Happy New Year 2012

Each Age has deemed the new-born year, the fittest time for festal cheer.

I would like to share my appreciation for all the kind comments, emails, and accolades I've received throughout the year.

I trust this coming year will complete the awakening of the masses.

Time is speeding up, and information if spreading like a mad fire.

This is the last Evening of 2011.  I went outside to see the last sunset of the year, as I watched as the gold met the blue, then faded away.

Most Important Stories of 2011

With the new year just around the corner, us bloggers are gathering our thoughts and recalling the most importants articles of the year.

Here are some of the most important articles that should not be forgotten in the new year.

Throughout 2011, health freedoms were under attack as both state and federal governments deliberately sought to criminalize foods, mandate vaccine injections and arrest parents who refused to subject their children to toxic conventional medical care.

George W. Bush Found Guilty Of War Crimes

Bush, Blair found guilty of war crimes

What a wonderful gift to receive this Christmas. Maybe Santa does exist.

Those who lobbied to have George W. Bush and Tony Blair tried for their role in the Iraq War have finally got their wish.

The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, part of an initiative by former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad — a fierce critic of the Iraq war — found the former US President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of war crimes for their roles in the Iraq war.

The verdict was unanimous; President George Bush of the United States of America is found guilty of War Crimes to Humanity.

Homo Novus, Born Again Humans

Written by André Gaudreaul

Time To Grow From Capitalism to Humanism

After the work of Copernicus and others had demonstrated that the earth was not the center of the universe but only a part of a much larger system, the world began to change its vision of reality. The process took hundreds of years. Today, because humanity has become a dominant influence on earth, we are faced with another such change: from nature being a convenience for people, to people being a part of nature. The scope is similar. The practical significance is of far greater consequence than the Copernican revolution but we have only a generation to complete the change. —Mike Nickerson, Change the World I Want to Stay On

Our attempts to understand nature have always been directed towards four main areas of knowledge: energy, matter, life, and consciousness. Evolution itself has followed the same avenues. Our own evolution is repeatedly going through a similar process: first we recognize, at different degrees of definition, that there is energy present in matter, then this matter is organized into objects for our benefit, and finally this process has the effect of expanding our consciousness. Presently, we are going through one of these phases that will eventually raise our consciousness to a level never attained before. Our present understanding of life processes and the uses, excessive in many instances, that we make of matter are setting the stage for such a necessary step toward a higher level of consciousness.

In Loving Memory - CaCera 2011

Having a crappy christmas seems to be in the air.

My best friends baby girl(CaCera) was hit and killed by a car on christmas eve and his baby boy(Benny) and his sister were viciously attacked by a german shepherd-pitbull mix in Sacramento.

It's been a little over a year since my girl Brandy was put to rest, and it hasn't gotten any better.  It seems like it gets worst at times.  It hits be like a  ton of bricks, and consumes me, and I break down, but then there are other times that I find myself laughing out loud. 

Funny thing, I've always been terrified of roller coasters, and have been wanting to get over the fear by getting on one....and now I'm on an emotional roller coaster -and I want off!

I miss her so much, it's difficult to explain in words.

Crying On Those Doorsteps of Salvation

With the holiday season looming, I can picture one of my holiday frenzied friends asking me:

"But Christmas, who can possibly have a problem with Christmas?"

Oh my....here we go.

Lest we forget, Christmas is supposedly a celebration of Jesus' birthday. This is entertaining for a number of reasons, the most prominent being that it is almost certain that Jesus was not born on December 25th, more likely he was born in September, so (dear Americans) by the time you're cooking that Turkey (to celebrate the slaughtering of Native Americans), you've already missed it!

"It is only sinners who make great rejoicings over the day in which they were born into this world" - Catholic Encyclopedia, 1908 edition, Vol. 3, p. 724, "Natal Day".

Jesus was not actually Christian, but a Jew. I suppose this is more of a religious issue, but I was entertained by it enough to mention it. You remember the Jews, right? They're the people that the Christians regularly murdered because they were Jewish. Like Jesus Christ. Who was a Jew. Who was persecuted for being Jewish.

Where Is The Love?

If ever a boy,

Stood on the moon

All the heavens would call them angels 'round

Stop the tears from troubled skies...

From

Falling... falling... falling

If ever the river could,

Whisper your name,

Would the choices you made still... be the same?

Like a flower that dies from angry rain

... Why do we hurt

Ourselves?

Where is the love...

That lets the sunlight in to start again?

The love... that sees no colour lines

Life begins, with love,

So spread your wings and fly,

Guide your spirit safe and sheltered,

A thousand dreams that we can still believe...

If ever a boy,

Stood on the moon,

Carrying all of his treasures from the stars,

To a rainbow which leads to where we are

Together we chase the sun

Where is the love...

That lifts my brother's voice,

To the skies

The love

That answers a mother's cry

Life begins, with love,

So spread your wings and fly,

Guide your spirit safe and sheltered,

A thousand dreams that we can still believe...

To New Beginnings

Although the roof is just a story high, it dizzies me a little to look down.

I lariat-twirl the cord of Christmas lights, and cast it to the weeping birch’s crown; A dowel into which I’ve screwed a hook which enables me to reach, lift, drape, and twine the cord among the boughs so that the bulbs wll accent the tree’s elegant design.

Friends, passing home from work or shopping, pause and call up commendations or critiques. I make adjustments. Though a potpourri of Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Jews, and Sikhs, we all are conscious of the time of year; We all enjoy its colorful displays and keep some festival that mitigates the dwindling warmth and compass of the days.

Some say that Hayward. doesn’t suit the Yule, but UPS vans now like magi make their present-laden rounds, while fallen leaves are gaily resurrected in their wake; The desert lifts a full moon from the east and issues a dry Santa Ana breeze, and valets at chic restaurants will soon be tending flocks of cars and SUVs.

A New Experiment

A revolutionary is part of the political world; his approach is through politics. His understanding is that changing the social structure is enough to change the human being.

A rebel, as I use the term, is a spiritual phenomenon. His approach is absolutely individual. His vision is that if we want to change the society, we have to change the individual. Society in itself does not exist; it is only a word, like "crowd" - if you go to find it, you will not find it anywhere. Wherever you encounter someone, you will encounter an individual. "Society" is only a collective name - just a name, not a reality - with no substance.

The individual has a soul, has a possibility of evolution, of change, of transformation. Hence, the difference is tremendous.

Witnessing Is Balance

In paradise one afternoon, in its most famous cafe, Lao Tzu, Confucius, and Buddha are sitting and chatting. The waiter comes with a tray that holds three glasses of the juice called "Life," and offers them. Buddha immediately closes his eyes and refuses; he says,

"Life is misery."

Confucius closes his eyes halfway - he is a middlist, he used to preach the golden mean - and asks the waiter to give him the glass. He would like to have a sip - but just a sip, because without tasting how can one say whether life is misery or not?

Confucius had a scientific mind; he was not much of a mystic, he had a very pragmatic, earthbound mind.

He was the first behaviorist the world has known, very logical. And it seems perfectly right - he says,

"First I will have a sip, and then I will say what I think."

Impotent Intellect

No religion has been courageous enough to say,

"We know this much, but there is much we don't know; perhaps in the future we may know it. And beyond that, there is a space which is going to remain unknowable forever."

True religion will have the humbleness to admit that only a few things are known, much more is unknown, and something will always remain unknowable. That "something" is the target of the whole spiritual search.

You cannot make it an object of knowledge, but you can experience it, you can drink of it, you can have the taste of it - it is existential.

All these religions have been against doubt. They have been really afraid of doubt. Only an impotent intellect can be afraid of doubt; otherwise doubt is a challenge, an opportunity to inquire.

There is doubt, and doubt is not destroyed by believing. Doubt is destroyed by experiencing.

What You Reap Is What You Sow

Come on!

Uggh!

Come on, although ya try to discredit

Ya still never edit

The needle, I'll thread it

Radically poetic

Standin' with the fury that they had in '66

And like E-Double I'm mad

Still knee-deep in the system's shit

Hoover, he was a body remover

I'll give ya a dose

But it'll never come close

To the rage built up inside of me

Fist in the air, in the land of hypocrisy

Development Of Being

You have said knowledge is not any use in the process of coming to know ourselves. So please explain what is included in the development of being?

Being never develops. Being simply is. There is no evolution, there is no time involved in it. It is eternity, it is not "becoming." Spiritually, you never develop; you cannot. As far as the ultimate goal is concerned, you are already there. You have never been anywhere else.

Then what is development? Development is only a kind of awakening to the truth that you are. The truth does not grow; only recognition grows, remembrance grows.

That's why I don't talk about the "development of being." I talk about all the hindrances that are preventing your recognition. And knowledge is the greatest hindrance; hence I have talked about it extensively. It is the barrier.

If you think you already know, you will never know. If you think you already know, what is the point of searching? You can go on sleeping and dreaming. The moment you recognize that you don't know, that recognition of ignorance goes like an arrow into the heart, it pierces you like a spear. In that very piercing, one becomes aware - in that very shock.

I Won't Do What You Tell Me

Killing in the name of!

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses

Huh!

Killing in the name of!

Killing in the name of

And now you do what they told ya

Become Ordinary

Everybody is after being extraordinary. That is the search of the ego: to be someone who is special, to be someone who is unique, incomparable. And this is the paradox: the more you try to be exceptional, the more ordinary you look, because everybody is after extraordinariness. It is such an ordinary desire. If you become ordinary, the very search to be ordinary is extraordinary, because rarely does somebody want to be just nobody, rarely does somebody want to be just a hollow, empty space. This is really extraordinary in a way, because nobody wants it. And when you become ordinary you become extraordinary, and, of course, suddenly you discover that without searching you have become unique.

In fact, everybody is unique. If you can stop your constant running after goals for even a single moment, you will realize that you are unique.

The Butcher

Beauty will destroy your mind

Spare the gory details

Give them gift wrap for the man with everything

Though i lived a lonely life

I was confused

I'm butcher

Feel nothing

There Is No Future For Religion

Is not it high time that we stop believing all these wonderful superstitions the organized religions are trying to sell us?

"You have to turn from politicians, from religious people, to the scientist. The whole humanity has to focus on science if it wants to get rid of misery. And my religion I call the science of the inner soul. It is not religion; it is exactly a science. Just as science functions in the objective world, this science functions in the subjective world."

Stop bothering to go to the Church, Temple, Synagogue, because they have befooled you enough. Stop asking these people; the rabbis, the monks, the priests. For all you know they have been giving those consolations for thousands of years.

All their consolations have proved important.