Why Saturated Fat is Healthy

coconut: best source of saturated healthy fat

Coconut Oil for Your Health

Healthy fat is saturated fat and the healthiest saturated fat is coconut oil. Coconut oil is a medium chain fatty acid (mcfa). Eating MFCA’s burns fat off the body that is stored in the hips, stomach and thighs. MFCA’s are healthy fat.  Sadly, the public has been mislead and believes that saturated fat is bad for you and bad for your heart. Public health officials have been telling the public to consume vegetable oils to improve their health for decades. This kind of misinformation is a threat to your health. The truth is most vegetable oils  are hydrogenated and contain trans fatty acids. They are high in omega 6 fatty acids and skew the balance necessary between omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids. A preponderance of omega 6  fatty acids in your body can lead to premature aging, heart problems, macular degeneration and several degenerative diseases. Trans fatty acids may contribute to, or cause diabetes, cancer, and irregular thyroid function among other health related issues.

The Incredible Benefits of Saturated Fat

Saturated fat, on the other hand, plays many important roles in your body. Calcium utilization in your skeletal structure requires the presence of saturated fat. Saturated fat increases and restores the insulin receptors on the cell membrane that show serious decline in type  2 diabetes. Coconut oil is good for the heart and detoxes the liver. It is also a great food for the brain. It increases energy, burns off fat, and raises the metabolism. It can also be used to treat skin problems, dandruff, fungus, and viruses. Coconut oil is healthy fat.

Saturated Fat and World Health

Many studies have found that countries where the population regularly consumes saturated fat are  among healthiest places in the world. Coconut oil has a high flash point so it is ideal to use in cooking. You should only use extra virgin organic cold pressed coconut oil. It is readily available in most health food stores. Do your body a favor this holiday season where most of us eat all the wrong foods and too much of them. Eat more saturated fat. Add a healthy fat like coconut oil to your diet. Use it in your cooking.  Eat a few tablespoons a day. L:ather it on rye bread or crackers. Start the new year by including the benefits of healthy fat in your diet.

 

 

The March Toward Martial Law

Martial Law & National Defense Authorization Act

U.S. Congress

National Defense Authorization Act

Yesterday, December 1, 2011 is a day that will live in infamy as the U.S. Senate passed a new law that accelerates the march toward martial law. This toxic piece of legislation is called The National Defense Authorization Act. The bill defines the American homeland as a “battlefield” and makes US citizens subject to military arrest and imprisonment for life without recourse to an attorney or a trial. A battlefield??? That sure sounds like martial law to me, does it to you?

Is the United States Still a Democracy?

The National Defense Authorization Act appears to indicate that the United States is no longer a Democracy. We now join the ranks of North Korea, China and repressive Arab regimes. If the United States is a “battlefield” where is the war and who is attacking us? Why the rush to enact such an odious piece of legislation.  Martial law is the tool of a dictatorship, not a free democracy. From the Patriot Act to the National Defense Authorization Act citizens of the United States have been systematically stripped of their freedoms and their constitutional rights. The end game seems to be the implementation of martial law.

FEMA Detention Camps

How do they plan to use this legislation with its martial law provisions against the people of the United States? With its overtones of martial law this law is designed to strike terror into the hearts and minds of the American people and make them hesitant to speak up,  speak out, or protest as the Occupy Wall St movement is now doing. There are over 2000 Fema detention camps in the United States that have been built since the Reagan administration. Is this law the reason they were built in the first place? Were they preparing then for what they are now intending to do?

The PTB are known for creating long term agendas. They think and plan decades in advance. How long ago was the National Defense Authorization Act actually created and how long have they been waiting to bring this bill out of its hiding place and enact it into law? And why now?

ACLU

The ACLU said of this new bill that: “The Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the FBI and the head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division have all said that the indefinite detention provisions in the NDAA are harmful and counterproductive.”

media blackout on martial law provision of NDAA

Cnn News

Mainstream Media

The mainstream media has not mentioned the martial law provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act. They seem to have enacted a news black out on this most dangerous piece of legislation. It is clearly anti-democratic,  anti-freedom and anti-liberty. It is martial law. Talk about a conspiracy of silence. Talk about keeping the American people in the dark.

The vote in the Senate was 88 for and only 12 against. Only two Democrats voted against the bill while ten Republicans did so. That’s shameful. As Mercutio, in Romeo and Juliet, said as he lay dying, “A plague on both your houses.”

Below is the breakdown of the Senate vote on the National Defense Authorization Act.

You’ve got to wonder who really controls these people and why they would vote on something so toxic, terrifying and in violation of everything in our Bill of Rights, Constitution and system of government. By voting for the martial law provisions in the bill it would seem that the U.S. Senate has cast itself in the role of terrorist. The target: the American people they purport to serve.

Here is the breakdown of the vote in the Senate.

YEAs —88
Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Brown (R-MA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Coons (D-DE)
Corker (R-TN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Inouye (D-HI)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kirk (R-IL)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lugar (R-IN)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
McConnell (R-KY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Portman (R-OH)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Vitter (R-LA)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wicker (R-MS)
NAYs —12
Burr (R-NC)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Lee (R-UT)
Merkley (D-OR)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Rubio (R-FL)
Wyden (D-OR)

 

The Threat to Your Health: Part 4

Genetically Modified Foods

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Genetically Modified (GM) Foods

Monsanto is busy converting the world’s food supply to genetically modified foods. Already there are several foods  that are nearly all genetically modified. These include  soybeans, corn and canola. All these crops are more than 90% genetically modified. Soy products are in many processed foods as are corn products. This means that high fructose corn sweetener which is many foods is also a genetically modified additive. High fructose corn syrup is behind the explosion in diabetes and causes inflammation throughout the body.

Consequences of Eating Genetically Modified Food

Genetically modified foods replace the healthy flora in your gut with toxic insecticides. Tests show that genetically modified foods enlarge the liver, shrink the brain and depress the immune system. Perhaps as troubling as those findings are,  is that research also shows that genetically modified foods severely affect reproductive functions.  Every succeeding generation is weaker than the one preceding it until it becomes nearly impossible to reproduce at all. Talk about population control! Genetically modified foods are the perfect vehicle to depopulate the planet.

Other Genetically Modified Foods

Other genetically modified foods include sugar beets, crookneck squash and Hawaiian papaya. The latest genetically modified food crop is alfalfa. Wherever genetically modified alfalfa is grown it will spread five miles in all directions contaminating all other crops within that range. This means that eventually it will be impossible to buy grass fed organic beef or drink organic milk or eat organic cheese.

Michael  Taylor a former Monsanto Vice President, the corporation responsible for the introduction and spread of genetically modified  seeds, is no longer with Monsanto. He is now a member of the Obama administration working hard at the FDA and doing his rabid best to ensure the spread of genetically modified foods in America and around the world, especially in Africa.

Given the flouride in our water, the heavy metals in the chemtrails and the toxins in the conventional food chain the only solution is to eat as organically as possible.

You can see the spread of genetically modified crops around the world on this map.

 

 

Aliens Among Us?

Prof Stephen Hawking believes in alien races

Stephen Hawking Physicist

Are Aliens Coming?

Stephen Hawking, the famous British theoretical physicist and cosmologist,  who said in 2010 that alien races exist, said the other day that if mankind is to survive we must colonize outer space. In 2008 the Pope said it’s OK to believe in aliens. In Sept. 2010 The UN appointed a Malaysian astrophysicist named Mazlan Othman  as the United Nation’s space ambassador for extraterrestrial contact affairs with aliens.

In the last few years there have been several movies and TV shows about an alien invasion. These movies include Battle Los Angeles, Cowboys and Aliens, Super 8, District 9 and TV shows such as Falling Skies and V.

V is about a race of shapeshifting aliens that appear human but underneath their human facade these aliens are reptilians whose true agenda is anything but peaceful. The aliens are really here to conquer and dominate planet Earth.

Pope Benedict believes in alien races

Pope Benedict

Control Centers

What’s interesting about the steady roll out and dissemination of alien material are the institutions behind it. The Catholic Church, Hollywood, and the UN are all control centers for the PTB. Stephen Hawking, while a brilliant physicist,  is a shill for mankind’s controllers. So what’s really behind the rollout of all this outer space and alien information that’s been going on for years but lately seems to be reaching a crescendo?

For starters, the PTB (Powers That Be) are well acquainted with cosmic law. To stay in alignment with that law they always announce their intentions ahead of time, although in cryptic ways that are often hard to interpret.

There is a large body of evidence that suggests the PTB have been in communication with alien civilizations for decades and have been given certain alien technologies in exchange for letting these aliens abduct humans for experimentation.

Are they disseminating all this information about aliens via movies, tv shows, papal statements and interviews with one of the worlds leading astrophysicists to prepare humanity for the moment the aliens reveal themselves? Or is something more sinister in the works like a real alien invasion, a true war of the worlds?

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Alien

Alien Invasion

Imagine if an alien invasion did occur, either a faked, staged assault or a real one. Either possibility  would produce tremendous fear among an ignorant and unsuspecting populace. Fear makes people suspend sound judgment and common sense. When people are in the grip of fear they are all too willing to sacrifice whatever freedoms remain in their desire to save themselves. If you don’t believe that’s true recall how the trauma of 9/11 resulted in the Patriot Act and the end of many of our freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution. An alien invasion, either staged or real would result in a period of unmitigated fear throughout the world. A clamor would go up from the people for their respective governments to do something, anything to save the world. The governments of the world would respond by announcing a one world government and a one world army to fight the alien threat. This alien scenario actually occurred in the movie Starship Trooper starring Denise Richards and released in the 1990’s. The resulting loss of freedom would make 9/11 and the Patriot Act look like child’s play.

PRS: Problem, Response, Solution

This alien scenario follows one of the favorite strategies of the PTB: Problem, Response, Solution or PRS. In our alien invasion scenario the problem would be the alien invasion. The response would be the tremendous fear in the world’s population and the ensuing clamor to do something, anything to save their lives. The solution would be a one world government and one world army. Once the one world government was formed it would never be disbanded. Nation states would never be allowed to exist again. The one world government would be totalitarian. There would be those in control and everyone else. Living standards would plummet. The last vestiges of freedom would disappear. Humanity would be completely dumbed down and cut off from its soul and spiritual source. We’d become a race of robots whose only function was to serve the demands of the elite. in this way the arrival of aliens would fulfill the elite’s agenda for a one world government.

Will an alien invasion happen? Let’s hope not. But because it’s in the realm of possibilities it could.

 

 

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The Threat to Your Health: Part 3

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Cell Phone Tower

4G Cellphone Towers

The threat to your health includes the air you breathe, the water you drink and bathe in,  the food you eat, and the prescription drugs you take. To that potent stew  of health dangers we unfortunately must add cell phone towers, Smart Meters, and HAARP transmissions. The new 4G Cell Towers are known to kill trees, disrupt DNA, and cause cancer. While  the new 4G networks are rolled out in the United States  Israel has put the brakes on their further implementation because of the health concerns they raise.

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Smart Meter

Smart Meters

The goal of the utility industry is to put a smart meter on every residence in America. They’re marketed as “going green” in your electrical usage. The truth is your going to use the same amount of electricity you did before the smart meter was installed. Many people report that their electrical bill jumped 200 to 300% after the smart meter was installed on the side of their house. The smart meter tells the utility when you flush your toilet, when you take a shower when you turn up or turn down the heat, when you turn on a lamp, run your washing machine or dishwasher. It tells them when you are home, when you are out, and when you are on vacation. The smart meter will not lead to more efficient energy use but to better surveillance. Big Brother anyone?

With regard to your health there is an even darker side to smart meters. The PPj Journal has reported extensively on the dangers of smart meters. Here’s what the PPJ Journal had to say on the matter:

“SMART GRID/SMART METERS can and do cause hormonal system disruptions, tinnitus, memory problems, dizziness, slurred speech, intentionally induced muscle spasms, heart palpitations, lethargy, unconsciousness, disorientation, memory loss, confusion, and an increase in cancer, among many other symptoms.  A reading of the pdf document above from 2006 indicates that these symptoms are exactly what was intended and now they have found the perfect way to impose this system of electrical incarceration and threat, right in your home or business.  No one will be or would be safe from this electronic surveillance system, much less saving one dime in energy costs or using energy more efficiently.”

So much for the health benefits of smart meters. There are none. They are radiation machines. A miniature Fukushima attached to the side of your house generating constant harmful and deadly radiation. You can read the whole PPJ Journal article here. I suggest you do.

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War

World War 3

The assault on our health is coming at us from every direction: Air, water, food, cell phone towers and EMF. It’s very clear that the intent of this overall attack is to weaken and confuse us, steal our health, isolate us, and kill many of us. In many ways this is World War 3. It is a silent war of deadly attrition that grinds us all down without our even seeing the health threat enveloping us. What we don’t recognize we ignore at our peril. The intent of this toxic amalgamation of ingredients is to weaken our minds, destroy our immune systems, enslave us and finally destroy us. The health of the entire world hangs in the balance.

The only way we can truly understand the war against our health is by doing our own research and putting the pieces of the puzzle together. Our controllers have put together a brilliant plan of battle. Since few see it in its entirety, the plan continues to  roll out with only token opposition. Will it be another case of too little too late or will the world wakeup in time to change the order of battle?

 

The Threat to Your Health: Part 2

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Pharmaceutical Drugs Are Not Cures

There is an ongoing, organized movement to destroy your health from all sides of the medical-big pharma-corporate-government complex. The pharmaceutical drugs you  take are not cures. They treat symptoms and often cause serious side effects that necessitate additional drugs to treat the new set of symptoms caused by the original drugs. In this way, one set of symptoms can lead to several new sets of symptoms and many new drugs to treat them. Adding insult to injury, these drugs often conflict in your body causing far more serious problems than the problem you originally went to the doctor to get treated for. Most pharmaceutical drugs are toxic.

A friend of mine went to the doctor for high blood pressure. He was given a drug that bloated him and caused him to gain thirty pounds. The bloating and weight gain were noted side effects of the drug. Adding weight is not exactly a prescription for lowering blood pressure. The drugs weren’t helping him get better. Quite the reverse.  He finally stopped relying on drugs from the medical- big pharma cartel and started doing his own research. He soon found a homeopathic remedy for his condition and started taking it.  He quickly lost the thirty pounds he had gained and felt remarkably better. His blood pressure returned to normal. As an extra bonus the homeopathic remedy was far less expensive than the cost of  the prescription drugs he had been taking.

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Mind Control Victim

Drugs and Mind Control

What most people don’t understand is that many pharmaceutical drugs make people susceptible to mind control and programming. These drugs  are laced with chemicals that interfere with normal mental processes and allow mind control and programming to be more effective. Flouride and prescription drugs keep people confused, sick, and easy to control. The sicker people are the more money the medical- big pharma cartel takes in on the sale of drugs. Keeping people ill and on drugs means big profits.

GM Foods

Another huge area of concern are the foods we eat. If you shop at the supermarket like most people do you are buying produce that is laced with pesticides, much of which is GM (genetically modified). The processed foods and meats you buy  are laced with pesticides, additives and chemicals that act like mind control drugs in your brain. These foods are at best empty calories that do not sustain your health but over time destroy it.

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Roundup Pesticide

Roundup Resistant Foods

GM foods are designed to be Roundup resistant. Roundup is a pesticide produced by Monsanto that is designed to kill bugs. The problem is it can also poison you. Roundup resistant crops like corn are sprayed with much higher amounts of Roundup than crops that are not Roundup resistant. This means you are ingesting much higher amounts of Roundup and other pesticides when you eat GM foods. The vast amount of corn grown in the U.S. is now GM. Most food you buy in the supermarket contain GM ingredients. Research shows that GM foods destroy the healthy bacteria in your gut, enlarge your liver, shrink your brain, depress and weaken your immune system and make it much more difficult to reproduce and bear healthy children. Then if you go the Dr. you will be given more chemicals/drugs to relieve the symptoms created by other drugs and ingesting GM foods. These new drugs will not fix you but they will create more problems and compound the diseases you are already suffering from.Welcome to Monsanto’s world!

What’s the solution? Eat ORGANIC as much as possible.

 

The Threat to Your Health: Part 1

A Multifaceted Attack

There is an ongoing, organized assault on the health of the American population. This assault on our health is multifaceted and deadly. If you are uninformed you not only risk losing your health, you will lose your health. Guaranteed. The assault on our health comes at us from the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink, the pharmaceutical drugs we may take,  the wireless networks that we are exposed to 24/7, cell phone towers, satellites and HAARP installations. This multifaceted attack is unprecedented; without antecedent in human history.

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Chemtrails

Our air is laced with chemtrails. Chemtrails are not normal exhaust trails. They don’t disappear. They extend for miles in the sky at an elevation of 60,000 feet then fan out, making a beautiful blue sky filled with what appears to be a cloudy, hazy covering. These are no normal clouds. They are filled with a fine particulate mixture of barium and aluminum. Barium is highly carcinogenic while aluminum is a deadly toxin to the central nervous system. Aluminum is the one thing that is consistently found in the brains of those who have died from Alzheimers disease. In addition, the chemtrails are filled with heavy metals, arsenic, radioactive fallout and various viruses and bacterial diseases such as streptocaucus pneumonia.  We all breathe in this dangerous soup.  Eventually, the chemtrails fall to the ground contaminating our water supply, soil and crops.

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Flouride

In America most municipalities add flouride to the water. We’re told that flouride protects our teeth from cavities. The kind of flouride that is added to the water is industrial waste. It is deadly. It does not protect your teeth from cavities but makes them brittle. It causes bone cancer, weakens the thyroid gland, calcifies the pineal gland, causes brain lesions, lowers IQ, weakens joints, and makes people docile and easy to control. The control factor is why they add flouride to the water. It has nothing to do with protecting your teeth. The practice of adding flouride to the water supply began in the Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet gulags. When those regimes added flouride to the water they discovered they only needed 25% of the guards to control the prisoners than they needed when the water was not flouridated. Drinking flouridated water and using toothpaste and mouthwash that has flouride in it is dangerous for your health. Mary Sparrowdancer wrote the seminal paper on flouride. You can read it here.

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Flouride toothpaste

 

 

 

Penn State Pedophile Scandal

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Penn State Campus

The shocking pedophile allegations in the Penn State U. scandal are disgusting and sickening. Young, defenseless boys with no one to protect them were the prey of a predatory football coach who used his foundation and position at PSU to abuse young children while pretending to care for and champion them, helping them to find a “better” life. That better life translated into his license to indulge in sexual deviancy while his victims had their lives destroyed.

Sexual Assault

Joe Paterno, the head coach was informed by an assistant coach who witnessed a sexual assault on a young boy by Jerry Sandusky the former defensive coach in the showers. The head coach then told the upper management in the athletic department. The University President was also informed. That’s were it ended. The University launched no investigation of its own. Nor did it bring the matter to the police. All these men have now lost their jobs. Their silence allowed a known predator and pedophile to continue sexually assaulting young boys for several more years. Shame on them. They put protecting the University’s football reputation above the well being of young at risk boys. They allowed a sexual predator to continue abusing young children. Is this any different than the pedophile scandal in the Catholic Church where scores of pedophile priests abused thousands of young boys and girls in their congregations? Priests and coaches may seem like strange bedfellows but they share certain traits in common. They are in positions of trust and in close proximity to children. It was like plucking low hanging fruit off branches – until they were caught.

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Boys Town, NE

The Franklin NE Scandal

Unfortunately, pedophilia is not limited to priests, coaches, and boy scout leaders. It infects the highest rungs of society and politics.  In Omaha NE in the 1980’s the infamous Franklin Scandal occurred. You can read about it here. A prominent businessman organized pedophile parties for the most powerful members of the business, political and judicial communities in Omaha. He brought orphans from Boys Town, a Catholic orphanage, to these parties where young boys and girls were violently assaulted and raped by the very people who should have been protecting them. These children purportedly were then brought to the Bush White House in the 1980’s where the same type of sickening abuse happened all over again.

The Portugal Scandal

Another sickening pedophile scandal came to light in Portugal in 2004. A six year trial lead to the conviction of several perpetrators. It followed the same trajectory as the Lincoln Savings debacle. High ranking members of the Portuguese parliament and judiciary were implicated in a pedophile ring. Boys from a state run orphanage were brought to parties attended by these politically powerful and connected people. During the parties these boys, none older than fourteen,  were beaten and violently raped.

Pedophilia and Satanism

Both of these examples, Omaha, NE and Portugal, were mentioned briefly in the media then disappeared. But the problem has never disappeared. Pedophilia and child sexual abuse has occurred in the Church, in our political institutions, and in our citadels of higher learning. Many pedophiles are not only highly disturbed and dangerous, but there is a satanic element to their depravity that finds its correspondence in rich, politically connected and powerful circles.

Pedophilia is not an isolated occurrence but a virulent sickness that has infected every strata of society. It cannot be eradicated until the satanic element behind it is exposed and brought to justice.

 

 

 

 

Politics and Higher Purpose: Part 2

Sri Aurobindo

God is Inclusive

Despite the trend toward increased polarization in politics God is inclusive. He doesn’t choose sides or favor one group over another but works silently behind the scenes of the external life to uplift the entire race. While we can’t change God’s plan, our collective intransigence and mass disdain for each other will impede its progress to all of our detriments. When the psychic environment is cluttered with as much polarizing emotion and ideology as it is today it is impossible for the truth to be clear and undisguised or for compassion to be present anywhere.

 

Sri Aurobindo, the great Indian spiritual master of the twentieth century, put it this way: “The illusion of action is one of the greatest illusions of human nature. Men have a feeling that if they are not all the time bursting into fits of feverish activity, they are doing nothing. Whatever has been done in the world has been done by the very few who can stand outside the action in silence; for it is they who are the instruments of the Divine Power. They are dynamic agents, conscious instruments; they bring down the forces that change the world. Things can be done in that way, not by a restless activity. In peace, in silence and in quietness the world was built; and each time that something is to be truly built, it is in peace and silence and quietness that it must be done. I am not speaking of the ordinary day-to-day acts that are needed for the common external life, but of thosewho have or believe that they have something to do for the world. Enter into the consciousness of Eternity, then only you will know what true action is.”

There was a Tibetan Lama who saw many of his brother monks tortured and killed by the Chinese and spent twelve years in a Chinese prison. He was being interviewed one day after his release and said during his time in confinement he “…had been in grave danger.”

“Of losing your life?” The interviewer asked.

“No,” answered the Tibetan. “Of losing my compassion for the Chinese.”

Compassion

Compassion is one of the hallmarks of higher consciousness, the kind of consciousness so needed in our world and yet in such short supply. While the Tibetan Monk never lost his compassion despite the severity of his situation, many of us have never found ours despite countless opportunities to do so. We might not be able to change what goes on in the external world by ourselves but we can certainly change what goes on in our internal world. If enough of us take on the responsibility of developing more consciousness we will eventually elect officials who also have more consciousness. Hopefully, there is still time to change the direction of the planet before political, climactic, and geological crises occur for which there are no solutions.

The requirements to create more consciousness and develop an inner center are twofold. The first requirement is a purified emotional nature in which all conscious and unconscious emotional toxicity has been discharged. The second requirement is a conscious connection between mind and soul that allows the intuition to function and unconditional love to be experienced and expressed.

Changing the Future

We can change the future only if we change ourselves. The road ahead is fraught with peril. The future will belong to those who transform their toxicity, find their center, develop compassion, and become a channel for unconditional love. The time to start that work is now. If we procrastinate and put it off for later it will be too late. When love and hate are both absent, a clear, compassionate center capable of holding a guiding truth for the nation and the world will form. Salvation requires a group effort. We cannot afford pettiness and small mindedness any longer.

JFK

Watch this video of President John F. Kennedy of a speech given  in the early 1960’s. This is what we are up against.

 

Politics and Higher Purpose: Part 1

The Great Way is easy For he who has no preferences, When love and hate are both absent, The truth is clear and undisguised. To be for this and against that Is the disease of the mind.

-from the Teachings of the Third Zen Patriarch

Polarization

America today is a country polarized. Compassion and understanding are rarely in evidence in our political discourse while hatred and high temper run rampant. A truth large enough to guide all parties and temper their accusations towards each other does not exist. Rather than possessing a truth large enough to guide our decisions we have substituted differing points of view, each containing a kernel of truth but not the whole truth, and we support the view that most nearly matches our own. Self righteousness has trumped understanding.

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Tea Party Rally

Right Wing

On the right side of the political aisle we have the fundamentalist religious right with its “culture of life” agenda. The fundamentalists are convinced that their agenda is divinely sanctioned and they are absolutist and self-righteous in pursuing it. They presume to speak God’s word and believe they are His chosen instruments. No point of view is right but theirs. They do not speak compassionately but authoritatively. They divide in order to conquer. They are certain God is on their side.

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Liberal Obama Supporters

Left Wing

On the other side of the aisle are the liberal Democrats. Nobody knows quite what they stand for anymore, but they habitually assume the moral high ground nevertheless. While many of them go to Church, they are not religious zealots like their brethren on the right. The liberal democrats have been weakened, are certain of little, and no longer have acoherent message. Not only have they become marginalized, they are in danger of becoming irrelevant. While they are in decline the Christian fundamentalists are in the ascent.

Lack of Political Intelligence

John Stuart Mill once said that the “stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” We know that the fundamentalist Republicans are cocksure and that the liberal Democrats are full of self-doubt. That much is obvious. What is less evident is Mill’s assertion of the relationship between intelligence and attitude. Is the radical religious right truly stupid and is the liberal left really intelligent? How you answer that question probably depends on the color of the state you live in. I deliberately choose the path of discretion and leave that judgment in your good hands. However, in my mind anger and self righteousness make people less intelligent than they really are. When one is full of negative emotion one can’t see the whole truth because one is devoid of compassion. Since negativity and fear rule in Washington I can only conclude that both sides are less intelligent than they could be and should be.

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Protest and Opposition

Zealotry and Demonization

One cause of the continuing decline of constructive dialogue between the parties is the takeover of the Republican Party by the religious right. The advent of zealotry and the mingling of Church and State have meant the waning of collegiality and compromise. Unfortunately, the deterioration of constructive dialogue is not an isolated phenomenon that is easily contained but, like a multi-car accident on a busy freeway, has unforeseen consequences that may stretch far into the future. One effect is the habit of both major parties to demonize their opponents. How do you find middle ground with evil? To do so means making a deal with the devil and taking on some of that colorization yourself. Who wants to do that? Whether we conceive of ourselves as having the higher moral ground (Democrats) or see ourselves as the agents of God’s will (fundamentalist Republicans) the result is the same, -gridlock and stalemate.