Kozi Wolf

2010-12-15T21:13:00.003-05:00

Hey all great people,

We have a shop in Toronto, Canada. A little in need this season, it's slow!
Please support our work, great presents for kids, rocks, fossils, shark teeth,
horns, a lot of neat material to choose from, necklaces, stones, crystals,
geodes, crystal rings, wood bracelets, peace pipes. Special requests, combinations, just ask.
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before Christmas!

Thank you, very appreciated!!
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2010-11-20T16:22:00.002-05:00

for more mind boggling, site seeing stuff
visit
http://georgekavassilas.org/
please do share anything via
grassgrazer@gmail.com
since there's not a whole lot that will elaborate
the celebrity attracting others their way is wild

thanks for watching, reading, sharing
happy days to all
visit causa.ca for more writing.
poetry section/blog is now there under 'everyday'
good day

2010-07-19T20:46:00.001-04:00

You are not eliminating your expressions of surprise. Consciousness is continuously surprising itself, for you are continuously generating anew.

2010-06-05T09:53:00.000-04:00

2010-06-05T09:50:00.001-04:00

a call to prayer

2010-05-30T17:03:00.004-04:00

nature and art
source and mimicry
creation and creator
spark and inspiration
all weaved
with the force of love
the mother takes it all
back into herself

.....

mortar and pestle
the balance of expression
receptive lady
determined man

....

transformation of each stage
only through the process
of living through it
could the depth be
touched, realized

2010-05-30T16:54:00.003-04:00

walking in deep beauty

Kiesha Little Grandmother: One with Nature from kedarvideo on Vimeo.

2010-05-11T16:05:00.001-04:00

2010 with Shaman, Kiesha Crowther (1 of 2) from Bob Keeton on Vimeo.

2012 Event Horizon: Prophecies and Science of a Golden Age, by David Wil...

2010-05-10T14:19:00.000-04:00

2010-04-12T14:32:00.002-04:00

shiva the in and out
universal, eternal
moment of now
truth in the explanation
of self, of release
of stories
attracted because of attractions
the moving, growing world
each a universe
circling
yet never more than one's neighbour
colliding, a constellation
of lights
at home in expansion
contraction
touching out
feeling through
bringing what feeds
passing on the excess
shiva, creator, destroyer
dancing and singing
goddess of another day

2009-12-20T18:58:00.000-05:00

Steorn public free energy demonstration

Steorn Announces Public Demonstration of Orbo Technology

Steorn is pleased to announce that public demonstrations of its controversial Orbo technology has begun in Dublin and continue for the next six weeks.

Orbo technology, which has been in development for six years, provides free, clean and constant energy at the point of use. It can be engineered to power anything from a phone to a fridge to a car. It is controversial because it is an "over-unity" technology, meaning that it produces more energy than it consumes without the degradation of its constituent parts. This is an apparent violation of the Law of Conservation of Energy, which states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. The implications, not just for energy production but for society as a whole, are profound.

The public demonstrations - which include live test and replication sessions - take place in the Waterways Visitor Centre, Grand Canal Basin, Dublin. They began on 15th December 2009 and will run until 31st January 2010 (with a break between December 24th and January 4th, inclusive). The demonstrations are also streamed live at www.steorn.com/orbo.

"This is a pivotal moment for the company," said Sean McCarthy, Steorn CEO, "and potentially, for us as a species. There exists now an opportunity to change everything. At the end of the six week demonstration period, developers will be able to access our technology and start the process of developing Orbo technology-powered products. The Waterways demonstration is the beginning of the Orbo revolution."

For more info, demonstration videos and livestreams goto Steorn.com

from http://www.niburu.nl/

2009-12-14T11:20:00.000-05:00

a gift of a movie

the rest of the movie

2009-12-11T13:07:00.005-05:00

the sun- fed by each day's breath
grows inside
reaches farther, touching
heating the footpath on
mirrors stare back
the old patches, foreign words
activity of the light mixes
calls out, pierces
with sight the fire
deepens and expands

touch is all we crave
a hug in different forms
warmth eternal
all we do is trust
in the face of the darkness
we trust
that good will keep us near
in beauty and truth
we breathe on

2009-12-04T20:26:00.001-05:00

2009-11-26T08:18:00.003-05:00

in the land of form
love is king

thanks Holudiya and Sadiq for the beautiful image

2009-11-14T11:33:00.001-05:00

2009-10-30T10:40:00.001-04:00

Prevent Swine Flu - Good Advice

Dr. Vinay Goyal is an MBBS, DRM, DNB (Intensivist and Thyroid specialist) having clinical experience of over 20 years. He has worked in institutions like Hinduja Hospital , Bombay Hospital , Saifee Hospital , Tata Memorial etc.. Presently, he is heading our Nuclear Medicine Department and Thyroid clinic at Riddhivinayak Cardiac and Critical Centre, Malad (W).

The following message given by him, I feel makes a lot of sense and is important for all to know.

The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/throat. In a global epidemic of this nature, it's almost impossible to avoid coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not so much of a problem as proliferation is.

While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1 infection, in order to prevent proliferation, aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary infections, some very simple steps, not fully highlighted in most official communications, can be practiced (instead of focusing on how to stock N95 or Tamiflu):

1. Frequent hand-washing (well highlighted in all official communications).

2. "Hands-off-the-face" approach. Resist all temptations to touch any part of face (unless you want to eat, bathe or slap).

3. *Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (use Listerine if you don't trust salt). *H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/ nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. In a way, gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected one. Don't underestimate this simple, inexpensive and powerful preventative method.

4. Similar to 3 above, *clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water. *Not everybody may be good at Jala Neti or Sutra Neti (very good Yoga asanas to clean nasal cavities), but *blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton buds dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.*

5. *Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in Vitamin C (Amla and other citrus fruits). *If you have to supplement with Vitamin C tablets, make sure that it also has Zinc to boost absorption.

6. *Drink as much of warm liquids (tea, coffee, etc) as you can. *Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm.

2009-10-30T10:39:00.003-04:00

2009-10-27T19:55:00.002-04:00

The Vaccination Plot Thickens

Journalist files charges against WHO and UN for bioterrorism:
http://www.naturalnews.com/026503_pandemic_swine_flu_bioterrorism.html

This is the journalist's website: http://theflucase.com/

And here she is on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0l49QS1y0I

More about her and some doctors (among them a Canadian one) who offer information about the damage vaccines cause: http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/about/

This is the website of a researcher who has published three books re: "the myth of vaccination": http://www.vaccinationdebate.com/

and one more strong little lady

The Ex-Minister of Health in Finland Speaks About The Vaccine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTgyakGAddM

2009-10-18T15:16:00.002-04:00

common and all sorts of swine, avian, shoe, whatever you want to call it flus

IT'S AFFORDABLE!!!
This sure beats killing yourself with their dumb shots for their Swine and Bird Flus!!!

In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there was this Doctor that
visited the many farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu.
Many of the farmers and their family had contracted it and many died.

The doctor came upon this one farmer and to his surprise, everyone
was very healthy. When the doctor asked what the farmer was doing
that was different the wife replied that she had placed an unpeeled onion
in a dish in the rooms of the home, (probably only two rooms back then).
T he doctor couldn't believe it and asked if he could have one of the
onions and place it under the microscope. She gave him one and
when he did this, he did find the flu virus in the onion. It obviously
absorbed the bacteria, therefore, keeping the family healthy.

Now, I heard this story from my hairdresser in AZ. She said that several
years ago many of her employees were coming down with the flu and so
were many of her customers. T he next year she placed several bowls
with onions around in her shop. T o her surprise, none of her staff got
sick. It must work.. (And no, she is not in the onion business.)

The moral of the story is, buy some onions and place them in bowls
around your home. If you work at a desk, place one or two in your
office or under your desk or even on top somewhere. T ry it and
see what happens. We did it last year and we never got the flu.

If this helps you and your loved ones from getting sick, all the better.
If you do get the flu, it just might be a mild case..

Whatever, what have you to lose? Just a few bucks on onions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now there is a P. S. to this for I sent it to a friend in Oregon who regularly
contributes material to me on health issues. She replied with this most
interesting experience about onions:

Weldon, thanks for the reminder. I don't know about the farmers story...
but, I do know that I contacted pneumonia and needless to say I was very
ill...I came across an article that said to cut both ends off an onion put one
end on a fork and then place the forked end into an empty jar...placing the
jar next to the sick patient at night. It said the onion would be black in the
morning from the germs...sure enough it happened just like that...
the onion was a mess and I began to feel better.

Another thing I read in the article was that onions and garlic placed
around the room saved many from the black plague years ago.
They have powerful antibacterial, antiseptic properties.

Thanks for this article. It brought back memories of when my
oldest son used to get colds all the time when he was little.
This lady told me to cut an onion and rub it on his chest.
The onion turned very black and my son soon felt better.

Also, there was a young woman where I grew up who used to
cut garlic and onion put it in a sock and pin it to her little girl's
undershirt. At the time I thought it was a terrible thing to do
to a child, having her walk around smelling like onions and garlic.
But, I guess she just wanted to keep her little girl healthy.

2009-09-17T21:05:00.000-04:00

http://runningcausa.blogspot.com/

attention put here
the road trip's chronicles and inspirations

2009-09-15T10:58:00.002-04:00

in asheville, north carolina
a mountain town, full of organics, where the voice of nature has dominated the radiowaves.
natural food, jewelry, music of truth, justice and movement.
groundation, the spiritual roots reggae band is here too. powerful, inspiring show.
they're heading across the states too, check out a beautiful soul.
http://www.groundation.com/live.html

2009-09-03T10:22:00.004-04:00

in philadelphia right now. coming out of new england. making and selling jewelry is the means, touching and expanding is the ends.
3 weeks of exploring, brought a week of rest, and now we're around again, day 14. wandering shakes the old patterns, old ways, dialogues, misconceptions, stereotypes. seeing and experiencing whatever comes our way. moving with the wind, at times pressing against it until we readjust our sails. side kick is a man- international, deep and true, beautiful through and through.

finished making breakfast under a fig tree on cherry street in the parking lot of an italian restaurant. set up our table, spread it with an omelet and oatmeal. "hey, what smells so good?" asked the passerby, a construction man. tess, a young girl, plays soccer on the street. ernesto joins her after breakfast, we talk about the car, our new possibilities for a place to set up and sell. south street is the prerogative.
tess comes and warns us to be discrete.
we're on for another day, surprises await.

2009-08-18T22:39:00.016-04:00

backdrops of new england

2009-06-27T14:07:00.001-04:00

2009-06-17T08:47:00.005-04:00

The Machine in Our Heads

Glenn Parton

(Originally published in Green Anarchist, Summer 1997, pp. 1617)

Introduction

The environmental crisis consists of the deterioration and outright destruction of micro and macro ecosystems worldwide, entailing the elimination of countless numbers of wild creatures from the air, land, and sea, with many species being pushed to the brink of extinction, and into extinction. People who passively allow this to happen, not to mention those who actively promote it for economic or other reasons, are already a good distance down the road to insanity. Most people do not see, understand, or care very much about this catastrophe of the planet because they are overwhelmingly preoccupied with grave psychological problems. The environmental crisis is rooted in the psychological crisis of the modern individual. This makes the search for an eco-psychology crucial; we must understand better what terrible thing is happening to the modern human mind, why it is happening, and what can be done about it.

Deep Thinking

The solution to the global environmental crisis we face today depends far less on the dissemination of new information than it does on the re-emergence into consciousness of old ideas. Primitive ideas or tribal ideas, kinship, solidarity, community, direct democracy, diversity, harmony with nature provide the framework or foundation of any rational or sane society. Today, these primal ideas, gifts of our ancestral heritage, are blocked from entering consciousness. The vast majority of modern people cannot see the basic truths that our ancient ancestors knew and that we must know again, about living within the balance of nature. We are lost in endless political debates, scientific research, and compromises because what is self-evident to the primitive mind has been forgotten.

For hundreds of thousands of years, until the beginning of civilization about 10,000 years ago, humans lived in tribal societies, which produced tribal consciousness a set of workable ideas or guiding principles concerning living together successfully on a diverse and healthy planet. The invasion of civilization into one tribal locale after another, around the globe, has been so swift and deadly that we may speak of the trauma of civilization. Because tribal peoples were unprepared and unable to deal with the onslaught of civilization, tribal consciousness was driven underground, becoming something forbidden and dangerous. Conquered peoples became afraid to think and act according to the old ways, on pain of death. There is much fear that lies at the origin of civilization.

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny that is to say, the development of the individual is an abbreviated repetition of the development of the species. In childhood, a modern person travels an enormous distance between stone-age primitive creature and responsible contemporary citizen. When confronted with the awesome power of civilization whose first representatives are parents, teachers, priests (and, later on, police officers, legislators and bosses) the child faces, psychologically, the same situation as its tribal ancestors, namely, conform to the dictates of civilization or die. The helplessness of childhood makes the threat of bodily harm or loss of love, which is used by the parents and others to enforce civilized morality and civilized education, a traumatic experience. The developing little person becomes afraid to express its own tribal nature. There is much fear that lies at the bottom of becoming a civilized adult.

When the child becomes aware of ideas and impulses that oppose the dictates of civilization, s/he experiences anxiety, which is the signal for danger. It is not the insights and urges themselves that the child fears, but rather the reaction to them on the part of those in charge. Since the child cannot escape from those who control its life, s/he runs away from dangerous thoughts and feelings. In other words, the child institutes repression of its primitive self. Tribal ideas are now isolated, cut off from awareness, and unable to properly influence the future course of events.
The trauma or inescapable terror of civilization is responsible for the derangement of reason. That inner dialogue in the human mind that is the hallmark of self-consciousness has ceased, because the depth-dimension of reflective thought, which is the primitive mind, has been silenced. Modern people no longer hear their own primal voice, and without interaction between new ideas and old ideas, the demands of the individual and the demands of the tribe (and species), there is no deep thinking. On the contrary, when reason is cut off at the roots, it becomes shallow, unable to determine what is of true value in life.

The passage of tribal ideas from the oldest and deepest layer of the mind into individual consciousness is part of the natural, normal functioning of the human mind. Deep thinking is not the result of education; it is innate, our birthright as Homo sapiens. What civilization has done is to disrupt the free flow of ideas in the human mind by shutting down the primitive mind through traumatic socialization. In such a situation, cut off from the time-tested and proven ideas of prehistory, reason becomes one-dimensional, and is unable to solve the problems of modern life. No amount of new information can replace tribal wisdom, which provides the foundation for any good and decent life.

None of what has been said here denies the concept of progress, but it means that genuine progress is the outcome of deep mental dialogue in which new ideas are accepted or rejected by reference to that great complex of old ideas that have been perfected and passed down from one generation to the next generation over many millennia. In other words, genuine progress builds on basic truth. This is not idealization of primitive culture, but conscious recognition of its solid, intelligent achievements. Because civilization repudiates primitive, basic truth, we have no frame of reference for a good and decent life. What we call progress in the modern world is the aimless and reckless rampage of lost individuals. When one is lost, it is necessary to go back to the place where one had one's bearings, and start anew from there.

The False Self

We have internalized our masters, which is a well-known psychological response to trauma. When faced with overwhelming terror, the human mind splits, with part of itself modeling itself after the oppressor. This is an act of appeasement: "Look," the mind says in effect, "I am like you, so do not harm me." As a result of the civilizing process, together with this psychological defense mechanism known as "identification with the aggressor", we now hear the alien voices of the various representatives of civilization in our heads. Because of these alien ego-identifications we no longer hear our own tribal/primal voice. In order for deep thinking to commence again in the human mind, it is necessary to break down these internal authorities, overcome the resistances, that prevent tribal ideas from coming to consciousness. The modern problem is not simply that we do not listen to primal ideas, but rather that primal ideas are unable to come to consciousness at all, because of the internal counterforces, or ego-alien identifications, that contradict and overpower them.

These ego-alien identifications, built up over the course of a lifetime, cohere and form a distinct, circumscribed personality, or false self, that represents and enforces the rules and regulations of civilization. This false self is observable in the frozen facial expressions, stereotypic gestures, and unexamined behavioral patterns of the general public. This false self determines much of our everyday lives, so that we are seldom the origin of our actions. We lapse into the false self at the first sign of danger, under stress, or simply because it is the path of least resistance. In this unthinking mode of social role playing, we internally reproduce our own oppression.

Trauma is a necessary part of civilizing someone, because a natural, maturing individual will not otherwise accept the ideals of civilization. These ideals - hierarchy, property, the State, for example - are so contrary to our tribal nature that they must be forcibly thrust into the human mind. This causes the mind to rupture, to divide its territory that is, to surrender a part of itself to the invading enemy. For this reason, the false self is never really integrated into the human mind, but instead occupies the mind, as a foreign body, standing apart from and above normal/healthy mental life.

The Original Self

Beneath the false self, there still lives the original identity of the person. This original self is older than, and other than, the foreign personality that has been imposed upon it. This original self or primitive ego is the person one was in childhood before the mind was ruptured by the trauma of civilization and the person one still is at the core of one's personal identity. This original self is closely connected to the oldest layer of the psyche. It is an individually differentiated portion of the primitive mind the first, personal organization of the primitive mind. As such, it has direct access to primal wisdom, an internally directed perceptivity, that permits the entry into consciousness, as well as the passage into activity, of tribal ideas.

In civilization, this original self is caught in the middle of a war between the status quo false self and the uprising of the tribal self. Even when an individual succeeds in holding its own personal identity, refusing to slip into the false self, the primal voice may remain unheard, smothered by the false self. As a distinct, circumscribed personality, the false self achieves a counter-will of its own that is always operational in the sick mind, at least in terms of repressing tribal ideas. Tribal ideas threaten civilization, so they cannot pass through the censorship of the false self, which functions specifically to ward off all serious challenges to civilization.

Furthermore, the false self tends to become more autonomous and extensive, owing to improved forms of social control and manipulation of consciousness in the modern world advertising, for example. Once the mind is broken, the false self, backed by the relentless power of civilization, takes over our lives. The original or primary self has become autistic, or severely withdrawn from active engagement with social reality. However, there remains some awareness, at least sometimes, of our primary identity beneath the false self, and so there is hope for lifting the repressions set down most effectively in childhood on primitive mental processes.

The True Self

Through identification, which is a normal psychological basis of personality development, the original identity of the person is stretched into something more and greater, on its path to the true self. This process of identification becomes pathological only when the continuity of the personality is not preserved, i.e. when there is a splitting in two of the mind, giving rise to a new psychic structure, a false self. This rupture of the mind is unfortunately precisely what occurs through compulsory training and education of contemporary civilized human beings. In contrast, the development of the natural and sane human mind does not entail any sharp delimitations between its various stages and functions. The true self is a continuation and culmination of the original self; it develops out of the original self, just as the original self develops out of the tribal self. In sum, psychical reality consists of the tribal self, together with the original self, and the dynamic interplay between them is responsible for the development of the true self. The true self is something that unfolds/progresses. Traumatic civilization has not eliminated the original self, but it has stopped the flow of tribal ideas into consciousness, which arrests or distorts the higher/maturer development of the personality. In order to resume deep thinking in the human mind, so that we can become our true self, it is necessary to push back and ultimately dissolve civilization, internally and externally.

The Message

The sadness of the modern age is that the public needs to be reminded of "unchangeable human needs." This truth is not something to be imposed upon them, but something to be evoked within them. The fact is that people do not feel satisfied in the roles assigned to them by civilization. There is a widespread feeling that one's true identity or potential is not being fulfilled, but unfortunately there is no awareness of the tribal self except among a small minority of individuals. Once the message of a tribal self is re-introduced into public consciousness, it may lie dormant in the minds of individuals for a long time, but it is never entirely forgotten again, as it was in childhood. This message is the catalyst for an intellectual awakening among the population, accompanied by the feeling that something old and familiar has been uncovered.

The power of this message to move an individual is due to the psychological fact that, although repression shuts down deep thinking, tribal ideas continue to push for entrance into consciousness. The mind seeks always to integrate all its ideas into one comprehensible whole. Whatever is part of the repressed unconscious is trying to penetrate into consciousness. When an individual gets the idea of a tribal self from an external source, via the message, it takes hold deep down. The message appeals to the conscious mind, tugs at it, rings true because it touches and stirs the repressed truth that is striving to break into awareness. For this reason, the triumph of civilization over the tribal self is never secure, so there must be a constant bombardment of lies and distortions from the representatives of civilization.

Whether or not an individual awakens to the message of a tribal self depends on the mental condition of one's personal life. Crisis can open a person to ideas that would otherwise be shunned or rejected. A desperate or confused person seeking help may accept the notion of a tribal self intellectually, because it makes sense of one's life-history; but this is not yet to grasp tribal ideas from within, the result of deep mental dialogue. Intellectual awareness of one's tribal self, via the message, is the first prerequisite of a sane person, but it is not enough, not the same thing as hearing one's own primal voice. Each individual must validate or prove, for itself, the message or theory of a tribal self.

The Journey Outward

What is required in order to hear one's own primal voice and resume deep thinking is a journey outward by the original self, which is a matter of fighting to live according to fundamental ideas that one recognizes as good and right, a tribal ideal. This is the path of a warrior because civilization without (laws, institutions, and technologies) and within (the false self) is organized against it. It takes inner resolve and courage to go against civilization, outwardly or inwardly. The path of a tribal warrior in the modern world has nothing to do with picking up a spear or wearing a loin cloth; rather, it involves committing to, and standing up for the great ideas of prehistory: face-to-face democracy, rivers and streams as drinking places, respect for wildlife, etc. These ideas do not require more data, arguments, congresses or conferences because they are the irrefutable elements of original knowledge. The warrior stands on the unshakable foundation of basic truth, and the vicious lies of civilization that the Earth is property, or that the common good results from each person maximizing its own self-interest, for example are dismissed as the meaningless babble of the ignorant.

The psychodynamics of the cure consists in overcoming our fear of deep thinking by strengthening the original ego, through everyday practice, to the point that it no longer turns away from its own subversive ideas. We are afraid to think deeply or critically, due to the horror of the past. It is safer not to think about tribal ideas, and spare oneself the painful memories of punishment (and the attacks of anxiety) that are associated with the recall of these ideas. The childhood fear that one will be murdered or grossly harmed for primitive thinking lives on.

The child settles for an unsatisfactory adaptation to social reality namely, repression of its tribal self because it is unable to deal with the threatening menace of civilization in any other way. However, adults are no longer in the helpless position of childhood; it is no longer necessary to give up the struggle with civilization. There is plenty of opportunity in our everyday lives to question and refuse humiliating and debilitating authority. What matters, for now, is not that we win this or that battle with external reality, but that we stay true to tribal ideas in the face of civilization, and integrate them into the conduct or character of our lives. This is what slowly brings about a radical change in the personality.

The path of a warrior is that of upholding a tribal ideal with the therapeutic aim of bringing a strengthened ego into direct and open communication with the tribal mind, which dissolves the false self (and its punishment mechanism).

The personal journey of loosening the grip of the false self by strengthening the primary self is certainly not by itself going to bring about the overthrow of civilization; but it is the subjective precondition for building an environmental movement that will achieve this end. The public is firmly in the grip of the false self, which means that a revolution is definitely not on the agenda. The influencing machine of civilization is in our heads, and we must defeat it there first; for it is not to be expected that people brutally held down (for 10,000 years) by counter-revolutionary forces will revolt until the psychological groundwork of liberation has been adequately prepared. After enough of us have done the hard inner work of self-restoration, that is, re-claimed enough of our sanity, then we will come together in tribal units and smash civilization.

Crossroads

Human unhappiness within civilization is widespread and growing. People feel increasingly empty, anxious, depressed, and angry. Everyone is seeking an answer to serious mental problems. The Chinese ideogram for crisis combines the sign of "danger" with that of "opportunity." This is exactly where we are in history, at the crossroads between two radically different futures. On the one hand, there is the danger of insanity, and on the other hand, the opportunity for a return of tribalism.

The Path to Insanity

Basic, vital needs or tribal needs are not being satisfied in civilization, and this produces frustration, which in turn activates aggression. As civilization "progresses" toward global interlock among new technological forms, we are removed farther and farther from the simple and basic joys of life, sitting in a shaft of sunlight, conversing around a fire, food-sharing, walking, the blue sky overhead, and so frustration and aggression also progress. More and more of a person's concern and compassion for others and the natural world are withdrawing, and re-focusing on the self, in order to neutralize the growing frustration and anger within. This is the psychological explanation for the culture of selfishness that is underway everywhere in the modern world the first step on the road to insanity.

The second step, which is now on the horizon, is megalomania, a severe pathological state of consciousness in which the steady withdrawal of love from others and nature gives rise to the deluded mental condition of exalted self-importance. The megalomaniac feels more and more powerful, euphoric, and in control of things (due to an abnormally inflated self-love), while in reality s/he is becoming more and more isolated, impotent, and out of control (due to an excessive loss of love for others and nature). This pathological condition of megalomania is fueled by inner hatred, which is desperately seeking pacification by consuming more and more of a person's available love, but it fails entirely to deal with the root-cause of our mental illness, namely, unmet primitive needs.

If people cannot access the tribal ideas that inform them of basic needs, then they cannot find the proper targetnamely, civilizationfor their frustration and aggression. As a result, rage is trapped in our minds and bodies and is destined to reach heights that are psychologically unbearable for any individual, which leads to madness. Insanity, the third and final stage of civilization, occurs when the original self becomes a tortured prisoner within the walls of its own fears, frustrations, and hostility. It is now extremely difficult, if not impossible, to reach and influence the original self with any rational message.

The Path to Sanity

Civilization has enslaved us in the chains of dependency, isolation, and artificiality. All that we have suffered in civilization still exists in our minds for nothing vanishes from the human mind and it is accumulating into rage. The mechanism that civilization employs in order to prevent this rage from discharging itself against its source namely, civilization is the establishment of a dictatorship in our heads, a false self, that re-directs this rage toward the citizen in the form of self-blame. According to the false self, each individual is to blame for its own misery. The false self gets the energy it needs to punish and enslave us from our own blind frustration and aggression. Without conscious commitment to a tribal ideal, a firm hold on basic truth, by which to evaluate, condemn, and go against civilization, a person is at the mercy of its own mounting disappointment and aggression that the false self is designed to turn inward.

The tribal ideal is a staff for strengthening the original self and fighting off the false self. By upholding a tribal ideal, sometimes through the spoken word, sometimes through action, and sometimes through silence, we build self-respect on a solid foundation; for at the core of our being we are still fiercely independent, intelligent creatures, with strong affective ties to small human groups and large natural/wild places.

The importance of this self-respect as a prime motivator of human nature can hardly be overstated; it may enable an individual to defy civilization, even in the face of the hatred of the whole modern world. When an individual acquires fundamental self-respect, then s/he will be made a fool no longer, and all the blows of civilization are nothing but the battle scars of a proud warrior. Civilization is powerless against it, because a person who has re-claimed fundamental self-respect cares nothing about the laws and standards of civilization.

This self-respect leads to genuine self-love, the second and decisive step on the path to sanity, for self-love (and happiness in large measure) consists in becoming one's own ideal again, as in childhood. This self-love eventually overflows and becomes love for others and for external nature. Concern for life on Earth is the result of a surplus of love, or as Nietzsche put it, "abundance in oneself the over-great fullness of life the feeling of plenitude and increased energy." In other words, caring for life on Earth flows from an unbroken and expanding primary and healthy narcissism. Without this caring that flows from self-love, science and ethics will preach in vain for the preservation of biological diversity, ecological integrity, and real wilderness.

The megalomaniac or pathological narcissist has no love for others or for nature, because s/he needs all available psychic energy, and even more, in order to stave off a false self that is becoming more demanding and brutal. In megalomania, the backward flow of love, away from others and nature and toward the self, is a defensive reaction to the underlying reality of intensifying personal hurt and hatred: the original self is becoming weaker, and the false self stronger, because the gross injury to the psyche of the human being, by the trauma of civilization, festers.

Identification with the tribal ideal is the antidote to the massive narcissistic wounds inflicted on us by civilization, and it threatens civilization with disintegration because it goes to the source of our injury and begins to heal it. The third and final stage of the making of a revolutionary or eco-radical occurs when an individual, after arduous intellectual praxis, either remembers or intuits basic truth. The individual now hears its own primal voice, which rises up from within as an unstoppable conscious drive to assist fellow creatures and to make a positive contribution to the planet.

In sum, the path to sanity begins with the awareness of a tribal self. A personal commitment to this ideal builds self-respect, which in turn builds self-love. This self-love eventually overflows to take in others and nature. At last, individuals are psychologically secure and strong enough to enter into cooperative associations with one another in favor of a mass movement aimed at re-establishing small human villages, embedded in a healthy/wild landscape.

Conclusion

When the final crisis of civilization comes in the 21st Century, the present system will do whatever is necessary to perpetuate itself. People who are in the stranglehold of the false self will support whatever the system does, including the exploitation and destruction of National Parks, Designated Wilderness Areas, and The Wildlands Project (whatever it achieves). Unless people possess an assured, sane psychological core, everything else is in jeopardy. The personal pursuit of sanity is, or will shortly become, the overriding issue for the vast majority of people, and toward this end, each person, isolated and fearful in modern society, must be armed with an ideal or vision of what s/he would like to be and should be. There is nothing better to offer people than a tribal ideal. It is, then, up to each person to do the difficult psychological work of personal liberation that must precede real change. This personal task of healing the mind can be and must be accomplished, to a decisive point, in modern-day circumstances.

2009-06-12T13:42:00.001-04:00

Dear friends,

Peru's government is clashing violently with indigenous groups protesting the rapid devastation of the Amazon rainforest by mining, oil and logging companies. The forest is a global treasure - let's stand with the protesters and sign the petition to President Garcia to stop the violence and save the Amazon:

The Peruvian government has pushed through legislation that could allow extractive and large-scale farming companies to rapidly destroy their Amazon rainforest.

Indigenous peoples have peacefully protested for two months demanding their lawful say in decrees that will contribute to the devastation of the Amazon's ecology and peoples, and be disastrous for the global climate. But last weekend President Garcia responded: sending in special forces to suppress protests in violent clashes, and labelling the protesters as terrorists.

These indigenous groups are on the frontline of the struggle to protect our earth -- Let's stand with them and call on President Alan Garcia (who is widely known to be sensitive to his international reputation) to immediately stop the violence and open up dialogue. Click below to sign the urgent global petition and a prominent and well-respected Latin-American politician will deliver it to the government on our behalf.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence

More than 70 per cent of the Peruvian Amazon is now up for grabs. Giant oil and gas companies, like the Anglo-French Perenco and the North Americans ConocoPhillips and Talisman Energy, have already pledged multi-billionaire investments in the region. These extractive industries have a very poor record of bringing benefits to local people and preserving the environment in developing countries - which is why indigenous groups are asking for internationally-recognized rights to consultation on the new laws.

For decades the world and indigenous peoples have watched as extractive industries devastated the rainforest that is home to some and a vital treasure to us all (some climate scientists call the Amazon the "lungs of the planet" - breathing in the carbon emissions that cause global warming and producing oxygen).

The protests in Peru are the biggest yet and the most desperate, we can't afford to let them fail. Sign the petition, and encourage your friends and family to join us, so we can help bring justice to the indigenous peoples of Peru and prevent further acts of violence from all parties.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence

In solidarity,

Luis, Paula, Alice, Ricken, Graziela, Ben, Brett, Iain, Pascal, Raj, Taren and the entire Avaaz team.

2009-05-26T12:25:00.002-04:00

freeze the flow
the dancing deer
caught in the headlights
tantalizes the moment

slips in words from
the cosmos
unleashed from her
speckled coat

the electric shock of light on light
flickers in time
and then the road returns
so we may
dance again

2009-05-25T13:37:00.003-04:00

a gift

in the hand
holding
the wind passes by

ease on the grass
words shared
smirks
hidden pages apart

old faces
a flicker
glowing
growing on another

a reach
yank
a glimpse
want
a touch
unknown
close the box

morning light
ready for another look

scan
to meet
to touch
on the air

a reach
stare into the mystery
a second

dance
feast
climbing another step

and then another step
up to mesas
rest on the breath

charged
a touch
sparks flow
in between
two bellies full

mystery
possibility
strength
a shield
holding back the force
called long ago

doubt visits
too fast?
too much?
shared feelings?
future?
the mind scrambles to
understand
the added heat

stretching to be
breathing back in
new soldier
creates a larger shadow

shakes up the mold
dust flying out
dew rests on the skin

is it true?
is it real?
the heart whimpers
to trust

the sun shines over head
exploring a new land
wings stretch
catching the breeze
thoughts rattle the gifted ease

hope
song
mixing of tenses
old, now and new

ride
the gusts
bury breaks into the sand
breathe quick
question the riders
question the ride
a touch
pulls me forward
back with the tribe

and now and forever now
we ride

2009-05-24T13:26:00.003-04:00

She belonged to him just as much as she belonged to herself. A stranger with a mysterious name. Constantly in awe of new possibilities that were dug up from the dusty crypt. A freshborn thought, dream, corroborated feeling would appear on her doorstep, ready to engage with the day. No she did not belong to him. They were both gifts in each other's kaleidoscopic view. Both ready to touch each other since there was nothing to hold onto. The mystery is always free.

2009-04-07T14:07:00.001-04:00

2009-04-05T08:44:00.002-04:00

8

Eternity's Now

2009-04-05T08:27:00.002-04:00

Group consciousness
Choreographed or inherent natural rhythm?

Bird Dance - video powered by Metacafe

2009-04-04T12:07:00.005-04:00

The universe unites.

***

Conscious breather:
remembering with each breath
your intimate connection
with all of life

2009-04-04T12:04:00.002-04:00

2009-03-28T09:45:00.010-04:00

Two realities.
The dying one, full of frustrations, desires, pushes and pulls.

The other, reality of truth, of insights, of visions, the connected matrix of what is felt, seen inside.
Two realities, one is slowly melting, fading away with every bail out lost.
One day as we close our sleepy eyes and awaken in the magical dream
the image that we hold
will not fade from our hearts.
It will only explode, explode into a vivid way, of way of heart.
It will only explode, and so shall we.

2009-03-10T11:16:00.001-04:00

Terence McKenna: Culture is not your friend

Culture is not your friend, it's an impediment to understanding what's going on. That's why to my mind the word cult and the word culture have a direct relationship to each other. Culture is a cult and if you feel revulsion at the thought of somebody offering to the great carrot, just notice that your own culture is an extremely repressive cult that leads to all kinds of humiliation and degradation, and automatic and unquestioned and unthinking behaviour.

I mean the American family is what keeps American psychotherapy alive and well. This is a cauldron for the production of neurosis.

All culture is a kind of congame, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is candy that makes people start questioning the rules of the game.

2009-02-24T12:34:00.000-05:00

2009-02-20T08:28:00.004-05:00

everything under the sun
isn't a big deal

left over words
from a dream

2009-02-14T07:34:00.003-05:00

the way home
is through the heart

(last night's dream message)

happy loving day

2009-02-08T10:50:00.000-05:00

2009-01-30T09:50:00.004-05:00

Astrologically it's a revolutionary time right now. With global strikes, falling of governments you don't have to look far.

I came across this while shuffling through some papers this morning.

"We need to balance ourselves daily so the collective fear will not infect us."

Wrote last night, felt like a shedding. Anyone else feeling charged?

All i want to do is breath
not hold a thought
so that it can buy me bread

get your slogans, goals, combs
out of my head

we're all sick
and still craving a balm
the options exhausted

until there's no more space
for another wasted scheme

why can't colours matter as
much as marriage?

why can't we all agree
heaven's out on the grass

why can't we be quiet
until we finally hear
how loudly our world turns?

can't riding the keys on the scale
be the same as barbados in the sun?

i refuse to believe
this is as far as we've come

i refuse all the chains you
hid in your box

even though you've chained
my parents, lovers
i won't tend your crops

drift your priced, overspelled
clouds away from me

i know i'm the goddess
you can't bear to see

i can wear your clothes
but they've never fit right

my truth is bare
no extra stiches needed
i've always been made right

*

we are creative intelligence
that's all there is

expression's stuffed
wrapped, seperated, exalted
underfunded, compacted

but how can your out breath
be more than mine?

we're standing in the same room
breathing in the same air?

bulldozed or free
condos built up on fertile land
or a harvest for all

what did we agree?
well just look out and see

**

i dive into my own seed
incubate my baby preborn
sing lullabies true from my heart

pour tears of dew on his hair
so he awakens to greet
the light i shed for him
again
and again
and forever
again

***

2009-01-29T09:41:00.009-05:00

the gift of home

i rested behind the heart
to hear the steady
drum call flickering
in the fire

i submerged into the
gushing torrential flow
swept into the depths
of our common blood

i sat in ancient caves
bones still and strong
home for wanderers
painted shadows on the walls

i shivered to the shreiking voice
of the cells singing
the truth in a never ending
song of praise

i connected to the source
made love to this form
so real, simple and true

2009-01-25T13:43:00.005-05:00

as of late i've been stalking my dreams like a hungry lion
quite the teacher
i will post absurd snippets of what comes up in the fertile night
so may our dreams come true!

***

randon dream no. 1
according to scientific research if you tell a mouse the time it will be more productive
however, if the mouse does not know the time it will wander about

2009-01-07T07:33:00.002-05:00

I say onto you my child
your time will come
as feathers fall from the sky
so will my Grace descend and embrace you
as a Mother holds her new born child
for the first time

Your Golden Glory awaits
for there is no other who walks your path
many will proclaim the glory
but no other has walked among them
and endured the ravages of Darkness as you

You have stood the test of time
and salvation is at hand
for I say onto you my sweet child
we are truly ONE

from our Divine Mother

again posted by George Kavassilas

2009-01-06T11:07:00.004-05:00

For the night has been long
and the shadows still dance
with an increase in vigour
as your Soul proclaims its presence
in the Eternal Everafter

You now establish yourself in the Ring of Fire
its pathway burns as the the Polar Caps melt
freedom is the call
the sound that reverberates from the Soul to the Ego
embrace your Ego's service with appreciation
and be eternally grateful
for you now do unto your Ego as I do to the Poles

Liberation and Fortitude
your sovereignty celebrates its new found Song
for I am the pathway,
the doorway and the Light

Soon you will despair no more
for you may say
I Am and I am Home
for we are Truly One

From Our Divine Father

posted by George Kavassilas

2009-01-05T11:13:00.002-05:00

the spaces between are closing

mathematical equivalent of wisdom= recursive equation

2 * 2 = 4
2 * 4 = 8
4 * 8 = 32
8 * 32 = 256
32 * 256 = 8192

using the experience of the past in the present
to keep growing in wisdom

2009-01-01T15:42:00.003-05:00

Earth is not an island

came up in meditation....thought i'd share

Happy New Year everyone
hope that love, joy and peace continue to unravel magically and mysteriously

2008-12-26T20:20:00.003-05:00

"I don't understand why you have to pay to live on a planet you were born on."

from this powerful video

Alex-Collier- Information from Andromeda
http://www.niburu.nl/index.php?articleID=18886

hope everyone's having a beautiful, peaceful holy time.

gabby

2008-12-20T09:01:00.002-05:00

ONE ONE ONE

The lamps are different.
But the Light is the same.
So many garish lamps in the dying brain's lamp shop, Forget about them.
Concentrate on essence, concentrate on Light.
In lucid bliss, calmly smoking off its own hold fire, The Light streams
toward you from all things, All people, all possible permutations of good,
evil, thought, passion.
The lamps are different,
But the Light is the same.
One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, Endlessly emanating all things.
One turning and burning diamond,
One, one, one.
Ground yourself, strip yourself down,
To blind loving silence.
Stay there, until you see
You are gazing at the Light
With its own ageless eyes.

-Rumi

2008-12-19T09:09:00.001-05:00

2008-12-06T18:42:00.003-05:00

I've come across some beautiful books, called The Ringing Cedars series. They're all about a recluse in Russia named Anastasia and her most sober look at life. Vladimir is an entrepreneur who meets Anastasia and spends time adjusting to her view.

Here's an excerpt:

"Just a few days will go by, and millions of fathers and mothers in many a land will be writing the Book of Kin, filling in its pages with their own hand. There will be a vast multitude of them- these Books of Kin. And all of them will contain the truths which begin in the heart, for their children. There will be no room in tehse books for artifice or guise. Before them all the lies of history will fall."

"You will surmise what would happen, Vladimir, if you could take into your hands today a book which your ancestor of old had begun to write especially for you. Then another would continue the writing, eventually your grandfather, and your father and you mother."

"The books read by Man [being our highest potential] today include many that are devised with a specific aim in mind- namely, the distortion of history and the meaning of life. Many false dogmas are especially designed to disorient Man in space. This is not easily discernible all at once. But clarity comes directly as a son reads a book of his forebears, which his father and mother have continued personally for him."

"But wait, Anastasia, not everyone knows how to write a book."

"Everyone can if they feel the demand to do so-if they are looking to protect their children, and in the future themselves, from false dogmas. In Vedic times every father and mother would write a book of kin for their future children and grandchildren. This book was not comprised of words, but of deeds. Children could read created space like a book, and understand the deeds and thoughts of their parents, and were happy to inherit a happy space."

"The holy temple of the family will help in this- the Book of Kin. In it a mother and father will write for their son and daughter about what is the most important thing that needs to be created for happiness in life. The children will continue to record the Book of Kin. There will be no wiser and truer book for families anywhere on the Earth. All the knowledge of their pristine origins will be poured into it."

"Those that will begin to write already have this knowledge concealed within themselves. It is preserved within each one of us. When people think deeply and begin to write not sure for anyone, but for their children, all the knowledge of their pristine origins will be revealed within them and come to light."
.....

The Book of Kin, Book Six from the series by Vladimir Megre.
This is an interview with the editor
http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/lsharashkin.htm

Just a few pages into writing my own. An interesting reflection so far...

2008-11-15T10:43:00.000-05:00

Rumi read by Coleman Barks

2008-11-13T09:47:00.001-05:00

Original footage of November 2nd in Western Canada:

Filmer comment: Okanagan, BC, Canada, November 2nd, 2008 around supper time.
I filmed this right after a rainbow, which is why I had grabbed my camera to begin with. The rainbow was gone by the time I had my camera, but these countless orbs filled the sky. It was nearly impossible to capture a good shot. I did the best that I could do. They stayed in formation for the most part and then drifted off. The sighting lasted about 10 minutes.

2008-11-10T11:39:00.000-05:00

Mama Afrika has left at 76.
Sweet travels fair lady.

2008-10-24T13:06:00.000-04:00

2008-10-20T15:09:00.001-04:00

And today, the UK government released all its UFO files on its National Archives.
Oh something's stirring.

http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

2008-10-20T10:07:00.009-04:00

Indigenous Native American Prophecy (Hopi Elders)

Purification and renewal time. America is dying from within. If you are not spiritually connected to earth and understand spiritual reality of how to live on earth it's likely you will not make it. We are here on earth, and then go to spirit world. Drink good water to stay healthy. River used to be clean to drink. Earth, water, atmosphere is corrupted, and then it will create its own reaction. Storms and floods will become greater. Learn how to plant something, that's the first connection.

You have to raise your own leaders. All children have a common leader. You have to guide that person. There are natural leaders. Bill of Rights (should have been a bill of responsibility), leadership has to have responsibility. Vision and compassion for the future seven generations. Tree does not grow by itself. Certain trees, certain plants will gather around certain trees. Certain medicines will gather around those certain plants. If you cut down the tree, you are destroying the community. Learn by watching animals.

They tell you where the medicine is, because they use it themselves. Corporations (not nations) are driving force of decision making today. Power is always in people's hands, they need to challenge the values, and it's become consumer society driven by economics not common sense. Everybody should be their own leader - do their thinking for themselves by using their own common sense. Don't blindly follow someone.

Earth has its own process. If it comes to the point where we destroy ourselves (and humans are no longer here on earth), earth will not disappear. No matter what damage you think you have done to the earth, it will regenerate itself. Must have a moral society. We have not passed the line of no return, but we are approaching it.

Everyone has a mission. In Indian's history, man of strength was in charge, not the wise man. Peacemaker approached those leaders to try to help them understand they should not be killing each other. Men now responsible for counsel. Reason and law would be basis. Use your mind, do not fight. Women would be mothers. Everything is in twos. Female carries life. Trees, fish, animals, everything that grows, everything is life, we are a family, all life. Important to keep the balance.

from http://www.niburu.nl/index.php?articleID=17667

and from Mark's Corner here is a promising direct message he received:

Earth speaks

The following information was provided on 10/19/08. This is my 12th posting to Mark’s Corner. I strongly suggest you read the earlier postings first, preferably in chronological order. Note: When this being asked to communicate with me and have the results published, I was overwhelmed. After transcribing the following I have things in a new perspective.

Let us welcome Earth who has a communication for us.

Walk with your bare feet in my grass; wade in my steams, lakes, and oceans. Touch me as you walk along a forested trail or along the beach. Revel in my beauty as you witness a sunset or gaze upon a panorama. I am Earth; I give unselfishly to those who dwell with me.

A few billion years ago God created me; it was a cooperative effort to which my soul agreed. I became a beautiful and wondrous place filled with life. Your scientists are correct in that they see this taking place over a long period of time. It did indeed require a long time to develop my beauty. It was as if I were a young child, who grew into the beauty of fullness. Your pictures from space show me as a beautiful globe. I am indeed beautiful; I am glorious. I am one of the most beautiful planets in this galaxy. Revel in my beauty. Soak it into your very deepest crevice. I define beauty for those who dwell upon me. Now, I am changing from what I have been in the recent past to what has been my destiny.

Let me give you a brief vision of what I will be when I have returned to my beauty. First and foremost, I will radiate so all in the universe to know me. I will shine with iridescent colors of blue and green. Blue because my oceans will be clean and pure. Green because most of the land will be covered with lush vegetation. No more will I have deserts. No more will I have ice and snow. I will become a temperate paradise for all.

I am being returned to the lushness enjoyed when I was much younger, but not as far back as when dinosaurs roamed my surface. No, I will not be the home for giant beasts; rather I will be the home of a conscious race of humans. I will be a lush paradise. I will have birds, animals, and fish in great abundance. Most importantly, all will enjoy a harmonious relationship.

Many years ago, when the dark energy invaded me, all of my natural systems were contorted. New species of plants, fish, birds, and animals were introduced, species I had not known. Out of self-preservation, some of the animals that resided on my surface were transformed into carnivorous beasts, as were some fish and birds.

But I get ahead of my story; in coordination with God’s plan, those from off-planet introduced all my plants and animals. I was to be a grand experiment, housing the plants, fish, birds, and animals native to other planets, an experiment to see if such a vast diversity could live together on a single sphere. So they brought animals and plants from many other places. Some readily adapted to their new home, others did not. Some died off, other prospered until a few million years later a balance was achieved. Those who had seeded this planet were pleased with their handiwork.

It was only after this great handiwork was completed that the first humans were introduced to me. Those from other planets brought four races here. When they came they were very conscious, aware of who they were and from whence they had come. They were able to communicate with me, with each other, and with my animals and my plants. Everything was provided for them. They lived off fruits and nuts, and other foods of my bounty. They did not fight among themselves; they cared for each other. In the beginning it was a veritable paradise for all who occupied my surface. In the beginning, there were none who lived beneath. In the beginning, I was a salubrious home to my new guests, for they saw themselves as guests on me. They honored all that they found here and did not destroy except to consume what they required.

Imagine how that was. Imagine the beauty, the tranquility. I was very happy to have my new guests. I was of the light; my guests were of the light. I felt that I had fulfilled all that God had created me for. I was a happy mother with many children: human, animal, and plant. As I looked upon it, it was blissful paradise. My oceans, lakes, and streams were pure and fresh. My air was clean and fresh. My land was without scars. The humans trod upon me softly; all was in harmony.

The dark energy being was born of a desire to experiment by moving away from the light. This great energy entity was, and still is, very powerful and very vast. It moved into this sector of the galaxy with the intent of dominating it. I screamed out to God that I did not wish to be part of this. God replied that I was to allow myself to cooperate with this darkness, to allow it to discover for itself what it was like to invade and conquer. I had been created with this role in mind; I had agreed to play this role. Like you I too had a contract that I agreed to before my creation in the physical. I agreed to become the stage upon which a great drama was to be played. Coming from a place of great love for all, I was to endure in order for the dark energy to find its limits and return to the light.

The dark energy slowed my rotation and shifted my pole so that now a part of me faced away from the sun, so that a portion of my atmosphere and water would become cold and dark. It was a great struggle, I did not wish to face so much of my surface away from the sun for such a long time. In the end, the darkness prevailed and cold descended onto my surface. This changed the climate for those who dwelt my surface. Some of them wished to abandon me entirely. We made an agreement and I welcomed them into the bosom of my interior. There they created a civilization of a kind not know before on this planet. There they were able to hide and avoid much of the darkness. In the process they transformed themselves into a new species tolerant to the heat of my core.

In addition to tilting my rotation, the darkness placed an artificial satellite in orbit around me. One purpose the moon was to tug at me constantly, to remind me that the darkness was controlling me. I resisted, until a balance was created between the desires of the dark energy and that which I would tolerate. I did not easily give up my tranquility and my beauty, but like a wild horse, I was eventually tamed. However, like the horse, I did not stop being a horse, I merely became accustomed to the bridal and saddle: the moon and my new tilt.

The dark energy then began to work on those who dwelled on my surface. The dark created competition out of harmony, and distrust out of peacefulness. It turned brother against brother, species against species, and race against race. Fear replaced love as the dominant energy of those who lived on my surface.

Yet I maintained an attitude of love to all. I even maintained that attitude toward the dark energy that had twisted my beauty. To this day, I maintain an attitude of love toward all who inhabit me. I allowed the experiment to continue, allowed the dark energy to invade all my guests, all those who depended on me for sustenance. I was not happy. I saw the dark energy as a cancer that had invaded and I was determined to expel it after I allowed it to complete its experiment.

I saw many generations of humans incarnate on me while the darkness worked its best to contort all. It was very painful to watch all of this, but I believed that it would not last forever. You see, I am older than the dark invader and I believed that at some time it would be forced to leave, forced by the insurgent of humans, the only ones who could demand its departure. But this did not occur, despite many ages of humans. Most humans acceded to the will of the darkness, deciding that they were not powerful enough to overcome its will. I watch in great sadness as greater and greater fear invaded all.

When the humans were taught to harness the energy of hydrocarbons, the invasion of my surface became extreme. My oil, a beautiful resource for use by my guests, was squandered as a fuel. Fear became more and more dominant, as I was explored and exploited. My most private parts were probed with the intent of utilizing them for control over others, for the building of great wealth for those who sang the tune of the dark energy.

Finally, about sixty years ago I cried out: I was choking from lack of light, choking on fear generated by those who did the work of the dark. I called upon Creator to save me from almost certain destruction. Creator listened and allowed those from other star systems to respond to my cry. Giant starships form other star systems brought me a transfusion of light. It was as if I was a patient on her deathbed and suddenly a dramatic cure was found. I slowly began to recover. My shriveled physic opened to accommodate more and more of the light. The darkness shrieked that this was unfair, but Creator decreed that I was not to die.

Slowly, as the energies of the light penetrated, the dark energy withdrew. Over the last fifty years the dark energy had been forced to completely withdrawn under the constant pressure of the light coming from the craft of those from other star systems. It is now gone, only its residual remains. I am most grateful.

I am now returning to that the state before the dark energy descended on me. Now I will once again be a planet of tranquility. All my physical manifestations will be adjusted to allow this to happen. The moon will be removed, my axis will return, my ecology will be cleansed, and I will become temperate over my surface. I will once again radiate the light, as I so dearly loved to do those many eons ago. I have been long a captive of the dark energy, now I am ascending out of the darkness in which I was held. I hope you can sense the happiness with which I convey this message. Tell everyone that the real Earth is back, or will soon be. It is a glorious time, I am most happy to offer myself to guests who will honor me as an ascended host. In reality I am merely returning to my prior beautiful self. I am Earth, the being upon which humanity walks.

http://www.cosmicparadigm.com/Marks_Corner/

....

believe what resonates.
love and light to all.
wildly exciting times, eh?

2008-10-16T14:36:00.006-04:00

what really matters is already perfect

2008-10-06T19:43:00.000-04:00

so this is interesting

2008-09-17T09:02:00.006-04:00

any way you look at it,
it's all divine

2008-09-16T15:36:00.002-04:00

it's all a ritual of love
we no longer think
but feel

-don miguel and jose ruiz

2008-09-15T08:30:00.001-04:00

each moment is made by and for Love

2008-09-11T18:09:00.005-04:00

one universal vision
melting into
the golden sun
bursting into
blinding site
who's looking and
who sees?
gave up my heart
and mind for the fire
of home
that's licking
from within

2008-08-28T07:54:00.004-04:00

The Law of Vibration

Everything in the Universe moves, vibrates and travels in circular patterns.
The higher the vibration the higher the position in the scale of life.

Matter is Spirit at its lowest level,
and Spirit is matter at its highest level.

-Helen Blavatsky

Same idea with matter and thought.
Thought is energy, with its own vibration.
It is one of the highest and most potent forms of energy.
It is electrical energy, vibrating at a super fast frequency/vibration.
Energy travels out into the universe and begins to take form, circular pattern brings it back.
Form is our physical reality which we can shape with our thoughts.

Think love, more love in form.
Think peace, vibrate with a peaceful environment.
By the Law of Vibration

2008-08-27T11:17:00.007-04:00

The Law of Divine Oneness

All is One, all forms come back to the root, Source.
Everything is connected to everything else.
Every thought, action, belief affects others and the universe around us.
Every soul, living and discarnate is connected at the level of the unconscious.
Together we are the great force.

2008-08-14T07:46:00.001-04:00

God equals man minus ego.
Sai Baba

2008-08-13T10:06:00.004-04:00

he traveled silently
without the weight of the past
nor the restlessness of the future

he stayed with his steps
each step brought him
a new world

each world a new beauty
poured light in through
his gaze

not much in mind
no borders to cross
nor lines to sign

he didn't wrestle against anyone's time
some say he still walks on
still looks out for the world

2008-08-01T14:55:00.003-04:00

more goodwill action. the heartmath group which studies human and earth heart rhythms is conducting another interesting study.

the global coherance project

basic underlying is that when we combine our hearts to one goal, things shift.

2008-07-29T14:55:00.012-04:00

a little push from the north

for the american reader, here's an online petition to impeach Bush. it's been put out by 2008 presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, charging the president with lying and leading troops through a falsely justified war. to support the claim sign before midnight tonight.

2008-07-23T14:22:00.003-04:00

the torrential rain
is pouring freedom
on hearts
freedom to know
that every last
drop
is love

2008-07-23T14:21:00.000-04:00

2008-07-23T09:31:00.010-04:00

once the roots of prayer have deepened
and the trunk of devotion has fattened
after the leaves of compassion have covered
the land with cool warmth

then the fruits of sweet love
fall
and reveal the riddle

that the source of all
greatness
is always in the
middle

2008-07-22T23:14:00.004-04:00

the breath continues

the breather is the only holder
of the charm that forgot
who charmed him in the
first place
*
the breath is always
and for always
breathing
the world anew
*
without the breather
there is forever
wave dancing breath

2008-07-15T07:34:00.009-04:00

i've found the pot of gold through a book.
the simplicity and sheer power of this book is profound.
teaches how to live in the heart.

Living in the Heart: How to Enter into the Sacred Space Within the Heart
by Drunvalo Melchizedek

simply incredible.
nothing more to it.

we are all beautiful children

awaiting the warmth of home
that love brings

a long sigh is released
when the searching
is finally behind us

the moment is forever true
not looking for the spark
behind the veil

for the honey keeps pouring
and coating life
with grace

2008-07-10T07:13:00.002-04:00

help
everyone
accept
love

2008-07-09T00:10:00.004-04:00

melting

I will sit here

in this space

while my heart comes down

from the knowledge

that I am only a part

of this fabric

another thread in the colourful quilt

that has poured out of the void

there is only the quilt that keeps us all warm

from within we hold each other close

we are all flavours

in the wild soup

speaking out nonsense

as we pull out each other’s hairs

losing them again

in the one bed of grass

we cannot separate ourselves

from the mother’s chord

yet we amuse ourselves

by scheming of how we will ever

join the master show

2008-07-08T13:28:00.003-04:00

All thoughts are prayer. Careful.
-Hafiz

Prayer is no longer something we do, but who we are.
-Theophan the Recluse

Then are we holy thought?

2008-07-08T12:40:00.001-04:00

Spreading an email.

Dear Friends,

Sunday nights at 9:00 p.m. in your local time zone turn off all non-essential lights, and we become the light. Transmit "Peace, Love, Health, Prosperity and Well-being for all beings." Visualize a world at peace and the earth returning to a healthy state of balance; see the air, streams, rivers and seas being cleansed. Invite your friends! Change the world!

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it" Albert Einstein

This was an idea from Laurelle and Michael from The Infinite Light Center in Sedona.

Blessings
Claudia

2008-07-07T13:06:00.002-04:00

star burst

extension of an inner voice
vibrating, echoing back
surprised at the sound
coming in through the ear

it is I, the inner One
speaking through another form
yet it is audible
closer to the touch

the voice feels the same
the tone is quite familiar
the echo repeats "home"
let the inner one melt through
the veil

let it touch the flame
the inner one within
let the reunion
spark the star burst

2008-07-06T09:52:00.003-04:00

Some goodies by Steven Wright

I woke up one morning and all of my stuff had been stolen
... and replaced by exact duplicates.
*
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
*
If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
*
All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand.
*
OK, so what's the speed of dark?
*
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
*
Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.
*
I intend to live forever -- so far, so good.
*
If I ever had twins, I'd use one for parts.
*
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
*
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
*
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

2008-06-25T08:11:00.003-04:00

Thinking is fine when we have something to figure out, but when it comes to most things in life the heart is the voice to listen to because the heart knows how to follow the advice of the spirits. So I listen to my heart a lot, and I psychonavigate to the spirits themselves. I have faith in them and their desire to help us.

Your heart is part of the universe. If you listen to your heart, you hear the Voice of the Universe. We call it the Voice of the Universe or the Voice of the Soul. It speaks to us all the time. We only have to listen. What do you hear?

Crossing your arms over your heart may help you remember.

Tampur, Shuar warrior shaman from the forests of Equador
from a John Perkins' book

2008-06-24T08:13:00.006-04:00

on the bank of Lake Ontario

the soft steady pull of the lake
calling me in
calling me back
mothers warn me not to go
the papers block me
there's harm in the water
they say

i hold the urge to jump
deep within
i block the door
section off a place I can not go
yet the shadow does not fade
I will not touch it
but I can see it, I can feel it

the poison is a part of me
a part I wish to cleanse
become pure and safe again
so I can be with you
once more
with no separation to cross

2008-06-23T12:37:00.006-04:00

The Tree of Life- Universal Symbol

The Tree of Life is a universal symbol found in many spiritual and mythological traditions around the world. In various cultures it is known as the Cosmic Tree, the World Tree and the Holy Tree. The Tree of Life symbolizes many things, including wisdom, protection, strength, bounty, beauty, and redemption. This wise and holy Tree is like the Creator as it sustains creation with its abundant fruit, protection and generativity. The Tree is also like human beings as we develop roots, strengthen our trunk and branch out to a wider vision of life as we grow.

Trees provide many analogies to human development. They are amazing microcosms of exchange and flow of water, nutrients and gases. With sustenance from the earth, cooling water, refreshing air and the light of the sun, they grow in stature and strength and eventually blossom into full flower and fruit. They are earth bound and yet reach up toward the heavens, trying to touch back to the source. Their three main systems of roots, trunk and branches parallel human development of body, psyche and spirit. The following are

some examples of how the Great Tree is understood around the world and demonstrate why so many cultures use the Tree of Life to describe the Divine and our journey back to the Divine.

Kabbalah - two different Tree of Life symbols are used: one is upside-down and the other right-side-up. The original Tree of Life emanates out of the divine world of unity and is depicted as upside-down, with its roots flowing from the divine place of unity and infinite light. The trunk and branches reach down towards us, penetrating the worlds of spirit, psyche, and physical existence. This is said to be the Tree of Emanation, which flows downward from the source. The other Tree of Life symbol flows upward, back towards the source, with roots in the ground and branches growing up to the sky. This is the Tree that the initiate climbs to return to the source and is the Tree of evolution or initiation. It is the initiate's responsibility to evolve and awaken, climbing the Tree and penetrating the worlds of psyche, spirit and divine unity, reconnecting with the divine source.

Jewish - From the Hebrew creation myth and from Jewish commentaries, the Tree of Life is a symbol of the life giving source that sustains and nourishes us. "Yahweh planted a garden in Eden, and caused to spring up from the soil every kind of tree, enticing to look at and good to eat, with the Tree of Life in the middle of the garden. Its beauty of gold and crimson transcends all other things created; it's crown covers the entire garden and four streams - of milk, honey, wine and oil - issue from its roots."

Depth Psychology - From a depth psychology perspective, the tree is seen as a powerful symbol of growth, as the tree is the only living thing that continues to grow throughout its lifetime. The tree is also a symbol for the true self and serves as a positive, healthy model for the unfolding development of both psyche and spirit. As we grow and develop, a larger and more mature personality emerges and begins to flower and fruit, providing its gifts and bounties to the wider world.

Christianity - In Christianity, the tree is seen as both the vehicle by which sin came into the world (via the serpent encouraging humanity to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the garden) and a symbol of redemption, as Jesus was crucified on a cross made from a tree. The image of Christ on the cross is the symbol of the World Savior on the Tree of Life. The life and teaching of Christ is a model of the path of initiation on the Tree of Life.

Buddhism - It was beneath the great Bodhi tree, the great Tree of Enlightenment, that Buddha was said to redeem the whole universe under its protective branches. Under this World Tree, the Buddha transformed all negative temptations and energies and achieved perfect enlightenment. In this story, as in the Christ story, we have the archetypal World Savior and the World Tree themes together.

Alchemy - From the Alchemical tradition, the Tree of Life is a symbol of the Opus Magnum, the goal of the alchemical journey, which is to find "the gold", "the philosopher's stone" , "the elixir of life". A branch from the Tree of Life was said to protect the Alchemist on his or her journey through the alchemical stages of separation, decay and purification in fires of the underworld. A quote from the Teatrum Chemicum says, "Plant the Tree on the lapis that the birds of the sky can come and reproduce on its branches; it is from there that wisdom rises."

Nordic - In Nordic mythology, Odin is the god who rules all magic and guards the great well of wisdom and knowledge at the root of the World Tree Yggdrasill, whose strength supports the entire universe. Here, under the branches of Yggdrasill, Odin becomes an initiate magician and discovers a Shamanic vocation, obtaining inner sight and healing capacities. Yggdrasill reaches up with its branches to the spiritual realm of Asgard, which represents the higher self. The middle realm of the Tree is the world of Midgard, the world of the human ego and persona. The roots reach down to the underworld of tree dwarves and elves, the place of shadow and unconscious senses. Yggdrasil is the strong axis around which the three planes of existence revolve.

Shamanic - In many Shamanic cosmologies, the Cosmic Tree is said to connect the Underworld, Middle world and Above world. During initiation, the Shaman learns to travel comfortably in all three realms. In some traditions the Underworld contains power animals and helper guides for healing. The Above world consists of ancestors, spirit guides and spirits of plants and diseases to whom the Shaman can speak and engage their help in healing others. During initiation, Shamans are often instructed to make and climb a ladder to symbolize their ability to access the three zones of the Cosmic Tree.

Minoan - From the ancient Minoan culture of Crete, the Tree of Life is connected to the Mysteries of the Labyrinth. The Tree of Life is said to occupy the very center of the labyrinth. The goal of initiation is to claim your own self by winding into the center of the labyrinth, climb the Tree of Life and connect with your own divinity as well as the divine source.

Native American - In the Native American sun dance and the European May pole dance traditions, dancers attach themselves to the central pole, a symbol of the World tree. May pole dancers are attached to the Tree with brightly colored streamers to get revitalized after the long winter. The sun dancers are attached to the pole by a rope that is hooked to their own flesh. The sun dance promotes vitality and the energy generated around the axis of the Tree is said to bring life into being.

text from Tree of Life Teachings

2008-06-19T19:24:00.002-04:00

livity: life lived to the fullest extent of compassion

2008-06-18T15:04:00.001-04:00

i am burning- David Ho

From the point of Light within the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love within the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the center where the Will of God is known

Let purpose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the masters know and serve.

From the center which we call Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out

And may it seal the door

where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.

Let LIGHT and LOVE and POWER

restore the Plan Earth

from the Goldring website's Full Moon Gathering prayer

2008-06-17T20:06:00.003-04:00

Hymns to the universal God from universal man- all joy!

A reborn race appears--a perfect world, all joy!
Women and men in wisdom innocence and health--all joy!
Riotous laughing bacchanals fill'd with joy!
War, sorrow, suffering gone--the rank earth purged--
nothing but joy left!
The ocean fill'd with joy--the atmosphere all joy!
Joy! joy! in freedom, worship, love! joy in the ecstasy of life!
Enough to merely be! enough to breathe!
Joy! joy! all over joy!

- from The Mystic Trumpeter
Walt Whitman

2008-06-12T15:39:00.004-04:00

Let's toast

Every rung we've climbed on Evolution's ladder

Whisper, "I love you! I love you!"

To the whole mad world.

Hafiz

2008-06-09T16:31:00.000-04:00

'911's a lie' short music video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PqXw6mS2KA

2008-06-04T10:29:00.003-04:00

fueling the fire

throwing in healthy, full logs
walking by the twigs
that only cackle in the flame
i want heat
throughout the whole, starry night

the healthy logs
connecting essence to essence
truth shared with another
shining glimpsed in a child's eyes
laughter at the bathing duck diving underwater
relax into infinite creativity

fueling the flame
so that the sparks
may flicker out
out to feed the life
a life of vision
a life to guide the dream
a lightness in the air
that feeds the flame

it began at home
yet poured out
because the logs
that fueled the flame
that soothed the soul
were found

2008-05-30T15:56:00.007-04:00

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired.
In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

Lao Tzu

2008-05-29T08:00:00.003-04:00

music describes the universe not only more poetically, but, these days, more accurately than mathematics (by frequencies and vibrations)

-Ross Heaven

2008-05-10T18:30:00.002-04:00

A proposed Canadian legislation, Bill C-51 plans to remove 70% of natural health products (vitamins, herbs, traditional medicines) from Canadians with many others available by prescription only.

The Bill aims to restrict research and development of safe natural alternatives in favour of high risk drugs along with creating a kind of "Health Police" to enforce these proposed laws. Canadians could be punished with severe fines (up to $5 million), jail time of up to two years, seizure of property and seizure of bank accounts for simply speaking about or giving a natural product without the approval of government. The new law goes so far as to warrant action against a person who would give another person an "unapproved" amount of garlic on the recommendation that it would improve that person's health.

Read the Bill C-51 overview here.
Read entire Bill C-51 here.
Find out how to take action here.
Sign the petition here.

(as seen on Reality Sandwich written by Morgan Maher)

and on a beauty note here's some more Deer in the Yard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l92cL64QXwg

2008-05-09T08:03:00.004-04:00

the spiral doorway

and a nice overview of the climate situation

http://www.iclips.net/pmt.php

2008-05-05T10:25:00.005-04:00

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

-Einstein

2008-04-30T10:09:00.003-04:00

i've been on a ride. met a beautiful man. finished school. went to cuba. making lots of room for the new. wrote some poems this morning. this one's about the individual versus the whole.

I versus the cosmos

yet still you remain small
as the sun calls you by soul
and stretches you out long
invites you to sing

yet still you remain small
as the Great Wind taps
on your door
to show you the gifts
that you have asked it to bring
won’t you explore?

yet still you cut yourself off
yet still you remain small
when the earth births
berries, flowers and juice
that yearns for your lips
yet you give her your tooth
accept the gifts
and stand up tall
for that’s the redeeming offer
to give back for it all

yet still you cut yourself off
yet still you remain small
you close the door
you turn up the sound
you throw more noise
where glory is to be found
won’t you clean up
for glory to be found

why not stand up?
why not sing out
why not dance in grace
at the abundance that pours out
why do you remain small?

it’s given freely each day
not to your heavy name
but for your infinite, light soul
the abundance pours out
freedom to share
beauty to give

redeem with a straight back,
open hands and a wave
from your heart
yet still you cut yourself off
yet still you remain small

when all your nightly cries
are fulfilled in the day
dropped in places
so obvious to see
why can’t you receive?
why can’t you accept?
why do you cut yourself off?
why do you remain small?

the mother prepares a feast
yet the child won’t come to the table
it has all been laid out
all the dreams
have been brought to the fore

but still you wander
why won’t you come home?

please stand up tall
and melt back into the cosmos

she’s calling you again
to melt back into the cosmos

ride the wings
you were meant to soar

please stand up tall
as you melt back into the cosmos

2008-03-17T08:29:00.006-04:00

beautiful pieces by Nicoletta Tomas, a self-taught painter from Spain.

Fallen angel V

Fallen angel I

Pink refuge

I spy with my little eye...

A moment of escape

2008-03-12T10:06:00.002-04:00

Hitch your wagon to a star.

-Emerson

2008-03-10T22:04:00.004-04:00

8 000 Healing Drums

The Otomi people, descendants of the Mayan Olmec and Toltecs of Mexico, said that the healing of Mother Earth begins when 8000 sacred drums are played together. This prophecy was found in a cave at an Otomi sacred ceremonial ground. Sound is seen as a form of prayer for the Otomi people as is true in many other traditions.
It is said that the healing began in 2004.
The strength of the healing continues each year when people drum globally on Friday, March 21 at 2 p.m EST.
All you need is a drum and the intent of Earth healing.

2008-03-07T11:05:00.003-05:00

an email from my father.
here's to all our many selves

JUST WORDS

These glorious insults are gleaned mainly from an era when cleverness with words was valued, before common acceptance of four-letter words allowed us to become lazy.

The exchange between Churchill and Lady Astor:
She said, “If you were my husband, I'd give you poison”, and he said,
“If you were my wife, I’d take it”.

Gladstone, a member of Parliament, to Benjamin Disraeli: “Sir, you
will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease”.
“That depends, sir”, said Disraeli, “On whether I embrace your
policies or your mistress”.

“He had delusions of adequacy”.
- Walter Kerr

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire”.
- Winston Churchill

“A modest little person, with much to be modest about”.
- Winston Churchill

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with
great pleasure”.
- Clarence Darrow

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to
the dictionary”.
- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big
words?”
- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time
reading it”.
- Moses Hadas

“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I
know”.
- Abraham Lincoln

“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I
approved of it”.
- Mark Twain

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends”.
- Oscar Wilde

“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring
a friend... if you have one”.
- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second .... if there
is one”.
- Winston Churchill, in response.

“I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here”.
- Stephen Bishop

“He is a self-made man and worships his creator”.
- John Bright

“I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing
trivial”.
- Irvin S. Cobb

“He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others”.
- Samuel Johnson

“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up”
- Paul Keating

“There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure”.
- Jack E. Leonard

“He has the attention span of a lightning bolt”.
- Robert Redford

“They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of
human knowledge”.
- Thomas Brackett Reed

“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily”.
- Charles, Count Talleyrand

“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him”.
- Forrest Tucker

“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
- Mark Twain

“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork”.
- Mae West

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go”.
- Oscar Wilde

“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination”.
- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

“He has Van Gogh's ear for music”.
- Billy Wilder

“I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it”.
- Groucho Marx