"One selfless, noncritical, consecrated person can swing a group into successful work...
One radiant, creative life, consciously using the heart or throat centres (authentic voice), can carry inspiration to hundreds." ~ Alice Bailey


February 2008


Materialism, a Fraud against Humanity


Contrary to what some people might believe, there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused way we grasp onto these pleasures, turning them from a source of happiness into a source of pain and dissatisfaction.
~Lama Thubten Yeshe, "Introduction to Tantra"

Whenever a nation stands aloof from virtue and ethics as its epicenter it becomes beguiled by sense reality. And to the extent that materialism succeeds, humanity becomes inwardly weak from focus on the externals. A preoccupation with buying, selling, loss and gain prevails in the absence of love and goodness. This is a major factor in deterioration, as vested interests lurk around with selfish motives and ambition. Materialism is a fraud against humanity.

As the world of the senses takes over wisdom is clouded. This enfeebling is happening all over the world today as pressures to conform echo borrowed thoughts. What influence will today’s controlled multitude have on the new generation? Wisdom is required to turn the tide. “Wisdom avoids going through the experience of trial and error; it is awakened by the clarity within that sets one free from illusions and deceptions” (J. Krishnamurti).

Very few of us work on piercing through our projected deceptions and save ourselves from the commotion of a wasted life—duty bound and irresponsible at the same time. Education prepares to teach us how to fit into a job quashing the potential to be more humane. We are taught to solve problems and go through the motions without realizing that there are no problems at all apart from the mind. Problems are always related to fear and self centeredness. Insecurity is a permanent stamp upon humanity and self is an abstraction manufactured by thought. So, do we really have problems or are we just in doubt, fearful and self-centered?

Where is the “clarity” that dissolves all problems and the duality of thought itself?

When interpretation is based on opinion and assumption it has little to do with reality and fragmentation continues to thrive. Through questioning we can free ourselves from opinions, assumptions, beliefs, conclusions, and consequences. Self discovery, not efficiency leads to new action founded on the need to express truth and love within rather than ambition and motive. This is where transformation takes place.

Society will not change, but we can govern the law of our own being as we rise to the heights and relate with the reality within. We may not be able to do anything about government, but we can be aware of what is not ethical and then build our lives with self-responsibility for our own ethics and virtues. This is each our responsibility, to love one another as ourselves. To accept that responsibility is life transforming. And no-thing can defeat this inner shift.

The Kingdom is perfectly united and perfectly protected, and the ego will not prevail against it. Amen.
~ A Course in Miracles, I, pg 54

Also See my article "The Path of Heart " recently published in Sibyl Magazine, Febuary 2008 issue on pg 24.


 

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The Kosmic Circuit
Love

Mercury Retrograde
Part 1 - Widening Our Communications Within Ourselves and Others
Preparing to Launch A Vision



Knowledge is Power

Analysis
& Commentary

Institute of Science in Society~ Cordless Phones and Malignant Brain Tumours: Cancer researchers in Sweden found strong links between malignant brain tumours and using cordless phones, which are comparable to those for using mobile phones. An important report on a problem over which all too many people are in denial.

You Tube of the Month

Change the World 2.0~ A Message of Truth for our Times beyond politics. Profound, eloquent, & a True message of Unity--Know Thy Self, align in your integrity, and above all hold the Light for humankind and the planetary body. Wake up out of your conditioning and enter a state of presence where the desire to act comes from the heart beause none of "this" is an option any longer!

Movie of the Month

Federal Reserve (Part 1 of 5)

About the Federal Reserve, the essence of our country, its formation and the current governance. Awareness elucidates, as knowledge is the only thing that we have as a weapon against the purveyors of slavery for every American citizen, and that is their goal.

Documentary of the Month

The Health Century & “In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood & Bioterrorism”.

This film is produced and freely distributed by consumer protector and public health expert, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, on Eugneic genetic control, economy & population control.



Market Place


Global Market Place

From the Hill: U.S. Sells Pakistan Weapons- This week, the House is planning to approve a resolution assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. But U.S. is sending mixed messages to Pakistan. Although the administration has also condemned the assassination, just four days after Bhutto's death the Bush administration agreed to sell Pakistan 16 bomber jets. Find out what Congress can do about the arms sale.

The Coming Financial Collapse of America (and Why Today's Market Bloodbath is Only a Small Taste of Things to Come...) Americans have always been fond of the idea of getting rich without effort by putting their money in things that produce no profits and then magically being able to ride those investments, milking them for spending cash that supports a drunken... Also Watch Federal Reserve video aove.
Talk of the Nation
FDA Announces Plan to Eliminate Vitamin Companies-The FDA, emboldened by its transformation into a drug company, has embarked upon an anti-American plan of interfering with business and intentionally eliminating various dietary supplement companies from the market.


Information

Connecting the World
GOOGLE does Good- This article gives some good background to the recent move of Google to get into the field of renewable energy and social concerns. It's lengthy, but well worth the read. The equations for future development change when a giant like Google weighs in with money and resources ... and some ideas that aren't quite what we might call conventional.

Top Ten Obscure Google Search Tricks- You may have mastered some of the basic tricks of Google, but most people use only about 3 percent of this search engine’s available power. Check it out!


Science and Technology
The FBI's Biometric Database- Is Your face already in it? A massive database that holds the one-of-a-kind biological data to identify anyone in the world instantly, and it's coming to the United States by 2013.
Drones on the Rise in the US for Surveillance- Drones are now on the rise in the US for local, federal and private use. Taser International, the company that supplies American police and military forces nationwide and is being funded by our taxes, has announced development of a flying drone version of their hand-held electric shock Taser gun which administers 50,000 volts via two wires shot into a victim.
Taser Saucer to become a Reality- UN declares stun guns to be instruments of torture while Taser rep says "it's not real pain" and puts drone craft into development.

Health and Human Services

Social Health Consequences

'Second Thoughts about Fluoride,' Reports Scientific American"

FLouride ALERT in sources of food, drink, etc

Fluoride exposure from infant formula

"Since [the 1940s], the percent of individuals consuming fluoridated water (in the US) has steadily increased. The increase in percentage of communities with fluoridated water has resulted in an increase in the mean content of fluoride not only in soft drinks and fruit juices, but in canned goods (notably soups), leading to increased intake of fluoride by individuals in communities with nonfluoridated water." - Fomon SJ, Ekstrand J, Ziegler EE. (2000).
American-Flouridation status of your State

Flouride Action Network

Antidepressants, Bipolar Disorder and the Chemical Enslavement of Humankind by Drug Companies- Big Pharma is constantly looking for new ways to develop its markets and generate more profits. This is the inescapable directive of all corporations: Be more profitable, regardless of the cost to society. In Big Pharma's case, the pursuit of this mission inevitably leads to the targeting of an ever-increasing selection of pharmaceutical consumers who have the potential to become lifelong customers.
Fear Sells, Terror Sells Better: Forced vaccination & Drugging on the March, The Flu Shots-Consider what H. Hugh Fudenburg, MD, a leading geneticist with hundreds of original publications, has to say about the flu vaccine: "We have found that clinically normal individuals aged 60-65 who receive influenza vaccine three or four times during a five-year period, will five years later have an incidence of Alzheimer's disease 10-fold greater than age-matched individuals who did not receive it."
 Looking for information, support and ideas on how to avoid compulsory vaccination and drugging? Join the Natural Solutions Foundation's No Forced Vaccination Forum
Medical Marijuana on the Market- Cannibis Vending Machine
 WHO warns of high risk of global epidemic from emerging diseases- The world remains at great risk of infectious disease epidemics and pandemics, and new diseases are emerging at an "historically unprecedented" rate, according to an annual report from the World Health Organization (WHO). The report, titled...


Sustainability

Sustainable Living

Feeding the World Without Genetic Engineering- Farmers don't need genetic engineering to boost crop yields, according to professors from Kansas State University and the University of Minnesota. Using a sophisticated plant breeding technique called marker-assisted selection (MAS), the scientists are working to develop high-yielding varieties of corn, sorghum, wheat, and barley without inserting foreign genes. They have found that analyzing the entire crop genome (the full set of chromosomes), rather than just short segments of the genome, increases the efficiency of the MAS process. This important find, combined with the ever-decreasing cost of analyzing molecular "markers," makes genome-wide marker-assisted selection an efficient, low-cost alternative to genetic engineering.

SOLAR POWER GETS AFFORDABLE- A new company in California's Silicon Valley has begun production on a new electricity generating solar cell that many are considering to be revolutionary. The company, Nanosolar, prints the solar cells on aluminum film in an inexpensive process that will supposedly make solar power as affordable as electricity from coal. Nanosolar says its order books are already full until 2008.


THE POWER BILL DIET-Simple Strategies to Reduce Your Power Bills Without Changing Your Lifestyle for bothResidential and Commercial Applications
Conservation

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New York passes Plastic Bag Recycling Bill- Finally a proactive measure to bags that end up in the food chain tangled in whales stomaches and sea turtles or buried in landfills where, environmental organizations say, they persist for as long as 1,000 years.




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Global Village

Rampant post-election violence has resulted in hundreds of deaths and the displacement of thousands. The sanctity and safety of our SOS Villages has been compromised. More than 880 children are now dependent on our support for their livelihood. Short term care in the form of protection, food, shelter and medical aid are needed immediately. This is an emergency situation Due to intense civil violence, hundreds of thousands of people are in need of immediate assistance. Due to imminent danger, many aid organizations have fled the country. Despite the heavy fighting around Mogadishu, the SOS Villages have continued their life saving efforts. There is a dire need for humanitarian relief to continue with SOS Aid.



Activism

Defending the Good, the Beautiful & the True: Ecology & All Sentient Life

    The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing. ~Albert Einstein

A Call to Your Conscience


Stand Up for Religious Freedom- The separation of church and state, that bedrock American principle, is under attack in Florida. The language of the Florida Constitution actually goes further than the U.S. Constitution in protecting religious freedom with a provision that expressly prohibits the use of public funds in aid of "any church, sect or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution." (This is typical of many state constitutions, which contain numerous provisions that are more protective of their citizens' rights than is the federal Constitution, particularly as construed recently by the Supreme Court.) But now, right-wing members of the Florida Taxation and Budget Reform Commission are trying to remove this important protection from the Florida Constitution with a ballot initiative in November.


Who's listening in on your phone calls? Say NO to illegal GOvernment Spying: The full Senate is scheduled to begin debate Wednesday on legislation that allows the government to monitor telephone calls and emails in the United States. The administration is pressing the Congress to rubber stamp the president's warrantless spying program and grant blank immunity to phone companies that broke the law. FCNL is urging the Senate to restore court oversight to the government spying program and hold accountable the corporations that broke the law. Take action.

UNCHAIN YOUR HEART: BREAK THE CHAINS OF TOXIC PESTICIDES AND CHILD SLAVERY ON VALENTINE'S DAY- For Valentine's Day more than 20 million Americans are buying sweets and flowers for their loved ones. Unfortunately, these tokens of love aren't as sweet or pure as they may appear. Over 40 % of the world's conventional chocolate is non-organic and non-Fair Trade from Africa's Ivory Coast with reports of widespread child slavery. Meanwhile, the commercial flower industry, mostly produced in Colombia, are the most toxic and heavily sprayed agricultural crops on Earth. Workers in 3rd world countries put in up to 18 hour work days for poverty wages during peak flower buying times. Show your love by choosing Fair Trade and organic flowers and chocolate for your Valentine's Day gifts. Watch an entertaining flash movie and take action against the 5 major chocolate and flower corporations.




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