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July 11, 2021
THE MAGICIAN
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“Before the formation of the physical universe there was a vast period during which universes were not solid, but wholly illusionary. You might say that the universe was a universe of magical illusions which were made to appear and vanish at the will of the magician. In every case, the “magician” was one or more Immortal Spiritual Beings.”
— from the book ALIEN INTERVIEW, Edited by Lawrence R. Spencer
July 10, 2021
July 9, 2021
GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS
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July 8, 2021
CHINA IS THE NEW WORLD ORDER
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If you are a typical ignorant, arrogant, over-fed, under-educated, oblivious American you aren’t aware that the New World Order has already arrived. It’s called China. Here are a few facts you might want to know before you become an extinct species of homo sapiens:
The Chinese Communist Party is the largest political party in the world.The average person on planet Earth in 2012 is a 29 year old Chinese male. He lives in China.As of July 2010, the People’s Republic of China has an estimated total population of 1,338,612,968. About 21% of the population (145,461,833 males; 128,445,739 females) are 14 years old or younger, 71% (482,439,115 males; 455,960,489 females) are between 15 and 64 years old, and 8% (48,562,635 males; 53,103,902 females) are over 65 years old.China’s traditional religions—Buddhism, Taoism, and Chinese folk religions—are the dominant faiths. According to various sources, Buddhism in China accounts for between 660 million (~50% of the population) and over 1 billion.Standard Mandarin, a variety of Mandarin based on the Beijing dialect, is the official national language of China and is used as a lingua franca between people of different linguistic backgrounds.China currently has the most cellphone users of any country in the world, with over 800 million users as of July 2010. As of 2012.China has the world’s second-largest economy in terms of nominal GDP, totalling approximately US$7.298 trillion according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).With 2.3 million active troops, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is the largest standing military force in the world.The People’s Republic of China is the second-largest country in the world by land area after Russia[13] and is either the third- or fourth-largest by total area, after Russia, Canada and, depending on the definition of total area, the United States.ZERO TO INFINITY
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This is a simple, yet powerful video. Suitable for kids and appropriate for adults.
REINCARNATED AS A HUMAN BEING, AGAIN
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Krishna – Bhagavad Gita (5th Century B.C.E. or earlier)
“Learn thou! the Life is, spreading life through all; It cannot anywhere, by any means, Be anywise diminished, stayed, or changed. But for these fleeting frames which it informs with spirit deathless, endless, infinite, They perish. Let them perish, Prince! and fight! He who shall say, “Lo! I have slain a man!” He who shall think, “Lo! I am slain!” Those both know naught! Life cannot slay. Life is not slain!”
Socrates (469 BC–399 BC) Classical Greek philosopher.
“I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.”
Origen (ca. 185–ca. 254) was an early Christian scholar, theologian, and one of the most distinguished of the early fathers of the Christian Church.)
“It can be shown that an incorporeal and reasonable being has life in itself independently of the body… then it is beyond a doubt bodies are only of secondary importance and arise from time to time to meet the varying conditions of reasonable creatures. Those who require bodies are clothed with them, and contrariwise, when fallen souls have lifted themselves up to better things their bodies are once more annihilated. They are ever vanishing and ever reappearing.”
Voltaire (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), Enlightenment writer and philosopher
“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.”
Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
“I look upon death to be as necessary to the constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.” And, “Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other always exist.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) American essayist
“It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals…and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise. The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.”
Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) American poet
“I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.”
Helena Blavatsky, Secret Doctrine, Vol. II, p. 424 (12 August 1831— May 8, 1891)
“That which is part of our souls is eternal. . . Those lives are countless, but the soul or spirit that animates us throughout these myriads of existences is the same; and though “the book and volume” of the physical brain may forget events within the scope of one terrestrial life, the bulk of collective recollections can never desert the divine soul within us. Its whispers may be too soft, the sound of its words too far off the plane perceived by our physical senses; yet the shadow of events that were, just as much as the shadow of the events that are to come, is within its perceptive powers, and is ever present before its mind’s eye.”
Herman Hesse (2 July 1877—9 August 1962)
“He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.”
Jack London, author, best known for book “Call of the Wild”
“I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums. All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me. Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.”
Albert Schweitzer (14 January, 1875 – 4 September, 1965) Alsatian theologian, who received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize in 1953.
“Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.”
Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910) American Author
“I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.”
Mahatma Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) leader of the Indian independence movement.
“I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.”
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) Founder of the Ford Motor Company
“I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives. I am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of character in each personality. But I don’t know what spirit is, nor matter either. I suspect they are forms of the same thing. I never could see anything in this reputed antagonism between spirit and matter. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things. No, I have no desire to know what, or who I was once; or what, or who, I shall be in the ages to come. This belief in immortality makes present living the more attractive. It gives you all the time there is. You will always be able to finish what you start. There is no fever or strain in such an outlook. We are here in life for one purpose—to get experience. We are all getting it, and we shall all use it somewhere.”
General George S. Patton (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) U.S. Army officer
“Through the travail of the ages,
Midst the pomp and toil of war,
Have I fought and strove and perished,
Countless times upon this star.
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, – but always me.”
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Excerpted from the Introductory pages of the book VERMEER: PORTRAITS OF A LIFETIME, by Lawrence R. Spencer
July 7, 2021
ELECTRIC SHOCK: HOW OBEDIENCE WORKS
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Mind Control – Stanley Milgram’s ExperimentIn the aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust the world was shocked that normal citizens could be ordered to carryout heinous crimes.
Stanley Milgram developed experiments to test people’s obedience to authority and determine how far regular people would go in inflicting pain on others simply because some authority told them to.
The experiment consisted of two people on Milgram’s team, an Experimenter and an Assistant. The Experimenter represented the authoritative figure and the Assistant was secretly assigned to represented the citizen subject.
A newspaper advert for a Psychology Experiment offering $4.50 per hour Recruited willing participants who became the Teacher representing ‘government’ workers under officials.
On arriving the Experimenter explains to the Recruit that they will be testing the effect of punishment on learning ability. 
The Assistant and Recruit draw lots to determine who will be the “Teacher” and who will be the “Student”. The lots were rigged so as to ensure that the Recruit always became the Teacher.
The Assistant Student is then strapped into an electric chair connected to a switch marked with increasing shock voltages controlled by the Teacher. The switch started with 15Volts and increased in 15 Volt increments all the way to 450 Volts. The switch is also rated with labels starting from “slight shock” to “danger: severe shock” and the final two switches are labeled “XXX”.
The Teacher then reads two-world pairs from a list and the Student has to repeat the two word pair. If the Student answers correctly the Teacher moves on to the next two-word pair in the list. If the Student gets the answer wrong, the Teacher administers a shock to the Student starting at 15V and increasing the shock 15V for each incorrect answer.
The Student is actually part of the test team and acts as though being shocked.
Astonishingly every Recruit shocked the Student up to the 300 Volt switch.
65% of the Recruits shocked the Student to the maximum 450 Volts.
Milgram also conducted several follow-up experiments. In one experiment the Recruited “Teacher” was required to hold the hand of the Student when shocking the Student at any level above 150V. 32% of the Recruits held the hand of the Student when administering shocks in excess of 400V. Other experiments revealed that Recruited Teachers were less obedient to Experimenters instructions to shock the Student when the Experimenter communicated with the Recruited Teacher remotely via telephone.
The experiments have been replicated by may other researchers around the world from 1961 to 1985 revealing the same astonishing obedience of Recruits to inflict pain on Students just because they are told to by someone claiming ‘authority’.
What is also interesting from Milgram’s research is that some “Teacher” Recruits would question the Experiment as to who was responsible for any harm to the Student. When the Experimenter told the Recruit they accepted full responsibility, the Recruits, often despite being extremely uncomfortable continued to shock the Student.
“I observed a mature and initially poised businessman enter the laboratory smiling and confident. Within 20 minuets he was reduced to a twitching, stuttering wreck, who was rapidly approaching nervous collapse. He constantly pulled on his ear lobe, and twisted his hands. At one point he pushed his fist into his forehead and muttered ‘Oh God, lets stop it’. And yet he continued to respond to every word of the Experimenter, and obeyed to the end.” – Milgram
The Big Question is whether recruits under some sort of authority are not guilty when they commit crime when their authority tells them to. Milgram’s experiments were inspired by the Eichmann Trials. Eichmann was a high ranking Nazi official largely responsible for setting up concentration camps and exterminating millions of Jews. When he was caught in South America many years after the war and brought to trial in Israel, Eichmann’s primary defense was that his authorities told him to do it and that he was just following orders. Eichmann with his calm, cool and collected posture on the stand during trial shocked the world. Here was what appeared to be a reasonable man calmly saying that he slaughtered millions of people in the most horrific way because he was a good respectable official simply obeying the orders and wishes of his authorities. Eichmann was properly found guilty and executed. (See also Bushes and Bush Bolt Hole).
Clearly a key to this behavior, as reflected by the Recruits who asked who accepted responsibility for hurting the Student, is accountability. Clearly authorities are accountable, despite the fact that they are seldom held accountable. Those carrying out the crime for the authorities are also obviously accountable. However, unless their is a clear and obvious understanding in society and law that if you commit a crime, no matter who tells you, you are responsible, their is little to prevent criminals running amuck in our government.
Results from Milgram’s experiment would be interesting if the Recruit “Teacher” was told that they would be held fully responsible for any injury suffered by the Student. At what voltage level would the Recruit stop shocking his subject?
Biblical Law which is defined in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, perhaps reflects a severity intended to bring the realization of responsibility and accountability to everyone. Judge law, or “Case Law” as it is more commonly referred to, while obviously void it is however currently the de-facto law in U.S. Courts, is creating exactly the opposite problem. See 11th Amendment which eliminates Judicial Power and how the U.S. Judiciary is absurdly claiming that the 11th Amendment grants government officials “sovereign immunity” when in fact the 11th Amendment and the very construct of the Constitution states just the opposite. Criminals are often not held accountable by U.S. courts because they claim something in their past made them do it..
PRESERVE YOUR TATTOOS FOREVER
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Tattoos are a bizarre human method of distinguishing oneself from the crowd. Body art is akin to clothing, hair styles, music, dancing and hip lingo: every teenager (and other juveniles) wants to have a “unique look”… by looking just like everyone else. Each succeeding generation of angst-riddled, hormone-tortured youth goes through similar phases of “being different by being to same”. The current decade inducted a more permanent method of “looking different” into the fashion scene: body tattoos.
However, what will happen to those tattoos when you get the age of 50 or 60 or 70? The skin on your body will wrinkle, droop, fall and sag. Your expensive and painfully administered body art will slump along with it. This is NOT a pretty idea. Fortunately, an alternative method of preserving those valuable tattoos has been devised.
Here’s how to keep your tattoo art looking fresh for generations to come. (And provide your ancestors with a lasting memento of you to hang on the wall in the den or living room.) Have yourself skinned alive, just like the pigs in these photos! Have your tattooed hide tanned, cured, cut to size, and framed for use as a wall hanging. You can even have your skin made into a purse, or lamp shade, a football, or any number of useful items. Your friends and family will have more than a few dim memories to remember you: your tattooed hide! (PETA take note….)
(image credits: http://www.wimdelvoye.be/artfarm.php# )
THE “W” QUESTIONS
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What is my purpose for being on Earth?
What is the true meaning of my life?
Where did I come from?
Who brought me here?
When will I ever learn?
Who am I?
Why?
( Why do all of the “primordial questions” begin with the letter “W”? )
July 6, 2021
LIFE GOING PERFECTLY
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It is possible to have Joy, and Love and Happiness and a Life going absolutely perfectly. Perhaps this is not true in the physical universe, but you can create a universe of YOUR OWN were there are no troubles, and life is going perfectly. It begins in your imagination, creating illusions, dreaming dreams and the decision that Your Illusions ARE Reality for You.
