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BIM 69 Ballantyne’s Inspired Musings December 2012 - sample


  

BIM 69
Ballantyne’s Inspired Musings
December 2012
Vox Clamantis in Deserto


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Your primary duty is to know your very own Self and be free.
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Carlos Ballantyne      carlosjii@gmail.com      https://twitter.com/#!/carlosjii


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. 

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,
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


I am due to take a trip “out West”, actually East from herezip 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 FoxLife is consciousness.”

Contrast this withYoga 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 medicatedto 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.” AionResearches 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
                                                                                                                    GURUJEE
                                                                                                                   OMANAND       


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.


I’m thinking of looking for another place to live far from California and changing lifestyles to one of maybe living in an RV or comfy trailer for 6 months of the year – or longer. There’s a lot to be said for living in Tucson 6 months of the year and somewhere in the mountains for 6 months. 

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