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

The Practicing Mind

Review: The Practicing Mind by Thomas M. Sterner

What follows is the review from Amazon.com ... I recommend going "Inside the Book", reading the excerpt and then choosing "Surprise me" as often as you are allowed. This is the missing piece for meditators and anyone who wants to learn anything

In a society of immediate gratification, Thomas M. Sterner's book THE PRACTICING MIND almost parodies itself. Designed to be a primer for slowing down, becoming more aware of the present moment, and increasing self-discipline and focus, Sterner's brilliance shines through in the brevity of this complex book's pages. Less than a hundred pages long, this tiny but intense book delivers enough information to contemplate and apply for a lifetime. THE PRACTICING MIND enables those of us immersed in the Western world's constant motion and hubbub to slow down, check within, and grow. The nine chapters detail in depth the steps to mastering any skill or achieving any goal. Sterner clearly explains, through the use of colorful, vivid examples, how mastery comes from practice through repetition - whether we're talking about learning a new habit, achieving a professional goal, or improving one's golf game. Each chapter begs to be mulled over, internalized, and applied. The principles sometimes overlap, enabling the reader to make deeper connections and realizations as they progress. In a gentle and encouraging manner, Sterner not only illuminates the "how's" - the process - he also enables the reader to see that not only are growth and change possible, but "with deliberate and repeated effort, progress is inevitable." This book is already a favorite of mine, highlighted and scribbled in, and slowly, patiently, I'm witnessing the result of reading this material in my daily life. This book is a must-read for anybody who is tired of today's widely accepted non-stop frenetic pace, for anybody sick of feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and out of balance, or for anybody who wouldn't even know where to find the roses, much less bother to take the time to stop and smell them --Tammy Cook, Reviewer for Roundtable Reviews

What I Found When I Got Home from the Retreat

My super highway ...



The sharp edge of the wind can make some sharp edges in the snow



It is also capable of doing rounded contours



The white line above the treetops is the snow-covered shore of PEI ... but this is really about "The Blue Yonder" ... that blue that is BLUE!



Where my eye looks out from ...

Maybe an Aside ... but Collaobration is sorely needed these days in all domains

While the powers that were try to be, the rest of us clearly seeing potential solutions which cannot be heard in the corridors rapidly clearing of power ... here's a thot from Nerd Girl

She's a post-doc at UBC writing a weekly Globe column

Crisis, What Crisis? hints on the road to Victory

In the fall of 2009 I think the University as we have known it will be in crisis because I cannot believe that parents and grandparents will sacrifice their much reduced retirements to send Billy or Barbie who don't want to be there to university for an education that means nothing in terms of being able to DO something ... at that point, it would be students who would demand a shift towards excellence and away from the present business models ... the current generation of academics will be viewed as having failed and CHANGE will come ... we may be called upon to make comments at that time, having seen the inside of the belly of the beast ... by then we will have seen workers and unions exchanging money for quality of jobs and life, sustainability at many levels, etc. We are going to see massive change, once the money/numbers game fails spectacularly ... the once sold-out souls are not yet dead and will awaken ... maybe basic goodness will have its day.

A New Economy: Some of you have made this point already ... here is some confirmation

From: Jim Kunstler

To be specific about this new economy, we’re going to have to make things again, and raise things out of the earth, locally, and trade these things for money of some kind that we earn through our own productive activities. Don’t make the mistake of thinking this is optional. The only other option is to go through a violent sociopolitical convulsion. We ought to know from prior examples in world history that this is not a desirable experience. So, to avoid that, we really have to put our shoulders to the wheel and get to work on things that matter, and do it at a scale that is consistent with what the world really has to offer right now, especially in terms of available energy.

In my view — and I know this is controversial — a much larger proportion of the U.S. population will have to be employed in growing the food we eat. There are many ways of arranging this, some more fair than others, and I hope the better angels of our nature steer us in the direction of fairness and justice. The prospects of a devalued dollar imply that we very shortly will not be able to get the all the oil-and-gas based “inputs” that have made petro-agriculture possible the past century. The consequences of this are so unthinkable that we have not been thinking about it. And, of course, the further implications of current land-use allocation, and the property ownership issues entailed, suggests formidable difficulties in re-arranging the farming sector. The sooner we face all this, the better.

Paul Krugman, nobel prize winner writes ... on the Dangers of the Lame Duck Economy

The comments here illuminate more than the article and send you back for more Krugman. He is VERY good in past pieces at explaining economics in examples you and I can understand. I'm not sure teenagers would, but ...

Common Dreams repub, hence the more thoughtful comments.

Mind the Gap ... the door is opening

Or ... why there have been few posts of late.

Rainer has returned from MX in his moment, which usually means that a party breaks out wherever he goes. Enough fun with that, there are also late nights, but more importantly, early mornings where the light is shining and illumiinating such facets as the Nez of Art ... a conversation which we know how we started and will do so again for whomever wants to listen in and perhaps kibbitz. This is also in regard to him being involved in the possible establishment of a school of art in Xalapa, created and run by those who eschew the art establishment and the training of artists by academics rather than by practitioners. We are beginning to map where the crucial distinctions/sparks between symmetry and chaos apply.

Introducing Victor Niederhoffer ... this is not supposed to be just irritating for the sake of it.
Many of us Boomers, and I am an early instance by some reckoning, born May 8, 1945 ... assume that the commercial systems are a blight upon the planet and toss that baby as far as we can ... baby is lucky if there is any water along to cushion the landing. Victor, by that calculation, is not one of us. He has been up to his ears in money and making it from the get-go and is still only fascinated by the ramifications surrounding the enterprises. However, he bears the marks of one who has over-extended and been ruined in a number of ways ... in the present context his words ring true with the wisdom of experience and a view that is not stuck in the moaning over lost assumptions. One story is that in 1997 he made a bad trade that cost he and his friends 100 Million in a few hours, leaving him once again in ruin and there were people at the time who, thinking that the poetry of justice was at work, resented the fact that George Soros lent him 10 Million to get back on his feet again. If that makes no sense at all to you, maybe the Boomeritus is too far advanced. At any rate here is his blog which is a running, non-MSM commentary on the $ issues of the day ....

http://www.dailyspeculations.com/wordpress/

Finding the Center ... the US spelling applies in this case

After the success of the revulsion of neo-con politics, the rest of us really have to settle in to also acknowledge that there were some notable left-liberal excesses that led to the neo-con ascendancy ... and find a way to move to the middle ground, the forgotten center where practicality rules ...

For example, it is patently obvious, really, that individual rights to freedom require limitations on those who have not leaned to respect those rights for others, whether they be crimnals or criminal regimes (or 20 something bodies with 2 year old minds) ... In our relief at the passing of authoritarian methods in homes and schools we have produced a generation of children, many of whom have not experienced the safety provided by strong, clear boundaries for their movements and expressions.

It is thus time for the progressive thinkers to step up and acknowledge those areas where the conservative critcs found liberals' fuzzy logic less than compelling, if not dangerous. Maintaining a polar opposite for the purposes of debate is one thing, and a significant part of the dialectic, that often fails in practice.

What we need at this point is a return to the functional dialectic (which has now become multi-faceted and where the middle ground of a circle is still the center) in order to re-discover the practicality of the middle way.

Taking a Stand ... what we are rapidly learning

The ways of the past assumed that on any issue there was a right or correct position and a wrong position ... politics often began from idealogy and spent a lot of energy criticizing the opponents' idealogy. We grew up in a cold war that was largely idealogical in basis. The ways of the present will come to be defined in contrast to the obsolesent ways of the past.

Today, facing unprecedented challenges and having no time to find out, if it were possible, who was to blame, the way forward is to find a way that works to solve the problems we are facing and to leave as many options open for change as we dare because in uncharted waters there are bound to be more and likely bigger mistakes.

The assumption of basic goodness at the root allows a latitude of possibilities really unprecedented as well and provides a firm middle ground that is experientially "higher" than the historical conflicts if only in that it can see the conflicts more clearly by not being required to take sides as the past roars off into the passed. (sic)

There are opportunities for those of us who have meticulously stayed outside until now to enter into the emerging conversations as supporting balance and equanimity ... the long view and a careful peacemaking between the old warriors stuck in their ancient battles. One can become quite impassioned to articulate this position by sending emails, writing comments on blogs being read and generally trying to bring the conversation up a notch beyond the yelping youthingas.

I call that a Stand worth taking.

Economics in Rap format ... I mean u no sh?t brutha

Harvard Professor finds a way to teach to students who wear their caps sideways.

Now if he could only find a version that US Congress or Parliament could understand.

Election PostPartum ... collecting the detritus and exorcising the space

A group of statistical geeks who made excellent sense out of the 3-4 times more polling done in this years election.

Obama's Victory Speech ... Change.gov is the rally the troops site for the transition and 2009 Congressional and Presidential Transition is the nuts and bolts "transparency" site

Do What You Got Elected to Do says the new Chief of Staff, R. Emanuel which is different that Our Emanuel, no? For those of you who are wondering about the stance of the new regime, this article should clear a lot of that up. In a word, pragmatic.

The Obama 30m Prime Time infomercial

Ralph Nader ... he of "fire in the belly" points out what is needed to move this on, rather than count on fait accompli ... oops repeat of previous post and link. Well it bears repeating.

And if you want to hear some VERY funny conservative breast-beating that is over half truthful and sets a lot of red and green harbour markers for the future, then P. J. O'Rourke is your guy.

A Harvard Economics professor gives some advice to Mr. O at the beginning.

Of course it will not stop at electing a black president, for the paranoid religious right this must be all too much. A transgendered mayor no less!

Ralph Nader is not Quitting ... and he doesn't want you to either

Interviews with Ralph on PBS where he is agitating for crucial involvement ongoing to goad Congress into making real changes

A voice beyond the politics as spectator sports mentality.

This one brought tears to my eyes ... like this man sees there is something freah on the horizon

A white southern middle aged banker on the street, discovering his heart

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1103/p09s02-coop.html

Key Piece illustrating David Wilcock's edge

This is cribbed directly from his website ... he calls Illuminati - 'Family' in here

PART OF THE COSMIC PLAN: A MIRROR OF OUR COLLECTIVE SHADOW SIDE

I should point out that I've been aware of the 'negative elite' and their plans since the early 1990s, and they were discussed extensively in the Law of One series, a body of philosophical material that I consider as credible. I don't get riled up about the negative elite or feel threatened by them, because for years now I have seen that this is all part of a grander plan for humanity's evolution.

Ultimately, the "negative elite" are there to mirror back our shadow side. Each of us has darkness that we don't want to face, but we lie to ourselves and act like it really doesn't matter. Until we choose to see that it DOES matter, and that we would be well advised to try to improve how we think and behave towards ourselves and others, this problem in the world will continue.

The simple act of waking up, on a mass level, insures that the power base of this group will crumble. This story of the revolt of the top generals is just another example of how the "best laid plans" never work out as they were intended to. Why? Because people are waking up.

They may think they could herd people into prison camps, or micro-chip the entire population. The recent Aaron Russo video on Prison Planet is required viewing if you haven't already seen it, and I've watched the entire one-hour film and can tell you that all the most important data is in the free online version. You can watch it as a video link within the following article, the first two paragraphs of which I have quoted:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/290107rockefellergoal.htm

"Hollywood director and documentary film maker Aaron Russo has gone in-depth on the astounding admissions of Nick Rockefeller, who personally told him that the elite's ultimate goal was to create a microchipped population and that the war on terror was a hoax, Rockefeller having predicted an "event" that would trigger the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan eleven months before 9/11.

Rockefeller also told Russo that his family's foundation had created and bankrolled the women's liberation movement in order to destroy the family and that population reduction was a fundamental aim of the global elite."

I honestly believe that after all the movies we've seen about human injustice, they simply could never find enough people who would be willing to hold the guns, when push came to shove.

Svali revealed that even within the 'Family' itself, there would be a 'mass exodus' out of the group if people thought they could escape - and live. Most of these people are NOT really into it - they were born in, and they have no choice but to stay in. This may be one of the most substantial points of all. The group itself lacks the internal fidelity to succeed.

WHY "FAMILY" CANNOT COLLAPSE THE ECONOMY

There IS a scientific case to be made that if an economic collapse does occur, perhaps by premeditated design, it won't damage most of us, but would actually have more of a cleansing effect than anything else. By "cleansing" I mean that systems that RESTRICT freedom and movement - like the negative elite - crumble and fall away.

If you investigate the science of Chaos Theory, you will come across the theory of Complex Adaptive Systems. This science is very recent and obviously has not permeated the ranks of "Family." When a group of people get together and form an economy as large as the global marketplace, you have a system whose properties remained mysterious to us until recently, with the advent of super-computers that can analyze the behaviors of a huge system.

We now know that the more a system like this is driven towards instability, the more likely it is that it will suddenly re-arrange into a higher level of order. These changes CANNOT be predicted or scripted, but they do occur. Just below you will find quotes from reputable scientists regarding this research, and its impact for all of us.

Here is a simple example: you have a pile of sand forming from a trickle-feed up top. As the pile rises in height, it becomes more and more unstable - it enters into Chaos. When the chaos reaches its peak of instability, scientists now have concluded that you CANNOT predict the speed or direction of movement of ANY particle in the system.

The ENTIRE SYSTEM takes on a bizarre, UNPREDICTABLE behavior where it acts as a WHOLE, not as a sequence of individual grains. There is a sudden shift, and the pile restructures itself. The pile does not collapse into a flat pancake - it just changes shape.

Here is an exceprt from a page within a nicely-worded, relatively easy to understand website about this exciting new science. Of course you have to wade through some scientific geekspeak, so don't focus on every word - just skim it and get the gist of what is being said. The link is to the main page, which you should read first if interested. There are THOUSANDS of resources where you can research this material, but this is a good one to start with:

http://complexity.orcon.net.nz/intro.html

"A complex adaptive system (CAS) is a complex system that has the ability to not only respond to the outside environment, but one that can adapt itself to become more efficient within its given environment. Basically, this means a system which can learn.

All forms of life are complex adaptive systems. Plants grow towards the light, animals seek out food, and humans work to develop their career to give them a better advantage, and better income than the other people about them.

Complex Adaptive Systems are formed by a number (usually large) of individual autonomous agents interacting intensely together [like human beings forming the global economy].

This creates complex non-linear interactions that allow the emergence of new properties for the system that could not have been predicted beforehand.

The new patterns are often system-wide.

When human beings get together they form cultures and languages. [These are additional examples of complex adaptive systems in action…] "

This body of information, of which the above quote is just a starting point, is the scientific PROOF for why "Family" will never "Bring Down the Internet," or collapse the world's economy. Both of these entities are complex adaptive systems.

Each person has the potential to restructure the economy, and as long as the sun rises and sets, birds fly, rain falls, trees grow, et cetera, we have the resources to continue to persevere. WE are a complex adaptive system, and "Family" does not have anywhere near as much control over that system as they would like to believe.

[From http://www.artist-strange-work.com/images/82.it27s_a_beautiful_dayfr2.jpg]

The Powers that Be earnestly think they can 'fund both sides' of a conflict so that whomever 'wins' is still on their side, but now with the Internet you have guys like Matt Drudge, Perez Hilton and Dylan Avery of "Loose Change" (the 9/11 documentary) who are sole agents, NOT on either side, but gaining massive publicity.

In the case of someone like Perez, we're not really seeing any kind of constructive content - and he's being sued by everyone in the entertainment industry, it seems, in the hopes of shutting down the site completely. However, his site is already more popular than ANY of the corporate television news broadcasts, in the world, in terms of the number of people tuning in. He's now clearing five million unique visitors in a day, on certain days, and was the eleventh most-searched term on Yahoo last week, as you can see in my article from two days ago.

The real point is that the old-school paradigm of the 'Family' simply CANNOT hold true in a complex adaptive system that is filled to the bursting-point with independent, free-acting agents, any one of which could have a cascading, massive, unprecedented effect upon the entire system.

The Revealing is not what they think it will be.

You are experiencing it.

Right now.

Entire page summarizing the Illuminati/Family Holy Grail bloodlines etc.

David Wilcock comes into Focus ... this clarifies and expands 2012 in AMAZING ways

Non of my hoo-hah main page link

The first contact was Joe Brophy telling me about David being a reincarnation of Edgar Cayce and something about Ra material .. then Joe mentioned the other day that Wilcock says the financial crisis is not ultimately destructive but will help us get rid of the criminals running the economy ...

I searched torrent sites and downloaded 2012 Enigma and The Road to Ascension in 4 parts. Just collecting, no focus yet. THEN:

Today I read the following material on Why the UFO event on October 14th did not happen and realized that this person in a very direct simple way is describing his own experience and presenting important information without hype or hyperbole ... especially willing to update and correct previous visionary experiences as new inspiration/data arises ... also an extremely clear view on why others get confused about future events. That update part is critical and how he explains it too. I solves the huge difficulty that prophecy has had in the past. Why events can be correct and timing quite far off. See paragraph below.

Why go into this huge body of material at this time?

It is all too easy to be overwhelmed and to shut-down at the flood of infomration these days ... I look for, and promote, those voices that provide context, View ... that allow for the rest to flow by ... an interesting Wilcock analogy is that the Golden Ration 1.618 used to divide eras is now repeatedly dividing the time span between now and 2012 in ever smaller segments and major events are associated with each transition, so that we will experience more and increasingly more major events as the Date approaches ... that kind of insight can make you dizzy. What he says that is enormously helpful is that the primary task of each individual is to forgive themselves and others so that we can open to whatever future without resistance and fear ... I am inevitably drawn here and will continue to post the highlights as I go.

Up to Date intro video about 90m in length called 2012 Enigma ... if you want to quit before the end go ahead to last 5m

Road to Ascension Part 1 is important because this is the background on David's journey

The Importance of Updates in the field of prophecy ... this is my take, not Mr. Wilcock ...

The Seer, sees ... images, a certain amount of fuzziness, maybe a lot of relatively symbolic stuff and comes out of that visionary state with an interpretation that seems correct at the time ... the collection of beings that comprise the Totality are interacting with present and future states ... it is an adaptive system, evolving in potentially many directions ... as "time" moves forward it (the tuture) changes as the present interactions make choices that either support or change the initial vision ...

Enough to see that it is not surprising that this area has a dubious reputation for accuracy and yet is valuable as part of context in terms of choosing as we go. The stars incline, they do not impel ...

This work incorporates that "soft" approach, a certain humility often lacking in the propheically inclined ... I have noticed in our collective a certain weariness, at times, ... hard to stay positive when we are still worried that this might turn out quite terribly ... and while that is so, it seems important to me that the white knights get over the smudges on their robes and continue heading south ... my role seems to be about encouraging the view that it could turn out quite well ...

Neil Young: "Don't let it bring you down, It's only castles burning, Find someone who's turning and you will come around"

There is so much material here ... and connection to The Law of One which is also Ra material. Summarized in The Law of One Study Guide

If you can Stand reading The Other Side ... how a basketful of thoughtful conservatives are voting this time.

I came here because I saw Francis Fukuyama's name in a Memeorandum post.

http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/nov/03/00020/

Then I began to click on the names below and it was truly an enlightening experience. There was quite a range of opinions expressed and the kind of concerns that many of us share in terms of going forward.

NY Times defends itself ... the media has been taking major flak from both sides

Clark Hoyt - The Public Editor responds and clarifies that beauty and everything else is in the "I" of the beholder

Pothead Hedge Funder: ‘Throw Away the Blackberry and Enjoy Life’

Andrew Lahde, the head of Santa Monica–based hedge fund Lahde Capital Management, who quit after posting an 870 percent gain last year, became something of a folk hero today after his awesome, Jerry Maguire–like farewell letter to clients made the rounds.

"I was in this game for the money. The low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking. These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government. All of this behavior supporting the Aristocracy, only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other side of my trades. God bless America."

He went on to slam Congress for not reining in predatory lending practices, suggested George Soros start a new form of government, "that truly represents the
common man’s interest" and which would, he hopes, legalize marijuana.

It gets you high, it makes you laugh, it does not produce a hangover. Unlike alcohol, it does not result in bar fights or wife beating. So, why is this innocuous plant illegal? Is it a gateway drug? No, that would be alcohol, which is so heavily advertised in this country. My only conclusion as to why it is illegal, is that Corporate America, which owns Congress, would rather sell you Paxil, Zoloft, Xanax and other additive drugs, than allow you to grow a plant in your home without some of the profits going into their coffers.

You can read the whole thing here. Then "throw away the Blackberry and enjoy life." Or at least the weekend.

What next? ... rovian nightmare or shrewd political manipulation?

Trader Drove Up Price of McCain ‘Stock’ in Online Market
By Josh Rogin, CQ Staff

An internal investigation by the popular online market Intrade has revealed that a single investor’s purchases prompted “unusual” price swings that significantly boosted the prediction that Sen. John McCain will become president.

Over the past several weeks, the investor has pushed hundreds of thousands of dollars into one of Intrade’s predictive markets for the presidential election, the company said, resulting in repeated monetary losses through a strategy that belies any financial motive.

“The trading that caused the unusual price movements and discrepancies was principally due to a single ‘institutional’ member on Intrade,” said the company’s chief executive, John Delaney, in a statement released Thursday. “We have been in contact with the firm on a number of occasions. I have spoken to those involved personally.”

After an extensive investigation into the suspicious trading patterns, Intrade found no wrongdoing or violation of its exchange rules, the company said.

Citing privacy policies, Delaney would not elaborate on who the investor was or whether or not that investor was affiliated in any way with a political campaign.

According to Delaney, this investor, who boosted the McCain prediction significantly over the market value and above the levels of competing predictive-market Web sites, was using the Intrade market to protect other positions and hedge other investments.

What did the Market say this week? ... Crash + 1 week

After a whole week of trading during which time, some quite astounding swings were seen, the market is closing about where it reached las Friday ... not where it closed we are up substantially from there, but about where the bounce off the bottom reached last Friday. This, in spite of dear Warren trying his level best to boost it by publicly declaring he is buying for his personal portfolio. They did run it up based on that this morning, but the sellers stepped in and sold that rally as they have been doing for weeks and it is a couple of months now ...

What does all that mean? The jury is still out. This week traded pretty much inside of the range of last week and the tech sector made a slight new low yesterday. They may be able to lead it up next week, now. It has become too much fun for the street to run it back and forth rather than go anywhere in the brave new world where volatility of, well, almost anything is king.

Da Man does it again ... he's not wrong yet?

[BRIEFING.COM] S&P futures vs fair value: -20.30. Nasdaq futures vs fair value: -25.50. Stocks continue to move toward a lower open despite encouraging comments from revered investor Warren Buffett. He stated in a New York Times article he is buying U.S. stocks for his personal portfolio. His rule for buying is to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.

Let's see what that does to the rally monkey today?

Here is the article as it appeared in the NY Times

The only positive thing ths Market can say for itself today ... the gaps got filled

This was supposed to be the day the sell-offs ended and the big C-wave rally began ... when the market let everyone know it was ok after last weeks bashing ... when the participants traded as if the supports from international governments were at least appreciated and had a chance of working ... when fear was vanquished for another day ...

They traded respectfully ... they traded, oh so carefully ... they tried their damnedest to land the ship without a crash ... the buyers came in on the dips and tried to buy ... the sellers waited until the little rallies had run their course ... the Nasdaq tried to lead them all to higher ground,

BUT

when the Nasdaq could not hold at a 62% retracement in the afternoon, everyone knes it was in trouble and that late day sell-off that looked oh so much like last weeks afternoons, again became a reality.

And, now, in the early evening the last gap, the big one in the S&P, has been filled. Will that be enough tomorrow?

The Asians and the Europeans will decide whether they have sold the euphoria resulting from the Big Deals, enough.

Can you say Melt Up ... Dow Jones up 1620 at this moment from Friday's low

I wonder how far this will go before profit taking and the return of the aggressive sellers takes it down again? In this state, the market speaks pretty clearly as noted somewhere below about Friday's reversal and gold ditching, the rally is not surprising ... the extent of it is and the out of control buying since 3 pm ET today definitely. At this rate GWB will be declaring Victory again tomorrow morning.

For the Reality Based Community, there is a maxim amongst traders: Volatility at the turning points. The volatility here will be dimensioned by the high of this rally and Friday's bottom. A huge range that could be traversed several times. It will then take a break of the extremes of that range to set the next direction. Either way will be HUGE ... so we are getting set-up for even more volatility. Must be a way to spend that.

Urban, Suburban and Subterranian Survival wha' the %#$(*%& comes next?

this link can be pretty overwhelming, but I believe it is better to be just a tad prepared these days ... there is a LOT in here and this is the site where the Time Monks' work is used as a reference ... right up to date and expecting financial collapse Oct 10 +/- 3 days ... so we may already have seen what it is going to be for now, or Monday/Tuesday should about do it and Monday is special because it is a sorta/klnda holiday in the US with the markets open but Columbus Day as a holiday and only half the typical participation ...

Urban Survival - George Ure's site

Good Luck!

my take: the big bounce at the end of the day, Friday and the large sell-off in gold indicated that a short-term bottom may be in. It ain't over, but it might be having a pause giving us a decent warning to get our houses in order, like nature usually does.