GREAT SPIRIT!

It’s Friday once again and I find myself in a reflective mood and not quite ready to start working.  I self-published a book in 1993 called “Great Spirit…The Comforter.” The book was written for my daughter and son to explain to them the evolution of their father from the cotton fields of Bakersfield to the Halls of Justice.

 I taught them some of the things I had learned about the ancient sciences of astrology, numerology, and Chinese astrology. At the young age of nineteen my interest was caught in the fascination of how human’s interpreted the universe prior to the religious hegemony.  

I was always working at two or three jobs while they were growing up so I had limited time to spend with them. Later, as a single parent, watching over two children, working, my role as a loving parent became even more precarious. Well, that’s all behind us and the two adults in my life are truly a blessing and I am grateful that my heart would not allow me to give up them nor give up on myself.

Writing the book in 1993 was great therapy for me and something that will be a lasting memorial to my time spent on this earth.  I never gave much reflection on the title of the book because the title came to me one morning while I was taking a shower.

Several years later I was visiting friends in Los Angeles. We went out to dinner at a small oriental restaurant. While walking down the sidewalk to the restaurant I notice inside of the window a Jewish bookstore, a book was opened to a page with an article discussing the coming of Great Spirit the Comforter. I grabbed my friends show them the book and explained my concern about how this Great Spirit name ended up as the title for my first book.

After further research I discovered that in the Jewish religion there is always a Messiah who comes to each generation of humans, about every two thousand years, to save them from the struggles of life. Though some claimed that Rabbi Jesus was the Messiah of the Age of Pisces, the water age, most reject that conclusion.  An Age last about 2150 years is governed by the movement of constellations and the movement of the sun.

The next Age, the Age of Aquarius, air age, is scheduled to start in about 140 years. I can remember the students of the 60’s generation singing about the dawning of Aquarius in high school and college. I didn’t have a clue concerning the significances of this so called coming of the Age of enlightenment.  I was in the military during that time and my mind was focused on being a good Marine.

Well, after many years of using my mind to help others with legal problems and teaching many students about the legality of our system the recent economic slowdown has given me more time for reflection and to start listening to my heart.

 I have come to recognize that the Great Spirit has been with me all my life. I often wondered why Native American refers to the Creator of the Universe as the “Great Spirit” and now I know.  I am grateful and pleased that the Comforter is coming and that I already abide in its spirit.  We are all little spirits embodied in the Great Spirit. The Age of Aquarius will have the Comforter as its savior.

This probably makes little sense to most of you but it’s Ok. 

Peace.

USURY!!!

Usury: the act or practice of lending money with interest.

For centuries usury was consider to be immoral and contrary to God’s law. However, the ancient merchants were oppose to this law and decided to disobey it and permitted the great snake of evil to cause perversion in the land. The money changers headed down the road of corruption and devastation of financial slavery and imposed it on the mathematically illiterate people. The would only charge those not a part their cartel and as far as loans made to each other there was no interest charge and if the debt was not paid in seven years it was forgiven.

The word, usury, is found in the Bible and the act or practice is objected to as an abomination. Why? In ancient times the practice of placing a use upon a use was evil and illegal. To lend money is a use, allowing others to use your money. When interest is charged, it’s another use on top of the original use. A use upon a use was deemed evil because the lending party is getting more money that it had lent and did not have to expend anymore of their own money. It was all gravy and it flowed like milk and honey and it’s still flowing today.

Over the centuries the money changers have convinced the people that interest rates are fair for them so that they are able to buy something they wanted credit leading to a higher standard of living. However, the great snake of evil always lurked in the shadows. Interest rates could be raised or lower at will if the lender felt the consumer was not paying on time. Other fees were added to punish for being late or causing any extra work for the lender. The credit card became the instrument of instant wealth but also devastation for the wage earner.

Today, the lending institutions have gain control and access over our government and the laws have been put in place that completely legalizes usury if you are a part of the financial cartel. As the ancients said, the act or practice is immoral. The job of convincing the people that usury in not immoral but is perfectly innocent has been extremely effective and devastating at the same time.

The American consumer is a victim of this system and at beginning of all the uncontrollable economic depressions ( if you lost your job) or a recession, if you only loss a little equity in your retirement fund, the affect of the great snake was being felt by most. But for those who live on interest income or mortgage property with high interest rates (adjustable loans) or equity loans, inherited money, the struggle was to get the interest rates stabilized and back on track. The government was quick to make that happen through with bailouts!

The owners of America strive on interest income, control and ownership of our scarce resources. Their only real threat is inflation. If inflation goes up the value of interest income comes down and the wealth holders could be devastated. So Job one for our regulators is keep interest income high and fights inflation like it’s a plague. By the way full employment causes inflation and through they talk about creating jobs there is really no serious urgency to do that. The American wage earners major concerns are having a job and not having to pay high interests rates on consumer goods along with higher prices, but they don’t realize that they don’t have a dog in the fight to control our economy that protects the wealthy.

Usury is not only immoral it’s evil! The Americans who have been hurt by usury over the years don’t have a clue who or what the enemy is so they are left fighting with each other and suffering through the devastation of their homes and loss of their families members with one tragic event after another. Climate change is not helping and they have no one to fight or blame, at least, that’s what they have been taught. Ignorance is evil and the uninformed are paying a high emotional and mental price, no peace of mind.

Peace.

DOULBE TALK AND HOOKWINKS!

It’s Moonday once again! I am at peace but I find that most of my fellow citizens are still trapped in the misery of double talk and hoodwinks. The ingrained duplicity that flow from negative to positive, hot to cold, up then down, right then left and black then white. The cruelest part of human nature is exploited for financial gain on television and in movies; the constant barrage of buy something now in commercial deluges every minute has left them stupefied.  

A dysfunctional government that masquerade as legitimacy and a hopeless drool  flowing from those who lack knowledge but media access about the very nature of government , glorifying hideous and hateful slurs toward their fellow citizens masquerading as intelligence. It’s like every drop of morality and hope is being drained out of the body politic.

The other part of our society who owns everything or live off interest and the wealth pass down to them by their wealthy parent are watching their wealth grow in leaps and bounds. The more things appear to change the more they remain the same.

The lack of understanding by the majority of Americans of their government and the Constitution is an abomination.  It is not their fault because of a huge conspiracy by the owner class to keep them dumb and clueless, leaving them ripe for exploitation and deception.

Take for example the Second Amendment our Constitution, loosely referred to as the” right to bear arms and maintain a militia.” Who profit most from this right? The gun manufactures are at the top of list. Why was the Second Amendment added to the Constitution?  During slavery the Southern States had laws requiring all white men between the ages of 18 to 45 to gather once a month and inspect all of the slave quarters in the ,to search for contraband and seize any runaway slaves, and to prevent slave’s insurrections which happened quite often.

 In most cases, the slave population outnumbered the white population. Also, they maintained slave patrols that caught runaway slaves and slaves out after dark.  The Southern States would not vote for the ratification of the Constitution unless an amendment was added to protect their slave patrols and slave regulations laws. Over the years, the gun lobby has protected the Second Amendment as the right of every citizen to have possession of a gun and the gun manufactures have supplied the money and all types of weapons  for the frighten population being led by National Rifle Association. Yes, the American Citizens have a right to bear arms, and maybe the same fears they had in the 1860’s are the same fears they are suffering from today. The double talk and the hoodwinks by the gun industry to maintain the fear and hatred by exploiting the poor illiterate Americans make great news copy and it’s only carry us toward more death and destruction.

Most Americans believe that the President of the United States is responsible for everything that goes wrong in American. While our Constitution compels the three branches of government to carry out its mandates in the Constitution, the Congress makes the laws and decides how to pay for them and enforce them, while the President is supposed ensure that those laws are enforced.  When the President starts making laws and enforcing them it’s a violation of the Constitution. The Judicial Branch is responsible to ensure that the laws made by congress do not violate the Constitution, including Executive orders made by the President.  

Since 1913 two branches of power in America operate the financial system, the Federal Reserve Bank and the Internal Revenue Service and they are independent of our three branches of government. This set up has caused a tremendous imbalance between the wealthy and the poor. The poor direct all their rage toward the government. It’s like they drink a glass of poison and expecting the government to die while the financial manipulators are kicking their ass all over the country. This condition is a low down rotten dirty shame.

Today, there is even a bigger wedge separating American Citizen from each other and causing severe pain and suffering and it’s the use of technology by the younger generation and the hardships being place on the older generation to keep up with new technology. Most of the older generation are living in an apartheid conditions and watching their living conditions being surrounded by things they don’t understand and are afraid of. This technological divide is devastating.

In the old days when one powerful country took over another country they would first double talk and try to hoodwink the unsuspecting natives, and if that didn’t work they would kill them. When Americans become more knowledgeable about their government and where the power over their lives is really coming from the double talk and the hoodwinking will not work anymore, the powers that be may simply figure more sophisticated ways to kill them or have them kill each other by media manipulation.

Double talking and hoodwinking works well in an unsophisticated illiterate unengaged population and its working overtime today.

Peace.

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.

IT'S MOONDAY ONCE AGAIN!

It’s Moonday once again. I’ve got places to go, people to see and things to do! I would like to have a sweat shirt that says on the front, “Thank God It’s Monday.”

 Since being a young teenager I have always enjoyed work. At the age of 14 I operated an Icehouse during the summer starting at 4 a.m. to noon. Later I would drive an Ice route with several customers then go home and sleep until 4 pm, and go back to run the Icehouse until closing time which was 10 pm.

At the age of 17, I started working as a local DJ on the radio and worked on our local newspaper as a reporter. After finishing high school, I drove school buses while attending college.  I can remember at one point in my life I was working three different jobs.

I have continued to work three jobs:  full time security manger, part-time practicing law, and teaching college part-time until 2000, then began practicing law full time and teaching part-time. I have always worked hard and played hard. My work ethic has allowed me the opportunity to travel on all seven continents.

This last semester I did not have a class due to the cuts at City College, and the legal business was really slow. It was the first time in over 30 years that I have had the opportunity to spend some time with myself. I read over ten books and sang a lot of karaoke.

When you spend your whole life serving others you have a tendency to lose yourself. Now, that not a bad thing if you are happy with you jobs but the chance to go within and spend time with self is priceless.

So what did I learn about myself? I love to learn true history. I love to sing and entertain people. I love helping people solve problems. I love the idea of the human experience. I love the fact that my heart is stronger than my mind and that if you can control your mind you can control everything.  Last but not least, I love the fact that my two children have become successful in their occupations and appear to be happy with life.

 I know that the reality we can’t see is the true reality. It’s invisible and unknowable but it supports everything we try to do in the physical reality.  I know that everything in the physical realty is limited and conditional in our minds. I have learned that truth springs from silence. So truth can only be found in silence.

This week I celebrate another birthday and it will be different. Every feeling in my bones and soul is telling me that it’s time for a change. What the change is going to be I don’t have a clue. I just feel that it’s something beyond my control but it’s happening right on time.

Well, that’s my story and I am sticking to it.

Love, peace and joy to all!