ENJOY THE SHOW

 

I have been sitting here waiting for inspiration. It is not that there isn't much that I could comment on; I just don't want to. I don't remember greater political hysteria and I have lived a long time. Is it okay, that I admit, that I am more amused than threatened, by this celebrity clown that has found himself on the verge of being president? It seems that the forces, that do the bidding of the cabal, are doing everything to discredit him. Curious, does that mean he is not a cabal candidate? Whose candidate is he? The Republican establishment didn't want him. The people, I know of, who voted for him, did so to express their anger to an establishment that abandoned them. The Christian right and various conservative groups supported him because they thought they would get something they were yearning for, e.g. stop abortion, put religion in schools etc. But looking at this man's life hardly indicates his support for their agendas. Did he just con himself into the presidency?

I am amused, because he doesn't fall into line, with the cabal's war mongering. They have been on a full court press, for two or more years, to stir up conflict with Russia. They may not want a full scale war; a few little skirmishes and a return to the cold war, will line their pockets and increase their power over the people. His intent, to have a better relationship with Russia, is a slap in the face to the cabal and it is good for the world.

I know, I know it seems pretty scary. Some of his cabinet selections have been appalling. And, God only knows what he is capable of, if the Republican congressional caucuses gives him free rein; they could control him, will they?

In the larger picture, isn't it fitting that an orange buffoon presides over the collapse of the empire? Is it not like Nero playing his fiddle while Rome burns?

We are here to witness the collapse of a very, very, tired; very, very corrupt society and help bring in a sane world. We can't do that by joining sides. We can't do that by demonizing any group. We can resist joining in the hysteria.

More than anything else, right now, the world needs our loving energy. We are in a world, where every moment, we choose between love and fear. The forces of darkness, do everything, to get us to choose fear. Divisiveness, anger and judgement further their cause. We don't want to cooperate with their craziness any longer. We can choose only love. Yes! It is in our power.

So relax and enjoy the show. Bless the characters. Know they won't be on the stage for long.

There is indeed a tsunami of love sweeping through the peoples of the world. We are awakening in droves. We know we can live in peace and we can create paradise for all. We do not expect to wait long.

On Wednesday, I am taking a trip to Walker, Minnesota. I won't be writing again until Friday. Well, unless, I can't resist commenting on something.

Love and Peace, Gregg

A WORLD OF MANIPULATION

 

I have my chores done. The dishes are soaking. Do I have anything to say? I am happy to have the worst of the cold over with; it may be the last -20F degree Morning of this Winter. There is a warm up in the forecast; it will be a little below zero the next two nights, then we might actually have some melting. I don't mind the cold, itself, what I mind is the tension about frozen pipes. We didn't always have this problem, until some critters pulled the insulation away from the pipes. We have tried to replace it, of course, but we don't get it just right and when it gets substantially below zero we have a problem. Last night, we put a fan in the sink cabinet, in an attempt to blow air down along the pipes, it worked. No frozen pipes this Morning. The kitchen is in the main [old] part of the house; it is more than 110 years old. It is on a stone foundation with a crawl space. There are leaks in the foundation.

I have been sitting here at my computer this Morning, with a cup of coffee at my elbow, looking at various things on the internet. I live in a beautiful house, on a beautiful little farm, my chickens and sheep seem happy enough. I have absolutely nothing to complain about and a great deal to be thankful for. Yet the main stream media and much of the alternative news speaks about a horrible world.

I can't believe how the MSM has been distorting reality. Russian bashing has become epidemic. I don't believe a word of it. I haven't actually taken a pole. But it seems like my liberal friends, who use to be champions of the Russians and Putin, have joined the side of the demonizers. Perhaps, it is a temporary condition because they believe the Russian hacking hoax.

There hasn't been one shred of evidence, given to support the idea, that the Russians and especially Putin is behind it. When the government says, “We know. We just can't tell you, because it is classified” Haven't we learned by now, that is bull shit of the highest caliber!

We have endured, almost, endless war for the last two generations [since 1950] and it really cranked up since 9-11. We experienced these wars because we were willing to believe nonsense like this. It is designed to create decisiveness and therefore enemies. Endless war is the name of the game. It keeps the cabal in power and enriches the few.

Even if it were true, it would be amazing hypocrisy for the United States to protest, since we interfere in every election on the globe; and with a lot more than a little computer hacking. There was a 60 Minutes program a couple years ago that featured hacking. That was a time when the Chinese were accused of stealing industrial secrets. The government representative acknowledged that the United States had the most sophisticated and active program of computer hacking in the world. At the time, I was surprised at the admission, but the demonization of the Chinese continued.

The larger concern is that this is just another campaign to divide and conquer. Keep folks confused, and fighting among themselves, so they don't see what is happening behind the scenes.

The empire, the one that that the United States supplied the Might [arms and men] for, is collapsing. I don't think most Americans knew we had an empire. Partly, that was because it wasn't acknowledged, and perhaps because it represents the World Banking Interest, more than it represents any one country.

I have never known what to call this group of immense wealth and power. I have settled on the cabal and sometimes I capitalize it. Some call it the Deep State. All their power is derived from dividing people and making one group of folks fear and be paranoid about another. They are responsible for the death of millions, and the destruction of whole countries, in the pursuit of more power and wealth. Their latest attempt was to get control of the energy sources in the world. Thus the Middle East calamity. If it isn't, the oil fields themselves they covet, it is control of the pipe lines. Their reasoning is, if we control energy, we can control the world.

They didn't reckon on people waking up, and realizing they were being manipulated, to demonize and attack others. Most of what we see, as terror attacks in the world, are directly or indirectly created by these same people. It is all a big show, to get folks sucked into their program, of demonizing some group or country in preparation for war.

It is over, their shenanigans are too transparent for most of us to be fooled any longer. Let us just watch the old systems collapse. Let us not be manipulated in to demonizing any individual or country.

REMEMBER- THEY ONLY HAVE THE POWER WE GIVE THEM. Without our cooperation of fear and anger they have nothing.

Let us find our peaceful centers and pour love onto the world. We are creating a new world of love. Look for it. We will see it in our neighbors eyes. We will see it in the grocery store. We will see it in the hardware store. We will have a hard time seeing it, if we keep our eyes focused on that great tool of manipulation, the television set. Or should I use that old appellation, The Boob Tube.

Anyway, folks, it is Friday! Time to celebrate. Raise a toast to everyone on Planet Earth. They are all our friends!

Love and Peace, Gregg

NOW

I heard the clock chime 11 times and that was fifteen minutes ago. I am a little late getting started this Morning. I had a busy Morning. Well, for me anyway. I, always, do the crossword puzzle when I first get up, then I contemplate doing the chores. I had to remind myself how beautiful the new snow was as it poured out of the sky. There were beautiful, huge flakes floating down in a windless sky. It was unusual to have a dry snow that formed flakes so large; generally the flakes stick together because of their moisture content, this snow was quite dry. It was below zero F when I went to bed, but the temperature rose during the night and was a few degrees above when I got up. The house felt cold though, so I decided to put a fire in the living room room stove, rather than wait for our furnace [geo-thermal system] to catch up.

I use a toboggan [one of those black plastic composition things] to carry my seven gallon water container out to the sheep and chickens. When I pull it along on a trodden path, it goes so fast, I have to be careful, it doesn't go faster than me, and crack into my heels; that hurts. This happens from time to time, especially now that I am getting long of tooth, and am not terribly nimble.

Today, I didn't have to worry about that. New snow, especially dry snow, is difficult to pull through. I don't have to do the chickens everyday. I have their water in a rubber tub. I think it is rated at five gallons but it actually holds close to seven gallons. In the Winter I add warm water and empty it only when it gets dirty. After a few days of breaking ice and adding water, I have a seven gallon ice cube and I have to haul it out and slam it on the ground to get the ice out. That was the situation this Morning, after several nights of below zero temperatures.

Besides my regular chores, I had to get some wood from the wood pile. I pull my toboggan to the wood pile and start loading; today, I caught myself, doing one of my little tricks. When I am done pulling the toboggan to its destination, I toss the rope in the toboggan. Several times I have filled up the toboggan with wood, only to discover, I buried my tow rope. It is not much fun pulling it out from under the wood. Today I spotted it after I threw only a few chunks; it is going to be a good day!

Yes, it was beautiful when I first looked out the window. However, part of my mind saw how beautiful it was, even to the point of thinking I had better get some pictures, but another part of me, became preoccupied with the necessity of going out and dealing with the cold and snow. And it turned out to be a great experience! It was a very pleasant interlude in this man's life.

How often do we do that; miss the present beauty, because we are concerned with a future, we haven't experienced yet? I learn that lesson over and over again. Will I ever be able to stay in the moment? Yes, I think I will. Love is here. Peace is here. Joy is here. Ahhhhhh................. let us be Now.

Love and Peace, Gregg

CONNECTIVENESS

 

Our cold spell is broken for the time being. We had four days when it rarely got above zero Fahrenheit and then only a degree or two. We are supposed to dive back into the cold on Thursday. The low will be -20. Oh well, we will live through it.

I don't know if it is the stress of the weather or the horrible political scene, but something has made me more vulnerable to falling into the ego-swamp. I just recently named that mental state. It is a swamp with many dark pools; the I am not good enough pool, the fear of the future pool, the eddy of anger, the muck of despair, the morass of judgement pool, the whirlpool of blame, et cetera.

I am better today and I never spent an awfully amount of time in any of these states, but any time is way too much. I would be, up above it all, floating through the ether and then I would find myself in the swamp. I don't know what made me vulnerable, but I can take heart in that, whenever we struggle with ego issues, we often emerge ahead of the game. The more we let the ego, steer the car of our being, the less likely we are to do it again. Or at least not in the the same way. Our egos are tricky. We will learn to love them and kiss them and put them in their crib where they belong. We don't need them for protection, once we accept our oneness.

Talking about our connectiveness reminds me of a book I am reading. “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It is an amazing book written for our time. I don't want to say too much about it. I don't know that my description would be adequate. It is an art/science/philosophy work. I rarely read a book that I don't want to just plow through. I read a few pages of this book and I just want to pause and soak in the ideas.

We need to do what we can to see differently and this book does that. We have no idea how different the world can be with a different perception. We have learned how important perception is, but most of us, have yet to see differently. We still see what we expect, and miss, what might be there.

This is going to be a short blog because I am going with Jamie to the Amish to get milk and then to town.

Love and Peace, Gregg

Postscript: I know the dictionary thinks there is no such word as connectiveness- but what do they know. Connectivity [?]

SURVIVING THE TRANSITION

It is cold. It was just over -20F when I got up at 7AM and now at 10AM it is still -6.4. The Sun is shining brightly though and doing the chores was pleasant. I did have a ewe that kept calling me, I glanced over, didn't see any obvious reason; I hope she is not about to lamb, it is risky when it is this cold.

What do we do to prepare ourselves for a financial collapse? It is hard to know. It is rumored that there are systems in place to take the sting out of it for many. It is said that, all along, there have been, folks in the know, who have been ready to step in when the cabal begins to collapse. But who knows? It is reasonable to prepare to take care of ourselves, and those vulnerable around us, for a period of a few weeks, to a month or so. Those of us, who live fairly close to the land, have always had supplies of food, that would last a month if need be. As time goes by, it may get less elegant. Jamie and I could survive several months and live well.

Food would not be a problem for us. What if our power got shut off? I don't think that would accompany a financial collapse but just in case, it would be well to prepare. We have two wood stoves, more than enough to heat the house if it is needed. Water is another matter. We need electricity to pump water. We have water, we stored in bottles, enough to last us a week or so. The animals are a different story. The sheep need several gallons a day. In the Summer that would not be a problem, they have a pond. Chickens would get by on a gallon a day. We do have a hand pump that could go back on the well. I doubt if it would ever come to that.

Everybody needs to look at their own situation. Cities may be harder hit than the countryside, but they also, have more resources to bring into play. Where water is distributed by gravity, e.g. elevated tanks, water would probably not be a problem before back-up generators could come on. But I can't see how a financial problem would, by itself, impact power supplies. Of course chaos could do it.

How would a financial crises affect us? It could interrupt supplies going to the grocery store. The network of chains supplying our grocery stores depends on the promise of reimbursement for goods and services rendered. They are not going to continue long without some payment.

Is the nuts and bolts of our survival the biggest problem? We can survive, just fine, if we are together. We will be able to take care of ourselves and our neighbors. The only problem is us. Can we arise to the occasion and do what needs to be done? We can, if we listen to our hearts, and eschew fear.

We have been manipulated and controlled with fear. The cabal has used the divide and conquer strategy for eons. Can we get above that? I have seen so much divisiveness lately it is appalling. How did we let ourselves get so divided? I think secular religion is as powerful, or more so, than traditional fundamentalist types. We really need to lose our labels! All of them! Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative, atheist, religious, etc. They are not real, and they have been only used, for division and animosity. More and more they have lost there original meaning. People hang on to them as a token of belonging to this group or another, but they are empty and not descriptive.

I have many times stressed that we must give up our beliefs, because we really know nothing. Every field of study, every discipline, has been contaminated by ego and money. We will believe almost anything, if we can only belong to, and be sheltered by a group. We need to quit believing something because some authority, regardless of their stature, postulates it. It is okay to realize, we don't know. We just don't have enough information.

When we give up the craziness, that spins around in our head, and think with our heart, we will know what to do at every juncture. We all are love and we all have knowing. Let us lay down our labels, and put away our judgements; we will 'see'.

Correct decisions come from peace. By peace, I mean that quietness inside us, that vast calmness. We can all achieve it.

Another Friday. Friday has never lost its specialness, even though I have been retired for seventeen years. It is time to celebrate! We can celebrate every day! Our love shines when we celebrate.

Love and Peace, Gregg

MORE ON CRUMBLING

It was cold out when I got up, just as the Sun was about to break the horizon, my thermometer read 10.7 degrees below zero F. Actually I am not sure of the tenths, .7 is what I remember. It is now a balmy 4 below.

We have a geo-thermo heat pump, and when it gets much below zero, I help it out, by firing up one of our two wood stoves. The heat pump will function pretty well down to -20. During the last cold spell it was -17, one Morning, and I didn't light a fire. But it works awfully hard and a fire in the stove is such a nice cozy thing anyway.

So this Morning I fired up the stove in the living room and then I had to get wood from the wood pile. I loaded up a toboggan load. I forgot how hard a weighted down toboggan pulls over new dry snow. Oofdah..... [I have to express my ¼ Norwegian blood- that expression may be Swedish- but hey, its Minnesotan too] It was cool, with the breeze it felt like -20 or colder; on the other hand, it was bright and Sunny and the chores were pleasant.

So now I am sitting here, and remembering, I would comment on some aspects of the coming financial collapse. I should never do that. What I am comfortable with one day, I may find not so comfortable with later. I am a terrible prophet; something our Tuesday Morning visitor reminds me of; I occasionally come out with something I think is going to happen, and he remembers to remind me, when it doesn't seem to be occurring.

I believe I said I would comment on the positive aspects of the collapse. That seems fairly easy to do. We could talk about the end of debt slavery, the indentured servitude, 90+ percentage of humans are born in to. But how can we get a full picture of the tyranny of our version of capitalism? Add up all the money we spend on insurance [car, fire, medical, liability] add to that all the taxes we pay. Well one could say, “Well we have to pay our share. We have to be responsible.” Yes, of course, but is it responsible to pay for the empires war machine that is killing people on the other side of the Earth? Is it responsible to hand over our money to corporations, in the form of subsidies, that then pay no taxes themselves? We are supporting a corporatacracy that is picking our bones for the wealth of a very few. Do we want to continue this way?

We could look at it in an other way. As free beings on this Earth, how do we want to live? Do we want a capitalistic system that regulates what we can and can't do? What happened to the village, where somebody made clothes, another made, shoes, another baked wonderful bread, another had a marvelous herb garden, somebody else had wonderful hens that provided eggs for the community? How was that taken away from us? It wasn't that long ago. We know that we can provide everything we need for a happy and productive life. We all have something to give the rest. We are so marvelously rich, in talent and energy, that we could easily provide for ourselves and others. That has never been the problem. We always produce in over abundance. Look at history. Empires raised huge armies on what we would consider primitive agriculture [I am not convinced it was primitive- but that is a subject for a different discussion]. The point is, all through history a huge percentage of the population were essentially leeches, producing nothing for the rest.

Our capitalistic super structure needs to collapse, in order for us to realize how much we have been slaves to money and consumption. We are constantly fed the idea that we need more and more to be happy. Happiness has become money and money has enslaved us. All the while, corporations [with the help of government] rape and pillage the third world, so the Western world can maintain this craziness. The last piece of nuttiness has been the attempt of the cabal to control the energy resources of the world, and therefore, control the worlds people. Millions of people in the Middle East have been killed or displaced for what[?]; the power and greed of a very few. We do not wish to support this horror any longer.

Imagine, village life, all over the world. Imagine what the world would look like, if all that wasn't love, would drop away. The great awakening is happening! It is not difficult to see what a wonderful world we have. What if we just spent our time, helping each other, and enriching each others lives? What else have we got to do? What better thing is there, than using our gifts, to help each other?

As I say, I am a lousy prophet, but many others, besides myself, see the end of the current financial system beginning this year. Will it be in steps? Will it be sudden and complete? I don't know. What I do believe, is that our consciousness will no longer support the system of the cabal. As I have said before, they only have the power we give them.

Let us dream of the world we want. We do create the world we want. We will create a world from our most loving decisions. It is ours to do.

Friday. I will discuss how we can best get through the transition phase. I do think we need some kind of healing/learning centers. And I think, we could all get some practice, getting our hands in the dirt and watch and care for growing things. We will see what comes to me on Friday.

Love and Peace, Gregg

THE CRUMBLING

 

It is almost four 0'Clock and I am just starting my blog. I watched the Rose Bowl parade this Morning and then I went with Jamie to town and to get milk from the Amish. We got back, over an hour ago, but my body was demanding a nap.

I have some things to say but I really want to stay out of the divisiveness, at least for now. When I say nothing is as it seems, I really mean it. Don't jump to conclusions! Eating crow is no fun. Don't fall into the current craze of blaming Russian hackers for the election. There is a clever program going on, of demonizing Russia and especially Putin. There isn't a shred of evidence that Russia is behind the hacking. All we have is the government saying so. When the government swears to something, with this kind of certainty; you can be sure it is not true. Seventeen intelligent agencies! Wow, is that a pile of manure.

I don't know what the deep state or the cabal is up to. Perhaps just to divide the people more. The anti-Trumpers fall for it because they want an excuse for the Democratic defeat. I don't know what the Trump voters think. I don't think they were voting for Trump anyway, they were just pissed-off. Everybody is pissed off. The ruling cabal wins when divisiveness rules. The more negative emotion they can stir up, the easier they can control the people.

I know the cabal would like another third world war, but I think they must have given up the idea; most of the world won't cooperate. However, as long as they can keep fear on the front burner they can hope to stay in control.

Let us just stay out of it. If we have to watch; let us see it as particularity bad B movie. It has its funny parts and much ridiculousness. Put your energy where you see good results. Let us focus on, being close to those around us. Enjoy the glow of our good relationships. Exclude no one from our loving thoughts. Let us focus on our own growth, as loving beings of this planet, who know that all is one. Always look for what we are thankful for.

The economic world, as we have known it, is going to crash. We are going to have to rebuild from the bottom up. We can do it.

On Wednesday, I will discuss how this collapse is a positive thing and talk about how we can help ourselves and each other.

We are in for an interesting ride. It won't be that traumatic, if we keep in mind, that we are loving beings of a loving Universe, and we are only witnessing, what was not love, fading away.

Love and Peace, Gregg