In Honour of Joseph Vincent Brophy ... the closest of my generation to pass on ... a Ballad of sorts

This has shocked me, prodded me and nudged me along ... various dimensional lines ... he is so like us, mostly self-educated and iconoclastic ... he did the work and self-study to get all the naval tickets. I got to know him in the early 80's when he was studying and writing the 1st Mate ticket and stayed with me. He eventually got his Captain's papers and worked at sea for 30 years. In 1983 he was clipped by a snaking cable on a supply vessel and his right leg was shattered. In the recovery from the accident he received some of that famous tainted blood and hepatitis C which was unknown to him until the late 90's showing up on a health exam during a mortgage application. Hep C reduces the liver function which normally has about a 10 fold excess capacity which all of us take far too much advantage of during what is considered a normal lifetime,. Joe, like many of us has no love for doctors and their snake-oils, so he did not do much about the condition that was not all that apparent and when more acute trouble came refused biopsy because he had had one at some point and did not like the feeling of it. He also believed that if you receive a label you tend to play out the labelled role. I am going on about this for the living, especially those of the stubborn male persuasion, because health and well being centres around the liver, which is trying its best to detoxify the human experience. As long as it can, we generally thrive irrespective of our behaviours. While Joe waited too long to begin working with his liver, he did discover a Way to cleanse and rejeuvenate the liver which could be of great benefit ongoing, especially if there is an increase in the environmental toxicity. The nutshell version of the Gerson Therapy and a key link to the Gerson Videos Tapes 1 - 4 A doctor's report describing the AMA attacks on Gerson... disclaimer: the American Cancer Society is against this approach (maybe that makes it more attractive)

The other side of this journey was the discovery of Answer Cancer a rather disturbing book that insists that disease is a subconscious self-mutilation program. Run the other way, you might urge ... I didn't because of the auspicious coincidence of "finding" the book on my laptop in an odd moment in Halifax, when it would ordinarily have been lost in the thousands of info bits this collector cannot stop gathering, but they do erupt in interesting ways ... why is this important? I have been faced with my own seemingly self-sabotaging behaviour for, well, ever and Joe related to the information of his tumour development in what for someone so meticulous in other ways, was out of character. The author of the book points out that the body is leading physicians on a symptoms hunt, "you fixed my hip ... I have another hip and a knee and ... " when the root cause is an event between conception and 4 years old that is resolved by later life illness ... a radical, disturbing idea. Well I just watched a friend behave in ways that led to his physical demise far sooner than might have been and I find myself and most of the people I know involved to some extent in the same kind of confusion. I know, a good buddhist, would just say, "Samsara" but that is not satisfying for me. I believe this is the personal apocalypse that parallels the transformation the larger culture has engaged at this time. The book can be engaged in less than an hour and I urge you to do so and comment on your own experience.

My daugher Heidi who has a university science degree, said "Gerson doesn't have any labs" ... after 30 minutes I emailed her saying that he used the best laboratory, the human body ... it's old school meticulous observation and an insatiable search for what works, changing course even reversing at times ... the opposite view from reductionist labs of the present. Tape 1 is that part of the story. At any rate, thank you Joe for letting us be involved with your life and death. In the end, he had to endure the medical nightmare and got his electrolytes out of whack causing even more confusion, but finally surrendered and was able to pass on within 24 hours of that.

This about Sums it UP ... we don't know more than we know

A US Congressman, head of the Capital Markets committee admits the impermanence of $$$$

How will the formerly unthinkable happen?

Here is a comment about the extent of the financial tables turning OR more properly called, redistribrution of wealth movement

Several months back I came across some frightening news from the Fed which is just as relevant today. It revealed what a real house of cards we had been living in. Just in the third quarter 2008 alone, U.S. households lost $647 billion in real estate; $922 billion in stocks; $523 billion in mutual funds; $653 billion in life insurance and pension fund reserves; plus $128 billion in private business interests.

Total destruction of household wealth in the third quarter: $2.8 trillion, the worst in recorded history. That's four times more than the government's entire $700 billion bailout package (TARP). Total destruction of household wealth in the last year: $7.2 trillion or over TEN times more than the $700 billion TARP package.

Some of us have been talking about how from Universities to Grade Schools, and almost every government department imaginable, not forgetting the changing perception of BANKS, changes are imperative. ... these are institutions seemingly indestructible and tremendously resistant to constructive change ... we may be seeing what only a poet like D. H. Lawrence could imagine:

When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego
and when we escape like squirrels turning in the
cages of our personality
and get into the forest again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don't know ourselves.
Cool, unlying life will rush in,
and passion will make our bodies taut with power,
we shall stamp our feet with new power
and old things will fall down
we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like
burnt paper

One of those days ... not one of those days

... greeted this morning with an email that touched off an emotional storm ... my friend who has been ill, may well be dying ... when we think we are ill, all may well be well ... but ... when we think we are dying ... so it brought me to a STOP and may be the seminal gesture for the emergence of Stop 1st from its chrysalis ... i am already feeling the loss, without that being "on the table" ... what is this feeling of loss?  Who is losing What?

... i don't want you to think me cold, when i am as warm as i have ever been ...

now sinking deep in the 2nd attention ... the world is becoming a cubist puzzle visually, but awareness is peaceful, serene and bright ... realization that what we lose is the piece of "ourselves" we have identified as the other ... what may well be our entire experience of the other ... what we have "given" to the other ... perhaps why the situation surrounding death is so uncomfortable for the living ... we begin to think of ourselves just when our presence is most needed beyond that imagination ...

... at any rate it brought me to an edge ... and this evening reminded me of Edge.com and the words in memorium of the late john brockman ... and for those of you who missed it, here is the link to the downloadable book

February already, when it was March we were thinking was 6 months away

Time is flying and the signs are swirling about us. 

The Obama presidency has a fresh flavour about it ... seeing him relaxed and chatty with the sportscaster dude before the Super Bowl ... not being pushed around by the questions, or other peoples' notion of bipartisanship (the other side doesn't have to admit it and/or vote with us for us to accept their input and move on) ...

I am starting up/and over again with real time trading ... the mandatory retirement was helpful and the discovery of two major surrounding views should show some benefits:

1)  That due to morphic resonance or whatever we may wish to call it, we can ASSUME that knowledge sought/learned/integrated and mastered by others can be available to us in the moment we need it.   The Market Masters' sanguine view of the momentary action can guide us.  What would Jesse do?  What are the Whales doing?  In my case even more precise ... what would TacTrade do?

2)  The all-encompassing influence of supply and demand beyond being a term in the first paragraph in the trading manual ... Tom Williams and TradeGuider software have brought this View to the fore and it is a difference maker.  Brings volume out as a combination factor with price to guide us into a present view of the action.  Where do the Whales want this to go, now?

My apologies to those of you, for whom this is too much information ... I had to write it somewhere to make sure I do not discount what has transpired in the last 3 months and what is possible in the present ...

Volatility Trading still rules the day and these markets ... here a couple of links to help you to understand possible ways of going forward.

The Lost Science of Money a commercial message to introduce this important book ... download the book itself with a right click here and a Save Link As there ... it has been said that nobody understands money, maybe because of the mass delusions that have been propagated about it ... This book attempts to clarify what it is and how we might make better use of it, if we understood that!

Zeitgeist Addendum is another long video screed but ends with a huge new vision ... view the 2 hour movie here or if you want to down load it, patiently right click here