What follows below is my recipe for a happy, healthy family. Try it at home and see what happens!

How ironic or synchronistic. I intended to write a brief tribute to Fess Parker, a hero of my youth who died today, and who should begin playing on Pandora Radio? Jimi Hendrix, another of the demigods who populated the constellation of my younger days, who is also deceased from the earth plane, lo these many years. I also bought a bottle of Pino Noir from the Fess Parker vineyards this evening, which I will sip later in his honor.

It depends on who you ask. Those who believe so are very vocal. Those whom I have helped, the homeless lady and her children whom I fed, those I counseled out of suicide and many others are without voice, and you will never hear from them, but they will always remember those kindnesses, acts of selfless devotion and how it impacted them. It is this that defines us: how we react. Do you do what is right when it will hurt you? When no one will ever know if you did or did not? Do you do what is right when it is difficult, when it is excruciatingly hard to do?

We are neither our circumstances nor a situation, we are much more than this. One may be in a terrible situation, bad circumstances but it is how we handle ourselves and react that is important. All situations are temporary, but our words last forever in the hearts of those who hear or read them. It is not healthy to view ourselves or others as a cardboard cut-out - all good or all wicked. It does both the person and ourselves a disservice. We are multifaceted, complex creatures, and sometimes we hurt people or anger others, and sometimes we help and bring joy. Are those in balance, or is there more of the former and less of the latter? If so then we have some hard work to do on ourselves. If there is more of the latter and less of the former, then we are doing well by ourselves and others.

Working on oneself is difficult. It is painful, uncomfortable and we avoid it like the plague. It is so much easier to blame others for situations, circumstances or permutations thereof. It is more difficult to apologize, take responsibility and reflect internally on our part in that situation. For some it is nigh impossible to apologize, but it is necessary. Accepting responsibility does not absolve one of the pain or anger or other negative emotions that are an effect of our behaviour or words, but it begins the process of self-work. It is the first step in a series that we must take to change our thinking, patterns of behaviour and apply that in future situations. And forgiveness does not absolve one of the need for inner  reflection, neither does it mean that the pain of our actions has been healed or forgotten. Forgiveness simply means that one gives up retaliating against you.

I, like you dear reader,  have hurt others. I have behaved badly. I have apologized and accepted my responsibility. I reflect and ponder and self-examine to decide what is really my part and what is not, what are my patterns of behaviour, patterns of thinking and what I need to change so I can be a better person, and how I  can apply this in a different situation. I have also done well, I have helped, brought joy and love to others, as have you.

I fell asleep last night listening to a lecture given by Joseph Campbell in the early 1960's. He spoke about the masks we wear in the roles we play. He spoke of our agreements to take one another's masks seriously. He also spoke of the danger which lies in confusing our real selves with the persona of the mask.

Greetings to all who encounter this. My desire for you is continuing growth into all your potential. I know you are doing your best. The direction of my life is toward the resolution of duality. Entrance into the boundless and infinite will never be achieved by seeking more differences or by splitting and dividing. Enough of that happened with the Big Bang. Now the journey is toward home, back to the ein soph. Timeless and yet the fountain of time. Immeasurable, and yet the emanater of space and place.

Dandelion plant is found in yards and gardens everywhere. Billions of dollars have been spent to remove this evasive weed from existence. Many state governments have even declared war on the dandelion.But wait is there another side to this little yellow flower?

Just testing to see if this one will show up...

Our modern society is geared, among other things, by various, complex human desires, most of which involve the acquirement of goods – lavish clothing and jewelry, fast cars, big houses, fat bank accounts – and experiences – night-lives filled with drunken laughter (along with the occasional brawls), stupendously long, luxurious vacations, and sexually appealing individuals with whom to exercise pleasurable activities. Many of us have exerted great amounts of energy, some of which throughout our whole lives until our dying days, to acquire many of the objects and experiences that we feel constitute a prosperous life.

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I might be a little late to the game to address the movie Avatar and it's hidden synchronicity's and meanings and how it applies to the state of affairs today. Obviously most people saw the parallels to Pocahontas; Where we enter a New World and the natural man falls in love with that world as it's eaten away by greed. He comes to a realization that in his ignorance he is helping destroy what he had grown to love.
But although art mimics life. What if how we view life could change through art. It is known that Art has been used to influence man in past to do great and horrendous things alike. Shakespeare wrote "All the worlds a stage" I hope to pull the curtain back.

America was the Great Experiment that was planed long ago. Plato called it a Republic. One that was run by Experts the people working towards their own management.
Temperance, called mastery of self, is really the mastery of the better over the baser qualities; as in our state the better class controls the inferior. ~Plato's Rebublic
The plan for America hidden by the language and the lies we are told in school.

Voila! The magician tells you what he wants you 2 C. Voila; Latin for "the palm". 2 understand how our language was constructed we must look past the Spell of Spelling. It is the spoken word that transcends the IMAG(e) of the MAGI. There is a Grimore/Grammar set of rules built into the system. That I hope 2 teach U. The Brothers Grimm started this process years ago, when the went around GERMAny and searched for where the words GERMInated from. They found many of the words from German and Latin had common origins. While the letters changed the phonetic roots did not. Hence Grimm's Law. The study of languages blasted off. They found that all Indo-European languages came from a central source.

This is something every parent should watch! It is our responsibility to protect and nurture our children, not throw them to the wolves of the media manipulation!

Bratz, Hanna Montana, et al are just part of a programming/mind-manipulation and social engineering campaign. It is organized folks, and it's time to step ...up to the plate and CUT THEM OFF - keep your children innocent - they are counting on YOU.