The above foto is of Karen aboard Bold Venture II shortly before we ran aground on a reef in the Caribbean. The world knows only my behavior, the part of me I expose. No one knows what I experience inside. Before I left my old life, I turned against the establishment. My first overt act was to attack federal income tax. Most would agree that it was a crazy thing to do. I wrote a letter to then Attorney General William B. Saxbe. He forwarded my letter to the IRS. The IRS came after me. I had my "bigger than life calling." The IRS turned out to be a paper tiger. They lost.

Before I beat the IRS, I went to sea for two years and experienced an unknown inner power. I was sailing off the Palm Beach, Florida coast one day. I heard voices crying out for help. I scanned the surrounding sea with my binoculars and seeing nothing proceeded on my course. But something compelled me to come about and sail in the direction of the cries for help. I sailed straight to three scuba divers who were drifting on an ocean current miles from their dive boat. Strangely, I never heard from the scuba divers again and my sailing companion never mentioned the event again, which tells us that we don't think about the things we don't understand.

Before my change, I lived an enviable country squire life on a 30 acre spread in a large home. For many years, frustrated and dissatisfied, I was possessed by acquisition of the material. I'd acquired a lot. I had a bigger than life calling. The above related event, and other inexplicable events that occurred during my time at sea, changed the way I think. My life significantly improved.

We are taught to look at wealth as power. On my own, I accomplished more than money could buy. I cut loose from the establishment. A hidden power showed itself.

In that the things we don't know about receive little of our attention, are we not brainwashed? The world calls such experiences as mine anecdotal; they will not stand up to conventional examination. What could be as great a service to mankind as the power to save lives. The establishment is the fox watching over the henhouse.

To the utter dismay of my family, I left my country squire life in search of a better life. Road blocks were put up to force me back to the herd. After two years at sea, I returned to conventional life. Two weeks after wife number three walked out, I found my soul mate. All of this took place within seven years of my bigger than life calling. When everyone thought I'd flipped, when everything should have gone wrong everything went right. Others don't have the benefit of my experience.

Murphy's Law says that if anything can go wrong it will. We don't know the law that says when everything should have gone wrong, everything went right.  After my return, my job didn't work out. I quit in frustration. The sea, once my redeemer, called me back. I returned to the sea, this time with my soul mate, Karen. The second time I went to sea, sharply in contrast with my first sea adventure, if anything could go wrong it did. We ended on the rocks six months after setting sail. My bad luck dogged me for 18 years. I was in several businesses. None were successful.

My health was failing and so was Karen's. We decided to retire, sell out, return to square one (Portland, Oregon), buy an RV, and travel. No one can say why, but everything started going right for us. Our health improved.

Why three failures in marriage? I was living high on the hog's back and possessed with financial worries. My business of 25 years failed. Why? Why all the bad luck? The second time I went to sea the circumstances were entirely different than my first departure. My life with wife number four was good. The second time I went to sea money was no problem. Going to sea was not a well thought out decision. There was no valid reason to depart.

Several years ago I read an article on quantum mechanics that picked my interest. Since then I've made a study of quantum mechanics. My intuition on the substance of the law and the substance of space coincides with quantum reality. It connects with astrology. If you go so far this direction and so far that direction, and so far a third direction you come up with a mathematical equation. In a right triangle, the sum of the squares of the sides equals the square of the hypotenuse. Pythagoras was an astrologer. He said figures represent human characteristics; numbers are representative of things.

Subatomic particles are the characteristics of matter. In lab experiments, proving Bell's theorem, quantum physicists use the Pythagorean theorem. Under Bell's theorem, there are other dimensions than the space-time dimension. It used to be called matrix mechanics, standing for the matrix that goes to make up space, time-our physical reality-the same as the matrix that goes to make computer language. I'm speaking of a scientifically proven god convention doesn't buy. I buy it and my life is better for it. You could call it coincidence, but you don't experience my joy, my pain.

Karen and I traveled in our RV from April 1999 until April of 2001, when we dropped our landing gear in Shady Cove, Oregon. Karen got a part time job in our RV park's office. We remained living in our RV in the Shady Cove area until August 2007 and then moved to our present location in the tall timber 30 miles west of Mt. Hood, in Big Valley Woods near Sandy, Oregon. Why the location in the tall timber? Karen found it quite by accident.

Shortly after my first departure, by chance, I ran into an astrologer who created my astrological chart. I'd never believed in astrology, or ever thought about it. After being exposed, I found significant connections in the events of my life and the alignments of the planets. My life changed to fit the destiny my chart assigned to me.

From numerology, I've learned about the mid-life crises, when many of us make a drastic change in our lives. I was 47 when I had my bigger than life calling, 49 when I departed. Numerologists Faith Javane and Dusty Bunker, in Numerology and The Divine Triangle gave me the formula to to determine my "Life Lesson Number." Mine is the number 7. The Life Lesson Number 7 means "you are here to use and to develop your mind. Your words should be full of wisdom when you decide to talk. . . You should learn to spend time by yourself in the woods or by the seashore where you can get in touch with your inner self and your deepest thoughts because your destiny is to use your mind." Karen's discovery lined up with my bigger than life calling, when I made the unconscious choice of following my destiny and departed my old life. Now that I'm in the twilight of my life, in my contemplative years, according to the stars, I'm where I was meant to be.

I'm a disabled veteran of World War II. We'd been parked in our RV in Big Valley Woods three months when Karen said, "Joe, I hate to think about living in this trailer the rest of my life." Her statement must have been on the very day the decision at the Veteran's Administration was made to approve of my application for 100 percent disability. A week after Karen's utterance, we received notice in the mail. My disability meant we had the income to buy a manufactured home and place it in Big Valley Woods. Karen plays an essential roll in our action.

According to some quantum physicists, we are co-equals in creation. Based on what I'd been taught, I created a frustrating, dissatisfied life. Bell's theorem tells us objective reality is not the true reality of our lives. We each have different experiences, different destinies. The observer interacts with matter. A universe of unimaginable proportions exists within the mind of man. Once I became subjective, hidden powers emerged. My life took a turn for the better.

Millions of sightings of U.F.O.s should tell us they are real enough. For security purposes, the U.S. military has hidden all hard evidence. The U.S. has a policy of "need to know." Very few know the full truth about U.F.O.s and "extraterrestrial biological entities."

When he wanted to gut the U. S. Constitution, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "we have only fear itself to fear." Now we have confiscatory taxes. We are born in sin, you know-you and I. We crucified Jesus. We've been living on that guilt trip generation after generation. Taxes and our guilt trip saps our personal power. We are taught to fear eating the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. We should fear the power of the gods. So, according to the Scriptures, I'm Satin.

How would we react if we knew there was extraterrestrial life on this planet a million years ahead of us in their technology? Indeed, is there not a need to know? There is abundant evidence that UFOs and EBEs are real. Can we trust our establishment leaders? I don't think so.

I'm Aquarius Rising, according to astrology. Rather than Satin, I'm the water-bearer to humanity. Noted astrologer and transactional analysis professional Jeanne Avery says our Rising Sign is that part of us we allow others to see. It tells others about our personality and how we act. So, Satin or the water-bearer? Let us take a look at this Aquarius Rising from Avery's perspective.

"The person with Aquarius on the rise can be very avant-garde. He is a forerunner in setting style, discovering new methods, and showing the rest of humanity the way. He may be especially enlightened, metaphysical, scientific, and inventive. He can be like a rolling stone, gathering no moss. He is a chance-taker. He is willing to let go of the trunk of the tree to walk out on the edge of a limb. He knows where the fruit grows and where the spotlight can hit. He is not one to hide his light under a bushel. The need for constant variety and freedom can bring fascinating experiences into his life, yet he can be unpredictable in the extreme. His life will never be boring, as there are always exciting new experiences and discoveries for him to investigate."

To sum my experiences up, following my 49^th year of life, given a new lease on life at sea-along with the inexplicable-I have this sea experience to connect with astrology, numerology, and quantum physics. I'm living my destiny, according to the stars, and now in the Gaia Community. Hope this helps you find your hidden selves.

You must first hold a thought before you can communicate. First, where do you hold your thoughts? It is thought that you store them in your brain, that you can't think beyond what you have inside your skull. There is yet not a particle of evidence that this is so. You are more than flesh and bones. The thought that you are limited is because of a branch of philosophy-epistemology-that investigates the origin, nature, and methods of everything, and limits human knowledge.  The establishment is compartmentalized so we can be brainwashed.

In order to reduce an incomprehensible universe to the comprehensible, we humans invented language, which limits us.  We can't think and know the infinite and everlasting because we are lacking the language to express it. We've a word for it: supernatural---above and beyond what is natural and explainable, the biggest con of all times.

John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, describing the deity of Jesus Christ-the supernatural. The word logos defines the Christian's divine word or reason incarnate in Jesus. In ancient Greek philosophy, logos defined the rational principle that governs and develops the universe-two different thoughts on the same word. Where's the logic?

Bell's theorem adds a new dimension of understanding we do not yet have thoughts or words to express. Science has now discovered faster than light speed in communicating subatomic particles, the basic building blocks of the universe. Everything we think is about to be replaced.

One of our words-phenomenology-the study of everything, is about to take a great leap forward. We had an age of enlightenment after Galileo proved the earth and other planets orbit the sun. Before the age of enlightenment, it was forbidden in the West to think anything the Pope didn't think. We are now entering a second age of enlightenment, when the limit of what we know is totally removed, when thoughts are allowed to exist in a state without boundary, when the self within us is seen as infinite and everlasting, when the spiritual part of us will overcome our preoccupation with the material, when the universe is seen as more than the sum of its parts, when there is no limit of our awareness.

When consciousness is seen as fundamental to all that exists, the ages of authoritarianism will come to an end. (Gen. 1:26) "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion!"

We've got the one-day-at-a-timers, the poor mes, the doomsayers, those who take the path of least resistence, and my friends at Gaia. Either I'm learning to simplify extremely abstruse theories, or my readers are getting up to speed, or perhaps some of both. The comments I'm getting from my Gaia friends are gratifying, and comforting. It is more than coincidental that we've come together. Being as we dig each other, I've this to report.

My thoughts today were stimulated by a newspaper story I read entitled "Tax break for the wealthiest." The reporter talked with a couple of Oregon bureaucrats who were crying in their beer about lack of funding. They blamed it on the rich "who don't need the money." That's the easiest thing to think, and also mindless political talk. This newspaper story deserves a lot more thought. There is nothing morally wrong with striving to be financially successful. The moral wrong is in government favoring some at the expense of others. We note that the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer, while essential services are without funding. There is a reason.

Today, my sermon is one you will never get from religious or secular authorities, keeping in mind that I don't claim to be an authority. I'm a committee of one looking out for me. So, take the following thoughts for what they are worth to you.

"And God said," in Chapter 1 of the Book of Genesis, "Let us make man in our image." This statement sets the theme for the book of man. The Bible does not say that man is disobedient to God's will, or that we are born in sin. It's an interpretation of authorities for less than honest purposes. America's most popular Bible, The Scofield Reference Bible, bears me out. Wrote Scofield in his Introduction: "The saying that ‘anything may be proved by the Bible' is both true and false-true if isolated passages are used; utterly false if the whole divine revelation is in view. . . .The Dispensations are distinguished, exhibiting the majestic, progressive order of the divine dealings of God with humanity, ‘the increasing purpose' which runs through and links together the ages, from the beginning of the life of man to the end in eternity."

The increasing complexity of life gives us increasing purpose, requiring a much broader outlook than the authorities take. By listening to authorities, we are living in the past. If we're to change the world, first we must realize our image is not objective. We are all subjective. We have minds of our own, which requires a balance of power the authorities never ever willingly give us. It is a constant battle.

There came a time in America when the people's image of themselves was weak. The economy went into the tank. A third of America's workforce was jobless. The fight for independence was replaced, thanks to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt took office in 1933, at a time when America was looking to Washington for answers. Roosevelt, America's savior, was thinking subjectively when he told the nation, "While it isn't written in the Constitution, nevertheless, it is the inherent duty of the Federal Government to keep its citizens from starvation."

After America's savior and the liberal Democrats had threatened to double the number of justices on the bench with their activists, so their individual grants in aid, later known as entitlements, would pass constitutional muster, Roosevelt proclaimed: "The balance of power between the three great branches of the Federal Government has been tipped out of balance by the courts in direct contradiction of the high purposes of the framers of the Constitution. We have reached the point where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court." And what was the action? Activist Justice Brandeis, a Roosevelt appointee, was heard to say, "property is only a means. It has been a frequent error of our Court that they have made the means the end." A weak willed people allowed subjective politicians to create our image. Republicans, seeing that's what the American people wanted, joined with Democrats. Consequently, we live in a hothouse with subjective authorities pulling levers and twisting valves. Washington, with the biggest redistribution of resources ever in history, is not that loved by the world at large. It's now payback time and guess who is paying the price for Roosevelt's folly?

To wit: In the spring of 1975, I set out on a serendipitous journey to find a more complete answer for my life. My plan was to buy a live-aboard sailboat and sail the South Atlantic Ocean for a couple of years. My business career of 25 years had been replaced, like the mom and pop grocery store. Government played a role in that change. My marriage was on the rocks. Since property has become the means for subjective authorities to make the means their end-we look to Washington for our answers-by no coincidence the divorce rate has gone up to more than 50 percent. The sacred institution of marriage is under serious question. But back to my story.

At age 49, I was going to start over. It was without the blessings of family and establishment. I left my Texas home and drove to Miami, Florida, arriving on Easter Sunday. By mutual agreement, my then wife was to mail me a check for the sale of some stock I owned prior to our marriage. My plan was to look for a job while I waited for my land, by mutual agreement, to sell. On my third phone call, I landed a job in a boatyard at near minimum wages, and a good thing. My then wife did not send the check for the sale of the stock. She forged my name and cashed the check. When I received my first paycheck, my gas gauge was on empty. I knew first hand what hundreds of millions know every day of their lives. I went hungry. I had no money to buy food.

My then wife was to have signed a joint federal income tax return and send a check for the tax we owed. Instead, she filed a separate tax return, paid half of the tax, and sent the joint return in with only my name on it, minus a check. She did that on the advice of the IRS.

I'd written the attorney general of the United States that the income tax was unconstitutional. What a reaction! An IRS agent called me a "Fifth Amendment freak." The IRS billed me for the full tax. They did not take into consideration that my then wife paid half of the tax we owed. I had filed a claim for carryback losses. I had a tax refund of four times as much as the tax the IRS claimed I owed coming to me, and I was without food. Instead of sending me the difference, the IRS lawlessly froze the refund. I'd filed a petition to the U.S. Tax Court. The IRS' lawless deal: if I'd withdraw my petition they would send the balance of my refund.

I worked the night shift at the boatyard. I arrived at my one room apartment after midnight to find that the lock had been changed. I went across the street and called the police on a payphone. The police got the new key from my landlord. My landlord had failed to go through the legal procedure for evicting me. For two hours, though, I was homeless. What if I'd not known to call the police? Do you ever wonder if U. S. citizens live on the street because their take-home pay will not buy a roof over their heads or food? Uncle Sam's income tax leaves people helpless beggars.

Two days after I was locked out, my lawyer called to say that my then wife had repudiated our property settlement agreement on the ground that I used duress to force her to sign the agreement.

I returned to Flower Mound, Texas and got a court order that forced my then wife to pay my expenses while I awaited the trial. At the trial, the court ordered that I receive all of the land and all of the improvements. The court ordered my then wife to vacate my property within 30 days.

Coincidentally, Charles D. Suit, an astrologer, shortly before my divorce trial, pointing to a symbol on my astrological chart, said it was one of the 36 Arabian points called a part of fortune. "Then in a similar sense," said Suit, "the Venus and Jupiter indicates a fortunate area of your chart. Planets that interrelate to it along the bottom line of this triangle here, how in you can gain material things, primarily, it's right on your ascendent. It's in your 12^th house. This indicates a potential to gain from people who are secretly working against you."

Everything Suit told me came true. He made me a believer. The property settlement agreement my then wife signed gave her the home, the barn, and 5 acres of land-several times as much in value as I was to receive in land. My then wife told the court that she should be given everything because I had deserted my family and was planning to sail away. The court didn't see it my wife's way. Because I was unemployed, the court set the child support low.

In that my then wife was given custody of our son, I generously offered to let her keep the home and the 5 acres if she would pay me in cash for the land I was to get in the property settlement agreement. I did not want my child to suffer because of  the greed of his mother. She borrowed the money and paid me the market price on my land.

I passed the first test. I was soon on my way back to Florida to purchase my dreamboat. There was still the unconstitutional income tax question. The point of this account is to show how much government is involved in our private lives. Keeping in mind that it is not written in the Constitution that government has a "duty to keep us from starving," at a time when I needed a leg up, the government gave me the boot.

My tax case went to trial in the U. S. Tax Court. The IRS was forced to correct its "mistakes." The tax court does not have jurisdiction on constitutional questions. As soon as the case was closed, the IRS illegally grabbed $2,500. The IRS is permitted to make limitless mistakes. For a second time, I took the IRS to court, this time in the U.S. District Court. The court ordered the IRS to refund the money it lawlessly snatched. Being permitted to make limitless mistakes, after that case was closed the IRS went to my bank and took every cent I had in my checking account-my grocery money and rent money. The Court, according to a Roosevelt appointee: "Property is only a means." What's the difference in tax slavery and black slavery? Uncle Sam, by hook and crook, owns everything in tax a body can produce.

Give the IRS enough rope and they hang themselves. I went to the Palm Beach Post. They printed a front page story, the IRS admitting that for 11 years they had been mistaken on the amount of tax I owed. Clearly, the United States is lawless. While leaving the tax collector free to make unlimited mistakes against taxpayers, Washington conveniently entitles others. How many are living on the street because of it?

The all-powerful United States has cards up its sleeve. When you think about the news media, think about how few the number of people there are in control of the news, and how rich and powerful they are. Five oil companies are being allowed to wreck the American economy. The world's only superpower is the world's biggest fraud. It goes with the territory.

The Bible tells us to make man in our image. Don't count on the authorities to help any. We, the people, are the economy. Federal income tax and the IRS should be abolished. Federal entitlements should be phased out. Based on help for the economy, a new taxing and spending system placing the individual and his resources first should be established.

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I entered "FDR and Liberal Democrats" in Gaia's search, and found my blog, "Let Us Make Man II," and one other blog: "Why Democrats Should Become More Libertarian," which prompted me to write today's blog.

I believe the majority of the American people share my belief. We are not of common mind that strong central government and dependence is the way to go. I believe most Americans think it is possible for ordinary folks to start poor and end rich. As an ordinary American, I think most folks fear big government and oppression.

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Liberal Democrats gutted the Constitution. During hard times, the American people felt it was necessary. The nation has been moving more and more toward big government and less personal responsibility ever since the change political activists foisted off on the American people. (Activists interpret the Constitution "in light of today's needs," of course as they see it. It's a con game.)

I'm reminded of an email I received from a Ugandan who said he wanted to be my grand son. Why? He wrote that he is helping needy Ugandan children. Uganda doesn't have a prosperous economy, nor the ingenuity, nor the capital America has. Yet Ugandans are people with the same basic essentials to cope as Americans. It amazes me to see people on the street in America begging for a handout. What possesses these people? They are totally devoid of logic. How does it help them to hand them money? Who ought to do something about it?

The Liberal Democratic ideology is to tax the rich and give to the poor. Several years back, the United States gave starving Indians shiploads of surplus U.S. grain. It enabled them to produce millions more hungry babies. The give-away only succeeded in worsening India's problem.

Liberal Democrats, who came into power with the Great Depression,  have worsened America's problem. World War II brought an end to America's Great Depression. Factories cranked up to build tanks, airplanes, ships, and guns. Everyone had a job. It was all on borrowed money. There is a great difference in borrowing to give handouts and borrowing to help the economy. I returned from World War II to boom times. FDR and the liberal Democrats did not end the Great Depression. Instead of assuring jobs for everyone, they created government entitlements, robbing Peter to pay Paul. They do not understand a free enterprise economy. They think of freedom as being free as birds. Liberal Democrats do not know personal responsibility and self reliance. They think in terms of social responsibility. They believe the rich and greedy take from the poor and needy. Wrong! Government is our servant, not our provider. The idea of mixing government entitlements with free enterprise is like mixing oil with water. Liberal Democrats don't go on common sense. They live in mindless La La Land. Their goals come from the heart. They are killing the goose that laid the golden egg

America's free enterprise economy is the source of America's wealth. America's ingenuity made the American people prosperous. The American people's resourcefulness created the capital with which the economy grew. Under liberal Democratic philosophy, the United States is borrowing against capital with printing press money in order to hand out money to millions of individuals. And, unfortunately, me-too Republicans are no better than the Democrats. I would not vote for either. Mindless, vote pandering politicians handed my wife and I $600 to help the economy. What's the difference in the wage earner spending the money he earns and the government entitled spending the money? It has a negative effect on the economy to hand out money. Money is worthless paper we are entitled to use to purchase goods and services. For no one's benefit, other than self-serving, power-seeking politicians, free printing press money is driving the nation deeper and deeper into debt.

The Republicans say that cutting tax helps the economy. Common sense tells us better. Without equal cuts in spending, tax cuts hurt the economy. We are not going deeper and deeper into debt to create jobs, folks, at the same time giving more and more grants in aid to individuals. It's insane.

More or less the same thinking caused the Great Depression. If you were to read the facts of what caused the Great Depression, you would find that America's self-serving powers that be ordered it. In so doing, they ordered the rise of Hitler. They ordered World War II. Drunk with their power-with no common sense-they have succeeded in destroying the balance of power the U.S. Constitution gave us. FDR and the Liberal Democrats replaced inalienable rights with a federal dictatorship. This heartfelt folly has to end, and it always does with loss of individual independence.

The immature American people are entering a new age. Nothing they have been thought in the past will work for them in the future. We need to know how it all comes together-in the latest scientific terms. Get over the idea that there is place called Heaven. There is no Almighty out there-no one out there looking out for you! A new image is in the works. To mature, we must feel that we are on our own, feel that we each have a God-self. Everyone is subjective. If we but look within, the right answers are there. Life doesn't get any better for me. If it works for me, it can work for you.

At the same time that you insist on your child's obedience, you teach your child personal responsibility and self-reliance. Otherwise, you will likely find your child a personally irresponsible adult. What has government done for you in this respect?

Raising children is a full time job. You can expect your child to react badly to lack of proper supervision. What do you know about outside supervision? Is your child getting the individual attention he or she needs? Whose interest comes first, your child or the supervision's personal interest. Small children act aggressively because it works. They don't like taking orders. They need lots of individual attention. You could not pay enough to give your child the attention he or she should have. Yet federal income tax is so high that it takes two or more income earners in an average American family to provide a decent existence. Parents get no transportation to the job deduction, nor for other job incurred expenses. The payoff for federal income tax is personal irresponsibility. What could be worse for a society?

Millions of entry level workers struggling to get a foothold are taxed on their meager incomes. What could be worse? Federal income tax started as a tax on the very rich. During World War II, a federal withholding tax was imposed on working people, called the Victory Tax. This is not what I fought for. During the Great Depression, FDR and the liberal Democrats changed the Constitution to allow for it. As it turns out, nothing could have been more unfair and costly to the American people's freedom. The politicians currently running for office don't mention it, but instead of personal responsibility and self reliance, the masses look to the federal government for their answers.

Thanks to federal income tax, the least of the American people are left as hopeless dependents. I feel sorry for today's parents. They've got an uphill battle.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain, in a press interview, called for taking care of "those in America who cannot take care of themselves." He did not elaborate. He left much unsaid. 

McCain is not always willing to use the power of the federal government to impose conservative values, he said. What does he mean? Is it conservative to want American money to take care of American citizens? From what has been publically argued,  I assume that American politicians want America to be an international haven for those in the world who can't take care of themselves because of oppressive governments. That would include those in America who can't take care of themselves due to excessive taxation; in other words, oppressive government.

Presidential candidate McCain, in his press interview, spoke of "free market purists." He didn't elaborate, but he made known that he doesn't always support them. I take it that he does not always support a free market.

McCain said he would hesitate to unleash American military power for moral reasons. He didn't elaborate. Is it immoral to use the military to protect America's interests first, last, and always; within America's borders?

McCain admits that we're in a situation today where all comments "are diagnosed and looked at for whatever effect they might have. We have to feed the beast, the hourly cable shows, the instant news in the blogs, and all that," says McCain. The presidential candidates are not speaking to you and I. If they had a mind of their own, you would not know it from what they say.

What you see now is what you are going to get in the future from government. That's why I say look within for your answers.   Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, you know, and all the king's horses, and all the king's men could not put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

My post on May 1, 2007, "The Zaadz Secret," got more than a thousand hits. My post on July 12, 2008, "To the Dumbed Down," which was on the subject of child obedience, got 12 hits. Surely, my readers don't want to find that out; that my message might apply to them; that they don't want to be told. Tell me that is not so.

I'm stating my philosophy based on my experience and what I see taking place.  As a matter of fact, my experience goes back to a time when the divorce rate in America was 3 percent and moms didn't work.  There was a reason.  We've seemed to forget over the years. Our values have changed.  

When I was a boy, my father earned an above average living. He paid no Social Security tax, no income tax, and my grand parents on my mother's side lived with us. My father's earnings took care of 7 immediate family members, and this included financial help to my widowed aunt and her two kids. When I was a boy, families depended on families. It was out of the question that government ought to take the place of the family.

My father told me that when he was a boy the federal government was never mentioned. Only once in his early life did a U.S. Congressmen make a local appearance. Now the federal government is like the head of the house was when I was a boy. And, pathetically, our next president can't speak his mind.  What a difference!  My father laid the law down.

In my July 13, 2008 post, "To the Dumbed Down II," I wrote: "McCain admits that we're in a situation today where all comments "are diagnosed and looked at for whatever effect they might have. We have to feed the beast, the hourly cable shows, the instant news in the blogs, and all that," says McCain. The presidential candidates are not speaking to you and I. If they had a mind of their own, you would not know it from what they say. The candidates are speaking to the news media and bloggers in terms they hope will win them a favorable review.

In "The Zaadz Secret," I wrote this: "I've learned here that we can retain our individual beliefs and still have much in common with the other members, from all around the world. . . When the family was the cornerstone of American life, we grew up and became personally responsible, self-sufficient, innovative individuals. With big government, big business, and media hawkers in control, optimization the controlling factor, we are made to feel immature and in need of external control. We're in a new age, folks. Innovation is taking over the world. One can be king of the mountain today and at the bottom of the heap tomorrow. You better know this and be inwardly secure. My friends, you are on your own in the emerging world, co-equal in the creation of our future."

The bottom line: If we of the Gaia Community are to avoid being the dumbed down masses, if we're to change the world, we've got to quit speaking platitudes and find out what is on our minds, and there is but one way: speak our minds.

A lot of my Gaia friends are interested in the remaking of man. The universe, we can say to avoid argument, made humans capable of coping by reason-by intelligence. It empowers me to make the right determination for me. The Bible tells us to make ourselves in our image. Morals come from how one sees himself-as good or bad. It is by another's judgement only if we allow it, only if we're dumbed down.

How do we avoid being made a sucker? Judging from my experience, if we all looked within for answers we could live together in peace and harmony. But don't take it from me. Take your own experience. Could your life be better? If it could, have you tried looking within for your answers?

When I was 49, I took a realistic look at my accomplishments. They had not brought me happiness. I decided to start over, but how? I looked within for my answers. An amazing thing happened. When everything should have gone wrong for me, according to the authorities, everything started going right. I proved authorities wrong. I became captain of my ship.

There is a rule called Murphy's Law. If anything can go wrong, it will. This reminds me of my audio tape from James Redfield, the author of The Celestine Prophecy, a story of corrupt authority and looking within for your answers.

Redfield told me in his tape, "We all start at immature levels of ego functions. We have a sense of security based on how much we feel in charge of our lives. We want to keep the idea that things are going fine. We have goals we want to achieve. We need to manipulate things to keep everything just right. We need to keep this allusion for security purposes. If new information comes in, we can act defensively. We don't want information that rocks the boat."

The immature want to be like everyone. It often comes out as wanting everyone to be like me. Many of us never leave this mode, including authorities. Many are externally influenced to do the worst for themselves. They are duck soup for authority. What would authority do without them?

Give authority enough rope and authority will hang itself. Said Redfield in his tape, "What happens is that this allusion, based on security control, has to shift to our inner connection, our God-self force that gives us a sense of well being no matter what's going on out there. We have to make that opening on the inside."

It was long after I made my decision on my own to cut my umbilical cord with my past that Redfield said, "As you get in touch with your inner energy and start to get in touch with your higher self, you will be guided into how to find that true work expression. It will be shown to you intuitively. This becomes the way you uplift everyone who comes into your life. When you evolve into your higher self you energize those who cross your path. This becomes your greatest talent." When everything, according to authority, should go wrong, according to me, according to Redfield, everything starts going right. Redfield and I are on the same wave length.

One of my favorite movies, for the moral it leaves, is Legend of the Fall. It begins with a frontier colonel resigning after Custer's Last Stand. He hated government for what it did to native Americans. The colonel bought a ranch in Montana and raised three sons. The youngest was naive. His folly got him killed. The middle son could not be tamed. He was strongly influenced by a native American ranch hand. The eldest, one of those holier than thou people, blinded by his ego, became a U. S. Congressman. Everybody loved the middle son. Is it any wonder that love never came the eldest son's way? The eldest finally saw the error in his ways. In the end, justice was done against the corrupt establishment.

It appears to me that a lot of people are on my wave length. Another of my favorite movies is Titanic. Titanic, the biggest and grandest ship afloat, attracted the wealth of the world. But she was primarily built for profit, to provide passage for thousands of immigrants to the land of opportunity, the United States of America.

Titanic is a story of exploitation, profiting on the meek with self-serving intentions. Underneath the external grandeur was authority's dishonest intentions. On her maiden voyage from England to America, the publicity agent aboard wanted the captain to set a record for the fastest crossing ever. The sea was flat. The night was moonless. Icebergs were reported on the course the ship was taking. At the speed this great ship was traveling, it would be impossible to see an iceberg in time to avoid a collision.

The propellers were thrown in reverse. The wheel was as far over as it would go. Slowly the ship began to turn, but not enough to avoid sideswiping an iceberg. The ship was supposed to be unsinkable. It had compartments that could be sealed remotely by large doors. The iceberg split open the ship far enough back that the entering sea lowered the bow enough for the water to rise above the forward sealed compartments. The bow went down and the ship split open in the middle, the bow dragging the aft down with it.

There were half enough lifeboats for passengers and crew. The crew locked the immigrants below in order that the wealthy might board the lifeboats. The lifeboats were lowed with plenty of space for more people. After the ship went down, with the lifeboats standing by half empty, hundreds of people were left to die in the icy water. More than 1,500 people perished.

This graphic portrayal of might is an eye-opener. Power is a drive; it doesn't require intelligence. Are we Americans going down on a sinking ship?

Since man ate the forbidden fruit and learned about good and evil, we got us a Bible, the moral story of man. The story gives us a heavenly authority representing good and a devil below representing evil, which we can take as literal or as a manner of speaking, but the reality is the same. We've got a moral problem in America.

What makes my morals better than your's? This happens to be the view of the U. S. Supreme Court. Justice Black made this statement on TV. I heard him say, "The Constitution is what we say it is." A female genitalia is looked upon by the Court as freedom of speech. I never saw one speak. My reason tells me that when it is used for exploitation, it can be for evil.

In my view, morals are based on behavior that is best for us and behavior that is not good for us, like slavery, which the Tanney Court sanctioned. Why is external authority passing laws that deprive us of our internal power, our sense of reason? Reason, by the way, is fundamental to the law. The U.S. Supreme Court is out of touch, and always has been tacitly against the law, the U. S. Constitution.

While it is true that what is good for me may be bad to you, as long as I don't do to you what I would not have you do to me, we're on a level playing field. I'm not my brother's keeper no matter what.  I don't owe anyone for what others might have done. Equal rights means my rights "are not capable of being surrendered or transferred without the consent of the one possessing such rights. Morrision v. State. Why do we need external authority to determine who is entitled and who is not? It seems to me that external authority is determined that we do not look within for our answers.

With external authority, it is might makes right. However, In Legend of the Fall, in Titanic, in The Celestine Prophecy, in the story of my life, might makes wrong.

For the past seven years, I've been thinking and writing for publication my thoughts. They have been read by thousands. It is most encouraging. It amazes me what exercising the mind can do, how one's conscious awareness is expanded.

Coincidentally, my mind adventure fits with what numerologists Javane and Bunker write in Numerology and The Divine Triangle for my Life Lesson. "You are here to use and to develop your mind. Your words should be full of wisdom when you decide to talk."

Pointing to my favorable alignment of Saturn with Pluto, Sakioan and Acker in The Astrologer's Handbook, under "Saturn trine Pluto" say, "This trine gives the natives the ability to understand the laws by which subtle forces are organized, enabling them to use these laws consciously or unconsciously. It favors those who work in such fields as physics. . ." I dig the latest discoveries of quantum physics.

Jeanne Avery, in The Rising Sign, under "Aquarius Rising," speaking to me, said, "The person with Aquarius on the rise can be very avant-garde. He is a forerunner in setting style."

Thus, keeping in mind my favorable alignment with Saturn and Pluto, and that I'm a forerunner in setting style, Richard Tarnas, distinguished philosopher and cultural historian, author of Cosmos and Psyche, wrote that by examining the planetary Saturn-Pluto cycle, which resembles the Uranus-Pluto cycle found "An atmosphere of gravity and tension tended to accompany these three-to-four year periods, as did widespread epochal closure: the ‘end of an era,' ‘the end of innocense,' the destruction of an earlier mode of life that in retrospect may seem to have been marked by widespread indulgence, decadence, naivete, denial, and inflation."

Exactly! What comes around goes around, but what comes after the three-to-four year cycle we are entering now? As far as I'm concerned, there is too much that connects to call it mere coincidence. In my view, like it or not, everything we think we know now is going to be replaced. Are you prepared?

In today's news, we learn that stock markets all over the world are going down. California's largest thrift bank failed. There is fear of bank runs. The dollar is setting new lows. The price of oil went up today. Iran is beating the war drums. Have a nice day!

In November 2008, Saturn and Pluto will be in unfavorable alignment. Distinguished philosopher and cultural historian Richard Tarnas spent 30 years studying the archetypal patterns of human history and the alignments of the outer planets. He found a consistency. He predicts that for the next 3 to 4 years we should expect turmoil in the world.

Medical doctor and quantum physicist Evan Harris Walker tells the story of elementary particles-how they answer questions of what consciousness is. He maintains that Bell's theorem shows that we, as observers, play a major role in the structure of the universe-"we have discovered that every path we have taken to learn something of the structure of the universe comes around to the same result. Whether to understand the interconnection of will, to understand the most basic facts in quantum theory, or to discover the beginning of the Big Bang universe, each path leads to the fact that there must exist a supreme Consciousness out of which everything springs."

Think about the world today compared to the world 5,000 years ago-how little we knew about our reality. We are born in the space-time consortium, but there is a dimension of infinite possibility waiting to be observed. Our observation as individuals, as societies, creates our reality. Isn't it interesting that the outer planets' alignments and the archetypal patterns of human history coincide? Like I've been reporting, everything you think you know is going to be replaced.

I was born a Virgo with Aquarius rising. Prophet of the future H. G. Wells was Virgo with Aquarius rising. In astrological terms, the sun rose on me at the place where I was born to make the part I allow others to see Aquarius. I was born at a time in history when great changes would occur. I was placed before you as a messenger.

What does the future hold for you world changers? You have no idea of your power potential. If you believe what the authorities are telling you today, you will be left in a cloud of dust. If you believe in yourselves and the stars, you will lead the world to peace and harmony.

In a conversation with my new neighbor, I mentioned that I enjoy the UFO stories on the History Channel. Her eyes changed, as though she was in a trance. I was then informed that she used to live on Mt. Palomar, where the big telescope is. She had gone to check on her cattle a few minutes from home. She saw lights in the sky nearby. They couldn't be from a helicopter. There was no noise. The lights were colors-red, blue, yellow. She didn't know what they were, but when she returned to her home, it was 3-1/2 hours later. She couldn't have been gone more than 15 or 20 minutes, said she. She doesn't know what took place and doesn't want to know. But she knows something mysterious took place.

UFO researchers estimate that more than 3 million alien abductions have taken place. Millions have seen UFOs. There is much evidence of livestock being butchered in fields, body parts removed and not a drop of blood. It is thought the parts were removed by laser. UFOs are being sighted in the areas where the mutilations occur.

The United States has a policy, regarding UFOs, of the need to know. Even the president is not thought to need to know everything. Who makes the decisions? I presume the one's who know it all. We, the people, are told it is a matter of national security. It is for the security of the authorities in control. If the technology of advanced beings is available, it should be for everyone's benefit. The authorities in control are making deals with EBEs (extraterrestrials), something for something, and we, the people are paying a price. As long as EBEs can use this world's authorities to their advantage, they can do their thing with impunity, it is better than creating havoc by revealing their presence to the general public.

My neighbor doesn't want to know what happened. I didn't ask her why. There is much evidence pointing to extraterrestrials being here thousands of years. If they had intended on taking over our world, they would have done it long ago. If it were known that extraterrestrials were here in large numbers, and abducting us, some people would think the end of the world was near. Others would look at EBEs as angels. Still others would deny they are real. But for sure, everything we thought we knew would be wrong. I've been writing that this is going to happen; that those who refuse to face the new reality are going to be left in a cloud of dust.

When the time is right, when it is no longer to their advantage to hide their presence, the extraterrestrials will reveal their presence to the masses. I look forward to the time when people start looking within for their answers, when they become fully aware that the state of mind is without boundary.

A reminder that my astrological makeup has me the water-bearer to humanity. As it were, through government entitlements a paid consultant to we, the people, I dare say it wasn't planned that way. I'm supposed to be a government dependant.

Furthermore, what I know and impart here did not come to me from the blue, nor has "God" revealed what I know. It is as it should be. My nature led me to what I know. I'm what we call a nonconformist, a person who refuses to conform to established customs, in the