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Alan Colmes interviewed us on Fox website
Alan Colmes, who was Sean Hannity's Liberal opponent on Fox TV's Hannity & Colmes opinion show (it's just Hannity, now), interviewed us today at 2:45 Eastern Time on Fox News' "Strategy Room," a well done web-only streaming video cast with shows on from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time.
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We talked about so many things - Alan Colmes knows his astrology chart and is interested in metaphysical subjects! - all related to our Enchanted World and I have to say that, compared to the world that I read about each evening, our world certainly is Enchanted and we work hard to keep it that way. We wake up in love with each other, little Zane, our shaman cat, is often sleeping with us. We get to work after exercising together. We make products that enhance people's lives. And we are grateful every minute because we know it isn't going to last and we are so much more fortunate than so many people in this incredibly weird world.
The great romantic poet, William Wordsworth, wrote the sonnet "The World Is Too Much With Us," in 1802 but it is as a statement that those words spring up in my mind several times a day here in 2009, over two hundred years later. If Wordsworth thought that civilized society was overly materialistic then, he'd lose his mind if he stepped out of a time machine and saw what's going on today. The world tries to intrude in everyone's life to a degree that was unimaginable to people of that time, people who were much more in nature even if they lived in towns.
But it is not materialism that bothers me as much as how mean and uncivil people are to each other. When Amy posted that we were going to be on Fox's Strategy Room, people started making snide comments about Fox. What's up with that? Fox news programs report the news and their opinion programs, like O'Reilly and Hannity and Glenn Beck, are opinion shows - very different animals. And I think it demeans the President when he and those he has chosen to work with him single out people, like Rush Limbaugh, and companies like FOX and others for direct criticism. That is no way for the President of the United States of America to act and I think it's his example that seems to be giving the OK for people who call themselves liberals to be very, very mean. The USA is under attack from crazy people of all stripes, both foreign and right here at home, and the only thing that can save us all is intelligence and respect. But when I mean respect for our enemies, I mean to respect the fact that they are skilled and dedicated to destroying us and our way of life. I don't mean holding the door for them and calling them "sir." That is just plain suicidal, IMHO. In juijitsu, you use your opponents' energy and way of conducting themselves to defeat them. We cannot allow our enemies to use our laws and political correctness to destroy us and our way of life. All ways of life are not equal and any religion - ANY religion - that sanctifies the abuse and honor killing of women and homosexuals is not a religion at all, just an excuse for stupid people to behave like petty tyrants. I may live in the Enchanted World, but that doesn't blind me to what is going on in our wonderful, free for the time being nation.
America is the country of disagreement. Americans used to be proud of their right to disagree. In fact, there was a saying that you hardly hear anymore: "I may not agree with what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it." THAT is the American way, not the thin skinned, my-way-or-the-highway attitude that is characterizing the polarized tone of our nations leaders and right on down the line to the people you meet on the street and in your home. Both sides of these disagreements are guilty of being uncivil. We are all in this together, no? We cannot afford to have such pettiness and, as someone addicted to reading the news each night, I am totally disgusted by it. I am even more disgusted by how accusations and veiled threats are tossed around like bubbles. Are these people just trying to call attention to themselves? If so, they should stop it. The world of incivility is too much with us these days.
Late at night, when I've finished my news reading and writing my books and proposals for new books that I am seeking to have published, adding to the forty plus I've already written, I sometimes get down, wondering who has time to read anything anymore. It's not just TV, movies, and video games that books and poems, engines of thought, have to compete with, but also with Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and the other social networking websites turning almost everyone into a web-published writer. The Wordsworth of today would probably find it impossible to get published because, supposedly, poetry books don't sell very much, thereby proving the theme of his sonnet, a sonnet that would only be heard by his Facebook Friends and Twitter Followers and forgotten ten minutes later when the video link of the cat who picks tarot cards appears (sent by me, watch for that either here or if you're our Facebook Friend or Twitter Follower - which you can access from our home page. It's Zane, our cat, who actually sat down and picked a tarot card on camera!!! So cute!)
I'm glad that so many people are posting spiritual truths and I hope they are also living them, as Amy and I try to do with the advice we give in our books. We know all too well that saying is important but doing is more important. Life is short and today's human's attention span is getting shorter all the time, so it is important that we take to heart all the wisdom that we can and live it, walk it, as well as Twitter it. It is almost too easy to "live in the now" now. The computer has rewired our brains, according to research released today, and I'm pretty sure it's made us all live in the now a bit too much and caused memories to atrophy because who needs memory when you can Google? Perhaps its time to return to memorization of facts as a kind of mental vitamin that aids memory? What did I just say? ;-)
Speaking of life being short, there is another world that is too much with us of late, the world of the spirit, and that is the reason that started me on the journey of this blog. The ancient holyday/holiday, All Hallows Eve (Halloween, to us), was held on a day where tradition maintained that the veil between the spirit world and the world of the living was the thinnest. I used to think that this was a nice metaphor because fall is obviously a time of harvest and death for the plants and animals that were to be eaten during the coming winter. But lately I have felt the presence of Amy's dear mother, Jessie Spicer Zerner, whose name I love to write because I love her as much today as when she was alive.
It was Jessie's passing that prodded me to try my hand at channeling her spirit as a way to help Amy and me cope with her death. I always like to feel that it is she who guides me and allows me to work as a professional psychic with documented abilities to predict measurable future events in the financial world (You can see almost two years of my bi-monthly video clips on www.TheStreet.com, just type in Monte Farber in that website's search box). But even though I speak with her every day, I have never, at any time since her passing, felt her around me the way I have during the past few weeks. I do hope she's not trying to get through to me with some message I'm ignoring. I just heard her say "No, you silly goose!" Whew!
OK, but it's not just me who's picking up on the thinning of the veil between the living and the dead. Amy feels it, too, and so does little Zane, our shaman cat. Today he came into my studio meowing in a very strange and uncharacteristic manner, it sounded like he was a sad kitten and not the big, strong miniature bobcat he usually resembles. He then went over to my treadmill, turned to look at me to make sure that I was paying attention, and then he started looking under the treadmill. I have to tell you that when Zane was a kitten, he and his late and much missed sister, Laci, used to hang out under my old treadmill, which was much higher off the carpet and allowed for their quick escapes. It was incredibly cute to see their little heads peeking out or there eyes shinning back at me when I was looking for them. Zane was looking under the treadmill for his dead sister and I'll bet he saw her, too.
We have a dear friend, Frank Andrews, who is a legendary psychic from New York City. The last time we visited his home he met us at the door and after we entered he said, did you know there is a little calico cat following you? That was Laci. I can hear the words and sounds of the dead, I can see symbols they send me, but I don't see spirits, or at least I haven't yet. But Frank always could and I found it very comforting to know that little Laci is still with us. Like Jessie, she could never be too with us.
One day, we will all meet again in heaven, a place where there is no doubt. I believe it will be wonderful when that world is too much with us.May all of our words be worth the effort to write and read and live them. Wordsworth would approve of that sentiment, I'm sure.
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