MICHAEL MOORE'S PETITION
Thrilling to get email from Michael Moore today, thanking people for doing as he asked in his last email, and going to see his documentary, "Bowling for Columbine," on its all-important opening weekend. What happened is part of a cultural phenomenon that only could have occurred in our era, with the Internet. Mike says:
"Bowling for Columbine" has set the new all-time opening weekend box office record ($27,000 per screen avg.) for a documentary in the United States! Thank you SO MUCH -- all of you who stood in those enormous lines in Los Angeles and New York trying to get in but couldn't. The unprecedented outpouring of support for this film sent a shock wave through Hollywood. An astounding 18 films opened last Friday in NYC and L.A. -- so, for a documentary to do this well in such a crowded field, it was the last thing anyone expected. And to break the record set nearly 13 years ago by "Roger & Me" -- it was the only way it should have happened!
Look at the capacity of the Internet to turn us into a force for change! Here's more of what Mike said:
Your attendance at my film has resulted in me having a much larger forum in which to speak out against the war on Iraq and the other misdeeds of the Bush administration. After being virtually banned from the airwaves during the release of my book, that wall has been broken down by this film's success. I've been able to be a "stand-in" for all of you and say the things on prime time TV that never get said. Mainstream publications like People Magazine (whose critic called the film "provocative, entertaining and maddening -- a must see!") are running feature stories, and this weekend I'm spending the entire hour with Tim Russert on his CNBC show. But the thing I'm looking forward to the most will happen on Monday night when Phil Donahue will broadcast his MSNBC show LIVE from Flint with an audience of Flint residents and myself.
So, first of all, there is the Internet as a tool to rally people. Secondly, there is Michael Moore having my vote as our best vehicle to turn gadflies into a force. My last post about him urged signing the petition that he got into the hands of every Democrat in Congress: "I pledge to never vote again for any Democratic candidate for public office who has voted in favor of George Bush's war in Iraq." Look what happened:
Within 72 hours of posting that petition on my website, over 50,000 of you signed it. It was an awesome response.
Get on Michael Moore's mailing list. He doesn't send much, and whatever it is makes you feel real good.
TO WALTER STARCK IN WONDERLAND:Indeed, Walter, "Ongoing world events leave one wondering if somehow one has stumbled through some wormhole of space/time into a dimension akin to the Wonderland of Alice." I recoil at war being as neutral a subject as tennis or cooking, let alone at the horror of an aggressiveness where America is fomenting invasions. As I listen to conversation that is so accepting of the whole issue of war, I feel out of tune with many patriots. Actually, there is a little respite I get from David Hawkins's map, where, although a large majority are indeed in a mentality in which war is an ordinary modality, that's offset by the power of more conscious people being exponentially greater than the power of unconscious ones. Will get your whole "Report from Wonderland" posted when I am fully blogged, but in the meantime I'm posting some of your pithy statements and that conclusion you draw, that you and I are so resonant about, where America has to look to how we participate in causing the mess we are in:"Should Allah bless their endeavors with significant success, the outcome would indeed be the holy war they are seeking, but most likely in the form of nuclear retaliation that would reduce their civilization to scattered remnants of desert nomads.""One sure way of finding out if someone is hiding dangerous weapons is to attack them and see if they use them.”“Although we see ourselves as a peaceful nation we have never known a generation without war and the rest of the world sees us as rather bellicose.”“The obvious fact is it cannot be prevented by force. Israel has endured decades of it despite having excellent military and intelligence capabilities, a compact well policed area to protect and a small source area that is under their direct military control. The U.S., on the other hand, has a vast area to protect, a multitude of vulnerable targets that are impossible to police, a global source for terrorism with which to deal and very poor intelligence access to much of it.“While the situation is already bad, it is growing worse in term of the means to and targets for terrorism being ever increasing with the advance of technology. Already cross country oil, gas, electricity, water and communication lines are vulnerable, as are bridges, tunnels, and dams. Food distribution and the health care system are open to chaos. Various crop and livestock pests and diseases can easily be unleashed to play havoc with food production. Forest fires are trivial to start. All this doesn't even have to involve taking human life but can have even more detrimental effect on society as a whole. As time goes on knowledge of such things as genetic engineering becomes more advanced and widespread. Even an individual with modest funds will soon be capable of unleashing havoc.“It is clear we will not be able to prevent massive disruptions with force alone. We are going to have to discover and address the root causes of terrorism. We may even have to do the unthinkable and actually communicate with the terrorists and try to reach some degree of mutual understanding. Or, we can stand on principle with both sides claiming God and righteousness while continuing to slaughter one another.”
RE COMING FROM WHAT'S FURTHEST IN -- FROM DANIEL PINCHBECK
I don't know what we're all doing here but learning this human thing, so I'm passing this along cause I learned stuff reading some things that Daniel Pinchbeck said:
"Right now, Buddhism and Yoga are incredibly popular in the U.S. However, as systems of self-development, I wonder if they are ideal for Westerners. If you take the esoteric perspective that a reincarnation is, in some sense, a fact, then, if somebody has incarnated into a Western body, then there must be a reason for that. Dion Fortune wrote that the West has a different dharma than the East: It is our dharma to conquer dense matter. Rudolf Steiner thought that the transformation of the earth was part of the purpose of human evolution. What we need now is a Yoga or Tantra of social transformation, not more elaborate breathing exercises -- not anything that will push us deeper into our obsession with ourselves."
"But of course it's not enough simply to 'sound the alarm' -- we have to find a way to conceive of an achievable human future....You have to let go of your own ego, which goes totally against our cultural biases, where we tend to cling to our ego at all costs. This is one reason the establishment hates and fears psychedelics so much: They threaten the ego structure that is the basic disease of our society. Eventually, through the shamanic process, you reintegrate your ego at a higher level."
"Despite all appearances to the contrary, we live in a magical world. Millions of people line up to see 'Star Wars,' 'Lord of the Rings,' 'Harry Potter.' What they don't suspect is that they are, in fact, living that story in their own realm -- or at least they could be, if they were to wake up and realize the need to fight the machinery of noise and lies that assaults us, as our planet is being reduced to a heap of smoldering slag. Now is the time to use the Force, join the Fellowship, pick up the broomstick and generally get to work."
(The whole interview that this comes from is not on the Net. Keep your eyes open for "Arthur," a new literary giveaway newspaper, which is where the interview appears.)
RE IRAQ AND THE DARKNESS OF BACK ROOM POLITICS
Russia supposedly doesn't want an Iraq war because our victory would cause Iraq's oil price to drop. That's a potential life-saver to our economy, and why we'd be going to war. But, if Iraq's price drops, for its higher grade oil, no one will pay Russia as much as it now gets for its lower grade oil, and this will devastate their economic recovery. So, this troubling paragraph caught my eye:
"Stratfor, a geopolitical analysis firm, reported that the U.S. is quietly offering a quid pro quo to Russia in the form of a trade off. If Russia will sanction the U.S. invasion, the U.S. will allow Russia a free hand in Georgia to deal with Chechen and Islamic rebels and presumably a piece of the profits from the new Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline project that just broke ground."
Doesn't it feel unbearable to be trapped in a system where your life and death is dealt with in back rooms? However, when you step back, you see the play of large forces that indeed are way beyond our possible control. I was reminded of this by great presentations I went to in LA this last week, by Daniel Pinchbeck and by David Hawkins, who each paint the biggest picture. (I urge to read their breakthough books -- "Breaking Open the Head," from Pinchbeck, and both "Power vs. Force" and "The Eye of the I," from Hawkins.)Daniel has insight gleaned from study of esoteric systems and from field research ingesting shamanic brews (a way "to shatter the hypnotic trance of contemporary life"). He's seeing the many thousands of years swings of cosmic forces. He's talking about such things as an emergence, after a 26,000 year cycle of spiritual development, from the Kali Yuga, or ‘dark age’ (according to the ancient sacred scriptures of India, the oldest known era), when spiritual awareness is at its minimum and materialism reigns.
The crop circles he sees as part of the outcropping of this turning we are in are. The formations mostly dot an ancient sacred landscape in Britain. They are in the womb of what is an earth rendering of a goddess, with her carefully placed stone circles, burial chambers and other ritualistic ruins. The circles are helping to bring a re-awakening to what we lost when industrialization stripped us of contact with our souls.
Hawkins, with insight based on kinesiology, got standing ovations from several hundred people at Agape Church. (How different it feels to be there, where they're coming from love and not from money, and everyone smiles at you from when you hit the parking lot.) Hawkins talks about wars serving to create suffering that wakes us up -- how they are necessary in the grand scheme of things.
There is not exactly comfort in understanding the forces that are in play, but at least we know the tasks at hand. On Hawkins's scale, the 22% of humanity who are on the positive side of consciousness offset the 78% who aren't. (That 22% are above 200, the crossover from negative to positive, where integrity becomes what counts.) Society is grappling with integrity now -- the church, the corporations, the accounting firms and the government -- in the transition we are making, as a species, from negative to positive. For all of us, work in support of the life of integrity is what there is to do.
The International Scientific And Social Conference: PROSPECTS FOR CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF UNITARY PLANETARY CIVILIZATION
A crop circle researcher, Jonathan Sherwood, has been invited to participate in this Russian project in support of "scientific, practical and organizational activities necessary for the formation of noosphere world outlook in human community."
It sounds unreal, it is so on the nose for what all of us would wish for. A report on the first of these events that was held in Moscow in May, says it was "initiated by the most prominent non-governmental organizations among world academies and international public movements...The Conference major goal is the formation of noosphere world vision and the establishment of the international mechanism of coordinating human activities with laws of nature, ensuring the preservation of Life on the Earth as the main criterion of truth."
This sounds pie in the sky -- there's lots of do-good passion out there in the hands of people who are powerless -- but look at who's on the committee: Bill Gates, George Soros, Ted Turner, and a whole other perspective on things with Jose Arguellas. So, how come the world isn't buzzing with this?
The project update, after the Johannesburg summit in which it was a participant, says startling things like this:
"The world is under the threat of the Damocles sword of instability that can trigger hyperinflation process, global economic and ecological crises and, as a result, to destroy human population. Extremism and terrorism, unemployment, drug addiction are stemming from these processes. At the same time, there exist positive ideas of peace-making globalization - the foundation of new world order - that should be supported by the progressive political elite, the intellectuals, representatives of various confessions and all people of the planet Earth promoting the ideals of Goodness and true concern of future generations. Time has come to unite all responsible and progressive people, to renew all the aspects of culture and science."
Does anybody have email for Bill or George or Ted or Jose to get the skinny on what's going on?
posted by suzanne at 10:38 AM
THE FURTHEST OUT: CLINTON AIDE SLAMS PENTAGON'S UFO SECRECY By Richard Stenger cnn.com 10/22
Sent by Walter Starck...here's what I wrote to him:
Walter -- This is a ray of sunshine. It feels like it has legs. I see the wondrous Leslie Kean, whose terrific piece, "Origin of crop circles baffles scientists" , is posted in my Crop Circle Diary, is the person who filed here under the Freedom of Information Act. Boy, get some hot people interested in supressed subjects and just watch sparks fly. Feels like there's some play of forces beyond our control going on -- that the heightened danger we're in is getting balanced by opening to what's further out than otherwise could get in.
QUOTES:
A former White House chief of staff and an international investigative journalist want to know what the Pentagon knows, calling on it to release classified files...not setting out to prove the existence of aliens. Rather the group wants to legitimize the scientific investigation of unexplained aerial phenomena.
[John] Podesta was one of numerous political and media heavyweights on hand in Washington, D.C., to announce a new group to gain access to secret government records about UFOs. Specifically, the Coalition for Freedom of Information (CFI) is pressing the Air Force...The CFI director Ed Rothschild also works for Podesta's public relations firm, PodestaMattoon, which is coordinating the new group at the behest of the Sci-Fi channel. He said the initiative was a call for serious investigation, not a publicity stunt for the cable network.
THE COST OF WAR -- READ IT AND WEEP
Yesterday I got a heart-sinking email that toted up the trade-offs for the cost of war:
The What the World Wants Project shows the relationship between the world's military expenses and the amount of money required to creatively address eighteen of the world's most pressing social and environmental problems. It suggests that one-third of the $780 billion spent every year on the military could ultimately:
1. Eliminate Starvation and Malnourishment
2. Provide Health Care & AIDS Control
3. Provide Shelter for everyone in the world
4. Provide Clean Safe Water
5. Eliminate Illiteracy
6. Provide Clean, Safe Energy through Efficiency
7. Provide Clean, Safe Energy through Renewables
8. Retire the Developing Nations' Debts
9. Stabilize Population
10. Prevent Soil Erosion
11. Stop Deforestation
12. Stop Ozone Depletion
13. Prevent Acid Rain
14. Prevent Global Warming
15. Remove Landmines
16. Provide Refugee Relief
17. Eliminate Nuclear Weapons and
18. Build Democracy
With this echoing in my mind, I was struck today by this paragraph in another email:"This US administration is fomenting an empire that they dub (and dubya): Pax Americana. We are the great peacemakers who upset entire nations in their sovereignty and we use any means possible. Big brother is not watching. Big brother is marching. The economy is being rapidly drained to support this sociopathic power grab. Human services are already tumbling. Will we let them be gutted? The choice will more and more be between petroleum and harmony. L'oil Americans wave the flag in the face of immense human and biological suffering. How much longer will we let the power structures and the inherent ignorances in our way of life bludgeon our world? Everything is in gory hands with OilState."
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
I've been doing a marathon read of the last month of my back-burnered Arianna columns. Here are some excerpts from the columnist who is the most brilliant articulator of how I feel in these unthinkable times.
9/16 A CRACK HOUSE DIVIDED
Of course, Jeb's wildly inconsistent attitude on the issue -- treatment and privacy for his daughter, incarceration and public humiliation for everyone else -- is part and parcel of the galling hypocrisy that infects America's insane drug war on every level...
And the White House continues to bombard us with those offensive -- and expensive -- TV spots implying that youthful drug users like Noelle Bush are the moral equivalent of Mohammed Atta. Maybe her Uncle George can get her an audition for the next round of taxpayer-funded ads. Show her pulling some crack out of her shoe while saying, "I helped blow up buildings."...
If America's drug laws were applied consistently, Jeb Bush and his family would be evicted from their publicly-funded digs, just as people living in public housing can be thrown out of their homes if any household member or guest is found using drugs -- even if the drug use happened someplace other than in the housing project.
9/19 IT'S GUT CHECK TIME FOR CORPORATE AMERICA
Welch, who seems to have a proclivity for bellying up to a midsection metaphor, having titled his self-aggrandizing
autobiography "Jack: Straight From the Gut," says that his decision to downsize his 24-karat golden parachute while
continuing to defend its fairness and propriety "sure feels right in my gut." If that's truly the case, he needs to schedule an emergency appointment with a gastro-intestinal specialist.
9/30 THE WHITE HOUSE ON IRAQ: WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' PROOF!
...the president's bizarre response to a reporter's straightforward query last week about who poses a bigger threat to America, Saddam or Al-Qaeda? "That's an interesting question," he replied. "I'm trying to think of something humorous to say but I can't when I think about Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein." When did the president take over the "Tonight Show?" Why would the idea that he should make a joke about such a deadly serious subject even cross his mind?...
When asked at an Armed Services Committee hearing about what is now compelling us to "take precipitous actions" against Iraq, Rumsfeld barked: "What's different? What's different is 3,000 people were killed." Yeah, by Mohammed Atta and company -- not Saddam Hussein...
Condoleezza Rice continued the assault on reality when she vaguely yet ominously claimed: "There clearly are contacts between Al-Qaeda and Iraq that can be documented." Well, then why not document them?...
Sen. Bob Graham, who, as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee is privy to the inside scoop, says he's seen no evidence of any link between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.
10/2 THE TORCH FIZZLES
Aren't you getting tired of hearing these scumbags saying that they "aren't perfect" and that "they've made mistakes" and leaving it at that? We're supposed to feel that the Torch, the Condit, and their sleazemates from the corporate Hall of Shame are no worse than the rest of us. Who are we to cast stones, their warped reasoning goes, when we've all made mistakes, as well? But take a second look at Torricelli's record and you'll be reaching for a rock in record time..."When did we stop believing in and trusting in each other?" asked Torricelli. In your case, Senator, right around the time you slipped that $8,100 Rolex watch David Chang gave you onto your wrist.
10/7 WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT CASUALTIES?
Will the deaths number in the hundreds, as was the case in Desert Storm and as would be again if Saddam collapsed like a cheap umbrella? Or will they be closer to the 10,000 to 50,000 some experts have predicted? And is Saddam the clear and present danger that would justify asking our sons and daughters to give up their lives for their country?...The fact is the number of Americans in favor of going to war with Iraq plummets -- down to only 39 percent in the latest Zogby poll -- when the prospect of "thousands of American casualties" is added to the question...Baghdad is a densely populated city of 4 million people -- roughly the same size as Los Angeles. Picture our troops having to battle their way down Hollywood Boulevard in search of a lone madman...
"The likelihood is very good that he could use weapons of mass destruction," Gen. John Shalikashvili, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee in September. "It could get very messy... The casualties, in my judgment, could be very high."
MICHAEL MOORE ON WHY OUR CHILDREN AREN'T SAFE
I feel like Michael Moore's outrage gives me permission for mine -- that I'm not a sole loony, feeling as strongly opposed as I do to this administration with a spillover of feelings onto the so called opposition party. Here's an excerpt from his latest email, after his hour on Donahue was preempted by the sniper story:
Your children are not safe because we live in a country where we value bombs and missiles more than we do textbooks and teachers.Your children are not safe because we still will not provide them with the most basic of human rights, one that nearly every other country on earth has: that ALL children have a right to free health care should they get sick.Your children are not safe because we stuff them full of McDonald's and Ritalin and then wonder why they have diabetes at 13 or shoot up the school a week before graduation.Your children are not safe because they saw us adults allow a man to steal the White House, and then we did nothing about it. They learned that lying and stealing are OK, but "one person, one vote" is a sham.Your children are not safe because one in six of them live in poverty, while Bush's friends and business partners make off with loot from the pension funds and the stock market...
If Bush and his NRA buddies hadn't prevented the formation of a national database for ballistics fingerprinting, the police would have been able to trace the sniper's bullets to the actual gun that he is using. He might have been caught by now...PS. Sniper Porn -- a.k.a. nonstop news coverage that tells you nothing new but titillates and scares the bejeepers out of you -- pre-empted the hour-long Donahue show from Flint on Monday night. I've been told it may air this Thursday night (Oct. 24) at 8pm/11pm ET/PT on MSNBC. (Listmembers -- The sniper will probably pre-empt this again. If you're on Mike's mailing list, you'll hear about re-scheduling.) It's a great show, live from the Flint premiere of my film, with Phil and 300 mostly Flint-area residents speaking their minds. The film continues to set records and, on Monday night, it became the #1 film in the country in per screen average at the box office! Thanks to everyone who has seen it. It arrives in more cities this Friday.
A CALL TO GET OUT OF THE STRANGLEHOLD WHERE CRONY CAPITALISM WINS AND FREE ENERGY LOSES
Listmember Wade Frazier is one of my favorite whistle blowers. I shy away from conspiracy theorists because I can't sort out the wheat from the chaff, but Wade has been through the stuff himself that he writes about. He finally has finished editing his work and has posted it on a shockingly revealing website. Yesterday, he sent an email regarding the situation with free energy, where he's been on the front line. He says, "How naïve can people be? Pretty damn naïve, which is one of our biggest problems. As people dismiss my experiences as too negative, they will never figure out what is really happening. It is so hard to be optimistic, as we are about to launch World War III over controlling oil and gas supplies, when the very people trying to make a dent have no idea how the system really works." Have a look at his adventures with Dennis Lee,"who led the effort [to bring alternative energy to the American marketplace, and] has been slandered, libeled or ignored ever since."
Today, Wade sent out "Business as Usual." I kept coming up short reading this, having to let it sink in that it's from the New York Times. I kept thinking I was reading conspiracy theorizing that's so prevalent on the Net. To think, for instance, that funding cuts for the I.R.S. and the S.E.C. are to prevent the prosection of the rich -- "starving the I.R.S. isn't about saving money, it's about protecting affluent tax cheats" and "top officials don't really believe that the S.E.C. can do its job with less money; the whole point is to prevent the agency from doing its job" -- would feel way over a line if it only came in my email.
It makes you hopping mad, doesn't it? Maybe all the anger we're feeling will fuel a turn-around. This phase of humanity's progression has us so imperiled that it's really a new dynamic. We aren't going to squeak out of this. With the force of evil so fueled by misery, and with it being too elusive to conquer, the way out would be to take a leap in consciousness. Is there another way? Seriously. For the sages amongst us, who see the awakening of humanity as a slow process that will move by its internal accord, I say to look into the face of the beast and see how much fire it is breathing on us. I think the first thing is for us to get in our minds the necessity for a species-wide leap. Those who are the holders of the higher state, whom I would imagine to be all our listmembers, I ask to think about the reality of a shift now, where we devote ourselves to helping humanity break through before we break down.
Business as Usual
By Paul Krugman
New York Times | Opinion
Tuesday, 22 October, 2002The mood among business lobbyists, according to a jubilant official at the Heritage Foundation, is one of "optimism, bordering on giddiness." They expect the elections on Nov. 5 to put Republicans in control of all three branches of government, and have their wish lists ready. "It's the domestic equivalent of planning for postwar Iraq," says the official.
The White House also apparently expects Christmas in November. In fact, it is so confident that it has already given business lobbyists the gift they want most: an end to all this nonsense about corporate reform. Back in July George W. Bush declared, "Corporate misdeeds will be found and will be punished," touting a new law that "authorizes new funding for investigators and technology at the Securities and Exchange Commission to uncover wrongdoing." But that was then; don't you know there's a war on?
The first big step in undermining reform came when Harvey Pitt, chairman of the S.E.C., backtracked on plans to appoint a strong and independent figure to head a new accounting oversight board.
But that was only a prelude. The S.E.C. has been underfunded for years, and most observers -- including Richard Breeden, who headed the agency when Mr. Bush's father was president -- thought that even the budget Mr. Bush signed back in July was seriously inadequate. But now the administration wants to cancel most of the "new funding" Mr. Bush boasted about.
Administration officials claim that the S.E.C. can still do its job with a much smaller budget. But the S.E.C. is ludicrously underfinanced: staff lawyers and accountants are paid half what they could get in the private sector, usually find themselves heavily outnumbered by the legal departments of the companies they investigate, and often must do their own typing and copying. Officials say there are investigations that they should pursue but can't for lack of resources. And the new law expands the S.E.C.'s responsibilities.
So what's going on? Here's a parallel. Since 1995 Congress has systematically forced the Internal Revenue Service to shrink its operations; the number of auditors has fallen by 28 percent. Yet it's clear that giving the I.R.S. more money would actually reduce the federal budget deficit; the agency estimates that it loses at least $30 billion a year in uncollected taxes, mainly because high-income taxpayers believe they can get away with tax evasion. So starving the I.R.S. isn't about saving money, it's about protecting affluent tax cheats.
Similarly, top officials don't really believe that the S.E.C. can do its job with less money; the whole point is to prevent the agency from doing its job.
In retrospect, it's hard to see why anyone believed that our current leadership was serious about corporate reform. To an extent unprecedented in recent history, this is a government of, by and for corporate insiders. I'm not just talking about influence, I'm talking about personal career experience. The Bush administration contains more former C.E.O.'s than any previous administration, but as James Surowiecki put it in The New Yorker, "Almost none of the C.E.O.'s on the Bush team headed competitive, entrepreneurial businesses." Instead they come out of a world of "crony capitalism, in which whom you know is more important than what you do and how you do it." Why would they turn their backs on that world?
And don't forget the personal incentives. Almost all of those ex-C.E.O.'s in the administration became wealthy thanks to the connections they had acquired in Washington; the exception is Mr. Bush himself, who became wealthy thanks to the connections his father had acquired in Washington. This process continues. Senator Phil Gramm, who pushed through legislation that exempted Enron's trading practices from regulation while his wife sat on the company's board, is retiring and taking a new job: he's going to UBS Warburg, the company that bought Enron's trading operation. Somehow, crusaders against business abuse don't get similar offers.
The bottom line is that you shouldn't worry about those TV images of men in suits doing the perp walk. That was for public consumption; now that the public is focused on other things, it's back to business -- insider business -- as usual.
posted by suzanne at 11:23 AM
SOME LISTMEMBER COMMENTS
Michela Zanchi, mzanchi@earthlink.net
I have been using kinesiology for years ( first time in NYC ), my naturopath is a Hawkins "devotee"...I was able to stop taking thyroid medication and monitor myself with kinesiology and natural supplements. The body does have wisdom.
Jim Dreaver, jdreaver@aol.com
Found your piece on David Hawkins and Jonathan Reams's comments on AK of interest, Suzanne. As it happens, I am reading "Power vs. Force" right now. Have been around AK principles for 25 years as a DC, use some of it in my practice. Interesting stuff and am exploring ways of working with it more... hence Hawkins's book.
Joyce Kovelman, ASOUL1@aol.com
All indigenous populations visited other dimensions of existence, often with the assistance of these agents and they returned with much awareness and knowledge. They did not use contaminated drugs, as many of our young do today, nor did they ingest these hallucinogens as a means of escape or tripping out and avoiding life. They had to prepare themselves and the plants in a most sacred way, return and process their vision quests and share the wisdom gained.
Richard Metzger, metzger@disinfo.com, reviewing Pinchbeck
He asks himself—and the reader—some very important questions: If these dimensions can be accessed by the judicious application of plant and chemical agents and if the bizarrely alien entities one encounters there are real and autonomous beings and not just a drug addled figment of our imaginations—then surely this is big news, isn’t it?...Why aren’t our finest minds working on getting to the bottom of this, one of the greatest mysteries facing us as human beings? Why instead are we turning away from wisdom and towards self-annihilation, war, and planetary suicide? It doesn’t make any damned sense...The enlightenment and gnosis resulting from the use of visionary plants and neurochemicals may be mankind’s only hope for survival.
Nori Muster, nori@steamboats.com
It's just so sad, so scary. I want people to learn from history what happened and how to prevent more of it. I believe it has to involve gentleness rather than force (no more bombing of other people's countries like Bushkie wants to do). Making friends, rather than making more enemies, has to be the solution...I know you don't like conspiracy theories about Bush, but I wrote a little article about him a few weeks ago and it mentions crop circles. See "Suckers."
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