Swine Flu Hoax?

So who are the swine behind the swine flu? That's what I wanted to know.

Whenever I begin to see blaring headlines regarding the word “pandemic”, I make a call to Dr. Lorraine Day, the former chief of Orthopedic Surgery at USF. Not one to mince words, and a dogged researcher, I can count on Lorraine to give me the big picture behind the headlines. I made that call yesterday. Her first words, underscored with a hearty laugh, were “It’s just another hoax!”

Here’s the long and short of it according to Lorraine. First, the government is continuing on it’s path to incite panic so we will ideally demand to have protection from these ‘killer virus’ via vaccinations. This would help avert a less popular mandatory vaccination program, which is what the Elite would like to see happen. Lorraine is also quick to point out that truly noxious vaccines are being developed in laboratories that combine human and animal virus' that can seriously compromise our immune systems if we allow them to be administered to us.

Secondly, she said that the Center for Disease Control needed to move their stockpiles of the flu drug Tamiflu, which didn't make it out to the masses during the last panic, which was the 'bird flu'. I find it interesting that Tamiflu was supposedly created as the antidote to bird flu, but the CDC now says it actually works just fine for swine flu too. It would appear that the stuff is quite non-specific in nature for what is considered to be a very specific strain of flu. Hummm. Anyway, pharmacy chains such as CVC are now stocking up in preparation for the “pandemic”.

As an aside, it may not surprise you to know that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is a major stockholder in Gilead Sciences, a California bio tech firm that owns the rights to Tamiflu. A CNN report from 2005, when we were were being threatened with the bird flu, put Rumsfeld’s holdings somewhere between $5,000,000 to $25,000,000. This is the same gentleman who brought us the excitotoxin Aspartame, now known to cause serious neurological problems in humans. But, less I digress.....

Lorraine went on to say that 12, 60, even 120 deaths from flu do not make a pandemic. More than 500,000 people a year die from various flu virus’. There are still active flu strains out there from all of the usual sources. In fact, it was just reported that 2 young people in the Sacramento area were tested to have been infected with the swine flu virus, but, no worries, they recovered from their flu in 24 hours. Sounds just like the flu that’s been going around through my friends and other acquaintances over the past few weeks in Sacramento.

To further the story, she said that Prince Charles recently pushed for the subject of Developmental Sustainability be pushed to the top of the G-20 agenda. Developmental Sustainability is the code word for de-population according to Dr. Day. As you may recall, Charles’ father, Prince Phillip, when asked what he would like to come back as if he had another life, said “A virus.” The idea was that he would then be able to kill off the useless members of society. What a gentleman.

In short, Lorraine says do not worry. Just do your body a favor by eating a good clean diet full of fresh vegetables and fruits, get some sunshine and fresh air, turn to your spiritual practice, relax and, under no circumstances, allow yourself to be vaccinated. We’re all exposed to flu bugs, but if you can keep your immune system strong, you have nothing to worry about and the only swine involved here are those who are trying to keep us in fear.

Desiderata: a poem for all times

I was preparing to write a New Year's blog when a friend forwarded this poem to us. Nothing I can say today could be better stated than this grace and truth filled poem. Titled Desiderata, it was was written about 80 years ago by Max Ehrmann. Let'a all take these words and go fearlessly and peacefully into 2009!

Desiderata: Latin for "Things to be Desired."

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Have the Israeli's Learned Nothing?

As I read the headlines in today’s news I found my anger levels rising. I was reading a report about the Gaza attacks. It stated that 280 Palestinians had been killed and hundreds injured in retaliation for 7 deaths caused by the Palestinians with home-made devices over a two year period. In one Gaza house five young sisters were killed.  In another, six family members including four children killed while eating breakfast. And the atrocities continue.

Not surprisingly, shock is is the most common reaction from around the world, from Jews, Christians and Arabs over this brutal and horrific “retaliation”. The Israelis have been reminded from all quarters that they are keeping their Arab brothers in the same kind of conditions the Jews themselves were exposed to at the hand of the Nazis in WWII. This call to reality seems to have little impact.

How much more must the Arab world endure in favor of support to the state of Israel? For me there is no question that this entire issue has to be re-thought. This is a challenge when so little truthful information reaches the world’s ears. Case in point - Israel allowed just two UN workers to enter Gaza today to survey the damage. Meanwhile, I received file after file of photos sent from Arab sites. Not pretty. And it wasn’t much prettier before the latest violence.

Three Christmas’, Hanukkah's and Haj’s ago I was working in Israel for one month on a video project. We stayed in the homes of Jews and Palestinians. It was one of the most profound times of my life as one perception after another was torn apart by the reality that lay before us. One newfound truth was that the new city of Jerusalem (as opposed to the walled ancient city at the interior of the metropolitan area) was much like any American city in that the primary focus of Hanukkah was not religious rites, rather holiday sales at the Jerusalem Mall. That’s when I learned that 60% of the Israeli population were agnostic. This was told to us by our Jewish hosts. My belief that Israel was created for purposes of religious freedom was blown.

Belief number two - Palestinians are a bomb tossing, violent and unsophisticated people. That’s what I had seen and read in American publications.

As we walked through the gate at The Wall into the Palestinian city of Ramallah, my entire body burst into tears. I had no idea the Palestinian people were living as caged animals and treated in such an inhumane way. People who were kind, soft spoken and generous to us and each other had endured this treatment for several decades. All of the Palestinian men we met had been in and out of Israeli jails, some beginning at the age of 5. For what? For throwing stones at tanks that razed their homes and at soldiers who rounded up, and, in some cases, killed their loved ones. It’s like a fish barrel with Israeli guns trained on the Palestinians all the time.

Our American host had told of us of an earlier visit to Ramallah when Israelis in military garb opened fire on people on the street for no apparent reason. The Arabs simply said, “This is normal.” Our host was nearly shot in one of the events. The next day we caught a young Israeli soldier high above the Damascus gate entrance to the Old City pretending to shoot his real machine gun into the crowd of Arabs below who were shopping and going about their day - like a child with a new toy gun. He ducked when he realized he had been seen.

And the ugliness of the terrain. The Palestinians are great lovers of beauty, in architecture, art, rug making and so forth. One way to demoralize those who love beauty is to deny access to it. Toward this end, the Israelis uprooted the trees, more than a million of them, in the Palestinian territories and took them to Israeli land, leaving behind the most desolate of landscapes. Bulldozed and bullet-ridden homes with not a living thing in site. I have seen poverty and lack in third world countries over the last 3 decades, but I have never seen anything as unconscionable as this. And they have no right to protest and fight for their rights, their lives?

I think the world is finally on to this one. How long must everyone else pay for what happened to the Jews 60+ years ago? Of all people. You would think that WWII would at least have taught that to inflict inhumane suffering on a people simply because of their race is completely unacceptable. Now the Israelis are among the world’s worst perpetrators. It’s hard remain silent over this one any longer. Let the Anti Defamation League come after us all, we must all speak our truth now because the people behind barbed wire need our help.

Meanwhile, it’s been whispered behind the scenes from some of our interviewees with inside connections to the Pentagon and beyond that the goal is to start another World War. The economy is doomed and this is the classic solution - war. But, every war needs a trigger point. Is that what we’re looking at? I hope for all our sakes it isn’t.

Yes, we can!

I just finished watching a video on the “truth about voting” by Stefan Molyneux of FreedomainRadio. I found myself annoyed with his bitterness and clicked off the page.

Yes, it’s true that the electoral system is beyond flawed. Yes, the self proclaimed elite of our societies give us only the illusion of freedom. Yes, we can live in this eternally depressing belief and sit on our hands in judgement of the more naive who are celebrating the perceived courage of a nation today and do nothing but criticize them for their ignorance. “Yes, we can do this” in the words of the president elect. But to what end?

Scott and I created CMN as a safe place for people to explore vital, inspirational and challenging information. Many people come to the site because they have just had wedged into their consciousness the notion that the story they have bought into their entire life is a lie. The first step in growth is to assess what is, and the picture can look pretty grim. The knowledge of skulduggery leads to anger, which leads to action, sometimes revenge. All of these stages of growth are important. But what all of these initial stages of expansion of consciousness lead to is something much finer in nature - the understanding of how consciousness, particularly mass consciousness, can shift what we know as reality.

We talk about the matrix, about shifting it into a finer dimension. What the Stefan Molyneuxs of the world do not appear to understand is that there will be no upward movement in the plight of mankind without massive doses of desire and hope for a brighter future.

As I watched the faces in the crowds of celebrants after Obama was declared the winner of the presidential election, I saw something amazing. Wide eyes, hopeful and glistening looking up to someone they perceive as a genuine voice for the new. These eyes were on black faces, white faces, young and old faces. Americans felt redeemed and hopeful after 8 disgraceful and embarrassing years in the world theater. Delirium might even be the more correct word, though Obama himself exercised great caution as to the dangers of becoming giddy when such immense challenges lie ahead.

All of this said, emotion is energy. Last night and today, around the world, the human species fueled the grid with nothing short of joy. Remember the notion of “where two or more gather?” Whether the human species is naive and ignorant of what lies ahead or not, the value of hundreds of millions of people mustering up faith, joy and courage cannot be brushed aside by cynicism. Cynics are said to be broken hearted optimists. A full heart is far more powerful than a broken heart, and I believe the collective joy of millions of people may have made one of the most important energetic strides of our lifetimes by having the courage to believe in something again. Though the honeymoon will end sooner than we would like to think, I believe our night of unbridled hope is beyond the reach of the cold and calculating forces that seek to subdue humankind. They are running out of steam while millions of us are beginning to wake up to the fraud of their rule. And, if it is possible that a single day of collective hope and joy can shift the matrix, that day may be November 4th, 2008.

Joy Cures All!

A few days ago I was reading a small book on a British man’s life-transforming visit to Mt. Arunachala, the home of the Sri Ramana Marishi, who lived there until his death in 1950. Ramana was reknowned for his inner joy and light, which he shared through silence. As I read on, I particularly enjoyed the detailed description of life in the small town of Tiruvannamalai, at the base of the sacred mountain, because I spent a couple of weeks there earlier this year with my son Stuart. The little book allowed me to relive some of my wonderful experiences there.

Among the many treasured experiences amidst days of meditation was a magical event that occured while passing by the portrait of Ramana positioned in a chamber of the Ashram in which he spent many years of his life.

After morning meditation in a cave in the mountain, the chamber in which Ramana lived for several years, I was feeling particularly happy and light spirited. At the end of the walk down the mountain, passing monkeys and pilgrims along the way, I stopped at the ashram for a cool walk through it's stony chambers - it was hot outside.

As I passed the portrait of Ramana he suddenly became three dimensional, as though he was lifting off the canvas, and smiled at me. I stopped, blinked my eyes a few times and looked again. Again, he lifted off the canvas smiled and winked. A smile to match his spread across my face as I thought "he's having some fun with me!" Joy filled my heart.

A few days later I mentioned to Stuart what had happened and he told me that another person we developed a friendship with while in Tiru, Michael,  had the same experience. He had asked Stuart not to tell anybody, lest they think he was crazy. My smile turned into a laugh.

A few months later I met with Amit Goswami for an interview. Off camera we were speaking of Mt. Arunachala and Ramana. He said that a devotee of Ramana was said to have cried out in despair to his master Ramana, who was now on his deathbed, “Please do not leave us.” To which Ramana reportedly said “And where would I go??” Amit followed by telling me that it was known that at least some part of Ramana still resides at the sacred mountain assisting in the transformative process of the thousands of people who make pilgrimages to Arunachala each year.

Back to the little book. As I was finishing the last pages a sudden heavy trance-like state came over me. I could not resist as it became more and more difficult to keep my eyes open, so I put the book down and said “Okay, if there is something for me to see, show me.”

After a minute or two of sitting passively with no thoughts I began to experience a feeling of deep joy in my heart such as what I experienced during my days at Mt. Arunachala. It became so strong that I thought I would have to get up and move around to release some of the energy, but I could not get up or even open my eyes. A minute or so later I began to see that this feeling in the heart of pure joy was the cure-all for everything.

I was then shown that if a person can retrieve a moment in their lives when their heart was soft or full of pure love or joy, this feeling could be applied to any other situation. For example, if there was a task that one didn’t enjoy doing, they simply needed to take a few minutes and connect with these deep feelings of joy and then proceed with the task. The net effect is that the neural pathways that create habituated responses to the events and endeavors of our lives would be re-routed to a positive, rather than negative, set of feelings. Brilliant I thought! So simple.

As the tutorial progressed I was shown that each time a person accesses the ‘happy place’ inside, it becomes easier and easier to access this feeling. As the ease builds, it can be applied to feelings that are more challenging or traumatic in nature. Again the result would be to break the old emotional responses by breaking the neural connections that were previously so well entrenched that we no longer had a choice as to our reactions. This habituated type of response happens with each and every one of us. Just listen to my interview with Dr. Joe Dispenza (availalbe Nov. 1st) to understand how this works.

As one example, I saw how applying joy to eating not only changes our choices of what to eat, but helps the body assimilate whatever we do decide to eat with much greater efficiency because of the positive brain chemicals flowing during the eating experience.

At the end of the meditation I thanked whatever guidance, be it my higher self or another of the 'forces that be' (I secretly thought it might have been Ramana visiting) for showing me such an elegant and simple solution to reframing our life’s experience. It was clear, however, that this process takes repetition. That said, it becomes easier to achieve with each attempt and the outcome, whether it’s applied to addictions, over-eating, fears, judgement, performance or anything else, would be well worth the effort. I had learned that joy cures all!

Creating Reality

It's the wee hours and I just awakened from a dream in which I was being tutored in the process of creating reality. The dream is as follows:

There was a politician whom I had heard about to the extent that I had a perception of their personality and had seen their face passing by in the media enough to have a picture of it. Yet, I had not assigned any importance or clear identification to this being. Then I was shown, or asked, to draw their face. I drew it in detail, including the nuances of expression such as a smile, but with a hint of deceit, brute strength and even arrogance. When I finished the picture, I was told - “Now they are real.”

I understood that I had created them. I had invested my attention on them. Until this time they were simply background noise, field of possibility. Now I had concretized them as a clear entity on the stage of my life. Once I had “put a name to it” (or in this, put a detailed face to it) I brought them to life from the field of possibilities to become a part of my life’s experience, which means to act with or react to. It became clear that this is the process by which we bring everything “into existence” both good and bad - elementary, but profound in its simplicity....by “naming” it.

These dreams have been going on for a while, each a little different, showing creation in many ways, but I appreciated this one because of it’s directness and simplicity.

Take a breath....

Where do we begin to sort out all that is being thrown at us? If you care to hang with me for a moment, I am going to start with the satellite view back to earth.

Every single one of us has chosen to incarnate in these profound times. Every person on earth made this choice as a soul. The issue has been that we have lost awareness of our true beyond-space-and-time-selves, which has not allowed us to see the larger picture and take responsibility for it. This is why I feel we must accept that none of this is ‘happening TO us' in spite of the obvious evidence to the contrary. This is critical.

How often have you heard the story that someone you know, or have read about, didn’t hear the signals that change was needed until they were hit by a train, be it physical illness, financial ruin, divorce, death of a loved one, etc.? What are these times other than a signal to each and every soul that change is needed, not just personally, but collectively as a species inhabiting this beautiful planet.

I have had some conversations with David Icke recently regarding the nature of reality. We spoke of the controllers and the controlled/asleep. We also spoke of the fact that the controllers, who he has often spoken of as an inter-dimensional species known as Reptilians, feel this is their earth. I added that those who are from other planets, i.e. ETs, who have been living underground for millennia, also consider this to be their earth. There are other life forms who have been here since the beginning as well. Then there is the human species, itself split in it's origins, few remembering their true home or source, who believe that this is our earth as well. One problem, we agreed, is that we have too many divergent levels of consciousness to co-exist in a harmonious way at present. While some seek divine awakening and love, others seek to enslave the rest for their own security and profit. How do we reconcile this?

I believe the multi-dimensional human being has a great potential, when awakened, for healing the damage of the ages as the vast majority of us have an innate high level of consciousness. Yes, there are off-planet cultures who have advanced their technology thousands of years beyond ours, but this does not speak to creativity and compassion. Yes, there are those who have held the reigns tightly, controlling us, in fear of our awakening. And, yes, there are benevolent non-physical beings who are here whispering into our ears, helping us connect with the transcendent part of ourselves. The earth is an amazing place in this way - even if the differences seem irreconcilable at present.

Down in the trenches, Naomi Wolfe has been warning of potentially catastrophic events that have been set into motion with the deployment of U.S. troops onto U.S. soil to stifle protest (October 1st). Look for the video on our site of YouTube for details. Who dare do this without our knowledge or approval?

What action do we take when we learn that the executive branch of this government reportedly strong-armed the Congress into voting for a bailout the congressmen were not even allowed to study before the vote? A bailout that their constituents were overwhelmingly against? According to Rep. Brad Sherman, martial law in the U.S. was threatened if Congress did not follow orders to pass the "rescue package".

Take a step further back, George Green told us that the Chinese government said they would consider it an ‘act of war’ if the congress allowed the economy to tank. Why? Because we owe them more money than anyone can begin to accurately count. If this is true, and I have not confirmed this elsewhere, what is right action?

And it goes on and on. There is no unraveling the mess we’re in except to become spiritual adults who have knowingly chosen to be part of this play. So, this is where I turn toward finding the opportunity embedded in the chaos. For many, many of us life in the future is likely going to look different from what it was even a couple of months ago. When money supplies dry up things change. Let’s assume that to be true.

First, if you should find yourself caught in the financial melee, look around you and find your friends and allies. What do you have to offer them? We may need to engage on a more accountable level with each other now. You have some cash, I can cook. I need a place to live and you need child care. I have land and you have a green thumb. You have a car part and I have some canned goods. It's basic stuff. Let's be prepared to help each other.

We also need to learn how to feed ourselves and our families so that we do not continue to create a species of chronically ill people. It's time to become educated regarding our health and well-being.

Tight times also offer the opportunity to balance family karma as many will be thrown back together again. Old wounds can be healed. We’re going to need each other so let’s begin by opening our minds and hearts.

Next; our sovereignty as citizens of planet earth. Who are these characters that have been doing our bidding - badly? First, we must realize that these survivalist, calculating and fear-based beings who masquerade as people can only exist if we play in their realms of fear and contraction. Stop listening to, watching and reading their media. Stop purchasing their frivilous goods. Stop freaking out because the fake money they created is no longer flowing. It's been a trap all along.

As for our politicians, we have the power to throw them out. Yes, election fraud is a reality, but face it, it still took a lot of supporters to put the Bush ticket in a close enough race that fraud could tip it one way or another. We must vote in large numbers and throw every incumbent out, save for the handful of brave ones! We have the ability to do that even if our vote is for the “lesser of evils”.

Next, we need to become familiar with what were once our rights. Why is it that the president of the United States and his side kicks are not in jail for crimes committed against humanity? Why are the Wall Street 'masters of the universe' who have bankrupted the world's economies while collecting multi-million dollar bonus’ walking free when a woman or man who forges a check goes to jail? What kind of collective coma have we been in to let this happen?

While the list of opportunities for right action would be too long to chronicle, I am suggesting that each and every one of us has a 100% responsibility to act. Let’s find a way to do it both personally and collectively. Yes, it will be awkward at first as we are out of practice as far as our emergency response skills as a species are concerned. I have faith that every one of us has the intelligence, creativity and certainly the motivation to take a first step, which is the hardest. It's up to you to determine what that step may be.

In the end it’s we who must restore this democracy, this economy and our sovereignty as human beings and it’s going to take some work. It will require that we recognize what part we have each played in this global drama to bring it to this point. Only then will be begin to realize our power as spiritual adults. We are massively creative, multi-dimensional beings who have allowed ourselves to be manipulated and dominated by careless beings who care nothing for us. In our commitment to mastering spiritual adulthood, we must also address our own internal naiveté, laziness and even karma in some cases. Hey, nothing to be embarrassed about - we’re all in it together!

In the end, we have no choice. If we continue to sit on our hands watching the show go by, we are going to get more of what we have, and worse, for many future generations to come. Either we take back the game and restore our sense of humanity in a more mature, balanced and spiritual manner, or we are going to be led down a steep and ugly slope. We're better than that. And I for one do not want to explain to my grandchildren why I did nothing at a critical point in earth's evolution!