I can’t help but think if we all could become more aware of the pain and suffering caused to people around the globe through our “colonization processes” (including “education”) and gained a better understanding of exactly how the status quo is maintained then we would know better how to curtail those actions that keep the wheel turning in the wrong direction. And here, I am also referring to what Joe has called “internal colonialism” whereby we are totally controlled and constrained in support of profits “of the richest individuals in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Germany, etc. It is a continuation of the West’s historic search for cheap labor no matter what the human costs. . .” (p. 100).

We are in a new era and the pain that is coming to the surface is unbearable for many of us, especially for people who are empathic and have been chosen to feel the pain of others from the past, present, and future (someone else has to feel it). We can see the “new way” and we want to creatively express this new way, but our consciousnesses are being painfully squeezed down even tighter as we are told ever more stringently how we have to think, how we have to write, what we can and must not say, what we have to learn, how we have to prove we know what they tell us we must know, what we have to do, and how we have to do it.

It’s like having your head in a vise and your body in a strait jacket and there is absolutely no room for creativity. If you rebel against the constraints or if you let your creative self slip out, then by god there is always someone around willing to make you pay for it and they crank that vise down and fasten those binds even tighter. There is always someone around to remind us we are nobody and we have no voice in this action. Add to this pain all of the pain that is now bubbling to the top in order to bring the earth back in balance after so many centuries of senseless violence and destruction and it takes the agony over the top. We are most definitely not free “to be.”

Now the churches have allied as part of power blocs that do not have our best interest in mind and they serve the role of squeezing our minds down even tighter in that vise. “Crying in the Chapel” the song that came up on the search for “allies” from page 97 is definitely not much of a possibility for today nor does it provide emotional or spiritual help. The song, as beautiful as it is, seems obsolete. It is not today’s truth. The conduct of churches, which are supposed to be refuges of love, is instead forcing many of us to find other avenues for our support and comfort and those are far and few between. Fewer people are finding that churches meet their needs and as long as churches continue to be a part of the problem instead of working on real solutions, there will most likely be a greater exodus from the churches – all churches – once people come to their senses. Better to leave the church than to collectively create the apocalypse Joe discusses on page 100. I hope people make the right choice.

My teacher gave me the clue, “I understand” to look up on YouTube. This does help cheer me up. He understands.
Smokie Norful - I understand

When the interpretation of page 97 of Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction first got started a few days ago for this “Race to the Top” game my teacher, being creative as he is and always wanting to make things fun and funny, said that there was a “big whopper” on page 97. I did not see anything that monumental on the page when I first read it. I knew I had to look deeper.

So far, the interpretation has been interesting (you may want to scroll down to review it). The song “Crying in the Chapel” that popped up when I plugged “allies” into YouTube fit so perfectly. I suspect there are going to be many more people crying in the chapel before we finish this “unification process” that my teacher discussed a couple of days ago, although I don’t know how helpful most religions are these days, stuck as so many of them are in the belief there is only one true religion (theirs). Of course, then there was the movie that came up when I plugged in “Rules of the Game.” It fit so perfectly with what Joe is discussing in this section of his book. Both of the words, “allies” and “rules of the game” are powerful “modes of being” which I had discovered from reading Consequences of Hermeneutics: Fifty Years After Gadamer’s Truth and Method, was a technique Gadamer used: He put quotation marks around words or phrases if they were a “mode of being.”

Next, yesterday, I showed how Joe had done a “table flip” on the “powers that be.” While he was expressing in the first paragraph how those in power define what constitutes intelligence and civilized culture and those definitions are used by power to maintain their power, what was hidden in the dialogue (when I inserted my feminine perspective) was that he was also saying, in a sense, if they can do it, we can do it. Under the surface of the words was a clue, in my view, that he had done the very same thing with his work – redefined intelligence and "civilized culture," -- and I don't know about you, but I would jump at the chance to live in Joe's civilized culture. Another way to view this is that he has completely nullified the current “rules of the game” that the “powers that be” run by – and if you analyze and apply his work, it will maintain power all right – power for the people.

Joe’s works, taken together, define a new view of cognition – one that is not restricted and one that recognizes there are no limits such as the type, for example, Piaget’s conceptualization of stages of cognitive development imposes upon us. Piaget’s theory by which we abruptly stop progressing in our cognitive abilities at age 12 and which has had uncritical application and done incalculable damage.

The first paragraph on page 97 ends with, “Can you feel the power?” We can look at that question two ways. Throwing in my extremely feminine position, what clicks in my mind instantly is how Joe has reiterated throughout his work “the power of love.” So, what we are doing here is replacing selfish, egotistical power with selfless, unconditional love. All of the rules have now changed and this changes the power dynamics, putting power back into the hands of the people. “Can you feel the power?” Joe wants US to feel the power!

This is of course very monumental and in my book it qualifies as the “big whopper” my teacher said was hidden on that page. Yet, there is so much more. Can you find it? (I have not found anything else, but I am getting indications that there is even more on this page). I will see what tomorrow brings; for now, here’s some great music that came up when I plugged “big whopper” into YouTube:
Benevento Russo Duo - "Big Whopper"

And so . . . which do you think is worse: to reinvent what being truly radical is all about and be called “crazy” or to perfectly cross every single “t” and dot every single “i” and then learn you are “invisible” and/or “inaudible”? In other words, you have great ideas and you have presented them impeccably, but they don’t count.

It's just a question. I do not have the answer and probably never will. I do know the latter can be extremely painful. I have experienced it far too many times. One of the worst scenarios is where the “powers that be” have in place all of these ways for us from down below to voice our objections – such as to policies and procedures or to appeal certain decisions and bring in evidence of why certain changes or certain things need to occur and a person from the lower echelons can go through inordinate amounts of time and effort, attend meetings and make their presentations and such while these people in power listen to you and PRETEND to take you seriously and then they go on about their business doing the same-old, same-old. They had all just been going through the motions. After all, they have to do something to justify their enormous paychecks, so why not make it fun at the same time. It is just like in this video I had posted earlier this month. They love to make you think you have “won” your case, tell you that you have, and then their actions tell an entirely different story, penalizing you for your efforts. Or if you presented them with a good idea, they make fun of you and then turn around and steal your idea, taking all of the rewards for it. There is something about making people at the bottom THINK their voice counts and BELIEVE they can make a difference and then slamming the doors of reality in their faces: They ain’t shit. They’re nobody. They’re the “Big ‘A’ Word” – ALIENATED. The POWER still resides at the top.

We are midst change. Do you see it? Do you feel it? Do you bump into it?

Here’s an example of a “table flip” for you where POWER now resides at the bottom. Pay attention to the attorney’s name in the video below, lol. I swear we all must be playing this crazy virtual reality game and it can be so absurdly funny at times. I think it’s important to keep a sense of humor through it all, although this is not at all to minimize the suffering people experience. That is very real, sadly, and too often overlooked by those who are supposed to be helping. (By the way, I want to thank Rich Gibson for sending me this video.)
Labor Beat: Chicago Press Conference Protests FBI Raids



And so you have to wonder, can something as simple as a name make a difference – as in this attorney, whose name is POWER? If so, I am sitting pretty – my first name VANESSA means butterfly-transformation-Psyche (SOUL/LOVE) – and don’t forget my middle name JAE is the feminine version of JOE and last but not least my last name, PARADIS is a French word that means HEAVEN (not paradise, by the way; there is a difference).

Is that funny or what? I hope it means I have the power to live up to my name and make some changes in the world, like the attorney above will undoubtedly do for those of us who protest war and the suffering of the people affected by it -- and advocate love.

I wonder if Joe gives us any clues on page 97, which is the very special reading and interpretation assignment my Master Teacher had given me and that I have been covering the last few days, including using Gadamer’s techniques for interpreting how Joe used quotation marks. Check it out.

The first paragraph on page 97 is very interesting. First, understand that POWER does work both ways, even if those of us who are outside the power bloc have a lesser power and are suffering on account of it (Joe discusses this on page 98 and in many other places). So, in reading the sentence on page 97, Joe stated, “If I can make the universal rules as to what constitutes intelligence, I can name my cognitive predispositions as markers of a great mind; I can use the characteristics of my culture as the criteria for what constitutes a civilized culture. Can you feel the power?”

I love this statement, because while at first we can read it in relation to this entire subchapter about power, we can also flip the table! (We are at the table flipping era in history, as I have pointed out many times.)

I don’t know how many people realize this, but that is EXACTLY what Joe did with his work: He redefined intelligence and civilized culture! He takes it right out from under the power blocs and defines it in a way that works to alleviate suffering for us all. Do you realize how monumental that is???

Not to sound narcissistic, but rather I find this very humorous and yet at the same time very compelling and symbolically significant (and I have mentioned this in my blogs previously): My name matches Joe's mission perfectly and even tells us what we need to do….use Joe’s work as a central framework (as represented by my middle name, JAE -- Joe gave us the masculine and my name represents the feminine -- as symbolized by that yin yang manifested gift I mentioned yesterday) in order to transform people and bring back PSYCHE/SOUL (aka, LOVE) as symbolized by my first name so that we create a more heavenly earth, as symbolized by my last name. Joe's work helps move us forward and redefine everything. “Can you feel the power?”

The POWER is LOVE -- it is that simple -- and Joe states this over and over throughout all of his work. Do you get it??? I DO!!! It is the major "table flip" or one could say -- the magic -- we need in the world today. I guess that’s why whenever I read the question at the end of that first paragraph, on page 97 “Can you feel the power?” I think of the POWER of LOVE and the following song instantly comes to mind:
can you feel the love tonight - elton john


“It’s enough to make Kings and vagabonds believe the very best.“

from Radio KAOS

The powers that be
They like a tough game
No rules
Some you win, some you lose
Competition's good for you
They're dying to be free
They're the powers that be
They like a bomb proof cadillac
Air conditioned, gold taps,
Back seat gun rack, platinum hub caps
They pick horses for courses
They're the market forces
Nice car Jack
They like order, make-up, lime light power
Game shows, rodeos, star wars, TV
They're the powers that be
If you see them come,
You better run - run
You better run on home

Sisters of mercy better join your brothers
Put a stop to the soap opera right now
They say the toothless get ruthless
You better run on home

You better run - run
You better run on home

The powers that be
They like treats, tricks, carrots and sticks
They like fear and loathing, they like sheep's
clothing
And blacked-out vans

Blacked-out vans, contingency plans
They like death or glory, they love a good story
They love a good story

Sisters of mercy better join with your brothers
Put a stop to the soap opera state
They say the toothless get ruthless
Run home before its too late
You better run - run
You better run on home

Now, isn’t that amazing in several ways. First of all, I plugged in a LOT of words together, and yet what song should come to the top, but “powers that be.” That is just an indication, in my view, of how the powers that be overrule everything, even good things, such as love, which was also one of the words. It represents how those of us at the bottom can talk and talk, but our rational words are truly meaningless because power overrules anything we have to say (and I personally find that so frustrating). However, this song does give us a solution and that’s a very good thing: we are supposed to “run on home.” And how do we do that? One thing we can do is read Joe’s book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction in order to better learn how to clear the brush and blaze new pathways home.

Another way this song is amazing is that we are still interpreting page 97 of Joe’s book which is all about POWER BLOCS. This song describes many ways power is maintained. One has to ask, why did the YouTube search focus on these particular words; why not "loved," for example?

Another way this song may be relevant is in the way it came up. As I have been discussing quotations marks and how many Joe uses in his books, it makes me curious as to whether one technique to find a deeper meaning is to plug them all into YouTube at the same time, such as all of the words he uses in this section on pp. 97-100. It is a thought. I will do it another time. Gadamer, however, used quotations marks for a different purpose and I am sure Joe may have used Gadamer’s technique as well.

Gadamer’s Use of Quotation Marks
As I mentioned yesterday, I have this weird way of just opening up books and immediately finding what I need. I think my Master Teachers in nonlocal space must be guiding me with this. And so, I had sent for the book my teacher told me I would need to interpret Joe’s book. Oh, and let me remind people: Had Joe been FREE, we would probably have no need for interpretating his work; while he put a lot of it right out there, there is still interpretation to do. This is true for many works and now here we are today, needing to interpret messages and what they can mean for us as individuals and for us collectively, whether they are the positive messages Joe left for us or negative messages encoded by power blocs. I can't help but think if we were all more free, there would be less need for interpretation and less chance of misinterpretation. At any rate, this is a very helpful book: Consequences of Hermeneutics: Fifty Years After Gadamer’s Truth and Method, edited by Jeff Malpas and Santiago Zabela. I opened the book up and immediately began reading “Chapter 12: Nihilistic or Metaphysical Consequences of Hermeneutics” by Jean Grodin and on page 197 it states the following about Gadamer’s use of quotation marks: "Gadamer uses quotation marks because it is obvious to him that this Zeitlosigkeit (this “timelessness”) is a mode of being, since what is classical has to be established (and constantly renewed) by history and such” (p. 197). Thus, quotation marks can represent a “mode of being” and we can look at the way Joe has used quotation marks and this does indeed fit.

I recommend the reading of this chapter by Jean Grondin. The last paragraph on page 196 and onward to page 197 presents a very common misinterpretation of Gadamer’s work and I suspect that Joe’s work has at times been misinterpreted in a similar manner, perhaps around similar issues, perhaps around different issues. NOTHING slipped by Joe. In other words, he did not have the misconception that Grondin describes here that many people have had; he clearly understood Gadamer’s work. In other words, Joe’s work is based on the idea Grondin has expressed here – the idea that “an experience of truth clearly emerges when one encounters [for example] great works, say, the classics, or any work of our time that is truly eye-opening” as opposed to the idea “everything is relative (or relativistic) and thus of equal value in the midst of our historical experience” (p. 196). What is being contended here is that Gadamer's example of the experience of "classical" was just that, an example. He was illustrating the fact that "in spite of the historical nature of our understanding, some works stand out and offer an undeniable experience of truth" (author's italics, p. 196). I don’t know why, but I was drawn to pointing this out. Perhaps because Joe's works, and especially his last book, is one of those very works that will stand out in just that way thoroughout history.

Thus, we now have another way to interpret Joe’s use of quotation marks: they represent a mode of being. Now, we can go back to page 97 and interpret the words in quotes as a mode of being in context with the sentences they are used. I still find the YouTube searches that brought up the song “Crying in the Chapel” by the Allies and the movie, “The Rules of the Game”  as posted to Thursday, September 23rd’s blog (scroll down to view) to be highly relevant to those “modes of being”. .  . I am going to have to watch that movie soon! – but for now, it is On With the MISSION!!! (No, these blogs are not "the mission.") One of my tasks is to help find a home for 11 white buffalo that have been born as the fulfillment of a sacred prophecy. (11 is the twin flame soulmate number and the number that represents completion). We shall see what happens with that.

Oh, one more very important thing: You are supposed to read Joe’s book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction!!!

My Master Teacher has outdone himself again.You would never believe what happened last night! It is so exciting! He told me that the fun is just beginning. What he was referring to is finding all of the hermeneutic tricks, puzzles, and messages (and music and movie Easter eggs) in Joe’s book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction. He is going to help! Yesterday, I just posted at the top of this site the “Race to the Top” contest to see who can find the most of these fun gifts Joe left in his book. I also posted a link to the hermeneutics book that my teacher had told me a few of days ago would help me find the hidden messages and meanings in Joe’s book.

Well last night my teacher revealed to me that this is going to be a really fun ongoing game for everyone. I love Joe’s hidden secrets! I have already found a few of the easy ones and even some of the really hard ones, but I know there are many more.

My teacher ALSO told me that I am the “chosen one.” I know that sounds weird and is not socially acceptable to say, but that’s what he said. He said that we are in this together (me and him) and that I have the “key.” I do not know what he’s talking about, but I am glad that he is going to actively play along and guide this game and from past experience, I know he will show me what he means when the time is right. I have lots of patience, especially when I can have fun while I'm waiting.

The Game Begins!
To get the game started, my teacher told me to find the “big whopper” on page 97. I guess he wants me to show people how this works.

So, I looked at page 97 and, the words “rules of the game” which are in quotation marks instantly popped out at me. Quoation marks are one of Joe's more obvious clues that we are to look at that more closely (believe me this game gets much harder). What this particular clue told me was to look it up on You Tube, the same way as I look up the clues my teacher always gives me for these blogs. With Joe’s clues, sometimes you can look them up on YouTube and other times you have to google them, but honestly, not all of them are that simple. We lucked out here.

Look what came to the top of the YouTube search for this clue . . . it’s so funny! This has to be correct given that we are just starting this game of Racing to the Top and we do need rules, right? Don't earthlings always like RULES. (I have always hated rules and wondered why they are needed.)

Watch this video carefully and make sure you understand ALL of the rules in this game. . . this really fits the topic of Power Blocs on page 97. It looks like my teacher and I are forming a power bloc of our own for this game. Maybe he wants to demonstrate power blocs. Watch quickly or you will miss the rules!!!

Rules of the Game Trailer (Jean Renoir, 1939)


Well, that was an easy one – and pretty funny. Did you notice the Janus head? If you have read much of Joe's work (or my previous blogs) you will know what Joe had to say about Janus-Education. Looks like we are flipping the table here. I would almost say this clue qualifies as a big whopper; it was pretty impressive but I don’t think it is THE “big whopper” on that page that my teacher was referring to. I will have to study it some more.

Oh, look! There is another clue on page 97 with quotations around it: “allies.” Maybe this is the one my teacher is calling the “big whopper.” Check it out! Here’s what came up:
Crying in the Chapel - Allies



This is a beautiful performance; I think I like it even better than the Elvis version. Sadly, most people who have gone to the chapel as he sings about in this song, have NOT found their way. Religion is definitely a part of the very powerful power blocs being discussed on page 97 of Joe’s book. This song says it all when it comes to how so many people practice religion – as long as you “cry in the chapel” everything else you do is just fine. That’s what really turned me off to religion. And it is amazing that we have so many churches in the world and they have not come together to help the suffering people. Something is wrong with this picture – Joe wrote about this in more detail if you read on to page 99 where he discusses how the alignment between certain Western scientists and Christian fundamentalists makes for a very diabolical and strange power bloc.

Well, it is clear that these clues are very clever, but they are not the “big whopper” we are looking for. How do I know that? Well, I have been pointing out MUSIC Easter eggs and MOVIE Easter eggs for a long time now in these blogs. In fact, I even wrote a FREE download that shows how to find them which I had posted until a power bloc had so many issues with it, I took it down. However, I will revise it to address the issues and post it very soon. This instruction book will show definitively that with these two clues what we have are examples of a MOVIE Easter egg with the first clue, “rules of the game” and a MUSIC Easter egg with the second clue, “allies.”

So, here we are; I have not discovered the “big whopper” on page 97 that my teacher was talking about. Something tells me I need the book he told me to get about hermeneutics to figure that one out . . . good thing it’s being delivered tomorrow! Stay tuned . . . but I’m not giving away ALL of the secrets. I am just supposed to demonstrate how the Race to the Top works (the REAL Race to the Top). I wonder if a university might be interested in handing out a PhD to the winner. What a royal prize that would be.

Before I went to bed, as he often does, my teacher gave me a special song to sleep on. The clue was “golden love story” and here is what it brought up. This is special because it is my dream love story, which I wrote about a long time ago in these blogs. Yes, I was even given a ring, just like the girl in this song – except that my ring was not a flashy fake ring – it’s a flashy diamond ring.

Me and Josh singing "Love Story" by Taylor Swift



Morning Meeting With My Master Teacher
I must say, I am excited about this new game. I thanked my teacher for inventing it. I guess he was a little concerned about how upset I was yesterday and he wanted to “alleviate my suffering,” evidently, so that I can happily finish my work, and he knows what works for me. The game will keep me busy, interested, and motivated to do more research. In fact, I love this game and I know it’s going to be so much fun!

My teacher responded to my thanks and gratitude by saying that he could not allow his “pride and joy” to be unhappy in front of the whole world. It’s funny because "Pride and Joy" is a song he gave me quite some time ago; I looked it up and posted it on a previous blog. He knows how much I love that song. Click “pride and joy” to hear it. The sad thing is Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash on the way to his next venue, right after the concert he sang this in when this video was made. Sweet, sweet song.

My teacher went on to say that some people are not going to like this new game, but it’s ok. We really are trying to have something for everyone which is why hermeneutics has been added to the MUSIC and MOVIE Easter eggs. Some of the people higher up in education seemed to have a problem with those so, hopefully, those people will enjoy practicing their skills with hermeneutics.

Everyone should learn hermeneutics. I will discuss the reasons another time. I have even written in a previous blog about how children should be learning this skill and wrote a little story to teach them how to say hermeneutics and how to use it. Joe knew how important learning this skill is, which is why he made so much use of it in this book – it gives us all the opportunity to learn and practice this valuable interpretation skill.

This is going to be fun. My teacher is so nice to be willing to help guide the game, even forming a power bloc with me. Get your books soon! You are not going to want to miss out on this. I have a feeling my teacher has some hermeneutic tricks of his own up his sleeves.

Midmorning Sunshine Glooms the Sky: An Epistemological Journey, Part 13!!!
This is the continuing epistemological journey in which my teacher gave me the project to analyze five videos that came up on the clue he provided, “Midmorning Sunshine Glooms the Sky.” If this is new to you, I recommend going back and finding part 1 of this journey so that you understand what has happened so far. The goal is to find how all five videos are connected since they all came up with the same clue even though the search said there were no videos for that clue and in spite of the fact that they are all very different. In the end, I will have a sort of “story” that connects them all together.

Ok, I am going to make the analysis of this video very easy this first time around. It is a long video, but you only have to watch the first five minutes to figure out why I am skeptical about this guy and believe he is leaving something out of the picture. What is it that David Wilcock says in the first five minutes that would make someone instantly skeptical?
DAVID WILCOCK at the Project Camelot Awake and Aware Conference, Los Angeles, Sept 2009

Be sure to check back tomorrow. You just never know what is next . . . and I STILL have to figure out what the “big whopper” is on page 97!!!

I don’t know what got into me yesterday. I just had this creative bug get inside me and the “Dear John” letter came out. Seriously though, I have worked in the same type of extremely corrupt environment as shown in yesterday’s video and I found it so “psychologically debilitating.” I did not choose to participate in the corruption going on all around me, so I never lasted long anywhere. Like anyone who does not get pulled into the dramas and participation, I was always a threat to those people who needed to keep the dysfunction and power going – all for money and position, of course.

From the way Joe described education in his book, the university setting is no different and that is very sad. In fact, on page 113 of Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction, he discusses how people, “under this imperial spell . . . focus their energies on an egomaniacal obsession with profits and status. They lose their interest in human connection, loving relationships, and a desire to understand the cosmos around them.” He goes on to say, “All of this prostituted information is produced in the name of the modern and the rational” (p.113) and who can argue with that? Indeed, there are no “rational” arguments for those who have bought into and are entrenched within this very dysfunctional system, but there are creative arguments that people might just listen to: Thus, the “Dear John” letter. That came to me as a gift from the cosmos and I hope it serves to alleviate suffering for other people as it did for me. Sometimes, you just have to let it all out and then it is easier to see how ludicrous the whole situation is and maybe you can even laugh about it. Better yet, perhaps you can do your own little part to change it.

Midmorning Sunshine Glooms the Sky: An Epistemological Journey, Part 9!!!
Let’s see . . . where did I leave off on this epistemological journey before I took the side trip to the John (lol)….all long trips require “John” stops along the way.

I have been analyzing (very briefly) the five videos that popped up on the You Tube search for this journey, way back at the beginning when my Master Teacher gave me the clue “midmorning sunshine glooms the sky.” The theory is that since all of these very different videos came up with the same clue, there must be something connecting them. So, that’s what the ultimate goal is: to determine what connects them.

And I just had a sudden epiphany!!! Doesn’t the clue, “midmorning sunshine glooms the sky” remind you of the statement, “it’s the darkest before dawn?” OMG – I think that’s it! My Master Teacher, who gave me the clue, is very clever with his clues (it’s one reason I call him the Hermes Trickster!). We will see what happens with this. It is interesting to note, since I do use Joe’s theory for all of this, that he mentioned it being the darkest before dawn several times in his book . . .OMG – I just had another epiphany. That very section of Joe’s book that was in yesterday’s “Dear John” letter talks about that very thing!!! The section all the Johns are supposed read is on pages 21-23. Check out the bottom of page 21: Joe stated, “The old order is now at the beginning of its end. This may not seem like the case as the U.S. wallows in a neo-conservative fundamentalist militaristic haze, but we all understand the cliché about the darkest hour.” And then on page 157, he actually gives us the solution for escaping this darkness, stating, “We are at the darkest hour – I believe that criticality can help bring a new dawn of epistemological, pedagogical, and ideological awareness. It simply must.”

What a coincidence!!!

Wow that’s powerful stuff. I must be using Joe’s critical complex epistemology right, since all of this is falling in place – the bricolage puzzle pieces are beginning to form and I am seeing the connections between all of these seemingly disparate videos that came up.

All I have time for today is to present the third video in the series of five that came up with the clue, “midmorning sunshine glooms the sky” – I will begin the analysis tomorrow. See what you think about how this one might fit into the picture (I included the original text as I had originally posted.)

The next video is interesting. It has a background song while the text presents something else. Since my Master Teacher had told me I would like the song, I searched the song on You Tube, which turned out to be "Revelation Song" so now we have two videos here to analyze together.

The Dusty Sandals Poem 4 YouTube.wmv

Revelation Song Worship Phillips, Craig, and Dean

Song:Revelation Song
Album:Fearless
Artist:Phillips, Craig, and Dean

Worthy is the,
Lamb who was slain
Holy, Holy, is He
Sing a new song, to Him who sits on
Heaven's Mercy Seat

Worthy is the,
Lamb who was slain
Holy, Holy, is He
Sing a new song, to Him who sits on
Heaven's Mercy Seat

Holy, Holy, Holy
Is the Lord God Almighty
Who was, and is, and is to come
With all creation I sing:
Praise to the King of Kings!
You are my everything,
And I will adore You

Clothed in rainbows, of living color
Flashes of lightning, rolls of thunder
Blessing and honor, strength and
Glory and power be
To You the Only Wise King,
Yeah

Holy, Holy, Holy
Is the Lord God Almighty
Who was, and is, and is to come
With all creation I sing:
Praise to the King of Kings!
You are my everything,
And I will adore You

Filled with wonder,
Awestruck wonder
At the mention of Your Name
Jesus, Your Name is Power
Breath, and Living Water
Such a marvelous mystery
Yeah...

Holy, Holy, Holy
Is the Lord God Almighty
Who was, and is, and is to come
With all creation I sing:
Praise to the King of Kings!
You are my everything,
And I will adore You

Morning Meeting With My Master Teacher
It is time for me to meet with my Master Teacher and so I am going to see what he thinks about the blog so far. Maybe he will give me some more clues or at least let me know if I am on the right track. BRB.

OK, I had a great session with my Master Teacher but nothing noteworthy. He just reminded me that I have a lot of Master Teachers besides him who help my with my work and to be sure to ask for help anytime. He liked the idea I had for a “stop at the John” on this epistemological road trip; he said it was creative. He just wanted me to add a song, as he so often does. The clue he gave me to look up is “right on target.”

Well, this is amazing. Here’s what came to the top of the YouTube search. Nice song.

“right on target.”
PAUL PARKER - RIGHT ON TARGET (1982)

Howdy John,

I had a dream about Joe last night (I dream about him a lot) and he said he hopes you followed up and bought his book because he wants you to read pages 21 through 24, the section called, “Playing With the Queen of Hearts: The Joker Ain’t the Only Fool in FIDUROD.” (Isn’t that a hilarious title?) He said that there is a special message for you and if you can’t decode it, at least it will give you an understanding of the big picture.

The way he stated it was that you are “lost in the FIDURODian details and angst,” whatever that means. I did not ask him; I figured it wasn’t my business.  However, FIDUROD is an acronym for the paradigm the majority of the world, especially the education world, operates under and in this section he introduces this paradigm and explains what all of the letters for FIDUROD mean.

Joe is so funny. He turned FIDUROD into a puzzle and he told me the answer to it. The clue is in the title of this section of the book: “Playing With the Queen of Hearts: The Joker Ain’t the Only Fool in FIDUROD.” Can you decipher FIDUROD and figure out who the other fool is? No one I know has been able to figure it out, but maybe you can. It’s very funny. Let me know when you do figure it out and you will pass the test -- and I’ll give you the next puzzle in Joe’s book (there are a lot of them!). Maybe you will solve enough of Joe's puzzles to earn your PhD!!!

Vanessa

P.S. My Master Teacher had given me the clue yesterday, “I get it” to look up a video on YouTube. Check it out. It is so funny! I have worked in many of the very same types of corporate settings far too often, which makes finding and taking a job very, very difficult for me. I don't want to work for another John. I feel sorry for anyone who has a boss like the guy in this video:

Chevelle - I Get It   LYRICS

Tomorrow: Back to the task at hand, Midmorning Sunshine Glooms the Sky: An Epistemological Journey, Part 9!!!

Yesterday’s analysis was very rushed and there may be some mistakes in it, so when I return to this part of the circle (these analyses are like spinning in the hermeneutic circle and you have to go around a few times before you come out with the “best” interpretation as selected based on the criteria Joe published in his work) I will make adjustments as necesary.

So, as I said, there may be some mistakes and I definitely provided only a very brief analysis which will need to be expanded upon. Yesterday, I happened to come across some great material that will assist with that very task (I am always led to the perfect resources). The first two links will take you to videos in which a reputable professor, who has done and continues to do extensive research that relates to these things, explains a perspective that is helpful. Again, it is one perspective, although it is a synthesized perspective of many perspectives and world views, much as Joe has presented in his work. And Tiller’s perspective is mathematically and scientifically detailed in his books as well as some of his papers which are posted on his website, The William A. Tiller Foundation (see the link below the videos).

Following the videos are the Tiller Foundation’s Mission statements. I have included them here because I think they are exemplary statements (something not typically found on foundation web sites) and I happen to agree with and support each and every statement. Just as note, psychoenergetics refers to the interaction between consciousness, physical matter, and energy. William A. Tiller provides scientific experiments and mathematical explanations that complement quantum theory mathematics.

William Tiller Part 1
William Tiller Part 2

               The William A. Tiller Foundation

OUR MISSION

1. To design and conduct careful laboratory experiments in the psychoenergetics area to reveal in quantitative detail how human consciousness interacts with the various energies and materials of physical reality as well as the higher dimensional aspects of our overall reality.
2. To construct and test a satisfactory theoretical model of nature that quantitatively explains the experimental data that we and others gather via our psychoenergetics studies.
3. To build a reliable bridge of understanding for nature’s manifold expressions that (a) seamlessly joins with today’s conventional scientific understanding of our outer spacetime world, on one end, (b) passes through the various subtle domains of inner reality in the middle and (c) strongly joins with the domain of spirit on the other end.
4. To communicate this new understanding to the world in all possible formats so as to inspire and uplift our entire human family to a deeper awareness of, and the great potential of, their own inner resources as well as the inner resources of global nature.
5. To continuously acknowledge and appreciate the wisdom and helpful guidance from unseen colleagues functioning in the highest dimensional domains.
6. To apply this new understanding in all possible ways to enrich all humans and all technologies present in the world today.
7. To apply this new understanding towards the creation of new science and new technologies that solve problems and difficulties present in today’s world so that all of humanity can evolve to a higher level of beingness in the overall reality.
8. To create organizations in the world, needed for the conduct of and dissemination of the fruits of this new understanding, that are based only on win/win principles and fairness in profit sharing. Only in this way can we move away from the selfishness, greed and material entrapments and practices of today’s world.
9. As much as possible, we will not allow these new scientific understandings to be controlled by military agencies.
10. To hold true to and practice these principles of action with the highest personal integrity.

Meetings With My Master Teacher
Yesterday, my teacher told me a storm was brewing in relation to my university and he was not kidding. I have not even dared to check my emails today yet to see what’s next. I just want to do my research; it would be nice if I was allowed the resources to make it happen. The university balks at anything that might level the playing field for people such as myself with no money, whether it is a request to in some way increase the budget and funding or increase the timeline. Wow, I am just totally flabbergasted that honest knowledge production in education has so many obstacles, gates, doors, monsters, lions, dragons, witches, etc. You make a request or try to move knowledge forward and all of these characters come out of the woodwork.

IT IS NO WONDER EDUCATION IS

STUCK IN THE DARK AGES!!!

This simply MUST change! Last night my teacher gave me the following clue for music: “untangled.” This morning he gave me another clue, “get it.” I will look these up on YouTube right now and see what comes to the top.

“untangled.” Wow, this is intense. I don’t watch this garbage; I don’t watch tv at all, and all I can say is, if people watch junk like LOST, it is no wonder they are so violent and emotionally bankrupt and LOST.

LOST Untangled - Dr. Linus - Lost

This next video that came up on the clue "get it" reminds me of my struggles with the university and trying to move up in society. The scene takes place in a high rise executive firm. The guy in the video wanted to get on the elevator, but he was told by an elite master, “this elevator is for winners – not you!” and shoves him away and waves bye-bye as the elevator door closes. It shows the guy working as a slave, not even having enough time to eat lunch (he works while he eats), which is the typical job today. To make it worse, the big boss man stole the guy’s food! Yes, that happens in my life everyday. I totally relate.

Next, this guy is humiliated in the board room. The big wigs PRETEND they are listening to him and agree with him, but in the final analysis they tell him NO and they all laugh and make a big joke of it. I have experienced that SO MANY TIMES! I am sure this is why my teacher brought this video up for me. This is a big game that those in power love to play. They always PRETEND they are listening as if your puny voice counts, and then they slam it to you that you ain’t worth shit and tell you NO (to whatever it is you are asking) and then they TALK AND LAUGH behind your back. Yes, indeed, the first video above was so representative of the VIOLENCE these elite power-wielding people operate from. It is time to put this all out on the table, and this video does exactly that. There is much more to this video and honestly, it represents precisely some of the goings on in the executive world and other workplaces; I recommend watching it and listening to the lyrics. It ends kind of funny . . . I “get it.” I think my teacher is just giving me the message that it is good to keep a sense of humor throughout it all.

“get it.”
Chevelle - I Get It   LYRICS

Since We Last Spoke RJD2




A lot of people I have been talking to lately have been dreaming about trains and train tracks. This video above just popped up for me today for no good reason, but it certainly reminds me of the dreams I also have been having – trains and train tracks everywhere. In one dream I was parked in a car at a train crossing that was very close to a train station. I was warning everyone I could get through to, to NOT to get on the train because it was going to crash at the station in New York (I have a lot of dreams about New York, too and things crashing there. In fact, I had a dream that a ferry there crashed and then the next day it happened. Weird). I did convince some people, but not everyone, to stay off the train. Friends of mine have also had dreams of trains, but some of them dream of getting on the train. I am not sure that this is what we should do. I think we should stay off the trains and indeed, the guy in this video was smart and did not get on the train. He jumped fences, went over gates, ran through doors, and took the elevator to the tenth level. What do you suppose is the significance of that?. . . more later.

Wow, my teacher has overloaded me with work! But he said that there is lots of help and there has been. I have been so divinely led to the perfect solutions for what I am working on, and that saves me so much time. Plus, in dreamland I remember meetings with some very important people who are guiding and directing my efforts. PLUS my teacher gave me the secret as to one important interpretation of “the gift of power.” It’s very exciting, but I will have to discuss that another time.

Because I am so busy today, I am dropping off this assignment below for people who are interested and just as soon as I get a break, I will cover it in more detail. So, below is the second video in the five provided from the clue given back at the beginning of this project on Thursday, September 9, 2010, “midmorning sunshine glooms the sky.” Given that the same clue brought up all five of these videos, the assumption is that they all five relate even though they seem unrelated. The job, the assignment is to analyze each video from multiple perspectives and then somehow pull it all together and come with something that makes sense of it all. That’s about all I can say today. It’s about all I have time for: I have three very high priority projects competing for my time.

Below this video are some links that will help interpret this poem. Explore the various interpretations and think up your own original interpretation. Tomorrow, I will give you my interpretation or interpretations, whichever the case may be.

Ulalum - Edgar Allen Poe

We are still working on analysis of the first video (scroll down to see yesterday’s blog for the video I am referring to). The person who posted it is absolutely convinced that HAARP is changing our weather. Is that possible? It takes some deep research to figure that one out. What would be great is if we had some insider information.

I searched on “HAARP Insider information” and found some great sites! This first one, below, has a ton of information and lots of great photos, if you click on the links. You will see right away that it is a U.S. Air Force Installation. That says a lot right there: Something sneaky is going on. You cannot trust the U.S. Air Force.

HAARP Danger Room   Link

Here are some great videos for HAARP and it looks like they may lead us right back to the Money Masters. Check them out!

Videos About HAARP

There is SO MUCH information about HAARP, how do you ever sort it all out?

HAARP insider information

That’s your homework: figure out what the “truth” is about HAARP. Of course, if you understand Joe’s theory, there is no one final truth, but if you take time to get multiple views on a topic, you can get pretty damn close to figuring out what’s really going on. When the Internet is totally flooded with all kinds of conspiracy theories like this one is, as can be seen if you look at the above links, that only means one thing: the money masters are hiding something from us and they want to keep it obfuscated through a flood of misinformation and disinformation which makes it difficult for us to sort fantasy, fact, truth, etc. from fiction. How do we get through this jungle? Joe left some answers for us in his work. What did he advise?

Meetings With My Master Teacher
My teacher finally came up with some cash in hand for me, some green stuff (energy), so I can cease worrying so much!!! I apologized to him for worrying because I knew that was not right, but I do try so hard not to worry. We simply MUST have faith and trust that the good universe will meet our needs – if we don’t we will just keep finding ourselves in the very same place over and over again, spinning on that perpetual wheel and wondering, “When will we ever learn?” So, I truly felt bad because I have much progress yet to make in this area and I felt bad because it may seem like a sign of not giving him the respect and honor he deserves – of unwavering trust and faith. I must overcome feeling unworthy of the great love he gives me along the great love from all of the people we are working together with on our mission. This earth life has really ingrained a lot of bad stuff in my brain that I have to keep reprogramming in order to override it. Like Bush said, and he should know, “It’s hard work.” Of course, my teacher knows that and is very patient. He never allows me to get set back too far with the pain or fear that comes to the surface before he provides me relief. This is a good thing!

I finally understand what my dream yesterday was about – the dream I described in yesterday’s blog in which Joe and I were standing on a wide open prairie and we could see for hundreds of miles around us in all directions and I had stated, “It’s all yours.” What it really represented, according to my Master Teacher and what I felt about it, is the achievement of total freedom and justice for all. You see, I took seriously that Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag I was forced to recite every day in elementary school. You know where it ends with indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I think it’s a shared dream of many people: Chief Joseph, Joe, Chief Lame Deer (father and son), Einstein with his search for the theory of unity, and many, many more people who I still need to learn about.

There are so many people working together now on this shared dream: JUSTICE FOR ALL that there is no doubt it is going to happen in some very big ways. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but it is on the way. And besides, as they say: the future is now – and I feel that future very close. It is not a hopeless utopian dream at all.

The lyrics to look up for today as given to me by my teacher are, “Life is grand.” This is a great sign because it means that Justice for All has already happened. The present just needs to catch up with the future, and that is exactly what is happening for many of us. If you understand physics, this is not a crazy idea. If you view this as a crazy idea, I would suggest getting up to date on your science education or you will be left behind in the dust and that would not be a good thing at all.

Here is the song that popped to the top of a YouTube search:

“Life is grand”

Ain't Life Grand (Widespread Panic)

This is the continuing interpretation of the five videos brought up by the clue: midmorning sunshine glooms the sky During the first go-through, I am going to present a literal interpretation mainly because I am really busy right now and also because I will need to think about all of these videos for awhile: What are the interconnecting links to them all? Why did they ALL show up for this odd search term that indicated there were NO matching videos? This epistemological journey began September 9, if you want to review the background information.

This is video 1/5. The person who posted this to YouTube feels that HAARP is causing weird clouds and interfering with the weather patterns. Is this true? Does HAARP cause weird cloud formations? I wonder if HAARP caused the weird cloud formations during my brief walk in my neighborhood. You can view those here: Love in the Clouds. If HAARP caused these maybe it’s a good thing. I will have to research all of this some more! Check out the video and do some of your own research. Is HAARP good or bad? It is interesting how the person carefully documented these observations, but has not made it clear how HAARP is the cause. If you study weather and climate, you will come to realize weather can be anything (it is very unpredictable) and that climate has been determined by observations over a very long period of time that averages out all of the unpredictable incidents of weather. This is one area where positivistic science is useful, but many people hold huge misconceptions. Does weather mean anything at all? Are we REALLY experiencing “global warming” or is this another created problem for which our great money masters are waiting in the wings to provide a solution (as they scheme to steal more of our money)? Research it! There are many reputable scientists who do not believe we are experiencing global warming and that we may even be at risk for another “Little Ice Age.” Check it out! Chemtrails . . . that’s another story.

Chemtrails-over-Mayo Ireland: HAARP WAVES AND GLOOM - AUGUST 09


sorrowfulsun | September 02, 2009 August sky diary. I have not altered these photos in any way. After wettest July for 50 years, August was as wet, and dark too. (Some days it was too dark and wet to take photos.)

Noisy aircraft overhead, chemtrailing every day, and during the night too, judging by the early morning sky.

There have been many days when Haarpy waves have appeared in the sky.

Trails were laid precisely to cover the path of the sun to deprive us of its light and warmth.

Unbelievable levels of rainfall: ground is sodden, plants are swimming, vegetable plants are stunted, flowers are rotting on their stems and leaves are already falling from the trees. We have needed an electric light on in the house, to be able to read. Some days have been as dark as night.

The lack of sunlight has been very disturbing, and also we have had regular heavy grey or even reddish mist or fog seeming to descend from the artificial, low black cloud cover.

Towards the end of the month, rusty coloured clouds have appeared as if from nowhere, and the late afternoon sky has been pink in the east!

From 11 May 2009 onwards they have been blotting out the sun, and in August we have been drowning in the dark!

Health effects we have observed: very sore eyes - almost difficult to open them in the morning; sore lungs and breathing problems; aching muscles and painful joints; unusual and unexplained extreme lethargy and sleepiness on some days mid month.

The dog has been itching and irritable, especially when there are waves in the sky. 

Chief Joseph and His Gold Is On My Mind

I am not sure why I get led to some of the research that I do; I believe it is divinely inspired. I had a dream last night about the significance of the end of September and for some reason my research took me to Chief Joseph. It was the end of September when he was trying to take a group of his people to Canada, but they were cornered on October 5, 1877 and he vowed to never fight again, but to attempt to handle everything by peaceful means. Here is a heartbreaking account of his life and influence: Chief Joseph. September is also significant relative to Chief Joseph because he passed away on September 21, 1904. Chief Joseph is significant to Oregon history, the state I have spent most of my life in. Sadly, after the U.S. had “given” Chief Joseph and other Indian peoples large tracts of land here and in Washington and Idaho, it was reduced to 10% of the original agreement.

Why? Because GOLD was found and the U.S. wanted the gold. I wonder if that is why the U.S. owns so much land in the western U.S; those moguls at the top are sitting on the riches. I was taught that they set up national preserves so the land would not be destroyed the way the Eastern U.S. had been by settlers and what they called “civilization” and this is all in the best interest of the American people….I now question everything. Interestingly, I just posted two days ago about being informed of there being gold in the hills (it is classified for now which hills, but if you find the right geographical map, there is an image of an angel, which I thought was kind of funny. The cosmos has a great sense of humor and you can see it everywhere if you look. I can say this much: the hills are here in Oregon. I wonder . . . perhaps the mission we are supposed to be on is to get that gold in environmentally friendly ways and give it to the people it belongs to. That would be justice.

Meetings With My Master Teacher
I was so upset again yesterday that I played hooky and did not meet with my teacher last night. Of course, all is fine with that. He sent me a song (below) I guess he just wanted to remind me he is still available whenever I need him or have questions. This morning’s meeting was very brief and I was simply told that today will bring me some relief relating to my money woes, so I was happy to get that message. Well, I need to get on with my work. It seems my university wants me to hurry with my dissertation for some odd reason. Little do they know that my divine instructions are to take my sweet time and that there is a divine reason for that. More later . . .
Bombshell Rocks - "Bloodbrothers"

Flight of the Conchords Ep 3 Think About it

The Mystery of the Giant Hogweed Continues

Since last Friday, I have been trying to identify the plants that caused the third degree burns on my son’s feet (see last Friday's and Sunday's blogs for more information and pictures of the nasty burns). I finally received an email from a specialist who does think this needs to be looked at more closely. All of the other specialists I have spoken to or emailed tended to just conclude that it was most likely Queen Anne’s Lace. But THIS specialist, a female, wants to look into it further since the types of burns my son received are like what one would get from the Giant Hogweed and the plant may behave quite differently in a wheat field than other environments where they are found.

Perhaps they morphed into something vey sneaky and this song (below) about them really was prophetic!!!

In the meantime, it is back to the trenches!

Genesis - The Return Of The Giant Hogweed 
LYRICS

I have often written in these blogs about Obama flipping tables (codespeak for things are going to change). I love this video that demonstrates table flipping that was in my blogs just a few days ago. Here’s a funny quote from the video:

“If you’re not familiar with the table flip, you’re probably not from New Jersey.”

Teresa at the Last Supper


I also love Sam Cooke’s song, “A Change Is Gonna Come,” the theme song on which Obama based his campaign and now his administration. He cannot change things fast enough and I really think he’s a bit behind schedule, but it’s a dangerous job that most of us would not want to be doing. I hope some big actions (table flipping) begin soon. As he had stated in his address to the nation a few days ago, we are turning the page, so this is a hopeful sign for change. We need JUSTICE.

A CHANGE IS GONNA COME

Obama Takes on his GOP Critics in Labor Day Speech

Baranauckas calls this a stump speech, but was it or is this just a way to minimize his positive efforts? Are the tables about to be flipped? Our infrastructure, just like everything else about our country can’t take much more abuse and neglect and it needs to be approached fairly and rationally as is proposed, not through cronyism and earmarks.

“Kicking off what has traditionally been considered the official fall campaign season, Obama said: ‘Some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time, they're not always happy with me. They talk about me like a dog. That's not in my prepared remarks, but it's true.’"

Keep the keys, Obama!

“Obama described the U.S. economy as a car that had been driven into a ditch by Republicans during the administration of George W. Bush. The president said working people had struggled to pull the car out of the ditch, only to have the Republicans ask for the keys back. "I don't want to give them the keys back," Obama said. ‘They don't know how to drive.’”

In the “cooker.”
That’s what my Master Teacher told me at our meeting last night – that I have a lot of energy in the “cooker” that will manifest into something good. That just means that I have put forth a lot of effort and will soon see the rewards. And “cooker,” of course, is a clue to look up on You Tube.

“cooker”  I think the message is that the “powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time” have no prayer for getting the keys to this vehicle. Obama and his supporters have long had things in the “cooker” and they are just about to demonstrate their power.

“Hardly ever said, but always known . . . the Cooker is a good man.”
The Cooker
 

Well, it’s time for me to meet with my teacher right now, so I’ll see what we discuss this morning and if there is anything else he wants to add.

Morning Meeting With My Master Teacher
WOW, my teacher had a LOT to say this morning and I must say it is exciting. I must also say much of it is classified at this moment and that primarily he gave me instructions and guidance, but he did say that down the road everything will come out and people will understand it all. What we are working on and hoping for, of course, is Justice, much like Sam Cooke is calling for in the video at the beginning of today’s blog -- and in fact, Sam is just one person we wish to achieve justice for, if you were to go back and read some of my previous blogs.

As my teacher put it, we are “hoping for” JUSTICE in “one fell swoop.” It is not that we are hoping for justice; justice will come. But we are hoping for it to come in one fell swoop and that means all at one time. He has used that idiom before; I wonder if it will pull up something different this time, given that the Internet is a fractal that is constantly changing and evolving. There are two clues here to look up: “hoping for” and “one fell swoop” so I will see what YouTube brings to the top.

“hoping for” This is a strange video. A guy who raises snakes is hoping that one of them has two heads. Fortunately, he did not get what he was hoping for.

I can’t help but see this as JUSTICE. We are trying get rid of the two-headed Janus operations that are controlling education and the world.

Down with two-headed snakes!!!! LOL My teacher is too funny sometimes, but this video is hard to look at. I am STILL trying to overcome my repulsion toward snakes. I have figured out now why fear of snakes has been so DEEPLY ingrained in so many of us -- have you figured it out? Call this a puzzle to research, if you don't know.
Hoping for Two-Heads

“one fell swoop” This is a different video than came up with the same clue previously. The song is called “Fences” by the group One Fell Swoop. It is a call to get off the fence and come to the other side. There is an interesting and meaningful quotation at the beginning to the video by Homer:

Light is the task when many share the toil.

The song also has an interesting message. It is a call to be true to yourself and to jump down to the other side of the fence; it’s all going to be just fine:

You’re standing on top of the fence
You’re up there and you’re afraid to fall
But you know you can’t stay up there all of your life
Someday you’re going to have to come down. . .
If only you would fall my way
I would catch you before you hit the ground
Oh maybe your feet will get tangled up
Oh by the other side
On the other side of the fence of me
Just remember to your own self be true . . .
One Fell Swoop play at Farm Aid '96

This is My Story (an "imaginary" narrative)

I wish I could remember my dreams in detail from last night. They were very good, filled with soothing love and loving instructions from a beloved Master Teacher and husband. All I know is that this morning when I awakened, all of these memories came flooding back to me (memories of a future life and reminders of past lives), along with what I call a “download” of knowledge and insight. All of the problems that I discussed yesterday have not gone away by any means, but I feel better and I know I am loved by many people “on the other side,” even if I am not loved or understood on this side of “reality.”

You see, I am from the future – the year 7014 to be exact in earth time (7013, when I was 18). I am only nineteen years old, even though my “earthling” body presents another reality. As a Pleiadian, I was blessed with the devoted instruction from one Master Teacher all of my life (supplemented with teachings from other specialists as my Master Teacher deemed they were needed). That is the way we “do education” in the Pleiades. The child is matched up with a Master Teacher who is a master of the forms of knowledge that the child is inherently drawn toward and he or she commits wholely to that child until the child reaches 18 years of age or thereabouts, depending on the needs of the child. If the child's needs or interests change, the Master Teacher will refer them to another Master Teacher who is a specialist in those areas. For me, my interest was philosophy, psychology, environmental sciences, ancient cultures, the arts, music etc. and I wanted to become a Master Teacher. So, I was assigned a Master Teacher of Master Teachers whose interests totally matched my own.

When I turned 18, my education under my Master Teacher was over; it was nearing time to move on to other learning (learning never stops for Pleiadians). I discovered that I had fallen head over heels in love with my Master Teacher and as we learned later, it could not simply be attributed to a student-teacher infatuation. During the last few days of my instruction under him in which he was also guiding me with an apprenticeship -  I had taken on teaching a five-year-old boy -- I mistakenly thought that now that our student-teacher relationship was coming to an end that I could profess my love for him. I had no idea how he felt about me, other than I knew he loved me because all Pleiadians love and are renowned throughout the universe for their great love, but I did not know if he felt a romantic love toward me and so it was a huge risk on my part to reveal my true feelings for him, especially given our enormous age difference. In earth time, he would have been equivalent to approximately 60-some years of age (although in Pleiadian time, he was much older than that, but at the same time, younger which is difficult to explain in earth terms), whereas I was just 18. Another thing I should explain is the Pleiadians will often wait a very long time for the "right love" before they get married, which is why my Master Teacher had never married even given his age. His age to me was attractive, as was he, and I had totally fallen in love with him from the time I was about 16 years of age and I had hidden it all of this time because I did not want to lose him as my teacher.

The Pleiadians, as free-loving as they are, still have an unmoving taboo against student-teacher love relationships – and for good reasons. And had I expressed my feelings to my Master Teacher earlier, I knew he would have resigned and found a different teacher for me and that would have broken my heart. So I hid my true feelings for the next two years so that I could learn from him – his knowledge was so amazing to me – and so that I could be with him. During my very last week under his tutelage, I told him I had a question and asked if we could meet, so he scheduled an appointment with me in his office that same day. I went into his office and just stood there. He asked me to sit down, but I remained standing. “I love you,” I told him. And evidently he just assumed that I was expressing this because it was so close for us to go our separate ways (although Pleiadians generally never really part permanently and my teacher was a very close friend of the family, since he had also taught my brother for seven years prior to teaching me. My brother became interested in mechanics, so he was referred to another teacher, and I inherited his Master Teacher). Anyway, after I told him that I loved him, he just said back to me, “Well, I love you, too” and again asked me to sit down so that he could help me with the question. He assumed that I had a question relating to the environmental studies we had been covering, but at the same time I could see the strain in his eyes, so I quickly stated, “No – I mean I LOVE you.” Then he understood exactly what I was trying to say and we embraced and kissed – thus, his way of letting me know he felt the same way about me.

We wanted to get married. Anyone can choose to marry and can do so with their own private ceremony, but tradition and preference is to seek sanctioning from the Higher Council. Members of the High Council are selected by all community members and their joint decisions and opinions are respected. However, when we requested this, the Pleiadian Council would not sanction our marriage because we were breaking such a huge taboo in our culture, and while we both completely understood that and agreed with it, we also felt it was vastly different in our particular case. We persisted and persisted. We knew our love was true. Finally, the Pleiadian High Council, tired of our persistence and wanting to get rid of us (and not believing we would take them up on their offer), told us that we could get married and they would sanction it if our love survived many incarnations on Earth including the ascension which is what the earth is experiencing now. For us, this meant traveling far back in history which was kind of exciting because we both loved ancient culture so much. It was also very risky as far as whether our love could survive the trauma of being together and losing each other over and over again, which was what the contract required as a test of our love. We also knew that the ascension would be particularly difficult because we would begin remembering who we really were, where we were really from, as well as our relationship. This would have the effect of making us long to be together and to be at home, complicating the tasks we agreed to do on earth through the ascension process. After much consideration and discussion, we both were certain that our love would withstand this difficult mission and that we would return home, marry and spend eternity living, loving, learning, and doing good work together, and so we agreed.

We indeed went through many incarnations together which fortunately, due to our contract did not result in the negative karmic debt that would require a lot of clearing that so many people have to experience. That is, we always lived quite moral, upright lives with just a few of the human-induced mistakes that we all make, unlike what most people have been through, in which they must experience all experiences possible, inlcuding committing atrocious acts upon other humans throughout their many incarnations, which resulted in the need for much karmic cleansing. Instead, we were always together, always working for justice and peace or some other good cause, but we also always very tragically lost one another in many different ways throughout the lifetimes we shared, causing enormous pain for both of us which we are still working on overcoming and helping each other with through our great love for each other. Because we are so close to completing our contract and we have made it through the most difficult tasks, we did in fact go ahead and get married, having our own private ceremony as is practiced by many Pleiadian couples. Couples can choose to marry at any point; sanctioning is not required.

So here I am today, we are finishing up our contract, but our people, the Pleiadians, were so impressed with how our love stood the test of time and all of the trials and tribulations, as well as with how my Master Teacher/husband spent the enormous time and effort learning the very complex mathematics needed to prove beyond all doubt that we are indeed twin flame soul mates, originating from a single spark, separated and once again united, yet individual, in divine female and male form, much as represented by the yin-yang symbol. I do not totally understand his work yet, but it relates to the fact that all particles have associated and interconnected twin particles of the opposite charge that influence each other no matter how far apart they are or what dimension they reside in, along with the combined effects of unity consciousness. The work he did not only helped us get over the hurdle associated with our cultural taboo, but it will also help many other twin flame soul mates who want proof that they are indeed twin flames. Because of our twin connection, not only has our love survived, it has grown even stronger through our experiences of the multiple contexts within which we shared our love for each other, and we both grew so much in our understanding of many things about the world, earth life, relationships, and of course, knowledge in its multiple formats.

The Council took all of this and more under consideration, (which by this time my husband was also a member of) and they ended up sanctioning our marriage even before we have finished fulfilling our contract, or what some people refer to as a “soul contract.” The Council members have no doubt that we will complete each and every item on the contract and they felt confident in our ability to get through the ascension process, no matter how difficult things might be along the way. Next, the Universal High Council, a representative group of entities from many planets from many galaxies who have united to oversee and aid in earth’s ascension which they all have shared interests in, after some disagreement and fettering from a specific Reptilian race who ended up being banned from the Council, soon followed suit and sanctioned our marriage. There is so much more to the story . . .

I will leave off there for now. My dream last night brought all of this up for me and much more. It is a fascinating story. I should write a novel.

Conscious Capitalism and Oppression
As far as knowledge download from my dreams last night, it all relates to my education research and work. We get these “do good” organizations that come up with “solutions” like the one below from Economica: Women and the Global Economy.

We get women who sell out, who have once again sold our souls to the highest bidder. (Scroll down to see Wells Fargo, Visa, and various foundations yet to be analyzed.)

With these kinds of buyers of our souls, it is no wonder we have women like Susmita Barua who make statements like this:

It is up to active, socially-conscious citizens to transform the system--not international banks, corporations and global institutions. The system is held both in our individual minds and our collective perceptions. Source: http://www.imow.org/economica/stories/viewStory?storyId=4765

It is the classic “blame the victim” stance once again to tell us to escape our entrapment when we are not able to even able see our way out of the quagmires we find ourselves in, we are given no real tools, and there is no call for accountability from those very institutions and corporations that have created the economical, social, and psychological mess this world is in. Interestingly, capitalism is now capitalizing on the new and growing interest in spiritualism. This is another very sick twist in their deceptive and illegal activities whereby the free market system transmigrates into a form of new age spiritualism, sure to appeal to many. They have no limits in what they will do to get our every last penny and have us idolizing, worshipping, and enslaved to their God – the dollar.

Deep Conscious Capitalism
Hip-hip-hooray! "Collective, collective, collective." What a great scheme to prevent holding those at the top of the big banks, credit card companies, oil companies and the like responsible for their environmental destruction, loss of human lives, and robber baron behavior. Blame the victim who is powerless and has been robbed blind. Yes, all we need to do is just change our realities, control our life with our collective “intentions,” and while we are focusing on doing that, our very last penny will be stolen right out from under us, along with what little freedom we have remaining. Change our collective consciousness – that will do the trick all right – for them, not for us. This causes immense pain as well as anger and I was feeling that pain and anger yesterday. We literally have a net placed over top of us, and then are informed of all of the issues and next we are told to “empower ourselves” to escape this net that only comes down tighter around us. I was really feeling that yesterday, which is why I was so distressed. I was feeling the lack of power to escape the shackles. I do not see a way out, although I know once I completely figure out how to use Joe’s theory, I WILL find a way out of my oppressive situation that continues to cause me to suffer. My hope is that perhaps by showing how I escape, other people might also find ways to escape their oppression, but it is, of course different for us all.

Joe, in his book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction cautioned us about using “universal approaches” to teaching and learning as well as to finding solutions to ending our oppression. There is a balancing act one must maintain in the wish to unite people while honoring individuality, which he has pointed out repeatedly in many of his works. Relative to the concept of oppression, he stated:

There is no universal “oppressed” perspective that should unproblematically guide criticalists in their epistemological inquests (p. 242).

This is where the application of Paulo Freire’s work took us over the cliff, especially in the United States where we so often attempt to apply it across the board. Perhaps, this is why Joe stressed that we need to release critical pedagogy from Western dominance. Of course, he cited Paulo Freire’s work – Joe never threw the baby out with the bath water -- and he had his reasons for doing this, which I do not question whatsoever. However, I am different and my purposes are different from his. I see little value for the mission forward in maintaining any of the Freire doctrine, or even the reference to his work for education. Even the “good” ideas Freire had were not new ideas and I think Freire's work has been run into the ground. I will think about it and research it further.

My Meetings With My Master Teacher
Yesterday, as can be seen by my blog, was a disaster for me. I was so down. That’s why my dreams last night were wonderful. I must have been taken to the rejuvenation chamber, among other things, because I feel so much better today. Last night before my great dream escape, my meeting with my teacher amounted to me telling him: I HATE THIS WORLD!!! And he just calmly came back with, “I wish there was more I could do for you right now.” He explained that we are at the very most difficult time in history because all of the old systems are crumbling and there are people who are madly and stubbornly clinging to the last old, worn, and broken parts with all of their might, making lives miserable for those of us who are harmed by their actions and ready for change. He knew I was very distracted from the work I am here to do, so he reassured me that I need not worry about the “work” and that there is plenty of time to get it finished. Of course, this is a clue to plug into You Tube and take the first video to the top to see what message I might get from it.

I do like this message! Something tells me I did a lot of dancing in my dreams last night (my teacher knows I hate work as it manifests here on earth where instead of doing what they love, people spend most of the day doing what they hate in exchange for pieces of paper that do not provide for even their basic needs -- and he knows that I love dancing).

“work”
Ciara ft Missy Elliott - Work (Official Video)

This morning our meeting was a little different than last night because I had been rejuvenated so we had a very productive session. I reviewed what I remembered from my dreams, which seem more like memories to me of another life. We discussed citing authors like Paulo Freire in an archaic system that reproduces misinformation through repetition and misinterprets citation as carte blanche support, and he said that the verdict was still out on how to handle citing researchers who do not bring much new to the table, stating it is difficult to determine the “best” approach. There are many factors involved in making a call on how to approach these sorts of citations. Of course, “best” is another clue.

Upon looking this clue up on You Tube and taking the first video, it is clear my teacher knows that I am doing so much better today – enough so that he can give me a video to make me laugh. It serves the purpose of helping me realize how too often we take these things too seriously (such as who to cite in our research and how and when to cite them). We need to take time to lighten up a bit and laugh. This is really funny and a few boats and human vehicles sink in this video! It kind of reminds me of the clue he gave a few days ago in another video, telling us to get off the boat.

“best”
The best bloopers ever

“story”

Brandi Carlile - The Story Lyrics

The narrative and the drama of this nightmare called “life” continue . . .

The title of my blog today reminds me of all of the times Joe referred to the song “Desperado” by the Eagles in his work. He mentioned it in several of his books (have you found it and figured out what he may have been talking about?). It makes me cry. Last April, I had just hit the road to visit Joe’s home territory, Kingsport, TN (I had this burning desire to walk the land he had walked and see the Appalachian Mountains for the first time), when I stopped in a restaurant to have lunch with my daughter from Washington. Just as we sat down at the table, this song, Desperado, began playing. It made me cry. OH, yes, we are NOT to have emotions in this society!!!! I forgot. I always seem to forget that. As Joe put it and I have “twisted” it: FIDUROD!!! (And you need to decode that to know what it means). Anyway, I feel like a desperado because I do not believe in the legal system, yet I want to sue each and every person who has screwed me over. That would be a lot of people, if I went back very far in my history, but I will stick with just this past year.

I am truly desperate for money. I do not even hear back from the jobs I apply for which does not surprise me. They insist you spend your precious time filling out online applications that take forever and you never hear a word back. And if I mail in my resumes, at least hear SOMETHING: “Please fill out our online application only for the positions available” gag People are SUCH droids and I am sure they keep a blacklist of those of us who have any intelligence. And now my university has srewed over my financial aid, refusing to give me the money that is rightfully mine, for which they blame the FEDS. I do not care who takes the blame, but once again, I am SCREWED and that’s the bottom line for me. I hope I can keep a roof over our heads, is all I can say….and the bills paid.

And so, it is getting to the point that I will have no choice but to file numerous lawsuits, even though I don’t believe in lawsuits and I hate court systems: NOBODY wins except the attorneys. But sometimes allowing the attorneys to make their big bucks helps make a point. Let’s see: I can sue the DROID in my neighborhood for accosting us and causing extreme fear and emotional trauma totally disrupting and overturning what was once a peaceful neighborhood, I can sue my university for cheating me out of a doctoral education given that they have continued to water down the curriculum and teach disinformation, misinformation, and even what I would call lies through the textbooks they require as they cozy up to the military-industrial-complex while charging increasingly exorbitant tuition, I can sue the person who insists on committing defamation of character by maintaining the nasty lies on this website (among all of the other actions taken which fall into the same category), and lastly, if a woman can sue McDonalds for spilled coffee, I should easily win a lawsuit against a workplace that would have some mysterious plant or chemical on their premises that caused the third degree burns on my son’s feet (as shown in the pictures). (See my blog from a couple of days ago about the Return of the Giant Hogweed.) Ghastly!!! And they joke about it? OMG I want to scream. . .

Yes, I am angry. Who would not be angry when they wake up and find their entire life – and their children’s lives -- have been nothing but a lie to help the rich get richer and all of us who are poor and disenfranchised get poorer and more powerless and we awaken to the stark realization that the lies only get deeper and wider and there is no way to participate in this society any longer without being hegemonic and contributing to the the downfall of us all? Who would not be angry to learn that the only way for “success” in this matrix is to be dehumanized, treated like dispensable cattle and possessions that are only worth whatever money can be extracted in the form of slave labor and material consumption – and by cow-towing to those who demand that you view them as queens and kings while they stab you in the back, even as you attempt to meet their unreasonable demands.

The matrix net is so tightly wrapped around us that there are few moves to make, very few portals for escape, and little air to breathe. It is no wonder I enjoy my dreamlife so much.

The only solution is out of the system somehow: a complete, clean break from the entire system. Is that even possible? I want to write a book: 1001 Ways to Successfully Break Free from the System. Here are a couple of videos that could prove helpful.

Sonia Barrett New York Lecture "Recoding Your Perception of Reality" Part 1 of 2

Sonia Barrett-New York lecture Recoding Your Perception of Reality Part 2 of 2 -August 13, 2010

My Meeting With My Master Teacher

Of course, my teacher sincerely empathized with how I am feeling right now. He said things have turned out the way they have for a reason and reminded me that, overall, everything is and has been much, much better this way than had we taken a different path (and he reminded me that I do, in fact, know that), and he enlightened me to the fact that we are also avoiding massive firestorms, even if I do not understand that right now. He also said that I have just hit a bump in the road (a damned big pothole, if you ask me) and once I get past it, I will have a better understanding and things will move forward again. He gave me a clue for a song to try and cheer me up: “put all your troubles away.” The song that came up on the YouTube search (below) seems so appropriate (he is so good at picking out the music) since about all I have left right now are dreams – very good dreams.

I do get great consolation from Joe's book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction in which he reminds us, it is the darkest before dawn and the "old order is now at the beginning of its end" (p. 21). I only hope dawn arrives very quickly!!!
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams - The Velvet Underground - 1967 The Velvet Underground & Nico

Yes, I have noticed that my blogs are not your standard “elite” educational fare. If you read Joe’s books and take them seriously, which I do, we need to listen to all voices. And we all have more than one voice, of course, depending upon who we are talking to, what we want to say, and how we want to get the point across. Joe clearly did not want us to restrict our discussions to academic elites using obfuscated academic language. There may be a time and place for that, and I can certainly play that game when I need to, but interestingly, I am finding less and less of the need to do that. How has academic “doublespeak” benefitted oppressed people who are purportedly supposed to be helped by this type of research? How are they helped by the educational elite-defined discourse that puts labels on oppressed people that serve to divide and humiliate while at the very same time they criticize the educational system for devising labels? How many voices are being shut out? How many people see that there is little value for society to continue this charade and, thus, they have withdrawn from the conversation -- or were smart enough to never enter it to begin with?

I particularly like the concept of performance ethnographies in the form of text (including blogs), music, videos, artwork, poetry or however one wishes to express themselves. Everyone can participate and everyone can learn. I think Norman Denzin has written a lot about this idea, but I have yet to read much of his work. The bricolage, whether used as a research methodology, a learning tool, or for creative expression, allows us to come into the conversation together with these various forms of communication – thus all voices are included. And by interpreting them from different perspectives and learning about how the authors interpret their own messages, they expand our awareness and understanding. These forms of communication are in fact higher level than many of the writings that get passed off as “scholarly.”

I am sure that observation makes some people angry, but I just state it like I see it. I am not throwing scholarly writing out. It is a valuable form of communication, but not when it separates, labels and isolates the very people it is supposed to be helping – the “oppressed” people trapped in circumstances beyond their control. And not when it is done for the purpose of keeping education as it is – maintaining the structure, purpose, and condition of education as it has been practiced for decades….see yesterday’s valedictorian video for the new agenda for education. We need this new agenda given that education has gotten worse, not better over the past 40 years of scholarly research. Of course, as always, Joe had it right – we need to all get in the trenches and do the work, not just talk about it.

Meetings With My Master Teacher
Last night my teacher reassured me that I am on the right path (I really was beginning to wonder), even though things are very tough right now, as I discussed in yesterday’s blog quite extensively. He reminded me of a story he told me quite some time ago about boulders being along the pathway and that he will always be there to help me remove them or blaze a new trail around them. That was very reassuring. And as I look back, it is true. He always comes through for me.

Then today he gave me some great advice for a grant I am applying for – which I really need to finish up as soon as possible so that I can get back to my dissertation. Speaking of my dissertation, I am not sure I want my current university’s name on it, as harsh as that sounds. Since Joe’s work is so monumental and my dissertation is about his bricolage methodology, I think I need a better university – an “on ground” university, so I am researching options for that. I am not sure what I’m going to do yet. It’s difficult when you’ve finished all of the coursework and only have the diss to write to switch universities, but I think it may be in my best interest, especially given that the university has clearly shown me that they are not working with me or for me – they are working against me.

Joe, of course, predicted things like this would happen in reference to our mission to point out faulty arguments and separate the “critical sheep from the uncritical goats” (p. 176 in K&CP*). I just love this quote because it is such wonderful advice, and I return to it everytime it proves to be right:

With such a task before us, I guess we just have to give up any aspirations to winning the Miss Congeniality contest. Such work will inevitably anger the guardians of the status quo. Relax, it’s our existential burden – go with it.

I love that quote!!! And of course, it is all worth it when you know you have the “power of love” backing you up (p. 122, K&CP*). There is nothing more powerful than love.

And so, the narrative continues . . .

The song for today is most likely a love song given the clue handed down from my teacher is “Your Love.” I am glad for this because due to the topics lately and my somewhat depressing trials and tribulations, I feel this strong urge to end my blog with a love song. I’ll see what this brings up on YouTube.

I like this! I am into the sweet, sweet kind of love and its expression that really turns off the folks in education who have been molded by Wundtian Psychology as souless entities with no emotions and assume we should all be the same. We really need to bring back sweet love. It would be a great substitute for all of that sickly sweet corn syrup that’s injected into all of our food and that’s hazardous to our health.

SWEET LOVE: Part of the NEW AGENDA.

Replacing sugar with “sugar.”

“Your Love”
Your Love -Nicki Minaj [[LYRICS]]

*K&CP is Joe’s book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction.

I am SO sorry that I’m late today the blog again. I had to go out sleuthing once again in the wildwood and this time gather plant samples of the hazardous plant that injured my son. I took them to a Master Gardener who did very little research, I hate to say. I would have thought the plants would go to a lab for analysis. He googled an article from a home gardener who received similar burns from Queen Anne’s Lace. By her report. How de we, in fact, know it was Queen Anne’s Lace? There are hundreds of varieties of those plants and many look-alikes. In fact, poison hemlock, which is deadly, is often mistaken for Queen Anne’s Lace. And why do some of the samples have the tiny purple flower right in the middle, which indicates Queen Anne’s Lace and other samples do not? Is it possible there is more than one species growing in the field where he was exposed?

Every professional I have spoken to about this injury my son received from the plants in question have concluded the plants are most likely Queen Anne’s Lace and that some people are very allergic to this plant. So, according to them, it was either the plant that caused his horrific burns, or it could have been a toxic herbicide that was sprayed on the plant. More research is needed here to track it down specifically but other than myself, there is very little motivation for doing this research.

Given these plants were often over 6 feet tall, could it be a species of poison hemlock, cow parsnip, white cow parsnip or even the GIANT HOGWEED? Those of us who are not considered professionals are skeptical that Queen Anne's Lace, which most of us played in and picked as children could cause such horrible burns. My son suffered third degree burns all the way around both ankles and is at risk for infection. I hope he gets better soon and this does not happen to anyone else. In the meantime, avoid plants that look like Queen Anne’s Lace or you could end up with third degree burns that take weeks to heal, are extremely painful, are at risk for becoming infected, and leave permanent scars. Maybe this song by Genesis was prophetic: 

Genesis - The Return Of The Giant Hogweed 
LYRICS


On to other topics. I think I have determined where education made a wrong turn. I came across an interesting article called “Dumbing Down US Education – Wundtian Psychology and Rockefeller Finance” by Ron Chapman. The title tells the whole story. Wilhelm Wundt sold our souls, to put it succinctly. He was the one who brought “psychology” into education – thus “educational psychology” with the premise that we are “devoid of spirit and self-determination.”  He threw away PSYCHE – but hey – I AM BACK!!! As I have said in previous blogs, my name means butterfly which also means PSYCHE or SOUL. There must be some kind of divine logic in all of this and you do not even have to look too far. We must bring SOUL back to education if we are to remain on this planet. That should be clear by now. In fact, Joe wrote about that very issue and even wrote a song, “What happened to soul?” Once his version of educational psychology catches on, we will be on the right track – the right path – once again. And it will catch on.

It was also interesting that I have been drawn to a book, called the Pleiadian Agenda by Barbara Hand Clow which was written back in 1995. I have been reading it the past couple of days and according to her account, we are at a cusp, a fork in the road, a choice point. It’s similar to the indigenous accounts that we can choose the green path or the burnt path. Or you can look at it as choosing between the high path or the low path. There is no in between. Duality is coming to an abrupt end and you will either choose a path that will not be happy at all in which you will be much like a roboton sitting in front of your programmer (the TV) and working much like a robot doing repetitive jobs -- or the path that Joe emphasized throughout his work – the path of LOVE and creative imagination. So, this book is one interpretation of the path of love, some of the work that needs to be done, some of the things we need to learn, and what our future might be like. It’s very interesting and covers many details and straightens out many of the lies we’ve been told. And interestingly, we will use LESS technology in the future, not more, because we will have remembered and restored our abilities (like being able to read each other’s minds, even communicating across great distances, and accessing knowledge other ways).

That’s it for today. About all my Master Teacher has told me is that I will get through these trials relating to my son’s injury and the financial issues. I am beginning to think this is another initiation and I am on my own to a certain degree (although I am never alone). I am not getting much advice, but he did say to always read with “discernment,” including the book I’m reading, reminding me that everything we read is only one person’s interpretation. Thus, we must seek many perspectives. I could ask him for more advice, but of course, I don’t like to bother him over trivialities no matter how much I might think I am suffering and, besides, things might get worse before they get better and I might need his help desperately, so I am trying to hold on. I also know that there worse problems in the world.

hold on by wilson phillips

In yesterday’s blog, I revealed some of the funding connections for the nonprofit “benevolent” organization, Appalachian Voices, thus the ideological controls and the contradictions inherent in their efforts. It is no longer acceptable to do “a little good” when behind the scenes, great harm is going on. It is much like taking a baby step forward and twenty giant leaps backwards, as the last forty years have show us. More people need to research these sorts of organizations – follow the money – and critically examine just what is it that they are doing to "improve" things. If they are linked to top 100 foundations or the Council on Foundations, as was shown yesterday that Appalachian Voices is, then the act of doing “good” only supports the agenda at the top of those extremely rich and powerful foundations. Should one trace those foundations to the end of the line, I am sure the true Money Masters who control the world would have to stand up. As I also showed yesterday, that is a difficult task because they have hundreds, if not thousands of umbrella organizations hiding each other along with unwitting people who are convinced they are “doing good work” when in fact, they are serving the big boss men – maybe even the same kind of boss man in yesterday’s video.

Also, yesterday, I discussed the importance of using facebook for web activism. These big corporations and nonprofits have infiltrated facebook and want us to do their free advertising. This is the latest and greatest trend – corporate capitalism is taking over facebook and yes, there are enough of us fools out there to support our own demise by expending time and energy doing free marketing for Milton Friedman’s free market system “gone wild.” I say, enough! If these rich moguls are going to be so blatant and self-assured that this is going to work for them, then it is time to show them differently! As Obama said in his speech, it is time to turn the page . . .  and in case you do not realize it, that is code speak for “it is time to flip the tables” – just like I have been talking about all along in these blogs. In time, we shall see if Obama lives up to his words or if he gets further sucked into the system.

So, here is my message for Appalachian Voices – and the employees there who are so ideologically brainwashed that they really believe their work is making a difference. Basically, I am asking them to do some research into where their money comes from (the big money, not the money they squeeze out of people who really do not have it) and analyze just exactly how much good they are doing. Can they get out from under the big boss man? Visit their facebook page for more of the discussion. They have been called on the carpet. They are part of the system and part of the problem, as we all are to varying degrees. It is time to escape the system and create that new matrix Joe wrote about in this work.



Meetings With My Master Teacher
I have some exciting news! All hell is going to break loose. Not really, but my teacher handed down some information that has let me know we are done with the system. I have been going through some really tough times with my son having been injured, quite seriously at his very first job just out of high school, along with some continuing problems with my university jerking me around ideologically and financially. Do I get into the details here at this time? I think not, but it will all come out. My teacher has laid out the plans for a quick and complete break from the system. It will all be divinely orchestrated and it will be implemented with a “no holds barred” approach because it is the only way to break free once and for all and take our power back. Of course, OUR definition of “no holds barred” is quite different from “earthlings.” We base everything on LOVE LOVE LOVE that “never grows cold.” Many earthlings just don’t get it. But the masses will understand once they see it in real action. So, today is a new beginning, a new leaf being turned over and many tables about to be flipped. Expect the outrageous (by earthlings’ perspectives) – a whole new agenda -- coming up the pike – but always the outrageous will be accompanied with LOVE.

My Master Teacher gave me four clues for songs to end today’s blog. The first one is “go radical,” and the second one is “coincidences,” the third one is “shock and awe” and the fourth one is “flipping tables.” I have not looked these up yet on You Tube, so I will do that now, taking the first songs to the top.

“go radical” Just call this one a new, radical way to review movies.
Radical Reviewer: All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 Review (1 of 2)

“coincidences” Just some examples of coincidences that other people experience and a reminder that we need to pay attention to these things.

Real English Topical video D (54) Coincidence

“shock and awe” It looks like there is no relief from the free market system for Greece.

Will EU's 'shock & awe' work?

“flipping tables” This video demonstrates the table flip, lol.

Teresa at the Last Supper

The Depressing Narrative Continues . . . today's blog is a little "black and blue."

Appalachian Voices – how much good are they really doing?

Christina Howe, Chair   She does not sound very environmentally conscious: “Christina became a commercially rated, single and multi-engine pilot with an instrument rating. She founded and still owns two real estate companies. She went on to assist her late husband in building a 350,000 sq.ft. terminal in Sanford, Fl. now known as the Orlando-Sanford International Airport or OSI.”

Heidi Binko, Vice Chair “In October 2008, Heidi Binko joined Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF) as associate director of Special Climate Initiatives.”

http://www.rffund.org/other/

THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION HAS BEEN THE WORST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO EDUCATION: They have destroyed education and now comes the environment. Here’s are some interesting reads (there will be test over this):

http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/the_rockefeller_bloodline.htm

“The Rockefellers have divested much of their holdings into places which they control, but nominally they are not owners of. The Rockefellers financial power Is far greater than the balance sheets would indicate. The Rockefellers can give donations from an organization which they control to another that they control, and not lose any control over the money.”

http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Rockefeller-Foundation-Social-Control-Eugenics.html

http://tobefree.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/the-hidden-agenda-of-tax-exempt-foundations/

http://abundanthope.net/pages/Ron_71/Dumbing_Down_US_Education_Part_II_Wundtian_Psychol_3877.shtml

http://www.whale.to/b/rockefeller_q.html

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/world_order/WorldCh07-1.htm

“EGA is an affinity group of the Council on Foundations.” These people have MONEY and Power – check them out. $300 BILLION DOLLARS. Where is all the money going?

Check out their board members: http://www.cof.org/about/boardofdirectors/index.cfm?navItemNumber=14854

The big corporate MONEY MASTERS: IBM, Microsoft, Packard, and who else? How many of these are included in the top 100 foundations?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_foundations

Where has all of the money gone? With all of this money behind Appalachian Voices you would think they would be able to change the whole world! What’s wrong with this picture?

“Heidi was the executive director of the WestWind Foundation”

Unfortunately, I can’t find much out about WestWind:

“The WestWind Foundation does not produce an annual report or other publications. As such, any and all information about the foundation's programs are contained on this site. Please note that the foundation will not be accepting Letters of Inquiry for the 2010 grant cycle. All proposals will be by invitation only.”

What is the purpose of these big foundations with all of this money? Well, you can read and decide for yourself, but in my view, first they can hide behind each other and the chain of smaller organizations they fund; most notably, it becomes difficult to follow the money trail to the top. For example, once you do some research, they have formed foundation after foundation, making it difficult to track where and who the MONEY MASTERS are. The Money Masters are the ones who wreak havoc on society and the environment (and allow their cronies to do the same) and then set up or support these little foundations (that hide the big money) and give out crumbs (token money) to make it look like they are doing something worthwhile. CREATE A HUGE DISASTER and then pretend to try and fix it so they look good. Everything they do to “help” fix their damage is TOKENISM and they know it’s not even going to make a dent. They are set on destroying you, me, and billions of people around the world, destroying our environment, making our lives miserable, forcing us all to have very little to nothing and be enslaved to them – all so they can have all of the money and the power.  I have not begun to show the big picture of these evil people controlling the world – but I can say,  Welcome to the New World Order. And we are all part of the problem unless we break free.

Taking Facebook Back
Web activism is a very good way to make use of what little power we still have through technology. I am a little upset that the corporate sector and all of those fake “do good” organizations that are really controlled by the Money Masters are taking over Facebook. What shall we do about it? And then it hit me. We speak truth. We delve into the research and find out who is REALLY behind those organizations, such as Appalachian Voices in the discussion above and we open the conversation to expose a whole new reality to the whole facebook world!!! What a concept. Wait until that one catches on. If organizations choose to censor their facebook accounts to curtail the dialogue, they will lose all credibility with the very people they are trying to reach….oh, this could be very good.
 

I should note that I have had an extremely distressing past few days because my son was seriously injured on the job -- his very first job since finishing high school and he has been working less than a month. What a wonderful introduction to slavery. Because I've been dealing with this (sleuthing in the wildwood, even), my Master Teacher told me not to worry about the blog today. What is so frustrating is that my son was injured because people who dole out instructions do not know the WHY behind those instructions. If they knew the why, they would better know how to give the right instructions and explain the why to the people they are responsible for. I am not a happy mother and they have not heard the last words from me.

Since my Master Teacher did not give me a song today, I am going to ask him right now. I would really like an uplifting song. It’s been a very rough few days for many reasons.

The clue is “how blessed thou art who work for the big boss” and it brought up this VERY depressing music video. I guess my teacher wants me to know that I really do not have things so bad after all -- things could be worse, as this video depicts.

[Official music Video] What have we done - Illslick&NUKIE.P Feat. Michael Jackson. [HD]