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Crisis DOES NOT = danger + opportunity!
Two great sayings that help me live my life are: "A good example is the best sermon" and "The Truth is not afraid of questions."
Now stay with me now because this is a long and rambling blog, but I think it is a very import blog. In it, I finally come out of the war cabinet about how my spiritual studies and psychic visions have helped me to make sense of the world at this, it's craziest time in history.
The war on terror is like all wars the people of the US have fought. Someone, in this case the Muslim fundamentalists, want to kill us and take our property and otherwise prevent us from living the way we wanat to live, the greatest gift a nation's people have ever possessed and something most people in the USA take for granted to a degree that is literally disgusting to me - it makes me feel sick in my stomach.
And it's not just terrorists who are out to get us and take from us whatever freedoms that we have remaining from the gradual erosion perpetrated on us by a government that is supposed to serve us and especially today, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has made us all serfs and America a feudal land by giving local governments the right to take ANYONE's home and land for ANY reason that they deem fit, like giving your home to rich developers who pay them bribes or merely "campaign contributions." What happened to the Magna Carta, anyway?
We've all GOT to do something about this Supreme Court ruling, whether it means impeaching them or writing to our basically useless representatives getting them off their power grabs and fund raising parties enough to get them to the task of changing the law somehow - this is a SERIOUS "TAKING!" as it is called in legal English. The Supreme Court is, in this ruling, trying to do the same thing to us as the Muslim terrorists and their supporters, who are not all Muslims, by the way. The war on terror is 3-dimensional chess, not craker-barrel checkers the way most people see it.
As our friend Marianne Williamson says, human actions are based either on love or fear and the actions of the terrorists are supposedly based on their love of "God," but if they love "God" so much, why do they want to kill "His" creations? The simple answer to anyone like myself who was born and reared up in Brooklyn, New York, is that they are fucking assholes, obviously.
But their actions are an indictment against rearing anyone on the bullshit part of religion - all religions - that punish you for not obeying them and call on you to realize that other people are in any way less human than you and therefore not as deserving as you and members of your religion, clan, family, whatever, of life, liberty and the pursuit of happisness.
Every religion has their stupid, untouchable articles of faith that their leaders refuse to examine critically in light of reality. These dangerous beliefs are usually vestiges of the Dark Ages that this world is only now starting to come out of - please think about that for a minute - and this is what we're up against in the War on Terror and the war on ignorance, which is just as important because the consequences of ignorance are no less deadly than those of terrorism.
What makes a fundamentalist a dangerous fundamentalist terrorist is when they are so afraid of your disagreeing with them that they're willing to harm you or worse. It's as if they can't handle your disagreement or your calling on them to question their faith's basic tenets because it causes them to have doubts. So instead of destroying the doubts you've awakened in them peacefully through love, compassion or even their own logic, they try to destroy their doubts by trying to destroy you, the doubter, the unbeliever.
I know beyond doubt that if you have true faith, you are too busy living it to be affected in any way by those who doubt you. We'll all find out soon enough when we die what the truth about this world is. I don't have to beat my beliefs into anyone; I just live them.
Even philosphers and self-described Renaissance men like me have our blind spots - everyone does. The way to deal with them is to remember that you could be wrong and the person who you think is wrong could be right - even about something you're almost certain is the truth!
Here's a classic example: There is a widespread misconception that the Chinese character for the word "crisis," weiji, is composed of the characters meaning "danger" and "opportunity." I thought that was true until today.
However, rather than "opportunity," the Chinese character ji, literally means "crucial point," which then defines a crisis as the crucial point of a dangerous situation, a meaning which makes perfect sense to me.
I'm doing research for our forthcoming "Animal Powers Meditation Kit" and I read the debunking of this myth by Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chines Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He's quite upset about it and points out that there are over a million references to what he calls "this spurious proverb." He also states the fact that "a whole industry of pundits and therapists has grown up around this one grossly inaccurate formulation. It appears, often complete with Chinese characters, on the covers of books, on advertisements for seminars, on expensive courses for "thinking outside of the box, and practically everywhere one turns in the world of quick buck business, pop psychology, and orientalist hocus-pocus." Strong words! You can read the rest of them here.
It points out a basic truth about life and belief: Just because everyone says something is true doesn't mean that it is true. I mean, the professor is 100% correct: there are hundreds of authors and not just New Age authors, who've used this falsehood as a basic premise of their works and that means thousands if not millions of people have been influenced by this false philosophy.
I feel the same way about all philosophies, even ones that I've accepted as truth in the past. At this stage of my life I find no comfort in false philosophies. And I would rather have no religion than a false religion. I am willing to start from the very lowest of base lines - the only thing I am reasonably sure of is my own existence - and take it from there.
I think life is amazing and I feel so much love and compassion for everyone, especially those who've been killed and maimed fighting and dying so that I can sit here in my peaceful, beautiful garden and write sweet books about loving animals and meditating on them. I suggest that everyone contribute to the soldierride and wounded warrior project so that those who've been horribly wounded during their military service know that we appreciate their sacrifice. We can never make it up to them or thank them enough, but that doesn't mean we should be turned away from them by the horror of what's happened to them. You will be amazed at their courage and you will learn a lot from them.
I have a whole laundry list of reasons why I believe our country was correct in invading Iraq. I did not fight in Viet Nam but I would have fought in this war - easy to say, I know, but I have to say what I believe because that's who I am and that's what these amazing extraordinary men and women have lived and died for. I've risked my life in a lot of ways and protected people being beaten and robbed but that's nothing compared to what our military does. I'm not in their league, but I've devoted my life to helping people and trying to make the world a better place. And it's my blog, so there! Nyah!!!
Seriously, I'm apalled that what I consider to be treasonous speech and seditious acts are not prosecuted here in America during wartime. I know why people oppose the war - who wants war? Who wants to see innocent people killed and maimed and endless sorrows instigated endlessly? I don't think anyone does, except the terrorists and that is my point entirely.
The terrorists have declared war on you and me and everyone that we love. They are coming to kill us. They are even here in our country trying to figure out how to destroy our very way of life. THEY ALMOST SUCCEEDED ON SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001!!! We were almost brought roaring into a financial CRISIS!!! No opportunity there, unless you survive it and we did, but this ain't no movie. Next ttime we might not be so lucky and that FACT becomes the starting point for my beliefs about the war on terrorism. Sometimes I think that most people have forgotten that we almost lost the war on terrorism on that beautiful September day, just like we almost lost WW II to Germany.
Nineteen highly committed fucking assholes, who should have been caught by the FBI but weren't because of Ms. Jamie Gorlick's "wall" memo and other beaurocratic bumbling from the remnants of Clinton's FBI almost brought on a financial crisis that would have brought our nation and the civilized world to its knees.
You cannot reason with terrorists. You cannot negotiate with terrorists. You cannot appease terrorists. You can barely terrorize terrorists. They don't care if they or their loved ones die. They only care if we threaten their holy sites like Mecca and Medina. I often think that the only reason that there wasn't another 9/11 was because the word went out that do that one more time and we destroy your holy sites, thereby proving that Allah can't stop us from doing so and rendering your psychotic delusional pronouncements about "God," "Allah," and the like moot and steaming.
And perhaps that is why Iraq was invaded, to show them we weren't screwing around like Clinton did. But I digress. I'll write more about this if you write to me and want to know my full position on the war on terrorism.
No one is as surprised as me at how I truly believe in my heart and mind about the rightness of what we're doing in Iraq. I am a compassionate person. Heck, I am compassionate even to the deluded mysogonistic, homophobic, murderous maniacs who are devoting their lives to supressing the rights and lives of others, even to the point of harming and killing people. They've been raised in a culture of barbaric cruelty and the casual dehumanizing of anyone not deemed human by anyone who claims to know what is in the Koran.
However, I feel that these people are like sick, dangerous animals and need to either be awakened from their "sleep" of ignorance or put to sleep. That's why I feel so indebted to those who have put their lives on the line so that darkness doesn't once again descend on the world.
Please remember that I am psychic and, as things stand, I feel things are getting better. However, the future is, for the most part, not etched in stone and if the misguided, short-sighted, and for the most part well-meaning people who are talking about Abu Graib, Gitmo and bringing the troops home don't pipe down and engage in some long-range thinking based on "The Art of War," and other military strategy books, we're going to lose the war on terror and the world is going to be taken over by Islamist extremists and the Chinese. That is also what I get psychically and I've been right enough times to the point where I believe what I get even if I don't agree with it logically. I repeat, I've seen things come true too many times that seemed impossible when I predicted them. And don't shoot the messenger, OK?
If my prophecies and opinions about them startles and angers you, please realize that I'm not too happy about saying many of these things, either, but I'm nothing if not honest - always have been and always will be. I used to think that President Bush was an idiot and I voted for Nader the first time he ran. But the result of my psychic gift, deep meditations, and research have all proved to me that I was wrong and George Bush and his advisors are correct with regards to their geopolitical approach to leadership. I will elaborate in a future blog if anyone is interested in why I, an established New Age author (and proud of it!) feels the way I do. I'm never sure if anyone is reading these blogs but I'm confident that what I've written herein will prove whether or not anyone is reading. My email is info@theenchantedworld.com .
OK, now back to our regularly scheduled blog:
No matter what happens after we die, I believe that to live life fully we have to accept the fact that life and human consciousness may be nothing more than a wonderful chemical accident that is almost inevitable given nearly infinite time and space. That leaves us floating in a sea of uncertainty and I would like to humbly suggest that that is precisely where we belong if we want to be mentally strong and independent thinkers. There may be a God/dess just like in the story books of the various relgions but there may not be. Jesus and Mohammed may have been real people, maybe not. We're talking about a long time ago and that means people have had lots of time to get their editors' pens onto the pages of all ancient writings not etched in stone. That's why I find it easier to believe what Sitchin writes about - the Earth is dotted with immense stone monuments more sophisticated than anything we could build today and his writings and those writings etched in clay and stone give cogent explanations. I don't have to believe a myth to know that The Pyramids and the Sphinx exist, among hundreds of other monumental edifices like the Temples of the Sun and Moon in Mexico.
I can certainly understand why the proponents of what is currently called "Intelligent Design" postulate that the universe is just way too amazing to have just happened, it HAD to be made by a Divine Creator. I can understand that because I feel that way about Amy and Zane, but that doesn't prove anything about the existence of a Divine Creator. Feelings are one thing and proof is another thing.
I realize that this sounds funny coming from someone who is psychic and who also claims to be able to speak to those who've passed away from this reality. However, I like to think that one of the reasons that I'm so good at it is because I hold it at arms length and accept the possibility that I may be deluding myself or that there is some other explanation for how I do what I do.
Speaking of that, I'm very happy about a prediction I made regarding a neighbor's cat. Maybe it's because I love Zane so much and I'm still so sad about losing Lacy, his sister, to a reckless speeding driver and even to losing KitKat to Chronic Renal Failure - I think death is a design flaw and that one day it will be corrected and we'll live for thousands of years. I cannot understand why the super rich people of this world don't fund the necessary research - don't they want to live forever, now that they've got the world by the, er, globe? Donald Trump, are you reading my blog? If anyone wants to live forever, it's you.
Back to my prediction, a friend's declawed house-cat went missing outside and I very clearly saw that the cat was very near the house - I saw her sitting and staring longingly at her house - and would be found. But I doubted myself when two weeks passed and no cat. But then they found her! She was in...the garage! I don't now how or why, but she's home now and I'm delighted.
But does that prove that there's an omniscient God/dess or that I talk to the animals or can see the future? No. It could have been a lucky guess. It's because I'm right so often that I believe that I am psychic, but that's as far as I can go in terms of what I believe. It's all too miraculous and beyond the current laws of physics, which is why it's "metaphysical" meaning "beyond the physical." I'm too in awe of life to think that I can understand it, other than what I can prove as best as I can. But at least I admit what I don't know for sure. If everyone did that the world would be...hmmm, it might not be so great, come to think of it. Most of the troubles of this world are caused by people who are scarred and scared and covering it up with destructive behavior. Maybe I should be thankful that people have their unproven certainties, lest the world go to hell in a handcart at an even faster rate.
If you've read along this far, here's a psychic prediction that I made back in May that looks like it isn't going to come true after all. I got a very loud and clear message that there was going to be a bloody revolution in Saudi Arabia. This was before King Fahd went into the hospital and I thought that event was the signal that the prediction was going to come true. I thought it was going to happen "this month," but my friend Bill said that if it happened in June that would still count. Well, thirty days hath Sept, April, June and November and June's almost over.
The prediction was that this revolution would result in AL Queda taking over Saudi Arabia but oil would pump like water because they wouldn't have access to the Saudi royal family's money and they'd need money to do whatever insane jihadists do when they fulfill a dream and get to boss around and kill everyone they want to. I do think that they'll be overthrown and fairly quickly, and this would explain why for many months now I've gotten the message that Osama Bin Laden was going to be killed at the hands of a Muslim.
So there you have it. The world is in Crisis enough and I'm predicting an even more dire Crisis within the next few days. Is there opportunity there? The truth is that there is always opportunity, though when you think about it, the professor is right - it's even harder to see and take advantage of opportunities during a crisis. So live your faith and respect other people, unless they're trying to kill you just for being yourself.
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