KNOWLEDGE

It looks like Winter is going to hang around a little while longer up here in the hinterland. Every time the weather forecasters predict highs in the forties they backtrack as the time approaches. Normal high for this date is 48F. The normal low is 29F. We will be lucky if it gets that warm. We did better than the forecast on the snow yesterday. We were predicted to get five to seven inches of new snow, fortunately we only received a couple inches. I think the temperature stayed up higher than their computer models showed so we got more rain than snow. More snow is suppose to arrive on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, let's hope it fizzles like yesterday's forecast.

We are supposed to get our sheep sheared on April 5th. The shearer won't be able to get his truck anywhere near the barn unless we get a major melt. I don't want to attempt shearing them myself. We have done it. Jamie is better at it than I am. It is one of those task where experience greatly enhances the skill level. The professional shearer takes about five minutes to shear a sheep, it takes us an hour.

How to shear a sheep; how to plant a garden; how to split wood; how to build things; how to do carpentry; plumbing; electric work. These things all can be learned and we enhance our skill by experience [trial and error].

Healing bodies; healing minds; taking care of the environment; nutrition; etc. are a little more difficult because there are philosophies, approaches, intellectual preconception that affect how we look at the subject.

Politics; religion; foreign policy; economics; etc. are almost completely driven by ideology.

How do we know truth? How can we be sure that what we think we know is true?

Our minds have been shaped by masters for thousands of years. Our perception has been carefully guided so we will accept beliefs that will help give the most power and wealth to a very small group of people. All wars, famines and other scourges of humanity would have not occurred if it did not aid an elite group.

Presently our media is controlled by a handful of people. Every time we turn on the television or radio we subject ourselves to some form of programing to shape our perception of what reality is.

However, paranoia is a painful state and we shouldn't have to be left feeling that everything is a conspiracy against us.

What do we do? For one thing we can acknowledge that we have been hoodwinked about a great many things and perhaps it is time for us to give up the main medium of control, television. That may be hard for many of us to do, there are a great many worthy and entertaining programs. But it is also a mistake to believe that our B.S. detector is sharp enough to protect us. It is possible to have a balance.

We need to realize how we been controlled. Those into power use division. They create division using fear and an appeal to your ego, that your group is better than their group.

If we are diligent about rejecting any idea that contains fear we may begin to see. Anytime the media invites you to see one group as better than another; invites you to see somebody or a group deserving of punishment; invites you to see a group deserving of their suffering; invites any kind of judgement at all; be very, very wary that you are being programed to believe an untruth.

For me it always comes down to what is the most loving. I think it is the only test we have for truth. We have been programmed from the time we are born to meet other peoples expectations. By the time we can walk and talk the culture and media take over. We don't want to be left behind. We certainly don't want to be outsiders. We absolutely don't want to be outcasts. It is certainly much easier to go along with consensus belief than try to figure things out ourselves and take the risk of being thrown out of the group.

Let us start with the idea, we know nothing. Let us accept only what is the most loving. Let us have only one belief. There is only Love. All else is a mirage created by our belief in separation. We are all here on this planet to create with love. We are all equal beings of light. Our differences are enriching. There are no differences that create conflict. All conflict is artificial and created by those whom would control.

Get it! Most of what we know is not true. See only with Love. We will begin to see. Let us open our eyes, help our neighbor open their eyes. Paradise awaits.

Love and Peace,  Gregg