Friendship and the art of being for those with ears to hear and eyes to see

Friendship
Why would I now turn to "friendship"?
Because until and unless you can BE A FRIEND, you cannot expect friendship or leadership or any other place where loyalty and forebearance must be the shield of unbending position.

An author once wrote a small volume called the art of living ( Wilferd A Peterson), Simon and Schuster, New York, 1961
I would ask Dharma to reprint a small portion on this subject.

QUOTING
The first step in the art of friendship is to be a friend; then making friends takes care of itself. To be a friend a man should start by being a friend to himself, by being true to his highest and best and by aligning himself with the enduring values of human life that make for growth and progress.

To be a friend a man should strive to be "like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land" and to be a source of refuge and strength to those that walk in darkness.

To be a friend a man should believe in the inherent goodness of men and in their potential greatness; he should treat men in a big spirit, expectant of a noble response.

To be a friend a man should strive to lift people up, not cast them down, to encourage not discourage; to set an example that will be an inspiration to other.

To be a friend a man should be sensitively responsive to the dreams and aims of others and show sincere appreciation for the contribution others make to the enrichment of his life.

To be a friend a man should practice the companionship of silence and the magic of words that his speach may build and not destroy, help and not hinder.

To be a friend a man should close his eyes to the faults of others and open them to his own.

To be a friend a man should not attempt to reform or reprimand, but should strive only to make others happy if he can.

To be a friend a man should be himself, he should be done with hypocrisy, artificiality and pretense, he should meet and mingle with people in quiet simplicity and humility.

To be a friend a man should be tolerant, he should have an understanding heart and a forgiving nature, knowing that all men stumble now and then, and that he who never made a mistake never accomplished anything.

To be a friend a man should join hands with ALL people who are working for great principles, great purposes and great causes; he should put his shoulder to the wheel to help achieve common goals.

To be a friend a man should go more than halfway with his fellow men; he should greet others first and not wait to be greeted; he should radiate a spirit of overflowing goodwill.

To be a friend a man should remember that we are human magnets; that like attracts like, and that what we give we get.

To be a friend a man shouldrecognise that no man knows all the answers, and that he should add each day to his knowledge of how to live the friendly way......


THE ART OF "BEING"

The art of being is the assumption that you may possess, this very minute, those qualities of spirit and attitudes of mind that make for radiant living.

It is a philosophy of being today, instead of "becoming" in a tomorrow that never comes.

It is recognised that courage, joy, serenity, faith, hope and love are immediatly available now, and proceeding to open yourself so those qualities can be expressed through you in everyday living.

It is following the maxim of Shakespeare; "Assume the virtue though you have it not" ...knowing that the dynamic power of habit can build it into your character.

It is being great now, being forgiving now, being tolerant now, being happy now, being successful now, instead of postponing positive and constructive living to some vague and indefinite future.

It is knowing that when we move into the future it becomes the NOW, and that now is the appointed time!

It is wasting no time dreaming about the rich life you may live next year, or ten years from now, it is beginnning to live at your best right now, today.

It is heeding the wisdom of the ancient Chinese seer who observed " A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," and it is taking that step today.

It is beginning today to be the man (person) you want to be.

It is developing an awareness of the infinite possibilities in each magnetic moment.

It is enlarging the now by pouring into it intense creative energy.

It is immortalizing the present moment that your life may have eternal significance.

It is coming into a full realization that the Master voiced the secret of victorious being, when he declared that the Kingdom of God is not afar off, but that it is within you now!

So be it. I also hear most often... "but I only intended to..."
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions!

Phoenix Journal:
Shock Therapy for a Brain Dead World

Pages 51/54

The Photon Belt

Hatonn is repeatedly coming back to one of the secrets that the Elite keep away from us - the Photon Belt. Here is a piece of text from Journal #185, page 16-18:


"PHOTON BELT DIAGRAM
[sorry you have to do without the diagram!]

Our passage through the Photon Belt takes about 2,000 years. We have been in the fringes of this Belt increasingly since about 1962, and we are expected to have made full impact with it about the year 2011. So, just what is this Photon Belt?

From the point of view of the actual purpose of the Photon Belt, certain things appear rather obvious to this author. To start with, with the likelihood of there being billions upon countless billions of constellations in this vast Universe, it would seem that there are many ways of configuring the individual compositions of these constellations. This, if nothing else, would at least keep our CREATOR from ever becoming bored. One such possible configuration is the Pleiadian constellation with its Photon Belt, as shown in the drawing.

From an examination of the accompanying drawing, we see that there is a period of approximately 10,000 years between our periods of being within the Photon Belt. This is the period wherein there is the opportunity for civilizations to grow and develop. If we can comprehend the fact that our Planet Earth is but a school of life where growing souls can evolve to develop consciousness of their CREATOR, and that Earth is only one of many such planets in the Universe, then our ability to comprehend what is actually taking place in reality will thereby be significantly enhanced. There is a clue in that last sentence as to what is happening to us, and that is that we are evolving to develop consciousness of our CREATOR. This appears to be a very important part of, if not the overriding reason for, our whole being and existence here at this time. And to be conscious of our CREATOR is to be conscious of HIS abundant giving and regiving.

Indeed, when ones can fully comprehend their CREATOR, and realize that we are always AT ONE(ATONE) with that CREATOR and can never possibly be separated from HIM (there is no separation in reality), we will begin to realize that any power(s) we may perceive that we have are in reality only the power(s) that we have through our CREATOR. None of us has, or can have, any real power in and of ourselves. Any power that we do have is only possible through our CREATOR, and through HIM we can manifest ALL POWER, sufficient to turn around the evil One World Controllers about to swallow the inhabitants of Planet Earth. All we need do is get beyond our individual egos, beyond believing we are separate selves with separate power(s), and instead realize that only in our unity of purpose can we have real POWER to get this job done! United we shall stand into infinity, but divided we will most certainly fall, and it won’t take much longer.

So, these civilizations grow and flourish for a period of about 10,000 years, which appears to be enough time for individuals to realize their Oneness with their CREATOR. But look around you. Doesn’t it appear as though a majority have been deceived by the evil Controllers, with all of the systems of modern technology at their disposal to use to control the masses? Perhaps 10,000 years is not long enough? Well, in this case it has to be enough, for, you see, we have been given intelligence and we must use it to see beyond the manifested illusion now being used to deceive us. How many of the multitudes appear to believe that 9 to 5 is the way to go, with a beer in front of the TV in the evening, and sports programs on Sunday afternoon? Sounds a lot like the Roman Empire before the collapse, don’t you think??

Anyway, after the 10,000 years it’s final graduation time to see how many have learned their lessons of Light and Love, and just how many were tricked into seeing an illusory world of separate selves. If we do not learn our lessons, however, we do not graduate. If a student in the 6th grade in school does not learn the required lessons to graduate to the 7th grade, they do not graduate. They would be lost in the 7th grade, not having learned that which is required to comprehend what they will experience there!! The Photon Belt is a higher dimension with a higher vibratory frequency wherein all is Light and all truth stands revealed. No one will be able to hide from the Light and the Truth during that time. That is the realm of pure Light of our CREATOR, and it will be as heaven compared to what we are living now. Yet another reason for us not to know this, for if we did it would only be more difficult to control us.

From a literal point of view the Photon Belt will bring Eternal Light, literally 24 hours a day. You may wonder how you will sleep? And then you may realize that you’ve been sleeping for 10,000 years! We may not need to sleep then; our Sun never sleeps. But prior to our actual full-scale entrance around the year 2011 a great deal has yet to transpire. Before completing entry into the Photon Belt we can expect the Earth to cleanse itself of all the contamination which humanity has heaped upon it. Think about this. The Earth itself is a living, breathing organism with an intelligence beyond our comprehension. It has allowed humanity to grow and learn its lessons, but humanity has left a dirty mess in its wake. Since humanity has not left the Earth as they found it, then the Earth will wash itself, and it will use its own water to do so. People are tiny compared to the planet, so it can be expected that more than a few of them may drown “in the wash”.

Accompanying this cleansing process will be floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and great storms, but if you listen carefully to your inner guidance you should be okay. This is simply how a planet such as Earth cleanses itself, just as it has done many times before. If we don’t do it, the planet must! But let’s just see what this Photon Belt really is.

The Photon Belt is a huge, invisible band of highly charged, highly-concentrated, immensely powerful photon (Light) energy. As we have been increasingly in the fringes of this band since 1962, more and more of these photons have been impacting upon us. The increased ultra-violet (U.V.) radiation we have been experiencing in the past decade or so is due to the Photon Belt, and has nothing to do with our ozone layer in the upper atmosphere, which appears to be intact. We have been told that the increased U.V. radiation is due to a depleted ozone layer. Yet another lie to deceive us. And cosmic rays, usually measured in millions of electron volts, have recently been measured by scientists at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah with an energy of 320 billion, billion electron volts. This was previously considered impossible, and is yet further evidence of the high energy we are encountering.

As we approach closer and closer to the Photon Belt, all molecular activity is becoming more and more excited. Many people do not know how to deal with this, and we do not have to look very far to see people running around like crazy. When we actually enter the Belt, all atoms will change and things will become luminescent.

This is when we will have the constant Light. We need to understand something at this point. Available information indicates that, as far as we can comprehend, there are three basic types of beings in existence within the Universe: what could be termed corporeal, like you, with a solid physical body; atmospherean, also solid to a point, but with a much finer and lighter molecular structure; and, etherean, who are beings with Light, or energy, bodies and no physical mass at all.

Now, when we finally actually enter the Photon Belt, we will feel a jolt or shock, similar to putting your finger in a light socket. In that instant you will have changed from a Corporeal person to an Atmospherean person, if your body can make the change. If you cannot, no need to worry, it’s guaranteed to be interesting no matter what happens. The real challenge will be to make it to that day, for the evil One World Controllers will probably use every trick they’ve got to eliminate as many of us as possible before that day arrives.

This is enough of a discussion on the Photon Belt for the present time. Just realize that you now know you are a Pleiadian. We will talk more about the Photon Belt at a later date, but right now we have incredible weather manipulation to deal with on a daily basis, and with winter coming on in America this subject is all important."

You want to learn more on the Photon Belt? Read the Journals, listen to Hatonn on mp3. It is all there, and much more. Truth will set your free!

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Aspartame Reaction Report Form

Aspartame Reaction Report Form

Commissioner of the FDA
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Date:______________

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I recently learned that aspartame, the packaged sweetening agent calledEqual, NutraSweet, and other names, is in fact a dangerous toxic substance unfitfor human consumption.

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According to your MISSION statement, the FDA must:

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The above stated mission characteristics were not applied to this toxicdrug. I understand that your predecessor, Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, disregarded thefraudulent nature of test documentation submitted by Searle, and then overruledhis own FDA Board of Inquiry to allow this substance on the open market. TheFDA action of 27 June, 1996, allowing aspartame to be use in everything,including in heated foodstuffs, greatly compounds the gravity of this tragicaction.

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And now for a world government

By Gideon Rachman
I have been the FT's chief foreign affairs columnist since July 2006, after spending 15 years at The Economist. My blog covers a wide range of topics, from US foreign policy to the European Union and the "war on terror".





Published: December 8 2008 19:13 Last updated: December 8 2008 19:13


















I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US. I have never seen black helicopters hovering in the sky above Montana. But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.

A “world government” would involve much more than co-operation between nations. It would be an entity with state-like characteristics, backed by a body of laws. The European Union has already set up a continental government for 27 countries, which could be a model. The EU has a supreme court, a currency, thousands of pages of law, a large civil service and the ability to deploy military force.

So could the European model go global? There are three reasons for thinking that it might.
First, it is increasingly clear that the most difficult issues facing national governments are international in nature: there is global warming, a global financial crisis and a “global war on terror”.

Second, it could be done. The transport and communications revolutions have shrunk the world so that, as Geoffrey Blainey, an eminent Australian historian, has written: “For the first time in human history, world government of some sort is now possible.” Mr Blainey foresees an attempt to form a world government at some point in the next two centuries, which is an unusually long time horizon for the average newspaper column.

But – the third point – a change in the political atmosphere suggests that “global governance” could come much sooner than that. The financial crisis and climate change are pushing national governments towards global solutions, even in countries such as China and the US that are traditionally fierce guardians of national sovereignty.

Barack Obama, America’s president-in-waiting, does not share the Bush administration’s disdain for international agreements and treaties. In his book, The Audacity of Hope, he argued that: “When the world’s sole superpower willingly restrains its power and abides by internationally agreed-upon standards of conduct, it sends a message that these are rules worth following.” The importance that Mr Obama attaches to the UN is shown by the fact that he has appointed Susan Rice, one of his closest aides, as America’s ambassador to the UN, and given her a seat in the cabinet.

A taste of the ideas doing the rounds in Obama circles is offered by a recent report from the Managing Global Insecurity project, whose small US advisory group includes John Podesta, the man heading Mr Obama’s transition team and Strobe Talbott, the president of the Brookings Institution, from which Ms Rice has just emerged.

The MGI report argues for the creation of a UN high commissioner for counter-terrorist activity, a legally binding climate-change agreement negotiated under the auspices of the UN and the creation of a 50,000-strong UN peacekeeping force. Once countries had pledged troops to this reserve army, the UN would have first call upon them.

These are the kind of ideas that get people reaching for their rifles in America’s talk-radio heartland. Aware of the political sensitivity of its ideas, the MGI report opts for soothing language. It emphasises the need for American leadership and uses the term, “responsible sovereignty” – when calling for international co-operation – rather than the more radical-sounding phrase favoured in Europe, “shared sovereignty”. It also talks about “global governance” rather than world government.

But some European thinkers think that they recognise what is going on. Jacques Attali, an adviser to President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, argues that: “Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.” As far as he is concerned, some form of global government cannot come too soon. Mr Attali believes that the “core of the international financial crisis is that we have global financial markets and no global rule of law”.

So, it seems, everything is in place. For the first time since homo sapiens began to doodle on cave walls, there is an argument, an opportunity and a means to make serious steps towards a world government.

But let us not get carried away. While it seems feasible that some sort of world government might emerge over the next century, any push for “global governance” in the here and now will be a painful, slow process.

There are good and bad reasons for this. The bad reason is a lack of will and determination on the part of national, political leaders who – while they might like to talk about “a planet in peril” – are ultimately still much more focused on their next election, at home.

But this “problem” also hints at a more welcome reason why making progress on global governance will be slow sledding. Even in the EU – the heartland of law-based international government – the idea remains unpopular. The EU has suffered a series of humiliating defeats in referendums, when plans for “ever closer union” have been referred to the voters. In general, the Union has progressed fastest when far-reaching deals have been agreed by technocrats and politicians – and then pushed through without direct reference to the voters. International governance tends to be effective, only when it is anti-democratic.

The world’s most pressing political problems may indeed be international in nature, but the average citizen’s political identity remains stubbornly local. Until somebody cracks this problem, that plan for world government may have to stay locked away in a safe at the UN.

gideon.rachman@ft.com

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Former ISI Chief: Mumbai And 9/11 Both “Inside Jobs”

Hamid Gul tells CNN that neo-cons, zionists were behind terror attacks



Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, December 8, 2008

General Hamid Gul, the former head of the Pakistani ISI, told CNN yesterday that both the Mumbai attacks and 9/11 were “inside jobs,” much to the chagrin of host and CFR luminary Fareed Zakaria, who told viewers that Gul’s opinions were “absolutely wrong and thoroughly discredited”.

“When you look at the full spectrum of possibilities, who could have done it, then one knows that Samjhauta Express was a similar case, in which Pakistan ISI was accused. But it turned out that it was the militant Hindus themselves who had killed 68 passengers in that train, and that it was an inside job,” said Gul.

“Now Colonel Srikant Purohit, who is a serving army officer, he has been caught in this particular case. And the whole thing has turned around.”

“So, obviously, there is an inside job.”

The revelation that Mukhtar Ahmed, a “counterinsurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission” working for Indian authorities was arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the Mumbai gunmen, allied with the numerous intelligence warnings proving that the method, arrival and targets of attack were all known well in advance, proves Gul right in his assertion that the terrorists could not have achieved such carnage without help from people on the inside.

Asked by Zakaria, “What is your hunch as to who did - who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks?,” Gul responded, “Well, I have been on record, and I said it is the Zionists or the neocons. They have done it. It was an inside job.”

“And they wanted to go on the world conquerors. They were looking upon it as an opportunity window, when the Muslim world was lying prostrate. Russia was nowhere in sight. China was still not an economic giant that is has turned out to be.”

“And they thought that this was a good time to go and fill those strategic areas, which are still lying without any American presence. And, of course, to control the energy tap of the world.”

“Presently, it is the Middle East, and in future it is going to be Central Asia,” added Gul.

Gul told Zakaria that the evidence for 9/11 being planned by Osama Bin Laden and executed by Al-Qaeda has not emerged and that the events are still “shrouded in mystery”.

“A lot of people have a lot of misgivings about that. And it’s not only me. I think a lot of people in America would be thinking the same way. There are scientists, there are scholars, who have written articles on it,” added Gul, calling for President elect Barack Obama to set up a new commission to investigate the attacks.

Gul said the attacks were planned inside America by people with a dangerous agenda who have “turned the world upside-down”.

Returning from a commercial break, Zakaria, editor of Newsweek, Council on Foreign Relations kingpin and also a Trilateral Commission board member, told his viewers, “Some of General Gul’s views are simply false. There is a mountain of evidence about 9/11 that refutes his assertions,” but Zakaria failed to cite any of it.

Zakaria was then joined by counter-insurgency expert David Kilcullen who said that the Mumbai attacks bore all the hallmarks of a “clandestine operation or a covert operation style activity,” but when pressed he refused to directly implicate Pakistan in the attack.

t or T - THAT is the question

Some time ago a friend said to me "Mike, you know, everyone has their own truth. I have mine and you have yours". End of story.

No, not end of story. Imagine a man some forty years ago that stole 50 dollars from the cashier at the post office. Later at the pub he bragged about it and some weeks later the story was that he had stolen 500 dollars. Now, here comes you and hear this story for the first time from a really trustworthy old lady sitting outside the pub. Why she give you this information I don't know, but she gives you the story about the man who stole the 500 dollars.

You have now a piece of "truth", correct? It matters not if this is a story about a man who stole 50 dollars or if it's the story of who wrote the "holy" Bible. My claim is that there is the truth and the Truth, with capital T. It is a really big difference here, you must agree. What is the truth in regards of 9/11? There are many versions running in the media and what is your "truth" in regards of who was behind it and how did it all came about?

So the big question is: do you have the t or the T? Do you know? Do you care?

Now, let us move this one step further towards the capital T, as in Truth. Do you need to know the Truth? Why cant you just cruise along and have your own little truth? Who cares? If you settle with truth then Truth will have a bigger problem "breathing". You have all heard the stories about when the earth was flat, and someone came and said it was round. The truth-people were doing all they could to stop the Truth-people. People got killed for speaking the Truth. But you cant stop the Truth. Truth will always win.

You may argue here and say, well, listen here, I do as I please. I don't care about you or your idiotic truth, with a t or a T. I am happy right here on my sofa with my TV. I don't have Time with a capital T. Get lost!

Yea, why do we care about you and whether or not you pursue Truth? You may not realize that they have already stolen your life and now they are going after your soul. Since you are comfortable in your sofa watching your favorite TV-show you haven't noticed this, have you...? Listen here, you are in a deep, deep trance. You are programmed to react and think in a certain way. You may argue here that that is not True. Well, how would you know??? We live in a world were power and money is ruling and less than one percent of the worlds population own over 40% of the world. And every day they "steal more of our world" and eventually they will grab your lovely sofa and TV too. Then what will you do?

We care about you and we want you to get the Truth! We want you to be free. We want you to be happy. We do not want a “cement person”, “living dead”, “robotoid” or “Lights on, but nobody home” sitting there holding on to truth.

I am so sorry to disturb you, but this is yet another WAKE UP CALL!

What will happen when you find Truth? Well, obviously you will understand more. Your life will change to the better. Why is that? You will now have knowledge and knowledge is power. It effects all of your choices in life. Without knowledge what do you do? Where do you go? You are forced to stumble in the darkness. Knowledge is Light. Light makes you see. Knowledge will make you unite with like minded Truth seekers. We will grow stronger together. Truth needs you.

But, you may say, listen here... I went to school for 10-15 years and I learned my history and I know truth. Yes, you know truth, but you never learned about Truth. Sorry, my friend but they don't teach Truth in school. It doesn't fit the plan, you see. What plan you may ask? Well, thats the question that shouldn't be asked if you knew the Truth. Ones who know the Truth they know what is going on in our world. Obviously you don't. It is about time to WAKE UP from your illusion!

I can almost hear some people that now goes like this: “I don't like to read! Actually I can't read too well. I never read books”. Please, save us from your wailing, and get your act together. You are one of us. You have all the power that we have. We all are driven by love, passion, dreams, desires, wellness, goodness! You can do whatever you want! WHATEVER YOU WANT! Take one step at a time, don't be afraid of asking for support.

Small steps is all it takes. Small steps. Always. And you will immediately start influencing other people to do the same. And so the story goes about the little t that became the capital T.

Michael