar system. The intelligencia of the old Soviet Union didn't want this happening again on earth.
http://www.sitchin.com/
There is a book called "the 12th Planet" by Zecharia Sitchin. This website seems to be related to all this. He purportedly translated ancient Sumerian clay tablets and in the translations it talked about space travle 450,000 years ago,and a space base on Mars. I believe this same book speaks about the Asteroid belt which was once a planet. a Soviet Probe that was sent to the Asteroids in the 1970s discovered that the Asteroids were a planet that had been destroyed by thermonuclear weapons. This makes me think that the Asteroid planet and Mars were both inhabited and something blew one up and this blew off most of Mars atmosphere and Mars became uninhabitable too. Likely, the survivors of those planets came to earth after the dinosaurs died from a piece of the Asteroid Planet hitting earth and killing most large dinosaurs. So, possibly we are the descendants of the people who blew up the Asteroid belt planet with thermonuclear weapons. I was told by a friend of mine who had an IQ of over 200 and spoke 20 languages including Russian, that one of the main reasons the Soviet Union collapsed was this information about the Soviet Probe and the thermonuclear war destroying that planet in the solar system. The intelligencia of the old Soviet Union didn't want this happening again on earth.
The Voyage of Discovery
Individually and collectively as the human race as well as all life on and of the earth, we are constantly discovering things from the moment we are conceived and maybe long even before that. It is always convenient to limit consciousness to when a child talks but I have memory long before that quite clearly. However, it is of course a different type of consciousness than most of us who are civilized relate to.
For example, I have lived far from civilization for months at a time without electricity for the most part and 10 miles from the nearest small town with my wife and three children during the early 1980s. We did this by choice and home schooled our kids. During this time we experienced our senses slow down but also open much wider than is helpful or safe if one is living in the speedy city. I found it became natural to view the wild forest as a part of me. As my senses slowed down I became more and more a part of the forest and the forest became more a part of me. It could be said that I experienced while I was in the wilderness, strength and unification and communication from the forest to me and from me to the forest. I experience this now from living remotely there now anytime I am near the ocean a forest or in the desert away from major civilization. I am usually as at peace in the wilderness of forest, sea or desert as I am uncomfortable in big cities with smog. Cities, I find to be mostly sources of confusion and out of touchedness and the remaining wild places tend to be places of spiritual refuge.
I find people in cities must many times use alcohol or drugs to cope (both legal and illegal) whereas out in the country that isn't really necessary if one knows how to commune with nature. For example, if you are in distress you can walk up to a friendly tree and many times the tree or trees will take away your distress. Getting rid of distress is much harder to do deep in a city than it is walking along the ocean or being with nice trees in a forest.
In some ways the fuel shortage and extremely high prices separate people living in the country and people living in the cities once again. This is both good and bad. It will be the hardest on the poor in the city and the poor in the country. It will also be hard on anyone who earns their living in regard to vacations or the travel business of any kind.
However, it will also reduce country smog(except for forest fires). It might be harder to afford to live in the country unless you are retired also. So more people will be in cities and suburbia just to make a living and going to the country will be a really big deal for those who don't live there already.
Learning to be comfortable in the wilderness, I have found is the essence of spirituality for me. When I learned to be comfortable in the wilderness, I also learned to be comfortable with myself. I learned not to panic. I learned to be nicer to myself and nicer to others. By learning to be at peace with myself in the wilderness, I also learned how to be a better father, husband and human being.
In the end we are all wild creatures. Accepting this is the beginning of self discovery. You have to accept your wildness before you can understand the necessity for self discipline as a being. Self discipline is meaningless without understanding wildness. Human beings are infinitely more than most people think!
For example, I have lived far from civilization for months at a time without electricity for the most part and 10 miles from the nearest small town with my wife and three children during the early 1980s. We did this by choice and home schooled our kids. During this time we experienced our senses slow down but also open much wider than is helpful or safe if one is living in the speedy city. I found it became natural to view the wild forest as a part of me. As my senses slowed down I became more and more a part of the forest and the forest became more a part of me. It could be said that I experienced while I was in the wilderness, strength and unification and communication from the forest to me and from me to the forest. I experience this now from living remotely there now anytime I am near the ocean a forest or in the desert away from major civilization. I am usually as at peace in the wilderness of forest, sea or desert as I am uncomfortable in big cities with smog. Cities, I find to be mostly sources of confusion and out of touchedness and the remaining wild places tend to be places of spiritual refuge.
I find people in cities must many times use alcohol or drugs to cope (both legal and illegal) whereas out in the country that isn't really necessary if one knows how to commune with nature. For example, if you are in distress you can walk up to a friendly tree and many times the tree or trees will take away your distress. Getting rid of distress is much harder to do deep in a city than it is walking along the ocean or being with nice trees in a forest.
In some ways the fuel shortage and extremely high prices separate people living in the country and people living in the cities once again. This is both good and bad. It will be the hardest on the poor in the city and the poor in the country. It will also be hard on anyone who earns their living in regard to vacations or the travel business of any kind.
However, it will also reduce country smog(except for forest fires). It might be harder to afford to live in the country unless you are retired also. So more people will be in cities and suburbia just to make a living and going to the country will be a really big deal for those who don't live there already.
Learning to be comfortable in the wilderness, I have found is the essence of spirituality for me. When I learned to be comfortable in the wilderness, I also learned to be comfortable with myself. I learned not to panic. I learned to be nicer to myself and nicer to others. By learning to be at peace with myself in the wilderness, I also learned how to be a better father, husband and human being.
In the end we are all wild creatures. Accepting this is the beginning of self discovery. You have to accept your wildness before you can understand the necessity for self discipline as a being. Self discipline is meaningless without understanding wildness. Human beings are infinitely more than most people think!
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