MUSINGS

Another beautiful Morning on this part of planet Earth. Well, except for the mosquito. They haven't been too bad until a couple days ago. Annoying sure, but one could put up with them. But this latest hatch; they bite in the day, they bite in the night, they bite in the sunlight, they bite in the shade, wind has little affect on them. There must be a healthy, sane solution. I don't like to smear my body with repellants, especially, chemical ones, that might be worse than the bites. What do, or did, native societies do? Is there a shamanistic solution? We live in paradise. It doesn't make sense that a little mosquito could rob us of it.

I knew a person, who said, he was never bitten by a mosquito. His wife backed him up. He was a thin, bony man; but I assume, that had little bearing. We have a neighbor who claims they never bother him. Interesting, with all our intelligence, we haven't come up with a solution that doesn't involve questionable chemicals.

I am confident we will see how to live, comfortably, with mosquitoes; when we decide to be part of Nature, rather than be, at war with Her.

Yesterday, I was musing about our Forth of July Celebration. I love celebrations and will use any excuse to express my Joy of Life. I love, the ideals, our country was founded on. I love the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In 1776 we were confronted with a British government that challenged our right to be free. We wrested free from the grip of the British. Since then we have struggled to make freedom a reality for all our citizens. We have never quite accomplished it. But, we created a middle class that felt relatively free, for awhile. At some point, we seemed to forget, that we were not free, yet. Women are still not free. Blacks are still not free. Native Americans are not free. Muslims are certainly not free. Homosexuals have made great strides, but have, a ways to go, to realize freedom and equality.

Patriotism may or may not be a good thing. I can feel the positiveness. However, its negativeness, is that it has been waved in front of us, for over two hundred years, to blind us, to the lack of control we have over our own lives. Patriotism has been used to foment wars, all over the globe. Wars that make the rich richer and leave the rest of us, with dead and wounded, sons and daughters.

After 911, patriotism was used to blind us to the evils of The Patriot Act. An act, as far reaching, as any created by a dictatorial government. Our Bill of Rights is in shambles. Our Supreme Court, which is suppose to uphold the constitution, has been strangling it. Who could ever believe Money is Speech? Finding that, use of money is the same, as use of speech, automatically gives more power, to the rich man, over the rest of us. It is a clear violation of the principles of the constitution.

We are very tired of living in a country that believes in war. We are very tired of living in a country that condones the death penalty. We are very tired of living in a country that has one of the largest [if not the largest] prison population, per capita, in the world.
 
Hey, we could go on and on. It is clear that our government has been bought and paid for, by international corporations, who are at behest, to no one, except for the big banks that are behind them.

So just like 1776 we are controlled by a power we do not want. Is this power domestic? Is it foreign? I don't think this amalgamation of banks and corporations has any national home. For the ease of communication I call them, the Cabal.

Unlike 1776, we won't use violence. Violence only begets violence. We will merely refuse to cooperate. We have discovered that Love is the greatest power in the universe. It is the ONLY power in the universe. We understand that the Old World was made with fear. That it was maintained by keeping the populace fearful. We will refuse to succumb to fear.
  
We can feel the Love pouring down on the Earth. We can feel the Love in our neighbors. We are evolving! We are growing out, of the attitudes, that made the Old World. We know that we are one, and inside us, we have the pattern for a perfect world. When in doubt, we need only ask ourselves, what is the most loving thing; what reflects unconditional love.

We are not alone. Every loving thought and deed from the beginning infuses us with energy. We are one with Source and the entire Universe is behind us. Paradise is here. Let us not think of the Old World. Perhaps, I shouldn't have reminded you, of the horror of that world, in these musings. Forgive me if it disturbed you. Remember the Old World is not real. Only Love is real.

Love and Peace,  Gregg