EVEN I GET SICK

No blog today due to illness. I will fill you in later.

Keep your light shining.

Love and Peace,  Gregg

LET'S BEGIN

 

It is cool and dreary out, but no snow! That storm, carrying a foot of snow, went far South of us. It is a big storm and will hit Chicago. Southern Minnesota is getting dumped on. We are grateful, here on Laughing Water Farm, we still have a fringe of snow, here and there, and are happy we are not getting dumped on. We can still dream of an early Spring.

And that checkbook error, I was fretting over; turns out it was a bank error. They corrected it before I had a chance to alert them. They dropped two small checks [actually debits], when they went from one monthly statement to the next. I checked it on-line and saw that they retrieved them. It is only the second time, in my rather lengthy life, I found a bank error. The first time it was in my favor too, and it was before the age of computers. It is hard to understand how a computer program could have dropped two items: are there humans involved?

I want to discuss ways, we can start over, in our relationship with Planet Earth. {Of course, key is our relationships, with each other, and ourselves} However, as crazy as we may be, let us start with our planet and how we relate to it.

Years ago, I had the dream of Healing Centers, whose purpose would be to reorient ourselves to living sanely and close to the Earth. I envisioned a collection of healers coming together and providing their services to folks without charge. These healers would be of all persuasions; from the ordinary to the obscure. Whether it would be laying on of hands or removing an appendix – all approaches to healing would be included. Folks would get a preliminary introduction to what was available and the patient would decide the course of treatment. Guidance would be available, but there would be as little expert/dummy scenarios as possible.

I imagined the healing centers, surrounded by organic gardens that would produce the food for the group. I thought folks, who were being healed, could contribute freely, what they may have to offer. If they had no material substance to offer they could work in the gardens, if they wished.

I imagined this group of healers to be people, who realized they were learning/relearning themselves, and all relationships with the patients were a two way street. The teacher/healer learns as much or more than the student/patient.

I intuit living on our Mother Earth to be perfect, and the remedy for anything that ails us, to be  available within a short walk from where we live. There must be herbal remedies growing in the area that we live. There would be no need for the mind/body separation. All illness is both.

I imagined these Healing Centers dealing with all physical, mental and emotional situations that afflict us. That has to include the educational and philosophical.

Now, some forty years later, I think the need for these Learning/Healing centers is even greater. We have gone, even further away, in our extensions from the Earth. Medicine is in technological purgatory. In the last forty years, we have immersed ourselves in capitalism, to the point, where profit has eclipsed healing, as the reason for its being.

I think, folks who are waking up, need to come together, to learn and provide education for others who are attempting to make sense of life on Planet Earth. Of course, starting over, means we begin without preconceived ideas, we shed our beliefs, we give up our ideologies. The only belief that is useful, is the belief in Love. And, that doesn't have to be a belief for long. We can discover it easily. Nature is Love. The Energy of the Universe is Love.

Happy Friday!

Love and Peace, Gregg

P.S. It occurs to me that some kind of entertainment centers are equally important. Folks need places where they can gather and hear music and dance. We need to learn to laugh and celebrate. We need to experience life as joyful................hey, life on Planet Earth can be a blast!

STARTING OVER

Well, our Spring Time is coming to an end. We have the possibility of getting a foot of snow over the next three days. We knew that Spring was not likely to come to Minnesota this early but............ a miracle would have been nice. Last week, as I was driving home from Ogilvie, I saw a flock of Canadian Geese and then a quarter mile down the road I saw a flock of Tundra Swans; in both cases they were standing, by wet spots in a field, created by melting snow. I suppose they could have been local birds, from some river that is kept open by a power plant, but there is nothing like that in our immediate vicinity. If they were migratory, they probably won't like what's coming.

I suspect it will warm up next week and the snow won't last long. I am getting a late start. I was fooling around trying to get my checkbook to balance. I differ from the bank by $22, it is in my favor, but still I like it to come out to the penny. I can't find the error. Then, I was about to begin, when Jamie and Noah started to discuss the world situation, in the dining room, which is through a doorway but only a few feet from my ears. I had to listen and contribute now and then.

I decided I was hungry and had some brunch and put my dishes on to soak; now, at Noon, I am ready to begin.

Anybody, [including me] who is now absolutely sure of what is going on, is in for a rude shock. It isn't just current events that we are ignorant about, it is our whole history. Our history has been created to shape how we think. No field of historical knowledge is free from distortion. Those who are into power and control have manipulated everything they could.

I don't know when our awakening began, it accelerated in the 60s and 70s. There have always been, a few people, who saw the truth, that we were living in an illusion created by those who would manage us; some of them attempted to wake us up, others separated themselves; became hermits or joined an ashram.

I talked about this several times before, and I know from face to face contact, many folks agree with this basic premise; that we know nothing. Okay, maybe not nothing. However, compared to what we would perceive if we weren't, almost forcefully, meant to keep blinders on, it isn't much. It is very hard, to think for ourselves, once we embrace an ideology, whether it be secular or religious. The current political storm is filled with misinformation from all sides.

How hard would it be to start over? What if we agreed, that everything we thought we knew, was suspect? What if we agreed to suspend all our beliefs?

Okay, we are standing on the Earth. Our Earth is the only real thing we know. We are in these bodies looking out on the world. We intuit we are more than bodies. The only truth, we can see from our history, is that we are creators, and we can create with love or fear. We can look around us and see what fear can create. We can dream of a future created by love.

Can't each one of us decide, individually, we will, from here forward, hold only loving thoughts and feelings? Sure it is a journey, but we can embark anytime. Our egos, which are always alert for fear, will antagonize us; sometimes we will backslide. However, making the intent moves us all in the direction of a sane world.

We have a great deal to learn about how to live on this beautiful Earth. We really, really need to start over. Perhaps, we will discover, that love is the energy of the universe. If we begin with love, with the intent not to deviate from a loving path; perhaps we will discover, what the world could be like.

Let us talk more about, starting over, on Friday.

Love and Peace, Gregg

PLANT A GARDEN

 

It is a little dreary out. It looks like it might rain. I am not complaining. It is 50 F, for February, that is fantastic. Our snow is almost gone. Last night it stayed above freezing, one could see the difference this Morning. Folks, a little to the South of us, had above freezing nights for several days. We, didn't, it was getting into the 50s everyday, but it took the Sun a couple hours, to begin the melting, when it got down to the twenties most nights.

What are we going to talk about, if we don't talk about the elephant in the living room? Hmmmmm- do even know anything about the elephant yet? Not as much as we think. We need to wait and see. Everything is coming out. All that was hidden will emerge. Much will be very shocking and it will, also, be freeing.

There are fear fomenters everywhere. Can we observe the show without fear? If not, don't pay attention; we need your love. We can not make sense of the elephant's thrashing around; don't try to. We will see a pattern emerge. But not yet!

We have been living in a world, created by the most negative aspects, of our egos. That is how manipulation works. The manipulators invite us to be afraid. Our egos are always alert for danger, so they attract fear. The manipulators can then steer us in the direction they want. All war, chaos, and negativity of all varieties, comes from the terrified egos.

If we are to create a world from our hearts, and the healthy parts of our minds, we need to avoid fear thoughts. Fear thoughts disguise themselves as protection-they never are. Actions, taken out of fear, do not have the desired results.

How can we bring our own lives in line with our dreams? What can we do to allow ourselves to be happy? What can we do to bring sanity to a crazy world? {You know what I will say- we need to love ourselves}. "Okay, okay, I am in the process of doing that. What else can we do?"

Let us begin, with a small piece of this crazy world, and make some repair. Let's start with how we feed ourselves. We can't, by ourselves, remove all the poisons from our food or redeem industrial agriculture. We can, however plant a garden. Even folks in the city can plant gardens. Check out the gardens in Detroit, in what used to be, urban areas. People are gardening in cities all around the world.

One of the most intimate relationships, we have on this Earth, is with food. As with everything that is intimate, love makes the difference. How could food raised on, ravaged, chemically laden ground, tended by exploited people, be as nutritious as the food we raise ourselves; every step, a step imbued with love.

February, the perfect time for planning a garden; hey, do we want to mow all that grass? Wouldn't a nice vegetable garden fit right there? Wouldn't it be nice to get our hands in the Earth? Every evening, when our days work is done, we can reconnect with the Earth and discharge the days tension; our Mother Earth always welcomes us.

Those tomatoes, that lettuce, those carrots, they will bring into your body, more than chemicals on a chart; they will give you the Love of the Earth. It is a relationship, a very intimate relationship. Our relationship with food needs to be honored. If we can't personally raise our own food, we can buy it from people we trust. Market gardening is proliferating. If we trust our intuition, and do a little investigation, we will find a good source.

We are going through a very chaotic time. We need to keep grounded. A nice garden is the perfect solution for many of us.

Love and Peace, Gregg

LAST GASPS OF THE CABAL

Today, promises to be the day, we have some significant melting of snow. We have some large patches of bare ground in our South pasture; the North pasture is still snow covered. Our chicken coop borders the North pasture and abuts our front yard. The chickens have no bare ground to run around on. They restrict themselves to a small strip in front of the coop and an area under a lilac bush. The deepest snow seems to be concentrated in our front yard, and the path to our door is very slippery. If the forecast, of three days in the fifties holds true, we should be occupying a different world soon.

No no no! I don't want to talk about it. But when Rome is burning all around us, how can I not. What I say does not nullify my admonition to not take sides and stay out of the fracas. Our time is much better spent in creating the future. I won't talk about the craziness again until things are more clear.

This is how it looks: the cabal attracted all those greedy for power and money and included the banks and major corporations. They were led by a group, that has dreamed of a one world government, ruled by an elite. There have been many people who have dreamed of a paradisaical one world. However, these folks dreamed of a world of slaves with themselves in charge. Their power base was the Western World and their military arm was the U.S. They planned on bringing the world's people under control by controlling the world's energy resources. They attempted to get control of Russian oil after the USSR crumbled. They managed to create several oligarch billionaires, but failed in their ultimate strategy. They turned all their attention on the Middle East. They destroyed several countries with their proxy armies and fomented revolutions, besides open warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan. They couldn't bring Syria to its knees and they failed to goad Iran into an aggressive act which would justify invasion. The people of the U.S., and the rest of the World, would not support, full scale, all out war. Our proxy armies could not do the job. The cabals grip, on the world's opinion, began to slip. Government after government began to question what was going on. It was obvious the cabal would not succeed. {At the same time the cabal was collapsing, the consciousness of the people was rising-folks began to see what was going on.} The cabal captured both political parties in the U.S. by getting significant leaders to do their bidding. I don't know, how aware they were, that they were being manipulated.

Many who joined the cabal for their own self interest [many corporations] began to realize, that the cabal elite, had no interest in them, except to use them in their attempts to control the world. They [the corporations] were acting as minions and had no place in the cabals ultimate dream. They too, were destined for slavery; and indeed, they had been fulfilling that role all along by doing the cabals bidding.

When the cabal reached a certain point in their collapse, these minions formed a faction and began to undermine the cabal. The cabal is apolitical, and would have been happy with any candidate, of any party, as long as they could find a way to control some major decisions. It didn't turn out as they planned. Nobody, I know, including myself, supports the man who won the election; but the cabal hates him. Does he represent the rebellious faction of the cabal? Perhaps; all that I can see, is that it, is all out war.

We know that this inter-cine battle will weaken both sides. We, also know, that there have always been, decent folks in government who genuinely want to serve. They exist in all branches. With the weakening of the cabal, power vacuums occur, many real patriots may emerge. What is happening has nothing to do with our party loyalties.

Those who seek power, always use fear to manipulate and control. We can see it happening, right now, with the attempts to make Russia the bogeyman. We want to bring peace to the world- not conflict.

The cabal has been losing its power because the consciousness of the people has been rising. They could not get enough support, for all out war, because they could not create enough fear. Let us not give them the fear they need in their last desperate grasps for power.

That is why I think we need to stay out of the fight. We must not give them any negative emotions.

It is our love for one another that will usher in a new world. Let us spend our time creating paradise in our own lives. We can enjoy the show, if we have stomach for it; let us not get our feelings involved.

I don't want to talk about this again until it is much more clear [or over].

Have a great Friday! Let us celebrate our love for each other and the glorious, nurturing Earth.

Love and Peace, Gregg

LABELS

 

We are having a cool day. We have been flooded by some Arctic air. But hey, cool but not cold. It is 24.6 F now and is supposed to get to 30. The only day this week, it will stay below freezing. The cool temp belies how nice it is. It is calm, Sunny and beautiful. The chickens love it and swarmed out this Morning. However, they only have teeny patches of ground that is not covered with snow, that they can scratch in. It is supposed to get into the 50s this week; those patches of ground should get bigger.

I am getting a late start. I have been listening to some podcast and looking at various things on the internet; stuff about the war between the Cabal factions. When things get clearer, I will discuss it.

In the meantime, let us just observe, let us not enter the fray; we don't need to take sides. We don't see enough to really know what is going on. The conflict on the surface, does not adequately reflect, what is going on behind the scenes. I know, our strong opinions and beliefs are hard to back away from. I am not suggesting we suspend them, just allow for the fact, that there is much we don't know.

We have work to do, imagining a new world. A world where all are equal, all are free, all are valued and loved, all are free to create and express their gifts; no one is without the necessities, for a healthy, happy, fulfilling existence. What would our systems and institutions look like?

We will have a hard time imagining this world as long as we hang on to our labels. We have been herded into pens and labeled. We have talked about this before; we have professional, political, personality, ageist, sexist, and you name it labels. They may have began to describe something, but they gel into something else. We are not our labels. Yes, we are all wonderfully beautiful, unique beings. Our differences are great. When labels are used to describe those beautiful differences, they are fine. However, at this time, those labels only describe the pen we are from and the limitations in the scope of our thinking.

Labels have become very heavy judgements, as soon as we hear someone is a Liberal, Conservative, Protestant, Catholic, Muslim et. al. to ad nauseam, a part of our brain shuts down and a new part opens up. We don't see the person anymore, we perceive according to set of beliefs and expectations we have. Some of us are flexible, in our perception, and others of us, are more rigid. I am not sure any of us escape this completely. We can not see beyond the end of our nose as long as we hang on to judgements. What did the world look like, before we were imbued with the thoughts and biases, of those who raised us? Is it possible to see with fresh eyes? How do very young children see the world?

It may seem impossible to give up all the programming we endured since birth. We get pretty comfortable with our belief systems and are not about to question them. There may be a reason to question them- we do live in mad house- have we contributed to the craziness?

A good place to start is giving up our labels. Let us catch ourselves when we categorize others by their labels. Let us watch how we label ourselves. It is a good practice. It will help open the heart and the mind.

None of us are labels. We are all great spirits of light. Underneath this ego facade is love. That is all we are.

Love and Peace, Gregg

FEELS LIKE SPRING

It is a gorgeous day! It is Sunny and 40.8 F. The temperature has climbed 20 degrees since I got up. I bet it will be close to 50 this afternoon. I would like to be outside. I need to take a trip to the barn and make sure there is enough bedding down for the sheep; lambing will begin any time. All the pathways are glazed with ice. I did the slippery path dance this Morning. Fortunately I didn't get passed the swinging of the arms phase and I was able to stay erect. It has been above freezing during the day and colder at night, so we have icy pathways. We still have three or four inches of snow in most places. We have to create new paths, when we walk anywhere, to keep from falling on our tush.

The night before last I woke up and my teeth didn't fit together. It seemed my lower jaw was jutted forward. I had been noticing a little discomfort in the hinge of my jaw the last few days. It wasn't painful, but something made me aware of it. We don't usually think of random parts of our body. It was disturbing in the middle of the night. Very strange. In the Morning it seemed better, I was able to get my teeth to mesh, but there was a mild discomfort. This Morning, they again didn't mesh, but their was absolutely no discomfort. I haven't tried to force them to mesh. I anticipate they will gradually correct themselves.

Do you suppose the world situation caused me to clinch my jaw and caused some swelling at the joint? It is the only thing I can think of that would cause it. Can one clinch their jaw without knowing it?

Although, I don't like to think my equanimity, was disturbed so greatly, that I would clinch my jaw unconsciously; I prefer that interpretation, to any other I could think of. Jamie has a dentist appointment today, I asked her to run it by him, perhaps it is not an unusual thing.

I am very peaceful right now. Folks are waking up. Some of the websites I visit have thousands of viewers and are translatable to ten or more languages. There are many great books that are receiving huge readerships. The Main Stream Media is not representative of the peoples consciousness. I know we are troubled by the recent election, but when you see it as a giant rejection [I was going to use those two words] it all makes sense. Both parties have been spinning around in la la land, as the country deteriorates.

I must not have been, as confident of a positive outcome as I portrayed, or I wouldn't have been clinching my teeth. Let's not talk about the craziness anymore. Let's start creating the world we want, right now. Let's plan our gardens. Let's imagine what a decent education system would look like. Let us imagine a decent health system. There is no end to what we could imagine. Let us do everything we can to reduce the craziness in our own lives. Everything begins with loving ourselves. When we love ourselves sufficiently, we will choose what enhances our life, we won't bring into our life sphere, what is degrading. The most basic thing is thoughts. Then there is all the material things like food, medicines, etc. Can you imagine the impact we would have if we refused to buy any food that wasn't healthy and chemical free? If everyone, who could, started their own vegetable plot, and shared with their neighbors, we could bring down one of the most destructive industries on the Earth. Imagine all the chemicals corporate agriculture uses, consider the waste of water and the pollution. Consider the amount of energy and pollution created, transporting foods all over the country [world], foods that could be raised better and healthier in our neighborhoods.

Let us discuss it further. When we truly love ourselves; all our decisions will be loving.

I need to wash dishes and then take a look at my barn.

Love and Peace, Gregg

JUST A LITTLE ANXIETY

The temperature just hit 32 degrees F. We emerged from the latest Arctic blast; hopefully the last for this Winter. It was 20 when I awoke, it has been warming up nicely; but, only hazy Sun. It is forecast to reach 41 today.

I don't have the foggiest notion about what I am to write about. The Sun seems to be getting brighter, maybe that will help.

I felt brighter this Morning when I got up. I have had some vague anxiety these last few days. A few cocktails in the Evening helps; but I am not one that can tolerate drinking every Evening and I have never drank as medicine. I don't know if I should send my liquor bill to Trump or to my fellow liberals who are having such a tantrum. I have become more peaceful. Things need to be kept stirred up; it helps people open their eyes. We need to do it with love. We can challenge the establishment and keep things churning without losing our peace. We learned that from the Great Ones; most recently from Martin Luther King and Gandhi [and many more].

I can see that as much as we might disagree with the current administration, it will help bring down the behemoth of bureaucracy and ineptitude that has become the federal government. We have this government, we can see, and the various departments, that struggle to get things done. Meaningful changes, like universal healthcare, affordable higher education, decent housing for everyone, equal opportunity for all, safe air to breathe, safe food to eat, safe water to drink, etc. etc. etc. are situations that change little. Oh sure, there is much lip service but very little action.

MEANWHILE, the hidden government, the deep state, goes on its merry way, creating war all over the world and extending its corporate dictatorship to every country and person on the planet. Oh, we cry for the poor refugees-but where is our outcry against the forces that created the refugees? Who do we think is responsible for the wars in the Middle East? Who do we think funded and encouraged the rebels in Syria and Libya? I know most of us don't identify with, the part of our government, that rules the empire. We must open our eyes and see that it is our shadow government that has been creating most of the problems in the world. Most politicians, and members of the government structure, are ignorant of the machinations of the deep state, or know about it, but feel as helpless as we do.

It is unfair to think of us, the United States Citizen, as part of it. It developed below our consciousness. Little by little the empire grew without most of us noticing. There were always people that did pay attention and much has been written about it, but I don't think most people knew. It may be the first empire on the planet that didn't blow its own horn and brag about its conquest. Every time a new puppet government was put in place, there was, the creation of the myth, that they were  independent, and a democracy to boot. At the same time, our democracy, was being curtailed- the people had less and less to say about how their government ruled. Perhaps, the United States is not even the headquarters of The Cabal, but our deep state is the military arm. This will, all be known, as the collapse continues.

Yes, the good news is The Cabal is collapsing. They failed at their attempt to rule the world. They disguised themselves as globalist, among other names, and had the scheme of putting the whole world under one government. The closest I can label the government, that they hoped for, was a Corporate Fascism. But I don't know what they were thinking. I can't imagine wanting to rule over unhappy people, when it would be so easy to rule over happy people. It doesn't take much for most of us to be happy; comfortable living, and freedom to love, think, and create as we would.

I think this present administration is part of our growing pains. Our present government structure needs to crumble along with the cabal. It is okay, there are many decent hearted, seeing folks, who currently work in the system, that will help us rescue what is valuable. Remember real change comes from the bottom up.

Our most important job is to find peace in our being and radiate love to all. Our world needs our love. We know that the world we want will emanate from our love.

Happy Friday!

Love and Peace, Gregg

P.S. It seems like whenever, I think, I have nothing to write about. I do.

GETTING CLOSER TO NATURE

 

It is a remarkably beautiful day. It is chilly. It was almost -8 F when I got up, it is now 2.3 degrees. I wasn't looking forward to another Arctic incursion, but it is not bad at all, I was comfortable doing the chores. I didn't let the chickens out, I suppose I could have. They don't mind going out on a cold but Sunny day. Their little door faces North, something to avoid if you are building a new chicken coop, the cold air rushed in when I opened it and I decided they didn't need to go out at the expense of chilling down the coop. Only 2 or 3 would go out anyway. The high for the day is supposed to be 9 F and it forecast to be -6 tonight.

My favorite weather guru claims, this is the last of hard Winter, and we are likely to have an early Spring. A Southwestern flow is to make its presence known tomorrow night and above freezing highs are forecast for the rest of February. Of course, there is the usual hedging, and who knows what March will bring?

I got some feedback, about my last blog, that implied many folks would not know what I was talking about. I don't want to say anything to clarify it now. Let us wait and see. Let's enjoy the show as much as we can. It is very confusing. Nothing is quite as it seems. Let's do our best to stay out of battles and not take sides hastily. We need to listen to our intuition. Find a peaceful place and see what feels right. The world, as we have known it, is going to crumble and it may happen quickly. The only thing we can know for sure, is we are loving beings. We will change the world from the bottom up. We deserve a loving world.

I said I had some ideas I wanted to share about how we could be closer to Nature. Any one of you readers, probably have ideas as good as mine. I think it would be good idea if we had an event where folks camped outside for a week or two every Summer. People in the suburbs and the country could camp out in their yards. Folks who live in neighborhoods could have group barbecues.

Celestial events should be monitored, and when a lunar eclipse or meteor shower is forecast, people could stay outside and enjoy it. I remember two spectacular nights experiencing a lunar eclipse. One evening my brother and his wife were over. It was a splendid evening and we were sitting outside around the campfire. We, either didn't know or had forgotten about the eclipse, we were outside for the whole event. It was remarkable, something I will always remember. The other event was equally marvelous and was planned.

Schools could have gardens. The children could learn how to plant and tend for vegetables and flowers.They could produce food, to donate to those who were not able to garden. The students could learn all about soil nutrients, fungi and bacteria necessary for a healthy garden.

Schools could have Nature weeks, where the students went out, to identify insects, butterflies and all kinds of creeping and flying creatures, and of course plants too.

In the cities, parks, boulevards, and vacant lots, could have garden plots, and also be used for designated camping days.

We started separating from Nature a long time ago and we don't realize how artificial our existence has become. We have fragile bodies and I don't expect many of us would like to live in igloos or tents. How about folks, who would like the experience? What would be wrong with reserving public lands for people who wanted an indigenous life style? Some folks might want to live close to the Earth, year around, and many others, would enjoy visiting people who opted for that life style. I think many of us would benefit from a few months living in an igloo or similar shelter. So called civilization does not have to be a one size- fits all experience.

Then we have to ask ourselves questions like, “Do we really need plastic”, an incredibly polluting material both in its manufacture and its disposal? “Do we really need all the chemicals we manufacture.” The agricultural ones are poisoning our bodies and our environment. The medical and pharmaceutical ones can be found in Nature without exotic manufacture.

Nature can supply everything we need. I love science, however, it can be used to enhance our natural experience, rather than create extensions away from the Earth.

I will be discussing this subject further. New vistas, of thought and experience, will open up to us, as we learn to open our minds and hearts, to the love that surrounds us.

Love and Peace, Gregg

THE CABAL WARS

 

Cool and cloudy, but there is a promise of Winter waning. February is the Winter's month. Although it is usually only 28 days, it can be long. Winter usually begins in November, but we have Thanksgiving to brighten our days. December we have Christmas. January starts out with a bang [New Years] and then comes my birthday. February has Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays and Valentines Day; still, it is not enough to ameliorate Winter's drear. However, we know March comes soon and March is anybody's guess. I have seen it 40 below zero and 70 above. What will it be this year?

I think my amaryllis will bloom by Valentines Day. That will brighten our living room. The garden catalogs are piling up- it is dream time. The sheep haven't begun to lamb yet. I hope they can hold off, until we get through this next cold snap. It is supposed to be below zero Thursday Morning, and then a warm up begins, that the forecasters say, might last through February.

I don't have a crystal ball. I have said before that I am a terrible prophet. Yet, most of the time, I am not fearful concerning the outcome of the world's struggle. We are experiencing major labor pains, underneath the chaos a new world is emerging. The Cabal is collapsing and the infighting has begun. The faction that wanted, everything to stay the same, and continue in the attempt, at complete domination, has lost its grip. This faction wanted to keep the lid on all esoteric knowledge, and labelled anything counter to their proclaimed belief, a conspiracy theory. Much has been hidden. Much has been swept under the rug. We have been led to believe much untruth and half-truth with the control of this faction.

The new faction's ulterior motives are probably not better than the first. However, part of their domination technique, is to challenge the beliefs promulgated by the first faction. New information will come out that will challenge our present belief systems.

In order to awaken we need to see how we have been hoodwinked into believing things that are simply not true. These mis-beliefs occur in all fields; medicine, astronomy, energy, horticulture, etc. to put it succinctly; our beliefs have been shaped to produce maximum profit for a few.

The war between these two factions, will throw into question, everything we believe. Neither will come out a winner, but our eyes will be opened.

We need to quit looking to authority for what to believe. We have our direct experience. We have nature. We have our intuition. Trusting our intuition is tricky, at first, because our belief systems have been corrupted at a deep level. Know that when we ask ourselves a question, the ego speaks first in a loud voice, our intuition speaks with a quiet voice and may nudge rather than use words. At some level, we know the truth.

The church separated, Nature from God, in an attempt to gain power over the people. They made god into a little potentate with the temerity to judge people. Most of us see the craziness of this. If we understand God to be everything there is. We know, everything to be God. That is what Oneness means. It can't be separated.

For several thousand years we have been treating Nature as an alien being. We have denied the 'Beingness' of Nature. We are not in the position to see truth until we re-emerge with Nature.

I have some thoughts on this dilemma. Let's talk about it on Wednesday.

The awakening continues.

Love and Peace, Gregg

THE ILLUSION

 

It is a beautiful Morning. Bright Sun, though cool. It was -5.5 F, when I arose, but it is now 11.8. The world around us is warming nicely. I am getting a late start. I did my crossword puzzle, then I did my outside chores. I read a few things on the internet. I stared out the window, watching two deer, trim up some trees, on the far side of the pasture, accompanied by a blue jay, flitting through the sunlight. It is a marvelous, peaceful Winter day; do I have any more to say?

Well, I might admit that I haven't been taking my own advice, at least not all the time, I must confess I didn't just watch the bad movie unfold on the world stage, it sometimes triggered emotions that were not necessarily peaceful to me or the world. I have been fairly peaceful much of the time. Today I am GOOD. I don't know if I had a breakthrough or there has been a subtle change in the presentation of the uproar; but this Morning I could see the amusement. Outrage, anger, attack, only perpetuates the craziness; humor helps dissolves it, and takes some of the danger away. I saw some outrageously funny memes.

Resistance, and insistence on sanity, need not be angry; it can be loving and it certainly can be entertaining. The world will shape to our loving intent.

However, I think it all serves to help us awake. We are bound to have some negative emotions when we first realize how crazy the world is. We gradually realize the craziness isn't new. It has been there all the time; but, this is the time it its clearly manifest. It is part of the evolvement; it is like an infection that has to come to a head before it gets better.

Waking up seems to come in two stages [remember your getting this from an old guy that lives South of Ogilvie- who is just cracking open his own eyes]. First, we seem to realize, just how crazy the world is; we see that we have been manipulated to interpret our world in a way that benefits a few, and nothing we believe, can be trusted. We sense, that we have created an illusion, that can trap us if we don't question our seeing. We realize that fear was used to manipulate our egos into believing there was such a thing as higher and lower and the hierarchies we created were bogus. We begin to see how love operates and how it creates a marvelously different illusion and we can indeed see the love in each other. We awaken to 'see', that the world we thought was true, is our creation. To some extent we learn 'to be in it, but not of it'. Although, we see it is not 'real', we have no choice but to live in it and try to uplift ourselves and those around us. We may not think of ourselves, as victims of it anymore, but we can't avoid suffering. We know, we are both the actors and the directors, of the movie, but we can't get out of our seats and certainly are not able to get out of the theater.

In the second stage of awakening, we can step out of the theater. That is what the Great Ones were able to do, then they could see everything was love. When Siddhartha awoke, he proclaimed, “It is all suffering”. We cannot avoid it when we are still in the theater. When we are fully awake we will be able to step outside the illusion and 'see'. We will see reality- a world created by the only energy there is- love. A world created without any distortion of the ego. We won't just conclude, intellectually, that all are one; we will be able to experience it. We will accept ourselves, as the creators that we are, and will create out of love.

Every time we smile, every time we laugh, every time we wish, someone well in our hearts; we move closer to awakening. It is wonderful, to fall in love, with humanity; we can do it. There is nothing else.

Happy Friday! Celebrate the love in your heart and that in your neighbor!

Love and Peace, Gregg

THE THOUGHT FOR TODAY

It was over 25F when I went to bed at 12:45AM and it was 6F when I got up; quite a drop. It is almost three hours later and it is still only 8 degrees. A slow warm-up for this time of year; the sun is shining brightly, it is beautiful outside and it didn't even feel particularly chilly when I did the chores. However, I am eager for Winter to be over.

This does seem to be the Winter of our discontent. We have become so divisive, polarized and discontented. We are wearing our labels more ostentatiously than usual. We don't see how we are locked into pens, and accepting of opinions and ideas, without critical thought. Where do the thoughts and ideas come from that we accept so readily?

We like to be with people who agree us. We like the company, camaraderie and protection of a group. We all like it and I think it is basic to being human. It's great! The problem arises, when we begin to accept concepts, without thinking them through for ourselves. When fear is introduced [and it is often very hidden] we tend to glam onto ideas that we think will protect us- they don't- they make us more vulnerable.

We end up living in pens labelled Liberal, Conservative, Independent, Socialist. Oh, these pens are not just political; some are labeled Doctor, Teacher, Social Worker, Dentist, Scientist. Belonging to a group is great, we all belong to several different kinds. It can be rewarding and enriching.

These pens can resemble prisons; with high walls, blocking out, all thought, from other groups and locking us into one peculiar way of thinking. We can accept a whole array of concepts without question. This has always been a problem in our society, certain professions lock themselves into certain ways of thinking in response to a threat or for self-interest.

Interestingly enough, the herd, in one pen, can see the errors of thinking, of the other pen members, but become deaf and blind to their own errors of thought. The variable of fear is crucial, to how locked in and bull-headed, the members of the pen become.

This has always been part of the human condition; without the introduction of fear, it is not a bad thing. We are born into groups called families and that is great! {Introduce fear and they can become The Hatfields and McCoys.} All through life we accrue to people with similar ideas, wishes and wants. It is comforting. It helps us feel safe in a variable world. We create professions, societies, social groups of all kinds. It is all good.

UNTIL, this natural propensity, we have, is used to manipulate us. We all have egos. Egos are on the alert for fear. They have been sensitized to the fear of being less than their neighbor. This fear has been exploited over and over by those who wish to be in control. There is nothing, the wounded, fearful, ego likes better, than to be self-riotous in respect to some other group.

We cannot 'see', when we allow ourselves, to be herded into pens. All through history this has been the favorite tactic of those who wish to maintain control.

Waking up and 'seeing' is learning to resist being penned up. We need to see for ourselves. We need to understand how much of our thinking is influenced by fear. It may take close examination. Fear can be very subtle and disguised. Our life experience has injected a fear of unworthiness, this fear is universal, we all have struggled with it. Many of us have lived successfully despite it; few have actually expunged it from their being.

Waking up is seeing that everyone is equal, and higher and lower, do not exist. Many of us can say it; however, we must know it. Our real power comes from, not thinking we are better, but knowing we can lift up those who need lifting. WE ARE ALL EQUAL!

Love and Peace, Gregg