THE SUN IS BACK

The Sun came out brightly this Morning. It was so bright; it was like it was attempting to make up for the last six days of gloomy weather. I was able to do the crossword puzzle without turning on the light. It is very, very nice to have the Sun back.

I need to start cleaning up the yard. The grass is growing so fast it is likely to hide the numerous sticks that need to be picked up. We had some very vigorous winds in late Summer and early Fall. We have several soft maples that love to shed branches in a wind. Besides the branches that occurred naturally, I have a couple grandkids, who thought it would be great fun, to drag branches off a brush pile on the edge of the lawn and make a fort out of them. And I have a huge branch that broke off a weeping willow that needs cutting up. Now that the rain is over, yard work beckons.

I need to get more exercise. We relocated the chickens from a coop that was a hundred yards away, to one that is a few feet away from the house. I visit the coop 3 to 4 times every day. I use to get a lot of exercise just walking back and forth from the chicken coop. This move was motivated by Jamie, who was concerned about my falling down in the Winter [I always did a couple times- I never got hurt]. I didn't realize, until today, that it made a difference. Since then, I have gained several pounds and I clearly could benefit by more exercise. The obvious solution would be going for walks. A few years ago, I walked three miles every day, in addition to my farm work; but my feet started bothering me and I have not been able to solve that problem. I need to see a good podiatrist.

The economic situation seems to be going in the predicted direction. Gold has been shooting upward; over thirty dollars yesterday and twenty six dollars today, so far. That hasn't happened for several years. There has been an attempt to keep gold down and it has worked for several years. In the last few years, every time gold reached a certain point, a horde of gold futures would be unleashed, driving the price downward. It has been speculated, that there is more paper gold currently in circulation, than there is metal. I have felt before, that the powers that be, were losing control of the gold market and I was wrong. Things can turn around on a dime. By the middle of next week, we should know something.

An economic collapse would not be a bad thing. It needs to happen. We need to create a system that shares the wealth with all of humankind. This rapacious capitalism must become a memory. Our consciousness has raised to the point, where we can no longer think it feasible, to live in a world, where some people have enormous wealth and others are hungry. It is ridiculous! It is hard to see how it could happen in the first place. Our primary instinct is to help those in need. We can only ignore need in others if we feel there are 'others'. It takes a lot of denial and manipulation to accept that others' suffering doesn't effect us. There is nothing wrong with the love of tribe, family, country or nation, but there is something very wrong in believing that your entity is more deserving, or more right, than somebody else's. This is not a natural way to think. Our minds have been programmed to think divisively. Let us end it.

We need to practice opening our hearts and minds. We do know the truth that will set us free. We are all creative beings. We will find our creative niche; that place where our love and passion benefits all.

I note that it is Naked Gardening Day Monday. I didn't know there was any such thing. Wow! What if the whole world spent Monday gardening naked. Talk about consciousness raising!

Happy Friday!

Love and Peace,  Gregg

BE UNAFRAID

I am getting a very late start. My neighbor, who usually comes over on Tuesday, wasn't able to, so he came this Morning. Although, he left earlier than usual, I had to do this and that and now it is almost 1:30 PM.

The Sun was out for awhile this Morning. It was a very welcome sight. It has clouded up again.

As we go through this coming chaotic period. We must remember to eschew fear and all its relatives. Fear has always been our only enemy. We are creators and we get the world we imagine. We could have always had paradise, if we could eliminate fear. However, our ego controlled mind is very attractive to fear thought. An ego influenced mind, attracts fear thoughts, like a magnet attracts iron filings.

If and when our economy begins to implode, we must keep focused on growing our gardens and helping our neighbors. Suddenly, local government and community will become important. If we keep centered, we will discover, we can more than adequately take care of ourselves. Commerce, as we have known it, may shut down for awhile, it will re-emerge in a different form. Small family industry; bakers, shoemakers, tailors and seamstresses etc. will emerge to fill the need. Small industry, is a much sounder basis for an economy, than what we have become use to.

Franklyn Delano Roosevelt was right when he said, “The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.” That has always been true. Humankind, at a local level, has always had the ability to create community, that rewards and nourishes, every individual. It only fails, when it is exploited from the outside or succumbs to some fear. We can imagine autonomous communities, taking care of their own needs, and sharing their surplus with neighboring communities. Without dark forces, to manipulate and divide, we will understand our unity and there will be no rivalry between groups. We will know we are here to serve each other. Everyone of us, has something to benefit all others.

The consciousness is raising to the point, where massive manipulations of peoples, is no longer possible. The dark forces cannot interfere with the creation of our new communities. The reason that things are collapsing is because they are losing their grip on power. They have been huge generators of fear thoughts. They have been able to control populations with the inundation, of waves, of fear. Those days are over. We know we have no enemies. We know we are ONE.

Our religions have taught we are evil, when in fact we are love. No religion started out that way. The Great Ones and the founders of religion, originally, taught we were love. But an organization cannot control with love; love frees, it never binds. Organizations want control. Very early in the development of a religious organization, they gave only lip service to love and started using fear. It is easier to control people fearful of their salvation, than people who recognize they are love.

Hopefully, religion will emerge from its dark past and embrace truth. Until then, folks will begin to look for their God, in the love they see around them. The Earth is Love. The Universe is Love. God Is. She/He cannot be captured in buildings or dogmas.

In the coming times we must watch for fear thoughts, and replace them, with thoughts of love, as soon as we realize, they are there.

We will be okay. All is well. In retrospect, it will seem like things happened suddenly, but I think we will experience the change more gradually. I don't think very many of us will be overwhelmed. We will focus on love and the needs of those around us. It is going to be great.

Love and Peace, Gregg

GOVERNMENT

Another Monday and I am getting a late start. I had a dental appointment this Morning for a teeth cleaning. I have been home for an hour and a half; but, I needed to get my dishes soaking and have breakfast. Then, I have been sitting here for about one-half hour, in a daze.

It has been raining off and on for the last three days. We have about an inch and a half in our gauge. We need it. The ponds and swamps look quite full, but we had a rather dry Winter. We had several, one to four inch, snowfalls, but it is the first Winter, in a long time, where I never had to have my driveway plowed. Despite the paucity of snow, this Winter, the soil moisture is very good. I think we went into the Winter in excellent condition.

The pastures are greening up and there is more than adequate grass for the sheep. The chickens are laying far more eggs than we can use. We try to remember to give them away to whomever visits.

The waking up of the natural world is obvious. The grass is growing. The trees are leafing out. The air is full of the sounds of birds. And we are awakening, too. We have been in a long sleep. Our awakening will probably be as gentle as possible; but, a deep sleep requires shaking. The first big shake will be the collapse of our economic system. Then we will become aware, that our government has never been what we thought it was. We will begin to see history as it really is.

Americans believe they have a deep distrust of government. Do we really? We seem to be naively trusting in many ways. How many of us know that we have had an empire ever since World War ll and it steadily grows? We read about the Roman Empire. We know about the British Empire. Why has the American Empire been de-emphasized and hidden. The British people knew about their empire; some were proud of it, some ashamed, but they knew about it. We have gone through a recent history of wars for control of vital resources. We were committed to direct warfare in the Middle East, and other parts of the world, to keep oil production under our auspices. We were in endless proxy wars and insurrections in Africa, to keep possession of rare minerals. Our reach is global and no country has dared to defy us for long, without our chastisement. Sometimes the chastisement is harsh e.g. Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. We have made enemies of any who stand in our way.

Perhaps, the reason the American people do not recognize the Empire, is that it is not so much American, as it is a Corporatocracy. The Romans and British people, took pride in, and were somewhat enriched, by their empire. Most of us are unaware of ours [if it is ours] and except for cheap goods, how are we benefitting?

The U.S. certainly supplies the military force for the Empire; but, is the government in control or are they vassals? Is the seat of power in the U.S. or is it more global? Whoever is in control has done a master job, of convincing us, that they were acting in our interest, and the wars that were fomented, were necessary. One of the favorite lines is, “He is killing his own people.” When we hear this. we know there are plans to take over another country. The War on Terror has given these forces the ability to do pretty much as they want. How can we know the truth?

Nobody wants to believe their government is involved, in what anyone would consider evil, if they could see it. It is going to be difficult for many to accept the horror this empire has been involved in.

A way to make it easier to stomach, is to understand, that this Corporatocracy is not American. They use the U.S. just as they used the British. They are the same nucleus of people who have been running things for centuries. They are known by many names. I sometimes refer to them as The Cabal, but I have no attachment to that name. I think the vast majority of our politicians are innocent. Some are greedy. Some are power hungry. Some are egomaniacs. Most, however, want to be good public servants and have no idea who is in control. I think only those at the very top [presidents] realize how little power they actually have.

Nothing is as it seems. When we go through the shock of seeing one of our beliefs shattered, it will be easier to see the rest. We have been lied to, so completely, it may be easier to accept, we know nothing and start over with our eyes open.

There is truth! We are great beings of light that deserve to live in Peace, Love and Joy. All of us, every human being on this Earth. We have no enemies. We are all brothers and sisters. We are one. Let us keep that in mind, as we go through the coming chaos. When we, express our love, for one another, everything works out.

Love and Peace, Gregg

ECONOMY

 

Its not warming up outside as I expected. An hour ago the temperature was in the fifties F, now it is in the forties. It is mostly cloudy, but I can see patches of blue sky, when I look out my window. Ah, the Sun is coming out right now.

I mentioned in my last blog that I could go after some low hanging fruit in reference to how we have been deceived. Since, some sources say, the poop is about to hit the fan economically, perhaps we could look at a few things.

We had been gradually exiting the gold standard since World War ll, the final break came under the Nixon administration. We have been told that the gold standard was unnecessary because the government stands behind the money and guarantees its value; fiat money. I bought in to this idea, because if everybody is in agreement, why wouldn't it work? Well, at an international level, no such agreement exists. The dollar maintained its value because nobody could buy oil without using dollars; the so called petrodollar. As the most dominant force in the world, the United States was able to convince Saudi Arabia of the value of this idea. The Saudis dominated the petroleum producing companies. For years oil could not be purchased without the exchange of dollars. This kept the dollar valuable. Add to this, that as inheritors of the British Empire, the U.S. Dollar supplanted the British Pound as the world reserve currency. All monies were valued in comparison to U.S. Dollars and many countries would not do business except in dollars.

The dollar has been losing its preeminence around the world. It has been clear to other world leaders that the dollar, no longer backed by gold, is becoming more fragile. The proliferation of dollars has outstripped the wealth of the country. Just how is the government to maintain and guarantee its value? The only way the dollar has maintained its value on the world stage is, as the World Reserve Currency, and the Petrodollar. What happens if world events challenge these two factors?

Our hold over the petrodollar has been weakening. There has been agitation on both sides, buyers and sellers, over the forced use of dollars to buy oil. Our continuous wars to control the oil producing countries have backfired. Instead of going along with the U.S., many countries are questioning the purpose of their allegiance. As I write this, oil is being sold for Euros and Yuans. The dam has been broken, the genie can not be put back in the bottle.

The world has been searching for a more stable currency than the U.S. Dollar. The Chinese Yuan is at least partly backed by gold. It may become preferable to the U.S. Dollar as the World Reserve Currency.

This information, I am sharing is not esoteric, it is easily found by searching the internet. But it is one way, we are kept blind to what is happening. All that we are told is that we are the greatest economy in the world. How can that be – when we don't make anything?

What will happen? We can be assured that no country wants the U.S. economy to go down the tubes. No country wants to destroy the U.S. Economy. They couldn't do it without destroying there own. But certainly a revaluation -or reset- of the worlds currencies will happen. Will the dollar experience a major devaluation? Its possible. Timing? Sooner than later.

This is all part of the crumbling, of our present civilization, as we have known it. We cannot build the world we dream of within the present structures. It is all good. Regardless of what happens we can only go on with our lives in the most loving way we can. We need to keep our faith in a loving universe and know, ALL IS WELL.

Look for change happening fast; but let us keep our cool. Stay centered, with our feet entwined in Mother Earth. It is a good time for gardening. And then singing and dancing and celebrating, our privilege, to live on this beautiful Earth.

Love and Peace, Gregg

LETTING GO OF EVERYTHING

It was a dark and stormy night............ wait a minute...........wrong blog. Oh well, it is rather a medium cloudy spring day, 61 degrees F. It is already 11:37AM. I am getting a late start. No, I haven't been busy, but I don't feel particularly inspired. I have been sitting here at the computer since about 9AM. I sit for awhile. Look out the window, watching the sheep and chickens roam around the North pasture; then I get up walk around the house. Nibble on this or that. Tell Jamie I can't blog. She doesn't reply. I sit back down stare into space. Now what.

Maybe, I made a mistake when I said I was going to take each of societies institutions and describe how we have been deceived, and are being deceived. That would be easy enough to do, from my perspective. But who am I? I, like you, have been seduced by a culture, from birth, to see things a certain way. The deception has been total. If a radish was held up to the world, but a narrator was looking at a potato and describing it, what would we see? A radish and a potato have certain similarities, but their differences are significant. Everything is perception. We can be convinced that a radish is a potato. It is not hard to do. Where is the truth?

Each culture, has a narration, that shapes what we see. We are locked into beliefs, that are reinforced everyday by what we think we see. Do we see truth or what our culture narrater describes?

I can cover some of the low hanging fruit about science, religion, education, politics, government etc., but we need to understand the profundity of how little we see is 'truth'.

However, each one of us needs to take a journey into ourselves, to discover who we are. Who are we? What would we see, if we could see with fresh eyes?

I make a leap and accept, what the Great Ones have taught, and assume we are Love. Have I experienced it? Well I get a glimpse. If I could experience it all the time, I would never be discouraged. I would never be afraid. I would never have moods. I would never care about the past or the future. I probably wouldn't be writing this blog. We teach what we are trying to learn. I am trying to learn to live in the moment. I am trying to see the world without my skewed perception. I am trying to see only Love. Okay, okay, now we have to take out the word trying. We can't try. We can have intent and then we have to surrender to what really Is. Irritating isn't it. We were always taught we had to strive. Now we discover we need to let go. LET GO! We need to let go of everything we think we know; everything we think we see.

Faith is the knowing that All is Love. To get there we need to sink in to ourselves. I believe, we are all One. I believe, we are all Love. I want to experience it; All the time. We will get there. Let us make our journey sweet. Smile. Be kind. Be gentle.

Love and Peace, Gregg

LOVING OURSELVES THROUGH EVERYTHING

Monday again! Time has been flying. We have just concluded several days of temperatures considerably above normal. We are back to more normality today and it looks like more normal temperatures will persist this week.

I mentioned recently, the need to keep the ego in the back seat, and off the steering wheel. We can't peel the ego's fingers off the steering wheel. We can only love them off. The ego doesn't function well when the focus is love. We can't battle the ego, or try to suppress it. That only gives it energy. The ego is part of ourselves and the only energy it has is what we give it.

Lately, I have felt an upsurge of ego-awareness. First we get over the big ego machinations e.g. major judgements of others etc.; but our egos are constantly looking, evaluating, measuring, on the alert for any threat. I had an angry outburst on Friday, that could only occur if I was hypersensitive to someone's judgement. One of the traps the ego likes to get us into, is justifying our reaction. The other is remorse for our reaction. There is no justification. It doesn't matter what the other said or did. We are in charge of ourselves. Justification keeps us stuck and condemns us to repetition.

Likewise, remorse keeps us stuck. Feeling bad about ourselves, also, condemns us to some form of repetition. The ego loves these double binds. It is, its way, of staying in charge. So if we can't use justification to make us feel better and remorse keeps us stuck, too; what can we do? First recognize that the only energy the ego has, is the energy we give it. We give it that energy by paying attention to its machinations. The ego can only exist in this illusion of separation. It can not exist, in the only real energy, which is love.

When we find ourselves in one of these binds, the immediate solution is instant forgiveness; ourselves or the other. A typical scenario: for some reason we are set-up to be watchful, that our feelings will be hurt, [this is below our awareness] something occurs to make us hurt and defensive. We can leap immediately to attack or we can nurture the pain of experiencing an injustice. In either case we are feeding the ego and keeping us stuck. There is a third way, which is realizing the other, on their life path, may be currently rude or inappropriate. No matter how pointed their remarks may be, toward us, they have nothing to do with us. They have everything to do with where they are at. It is easy to forgive when, we realize, that if we were on this persons path, from the time they were born to this instant, we may have said or done the same thing. When we understand that, the slings and arrows directed towards us, have nothing to do with us, we can learn instant forgiveness, as easy as reacting through our ego.

Of course, the simplest way to give up those outburst, like I had Friday, is to give up all self-criticism. Notice, I said, simplest, not easiest. We have been trained from infancy to be self-critical. Now, to be fully self-aware, we must give up all the negativity, we have accepted about ourselves. We are love, only in the illusion, are we less. It is easy to accept intellectually that we are love. It is a process, wearing away, everything, that isn't love.

We will learn to identify and give up all those little fear thoughts, that we are not love. Love is something we can practice. We can experience it. It is very helpful to spend some time everyday in some form of meditation. We don't have to call it meditation. Sit quietly, let our thoughts go. Sink down inside ourselves look for and feel the love welling up. It is there.

Then look for love in all others that we meet. There are no others.

Love and Peace, Gregg

AND LIFE GOES ON

The Spring that has refused to spring; has sprung! Yesterday, it got up to 78 F; quite a dramatic change. We were able to sit on the screen porch and it didn't get cool until late. I don't think I closed the doors before 11:30 PM.

Today, is sunny and beautiful. It is already 61.7 F.

The good news is: one of our ewes has completely recovered. The bad news is: the ram has gotten wary of frequent visits to his pasture and has decided to upgrade his challenge. It is very difficult, tending to the needs of the down ewe, and keep an eye on the ram, at the same time. I would like to, get her up on her feet, every couple hours. I don't want to deal with the ram that much. With some help I should be able to get her out of the pasture and on to the lawn, where I can help her without interference. My son, Matt is coming to help me measure and plan for hooking up our pastures. Between him and son, Noah, they should be able to get her out of the pasture. I will keep an eye on the ram.

I am still not ready to continue my discourse on the need for healing/learning centers. I don't know where the beginning focus needs to be: physical health; psychological health; spiritual growth; education; how we have been lied to; where are we going; where have we been; who are we; is there an end to this list?

I suggested in a previous blog, that we begin with our reconnecting with the Earth and Nature. That would be an overriding theme; but, what would actually draw people to the centers looking for help? Would it be the confusion of the collapsing world? Would it be illness? Would it be the awareness that we need to learn to live a different way on planet Earth? Would it be all of these and a whole bunch of other things?

We know we don't want to live in a world of disinformation anymore. We know we don't want to support rapacious capitalism anymore. We know that everybody deserves to be loved and feel cherished. We can no longer tolerate inequality; especially if it means hunger, homelessness, poor nutrition and inadequate education. We can no longer support violence against our fellow Earth dwellers; we know, there isn't now, and never has been, an excuse for war.

We are waking up. We are realizing we can live as one. We know love, joy and peace are within reach and our right as human beings.

We are to see more evidence of the collapse of the old way of doing things very, very soon. How can healing/ learning centers help us in this transition?

I need to quit writing I have dishes to wash and Matt will be coming up the driveway any minute. Do I hear clinking in the kitchen? Is some guardian anger doing my dishes?

Love and Peace, Gregg