Remain In Light

I've been listening to the Talking Heads lately, specifically the CD "Remain In Light".  There's a lot of hidden wisdom in the lyrics of these songs, and as a fellow starseed, I appreciate all that the Heads have brought forth.  Consider these lyrics in the song "Houses In Motion":

For a long time I felt without style or grace
Wearing shoes with no socks in cold weather
I knew my heart was in the right place
I knew I'd be able to do these things.

And as we watch him digging his own grave
It was important to know that was where he's at
He can't afford to stop......that is what he believes
He'll keep on digging for a thousand years.


These words strike a chord of resonance with me.  For a long time I've felt like a stranger in a strange land, an outsider with little interest in playing the "game" of western world, consumer / industrial military complex paradigm.  I looked in the faces of the folks who have finished playing that game, now retired.  They did not look content.  They did not look genuinely happy.  They looked tired.  Similar to what David Byrne sings in this song however, I knew my heart was in the right place.  I held myself in a state of sovereignty, in the world but not of it.  I knew that someday what I have deep within me will be brought forth and valued.  It is not of the old paradigm.
 
The next verse in the song is epic.  This can relate to so much in today's world, and I'll name a few that come to mind:  the paper/ponzi economy in which the few manipulate the many, petroleum based transportation, highly esteemed companies manufacturing weapons of mass destruction (right here in the good ole US of A), "franken-foods" and the proliferation of mutant crops and artificial food, the pharmaceutical industry's complete dominance of media, government, and mass psychology, world leaders acting like third graders (if you bomb me, I'll bomb you with a BIGGER bomb!), etc, etc, etc ad nauseum.  Let's look at how these old paradigm pillars are doing these days.

The paper/ponzi economy has been worn thin, with cracks visible and many people now seeing through the viel.  It is being held together by quantitative easing, a fancy name for creating money (more paper) out of thin air (Mr Ponzi would be proud).  Countries are being taken over by the IMF (international monetary (paper) fund), their citizens being taken for a ride.  Foreclosuregate has hit the mainstream, with evidence being provided showing the big banks and brokerage houses colluding with other paper entities to speculate, leverage, and flat out break the law.  Those same big banks and brokerage houses have also been proven to have bet that the real estate bubble was going to pop.  Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.  So the paper/ponzi economy is being exposed for the fraud that it is.

While petroleum based transportation is still in vogue on this planet, I'll go out on a limb and say that within the next 10 years we will see a huge transition to electric, hydrogen, natural gas, and compressed air forms of transportation.  The gulf oil spill has awakened a lot of people to the dangers of a petroleum based infrastructure.  What the gulf oil spill failed to do, the rising price of oil will do.  In America gasoline is much cheaper than in Europe.  This will not always be the case.  As the paper economy implodes, taking with it the world reserve currency (the dollar), we will see oil prices in dollars rise.  There is simply too much paper chasing a finite commodity.  This is not rocket science.  The technology exists today to transition to clean fuels, yet it is being stuffed under the carpet by those powers that have grown giant during the past hundred years as the petrol industry took off.  This will shift.  The gulf oil spill is a blessing in a sticky disguise.

The highly esteemed companies which still produce weapons of mass destruction are doing fine business these days.  Consider that for every weapon brought into existence, it will have impetus to fulfill it's role for being.  Bombs are not manufactured to sit idle on shelves.  One wonders if the reason the US military has bases in over 130 countries world wide is because US weapons manufacturers need to sell their goods.  I don't know how this one is going to work out, but we can clearly see that they are digging their own grave.  In the Bible it says that he(she) who lives by the sword also dies by the sword.  Think about this before supporting the next war.

The US is the world's testing ground for GMO products and other "franken-foods".  Look around you at the state of the people in the US.  Are the majority of them vibrant, healthy, and fit?  What are they filling their shopping carts up with?  A lot of sovereignty is lost by succumbing to the standard American diet.  A certain hamburger company is the largest rainforest destroyer on the planet.  They need space to graze their cows.  Mono-cropping requires increasing amounts and concentrations of fertilizer and pesticide/herbicide in order to be effective, while at the same time stripping the soil of all vitality.  People's taste buds have been hijacked by sugars, salt, sweeteners, MSG, and artificial flavors.  Diabetes is on the rise in America and world wide as a result of this.  I do not fault the people, they have no idea of their slavery.  I do however pray for the light to come forward, and try to educate folks whenever I can.  Conveniently, diabetes requires pharmaceutical treatments......and so, on to that industry.

If you watch TV (and I avoid it when possible), you know that pharmaceutical companies sponsor most shows.  The programming is so complete and repetitious that it's bound to be stored in the brain's data centers.  One is consistently advised to "ask your doctor about.......such and such".  Most certainly the AMA and the modern medical establishment are complicit in this.  Like a parasite that slowly destroys the host, the pharmaceutical industry is slowly destroying the sovereignty of the people.  Native peoples maintained their sovereignty by studying herbal medicine, and by passing down knowledge of the natural world through the generations.  They take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing, and thus enjoy a fuller, more authentic lifestyle.  This is in no way medical advice.  I am not recommending anything other than for one to think about what one desires in life and the choices one will make and who those choices are going to benefit.  Personally, I was diagnosed with asthma early in life and put on a myriad of pharmaceutical drugs.  I also had psoriasis and used expensive creams.   The doctors told me that it was a slim chance that I would outgrow my asthma and psoriasis.  Until I was old enough to think for myself, I went along with this program.  I played the "victim" of these dreaded diseases.  Alas, I had the wit to stop taking all drugs.  I researched herbs, took yoga, and have been asthma and psoriasis free ever since.  Maybe it was coincidence, maybe I'm just lucky, or maybe the drugs and programming kept me in a "condition" that was beneficial to certain giant conglomerates.  Who's to say?  What I WILL say though is that I am extremely grateful to be off ALL drugs, not having taken a pill in over 20 years.

As for the world leaders acting like third graders (and thankfully not ALL of them do this), I'm almost embarrassed to be part of a world community in which the people give power to the "president", "prime minister", or "king/queen" to wage war against other countries.  This is unacceptable.  Quoting the Bible again we find, "by their fruits ye shall know them."  Waging unjust wars or playing police force for the world is a bitter fruit indeed.  It's time for leaders with wit, integrity, and the courage to say NO to the industrial military complex.

I saw a New Hampshire license plate today proclaiming, "Live Free or Die".  In order to live free, to retain our sovereignty, we need to make proper choices.  The journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step, so let us not be intimidated by the journey ahead of us.  The first step is right in front of you.  In the song David sings, "It was important to know that was where he's at;  he can't afford to stop......that is what he believes".  We don't have to identify ourselves with the "him" of this song.  We stand outside, in our sovereignty, knowing that "he" can't afford to stop digging, according to his own belief.  Does "he(she) who lives by the sword also dies by the sword" make more sense now?  Lay down your swords.

Remain In Light.

Peace.