One thing I have said for years now is that the biggest lesson I have gained with age is balance. The way I say it is that you, me, and everyone else must have the flexibility to fly with the angels or dance with the devil, as needed, and at a moments notice, but... with age I find that the center point of balance is quicker to return because, in essence, we are meant to live in balance.

Now do I pretend for a moment to be in balance on the issue of conspiracy. Not!

I am reminded of a bit of toilet graffiti I noticed the other day while using the facility. It said "perhaps it is good to whisper at times but.. today, it is best if you shout". No doubt.

And, in reality Sue, as I fly with the Angels and dance with the devil on 9/11 and beyond, I am in balance.

The knowledge I have gained from this journey, if nothing else, tells me so Sue.

Secret: Wish=Command So Thank You!

As for you Michael and your choice of picture (of me?) for my little blurb. It does fit in with my reply, so yea, it flies! I love you too dude (but I am starting to see where infowars is getting his insights into your sexual focus).

Ha, the devil in me says... gotta go...

Thanks for that beautiful reminder of what we’ve always known, but strive to forget so that we may continually re-experience the discovery. I am reminded daily that we inhabit a paradoxical world of our own making. Of particular amusement; the rules we make up for ourselves and then proceed to break and punish ourselves for.

If one studies history even to the slightest degree, one can see the constant-ever-changing nature of societies. When the rules no longer fit our idea of who we are, we set about changing the rules. But there is always an element of resistance and arguments ensue. Thus we are given an opportunity to discover ourselves over and over again.

All due respect to Huxley; one of my favorite authors, but our business is not just to wake up, it is also to fall asleep from time to time, so that we may reawaken. This is Off On, Zeros and Ones, the quantum physics equivalent of Yin Yang; the essence of existence.

To carry the knowledge that we are the creator, while simultaneously participating in the illusion that we are the created, is to know joy and peace. The challenge is never to remain too long in one state or the other.

So I wish you; Balance.

Sue

Cheers,

For a look at the foundation of "American Values", especially in relation to that spear shaker know as Shakespeare, one really needs to look at the life and times of Francis Bacon and his band of brothers.

The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion which we must take seriously, because it is real as far as it goes, and in those aspects of the reality which we are capable of apprehending. Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must continually be on our watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness. We must not attempt to live outside the world, which is given us, but we must somehow learn how to transform it and transfigure it. Too much "wisdom" is as bad as too little wisdom, and there must be no magic tricks. We must learn to come to reality without the enchanter's wand and his book of the words. One must find a way of being in this world while not being of it. A way of living in time without being completely swallowed up in time. Aldous Huxley 1964

The crux, another damn conspiracy! Rats?

Star on=no rats

Let us swing for the fences at one of Shakespeare's more obscure plays, shall we? How about Hamlet?

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
~William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, scene II

Cheers,

[I'm no Shakespeare scholar, but to my knowledge "God" is not mentioned in any of Shakespeare's works. (I'm happy to stand corrected here with the play, the act, and the line(s)).]

I'm no Shakespeare scholar either, Michael, but over twenty years ago I read every play and most of his Sonnets under the guidance of Dr. Thelma Odle.

Like Aldous Huxley, no intellectual lightweight he, I disagree with you. See Huxley's Shakespeare and Religion, 1963.

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;
And time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop.
~Shakespeare, Henry IV, Act 5, Scene 4

And don't try to tell me Bill was foretelling global warming, Nostradamus. In Shakespeare's time, they would have been happy for a cure for black death.

Cheers,

Pretty amazing stuff. What am I going to tell our Agnostic friend. Would love to talk about this with you. Give me a ring.

Best, Mike!

The Mitchell books are well worth reading. The Gospel...is a recapitulation of an experiment originally conducted by Thomas Jefferson wherein -- reading from the Greek and Latin texts -- he culls only that which seems to emanate from a consciousness, which for lack of a better word, seems consistent to him. However, he's doing it with the benefit of 200 additional years of biblical hermeneutics and scholarship.

The Jefferson book is in the Library of Congress, and is known as the Jefferson Bible.

His translation of the Psalms tends to purge some of the more xenophobic language rendering a more universal feeling.

Cheers Mate,