BELIEF SYSTEMS

It looks like Spring has taken a firm hold in Laughing Water Farm. It is cool in the Morning, but it is bright and Sunny and there is such promise of life and new beginnings.

I want the world to look like that to me. Sometimes it does and sometimes I am counting the maggots on the rotting corpse. We cannot usher in a new world by having negative attachment to the old one. On the other hand, we can't really slow down the emergence of the new world. We can only delay our joy, at the realization of the new, by focusing on the old.

Part of our awakening is realizing what a fraud the old world is. So many of the causes we have embarked on, both us liberals and conservatives, have been engineered by the dark, as a way of keeping us divided, and seeing what was really going on. Some of the causes, that have been most precious to us, may be contaminated by this manipulation.

I just read that George Soros gave millions of dollars to Al Gore's foundation to create, an idea in the mind of the public, that global warming was an imminent danger and was created by man. I would need to do further research to know if this is true, but if it is, it has been enormously successful. It has been an extremely divisive issue. It has created tremendous turmoil in many groups. It has focused the minds of environmentalist on this issue and created a camouflage, so that industry could go on polluting as usual. Everybody was focusing on carbon, an essential and harmless element, while pollution of our air and water went on unabated.

Two other things that bother me about this issue is: one; where is the realistic plan to do anything about it. Why not pass legislation outlawing the suspected pollution? I did not see any effort in congress to do so, even when it was controlled by the Democrats. Cap and Trade is a fraud. Follow the money, it just makes the rich richer; thus does carbon taxes, it takes money from the ordinary citizen who is struggling to survive. How is that going to reduce carbon emission? Whose day dream is that? The second thing, that bothers me, is the way data is collected. It is not convincing, and manipulating data with a computer, is not necessarily science.

I do not know if global warming is a reality or not. I do know we have been programmed, to believe something, with the fear of a global catastrophe. Fear has been the main driver. We were programmed to believe, that if we were not afraid, we were irresponsible. None of us want that. Fear is always the best manipulative tool. Most of us do not have the background or scientific ability [interest/curiosity] to make our own determination. We trust authority. Trusting authority is a dangerous game in this dying world of corruption.

Awakening means we give up trusting authority. We have to give up beliefs. We tend to cherish our beliefs and they become a religion. Once we do that, we defend them without questioning them.

I use global warming as an example. We have many, many other beliefs we must examine if we are to be free of manipulations. We are going to wake up whether we are ready or not. Are we going to open our eyes willingly or are they going to be wrenched open?

Anytime, anyone, is trying to convince us of something using fear. We cannot trust it. Anything worth believing can be presented with love.

Love and Peace, Gregg