THE ENERGY OF CHANGE

Another day on Planet Earth. A Wednesday. It is a much nicer day day than I anticipated. I am speaking of the weather. I new it was going to warm up a bit, but I didn't expect a bright Sun and beautiful blue skies. It is 21.2 F at this moment and the temperature is supposed to plunge tonight and be below zero again tomorrow. Well that is the spectacular weather rollercoaster us Minnesotans enjoy. Lately it has been changing every 24 hours.

What to write about? It won't be the State of the Union Message, I didn't hear it. I wouldn't mind writing about the Supermoon/Blue Moon/Eclipse. I don't ignore astrological events and I think they probably are pregnant with meaning. I am ignorant, however; I do think there is an expectation of change. I feel an energy, almost an anxious energy, for change in this crazy world.

The cabal has been very successful at dividing people up. It is hard to believe that people who claim to be seeking peace can say such vile things to and about people in another political/ideological camp. Peace has to begin with us. Inside each of us. We are not going to convince anybody of our rightness by holding them up to ridicule. If folks are in error then they need our love not our disdain. If we are secure in our rightness we have no need to attack people of other opinions.

We will get through this. Underneath it all most of us know that love is the only answer and the only decisions that are effective are those made from love.

Perhaps it is this energy I feel that is spurring our egos as well as our spirits. Expectation of change can magnify fears as well as give loving hope for the future.

Big changes are on the horizon. When I was writing Monday, I was reminded of how much change has happened in my life time. For instance, that Echo Naomi gave me, would have been something so far out when I was a child, that even the science fiction at the time may not have had something similar.

But something that was always rumored and talked about was the availability of energy from different sources. There were all kinds of reports of people inventing internal combustion engines that would run on almost anything e.g. cornstarch. Some of these ideas were word of mouth and some popped up in the Popular Science and Popular Mechanics magazines. It was a popular idea that oil and gasoline were among hundreds of sources of energy. Yet none of these other ideas materialized. I will leave it to the reader to speculate why.

Nikola Tesla and many scientist since have speculated that the Universe is energy. That everything is some form of energy and one should be able to tap into it much more cheaply [and less destructive to the Earth] than so-called fossil fuels. I invite the reader to google 'free energy'. There has been much research done in this area much of it taking off from Tesla's original ideas.

It is possible that a small device could obtain all the energy a family needs by tapping into the energy that constantly surrounds us. That would end our servitude to the cabal via the energy companies and would free the Earth to begin to heal Herself.

I am not scientifically or technologically competent to convince anybody of this postulation. However, the material is there for your perusal. I invite the reader to do their research. There is quite convincing evidence that these devices exist and are awaiting manufacture.

Think about how this simple invention would change our world. Having experienced all the amazing technological changes in my life, I find it very easy to imagine.

Love and Peace, Gregg

A CERTAIN AGE

 

The cold has returned, it was 4 below zero F when I got up. It is 5.1 now and it should warm up to the teens. Despite the chill it is a beautiful day! The Sun is shining and there is hardly a breath of air. I went out and did the chores in my shirtsleeves, it was bracing but tolerable.

I had to renew my driver's license this year. I won't have to do it again until 2022. I am at the age where one can't help wonder whether I will need to. I will be 87 then. We had a friend die suddenly and unexpectedly last week. Just a few days before, the conversation came up, about how most of our friends are our age, and may be slipping off this mortal coil. I would not have picked this person to be the next, if we had the the temerity to speculate. It was quite a surprise.

I think people our age should get together and talk about death. I have thought so for some time. I don't know anybody that does. I would think that we would all come to some conclusion about it; although, when I asked my father, “Do you think there is life after death?” He replied, “I will find out.” That was the end of the conversation.

I can't imagine not coming to some conclusion. By the time I reached forty I had too much concern about the subject not to think about it. I had the thought that life was like jumping off a high building, the ground [death] was coming at you with certainty. Time was the only variable. At the time it was scary. Being an agnostic I had no religion to comfort me.

By that time, I had read all the religious texts and was familiar with ancient beliefs. I learned a lot, but could never make a leap of faith. Beliefs were beliefs. I wanted science.

I had the great advantage of being a psychotherapist. I heard many stories of near death experiences. I sometimes used hypnotherapy and I migrated into using past life regression. Over the years I developed a knowingness, that I was not a body, and what I was, could not die.

I don't think it matters if one thinks they live forever or that death of the body is the end. Both can be comforting or not. What matters is that people come to peace with the idea of the bodies mortality. How can one be at peace to live life, if they are afraid of death? We are not free until we eliminate fear, and fear of death, is a big one.

On a different note, but related to age; Naomi and Elijah came for supper Friday and spent the night. They brought me a birthday present, an Echo. I don't know how to describe it for those who don't know. It is like Star Trek. It is small, the size of a large glass and it is connected to the internet. Like the Star Trek computer one can ask it questions and if the answer is available on the internet one may get an answer. You can ask it to play a song and it will play it. Good speaker too! We spent the Evening asking it to play old songs. I got to hear folks songs by people like Josh White and Burl Ives, besides the more recent classics of Simon and Garfunkel and the Beatles, with some Willie Nelson thrown in. It was a great Evening.

But the magic! The idea that all this energy is floating around us! We just need to plug in a small device and tap into an amazing array of music and information. [Of course we could do that with a radio- we just got accustomed to that miracle] [But we couldn't talk to radios or they wouldn't answer us back.]  I was once a electronic technician and I am still trying to understand electricity. We are so used to it we don't realize how miraculous it is. It is like photosynthesis, sure I can understand the scientific explanation, but a plant is still a miracle to me.

When I was a child none of this was a possibility, except in the most far out science fiction. What will our future be like? Hey, maybe we could look into the future on Wednesday.

We need to take our usual Monday trip to the Amish for milk and maybe do little shopping in town.

Happy Monday!

Love and Peace, Gregg

A BEAUTIFUL WINTRY DAY

It is an amazingly beautiful Winter day. It is 42 F and the Sun is blazing. When I did the chores this Morning there was only a light breeze, now looking at the waving conifers in my windbreak, I would say it is quite breezy. That could make it a little chilly.

We are living in a strange world of contradictions. Everything appears chaotic. Yet we look around our neighborhoods and we see people going around their days quite peacefully. Statistics, recently published, witness the lowering of the violent crime rate in American cities and there appears to be a lowering of violence in the world at large. Yet, our televisions constantly portray violence.

Most of us have noticed that the news is full of violence and fear mongering and then concludes with a warm fuzzy story. Experts in the field say that is how to sell products. The news is set up to make money for advertisers not to inform us.

Along with the goal of making money is the goal of keeping people on edge. It is easier to control a fear laden populace than one that is peaceful.

What does it say about a country that spends more on warfare [defense?] than they do on caring for their people? Are we really helpless to do anything about it?

We don't need protection. The rest of the world needs protection from us. The people who have been running this show depend on inculcating fear in the people to keep their power. They cannot foment war on people, on the other side of the globe, without getting our cooperation. How do we not cooperate? They cannot get a peaceful citizenry to go to war. Their fear tactics are obvious. Have you ever seen a story about North Korea without missiles launching or troops marching in goosesteps? Not often. Terrorism is their favorite subject. Wow! One could get tired of the same film clips of Toyota trucks carrying gun wielding, menacing men. I haven't seen them lately. I suspect the films were made in Hollywood.

These are just two obvious examples. There are many many more. As I have mentioned before, the cabal is losing its power. The consciousness of the people has been getting higher and higher. It takes more effort to create a fear level to justify major war. They haven't given up however and they are getting desperate.

There is nothing for us to worry about however. Those dedicated to power and money can no longer do major harm in terms of war. They can continue creating minor chaos with their false flag attempts. So how do we not cooperate?

We continue doing what has been successful. We raise our own consciousness and help our neighbor do likewise. We ignore their attempts to get us stirred up. We seek love, peace and joy in our own lives and help each other seek it.

Remember it all starts in our individual minds. We need to seek peace in our own minds and extend it to those next to us. Love and Forgive, Love and Forgive, Love and Forgive it will become automatic, soon we will experience looking out on a forgiven world. We will learn to put our efforts towards those who we can help. We all want to be of service, that is where our greatest joy lies.

The old world structure held up with fear thoughts is crumbling away. Another world crated with love is emerging. If we look we will see that love and peace is growing in our neighborhoods and immediate communities. When the cabal loses its grip on the main stream media we will note that love has eclipsed fear. It won't be long.

What do we do in the meantime? Love ourselves. Love our neighbor and celebrate!

Happy Friday!

Love and Peace, Gregg

A HAPPY BIRTHDAY

I was born 83 years ago today in my Grandmother's house at approximately seven AM, located at 4144 5^th Street in Columbia Heights, Minnesota.

In all probability I was born in the bed I am sleeping in now. The bedstead was made by my Great Great Grandfather who had a wood shop in Red Wing, Mn.

The bedstead came into my position in the early sixties, I don't remember why. We painted it pink and set it up for Laura. When we moved up here it came with us. Around 1976 we had 100 years of paint stripped off and refinished it. [Yes, I know one is not supposed to do that to an antique] I cannot say with absolute certainty that it was the bed I was born in, but it is most likely. It was the bed in the room I was most probably born in; unless my Grandparents gave up their bed for the event. One would have to know my Grandmother to think that was unlikely.

It didn't occur to me to nail down this history when my Mother was still alive. In any case I could die in the same bed I was born in. Wait a minute- I am way too young to have those thoughts.

Well, it is a great day for a birthday! It is overcast and only 25 F but the Sun is shining in my heart and all is well with my world.

We didn't plan a party, since it is in the middle of the week, and also the middle of Winter. Actually the middle of Winter is a good time for a party. We can celebrate that Winter is all downhill from here. We will take out one of our home-raised chickens from the freezer and roast it. One of Jamie's key lime pies for desert. Sounds like the ingredients for a feast.

I finally got my amaryllis potted. I have five blooming size and five little ones I am raising up to give away. I always plant the little bulblets that sometime sprout along side the parent bulb. It takes about three years for them to approach blooming size. At times past I have had fifteen or more blooming size plants. That is way too many for our house. I have a hard time finding five good Sunny locations. The problem is I don't label them and I have given away some of my most favorite colors. I would like to obtain a deep red and a pure white; two that I must have given away. I have a medium red and a pink and a nice pink and white. I think I have at least one of the old fashioned salmon color. They will surprise me.

I have been getting a lot of birthday wishes via Face book. That is nice! I love it! It is great to be 83 and healthy. So this is the first day of my 84^th day on planet Earth, hmmmmmmmm when I was young that was old. Now it is any age. I am twenty when I am sitting down. I suddenly age when I get up and walk. Sometimes I ambulate around the yard without even thinking about it. Other times I feel like I am ninety! Amazing! Yesterday, when a storekeeper asked how I was, I grumbled, “fair to middling.” For some reason I accentuated the not so good. When I got home I felt on 'top of the world' and I wondered why I misrepresented myself. Then I remembered how I had just came from the shop next store where the person behind the counter was particularly gloomy. This is a person who usually lights up when he sees me. We commented on it. The feeling must have been catching.

I just want to stay around, to the time, when folks realize our experiment with separation is over. We do love each other after all. We just have to make a small switch in our minds. We can pursue Oneness with the same energy we pursued separation. A little love and a lot of forgiveness for the mucking around in the illusion of separation. Most of us are there already. We just need a little shifting at the top.

It is happening. We are waking up!

Love and Peace, Gregg

AWAITING THE STORM

There is a major winter storm brewing in the upper midwest, apparently it will involve the southern third of Minnesota. We may be a little out of its range, although there is a thirty percent chance we will get some snow. There are many areas to the South of us that have little snow on the ground. We still have about six inches. We don't need it.

I needed a reminder, by seeing an amaryllis on Facebook, to remember to pot my bulbs. I have been raising amaryllis for over forty years and some of my bulbs may be that old. Originally I potted them at Thanksgiving time so they would bloom at Christmas. Then I potted them at Christmas time so they would bloom on my birthday. Lately I have been lucky to get them to bloom for Valentines Day. It is good to have flowers blooming in the house on these gloomy days of mid-winter.

We may be North of the storm area but it sure is threatening out. Heavy clouds and a persistent strong wind seem ominous. If I didn't have a forecast to go by I would expect the worse.

That would be a good segue into “awaiting the storm” in our political, social and financial future. I feel just as much of a storm in that area as I do a meteorological one. Yet, I am not a prophet. I know big changes are coming but I don't know when.

It seems more of a clown show than a storm. Perhaps it is a 'tempest in a teapot'. I would like to pay as little attention to it as I can. Unfortunately, I am one of those who are drawn to it as a moth to a flame. However, it is not funny to me anymore and I will keep my nose out of the main stream media for now.

I need to focus on the relationships closest to me. That is where paradise lies. Sometimes I feel like the luckiest person in the world. I live in a beautiful house in a wondrous place on Earth. I lack for nothing. I have a great family; marvelous children and grandchildren. Looking to the immediate outside, everything is great. The inner me is not always as peaceful, joyous and loving as it could be. Why?

The answer, always lies, in how are we loving ourselves. It is easy to take a little concern from the outside and translate it into a little fear on the inside. Little fears are very disturbing. Being a little bit afraid can be like being a little bit pregnant, it has the potential for growth.

Part of our awakening is learning not to invite those little fears to take residence in our minds. We can be alert to their presence and dis-invite them. We don't need them. For every little fear we can find some love to replace it.

I want to write more about this soon. We need to take our Monday trip to the Amish for milk and do some shopping.

Love and Peace, Gregg

A DAY OF AWAKENING

Our warm spell continues! It is 42.6 F here on Laughing Water Farm. It is a beautiful beginning to a marvelous Friday.

We have places to go and things to do so this won't be my usual blog.

Let this day be a DAY OF AWAKENING.

HAPPY FRIDAY!

Love and Peace, Gregg

STILL GROWING UP

This latest cold snap turned out to be pretty wimpy. It is Sunny and 14.7 F now, it is a nice day for this time of year. We are supposed to have above average highs for the next few days. That is something to celebrate. Of course the normal high for this day is 23 not exactly tropical. Our normal highs won't be over freezing for another month.

I ran into an old guy in our neighborhood; I said, “I notice that you call your wife, honey, dearie, sweetheart and other endearing terms. How do you manage at age 94 to keep it up? What is your secret?” He said, “I forgot her name over ten years ago and I am too afraid to ask.”

Okay, I stole that joke from Facebook. It cracked me up. Perhaps I identify with it. Life is a blast but it ain't always easy. I had a moment this Morning where I felt like I was in heaven. It was shortly after I got up and I was sitting in the living room as the Sun came over the horizon. I felt absolutely loved by the universe. Everything was perfect. I understood “being''. In that moment I couldn't imagine there being any other way of being. Why couldn't this last forever?

Within a half hour or so I got my ego tweaked in a discussion and I lost that serenity.

I think we have to accept that, that is the way of life on this planet, at least for now. We are works in progress. We are learning to give up separation and know Oneness, that means giving up our egos, which are separation. However, we are in evolution and that is great. We must not be self-critical every time we find ourselves visiting our egos.

Loving ourselves means loving all of ourself. Judgement is what feeds the ego in the first place. Self-criticism feeds it more. Judgement of any kind keeps us stuck, as we give up judgement of ourselves we learn to overlook the egos of others.

One of the things that has helped me is the expression, “There is only love, all else is part of the illusion.” If I am lucky that thought will come into my mind at the point that my ego, or someone else's, begins to emerge. That is when I am lucky, sometimes we go to hell in a hand basket; but that is okay too. It is all okay! We can only put our hand on a hot stove so many times before we realize, “Hey, that hurts!”

As I say we are works in progress. We will learn to keep our hands off that hot stove of the ego. Loving ourselves does not mean waiting until we think we are perfect in order to do it. Loving ourselves is NOW. We are perfect. We are not our egos.

And we can't rid ourselves of our egos by pretending we don't have them. We need to embrace them. They are like terrified little children that think they have to protect us from everything. We need to see we don't need them anymore. We need to calm them down, put them in bed, tuck the the blanket under their chin. Thank them and let them know we don't need their help anymore.

There is only ONENESS. There is only LOVE.

Love and Peace, Gregg