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27 February 2004

 

The BIGGEST STORY of the year is being covered up!
I can't understand why it is only on the Internet that people are talking about the Secret Pentagon Report: Climate Change Will Destroy Us. If you do a Google search on this story, you will find all kinds of small and alternative media outlets covering this important story, but why isn't this the lead story on CNN and all of the other networks? This is big news! I sure hope the online community will continue blogging and otherwise posting this story until enough people send emails to the Corporate Media Censors to force them to make this their lead story.

We need to force this story out into the open and have a public debate about it. We can't let the Pentagon dismiss this story with one of it's "well, it was only a war games scenario" lies. This report is backed by Andrew Marshall ("Yoda"), who has been the real brains behind the Pentagon for many years. The fact that he had it leaked to Fortune Magazine further makes the point that he is trying to warn the business world first. This should be a HUGE red flag. If We The People want to have any say in how our allegedly representative government plans on handling a potential weather disaster, we'd better force this story into the open ... and soon!

posted by Lorenzo 4:21 PM

25 February 2004

 

Thought for the day
This is not a dress rehearsal for the apocalypse. This is not a pseudo-millenium. This is the real thing folks. This is not a test. This is the last chance before things become so dissipated that there is no chance for cohesiveness.
-- Terence McKenna

posted by Lorenzo 10:32 AM

24 February 2004

 

Timothy Leary's Last Words
If you go to the "official" (?) Leary Web site (the link above), you will find the following:
What were Timothy's Last Words? At one point in his final delirium, he spoke the words "Why not." He uttered the phrase repeatedly, in different intonations: as a question, as a statement, softly, loudly, thoughtfully, ruefully, and confidently. He died soon after, and that was the last thing he said out loud.

However, I no longer believe that is the final statement on this subject.

The other night I was visiting with Howard Hallis, and he had a little more to add to the story. Howard was one of the people at Timothy's bedside when he died, and after hearing the final "Why not" phrase he also heard him say, "Beautiful. Beautiful." And then a look of bliss, or awe, transformed his face as he died.

Howard admits that others who were also present may not have heard those words, but he has no doubts about having heard them himself.

posted by Lorenzo 4:25 PM

 

Elder Wisdom
I was in dreamtime. I seen this great wave going. I tell people about this wave. It wasn't a tidal wave. This was a spiritual wave. So, to me, I believe that the Dreamtime is going to be that. I believe the revival is going to start in Australia when we're Dreaming. It's the hummingbee that I'm talking about. And love. We've got to learn to love one another. You see, that's really what's going to happen to the earth. We're going to have tidal waves. We're going to have earthquakes. That's coming because we don't consider this land as our Mother. We've taken away the balance, and we're not putting it back. I look at the bush, and those trees are alive. They're not dead, they're alive. And they want you to cuddle them.
-- Guboo Ted Thomas, Australian Aboriginal Tribal Elder

Also see: Secret Pentagon Report: Climate Change Will Destroy Us

posted by Lorenzo 11:50 AM

23 February 2004

 

Thought for the day
There's a vicious circle in society, if you bring up children in the sort of 'smack 'em till they change' mode, they're going to grow up into wounded adults, who then bring up their own children the same way. If we can break that vicious circle, we're going to change the way society functions.
-- Peter Russell

posted by Lorenzo 3:47 PM

16 February 2004

 

Something to think about
For me its, yes, take insights, they're valuable and test them in the light of day, some of the insights I think are in fact coming from our own garbage, just internal crap that's coming up in meditation or whatever. Look at it, does this make sense? If it does, put it into practise. Don't worry about where its coming from. One of my favourite sayings is 'Just because its the voice of God doesn't mean its right.' Discrimination is very important these days."
-- Peter Russell

posted by Lorenzo 1:25 PM

14 February 2004

 

Thought for the day
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
-- Voltaire

posted by Lorenzo 12:28 PM

13 February 2004

 

Something to think about
The goal now, as audacious as it sounds, is not merely to transcend the world but to transform the world, to become an agent of the evolutionary impulse itself. Indeed, in surrendering one's ego to that, one literally feels oneself being filled up with a divine and luminous energy and a passion to transform the world and the whole universe for a cause that has nothing to do with oneself.
-- Andrew Cohen

posted by Lorenzo 2:30 PM

11 February 2004

 

Thought for the day
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
-- Harry S. Truman

posted by Lorenzo 8:09 PM

08 February 2004

 

Thought for the day
We live at a peculiar moment in history. If we look at the reality of the world from the viewpoint of the industrial era, it is clear that there is no hope. . . . But there is another way to look at our situation. We can discover the large number of people who have decided to change. . . . If we do this, it seems equally impossible that we shall fail to solve our problems.
-- Robert Theobald

posted by Lorenzo 1:24 PM

05 February 2004

 

An Example of the Best the Internet has to Offer

Today I experienced one of those serendipitous events that make the Internet such a marvelous tool for human communication. At the suggestion of a friend, I took a look at a new blog some friends of his have created to bring us a live account of one of the world's oldest markets. This bold team of bloggers has ventured into the Arctic Circle to Jokkmokk in Lapland. The event is the 399th Jokkmokk Sami Winter Market.

What made the trip to that Web site so unusual is the little 'blob' floating in the bottom of the window. The blob indicated that this was a 'MeetingPage' and that nine other people were looking at that very page at that very moment. Wow!, I thought, it's so nice to know that some other human beings are reading this page with me. And when I realized that most likely someone in Lapland was one of those people. So I clicked on the text that indicated I could open a chat session with the other people who were on that page at that time.

After a couple of minutes alone in the chat room, a visitor from Arizona entered, and a moment later a third guest entered. After a bit of typing and changing our 'guest' handles to our real names, we clicked on the button offering a voice conference. That was when my moment of Zen happened. Almost as soon as I clicked the button to join the conference I heard this wonderful voice from Lapland saying he was a 'Jokkmokk man.' As we talked, I was also scrolling down their blog and discovered a picture of the person I was talking to. There was something about hearing a live human voice through the Internet (reporting a great story to just a few of us in the chat room) that seemed to bring the Net alive like never before.

Now I realize that this kind of tech has been around for a long time. But in the past I've always had to make plans to meet a friend at a certain time, and then we had to tweak the tech to make it work. What made this experience so different for me was the fact that I hadn't planned on speaking to anyone when I landed on their Web site. But within a few minutes of reading this great blog I was actually speaking to someone in Lapland! Now that's a really big deal for us California guys :-) . I plan on going back to that site several times a day while the market is going on. Maybe I'll meet you in their chat room in the next couple of days. I highly recommend that you check it out.

posted by Lorenzo 3:52 PM

04 February 2004

 

Something to think about
Therefore our little planet here is temporarily boiling over again with heated-up bipeds waving the black magic wand of pointless mass death. To the funeral march of hysterical sloganeering, all over the world, forces are waving bits of cloth and chanting death mantras before the maddened bull of mass consciousness. The unthinking levels of reactionary patriotism and religion have begun to break out uncontrollably. What do those who love humanity and wish it well do at a time like this? We can only try to point out that when humanity suffers, there are those behind the scenes who always reap the benefit. We know something about who is really going to profit from this chaos: out of the present carnage, there are great fortunes to be made and delicious worldly powers of many kinds to be consolidated.
-- Diane Harvey

posted by Lorenzo 8:09 PM

02 February 2004

 

Thought for the day
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
-- James Madison

posted by Lorenzo 8:18 PM

01 February 2004

 

Thought for the day
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.
-- Cicero Marcus Tullius

posted by Lorenzo 1:28 PM