Between 1980 and the early 2000s I wrote the many chapters and sections of "Memories". Originally Arcane, Lord Fire, Elohar and Ragna, etc. were all written independently by me but as I reread them I realized they all are a part of the same cosmology and timeline. When I almost died in 1998 from a Heart virus I had the time while coming back to life to realize that I was actually writing about the past lives of myself and my friends and relatives which I had already experienced in the past, present and future. Am I asking you to believe me? Why should you if this is not your experience? It is still hard for me to believe and I have experienced it. So whether you see this as science fiction, spiritual unfoldment teachings or actual past life experiences or all three is perfectly fine with me.
http://intuitivefred888.blogspot.com/2009/05/memories-book.html
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Sequels to online book "Memories"
If you have already read my free online book "Memories" then you might be interested in some short sequels written after the "Memories" book
http://intuitivefred888.blogspot.com/2009/05/character-based-short-sequels-to.html
Year later: Here is my new archive site that likely didn't exist when I wrote this in 2009:
The sequels names are His Oneness, Arcane, Celeste, Jonathan, Ragna, Eridian, Flame, Planet Savers, Elohar and some are related also like UNUS, Tommy, Protectors, Hiding, Yesu, and Mahasiddha. So, though all these go in slightly different directions, they all occupy the same universe that I experience.
http://intuitivefred888.blogspot.com/2009/05/character-based-short-sequels-to.html
Year later: Here is my new archive site that likely didn't exist when I wrote this in 2009:
The sequels names are His Oneness, Arcane, Celeste, Jonathan, Ragna, Eridian, Flame, Planet Savers, Elohar and some are related also like UNUS, Tommy, Protectors, Hiding, Yesu, and Mahasiddha. So, though all these go in slightly different directions, they all occupy the same universe that I experience.
The Taliban Strategy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/16/taliban-prefer-dead-diplomats
As the above article illustrates the real target of the bombing was American diplomats. Since this is a guerrila war and not a rich nation fighting a rich nation it is much more like the war the American colonists fought against the British in 1776. Because of this the Taliban can only win when they choose the time and the place to fight and it is a surprise, an ambush. This is the only way they can win battles. There is no other way for them. They will simply wear the Western World down through trying to bankrupt Western nations. This battle by the Taliban as it is being fought could feasibly go on for hundreds of years or when the Western World or India or China gets so upset that they either nuke the area so no one lives there or spray agent orange again so no plants can live there as in the DMZ of Viet Nam where there are still multiple headed and legged people being born 40 years later from spraying agent orange. It all depends who gets ultimately upset first. And the longer this goes on the more likely it is that no one will be able to ever live again in Afghanistan, Pakistan or in that area. There must be a way out found so all can live in peace. Otherwise, no one will ever live in that area ever again. Just do the logic. Just do the math. I suppose it could look like Viet Nam does now. That would be another alternative.
So this thing will go on as long as any country is willing to pay for it.(Or drug lord in the case of the Taliban).
As the above article illustrates the real target of the bombing was American diplomats. Since this is a guerrila war and not a rich nation fighting a rich nation it is much more like the war the American colonists fought against the British in 1776. Because of this the Taliban can only win when they choose the time and the place to fight and it is a surprise, an ambush. This is the only way they can win battles. There is no other way for them. They will simply wear the Western World down through trying to bankrupt Western nations. This battle by the Taliban as it is being fought could feasibly go on for hundreds of years or when the Western World or India or China gets so upset that they either nuke the area so no one lives there or spray agent orange again so no plants can live there as in the DMZ of Viet Nam where there are still multiple headed and legged people being born 40 years later from spraying agent orange. It all depends who gets ultimately upset first. And the longer this goes on the more likely it is that no one will be able to ever live again in Afghanistan, Pakistan or in that area. There must be a way out found so all can live in peace. Otherwise, no one will ever live in that area ever again. Just do the logic. Just do the math. I suppose it could look like Viet Nam does now. That would be another alternative.
So this thing will go on as long as any country is willing to pay for it.(Or drug lord in the case of the Taliban).
Friday, August 14, 2009
Ashes in the Ocean
Since Mom died last fall I have waited with her ashes on my grand piano to put her ashes to rest. At first I wanted them to be on a mountain with my Dad. But realized I need to honor her wishes which was: "Anywhere in the ocean". So, finally I"m honoring my mother. I needed to wait for my son who has been busy in college to get some time off this summer and have time to process my mother's passing. Finally, this week he said he could deal with putting my mother's ashes to rest in the ocean as was her wish. I think if it were up to what I would want(if it was only me) I would like my Mother's ashes to always be on my piano listening to me, my daughter and others of my family play and sing like she used to do while singing with me and the rest of us, especially Christmas carols at Christmas.
However, there are many others including my mother that I have to listen to if I am to have a clear conscious and self respect. So soon my mothers ashes will be in the sea.
It has been a long road to get to this point and so in a way I am relieved. However, I'm not exactly sure how I will feel in the short and long run with Mom's ashes gone into the sea.
My 13 year old daughter said to me that I'm old fashioned and that I was about her age 50 years ago which is close to the truth as I'm now 61. But there is another statistic that says the later person has children the longer lives they tend to have. But for me, since I started at 26 and now have a 35 year old son, a 20 year old daughter and a 13 year old daughter(all biological) and two step kids and two goddaughters I feel my life has been greatly extended by all this family already. So, though MOm's ashes will be gone soon into the ocean I still have the rest of my near and extended family and friends and for this I am truly grateful every day.
However, there are many others including my mother that I have to listen to if I am to have a clear conscious and self respect. So soon my mothers ashes will be in the sea.
It has been a long road to get to this point and so in a way I am relieved. However, I'm not exactly sure how I will feel in the short and long run with Mom's ashes gone into the sea.
My 13 year old daughter said to me that I'm old fashioned and that I was about her age 50 years ago which is close to the truth as I'm now 61. But there is another statistic that says the later person has children the longer lives they tend to have. But for me, since I started at 26 and now have a 35 year old son, a 20 year old daughter and a 13 year old daughter(all biological) and two step kids and two goddaughters I feel my life has been greatly extended by all this family already. So, though MOm's ashes will be gone soon into the ocean I still have the rest of my near and extended family and friends and for this I am truly grateful every day.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
new Kind of Polar Vehicle is needed
I found this at my other website in my journal in 2007. I still think it is a good idea today.
"I was thinking as I was waking up this morning about what kind of new vehicle was needed so snowmobiles didn't sink into the melting ice and permafrost. Though all this might become a moot point of the price of gasoline keeps going up, I was thinking that if one combined the characteristics of a snowmobile with a jet ski that also had an electric winch that three or more of these vehicles could tie together for safety and travel either ice or melting permafrost and survive the ordeal. Though the vehicle I envsion is more for thin ice, another type of vehicle could be designed for travelling over melting permafrost. (An ideal permafrost vehicle would be a light weight tank tread vehicle like a snowmobile with small tank treads on the front for stearing.)"
Today: I was thinking more about this as I read it and thought about start with a jet ski that floats and semi-protects the rider(s) from freezing to death by keeping them out of the water somewhat. If you took this vehicle to arctic situations and people were wearing dry diving suits to keep them warm so they wouldn't get frostbite and then added a lightweight track similar to a snowmobile. With a winch powered directly by the gasoline engine or as an electrical power takeoff from the engine like winches on 4 wheel drives on land, this could allow a vehicle to not sink when the ice cracks when traveling over the ocean on ice. If the ice split apart you would stay relatively dry. If stuck you could pull out your winch and attach it through large ice screws or grapling hooks into the ice and just keep going. If your ice flow broke away from the mainland, you simply launch it into the ocean and ride jet ski style back to land. When you reach land then use your tank treads again to ride home.
If you have ever seen a Duck that has wheels like a truck on land and goes into water like a boat with a propeller the vehicle I'm thinking of is basically like this only it only takes 1 or 2 people instead of about 20 to 40 like a Duck.
With the melting Arctic and Antarctic this kind of vehicle will naturally be developed for hunters, explorers and tourists over time and used during the times when ice is breaking up and away from land islands and major land masses.
"I was thinking as I was waking up this morning about what kind of new vehicle was needed so snowmobiles didn't sink into the melting ice and permafrost. Though all this might become a moot point of the price of gasoline keeps going up, I was thinking that if one combined the characteristics of a snowmobile with a jet ski that also had an electric winch that three or more of these vehicles could tie together for safety and travel either ice or melting permafrost and survive the ordeal. Though the vehicle I envsion is more for thin ice, another type of vehicle could be designed for travelling over melting permafrost. (An ideal permafrost vehicle would be a light weight tank tread vehicle like a snowmobile with small tank treads on the front for stearing.)"
Today: I was thinking more about this as I read it and thought about start with a jet ski that floats and semi-protects the rider(s) from freezing to death by keeping them out of the water somewhat. If you took this vehicle to arctic situations and people were wearing dry diving suits to keep them warm so they wouldn't get frostbite and then added a lightweight track similar to a snowmobile. With a winch powered directly by the gasoline engine or as an electrical power takeoff from the engine like winches on 4 wheel drives on land, this could allow a vehicle to not sink when the ice cracks when traveling over the ocean on ice. If the ice split apart you would stay relatively dry. If stuck you could pull out your winch and attach it through large ice screws or grapling hooks into the ice and just keep going. If your ice flow broke away from the mainland, you simply launch it into the ocean and ride jet ski style back to land. When you reach land then use your tank treads again to ride home.
If you have ever seen a Duck that has wheels like a truck on land and goes into water like a boat with a propeller the vehicle I'm thinking of is basically like this only it only takes 1 or 2 people instead of about 20 to 40 like a Duck.
With the melting Arctic and Antarctic this kind of vehicle will naturally be developed for hunters, explorers and tourists over time and used during the times when ice is breaking up and away from land islands and major land masses.
Traveling Time and Space
It is possible to travel both time and space simaltaneously without any technology outside of ones body and consciousness.
However, the question then often becomes: Is this practical or useful in any way?
For, in the end we all must deal with eating, breathing, living, defecating, urinating and our sexual sides as well as just the basic survival of living every day.
There are some who are terrified of you knowing it is possible to do this because they have a vested interest of you being disempowered so they can turn you just into a consumer or other type of slave to their whims. However, this is nothing new. People have been enslaving each other psychologically, religiously, physically, mentally etc as long a humans have been in existence on this planet or any other.
To give you an example of how almost everyone already travels time and space all the time every day in their consciousness one need only turn to pictures, reading, TV, computers, telling stories to one another etc.
In the above examples most people don't realize that they actually travel to where and when they think about in their consciousness. Where and when you travel to can be equally as dangerous as going to the wrong side of town and getting physically murdered. So, it behooves each of us to be very careful where we travel in our consciousness so we don't wind up insane or dead by accident.
What one thinks about is equally as important as what one actually does physically. Once a person learns this then they are possibly safe enough to learn to soul travel as long as their motivation is a good one. And if one's time soul traveling benefits both they and the ones the meet while doing this then a few of them learn to either take their physical bodies to other places or times. There is one famous person who has done this for years: Sai Baba. There are of course many evolved people who can do this sort of thing worldwide. However, they prefer to be more anonymous for a variety of reasons.
So, the single most important thing I can say to you is: be very careful where you travel physically but be even more careful where you travel in consciousness. Both can be equally rewarding but also equally dangerous. Once this lesson is learned and one develops compassion towards all beings in the universe then one can consciously travel the universe safely like I have by consciously soul traveling since my late teens and early 20s. However, compassion and respect for all life in the universe is the only thing that will keep you alive while doing this.
However, the question then often becomes: Is this practical or useful in any way?
For, in the end we all must deal with eating, breathing, living, defecating, urinating and our sexual sides as well as just the basic survival of living every day.
There are some who are terrified of you knowing it is possible to do this because they have a vested interest of you being disempowered so they can turn you just into a consumer or other type of slave to their whims. However, this is nothing new. People have been enslaving each other psychologically, religiously, physically, mentally etc as long a humans have been in existence on this planet or any other.
To give you an example of how almost everyone already travels time and space all the time every day in their consciousness one need only turn to pictures, reading, TV, computers, telling stories to one another etc.
In the above examples most people don't realize that they actually travel to where and when they think about in their consciousness. Where and when you travel to can be equally as dangerous as going to the wrong side of town and getting physically murdered. So, it behooves each of us to be very careful where we travel in our consciousness so we don't wind up insane or dead by accident.
What one thinks about is equally as important as what one actually does physically. Once a person learns this then they are possibly safe enough to learn to soul travel as long as their motivation is a good one. And if one's time soul traveling benefits both they and the ones the meet while doing this then a few of them learn to either take their physical bodies to other places or times. There is one famous person who has done this for years: Sai Baba. There are of course many evolved people who can do this sort of thing worldwide. However, they prefer to be more anonymous for a variety of reasons.
So, the single most important thing I can say to you is: be very careful where you travel physically but be even more careful where you travel in consciousness. Both can be equally rewarding but also equally dangerous. Once this lesson is learned and one develops compassion towards all beings in the universe then one can consciously travel the universe safely like I have by consciously soul traveling since my late teens and early 20s. However, compassion and respect for all life in the universe is the only thing that will keep you alive while doing this.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Earth Bodies
It isn't always fun being an intuitive. For example, the few days leading up to the Christmas day Earthquake and Tsunami 2004 was really hell for me and another intuitive I have known most of my life. At that time I thought I was going to die and was actually relieved when the earthquake and tsunami hit so at least I knew then what I had been feeling for the past week. I felt very bad for all those that died but in that previous week I had also experienced the heaven realms come closer to earth than I had ever experienced them before.
I think it is tied into somehow with how animals get kind of crazy before an earthquake. I don't get crazy I just feel like I'm pretty confused for a few days. The intensity depends on the severity of the earthquake and the Christmas Day 2004 was about the worst I ever felt and then as soon as the earthquake and Tsunami was over and about 200,000 people dead I was back to normal, relieved I wasn't dead but sad for all those that died. My only consolation was experiencing the heaven realms coming very near to pick them all up before the event occurred.
Today was a difficult day too. And as the earthquakes occurred once again I started to feel like myself again. It is just part of being an intuitive. I don't like the pre earthquake confusion. But I do like knowing things before they happen so I can save my life and others over and over again. So if I say that I sense something is coming on my blog here I usually sense an over 70% chance of a coming event. As you know this stuff isn't rocket science. It is sort of like being asleep and hearing a car drive by. You might hear the car drive by but you cannot tell anyone what kind of car it was and if you aren't awake enough when it drives by it might not even register in your conscious mind. Being an intuitive is kind of like that. But I think it is best when these kinds of gifts save lives.
I think it is tied into somehow with how animals get kind of crazy before an earthquake. I don't get crazy I just feel like I'm pretty confused for a few days. The intensity depends on the severity of the earthquake and the Christmas Day 2004 was about the worst I ever felt and then as soon as the earthquake and Tsunami was over and about 200,000 people dead I was back to normal, relieved I wasn't dead but sad for all those that died. My only consolation was experiencing the heaven realms coming very near to pick them all up before the event occurred.
Today was a difficult day too. And as the earthquakes occurred once again I started to feel like myself again. It is just part of being an intuitive. I don't like the pre earthquake confusion. But I do like knowing things before they happen so I can save my life and others over and over again. So if I say that I sense something is coming on my blog here I usually sense an over 70% chance of a coming event. As you know this stuff isn't rocket science. It is sort of like being asleep and hearing a car drive by. You might hear the car drive by but you cannot tell anyone what kind of car it was and if you aren't awake enough when it drives by it might not even register in your conscious mind. Being an intuitive is kind of like that. But I think it is best when these kinds of gifts save lives.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Father vs. Man etc.
Father versus man. Mother versus woman. I think women are a little more naturally wired to be good mothers than men are to be good fathers. So this is why I'm concentrating more on the fathers because I have been one since 1974 when my son was born and I still have a 13 year old biological daughter that my wife and I are still raising all these years later.
What inspired this article was when I walked out into my hot tub (outdoor spa) that my 20 year old daughter and my 35 year old son were vacating under the stars even though I really wanted them to stay and look up at the stars with me there too. However, they said they were melting from having been in there under the stars for a while already and needed to get out so the heat didn't get to them any more than it already had.
So I got into the spa at about 11 pm by myself and immediately started to feel that I was really upset that I had lost everything I enjoyed about myself as a man. After a couple of minutes of a really horrifying experience I realized this wasn't me but possibly what my son or daughter was experiencing instead. Because I had had to give up the whole man thing during my 30s too so I could be a better father. Neither my 35 year old son or my 20 year old daughter have had kids yet either. Whereas I have been raising someone under age 15 continuously since 1974 and it is now August 2009(a very long time). But since family has been the best thing in my life being a father has been the only role I have really enjoyed playing since about 26 years of age. Before then my role from age 15 to 25 (in the way I saw myself) was lover to quite a few women. But when my son was born I gave all that up(theoretically at least) so that my son could have a good life and future.
But in the end if one has a child by choice or not and one is male then this is always something to think about. If you have a child and you are not there fully as a father then your child might not prosper and survive in any or all ways. It is true that if you are with a woman that gets pregnant and she has the baby and never tells you there really is nothing you can ever do about that. Because of the 1960s and 1970s I wonder about that too myself because no one I knew back then ever used condoms and if the girl wasn't using birth control pills or an IUD or foam or a diaphram then I suppose almost anything was possible. But among the people I hung out with then VD, herpes, and stuff like that wasn't a problem yet until the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The real point of this article is to encourage men to take being a father seriously because if you don't your children may never make it on any level. In other words if you aren't there they may die, go crazy, be abused etc.
So taking your children's future seriously is very important if you have children or want to have children as a father.
I had an experience where after my son was born I slowly began to realize that the woman I was married to was someone I was very much in love with, was very intelligent, but also would never be a good mother to my son as her growing up time was very troubled. So even though she had a 170 IQ and was beautiful and everything I had ever dreamed of she was completely unsuited to be a mother because of her troubled upbringing. This was very heartbreaking for all three of us.
So, as a result of this I became a single father at age 29. I didn't stop loving my wife I just had to put his well being first and my wife agreed and gave me full custody in the divorce. She also saw she wasn't suited to mother him either.
During the separation and after the divorce I once again for the last time went from husband and father to Man and father for the last time. I said hello to my bachelor side that had languished since I was 25 and found that absolutely everything had changed now I was a single parent. I could no longer go for the hot wild babes because they were completely useless to my now 4 year old son and I had to think of his well being before my own.
From the moment I fully realized this I have been a father before I was a man always. That is not to say it wasn't and awful struggle for me. It's just to say that my son needed me to be a good father more than I needed to be a lady's man. So when I married again it was to a woman with 2 kids who was my age. So together we were a couple raising 3 kids from ages 5 to 8 years old.
Yours, mine and eventually ours when in 1989 my now 20 year old daughter was born. But the man I knew from age 15 to 25 and very briefly again between ages 29 and 32 when I married a second time was buried permanently at least until we divorced tumultuously in 1995. I quickly remarried and had another daughter so I might get custody of my then 5 year old but failed to get more than joint legal custody with my ex getting primary custody and I got about 10 weeks a year with my then 7 year old daughter. I suppose this experience with my now 20 year old daughter was the most painful of my life exceeding even the death of both of my parents. My parents were old and ready to die. My daughter was legally screwed out of having her father there. There is nothing that will ever make this right in my heart. The best I can do is to make a good relationship with my now 20 year old daughter while she is visiting me with her boyfriend now.
So, once again, if you are a father and you are not there and things don't go right you have no one to blame for what happens but yourself.
I did everything I could think of possible and legal including go bankrupt trying to get custody of my daughter. Though it was incredibly painful my daughter respects and understands that I almost died trying to do right by her and now we are finally trying to rebuild our father daughter relationship now she is 20.
So if you are a real father and your child is born or is about to be just know that fatherhood never ends until you die. And even then I believe you will be praying and helping your children and grandchildren from the other side.
What inspired this article was when I walked out into my hot tub (outdoor spa) that my 20 year old daughter and my 35 year old son were vacating under the stars even though I really wanted them to stay and look up at the stars with me there too. However, they said they were melting from having been in there under the stars for a while already and needed to get out so the heat didn't get to them any more than it already had.
So I got into the spa at about 11 pm by myself and immediately started to feel that I was really upset that I had lost everything I enjoyed about myself as a man. After a couple of minutes of a really horrifying experience I realized this wasn't me but possibly what my son or daughter was experiencing instead. Because I had had to give up the whole man thing during my 30s too so I could be a better father. Neither my 35 year old son or my 20 year old daughter have had kids yet either. Whereas I have been raising someone under age 15 continuously since 1974 and it is now August 2009(a very long time). But since family has been the best thing in my life being a father has been the only role I have really enjoyed playing since about 26 years of age. Before then my role from age 15 to 25 (in the way I saw myself) was lover to quite a few women. But when my son was born I gave all that up(theoretically at least) so that my son could have a good life and future.
But in the end if one has a child by choice or not and one is male then this is always something to think about. If you have a child and you are not there fully as a father then your child might not prosper and survive in any or all ways. It is true that if you are with a woman that gets pregnant and she has the baby and never tells you there really is nothing you can ever do about that. Because of the 1960s and 1970s I wonder about that too myself because no one I knew back then ever used condoms and if the girl wasn't using birth control pills or an IUD or foam or a diaphram then I suppose almost anything was possible. But among the people I hung out with then VD, herpes, and stuff like that wasn't a problem yet until the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The real point of this article is to encourage men to take being a father seriously because if you don't your children may never make it on any level. In other words if you aren't there they may die, go crazy, be abused etc.
So taking your children's future seriously is very important if you have children or want to have children as a father.
I had an experience where after my son was born I slowly began to realize that the woman I was married to was someone I was very much in love with, was very intelligent, but also would never be a good mother to my son as her growing up time was very troubled. So even though she had a 170 IQ and was beautiful and everything I had ever dreamed of she was completely unsuited to be a mother because of her troubled upbringing. This was very heartbreaking for all three of us.
So, as a result of this I became a single father at age 29. I didn't stop loving my wife I just had to put his well being first and my wife agreed and gave me full custody in the divorce. She also saw she wasn't suited to mother him either.
During the separation and after the divorce I once again for the last time went from husband and father to Man and father for the last time. I said hello to my bachelor side that had languished since I was 25 and found that absolutely everything had changed now I was a single parent. I could no longer go for the hot wild babes because they were completely useless to my now 4 year old son and I had to think of his well being before my own.
From the moment I fully realized this I have been a father before I was a man always. That is not to say it wasn't and awful struggle for me. It's just to say that my son needed me to be a good father more than I needed to be a lady's man. So when I married again it was to a woman with 2 kids who was my age. So together we were a couple raising 3 kids from ages 5 to 8 years old.
Yours, mine and eventually ours when in 1989 my now 20 year old daughter was born. But the man I knew from age 15 to 25 and very briefly again between ages 29 and 32 when I married a second time was buried permanently at least until we divorced tumultuously in 1995. I quickly remarried and had another daughter so I might get custody of my then 5 year old but failed to get more than joint legal custody with my ex getting primary custody and I got about 10 weeks a year with my then 7 year old daughter. I suppose this experience with my now 20 year old daughter was the most painful of my life exceeding even the death of both of my parents. My parents were old and ready to die. My daughter was legally screwed out of having her father there. There is nothing that will ever make this right in my heart. The best I can do is to make a good relationship with my now 20 year old daughter while she is visiting me with her boyfriend now.
So, once again, if you are a father and you are not there and things don't go right you have no one to blame for what happens but yourself.
I did everything I could think of possible and legal including go bankrupt trying to get custody of my daughter. Though it was incredibly painful my daughter respects and understands that I almost died trying to do right by her and now we are finally trying to rebuild our father daughter relationship now she is 20.
So if you are a real father and your child is born or is about to be just know that fatherhood never ends until you die. And even then I believe you will be praying and helping your children and grandchildren from the other side.
Living Dharma 8-9-09
The path to literally become "Living Dharma" begins in this life or continues in this life by looking around at all life in the universe and saying to oneself something like, "There is too much suffering everywhere I look. What can I do to help both myself and all beings reduce and then permanently end their suffering and to replace the suffering with happiness and bliss?"
This is the path of all "Holy People". Ending suffering is the beginning of hope for those who actually try to do it and for those whose suffering starts to end or whose suffering does end.
The question, "How can I make things better for all beings?", begins to permeate ones being. And because humans are much more gifted than most give themselves credit for, the answers to the questions come flying out of our dreams and subconscious and we begin to heal and the universe begins to heal as well. It is a never ending ongoing process of healing for all beings. However, the eternal act and acts of healing make life worth living for all beings.
Becoming literally "Living Dharma" is the single most important thing a being can do!
This is the path of all "Holy People". Ending suffering is the beginning of hope for those who actually try to do it and for those whose suffering starts to end or whose suffering does end.
The question, "How can I make things better for all beings?", begins to permeate ones being. And because humans are much more gifted than most give themselves credit for, the answers to the questions come flying out of our dreams and subconscious and we begin to heal and the universe begins to heal as well. It is a never ending ongoing process of healing for all beings. However, the eternal act and acts of healing make life worth living for all beings.
Becoming literally "Living Dharma" is the single most important thing a being can do!
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Health Care must be done correctly
If all America does is copy completely all the other socialized medicine systems of other countries then then the infinite liabilities of such and action could take us down and there would be no turning back then.
So it is very important that we have a two tiered system that allows those who can afford it to pay for their healthcare and to be able to choose their doctors etc.
Then a bottom tier would be available for those unable to pay for their healthcare. This would catch those who lose their policies because of pre-existing conditions. They might not be able to choose their doctors but at least in this catch all system they would not unnecessarily die or go bankrupt because of not being able to get good healthcare.
I think only with a two tiered system that allows the wealthy to get whatever care they can afford and yet prevents the death and bankruptcy of those unable to get or keep private insurance we would have the best of both worlds.
What is scaring some people is that every Senator and Representative is making up their own plan and even though this is a grass roots way to do it and the opposite of what the Clintons did, it is scaring the hell out of a lot of older traditional Americans.
Somehow they must be told the truth without Fox News and Limbaugh manipulating the truth into a fictional context. If there is different news for every group left to right then the only result is going to be some kind of revolution either mental or physical. This whole thing now has gone completely berserk!
The fact that each group only trusts their own mouthpiece means nothing if there is no truth in that news at all!
So it is very important that we have a two tiered system that allows those who can afford it to pay for their healthcare and to be able to choose their doctors etc.
Then a bottom tier would be available for those unable to pay for their healthcare. This would catch those who lose their policies because of pre-existing conditions. They might not be able to choose their doctors but at least in this catch all system they would not unnecessarily die or go bankrupt because of not being able to get good healthcare.
I think only with a two tiered system that allows the wealthy to get whatever care they can afford and yet prevents the death and bankruptcy of those unable to get or keep private insurance we would have the best of both worlds.
What is scaring some people is that every Senator and Representative is making up their own plan and even though this is a grass roots way to do it and the opposite of what the Clintons did, it is scaring the hell out of a lot of older traditional Americans.
Somehow they must be told the truth without Fox News and Limbaugh manipulating the truth into a fictional context. If there is different news for every group left to right then the only result is going to be some kind of revolution either mental or physical. This whole thing now has gone completely berserk!
The fact that each group only trusts their own mouthpiece means nothing if there is no truth in that news at all!
The Vocal minority
The vocal conservative minority showing up at town hall meetings across America are disgruntled voters. They could not elect A Republican or even a conservative candidate of any kind to the office of President and so now they are panicking with the real life result they actually got.
However, times have seriously changed and it is like FDR during the 1930s once again. Health care reform is a make or break financial issue for the nation. To Avoid it and to actually listen to the conservative misinformation is to take a gun to the head of the country and to pull the trigger Russian roulette style.
Let's face it folks. The conservatives through Bush have bankrupted the nation in Iraq and Afghanistan just like the country was almost bankrupted by the Viet Nam war. If we don't deal with health care problems now we will be a banana republic in about 10 years. The richness of our nation is over at least for now and without belt tightening of an extreme kind now the Great Depression will look like child's play in comparison to what we will face now and into the future.
However, times have seriously changed and it is like FDR during the 1930s once again. Health care reform is a make or break financial issue for the nation. To Avoid it and to actually listen to the conservative misinformation is to take a gun to the head of the country and to pull the trigger Russian roulette style.
Let's face it folks. The conservatives through Bush have bankrupted the nation in Iraq and Afghanistan just like the country was almost bankrupted by the Viet Nam war. If we don't deal with health care problems now we will be a banana republic in about 10 years. The richness of our nation is over at least for now and without belt tightening of an extreme kind now the Great Depression will look like child's play in comparison to what we will face now and into the future.
The Health Care Debate
Of all the issues that I have heard regarding health care in the United States. None seems to be more pressing than the statistic that 50% of bankruptcies in the U.S. are caused by health care costs. Addressing this one issue is a humane and real one. If ambulances can pick up someone from literally anywhere in the United States and take them to a hospital, what good does that do if the people then go bankrupt and lose everything because their insurance company drops them or they have no insurance to begin with because they can't afford it?
This one issue is why this nation is failing. If we cannot solve this one issue for our citizens then we can only be the laughing stock of the civilized world.
This one issue is why this nation is failing. If we cannot solve this one issue for our citizens then we can only be the laughing stock of the civilized world.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Building a Trampoline
During our trip to the east coast of the U.S. my wife used the trampoline or lack of it to keep our 13 year old daughter in line during our trip.
But when we returned home the trampoline was being trucked to our door. Of course, we had to assemble it.
Having put together many things like houses, car engines etc. over the years I thought this might be mentally easy although physically a little hard at age 61. So I decided to complete the initial circle of pipes with my 13 year old and enlist the help of my 35 year old son, 20 year old daughter and her 23 year old Boyfriend when they returned from their day of fun near the ocean. As I began to assemble it I realized my picture of what it was supposed to look like was slightly skewed. So I had my 13 year old print out the instructions from the internet including pictorial instructions. Sure enough, it was put together in some respects differently than my mental picture. However, there was another obstacle to overcome. One of the pipe arcs that makes up the 4 arcs that make the circle had been dropped hard on the ground or smashed in some other way during shipping. So I began, using some of the tools I inherited from my father and grandfather to try to make the piping circular on the end again. I realized that although I could make it close to a circular tube on the end again I couldn't, at least with the tools at hand make it perfect. So I realized that I could instead drive the connecting insert(a slightly smaller pipe section) into the almost perfect end and create the same result. But then I realized that the other section of pipe arc also had a smaller pipe section welding and screwed in place. And even after removing the screw I couldn't get it loose because I didn't see the spot weld because I didn't expect it to be there. But when my daughter's boyfriend arrived he noticed the spot weld and we decided to break the weld with a chisel because the smaller pipe I had driven into the other smashed but recovered pipe would never be removed now. Finally, using and old iron vice from the 1930s and a metal chisel we were able to break the weld and remove it and install that piece. The we began installing the springs on every 8th loop and groove until the mat was supported completely in a circle. Then we put in all the springs and the spring cover and we were done.
I was amazed that my 20 year old daughter's boyfriend could jump so high but understood he was a snowboarder that could do 65 foot jumps so had to have excellent balance to do that. I went on too and had a great time being the naturally fearless person I am. But at age 61 I realized I had forgotten how to stop a jump and to slow down and almost hurt myself because of this. My wife was upset because I weigh about 300 even though I'm 6 foot 5 inches tall and said that my feet in the bottom of a bounce were only 2 feet from the ground so this made her concerned. My 13 year old was in ecstasy from the trampoline because he friend also has one and was amazed how good her sister's boyfriend was on it because one of his best friends had had one during his teens when he grew up in Colorado.
However, a cautionary note for older persons like myself. I found that it did things to my body that I hadn't anticipated and the next morning when I jumped for a while again I had a had time keeping my balance walking when I got off it like one gets after having been sailing for a day. So be careful not only while jumping on a trampoline but also after you get off if you are over 50 or so. But it IS great exercise with low impact to the bottoms of your feet. However, it is stressful to your musculature and spine and balance, especially if you are not skinny anymore and over 50 like me.
But when we returned home the trampoline was being trucked to our door. Of course, we had to assemble it.
Having put together many things like houses, car engines etc. over the years I thought this might be mentally easy although physically a little hard at age 61. So I decided to complete the initial circle of pipes with my 13 year old and enlist the help of my 35 year old son, 20 year old daughter and her 23 year old Boyfriend when they returned from their day of fun near the ocean. As I began to assemble it I realized my picture of what it was supposed to look like was slightly skewed. So I had my 13 year old print out the instructions from the internet including pictorial instructions. Sure enough, it was put together in some respects differently than my mental picture. However, there was another obstacle to overcome. One of the pipe arcs that makes up the 4 arcs that make the circle had been dropped hard on the ground or smashed in some other way during shipping. So I began, using some of the tools I inherited from my father and grandfather to try to make the piping circular on the end again. I realized that although I could make it close to a circular tube on the end again I couldn't, at least with the tools at hand make it perfect. So I realized that I could instead drive the connecting insert(a slightly smaller pipe section) into the almost perfect end and create the same result. But then I realized that the other section of pipe arc also had a smaller pipe section welding and screwed in place. And even after removing the screw I couldn't get it loose because I didn't see the spot weld because I didn't expect it to be there. But when my daughter's boyfriend arrived he noticed the spot weld and we decided to break the weld with a chisel because the smaller pipe I had driven into the other smashed but recovered pipe would never be removed now. Finally, using and old iron vice from the 1930s and a metal chisel we were able to break the weld and remove it and install that piece. The we began installing the springs on every 8th loop and groove until the mat was supported completely in a circle. Then we put in all the springs and the spring cover and we were done.
I was amazed that my 20 year old daughter's boyfriend could jump so high but understood he was a snowboarder that could do 65 foot jumps so had to have excellent balance to do that. I went on too and had a great time being the naturally fearless person I am. But at age 61 I realized I had forgotten how to stop a jump and to slow down and almost hurt myself because of this. My wife was upset because I weigh about 300 even though I'm 6 foot 5 inches tall and said that my feet in the bottom of a bounce were only 2 feet from the ground so this made her concerned. My 13 year old was in ecstasy from the trampoline because he friend also has one and was amazed how good her sister's boyfriend was on it because one of his best friends had had one during his teens when he grew up in Colorado.
However, a cautionary note for older persons like myself. I found that it did things to my body that I hadn't anticipated and the next morning when I jumped for a while again I had a had time keeping my balance walking when I got off it like one gets after having been sailing for a day. So be careful not only while jumping on a trampoline but also after you get off if you are over 50 or so. But it IS great exercise with low impact to the bottoms of your feet. However, it is stressful to your musculature and spine and balance, especially if you are not skinny anymore and over 50 like me.
Monday, August 3, 2009
How Can you Stand to Live There?
My friend who is a professional musician that tours the world was telling me how his fans in Singapore and Japan and China ask him about living in the United States and say, "How can you stand to live there where there are so many guns and people being murdered and all?"
My friend and I laughed and he said, "People in Asia feel about living in the United States the way Americans feel about living in Mexico and both the people in Asia and the people in America are wrong."
My friend and I agreed it is more about knowing where to be and where not to be and what to be doing and not doing in whatever country you are in.
People in other countries just look at the murder statistics and freak out about the U.S. However, those of us who actually live here know that it is all about where you are and what you are doing.
For example, I live now in one of the safest, most beautiful and affluent places on earth. I'm probably safer here than any place else I could think of on earth and I'm in America. But if I drive about 30 miles from here I might see someone shot in a gangland atmosphere on any given night or day, especially weekends. But I know not to go there so I'm safe.
Living in America is mostly about knowing that people here can own weapons and even assault weapons. But if you go into a bank the guard only has a small 6 shooter pistol usually or a glock hand gun. But when I went to India in 1985 I went into banks and the guard had a double barreled shotgun on his knee loaded and ready to blow away any transgressors there. When I went to the underground mall in New Delhi I saw men carrying loaded Kalashnikov submachine guns and this made me very nervous because all I was doing was walking by shops and all of a sudden a plainclothes person had a kalashnikov. That was spooky for me.
And yes, I've been in unusual situations with people carrying guns like the time a man was wearing a 6 gun(pistol) like out of the old west while on what he said was his mining claim and seemed very beligerant towards anyone nearby.
But the single most important thing the world needs to know about guns in America is this:"If Americans couldn't own guns the rest of the world would all be slaves and treated worse than the Jews by Hitler every day of the week. It's because America has guns that despots think twice about taking over the world. If you walk into a house in Texas and don't know the people there just expect to be shot dead. But if you walk into a house if you don't know the people in Canada people will just ask you what you are doing there. Americans owning guns is why there is freedom in the world. When Americans can't own guns you WILL all be slaves, Americans too! So, Americans right to bear arms is necessary for the world to be as free as it is. Without this there will only be slavery and nothing else.
My friend and I laughed and he said, "People in Asia feel about living in the United States the way Americans feel about living in Mexico and both the people in Asia and the people in America are wrong."
My friend and I agreed it is more about knowing where to be and where not to be and what to be doing and not doing in whatever country you are in.
People in other countries just look at the murder statistics and freak out about the U.S. However, those of us who actually live here know that it is all about where you are and what you are doing.
For example, I live now in one of the safest, most beautiful and affluent places on earth. I'm probably safer here than any place else I could think of on earth and I'm in America. But if I drive about 30 miles from here I might see someone shot in a gangland atmosphere on any given night or day, especially weekends. But I know not to go there so I'm safe.
Living in America is mostly about knowing that people here can own weapons and even assault weapons. But if you go into a bank the guard only has a small 6 shooter pistol usually or a glock hand gun. But when I went to India in 1985 I went into banks and the guard had a double barreled shotgun on his knee loaded and ready to blow away any transgressors there. When I went to the underground mall in New Delhi I saw men carrying loaded Kalashnikov submachine guns and this made me very nervous because all I was doing was walking by shops and all of a sudden a plainclothes person had a kalashnikov. That was spooky for me.
And yes, I've been in unusual situations with people carrying guns like the time a man was wearing a 6 gun(pistol) like out of the old west while on what he said was his mining claim and seemed very beligerant towards anyone nearby.
But the single most important thing the world needs to know about guns in America is this:"If Americans couldn't own guns the rest of the world would all be slaves and treated worse than the Jews by Hitler every day of the week. It's because America has guns that despots think twice about taking over the world. If you walk into a house in Texas and don't know the people there just expect to be shot dead. But if you walk into a house if you don't know the people in Canada people will just ask you what you are doing there. Americans owning guns is why there is freedom in the world. When Americans can't own guns you WILL all be slaves, Americans too! So, Americans right to bear arms is necessary for the world to be as free as it is. Without this there will only be slavery and nothing else.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Who Am I? 8-2-09
I often tell young people including my own children that I am still pretty much the same person that I was at age 10 only with more experience and more armor.
This usefully describes my experience of presently being 61 years old, (kind,wise and deadly).
A very cynical view of this would be: (youth, truth and beauty are overcome by old age, deceit and death).
However, I prefer not to be cynical as cynics are usually children that can't cope with adulthood so they just put everything down.
However, those who actually are or who are capable of actually being real adults accept the responsibilities of adulthood like soldiers do knowing full well they could die in the process. However, at exactly the same time they fully understand the adage, "And you can survive to 105 if you're young at heart". So, in the end it is about kindness, responsibility and staying young at heart. And yes, it is a whole lot to ask of anyone. But without this balance life isn't worth anything at all.
So, how did I get to become who I am? Strangely enough I had to almost die for about a year when I was 2 and then almost die for another 5 years between the ages of 10 and 15. These two events shaped my young life and left me a much more serious person than my peers. So, it could be said that I was sort of grown up by 4 and didn't really start again to be childlike again until I was 21 and it was 1969 and I started meeting alternative people in 1969. So, these kinds of events shaped who I became along with having parents that were mystical Christians that believed in Jesus, reincarnation, UFOs, science, thinking one's own thoughts and debating issues to come up with the best solutions through rational thinking. I remember my father teaching me to debate him starting at age 8. He didn't care what my position was. He just wanted me to be rational about what I was debating him about. He was training me to be a free thinker and an experimental thinker. He felt that people who could think rationally and scientifically were unstoppable. My father was extremely intelligent and about 50 years ahead of his time. So, in some ways he set the stage for me also to be about 50 years ahead of my time.
This usefully describes my experience of presently being 61 years old, (kind,wise and deadly).
A very cynical view of this would be: (youth, truth and beauty are overcome by old age, deceit and death).
However, I prefer not to be cynical as cynics are usually children that can't cope with adulthood so they just put everything down.
However, those who actually are or who are capable of actually being real adults accept the responsibilities of adulthood like soldiers do knowing full well they could die in the process. However, at exactly the same time they fully understand the adage, "And you can survive to 105 if you're young at heart". So, in the end it is about kindness, responsibility and staying young at heart. And yes, it is a whole lot to ask of anyone. But without this balance life isn't worth anything at all.
So, how did I get to become who I am? Strangely enough I had to almost die for about a year when I was 2 and then almost die for another 5 years between the ages of 10 and 15. These two events shaped my young life and left me a much more serious person than my peers. So, it could be said that I was sort of grown up by 4 and didn't really start again to be childlike again until I was 21 and it was 1969 and I started meeting alternative people in 1969. So, these kinds of events shaped who I became along with having parents that were mystical Christians that believed in Jesus, reincarnation, UFOs, science, thinking one's own thoughts and debating issues to come up with the best solutions through rational thinking. I remember my father teaching me to debate him starting at age 8. He didn't care what my position was. He just wanted me to be rational about what I was debating him about. He was training me to be a free thinker and an experimental thinker. He felt that people who could think rationally and scientifically were unstoppable. My father was extremely intelligent and about 50 years ahead of his time. So, in some ways he set the stage for me also to be about 50 years ahead of my time.
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