BIM 69
Ballantyne’s Inspired Musings
December 2012
Vox Clamantis in Deserto
The Mount Everest
of spiritual, philosophical and random publications
Your primary duty is to know your very own Self
and be free.
Vishnudevanand
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Carlos Ballantyne carlosjii@gmail.com https://twitter.com/#!/carlosjii
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More about Heath!!!!!!!
I’ve been taking Teitelbaum’s
Energy
Revitalization System and my energy seems to be better.
I’ve been doing a new 6 hour, 15 mile hike in the mountains here at least once
a week with no after-effects, no tiredness or soreness. I’m careful to take my
recovery formula consisting of whey protein, glutamine and magnesium at the end
of each hike. During the hike I take CytoMax!
This stuff is the best. CytoMax is a carbohydrate and electrolyte formula. I
have weaned myself down so that I do not begin taking CytoMax until at least an
hour into my hikes so as to be on a fat burning cycle rather than a sugar
cycle. Write me if you want more information on this important topic.
I have begun using Teitelbaum’s suggested magnesium glycinate instead of magnesium
asporotate. Don’t forget—even Dr. Oz says magnesium is one of
the most important minerals in the body.
The spider expert seems to be doing better. After 3 Myer’s
cocktails and a glutathione push IV she has begun oxygen treatments at the ND’s place. They draw out a pint of blood,
bubble oxygen through it turning it bright red, then put the blood back in with
an IV. This treatment was originated by Dr. Frank
Shallenberger from Carson City, NV, a very well known alternative
medicine specialist.
I’ve fiddled round with health issues for a lot of the
past 40 years resolving my own and many other people’s health problems—some
of long standing. The spider expert’s case has been the most difficult I have
come across as it has a very broad spectrum of symptoms, many seemingly
unrelated—stomach, back, brain fog, balance. Frankly, it was only
after pretty randomly coming across the NYT article on
Cipro toxicity that I had the Eureka moment. The spider expert has been
increasingly suffering for about 9 years, since beginning a regimen of Cipro for
parasites from trips to Peru. The Cipro caused significant stomach and
digestive problems which incompetent doctors in Tahoe diagnosed as needing
extensive stomach surgeries and the problems spiraled out of control from there,
each surgery caused more and more Cipro to be applied, as hospitals routinely give
it to thwart the rampant “bugs.” I just had a case of a guy with an infected
blister who was prescribed Cipro! This is crazy!
“More often than not, the sudden
onset of bizarre symptoms in a healthy person will lead a doctor to diagnose a
designer “mystery” disease. In fact, there is suspicion that the
fluoroquinolone family of antibiotics may actually be responsible for the
sudden and prolific rise in NEW illnesses, such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,
Fibromyalgia, Crohns Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Gulf War Syndrome and
others. How many people do you know who were normal and healthy one minute, and
irreversibly crippled with one of these “mysterious” diseases the next? I
wonder: how many of those people had taken a fluoroquinolone antibiotic prior
to the onset of their auto-immune disease? Perhaps someday, someone will figure
this all out and actually do something about it. Until then, it is up to us; to
be informed, educated and responsible for our own consumption. It’s a little
thing called consumerism.”
I have probably learned more about health in the past 6
months than in the past ten years and I have been able to apply much of that
knowledge to improving my own health and my overall energy. That
said I recall now that not only has my last girlfriend likely had Cipro toxicity
but the one before that also! So, three in a row. The first one was in about
2005. She took a trip to Spain over Xmas 2004-2005 that I told her not to take.
Oh, but they had a deal on airfare and her daughter wanted her to go. Sure.
They froze their asses off in Spain and then went to Gibraltar where they were
assaulted by the monkeys. My then girlfriend bean getting sick immediately and
had to be carried on to her return international flight. The diagnosis?
Bacterial meningitis. The cure? LOADS of IV antibiotics. I was not talking too
much by then but likely she got it from the monkeys. She became a zombie after
her “cure” and I spent the next many months carting her around to alternative
therapy appointments as she could not drive.
“The main mechanism through
which fruit and vegetable consumption is likely to influence mental health is
through the absorption of water-soluble minerals such as potassium (Torres,
Nowson and Worsley 2009) and vitamins such as folic acid and B-12 (Gilbody,
Lewis and Lightfoot 2007; Gilbody, Lightfoot and Sheldon 2007; Fava et al.
1997) which have an impact on adrenaline and serotonin receptors.” http://www.voxeu.org/article/are-fruit-and-vegetables-good-your-mental-health-well-your-physical-health
Even Dr. Oz is promoting the
benefits of a plant based diet—“nothing with a face.” So IT MUST BE TRUE if Dr. Oz
said it. Oh, have you seen former President and Big Mac eater Clinton
recently??????? Clearly someone put him on a ‘plant based diet’.
Dear
Carlos,
The founder of Fungi Perfecti, Paul Stamets, gave one of the plenary presentations at the Bioneers Conference in 2011 which is where I heard him talk about providing the Turkey Tail fungi that were used in a study related to breast cancer. What I have read said that the Turkey Tail provided immune system help during breast cancer treatment, not specific efficacy on cancer. He talks about his mother's breast cancer because of this study and his belief that she is cancer free because of Turkey Tail. He may talk about it in his TedMed online talk too, though I have not seen it.
The founder of Fungi Perfecti, Paul Stamets, gave one of the plenary presentations at the Bioneers Conference in 2011 which is where I heard him talk about providing the Turkey Tail fungi that were used in a study related to breast cancer. What I have read said that the Turkey Tail provided immune system help during breast cancer treatment, not specific efficacy on cancer. He talks about his mother's breast cancer because of this study and his belief that she is cancer free because of Turkey Tail. He may talk about it in his TedMed online talk too, though I have not seen it.
I
recommend his company because his scholarship in general and on mycology in
specific is so impressive, but it is important to me that your friend know that
the treatment of cancer is outside the scope of my practice and that of any
Licensed Acupuncturist. It is likewise outside the scope of the practice of an OMD,
though I am not an OMD. That
title was discontinued in California before I became an L.Ac. The new
title is DAOM and I do not have that degree. I am a Licensed
Acupuncturist. I am delighted to help anyone I can, as you know, but it
is important to me that those things are clear. If my colleague is still at the New England School I
will pass along her info to your friend if she asks but the same limits exist on the scope of my
colleague's practice too. We treat only symptoms as Acupuncturists.
These distinctions are important to me and our profession as a whole. I
hope you will pass them along to your friend.
Another
very helpful site for health and nutrition information is nutritionfacts.org. Dr. Michael
Greger produces short videos relating the best of the best from
nutrition studies showing the good
effects of a plant based diet.
It is an excellent resource for the latest and best info for health.
all best,
all best,
J. Mxxxxxx
Bxxxx, L.Ac.
From @Carlosjii, medical professionals who
know the limits of modern medicine, often opt
out of life-prolonging treatment http://gu.com/p/35bcj/tw via @guardian
Back to Bedrock
“The claimed power of the
president to kill whomever he wants, anywhere in the world far from any war
zone or battlefield, without a whiff of due process, oversight or transparency
should be vehemently opposed first and foremost because it is the supreme
expression of tyrannical power.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/19/benghazi-attack-suspects-drones
“The core guarantee of
western justice since the Magna Carta was codified in the US by the fifth amendment to the constitution: "No person shall . . . be deprived of life,
liberty, or property, without due process of law." You simply cannot have
a free society, a worthwhile political system, without that guarantee, that
constraint on the ultimate abusive state power, being honored.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/24/obama-terrorism-kill-list
“For several decades, the US
government - in annual "human rights" reports issued by the State
Department (reports mandated by the US Congress) - has formally condemned
nations around the globe for the practice of indefinite detention: imprisoning
people without charges or any fixed sentence.” [Yet]
“The US has long been demanding that the Afghan
government continue the American practice of indefinite detention without
charges, and still presses this demand even after the top Afghan court in September ruled that such detentions violate Afghan
law.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/20/iraq-afghanistan-daqduq-indefinite-detention
When an old person dies it’s like an entire library has burned
A former friend from Laguna Beach has gone blind from
Parkinson’s and just old age and gave her library including lots of astrology
books to another friend of mine. He invited me to take what I wanted so I got
about 30 books. I just missed getting a copy of Anima and Animus by Emma Jung as my friend came by and took it
back. It is always MOST interesting reading or talking to the wives of ‘great’
men.
Reading through the books I excerpted some few important
pieces.
“Jung once said that the anima is not only an inner figure,
she is also a living woman. Likewise, the animus is not only a dream image, or
the masculine pole of a woman’s psyche, but a living man.” Pg 27, New Insights in Modern Astrology, Liz Greene & Stephen Arroyo,
CRCS Publications, 1991
“If we lost our capacity to be hurt we would be dead to
life.” Pg 41, Greene
“There is an essay by James Hillman which is worth reading,
called The Necessity of Psychopathology. He is writing about the Greek Goddess
Necessity….also called Chaos. Plato had the idea that 95% of the cosmos was
ruled by Reason, but 5% escaped Reason and was ruled by … Chaos. That 5% has no
meaning, no reason, and cannot be changed. That’s the aspect of life we find
intolerable. It’s just cruel and messy. …We can accept the agony of the
Crucifixion because we believe there is meaning in it. But accepting raw human
bestiality or irrevocable, undeserved bad fate is quite intolerable to the ego,
which is ruled by Reason.” Pg 35. Greene
Nietzsche says, returning to the point with which he opened
the third essay, "man would rather will nothingness than not will."
From BIM 68. This area of Chaos is
beyond or will. My former Japanese girlfriend, a Pisces lover of Chaos, once
said about India, “That’s what’s so great about it – the Chaos.” That’s why
it’s a tough travel destination for most.
“Sometimes you have to face the problem of returning to
normal life, because the experience of the outer planets is like suddenly being
plunged into a myth.” Pg. 42, Greene
Greene was
speaking about how powerful astrological transits, temporary influences, can
catalyze relationships. In 1990 I returned from a six month trip and was
walking around Laguna telling a few people I was God. I spent the next week
after that uncontrollably crying. Soooo, yes, stepping back out of the myth can
be problematic.
Genius is only childhood
recovered at will,… Charles Baudelaire
“Love is the astrolabe of
God’s mysteries.” Rumi, Pg 101
Aron Abrahamsen psychic
mentioned - http://www.nhne.com/specialreports/srnhneearthchangemap.html#sources
I am due to take a trip “out
West”, actually East from here—zip 91311,
to AZ, NM, TX, possibly looking for a place to move to get away from coming
earth changes.
De Tocqueville said America
would remain great as no one could take away its land. Don’t be too sure. The
US has built up a lot of bad karma from its Imperial wars and is due, IMO, for
a comeuppance. Take a look at some of the earth changes maps in the link above!
An inundation of the East Coast does not seem as farfetched as of December
2012, does it? Like it was a loony idea in September 2012, right?
My letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein –
another of my California scum
legislators. Questioned on Fox News Sunday, Ms. Feinstein said that she
would investigate why the F.B.I. did not notify her Senate Intelligence committee
beforehand [of the Petreaus investigation].
“Gimme a break Dianne! This “investigation” was FBI payback
in some imagined slight against the CIA. Oh why the date????? Because 11/7 is
Pertaeus’s birthday and the small minds at FBI wanted the most pay/im-pact. Do
some investigation on your own instead of blundering and blustering in public.
The FBI should have been BIG TIME shaped up since their
ineptitude basically caused 9/11. Where was the “Intelligence Committee” when
the FBI blew $$$B on a computer system that couldn’t do a search on ‘flight’
and ‘school’ in the same search parameter?
Almost all this stuff is the fault of a malingering Congress
– and you as Intell Comm member are one of the most at fault. I believe you are
too old for public office.
DO NOT RESPOND TO ME – GET TO WORK. IT’S NO ACCIDENT
CONGRESS HAS A 11% APPROVAL RATING –or lower”
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Petaeus is a war casualty, probably suffers from PTSD, and
did 5 [FIVE] tours in Eye-rack and Afg. Thank God you have pointed out the
great failure of the “surge” that also swept up Obama who was elected to wind
down the Afg fiasco. Let us also remember the Shadid’s riveting Pulitzer pieces
on the Iraq surge such as ‘In
Anbar, U.S.—Allied
Tribal Chiefs Feel Deep Sense of Abandonment’ and the fact that most of that
surge’s success had to do with factors we did not create, such as paying off
the Sunni militias. We abandoned the
Montagnards in Vietnam also.
Regarding
America’s cult of the Generals and the military in general – We have FAILED TO
PREVAIL IN ALL FOUR MAJOR CONFLICTS SINCE WW 2. This failure has assured the
demise of the Empire and the failure of the US dollar – a disaster for all of
us of the highest order.
A comment I made to a Michael
Cohen article in the Guardian regarding Petraeus’s fatal flaw – hubris and
the Afghanistan surge.
There is no is
Back to the burning library
Decartes – Cogito ergo sum - commonly translated as
“I think therefore I am,” which is not quite accurate. A better translation
would be “I am conscious, therefore I am.” This is the bedrock foundation of
every individual’s existence. The Aion
Lectures, Exploring the Self in C.G. Jung’s Aion, Edward Edinger, Edinger
attempts to explain and expand some of Jung’s most difficult writings.
Note Emmet Fox—“ Life is
consciousness.”
Contrast this with—Yoga is the restraining of the mind stuff [chitta] from
taking various forms [vrittis]
“The world as
representation”, this is a truth valid with reference to every living and
knowing being, although man alone can bring it into reflective, abstract
consciousness. If he really does so, philosophical discernment has dawned on
him. It then becomes clear to him that he does not know a sun and an earth, but
only an eye that sees a sun, a hand that feels an earth; that the world around
him is only a representation, in other words, only in reference to another
thing, namely that which represents, and this is himself.” Schopenhauer – The World as Will and Representation. Edinger pg. 23
Or, as was once said at an est seminar of mine, There is no is.
“According to the Egyptian
Book of the Dead, the deceased comes into the judgment hall to meet the Goddess
of Truth, Maat, and is then obligated to make the following confession. The
deceased is talking to the Goddess:
Verily,
I have come before thee, and I bring before thee Right and Truth. ..I have done
no hurt unto man, nor have I wrought harm unto beasts. …I have caused none to
feel pain..I have not committed murder…nor have I purloined the cakes of the
gods…I have not caught fishes with the bait of their own bodies…I have not
broken the channel of running water. I have not quenched the flame in its
fullness…I have not thwarted the possessions of the god. I am pure. I am pure. I
am pure. I am pure.” Pg. 28
“This is to be done
successfully only if the patient in an authentic candidate for analysis, and we
must not be too optimistic in our evaluation of how many of our patients are.
If there is violent resistance to this reflux procedure, it means that analysis
is not appropriate for the individual. One is dealing with a weak ego, or a young
ego, that does not have at present the capacity to assimilate shadow. It is as if such a person is out in a
little rowboat that can’t take in any very sizeable fish or the rowboat will
sink. Therefore, resistance to the analysis of shadow projections must be
respected.” Pg. 27
My commentary – Jung and Edinger may be neglecting the
truth that we are ALL at the same spiritual level. Another point is that in
dealing with artists, if they get too “cured” their art can go away as it is an
expression of incompleteness. One must be sensitive to other people’s,
patient’s, path. AND there’s the problem of therapists being unable to handle
patient’s shadow material as it is too close to their own, unlooked at stuff.
This is one of the main reasons patients get medicated—to obscure
their problems which the ‘doctor’ can’t handle.
“Though the effects of anima
and animus can be made conscious, they themselves are factors transcending
consciousness and beyond the reach of perception and volition. Hence they
remain autonomous despite the integration of their contents, and for this
reason they should be borne constantly in mind. This is extremely important
from the therapeutic standpoint, because constant observation pays the
unconscious a tribute that more or less guarantees its co-operation. The
unconscious as we know it can never be “done with” once and for all. It is, in
fact, one of the most important tasks of psychic hygiene to pay continual
attention to the symptomology of unconscious contents and processes, for the
good reason that the conscious mind is always in danger of becoming one-sided,
of keeping to well-worn paths and getting stuck in blind alleys.” Edinger, Pg. 33 quoting from Jung, Aion,
par. 40
Some of what this means practically, for example, is
that addictions MUST be constantly coddled in a recovery state as they are
“autonomous factors.” In other words, keep going to meetings! A psychologist
friend of mine used to say, “My brain has a mind of its own.”
Jung’s quote from pg.
33 of Aion continues, as I have quoted many times in the past, and I have
included a few more sentences before and after.
“The complementary and compensating function of the
unconscious ensures that these dangers, which are especially great in neurosis,
can in some measure be avoided. It is only under ideal conditions, when life is
still simple and unconscious enough to follow the serpentine path of instinct
without hesitation or misgiving that the compensating function of the
unconscious works with entire success. The more civilized, the more conscious and
complicated a man is, the less he is able to follow his instincts. His
complicated living conditions and the influence of his environment are so
strong that they drown the quiet voice of nature. Opinions, beliefs, theories,
and the collective tendencies appear in its stead and back up all the
aberrations of the conscious mind. Deliberate attention then should be given to
the unconscious so that the compensation can set to work. Hence it is
especially important to picture the archetypes of the unconscious not as a rushing
phantasmagoria of fugitive images but as constant, autonomous factors, which
indeed they are.” Aion—Researches into the Phenomenology of the
Self, Second Edition, C.G. Jung, Bollingen Series, Princeton University Press.
Pg. 20
“Fixing reasonable boundaries
to the ego is an important feature of practical analysis. For instance, it is
commonplace to hear such remarks as, “I made this mistake, I had that
reaction,” when in fact these events are products of the unconscious. Jung
gives an example…The young interviewer asks why a patient selects a particular
symptom and Jung jumps on him with a vengeance. “He doesn’t select; they happen
to him. You could ask just as well when
you are eaten by a crocodile, how you happened to select that crocodile; he has
selected you!” Edinger, Pg. 40,
referencing R. Evans, Jung on Elementary Psychology, pg. 216
“Jung then goes on to speak
of two alternative psychic catastrophes, one in which the ego is assimilated by
the Self, and the other where the Self is assimilated by the ego. Now
“assimilation” is a euphemism for being eaten. Throughout nature, the basic
question is who eats whom. If the Self eats the ego, at worst there is an overt
psychosis. If the ego eats the Self…the world of consciousness must now be
leveled down in favor of the reality of the unconscious. …If the ego devours
the Self…the ego assumes itself to be the totality…[and] the antidote must be
that the powers of the ego be leveled down in favor of the realities of the
unconscious. In the previous situation, in which the Self assimilates the ego,
the contrary is called for; all the conscious virtues-attention,
conscientiousness, patience, adaption-must be mobilized to the maximum degree.”
Pg. 41
“Magic exercises a compulsion
that asserts itself against the conscious mind and will of the victim; that is
to say, a strange will arises in him and proves stronger than his ego. The only
comparable effect capable of psychological verification is that exercised by
unconscious contents, which by their compelling power demonstrate their affinity
with or dependence on man’s totality, that is, the self and its “karmic” functions.”
Jung
is saying that every neurotic symptom, every compulsion, every addiction, every
primitive affect that cannot be controlled by the ego-all these aspects of psychological
symptomatology derive their power and effectiveness from the Self. …the
Symptom, the primitive effect, the compulsive drive, that unconscious content
which has the ego in its grip-that is the dragon, that is the serpent, or the
cinedian fish with the motive power. But at the heart of it, contained within
it, is the precious stone of the Self. This is what needs to be extracted …from
the symptom, from the primitive, compulsive experience. Pg. 112
“Sweet are the uses of
adversity,/Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,/Wears a precious jewel in
his head” As You Like It – Shakespeare
pg. 112
“Between the conscious and
the unconscious there is a kind of “uncertainty relationship,” because the
observer is inseparable from the observed and always disturbs it by the act of
observation. In other words, exact observation of the unconscious prejudices
observation of the conscious and vice versa.” pg. 165 referring to paragraph 355 of Aion.
“If one does not mold one’s life to an
ideal, one will mold one’s ideal to one’s life.”
Exploring Jupiter-The Astrological Key to Progress,
Prosperity &Potential, Stephen Arroyo, CRCS Publications, 1996, Pg. 2
Oddly, Israel was born under
the same Saturn-Pluto conjunction that followed the Holocaust. This is either
a piece of immense cosmic irony, or it’s something very profound. Unfortunately
the behavior of this very great and dedicated new nation sometimes verges
horribly close to the very thing that engendered its birth. This suggests
something very paradoxical, which Jung called enantiodromia. That means that if you polarize very violently
against an opposite, you have a tendency to secretly become that opposite
without realizing it. The Outer Plants
and Their Cycles, Liz Greene, CRCS Publications, 1983, pg. 51
“In cases of difficult psychological diagnosis I usually get
a horoscope in order to have a further point of view from an entirely different
angle. I must say that I very often found that the astrological data elucidated
certain points which I otherwise would have been unable to understand. From
such experiences I formed the opinion that astrology is of particular interest
the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we
call “projected”-this means that we find the psychological facts as it were in
the constellations. This originally gave rise to the idea that these factors
derive from the stars, whereas they are merely in a relation of synchronicity
with them. I admit that this is a very curious fact which throws a peculiar
light on the structure on the human mind.” Jung
as quoted in My World of Astrology, Sidney Omarr, Wilshire Book company, 1973,
pg. 83
“The fact that it is possible to construct, in adequate
fashion, a person’s character from the date of his nativity, shows the relative
validity of astrology. Whatever is born or done this moment of time has the
qualities of this moment of time.” Omarr
quoting Jung, pg. 86
OM
ABOUT KUMBHA MELA IN PRAYAG
I just got a notice from Omanand, my guru’s successor, that
this upcoming February is Maha Kumbha
Mela. Held every year at the New Moon, every twelfth year is considered
particularly auspicious and the size more than doubles. Even in off years the
mela is the largest human gathering in the world. An estimated 20 million or so
will bathe in a 2 square mile area of the Ganges on this upcoming peak day – 10
February 2013. This is the New Moon of the coming Year of the Snake in Asia.
OM
ABOUT KUMBHA MELA IN
PRAYAG
DEAR DIVINE SELF,
YOU KNOW THAT
THE AUSPICIOUS PLACE PRAYAG RAJ (ALLAHABAD) IS THE KING OF ALL THE AUSPICIOUS
PLACES CALLED AS TIRTHRAJ PRAYAG .EVERY
YEAR IN THE MONTH OF MAGH (JANUARY/FEBRUARY) IS HELD A BIG FESTIVAL CALLED MAGH
MELA.IN AFTEREVERY TWELVE YER HELD MAHAKUMBHAMELA, BETWEEN THE TWELVE YEAR HELD
ARDHA KUMBHA MELA. MOSTLY THIS FESTIVAL
RUNS FOR MORE THAN A MONTH. THIS FESTIVAL USUALLY BEGINS FROM 14TH JANUARY
APPROXIMATELY ACCORDING TO PROPER ASTROLOGY.
THIS YEAR 2013 IS WILL GOING TO HELD MAHA KUMBHA MELA AT
PRAYAG (ALLAHABAD)
THIS IS THE LINK PLACE OF THE RIVER GANGA, THE RIVER JAMUNA,
&THE MYTHOLOGICAL HIDDEN SARASWATI RIVER.
EVERY YEAR MONKS,
SAINTS, DEVOTEES &MANY SPIRITUAL PERSONS FROM ALL THE AUSPICIOUS PLACES OF
INDIA ATTEND THIS MELA TO ENJOY& TO RECHARGE MIND&SOUL MANY SPIRITUAL
PERSONS, DEVOTEES COME
DIFFERENT PLACES OF
WORLD TO VISIT & ACHIEVE PEACE, HAPPINESS&BLISS.THE MONKS&DEVOTEES
PERFORM MANY KINDS OF SPIRITUAL ACTIVITEES LIKE SATASANG,&DIFFERENT TYPES
OF DIVINE SERVICE&SOCIAL SERVICE.MANY SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS ALSO COME TO GIVE THEIR SERVICE.
MANY SPIRITUAL PEOPLE, DEVOTEES, MONKS& SAINTS OBSERVE
THEIR KALPAVAS (REMAINING THE WHOLEMONTH IN SPIRITUAL PRACTICE).DAILY THEY
BATHE IN TRIVENI SANGAM& STAY IN THE FESTIVAL AREA FOR THE FULL MONTH.
EVERY DAY THE PILGRIMS COME & THEY TAKE THEIR BATH.SOME SPECIAL DAYS ARE
MOST IMPORTANT DAYS& A HUGE
GATHERING OF PILGRIMS ARRIVE TO TAKE THEIR AUSPICIOUS BATH TO REMOVE THEIR
SIN,MISERY,STRUGGLE&TO ACHIEVE SOLACE, HAPPINESS,PEACE,ENERGY, POWER&TO
RECHARGE MIND TO GET A SUCCESSFUL LIFE. THIS MAHA KUMBHA MELA WILL HELD BY
LARGEST SPIRITUAL GATHERING OF WORLD.
OUR GURUDEV BRAHMALEEN (LATE) SWAMI VISHNU DEVANAND
SARASWATI THE DISCIPLE OF YOGIRAJ HANDIYABABA (HRIDYANAND SARASWATI) HAS A
SMALL COTTAGE OVER LOOKING THE MELA CALLED ASHRAM YOGA VEDANT KUTIR. BY OUR
REVERED GURUDEV’S DIVINE GRACE THIS ASHRAM MANAGED BY ME IS SITUATED ON THE
BANK OF GANGA&JAMUNA TRIVENI SANGAM. DURING MAGH MELA IN OUR ASHRAM ALSO WE
CELEBRATE SOME SPECIAL PROGRAMMES.
EVERY YEAR
SWAMI BHAJANAND SARASWATI THE MAIN PRIST OF KALI TEMPLE,
LAGUNA BEECH.KALIFORNIA U.S.A. IS MY DISCIPLE VISITED WITH HIS
DISCIPLE&FRIENDS TO OUR ASHRAM YOGAVEDANT KUTIR SINCE LIFE TIME OF OUR
REVERD GURUDEV DURING THE MELA. RAMPRIY DASH (TRAVERHALL) OF KALI
TEMPLE&BHAJANAND ARE SINCE LONG TIME SERVING THERE SERVICES
ASHRAM&ORPHANS BY ME.BY REACIVING THERE SERVICE &HELP.THERE HELP ARE
VERY HELPFUL FOR ME TO SERVE ASHRAM, POORS, ORPHANS&NEED PERSONS.I AM VERY
GRATEFULL FOR THEM.SWAMI AMBIKANAND A PRIST OF KALI TEMPLE&MANY DEVOTEES,
BHAKTAS, SPIRITUAL PERSONS&SOCIAL WORKERS ARE VISIT ASHRAM YOGAVEDANT KUTIR
DURING MELA&STAY IN OUR ASHRAM&ENJOY MELA EVERY YEAR.THE ASHRAM
YOGAVEDANT KUTIR INVITES YOU TO JOIN &ENJOY THE MAGH MELA OF TIRTHA RAJ
PRAYAG.DURING MAGH MELA OU ARE INVITEDY YOU LIKE TO STAY IN OUR SMALL COTTAGE I
WOULD BE HAPPY IF I’ M ABLE TO SERVE YOU& DEVOTEES&SPIRITUAL PERSONS.
ENCLOSED IS PROGRAM OF 2013 MAHA KUMBHA MELA.
LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR DIVINE LOVE&CO-OPERATION.
THY
INNERMOSTSELF
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And Then
I had a significant dream of a small black snake lying in a
black cast iron frying pan in a white cupboard in a kitchen. I took out a Moleskine
notebook to draw the dream and later going back to look again at the drawing
came upon a prospective ad for a creative cooperative I thought to found.
Some of your qualifications might be;
1. Don’t like cops, doctors, lawyers, and most people in
uniforms.
2. Have multiple computers going at once each with multiple
browsers open with multiple tabs - all open at the same time.
3. Wish you had a T-1 line.
4. Have a cell phone with a hard or soft full keyboard.
5. Have more than one avatar.
6. Have been called crazy more than once.
7. Have one or more of the markers for creative genius:
A. Loss of one
or both parents at an early age
B. Had a lot
of personal autonomy – personal freedom, abandonment, time to come and go and day
mare
C. Raised in a
multi-cultural milieu when young – spoke more than one language
8. Do some of your best work while what is conventionally
called “depressed.”
9. Know you can never get enough of what you don’t really
want but keep trying anyway.
What we are trying to do;
Create, Invent, Daymare, Envision, Doodle, Breakthrough new
applications and technologies. Loosely collaborative creative thinkers somewhat
akin to Bell Labs in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Ideas we’d like to have had include
the original idea of cellular routing, Mysterium chip in the R.E.D. camera,
Twitter, credit card app and reader fro the iPhone,
Craigslist, MP3 coding, Shannon’s original paper on information coding.
Hey! So where’s the beef? [We probably have to come up with
something quick to pay the bills.]
Ron Paul’s Farewell Speech, close to as good
as Washington’s
Gold and Economic Freedom by Alan Greenspan
[Before he became senile]
This is really all you need to know about gold, money, the government,
and the coming problems.
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is
one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense ... that
gold and economic freedoms are inseparable.
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is
nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the
productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A
substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation.
But who would buy these newly issued government bonds in
sufficient quantities over a long period of time to emplant the welfare state
firmly onto the American public? There was in place, finally, the purchaser of
last resort:
The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for
the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an
unlimited expansion of credit. They have created paper reserves in the
form of government bonds which — through a complex series of steps —
the banks accept in place of tangible assets and treat as if they were an
actual deposit.
The law of supply and demand is not to be conned. As the
supply of money ... increases relative to the supply of tangible assets in the
economy, prices must eventually rise. Thus the earnings saved by the
productive members of the society lose value in terms of goods.
This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades
against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of
wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a
protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty
in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard. http://www.constitution.org/mon/greenspan_gold.htm
An Apocalyptic view of Things
First, I am worried about finances – the United States’s
finances. No fiat (paper) currency has EVER been successful in human history.
All have failed. The U.S. dollar has been a completely paper currency since
Nixon took us of the gold standard in 1971. Governments ALWAYS attempt to
resolve their finances by printing or creating more money. Our government does
this now by a subterfuge of the U.S. Treasury selling bonds which are bought by
the Federal Reserve. We, the U.S. Government, operates NOW like Bernie Madoff.
There are significant and increasing concerns about personal
freedoms in the U.S. which we took for granted as little as 10 years ago. No
more. The best single reference for these issues is Glenn Greenwald’s
column in the Guardian.
Third, I am worried about possible earth changes especially
here in “the West.” What I have begun doing is beginning to buy a few extras of
camping stuff when I go to the market and stashing it. So I now have 6 extra
propane bottles around for the camping stove. A former Navy
Seal on Dr. Drew today was giving survival suggestions. Basically, he
suggested creating a stash of emergency stuff in a duffel bag or box you can
just pick up and split with.
A friend of mine lives on Long Island with about 20 cats.
During Sandy she lost all power for about 12 days and due to the miracles of
electric living propounded by Wm. Levitt in the 1940’s her all-electric house
in Levittown was DOA - no heat, no stove, no nada. She was freezing her ass off
AND one of her cats was peeing in her bed. My friend had no sleeping bag.
