Saturday, May 5, 2012

1918 Pandemic killed more than World War II

I hadn't really associated World War II and the 1918 Flu Worldwide Pandemic before. But as I was talking with my son about it I realized that not only did more American soldiers die from the Pandemic than in World War I but I also realized that worldwide more people died from the Pandemic than in all of World War II.

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The 1918 flu pandemic (the "Spanish flu") was an influenza pandemic, and the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus (the second was the 2009 flu pandemic, an outbreak of swine flu). It was an unusually severe and deadly pandemic that spread across the world. Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify the geographic origin.[1] Most victims were healthy young adults, in contrast to most influenza outbreaks, which predominantly affect juvenile, elderly, or weakened patients. The flu pandemic was implicated in the outbreak of encephalitis lethargica in the 1920s.[2]
The pandemic lasted from January 1918 to December 1920,[3] spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands. Between 50 and 130 million died, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.[4][5][6][7][8] Even using the lower estimate of 50 million people, 3% of the world's population (which was 1.86 billion at the time[9]) died of the disease. Some 500 million, or 27%, were infected.[5]

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So, since estimates vary from 50 million to 130 million deaths worldwide I think if we split the difference we wind up with around 100 million deaths from the 1918 pandemic which is more than those that died who were civilians and soldiers in World War II.

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Also, another interesting fact is that twice as many allied soldiers died as axis soldiers and ten times as many allied civilians died as axis civilians. Any way you look at it World War II was the single most horrific thing outside of the 1918 Pandemic that humanity of the 20th Century had ever witness. It is one of the reasons that there has never been another war this big on earth. And likely it will stay that way because of the existence of nuclear weapons. 
 

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U.S. just as productive now as in 2006

So, basically what happened between 2006 and now was that U.S. companies laid off 5 to 7 million workers and hired computers and technology to do their jobs. However, now governments have to find a way to feed these folks who might not get rehired anytime soon again. So then, this is a worldwide social issue that is really hitting home in places like the U.S. and Europe right now. The fact that the U.S. is just as productive in relation to GDP as it was in 2006 has to give one pause. Because if that is true the world has entered an entirely different worker and technology paradigm where not as many workers will be needed at least in technologically advanced nations. In the future this revolution might be called the Technological Revolution like one previous age was called the Industrial Revolution. But when you replace workers with technology on this level people tend to starve even in advanced nations.

However, the net effect of this is much worse than I listed above because what this also means is that less philanthropic work is done in all nations because less people have money now than before and many millions less have jobs that might not easily be replaced. So, governments are struggling in regard to what to do about this fact? And what will third world peoples do with less 1st world people traveling and spending money and donating their time to help out there?

And most of what politicians are saying is complete baloney at at least in regard to these facts. Because given these conditions unless governments create jobs for the people in most advanced nations the people might not have jobs because this technological advancement is likely permanent. And not only is it permanent it is likely over time to get worse. So, people who own stocks benefit and those who don't own stocks falter and sometimes die worldwide. So, the divide between the haves and have nots is growing and most Democrats and Republicans are either lying about this, don't understand the relative permanence of these problems, or they are twisting the facts to get votes in their parties. So, anyway you look at it politics in the U.S. is mostly lies right now until the average person realizes the truth of what I'm saying in this article. My source for the fact that the U.S. is equally productive now as 2006 with millions less workers is from CNN News on TV.

The other difficult fact about this is that people who don't have enough money ( they aren't middle class or above) tend to lose their de facto rights in an economy like this and to further lose useful representation. This kind of dynamic tends to create starvation, illnesses and death and under some circumstances it also creates bloody revolutions until everyone gets properly covered in regard to food, shelter, clothing and medicine here in the civilized world.

Under these kinds of conditions it is also likely that populations in third world nations and even in second  world nations will tend to reduce because of starvation and a lack of jobs.

However, since this kind of thing is very uneven around the world some people are solving this problem by using their skills in other countries that will hire them and pay them for their skills. However, one's rights in that country might not be the same as here. So, studying about this might be important for one to both succeed and to prosper under these specific circumstances. And lastly, "Where there's a will to survive there's a way!"
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Friday, May 4, 2012

The Kalachakra Tantra

Though I received along with my whole family at the time in December 1985 in Bodhgaya, India from the Dalai Lama along with about 500,000 other people the initiation of The Kalachakra Tantra, I didn't know much about what it was at the time before I actually got to Bodhgaya. I had been in Thailand and had prayed what I should do and so got clearly I needed to go meet Geshe Lobsang Gyatso in Bodygaya, India because we knew the dates he would be there. However, we didn't really realize "Why?" he was going to be there before we flew from Thailand to Kathmandu, Nepal to make our way to Bodhgaya, India over 2 days time by Rented Car to the Indian Border, then by bus  to Bodhgaya.

I was watching Ancient Aliens on the H2HD channel regarding the episode called, "The Time Travelers". After the program talked about possible Nazi experimentation with "Time Travel" through a sort of bell shaped object about 12 feet high, they traced a group of Nazis going to Tibet to learn about "The Kalachakra Tantra" and how it related to time travel.

While I was in India and Nepal one of the Tibetan Lamas mentioned that the "Dorje" or "Lightning bolt" or "Thunder Bolt" object that is used for cutting away "Bad Karma" from someone, originally "Fell from the sky" and a Lama had picked it up and it then became one of the ritual implements of Tibetan Buddhism over time. This was one of many interesting things I found about Tibetan Buddhist Culture and experience. Another interesting thing is when you read about Guatama Buddha 2500 years ago he speaks of thousands or more worlds with beings on them just like Earth that he has visited. So, since I had already been soul traveling around the Galaxy since I was about 22 or so I felt right at home. However, I must say that when I began to meet Tibetan Lamas in the U.S. I stopped being afraid of going out into the void beyond a Galaxy because I didn't understand it. So, after I was 32 when I met my first Tibetan Lama in Ashland, Oregon I stopped being afraid of the Void beyond the edge of the Galaxy.

Every initiation I was given by Tibetan Lamas in the U.S. and in India helped increase my understanding of what life everywhere was all about more. It was a slow process for me in understanding who I was, where I was going and what was happening to us all. But slowly but surely all this began to make sense to me through my direct experiences.

So, if you were to ask me whether or not receiving 'The Kalachakra Initiation from the Dalai Lama or another sanctioned Tibetan Lama will help you time travel my answer would be: "It wouldn't hurt." But that isn't the motivation for wanting to receive the Kalachakra. The most useful motivation would be that you wanted all beings in the universe including yourself to permanently end their suffering. Being able to time and space travel like angels or as the Tibetans would call them Dakas and Dakinis (male and female angels) would just be one of the gifts you would be given in order to accomplish in actuality helping literally all beings in time and space attain Permanent Bliss and permanently end their suffering throughout all time and space.

My experiences with the King of Shambhala I write about in:
My experience of this was that the King of Shambhala lives in a dimension around earth that is similar in some respects to a heaven realm and that kind of dimension. Beings in Shambhala don't die but some choose to be born on Earth. The story of His Oneness starts before Shambhala was created thousands of years ago now when His Oneness was the Primary ruler of Earth in Lemuria.

Note: If you want to read more about the Kalachakra Tantra or wish to receive this initiation at some point from the Dalai Lama or another Lama sanctioned by him and want to understand it more here is a scholarly work. I purchased a copy in Bodhgaya, India that I still keep on my prayer Altar at home along with many other Christian and Buddhist works

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I have the book Kalachakra Tantra: Rite of Initiation: By His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Jeffrey Hopkins. It had been printed before 1985 originally and so I bought a copy of it in Bodhgaya, India in December 1985. The other books shown here might also be helpful to you as well. 

Later January 5th 2014: If you are interested in receiving the Kalachakra Tantra Initiation here is a website that might be helpful:

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The U.S. Could Become like the U.K.


We’re not Greece. We’re not Europe. But we could become the U.K.

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Europe is a mess. But it’s the type of mess that both the left and the right think validates everything they’ve been saying about what we should -- and shouldn’t -- do here in the U.S. “The right argues we have to cut deficits now or we’ll be like Greece,” says Tom Gallagher, a principal at the Scowcroft Group. “The left argues we can’t cut deficits now or we’ll be like Europe.”

Demonstrators at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. (Thomas Lohnes - AP) So, who’s right? Well, which entity do you think is more comparable to the U.S.? Greece? Europe? Neither?
I come down somewhere between “Europe” and “neither,” but it’s worth going through each contestant in turn.
Greece is a country of 11 million. Geographically, it’s about the size of Louisiana. It doesn’t control its own currency, and its government spent years lying about its fiscal condition. After it joined the euro area in 2001, Greece went from paying about 7 percent interest on a 10-year bond to a bit more than 3 percent because investors assumed that its debt was backed by Germany and the European Central Bank. This encouraged profligacy in Athens.
The assumption also turned out to be wrong. When investors figured that out, they turned on Greece. Hard. With easy money no longer masking its problems, Greece’s economy was exposed for the mess it is. The World Economic Forum ranks it as the 90th most competitive country in the world, between Lebanon and El Salvador.
The U.S., by contrast, is a country of 313 million. It controls its own currency, which is also the global reserve currency. The U.S. Treasury bond is the safest of safe assets. Even after a lengthy financial crisis, the World Economic Forum ranks the U.S. as the fifth most competitive economy in the world, and it’s bigger than the first four combined. Whatever the U.S. is, it’s not Greece.
So perhaps it’s Europe? Or at least the euro area? After all, the euro area is also big and controls its own currency. Likewise, the euro area was once considered a safe bet.
But the euro area is also a fledgling institution facing an existential crisis. No one knows whether it will be around in its current form in 10 more years -- or even 10 more months. Its central bank seems more committed to forcing member countries to cut their deficits and reform their labor markets than to preserving the currency union itself.
The crisis has also exposed deep flaws in the basic structure of the alliance. The member countries increasingly despise and mistrust one another. Critical players in the drama -- France and Greece -- are on the verge of electing new governments that promise to radically renegotiate the terms of euro-area compacts. Meanwhile, Germany and the ECB seem determined to impose a moralistic, debt-focused narrative on a crisis that’s better understood as a problem of capital flows and growth.
The U.S. has its problems. Although we can borrow for next to nothing and unemployment remains above 8 percent, U.S. leaders often seem more focused on debts than growth. The political system is increasingly gridlocked and dysfunctional. One of our two major parties is engulfed in a civil war driven by an insurgency that wants to radically redefine government functions, preferring, for instance, to default on the national debt rather than increase tax revenue or borrow more. It’s a pretty safe bet, though, that the country itself will still be around, in much the same form, in a decade. Where the euro area’s lack of policy consensus threatens to tear the currency union apart -- a threat markets take seriously -- the U.S. poses no similar risk of suicide (which the markets know, too).
A better analogy is found in the U.K. Like the U.S., the U.K. has been around awhile and it isn’t going anywhere soon. Like the U.S., the U.K. has established institutions -- the Bank of England was founded in 1694 -- that have been tested before.
But unlike the U.S., the U.K. responded to the financial crisis with a quick turn toward austerity, imposed through tax increases and spending cuts, rather than Keynesian stimulus. As a result, the U.K. is falling into a double-dip recession, even underperforming its rate of recovery during the Great Depression. What’s more, with the economy sinking, austerity measures aren’t producing the desired fiscal balance. Economic health depends on the nation’s debt-to-GDP ratio: When GDP falls, as is happening in the U.K., debt must fall even further and faster to make up the difference. The result is America has actually deleveraged faster than the U.K., despite doing less austerity.
The analovgy isn’t perfect, of course. The smaller, more open U.K. economy is also more buffeted by events in the euro area than the U.S. is. It’s arguably more vulnerable to a bond run than we are. But as Gallagher says: “You never get perfect comparisons. You’re always approximating. The 1930s in the U.S. and the 1990s in Japan aren’t perfect examples either, but we use them to draw lessons.”
What lessons, then, should we draw? Don’t be Greece -- that’s the easy one. The more important lesson of the euro area is that a successful currency union should also be a fiscal and political union. The U.S. has little to learn on that score. As for the U.K., well, it’s more about relearning a lesson that some in our country seem to have forgotten: Austerity does not create growth, and it’s not something you want to try prematurely.
In a recent paper, economists Ugo Panizza and Andrea Presbitero analyzed the evidence that high levels of debt hinder a nation’s economic performance. They failed to find proof of a causal link. What did seem clear, they wrote, is that high debt can reduce growth “because high debt leads to panic and contractionary policies.” That’s essentially what’s happened in the U.K. We would be wise not to let it happen here. end quote from:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/were-not-greece-were-not-europe-but-could-become-the-uk/2012/05/04/gIQAhaXJ1T_blog.htm

One of the most important things I read above in this article was (repeat quote): " The result is America has actually deleveraged faster than the U.K., despite doing less austerity." A good way to illustrate this would be if you thought of the U.K. as a man who wanted to do the right thing and to pay off his bills. However, in order to do this it reduced his "working capital". So, then he couldn't afford to drive to work because he paid off his bills. So, maybe he bought a bicycle instead and got exercise riding the bike to work.

So, the important point is that if you don't have enough "working capital" you can't really do much. So, even though the U.S. hasn't paid down it's bills it has reinvested its working capital that is borrowed back into the nation which has caused the nation to pull out of the recession earlier than most of the other sectors of the world economy. It is predicted that Europe will emerge first from the recession and that China will emerge last from this world recession(sometimes called The Great Recession) we are all still recovering from now.
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Buffet's Berkshire doubles Earnings



 
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    By James O'Toole @CNNMoneyInvest May 4, 2012: 6:32 PM ET
    NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway posted first-quarter earnings Friday that doubled versus last year, buoyed by gains in its insurance businesses and derivatives holdings.
    The company posted $3.25 billion in earnings, translating to $1,966 per Class A share, compared with $1.51 billion in the first quarter of last year.
    Operating earnings, which exclude some investment and derivative gains, were $1,615 a share, coming up short of the $1,780 prediction from analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters.
    Berkshire (BRKA, Fortune 500) owns more than 80 companies, including insurer Geico, chemical company Lubrizol, railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe and MidAmerican Energy.
    The firm also holds stakes in companies like Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500), Kraft Foods (KFT, Fortune 500) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ, Fortune 500), and it surprised some observers last year with a foray into the tech world, buying shares of Intel (INTC, Fortune 500), IBM (IBM, Fortune 500) and DirecTV (DTV, Fortune 500).
    Berkshire booked gains from its insurance businesses, after the sector was battered early last year by disasters including the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The firm's manufacturing, service and retail businesses were also a source of strength, as were its derivatives bets.
    Buffett ups tech holdings
    Class A shares closed at $121,950 Friday, while Class B (BRKB) shares finished at $80.94. Class B shares slipped 0.5% in after-hours trading.
    Berkshire's shareholders will gather in Nebraska on Saturday for the company's annual meeting, where the so-called Oracle of Omaha will likely face questions about his health and his succession plans.
    In a letter to shareholders last month, Buffett disclosed that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, though the 81-year-old claimed the condition "is not remotely life-threatening or even debilitating in any meaningful way." Additional tests, he added, didn't reveal incidence of cancer anywhere else in his body.
    Buffett has yet to publicly reveal a succession plan, though he says he has already informed Berkshire's board about his preferred candidates. Upon his departure, Buffett's job will be divided between a CEO in charge of operations and one or more executives in charge of investments.
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    Buffett has said that two investment managers who recently joined the company, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, "will be handling a few billion dollars in 2012, but they have the brains, judgment and character to manage our entire portfolio" when he and Berkshire vice chairman Charlie Munger are no longer running the company.
    Ajit Jain, who heads the firm's reinsurance business, has been mentioned by Berkshire-watchers as a possible successor on the operations side.
    Buffett's son, Howard, is in line to follow as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway upon his father's death, though Howard will not be involved in strategy or day-to-day decisions.
    Berkshire shares had a rare down year in 2011, slipping 4.7%, even as the broader market stayed mostly flat. Over the past two decades, the company's stock has gained more than thirteen-fold, while the S&P 500 Index is up about three-fold. To top of page 
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    New Google Website Translator Gadget

    If you look above "About Me" and above  the words "Blog Archive" you will see Google Website  Translator Gadget. If you click on the blue area with up and down arrows you can now choose which language you want my website translated into. However, please know that not all things will be translated with an accuracy probably more than 50 to 75% and some things will translate into gibberish that cannot be deciphered or make complete sense in your language because this is after all a machine translator and not a human being doing this.
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    U.S. and China forge deal to let Chen and Family come to U.S.


    U.S. and China Forge Deal to let Chinese dissident and Family go to U.S. on Teaching Fellowship 

    By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, May 4, 11:12 AM

    BEIJING — The U.S. and China forged the outlines of a deal Friday to end a diplomatic standoff over legal activist Chen Guangcheng that would let him travel to the U.S. with his family for a university fellowship.
    After days of behind-the-scenes talks, reversals and emotional calls by Chen from a guarded hospital room, the U.S. and China made a series of announcements signaling a logjam had been broken.

    Chen Guangcheng’s decision to ask to leave China complicates economic and strategic negotiations going on in Beijing.
    Chen Guangcheng’s decision to ask to leave China complicates economic and strategic negotiations going on in Beijing.
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    The US is confirming that blind activist Chen Guangcheng and his family want to leave China, undoing a diplomatic deal and presenting American officials with a dilemma.
    The US is confirming that blind activist Chen Guangcheng and his family want to leave China, undoing a diplomatic deal and presenting American officials with a dilemma.
    The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Chen can apply for travel permits to study abroad. An American university has offered Chen a fellowship with provisions for his family, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said, adding that the U.S. expects Beijing to quickly process their travel permits, after which U.S. visas would be granted.
    “Over the course of the day, progress has been made to help him have the future that he wants, and we will be staying in touch with him as this process moves forward,” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said, speaking to reporters after two days of annual strategic talks in Beijing.
    Jerome Cohen, a New York University law professor who has been advising Chen during the negotiations, said Chen had been offered an invitation to the university’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute. Asked if Chen would accept, Cohen said: “I think he will,” but added: “I don’t know whether he wants to come to New York or not. He may have a lot of other alternatives.”
    The emerging deal over Chen’s future showed renewed resolve by Washington and Beijing to end one of their most delicate diplomatic crises in years.
    Dealing with Chen’s case quickly allows the governments to focus on managing the larger irritants over trade, Syria, Iran and North Korea that bedevil relations between the world’s largest economies, one a superpower, the other its up-and-coming rival.
    A blind, self-taught lawyer and symbol in China’s civil rights movement, Chen triggered the standoff after he escaped abusive house arrest in his rural town and sought refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing last week.
    He left six days later under a negotiated deal in which he and his family were to be reunited at a hospital and then safely relocated in China so he can formally study law. But he then upended the agreement by saying they wanted to go abroad.
    Obstacles to getting Chen out of China remain. Key among then is whether he would have to return to his home county in Shandong province to apply for a passport. Though a usual procedure, it would potentially expose him to retribution from the local officials who kept him and his family under brutal house arrest for his activism that exposed forced abortions and other misdeeds.
    After emerging from the embassy and arriving at Chaoyang Hospital on Wednesday for treatment of an injury, Chen said he had no further direct contact with U.S. officials for nearly two days, fueling a sense of abandonment and fears about the safety of him, his wife and two children.
    “I can only tell you one thing. My situation right now is very dangerous,” Chen said told The Associated Press earlier Friday. end quote from:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/us-china-forge-outlines-of-a-deal-to-send-chinese-activist-abroad-and-end-diplomatic-standoff/2012/05/04/gIQABpOk1T_story.html
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    Heavens, Time Lines, and Time Shards

    Even though this is my personal experience of this lifetime, unless you have had the kinds of experiences I have had in your life this might not be your experience. So, I'm okay with whether you see this as fanciful or actual. All I'm saying is this is my experience of Time Lines and spiritual things and with people having passed over and their experiences after passing on.

    What is the real difference between these three things (Heavens, Time Lines, and Time Shards)? My experience would be that Time shards last less than a few minutes to a few hundred years. Time lines are usually the major time lines of a Planet, dimension or Star or some locality in Time and Space. And Heavens generally are in a dimensional field that surrounds Stars, Nebulas, Galaxies, planets etc. So, for example there are thousands to millions of different though often interrelated heavens in the vicinity of the dimension of Earth. And that might be what people might need to know about heavens. However, sometimes even I can't tell the difference between a heaven realm and a time line. The reason for this is that "What is heaven for one person might be hell for another." A very good illustration of this would be, "Would Osama Bin Laden be happy in one of the thousands of Christian Heavens?" The answer is no, that would be a hell for him. And likewise if you were a devout Christian to spend very much time in any of the thousands or more Muslim heavens might be hell for you. So again, what is heaven for one person is often hell for another. Which I find very strange but also true in my lifelong experiences as an intuitive. So, finding the right heaven that you actually belong in is one of the tricks after someone passes on. Hopefully, your relatives already there in your families heaven realm will come and collect you along with angels when it is time for you to go there.

    The person that I personally knew who was a Catholic Priest and used to be District Attorney of Santa Cruz County before he joined the Priesthood was a Catholic Priest.  He of all the people I have known seemed to have the least problems of anyone I have ever met when he passed over. I'm not entirely sure why this was except that in addition to being at about 200 IQ he was also very intuitive like myself. So, on one level I was surprised at how smoothly things went for him after his passing and in another way I wasn't surprised at all.

    But generally, since he completely understood what was coming he wasn't frightened like most people are when they pass on. Most people have all sorts of unresolved stuff in regard to money, possessions, kids, wives, whatever, and they just can't let go of it easily. But then all this just causes them so much pain that out of desperation they find they just have to finally let go and move on into the next realms. But yes, it is true that some get stuck and get earthbound because they just can't let go. But, at least among people I have known it doesn't happen very often because after friends pass over they come to me and ask me what to do since I have been a natural shaman since age 21 when I psychologically died and yet my body still lived on. That is the true definition of a shaman because they live in both worlds. And many priests and ministers of all religions you will meet along the way are natural shamans too which can be very helpful.

    I would like to put what I'm saying to you into a cultural Anthropology context. Everything I'm saying to you is true in my own experiences. But because many of you might not experience this in your lifetime maybe if I put it into this kind of context it might be more useful. The following is a true historical story that actually took place sometime between the 1820s and the 1840s in the middle of the U.S.

    "The native American from his tribe was on a long journey and he came upon men and horses. But there was something wood that was screaming while a man banged on it's white teeth. For some reason the animal stayed still and didn't run away. But the animal kept screaming as the man banged on its white and black teeth. Finally, the other man that was repairing medicine shields or something that spun on the wooden thing climbed up and both men sat on the wood thing and the horses pulled it away. I will never forget what I saw my children as long as I live. I just can't get out of my mind the man singing a song while he banged on that creature's teeth."

    What the native American who had never seen a buckboard before or a piano being carried on a buckboard carriage and played by the other man waiting for the first man to repair a broken wheel and taking the piano to some small city in the Mid west or Colorado or Arizona or something like that because he had never seen any of this before. So, if you look at what I say in this context it might be more useful to you. I'm telling you of my experiences as an intuitive. If you are intuitive you will see I speak the truth but if you are not I'm doing the best I can because there aren't a whole lot of people comparing notes about all this kind of stuff that I have met so far.

    I would like to see about 100,000 intuitives mapping out all this kind of stuff just so people don't have to be so incredibly terrified when they die. If these intuitives were from every religion on earth and even if some of these intuitives were agnostic it might even be helpful. Because it isn't really necessary to be scared after you are gone from your body for the last time. It just isn't useful. It might however, be useful to be very calm and focused so you can make good decisions though.

    So, like I said it is hard sometimes for me to tell the difference right off the bat between a time line and a heaven realm. But given about 5 minutes I can usually tell the difference.

    In regard to Time lines of earth there are two I'm really familiar with and I have written extensively about them. However, I am also led to believe that there are at the very least 3 more that will stay from now on for various purposes. There are also hundreds and possibly thousands of what are called Time Shards (comes from the idea of pieces of a broken mirror) that last from seconds to hundreds of years before they collapse. It also appears that there are beings that police these kinds of things and if they are kind for example, someone or thousands or millions or billions on a time shard might for example, all go to sleep one night and then the shard would end and either the people would end (at least in those bodies) or they might wind up on a for real time line)

    We are actually between now and 2014 in a very transitional time both dimensionally and physically from now 2012 until 2014. I would liken it to when you get into your car and have to transition to getting on a freeway from a side street. You speed up your car, you merge into traffic and there are no more stop lights until you want to get off the freeway at your destination. That's kind of how I see 2012 to 2014. Since most people don't remember doing something like this before in another lifetime they are psychologically at least Newbies in this respect. So, any time you do something as a new driver it can be rough until you get used to it. That is how I kind of see the next two years for all life on earth.




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