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May 24, 2022
GHOSTS WITH SHIT JOBS
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“Digital Janitor” is one segment from a low budget sci-fi film in progress being developed by a collaboration of film makers from http://ghostswithshitjobs.com. Watch it. It’s refreshingly sardonic.
May 23, 2022
THE POWER
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“You’ve always had the power to go back to Kansas“–Glinda
“Oh Dear! That’s too wonderful to be true!“–Dorothy
“Now those magic slippers will take you home in two seconds. Just close your eyes and think to yourself, ‘There’s no place like home’.”–Glinda
“Then why didn’t you tell her before?“–The Scarecrow
“Because she wouldn’t have believed me. She had to learn it for herself.“–Glinda
“If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard, because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.“–Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz”
Like Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ we are creatures of our own design. We live in universes created by our own agreements and imagination. We are inside the Physical Universe looking out to find the origin of our being. We long for a place we feel certain must exist; a place where there is no trouble. We wait for wizards and witches to show us the way home. Yet we fear to close our eyes and click our heels to see the Universe Within.
Our journey home begins at the source of the rainbow; shining light upon our own eternal, ethereal selves.
The history of mankind seems blanketed in a simultaneous state of amnesia and deja vu. The ruins of ancient civilizations whisper a reminder that we have forgotten everything we knew.
A multitude of gods have shown themselves like shadows in the halls of history. We know not yet, except by our own observation and decision, which of them is real. We are betrayed by those who teach us that we must trust the Wizards of the West. While pretentious politicians defend the castles of the Witch, the media monkeys swarm to spin perverted lies to cover up their covert tricks.
The voiceless bones of wonderful wizards have dissolved to mortal dust once more. Their words have vanished in the smoke of sacred libraries, searing our souls with the stupefying stench of wisdom lost forever in their flames. From day to day the timeworn treadmill of survival forces us to worship at the soulless bankers’ shrine. Gold is still the god of the great and powerful Oz.
We have crash-landed in a twisted alien landscape of pain and mortality, far away from our home Universe. As a race we have amnesia. We are repeatedly bumped on the head by the recurring cataclysmic upheavals of a planet whirling in space like a farmhouse in a tornado.
The future is an extension of the present. We must live our lives in the present in a manner which will create the greatest good for the greatest number of beings in the future. If we are aware of our own past lives, we must also be aware that we are creating our own future by our present actions. We will inherit our own legacy.
As Professor Marvel points out with simple eloquence, “There are no other wizards…”
We are apparently the only wizards there ever were and the only wizards that ever will be. We are each a part of a time track of the past, present and future of our own creation, individually and collectively.
If we let the Wicked Witches run the culture now, they will be in charge of the place when we come back. Just as we are the descendants of past generations, you and I may very well become, through reincarnation, the children of our children–we are the future generations who will inherit the environmental and cultural conditions of the future which we ourselves are creating today.
Man has apparently been searching the stars for a way to leave the Earth and go “over the rainbow” to a place where there is no trouble.
Since before the beginning of our own dim primordial prehistory, we have been looking into the depths of our own immortal selves for a way “over the rainbow” back to YOUR OWN UNIVERSE–our own identity, simplicity and power as spiritual beings. This has been the dream of many religious philosophers throughout the ages.
We still have not solved many of the mysteries of the physical universe. However, we can CHOOSE to see what’s in it. We can CHOOSE to disagree with what we see. We can CHOOSE to agree to the creation of a new and better universe.
Dorothy and her friends have taught us a valuable allegorical lesson: Dorothy got herself into the Land of Oz, and she got herself back to Kansas, but she would not have made it without the help of her friends. If ever there will be a Yellow Brick Road, if ever there will be an Emerald City of which we can be proud, we must build it ourselves.”
— Excerpt from THE OZ FACTORS, by Lawrence R. Spencer
May 22, 2022
HOW MANY BOOKS HAVE YOU READ?
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In human experience, written symbols (letters, numbers, musical signs, etc. ) are physical representations of an idea or thought. Symbols organized into sentences, songs, compositions, formula, articles or books convey many complex ideas. These symbols enable communication between people in the physical universe. Although there a many forms of non-physical communication which we refer to as “emotion” or “telepathy” or “empathy” or “intuition” or “knowing”, the common denominators of human experience or culture is often expressed in books. When these have been read, understood and compared to other thoughts, we can assume points of view of the various universes we inhabit. When we agree on a our perception of these universes, we call this “reality”.
Which books have helped to shape your reality? How many books have your read in your life, so far? How many more books are on your “must read” list? According to Google, that is busily scanning every book they can get their digitizing hands on, there are about 130 million book titles in the world. There are more than 2 million NEW book titles published every year (in all languages) . There are approximately 8 billion people in the world. That is more than 65 book titles per every person in the world. So, theoretically every person needs to read a minimum of 65 books to reach an “average” level of literacy. Of course this does not include the avalanche of words available to read that have not been organized into an actual book title, like Twitter and Facebook posting, newspaper and magazine articles and other “non-literature” such as scientific papers, and school textbooks and other propaganda published by governments and corporations.
The largest bookseller on-line is Amazon.com, which has an inventory of only about 1,750,000 titles in English. That’s only 13 percent of all the book titles in the world! This a critically small number of books available to read. How can one possibly consider themselves to be a literate person? This does not even include the fact that the majority of books written in the ancient world (prior to 400 AD) were burned by the Christian church! If you read one book every week 50 for years you would have read only 2,600 books! According to Google, the average book is 300 pages. That’s about 75,000 words per book.
As a writer, I am also a reader. I have often read several books each week during the 50+ years of my reading life, as well as a lot of printed material, etc.. All together I estimate I’ve read about 4,000 books, so far. That’s a lot of words — not including the millions of words on the internet — that are not in the form of a book. Fortunately, there are more than 100,000 book titles available as spoken books — narrated for you by professional actors — on Audible.com, Librivox.com and sites on the internet. Now, I can “read” a book with my ears, instead of my eyes, a fact that I appreciate more and more as I grow older. I can “read” while I’m walking, driving, jogging, cooking, cleaning, waiting and doing a lot of things that would prevent me from reading with my eyes. It’s a wonderful age we live in!
So, how do we select the most cherished, life-giving, knowledge-quenching word droplets from the ocean of words? Having read more than my share of books I can say without any doubt that reading a lot of books does not make a person “smart”, or “wise”, or “literate”. However, for me, reading books is usually a more gratifying experience, mentally and spiritually, than watching television or movies or videos. Books are usually more thoroughly researched, planned, crafted, edited and perfected than other forms of communication.
In this electronic age, when more books are available to us — thanks to digital technology — than during all of the history of humankind combined, can we expect that humanity would be more well informed and intelligent that ever before? Books themselves are not wisdom. If books are not read by people, the knowledge contained in them remains hidden. They might has well not have been written.
My personal recommendation for your reading or listening book list are the books I’ve written, of course. My view of “reality” is different than most. My universe is unique, as is yours. I invite you to share my universe, through my books.
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May 20, 2022
NATIVE AMERICAN CRIMINAL CLASS
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“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”— Mark Twain“Modern-day political/economic parasites provide an excellent example of the distortion of information and economies created by vested interests.
For instance, the number of parasitic “professionals” in the United States has increased dramatically in recent years. Each of these professions represent a vested interest:
Number of Lawyers in 1960 equaled 260,000; in 1990 756,000
Number of Political Lobbyists in 1960 equaled 365, in 1990 40,111
Number of Trade Associations in 1960 equaled 4,900; in 1990 23,000
Number of Federal Regulatory Staff in 1960 equaled 70,000; in 1990 130,000
There are now 400 lobbyists in Washington for every Senator! The number of federal lawsuits has roughly tripled in the last 30 years. Forty-two percent of the members of the House of Representatives are lawyers, compared to only fifteen percent in an 18-country average outside the United States. Each of these lawyers and lobbyists are trying to influence the creation or enforcement of laws to serve the vested interests they represent.
The financial distortion and stress on the national economy created by these professionals is staggering.
There are two ways to get rich:
1/ produce something valuable from which you create new wealth, or
2/ try to get a share of somebody else’s wealth.
These professions, by setting themselves up as middlemen in our economy each take a share of our wealth. Of course, these parasites think very highly of their own work and demand very high wages.
It is estimated that the cost of paying for federal regulation, including the residual work involved in processing the enormous amount of paperwork required to comply with newly created government regulation–which often requires the services of a lawyer, since these regulations are all written in legal language that only lawyers understand–costs the American taxpayers about $4,000 per household, or $392 billion, a year.”
— Excerpt from THE OZ FACTORS by Lawrence R. Spencer.
The U.S. Congress has long been dominated by lawyer-politicians. “From 1780 to 1930, two thirds of the senators and about half of the House of Representatives were lawyers; the percentage seems to have stayed fairly stable” (Friedman 1985: 647). . . . at the beginning of the 101st Congress in 1989, 184 members (42%) of the U.S. House of Representatives were lawyers (47% of the Democrats and 35 % of the Republicans). Sixty-three senators were lawyers, roughly equally distributed between the two parties (Ornstein, Mann, and Malbin 1990: 20-21, 26-27). At the beginning of the 102nd Congress in January, 1991, 244 of the 535 members of both houses (46%) claimed attorney as their profession.
. . .too many lawyers cause the law not to be made in a commonsense way but in a legalistic way. Process is worshiped over result because the lawyers get paid more for the process than the result. What could be more enjoyable to a lawyer than arguing the law after making the law which to be argued—as a legislator. Because lawyers control all legal rulemaking an increase in the number of lawyers does not cause a reduction in their individual activity. It simply increases their percentage take of the American economy.
Lawyer reform is in order!
BOX-O-TREK
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What Star Trek Geek doesn’t have a box of space ship models and Borg Cubes in an old cigar box?
I WANT TO GO HOME
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Śri Sathya Sai Baba (born as Sathyanarayana Raju (23 November 1926 – 24 April 2011) was an Indian guru, spiritual figure, musician, mystic, composer, choreographer, poet, author, orator, philanthropist and educator. He claimed to be the reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi who was considered by his followers to be an avatar, spiritual saint and miracle worker, who died in 1918. The materializations of vibhuti (holy ash) and other small objects such as rings, necklaces, and watches by Sathya Sai Baba along with reports of miraculous healings, bilocation, and alleged omnipotence and omniscience; devotees considered them signs of divinity.
Photos of Sathya Sai Baba are displayed in millions of homes and on car dashboards. Lockets bearing his photo are worn by many as a symbol of good fortune and are often kept in wallets for spiritual protection. Sai Baba had ashrams in 126 countries and also ran a network of hospitals, clinics and schools that were often free.
May 19, 2022
May 18, 2022
UNNATURAL SELECTIONS
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“…there are millions of speciesof insects. About 350,000 of these are species of beetles. There may be as many as 100 million species of life forms on Earth at any given time. In addition, there are many times more extinct species of life on Earth than there are living life forms. Some of these will be rediscovered in the fossil or geological records of Earth.
The current “theory of evolution” of life forms on Earth does not consider the phenomena of biological diversity. Evolution by natural selection is science fiction. One species does not accidentally, or randomly evolve to become another species, as the Earth textbooks indicate, without manipulation of genetic material…”
~ Alien Interview ~
May 17, 2022
I #*%@# MY WORLD
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