Epilogue - Part II

April 5, 2016

An Allegiance to Truth, Awareness and Understanding

Truth, awareness and understanding should hold no allegiance to anything other than truth, awareness and understanding. If a "truth" has validity, then it can, and should, stand on its own.

However, in the current system that we live in, this is not how it works. Instead, the truth is transferred to a label and then that label becomes the banner (or spokesperson) for truth, awareness and understanding.

In other words, people worship, follow, honor and give their allegiance to some label that they belong to in the hopes that the label will someday "save" them from corruption, destruction and suffering (instead of simply following truth, awareness and understanding directly, and doing what is right to begin with).

It is through sleight of hand that truth, awareness and understanding end up taking a back seat to the label that is supposed to be representing them.

The Support of Truth, Awareness and Understanding

If someone uses fear, embellishment, hype, drama and sensationalism to sell their products and make money under the banner of "truth", how is that any different than the corrupt corporations that use fear or embellishment to sell their products? Or, how is that any different than a government that uses fear (and terror) to sell its wars, restrictive laws and police state to the people in the name of safety and security? And how is that any different than a church that uses fear to sell their product (salvation) in order to attract new customers and maintain an ongoing income stream?

There are many sincere good-hearted people in the world who offer various products and/or services to help support their efforts in bringing knowledge, awareness and understanding to others. When these people talk about their products, however, it usually doesn't sound like some sort of sales pitch or infomercial. Rather, it comes from the heart. You can tell when someone believes in their products and is truly passionate about what they offer. They don't charge excessive amounts of money for them. And they don't try to prey on (and benefit from) other people's insecurities and fears.

I have no problem with people who make it their "business" to help bring knowledge, awareness and understanding to the world. I fully support honest, sincere and good-hearted people in those efforts. I do, however, have a problem with those who use the truth to try and make a less-than-honest living (while knowledge, awareness and understanding take a backseat to their ego and their monetary pursuits). As much as I don't like to see people used and abused by the current mainstream system, it's even worse when I see it happening under the (false) flag/banner of the "alternative truth movement".

Baggage Carriers

Why is it that wisdom is unable to be viewed by itself without attaching it to the associated baggage of the religion or philosophy that it belongs to? For example, if I were to quote a saying that is attributed to Jesus, the Buddha or Krishna, many people would have a hard time seeing, hearing and understanding those words simply because of the religious baggage that those words are attached to. How many times have you heard someone who belongs to a certain label, reject wisdom simply because they think that it "belongs to" or is part of a competing label (i.e. a different religion, a different political party, a different philosophy, etc)?

Just because someone speaks some words of wisdom, that doesn't necessarily mean that all words spoken by them are wise. Like-wise, just because someone speaks some words of ignorance, that doesn't necessarily mean that all words spoken by them are ignorant.

Attaching unnecessary baggage (or preconceptions) to wisdom, only serves to weigh it down. When people identify with a label instead of the wisdom, the wisdom often ends up getting obscured through fighting, arguments and wars that occur within the label and with other competing labels.

Whether wisdom is spoken by a real character or a fictional character, it does not matter. If it is wisdom, it still remains wisdom. Whether wisdom is contained within an old book, or a new book, it does not matter. If it is wisdom, it still remains wisdom. Whether wisdom is contained within a small book, or a large book, it does not matter. If it is wisdom, it still remains wisdom. Whether a wisdom is contained in a book from the west, or in a book from the east, it does not matter. If it is wisdom, it still remains wisdom.

Wisdom has no religion, no race, no skin color and no political party. It does not belong to the past, nor does it belong to the future. Wisdom belongs to all.

Saviors

A truly benevolent being would never require others to worship them. Nor would they require them to wait for their return in order to be saved. A truly benevolent being would want people to become their own saviors by developing independent awareness and understanding (through personal experience, learning and growth). A truly benevolent being would want this for all people, not just for those that are willing to worship them.

There is a big difference between the concept of worship and the concept of being thankful. On the surface, the difference may appear subtle, however in practice, the difference is actually quite profound.

The difference between a genuine leader and a savior is that one offers you guidance, inspiration and insight, while the other requires you to worship them and give away your power, energy and (free)will to them. There are many heroes, leaders and saviors that exist outside of us. However, we also have our own heroes, leaders and saviors that exist within us.

Give a man a fish, or teach a man to fish? One way helps to create apathy and dependency (and slavery), while the other way helps to create independence (and freedom).

Miracles Can (and do) Happen

Although I don't believe in the idea of saviors, I do believe that there are benevolent beings (of this world and also not of this world) that are watching over us. I also believe that the Universe, Nature and Creation will help to guide us when we are open to that guidance.

Turbulent Waters

I grew up in LA pretty close to the beach. When I was teenager, I would often go to the beach after big storms because that's when the waves were usually the biggest. On one such day, I decided to go swimming (without my board) after eating lunch. However, as soon as I got out past the first set of waves I was immediately pulled into a very strong riptide. At the same time, I also got a bad cramp in my side. The riptide was actually so strong that it literally felt like something was grabbing at my legs and pulling me under.

After being pulled under a few times, I began to realize that I was in trouble. However, since it was a stormy and cold winter day, there was almost no one else on the beach. I looked around to see if there were any boats or surfers nearby, but I didn't see anyone. I finally got pulled completely under and couldn't get back up. I held my breath for as long as I could, until the instinct for oxygen took over, and then I opened my mouth and breathed in. I remember thinking at that point that this is probably it. No one was around, the surf was huge, the water clarity was near zero and I was pretty far away from shore.

After breathing in the water, my consciousness should have stopped at that point, but it didn't. And I should have been scared, but I wasn't. I'm not sure how long I was under for, but I eventually felt something reach down and pull me up out of the water. I remember thinking that it was strange, because I shouldn't have been able to feel such a thing at that point.

When I woke up in the hospital, they told me that a surfer had rescued me, brought me to the shore and then had disappeared. Where the surfer came from and how he found me underneath the water is a mystery. I never found out who the surfer was.

Held up

There was another incident when I was a teenager when a car pulled up to me on a deserted street and four older guys (in their early twenties) got out and tried to rob me. One of the guys had a 44 magnum revolver that he put up to my head and asked me for my money.

I only had seven dollars in my wallet at the time, so I gave it to him. After giving him the money, I remember looking up at his face and seeing this crazy look in his eyes. I'm not sure if he was disappointed with the amount of money I had or if he was just crazy. Anyway, I thought that maybe he was going to shoot me, so I looked at the trigger to see where his finger was. Just as he was beginning to pull the trigger back, everything froze. It was like time had stopped. I couldn't move my body, but I could still think as if things were occurring in normal time.

While everything was frozen, I started to go through various scenarios in my head about how I could get the gun away from this guy. It seemed like several minutes had gone by, but before I could make a decision on what to do, everything unfroze and went back to normal. I looked up again at the guy's face and his expression had completely changed and his finger was off the trigger. Then he took the gun away from my head and told me to run. So I took off, and that was it.

About a year later, I got held up again at gunpoint at work. Then a little later someone tried to rob me at gunpoint in the post office at night. The strange thing was, I should have been scared during those experiences, but I wasn't.

On the Edge

In my early thirties, I went on a solo backpacking trip up in the high mountains of northern California. It was pretty early in the season so there were still large patches of snow on the trail and lots of snow on the mountain peaks above the trail. I had planned to hike about twelve miles the first day and then stay at a small lake that was in a granite bowl about a 750 feet above the main trail.

The hike up to the lake ended up being quite a bit harder than I originally thought it would be because of the snow and the water crossings. By the time I got up to the final water crossing near the lake outlet, my legs and feet were almost numb from the cold water. Because I was cold and in a hurry to get to camp, I got careless and misjudged the depth of the water, lost my footing and ended up getting swept away in the current.

My pack was still full at that point and weighed about 50 pounds. I tried to swim to the other side but my legs and feet were pretty numb from the cold water. Just as I was getting concerned, I felt something pull me towards the other side.

When I got to the shore, I just laid there at the edge of the water for a while. While I was laying there, I heard a strange sound. Out one ear, I could hear the sound of the river. But through the other ear it was almost silent. I sat up and looked in the direction of the silence and realized that I was only about twenty feet away from the top of a tall cliff (and waterfall) that went down into the valley below.

A Helping Hand

I have a blood clotting disorder which has caused a number of health issues in my life (my blood clots too easily). One of the health issues related to this condition was some bone damage that occurred in my jawbone due to impaired blood flow. In order to try and fix the problem, I ended up having several surgeries on my jaw, including one which I flew to see a specialist in another state.

This was a particularly dark time in my life because I had been dealing with these health issues for many years. I felt like they were destroying my life and, as a result, I had started to lose all hope that things were ever going to get better. I actually began to have some serious thoughts at that point about ending my life. However, I decided to give things one last shot and go through with an expensive surgery that was offered by a specialist in another state.  

The surgery itself went fairly well, and after a day of rest I flew back home to California. On the plane ride back, I was still kind of out of it because of the swelling in my jaw and the stitches inside in my mouth. Because of this, I wasn't in too much of a mood for talking. However, there was a girl, probably in her early twenties or so, that was sitting next me that was quite inquisitive.

I had an MP3 player on the table in front of me and she asked me what it was. I told her that it was an MP3 player. And she said what is that? And I said it's a music player. She said where does the music come from? So I explained it to her. Then she asked me about some other things that should have been very common knowledge to someone of her age. While we were chatting, I looked at her dress and it appeared as though she was wearing a see-through nightgown that was turned inside out.

She didn't have any kind of accent and didn't appear to be foreign. She also wasn't uneducated. She just seemed to lack a basic knowledge and understanding of this world. I ended up dosing off for a while, but as we were getting ready to land, she reached over and put her hand on mine. It was unexpected because we really hadn't talked all that much and I hadn't said anything about the surgery or the way that I was feeling at the time.

As soon as her hand touched mine, I immediately felt a rush of energy that went through my entire body. It was a pretty incredible feeling. She kept her hand on mine for a moment, smiled at me and then took it away. However, even after she removed her hand, the energized feeling still remained quite strong. In fact, it stayed with me for many months after that.

After that encounter, my entire outlook on life changed, my health started to improve quite dramatically, and I began to "see" things in a whole new light. If you're wondering what happen to the girl, I never saw her again after that.

I've also had a number of other experiences in my life similar to the ones that were discussed above. Why did I share these things with you? Because, I think that it's very important that we don't give up, no matter how crazy, dark or bad things seem to get. I'm not suggesting that someone will always be there to rescue us each time that we get into trouble. Rather, what I'm trying to say is that things aren't always as dark as they might appear. Although I think that it is very important to be able to recognize the darkness (in all of its forms), it's also equally important to not lose sight of the light and the fact that there are many good people in this world.

I think that each of us has a very important reason and purpose for being here. We all have contributions to make to this world. We may not always be completely right in everything that we do, but I sincerely believe that if we always try to do the right thing in our lives, and continually try to learn and become more aware, then understanding will eventually come to us. And as awareness and understanding grows in our personal lives, it gives us the opportunity to help bring a greater awareness and understanding to the rest of the world as well.

During our journey(s) through life, some may try to divert us away from what our true purpose is. However, there are many others that will do their very best to try to help us achieve our full potential and find our true purpose in life.

Self-Censorship

Question: A person that is a true patriot should remain quiet for the good of the country that they belong to (no matter what their country may be doing). True or false?

Question: A person that is a true right-wing conservative should remain quiet for the good of the party (no matter what the party, the representative or the candidate may be doing). True or false?

Question: A person that is a true left-wing liberal should remain quiet for the good of the party (no matter what the party, the representative or the candidate may be doing). True or false?

Question: A person that is a true team player of a company should remain quiet for the good of the company (regardless of what the company may be doing morally or ethically). True or false?

Question: A person that is a true supporter of the mainstream media should remain quiet for the good of the mainstream media (no matter what the mainstream media may be doing). True or false?

Question: A person that is a true supporter of the alternative media should remain quiet for the good of the alternative media (no matter what the alternative media may be doing). True or false?

Question: A person that is a true supporter, seeker and speaker of truth, awareness and understanding should limit the subject matter that they talk about for the good of truth, awareness and understanding. True or false?

Answers: False to all

Does having compassion for another person mean that we should keep quiet? Does having respect for another person mean that we should keep quiet? Does being a good friend mean that we should keep silent when someone we care about is screwing up? Is the concept of love and compassion the same as passivity? Is practicing good judgment the same as being judgemental? Is there a proper time and a proper place for everything?

If we examine what is happening in our own party (group, camp or movement), does that mean that we are acting as an enemy of that camp and its members? I suppose that it could appear that way sometimes. However, how many times have we benefited from having an extra set of eyes and ears when we have become temporarily blind and/or deaf along our journey(s) through life?

Nobody is immune from getting off course. Nobody. The very moment that we begin to think that we cannot become blind or deaf, is usually the same moment that we begin to lose our sight and our hearing. Does that mean that someone else's eyes and ears are better than our own? No. It just means that it never hurts to stop, look and listen for a moment.

Curiosity, open discussion and constructive debate help to propel us forward. Self-censorship, on the other hand, helps to keep us (prisoner) right where we are.

The Right-Hand Path and The Left-Hand Path

The right-hand path is commonly associated with "white magic", service to others, an adherence to accepted and established social conventions (sometimes characterized as collectivism), and the worship of one god (monotheism). The Abrahamic religions are a good example of right-hand path religions. In the Abrahamic religions, the male is seen as the "god" (usually at the expense and degradation of the female). This form of imbalance often leads to pathogenic patriarchy and/or pathogenic feminism (i.e. one-eye-blind dis-ease and a corrupted ego).

The left-hand path, on the other hand, is commonly associated with "black magick", service to self, individualism and becoming your own "god". Satanism, Thelema and various forms of light/dark occultism are usually referred to as left-hand path religions. In these forms of religion, the individual is seen as the "god" (usually at the expense and degradation of the whole or the collective). This form of imbalance often leads to pathogenic individualism and pathogenic collectivism (i.e. one-eye-blind dis-ease and a corrupted ego).

The right-hand path/left-hand path is really just another system of duality that is based on false dichotomy and artificially created polarities. In other words, one path is presumed to be "right", while the other path is presumed to be wrong. Personally, I think that both ways are incorrect because the right one is blind to the left one, and the left one is blind to the right one. As a result of this, neither one has the opportunity to see or understand the whole or the entire One.

To me, the "right (hand) path" is the path that is "right" for the individual and the path that is morally and ethically right (i.e. the path that takes into consideration the welfare and the growth of both the individual and the greater collective).

Reverse Psychology, Rubber Band Psychology and Pre-loading Perceptions
(Psychological Operations - Behavior Modification, Managing Perceptions and Keeping People Quiet)

When did "racism" become the new go-to word in the media? When did "politically correct" become the new go-to phrase? What roles are these (weaponized) words playing in the modification of our perceptions and our behaviors?

Here's how the process of weaponizing words usually works:

• First - a word, a phrase or a concept is blanketed across the media (the mainstream media, the alternative media and social media).

• Second - a constant "stream" of over-the-top and absurd examples of said word, phrase or concept are shown in the media (the mainstream media, the alternative media and social media).

• Third - those words, phrases and concepts begin lose their true meaning and become confused in the minds of the public.
• Fourth - people who wish to engage in said behaviors can now do so without the fear of being accused of being racist, immoral or unethical. Why? Because racist and immoral behavior is now so blurred and so confused in the minds of the public that they are unable to properly identify it (i.e. discern it) when it really occurs. People also become afraid of talking about true racist, immoral or unethical behavior for fear of being grouped together (or identified) with all of the silly examples of it being propagated in the media (please see below).

The alternative media has actually been used quite extensively by the establishment to help perpetuate this type of psychological operation. For example, if you express a concern about unethical or immoral behavior now you run the risk of being labeled as someone engaging in "politically correct" behavior (i.e. being part of the establishment that is trying to restrict freedoms by encouraging politically correct behavior). Or, if you point out a behavior that is genuinely indicative of white supremacy (or some other form of racism), it tends to get clouded or dismissed under the (false) flag of "everything is considered racism now, I can't even speak my mind".

As a result of this conditioning, open discussion and constructive debate ends up getting squashed and restricted by the media (the mainstream media, the alternative media and social media). In effect, "we" actually end up becoming defenders of the corrupt behavior of the establishment (without even realizing it) by encouraging other people to keep quiet (shh) and not say anything about true racism and true immoral and unethical behavior (for fear of being accused of participating in what is now become an almost a complete spectacle of racist and politically correct behavior).

Another variation of this technique is when someone tries to communicate some type of moral or ethical principle to others and they are accused of trying to be a "know it all", a "guru", or having a "holier than thou" attitude, or being a "goody two shoes", or being "self-righteous", or being "judgemental", or "your not perfect, so what right do you have to talk about morality or ethics". 

Again, this effectively squashes any type of consideration, discussion, understanding or constructive debate about moral and ethical issues (before it even has a chance to get started). As a result of this "shh" behavior, immoral and unethical behavior is protected from being exposed and properly addressed.

Disturbingly, more often than not, this type of behavior comes not from the "establishment", but from ordinary everyday people that do not want to look at their own behaviors and address how those behaviors may be contributing to the corrupt system that we live in. It's much easier to just blame the politicians or the corporations (scapegoats) for everything. Yes they ("them") are the directors of the movie, however the movie can only play out with the dedicated support of a full cast and crew ("us").

Yet another variation of this technique is when you try to be too serious about a subject, and someone tells you to stop being so serious or to keep it on the "light side" (i.e. the dark side of ignorance). Like the other examples above, this effectively helps to squash any open discussion or debate and protect those who wish to remain willfully ignorant about uncomfortable (serious) subjects.

Chaos is created in the world (though decadence, division, immorality, destruction, etc) by various expendable pawns in order to help open the door for a "savior" figure (a group, a party or a person that normally wouldn't be considered) to come in and save the day under the (false) flag platform of restoring high moral standards and traditional values to society. The group or party (label) uses the platform (smokescreen) of morality as an effective way to help hide their true underlying agenda and actions.

True morality begins with the individual, not with a political party, a group or a savior. Actively listening to information and analyzing it (as opposed to simply absorbing it), a familiarity with psychological programming and conditioning techniques, and thinking several steps in advance are useful tools in helping to protect and immunize oneself from the effects of various psychological programs and operations.

Agreement and Disagreement

I agree that we need to monitor immigration policies, and that the issues regarding those policies need to be openly and constructively discussed.

However, I disagree with characterizing (generalizing) all immigrants as some type of subhuman species, terrorists, bombers, rapists (rape-u-gees) and freeloaders. How did this broad brush characterization gain so much traction so quickly? A few videos and news reports were strategically placed into the main, alternative and social media "streams". Then they magically went "viral" and began to "infect" the minds and hearts of the people who were viewing them...over, and over, and over, and over again (until they became etched into the minds of their "target" audience). Effective "trigger words" such as rapist and terrorist were used to help induce a fear reaction and create the maximum impact possible.

I also disagree with characterizing (generalizing) all immigrants as good, clean benevolent citizens that are in genuine need of relocation services. Obviously, not all immigrants and refugees fall into this category, and there are some real dangers associated with taking such a naive (blind) stance on the issue.

Much of the recent immigration/refugee crisis is actually a result of US government operations and interventions in those countries. If the United States does not want to be overwhelmed by immigrants and refugees, perhaps it should stop destroying other countries (with bombs, missiles, and psychological and economic warfare). And if the people of the United States do not want to be "invaded" by immigrants from war-torn countries, then I think that we need to tell our government loudly and clearly (with our voices and our actions) that we do not want to invade, destroy, or aid anyone else in invading or destroying, any other countries.

I believe that there are many good people with good intentions that are trying to provide assistance to the refugees and immigrants. However, most of these well-intended people and the refugees and immigrants themselves probably don't realize that they are simply being used as tools to help perpetuate a state of chaos that will not be beneficial to the people, but rather to those that are currently in power (who are trying to conclude a plan that has been in motion for a very long time).

Question: Would the widespread hatred of Muslims and the characterization of them as animals and subhuman people and various acts of terrorism (real or false flag) occurring on domestic soil (attributed to refugees, i.e. terrorists and rapists) make it easier for those that are in power to gain large scale support from the people for additional "foreign policy" interventions (i.e. wars) in the middle east?

Would domestic chaos make it easier for them to promote further restrictions on freedom (i.e. increase security), promote further legislative acts and executive actions (i.e. increase government), and add more surveillance and policing (i.e. increase safety)?

Would an exiting president who was viewed as weak (with regards to the refugee/immigration crisis) help to promote someone else that is perceived to be strong (i.e. a "savior" figure) in the next bread and circuses event (i.e. election)? What has history taught us about such things? How did some of the worse tyrants in history end up coming into power? They arrived as "saviors" of the people.

The mainstream media often gets criticized by the alternative media for not being responsible and "balanced" in their reporting. What about the alternative media? In many cases, the alternative media today has simply become an echo chamber for the very same propaganda that is being pushed by the mainstream media. And, in some other cases, they have blindly fallen victim to Rubber Band Psychology (i.e. if the mainstream likes this candidate, then the one that they hate must be the right person to elect). How is it that the alternative media has become so adept at identifying false flag terrorism, but still remains so blind to other forms of blatant psychological manipulation?

Environmental Influences

Can the environment that we live in and work in affect us negatively (even if we, ourselves, act in a moral and ethical manner)? Absolutely. It may take a while, but if we live in an environment of darkness, sooner or later some of that darkness will end up impacting us.

In many cases, such dark influences actually go unnoticed because they occur incrementally and insidiously all around us. It's kind of like the reverse of a baby chick in an egg. Instead of the baby chick breaking out of the egg and seeing the light of day, the darkness slowly chips away at the protective egg around the baby chick, until it creates a point of weakness and can enter the shell unimpeded.

That is what is happening in the world right now. The protective shells that surround us (families, marriages, cultures, traditions, countries, etc) are being pecked away at by the darkness in an attempt to enter our inner-space and gain total control over us. This is being done through a multitude of different mechanisms which have been discussed at length throughout this series.

A personal example of this insidious environmental influence occurred while I was working in the finance industry. Although I have always done my best to act morally and ethically in what I do (to the point of it causing friction with employers at times), that didn't insulate me from the environment in which I spent most of my time at during the week.

I also considered many of the people that I worked with to be ethical people as well. However, each of us was doing a job that, in some way, was helping to perpetuate the existence and continuation of a corrupt company that was engaging in some very corrupt business practices. The dark cloud that hung over this company (Morgan Stanley) was affecting all that came in contact with it (whether they realized it or not).  

Initially, I only saw glimpses of the problem, mostly because of my background in trading and because of my regular contact with the back ("front") office in New York. However, most people in the industry had absolutely no clue what was going on. And even those that knew what was gong on, didn't want to know.

The final straw for me was when the company started to offer very attractive (but very risky) mortgage lending services through its financial sales representatives, and derivative products (that had no value themselves) that were based on the value of mortgage backed securities/CDOs which also had almost no value (even though they were highly rated by the corrupt ratings agencies).

Slick well-dressed sales people would come into the branch office, cater fancy lunch meetings and try to sell financial advisors on products that were so complex that even experienced well-seasoned advisors couldn't understand them. Then the advisors would turn around and sell those products to their clients. The prospectuses (disclosure documents) for those products looked like small phone books. Who is really going to read through such things, much less be able to understand them?

These were high commission products so they were quite popular among young advisors that were trying to make their quotas and not get canned during the next round of layoffs. They were also popular among the management because part of the management's compensation was tied to bonuses which were tied to how much money (commissions) that the branch brought in. And they were popular among clients because the products seemed too good to be true (i.e. no-interest/low-interest adjustable rate mortgage loans and highly speculative, but potentially very rewarding derivative products).

Before you get too angry with the financial advisors that were selling these products, lets take a look at some of the clients that were buying them. Remember all of the shows that were on TV back then about "house flipping" (fixing up houses fast and then putting them up for sale for a quick profit)? How do you think that those people were financing their efforts? Many (but not all) of these people were being driven by the very same greed that was driving the finance industry at the time. These people knowingly got themselves in way over their heads because they were being blindly driven by the same fever (similar to the "gold fever" of the 1800s).

During the internet dot.com bubble (1998-2000), clients would come into the office and demand to buy stocks that not only had no earnings, but were actually incurring huge losses and were selling for astronomical prices. It didn't matter what you said, many of these people were so overcome by greed and the lure of easy money that they would threaten to take their account somewhere else if you didn't comply with their request (and some ended up doing just that).

The point that I am trying to make here is that none of us are completely immune to the influences of our environment. Many good people ended up getting hurt by the blind greed and willful ignorance of other people in the finance industry. The things that I saw back then affected me so much that I left the industry after thirteen years in it. This was actually right before the "financial crisis" occurred (euphemism for crisis of morality). I didn't have any secret information about what was going to happen. I only had my own experience, my own research and my own instincts to go on.

My financial world ended up crumbling as a result my decision to leave the industry (which was also partially influenced by health issues). However, I have no regrets. I would rather be poor and have a clear consciousness (conscience), than be rich and morally miserable. In case your wonderng, I did try to warn people about what I thought was going to happen, but nobody wanted to listen (or even consider such a thing).

For a good account of the events that led up to the "financial crisis", please take a look at The Big Short. Also interesting to note (in relation to the dot.com bubble), is the timing of 911. My personal opinion is that one of the reasons that those events occurred when they did was to help cover-up what had happen with Enron, Worldcom (and other companies and industries that imploded during that time).

The chaos and destruction of 911 helped to divert attention away from the widespread corruption that was occurring then and helped to protect those (at the very highest levels) who were deeply involved in those scandals. Many probably don't remember this, but the dot.com bubble was actually the birthplace of the world wide web, consumer-based wireless technology, "smart" technology and many of the other technologies and media services that occupy much of our time today.

Did the bubble ever really burst? Or is it simply expanding and morphing into many personal bubbles around each one of us now?

Don't Look at US, Look at Them

It's true that the Muslim religion is different than the Christian religion. And it's true that the traditions and customs of the east, are different than those of the west. Yes, "they" do look differently, dress differently and sometimes even act differently than "us". And yes, there is some very disturbing behavior that "they" sometimes participate in against "us".

But what about the west? What about the United States? What kind of behavior to we (the United States) engage and participate in? We may not strap bombs to our chests, walk into crowded places and blow people up. But we strap bombs to planes and drop them on other people. We strap missiles to drones and fire them at people. We drop napalm on people and burn them to death. We drop Agent Orange on people and create horrible health issues for them and the generations that follow them. We fire "depleted" uranium munitions from our guns and radiate people (and mutate and disfigure their future generations). We contaminate the environment with radiation, destroy islands and displace entire populations by exploding more that 1000 nuclear bombs on the planet.

We rape, torture and humiliate people in our military prisons. We drop heavy metals, chemicals and other substances from planes onto people (chemtrails). We poison our water supply with chemicals, pollution and toxins (both intentionally and non-intentionally with fracking, fluoride, lead, mercury, pesticides, etc). We recklessly experiment on people without their consent (using drugs, radiation, bacteria, viruses, GMO's and chemicals).

Perhaps most disturbing, however, is that we drop psychological bombs (propaganda, programming and conditioning) on our own population (and on other populations) via weaponized media systems such as TV, movies, radio, newspapers, social media and the internet...which in the end is far more destructive and damaging than any terrorist bomber could ever hope to be.

So let me ask you this, who are the real terrorists? Who are the ones that are raping the world with their wars, economic tyranny, propaganda and BS?

We point to the fallacies of other cultures and societies, and spend billions of dollars bombing them into oblivion while our own culture and society falls into a state of darkness and depravity that is so dark that many people cannot even see the light of day anymore.

It seems like all we can do (i.e. all that we have been trained and programmed to do) is point the finger to others and say, "look, there is the real problem". Radical Muslims in other countries? What about radical Christians in our own country? Foreign "regimes"? What about our own domestic regime? Corrupt rulers in other countries? What about the corrupt politicians and corrupt corporations in this country? What about our own behavior and our own society?

What about our decaying cities? What about our gangs? What about our red, white and blue collar crime? What about our bail-ins for the banks, and our foreclosures on the people? What about our shooters? What about our massive alcohol and drug culture (both prescription and illegal)? What about our decadence, degeneracy, depravity and debauchery? What about our prison population? What about our priestly pedophiles? What about our education system that teaches conformity and ignorance, instead of independent thinking and awareness? What about our fake virtual reality world that everybody is plugged into, attached to and addicted to? What about our economic system that is nothing more than a (debt) slavery system in disguise? What about our mafia banking system and our rigged stock exchanges? What about our police state? What about our surveillance state? What about true freedom? What ever happen to that?

What about our "regime" changes in the name of profit (oops, I mean democracy)? What about our financial stranglehold (slavery) of the modern world through the petrodollar, the world reserve currency, IMF loans, big banks, and other tools of financial control and coercion? What about the financial terrorism that we inflict on the rest of the world?

Who works for the government? We work for the government. Who works for the corporations? We work for the corporations. Who works for the banks? We work for the banks. Who works for the military? We work for the military. Who works for the police. We work for the police? How could "they" accomplish "their" corruption, control and tyranny without "our" help?

See how easily and effectively that perceptions can be influenced and controlled?

Why is there so much hatred in the world? Actually that's a rhetorical question, because I know why there is so much hatred. It's because of artificially created (manufactured) division among people, cultures, religions, political parties and pretty much anything else that you can think of. Why is there so much hatred of others being expressed on internet forums and in places such as Youtube? Could it be that there are some sheepherders out there that are helping to perpetuate such behavior?

In my opinion, anyone in the "alternative media" who is helping to propagate artificial division and the whole right/left, us/them, Christian/Muslim mentality, or is helping to promote the political/religious "savior" mentality is not seeing the big picture very clearly. In fact, I would argue that they have fallen into a state of blindness and have simply become an extension and a tool of the mainstream media (which they are supposedly trying to differentiate themselves from).

Every election it's the same old thing..."this candidate is so much different than the others, but they won't make it into office because they will be killed before they get there". You know how many people said those exact same words about Obama? Have we all developed amnesia?

A Picture is Worth a Million Words

What if Muslims were only shown images of America which portrayed gangs, drug addicts, trailer parks, dilapidated inner cities, polluted waterways, people dressed in hooded KKK outfits, police shootings, school shootings, buildings and cars being burned in riots, people falling into fountains at local malls while staring down at their cell phones, and the American military bombing other countries and torturing their prisoners of war? What if Muslims were shown these same images again and again over a number of years? What might Muslims think of America and Americans?

What if the only images that Americans saw of Muslims were those of beheadings, bombings, rapes, violence, wars and the ungrateful behavior of refugees that were welcomed into our country? What if Americans were shown these same images again and again over a number of years through the mainstream media, the alternative media and social media? What might Americans think of Muslims?

What if a reporter did twenty different interviews, but he chose to only use three of them because those were the ones that portrayed the message that he wanted the public to see and believe. Would that news report be a valid and accurate sample of public opinion?

Preying on Humanity
(Predators and Prey)

First - Break them down: Destroy the natural support systems of humans (destroy their families, their culture, their traditions, their countries, their love and their self-confidence)

Second - Build them back up: Recreate satisfaction, fulfillment, love and self-confidence by offering an attractive (but inferior) replacement of the things that were lost (in the first step above):

• The State becomes the new Mother (nurturer and protector).
• Technology becomes the new Father (the new God and the new religion).
• Page views, pins, likes, followers and online porn become the new love (the new way to become satisfied, fulfilled and self-confident).
• Online groups and virtual friends become the new culture (the new way to belong).
• In the new world (order), darkness becomes virtuous and fashionable, while morality and ethics become passe. Artificial becomes good, and natural becomes bad. Constant entertainment and illusion become good, and awareness becomes bad.
• Natural independence and organic self-sufficiency is destroyed and replaced with digital dependency and virtual reality.
• Humanity is LED away from the natural light of the organic world and into a blue light special of digital illusion being produced for us on billions of LED screens. People are led into the darkness, so that the darkness (and the machines) may gain more power and control over us.
• Creating a dependence on technology for the fulfillment of psychological, social and monetary needs helps to groom people for accepting the idea of implantable technology. Those who refuse to accept such technology in the future will be left behind and will end up losing their entire psychological, social and monetary support system. That support system (belief system) is dependent upon people accepting, adopting and keeping up with new technology as it arrives (no matter what it may be).  

How can a business that is using "old" social media technology remain competitive if everyone else is now using "new" social media 2.0 technology (implantable tech) to communicate with their customers ? How can a child that is in elementary school be socially accepted (and not be called the "weird kid") if they are still using old technology (speaking and listening) instead of using the newest implantable technology that allows for direct brain-to-brain communication among friends? How can a college student hope to get a job out in the workplace if they are still using "old" manual style interfaces (touch screens) when everybody else in the workplace is now using new interface technology (implantable tech) for everything?

How can a man find a woman, or a woman find a man if they are still relying on the old-fashion way of communicating (face-to-face contact), instead of using the more efficient and modern method of communicating ("face-to-book" communication, texting, sexting, virtual world meet-ups, brain-to-brain direct linking and "enhanced" virtual sex)? Why focus all of your time and efforts on one person (marriage), when you can have a different virtual "relationship" every single day of the week?

Remember the old story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin? That's what is going on, right now, in a nutshell.

Corralling, Herding, Grouping, Schooling and Following

People group and follow for reasons of security and safety (physical and psychological needs). Because of this, people will not generally gravitate towards anything new unless they perceive that there are enough other people gravitating towards the same thing. As long as other people remain grouped in a particular place, that is where most others will remain as well. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad. If its popular, fashionable or if it has a significant "following", that's where people will tend to flock to.

This is a actually a natural behavior. However, it is also a powerful tool of psychological control that is being heavily utilized by the system. Here is an example of this:

You're with a group of friends and someone gets up the courage to talk about something out of the ordinary. However, after they get done, one of the people in the group says, "that's weird". Subconsciously everyone in the group picks on this word and then matches in with other occurrences where they have heard (herd) that word before. Maybe a character on a TV program said it to someone in a group, and then the "weird" person ended up being shunned by the group. Or perhaps someone in school said it to someone else, and then the "weird" person was shunned by the group. Or maybe it was said in a commercial, or in a movie or in an interview somewhere. Same effect.

Each one of these occurrences gets recorded and stored in our conscious and our subconscious mind...from elementary school all the way up through adulthood. This ongoing process of conditioning is referred to as behavior reinforcement (i.e. behavior modification).

We've learned through experience that we better not speak out or say anything that is too "out of the ordinary" or we will be called "weird" and be shunned, laughed at or ridiculed by other members in the group. As a result of this behavior modification technology, people have been trained to stay within certain boundaries and react in certain ways according to their programming and conditioning.

This is actually just one example of many different herding tools that are being "beamed" at us each and every day via a variety of different sources.

To truly be free as human beings and move forward in a natural evolutionary manner, it is important that we learn to recognize the many different forms of psychological programming and conditioning that we are being exposed to and try to immunize ourselves from those influences. The pursuit and the development of knowledge, awareness and understanding is an important key in helping to set ourselves free.

Simple Answers to Complex Questions

Many people search their entire lives looking for the "right answers" outside of themselves, when many of the answers already exist inside of them. People will sometimes spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars in order to gain access to "secret" answers (provided by others), when many of those same answers already exist in plain sight with-in nature, with-in life and with-in everything that exists around us.

The answers need not be any more complex than the questions. Finding simple answers is, in many ways, a function of how clearly we express the questions.

Light and Dark -- Right and Wrong

Light and dark are natural polarities of the natural world. Right and wrong, on the other hand, are moral principles of the developed world, and of the conscious mind.

Light and dark (polarities) can be used as a way to help describe and characterize right and wrong (moral principles). However, right and wrong (moral principles) cannot be used in the same way to describe light and dark (polarities).

For example, if someone in a position of power were to abuse that power and use it to steal from poor people, you could say that this is a very dark (immoral) behavior. However, if you were to say that night time is a very immoral time of the day, that doesn't quite work as well.

Every so often I hear someone say that everything is just an experience, therefore there is no such thing as light and dark and right and wrong....these things are just human constructs that are used to divide us. Do you see any fallacy in this statement?

First of all, light and dark and right and wrong are two completely different concepts. Secondly, although the concept of right and wrong is sometimes used to divide people (by distorting its meaning), there is actually such a thing as objective right and wrong.

While it's true that everything is an experience, that doesn't mean that right and wrong do not exist within those experiences. For example, here are two different "experiences" to help clarify this idea:

If a child were to place their hand in a fire and burn themselves, you could say that this was a "dark experience" for the child (based on ignorance, or not knowing). You could also say that this was a "wrong" experience because it resulted in the child getting injured. In the future, the child could learn to avoid that wrong behavior based on the use of right knowledge (light and awareness) and understanding which they have gained from their experience in the past.

On the other hand, what if a pedophile abused a child? Or, what if a man raped a woman? Or, what if a country invaded another country? These are also experiences. However, does that mean that these are simply experiences and that there is no right or wrong associated with them? The difference between these "experiences" and the one above (with the child burning themselves), is that one was a personal experience, while the others were immoral behaviors that were based on an act of violence which violated individual sovereignty and did harm to another person.

Polarities, dichotomies and dualities are often used as tools to divide, conquer and rule others. However, they should not be confused with morality and the concept of right and wrong. Confusing the concept of right and wrong is an effective way to get people to stand down against tyranny and oppression by promoting the idea of moral relativism.

Following this mode of thinking (that everything is just an experience), since there is no such thing as right and wrong and good and evil, the tyrants that control and abuse others are just having an "experience", the same as the people that are being abused by the tyrants are just having an "experience". Therefore, nothing needs to change because all is good, all is light, all is positive, all is right. On a deeper philosophical level there is some truth to this mode of thinking. However, on a moral level, this is not at all a correct (right) mode of thinking.

Easy Fixes
(Stagnation vs. Growth)

Why are pharmaceuticals so popular? Why are diet pills so popular? Why are the exercise gizmos sold on TV so popular? Why are instant healing modalities that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars so popular? Why are pre-packaged self-help seminars so popular? Why is religion so popular? Why is government so popular?

These things are popular because people have been conditioned to confuse the "supplement" with the "cure". In other words, people have been led to believe that the pill, the machine, the modality, the seminar, the religion or the government is the answer (cure). While some of these things may help to facilitate healing, they are not what actually creates long-term good health.

True healing takes effort on our part (sometimes a great deal of effort). Magic little pills (and their equivalents) are there to entice us and distract us away from discovering that long-term health is dependent upon our individual desire to work towards resolving the issues ourselves (instead of relying on something else to do it for us).

Magic little pills only serve to cover-up the issue, they do not actually address the underlying cause. Covering up the issue is great for the economy (and for corporate profits) because it keeps us dependent on the system and it keeps us coming back for more.

Darkness (ignorance of the root cause) + Darkness (covering up the root cause) = More Darkness (more suffering).

Let the physician be thy helper, but let ourselves be thy healer. Know thyself, and then you will begin to understand everything else better.

Constructive Discussion and Debate vs. Unconstructive Debunking

To properly engage in a constructive discussion or debate, alternative points of view should have some sort of basis or foundation to them (i.e. a basis in personal experience, a basis in logic, a basis in research, etc). If a person dismisses a subject simply because it is unpopular, unfashionable, uncomfortable or because it is contrary to their current belief system, then that is not an example of a constructive discussion or debate.

Every single day, experts that are in the know (white coats, PhD's, scientists, scholars, etc) discount, dismiss and debunk a multitude of different phenomena, topics and subject matter simply because it is something that is not known to them at that present moment in time.

How many times in history have we not known about something at one moment in time, only to have it dis-covered (uncovered) during the very next moment in time? The answer was always there, we were just unaware of it at that particular time. For example, it wasn't all that long ago that the existence of bacteria, viruses, radiation, electricity and magnetism were unknown to us. Now, much of our "modern" science and medicine is based upon an awareness of their existence and an understanding of their nature.

To use another example, people will sometimes immediately dismiss the idea of UFOs. However, if you ask them what the basis of their view is, they often have no reply. If you ask them how many UFOs they have seen, the answer is often "none". If you ask them how many paranormal experiences they have had, the answer is often "none". If you ask them how much research they have done into the subject, the answer is often "none". And if you ask them how many books that they have read on the subject, the answer is often "none".

In fact, most often, their personal "view" is not based on any actual knowledge, awareness or understanding of the subject matter at all. Rather, it is based entirely on the programming and conditioning that they have received during their lifetime.

This type of behavior is not just limited to "fringe" topics such as UFOs or "aliens", however. It actually involves many different types of subject matter and occurs on many different levels within our society. Blind dismissive behavior is beneficial to the system, because it keeps us boxed-in and attached to a very narrow mode of thinking.

To truly be free as human beings and move forward in a natural evolutionary manner, it is important that we learn to recognize the many different forms of psychological programming and conditioning that we are being exposed to and try to immunize ourselves from those influences. The pursuit and the development of knowledge, awareness and understanding is an important key in helping to set ourselves free.

A One World Government and a One World Religion

I'm going to propose a slightly different take on this idea. The rulers that are currently in power seem to be quite happy with ruling over the physical plane of the earth. However, the hidden (unseen) rulers appear to have a desire to rule over both the physical plane of earth and also the "unseen realms".

For the unseen rulers to rule over both realms, they need subjects that are within their reach. In other words, they need to find a way to bring us closer to their realm, or bring themselves closer to our realm. How do they do that? By creating a new world religion that will effectively capture the hearts and minds of everyone on the planet (across all countries, all races, all cultures and all current religions).

What is this new religion and new God that is capturing a massive following across the entire planet right now? It is digital technology (cell phones, internet, computers, virtual reality, etc).

While everyone is mesmerized by LED screens and focused on the bread and circuses of the so-called real world, they are being blindly pulled deeper and deeper into virtual reality and into a realm that is the domain of the unseen rulers. The brilliance of the internet is that it gives us the illusion that it is providing us with more freedom, more choice and more expression, when in reality it is corralling us into a prison that, when fully built, will be extremely difficult to break free from.

Why has this religion been so effective in capturing so many new "followers" so quickly? Its success is based on a deep awareness and understanding of human psychology and the human ego. The rulers understand what our physical desires are and what are psychological needs are. They also understand the fatal flaw of the ego (i.e. its inability to admit when it is wrong or when it has been duped, and the inability of it to voluntarily cut-off potentially toxic "food sources" (i.e. ego biscuits) that are feeding it which may be detrimental to the health of the mind, body and spirit that it is attached to).

What are some of the key characteristics of religion?

Religion lures new believers into its system by offering them access to great knowledge and spiritual understanding. But, then....

• Religion blinds its followers and it binds them to a narrow system of belief, which leads to...
• Religion proposes to be the salvation of the people (or it creates a figurehead that proposes to be the salvation of the people), which leads to...
• Religion requires that its "followers" give their energy (worship) to the religion (or savior) so that the religion may survive and grow bigger (gain more followers).
• The followers of religion will defend the "virtues" of their religion, no matter what because their "salvation" depends on it.