THE ACADEMY AWARDS -2013

It’s Moonday once again and a full Moon as well. Emotions will run rampant and little will get done that you don’t have to rethink tomorrow. The best thing to do today is to relax and enjoy the parade of nonsensical events by those who didn’t get the message. It’s a full Moon, so chill! Only Cancers can understand days like today.

The Oscars didn’t surprise me last night. I felt that the fix was on for Argo for best movie in light of all the hints being dropped by insiders all last week.  I felt that “Lincoln” is a better movie, the fix to too powerful to overcome. Stories about the CIA seem to overshadow historical truths when they make it to the light of day. Therefore, I had already marked my ballot two weeks before that my choice was “Lincoln” while the Academy would choose “Argo.”

I did not care for the movie “Django” because my heart is still aching about recent history of the civil rights movement and the deaths of so many people fighting economic and social injustice I could barely look at the movie without wanting to cry. I did select Christoph Waltz as the best actor in a supporting role. He is brilliant!

Daniel Day-Lewis was my pick for best actor in a leading role though I felt that the Academy might slip Bradley Cooper in at the last minute. With the Academy, anything can happen but most of the time they are pretty predictable. Anne Hathaway was outstanding in Les Miserables and her Oscar is well deserved. I loved the dress she was wearing; not much left to the imagination.

The honors received by the “Life of Pi” were right on point. Ang Lee deserved the recognition for his direction in that movie. It’s was a little more complicated than “Lincoln.” Jennifer Lawrence (“Sliver Linings Playbook”) vs. Jessica Chastain (“Zero Dark Thirty”) was a tough choice do decide but understanding Hollywood where mental issues are a serious concern I can understand the Jennifer selection as best actress in a leading role.

Overall, the show was a good conclusion to a season of great movies. I became a Cinema enthusiast over 30 years ago. I can’t think of a better hobby.  The question asked some time ago was “Is life imitating art or is art imitating life” deserves an answer but I don’t have one. I just know the movies are a great escape from the reality of life and that’s enough for me.

I can’t leave this subject without say something about the host for the evening, whatever is name was, I don’t remember right now but I found him irritating and out of touch. He was no Billy Chrystal though he tried. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would have rated him as a 5. He was a light weight in a heavy weight arena.

If you don’t care about the Academy are the Oscars, point well taken.

Remain in peace and love. Enjoy your week!

Peace.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH FINAL NOTE!

BLACK HISTORY MONTH FINAL NOTE!

Though I was not born in Africa but Africa is in me, simply because of my color, a Black person.  As a person of African descent born in the great State of California and saturated with an education that only taught me that I was a product of African Slavery in America and as a result I was inferior to the whites who ran the country and that there was only a few avenues of advancement in America for Blacks, sports and entertainment; my history would not support a reason to have high self esteem, and dreams of greatness in life. I am glad that I was not a very good listener and I found it difficult to trust what anyone said about the problems that Blacks have had in America as the result of mental and physical slavery.

Now that I know that the history of Africa is about the beginning of civilization on the earth and that people of African descent are found on every continent and their history from 4500 BC to 2000 AD has been suppressed and negated for political and social reasons by those who own and control the monetary systems and precious resources of the world my eyes have been opened to the truth about Africans and the pervasiveness of their cultural throughout the world.

The movie “Lincoln” and “Django” are vivid images of what has been paraded as a glimpse of history of slavery in America. As a child of the 60’s I witness the bloody civil rights marches, the blacks hanging from trees, and those being burnt to death by angry white mobs. Even in my own hometown there were stories of blacks being hung from oil derricks. Hollywood can be a poor teacher of American History.

My parents did everything possible to shelter us from this reality of murder, hatred and physical abuse, though as I got older, I found myself in Los Angeles during the Watts Riots, experiencing the death of Dr. Marin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy who was killed about a mile from where I lived.

I never directly experience the white hatred of blacks and the blacks hating white people. I was raised in a Christian home and an integrated church of whites, blacks and Mexican Americans. I was made color blind and had friends from every nationality; having relationships, with Black women, White women and Mexican women. My perception of them was only as women. My friends in high school came from every nationality and color. We had a student body of over 4,000 students with a 3% of them being black. I was the first black Vice-President of the school and I was totally oblivious to the fact that was some kind of milestone.

I loved all people and treated them the way I wanted to be treated.  Once, I was told by white girl in high school that I was the best Christian that she had ever met. Strangely enough I never thought of myself as a Christian or any other religion. I did what was naturally and instinctively inside of me, be good and do good and work hard.

When you discover that there is no such thing as “race” and that all human beings evolve from the same bloodline you will realize that you have been “hoodwinked” to live a “lie” that has created duplicity and suffering in the human family.

Now that I am in the autumn of my years, the whole scheme in place for world domination by the few is apparent and a foregone conclusion. The ability to suppress information by control of the media, and to mislead and deceive by the owners of the media has led the mental enslavement of billions of people who don’t even know how they are manuplated to work against their own interest. It is a sad and sick abomination! It’s ingenious and it’s working. The truth is dead!

The biggest challenge facing Africans in American is mental enslavement and the proclivity to be easily misled and divided against each other. This has been true since the first invasion into Africa by Asians, Europeans, and Arabs at least 4500 years ago. It is a phenomenon that I will never understand.

For one month out of the year, Black History is shared with the whole human family in America. It’s like growing mushrooms. They are kept in the dark and every once and awhile you have to put a little fertilizer to help them grow.

I hope the information on Black History I have shared with you over the past month has given you insight in to a people whose history is suppressed intentionally by the owners of America at home and throughout the world.

I wish for love, peace and joy to every living creature. We all come from the same source of life and we shall return to it.

Peace!

LOVE AND VALENTINES DAY!

What an awesome celebration of love yesterday. The word “Love” has been interpreted and reinterpreted over the centuries by poets, the church, and roaming troubadours in the 11^th Century. When we are really young the association of sex with love was the driving vehicle behind our relationships. A lot of people who never grew up still make that association today. I guess I have yet to grow up!

What is love? Is it an emotional state of mind of desire for another person or thing? When Rabbi Jesus talked about love some of the things he said my give a clue. Keep in mind that religious writers did not start writing about the teachings Rabbi Jesus until almost 30 years after his death. Plenty time for writers to modify and create stories about what he might have taught about love.

It is taught in most churches that Rabbi Jesus said to “love thy God with all they heart and soul; to love your neighbor; to love your enemies, and to do unto others as you will have them do unto you.”

What kind of love was this that Rabbi Jesus allegedly taught during his ministry? It was discovered that in some of the scared documents in recent history that Rabbi Jesus, Moses, and Mary were students in the Temple Karnack in Africa (Egypt) where the sacred and secret knowledge about the behavior of human was taught. The motto over the front door was “Man Know Thy Self.” Africa was the birthplace of civilization and the principles of conduct taught in the New Testament and in the Torah. The Ten Commandments were copied directly from the Book of the Dead in Africa.

The Temple Priest taught that the source of creation flowed from one source that was unknowable and undefineable. That Source was responsible for creating every living thing and all that lives are a part of that source. That is, all living things are “One” and they eventually return to the Source.

When you harm or abuse another person, you harm and abuse yourself. If you kill another human being you kill a part of yourself. Every life is sacred and what you do unto another person will be done unto you.

This Source has been defined as “Love.” It is pure energy-light of unconditional love. It is love that gives life! When we serve others by giving to them, caring about them, we are aligning our self with the Source. We see our self in others and we treat them the way we want to be treated.

Because the current human condition in the world of the money changers is more about getting and not giving the battles created by anger, hatred, resentment, fear, greed, jealousy, and revenge do  not leave much room for love.

Each year, when we send a love note to someone expressing our oneness with them, and by the giving of a gift to recognize that the giving is the source of all life we follow an ancient tradition.

On February 14, the day Saint Valentine died in prison, it is to copy Saint Valentine (269AD) when he sign a note while in prison, to a young girl (his Jailers daughter) whom he was healing, that read, “From Valentine.”

Though we should be serving others by giving all the time, the one day a year, February 14, it’s truly an awesome experience feeling the love flowing from lovers all over the world.

Why was he in jail? He violated the Emperor Claudius II law against marrying young people. Claudius felt that unmarried men made better soldiers. As the saying goes, “love conquers all,” so in the end that law became void.

Keep giving, giving, and giving as much as you can to stay close to the Source (your heart is where the Source lives) while your head remains in the world.

Peace.