{"id":424,"date":"2019-01-01T15:16:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T20:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/?p=424"},"modified":"2019-01-01T15:20:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T20:20:32","slug":"2018-the-year-of-illumination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/2018-the-year-of-illumination\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 — The Year of Illumination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For me, 2018 was the year of illumination. If you add\n2+0+1+8 you get the master number 11, which in numerology means illumination or\nrevelation. It wasn’t anything I was expecting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life is hard sometimes because it’s impossible to know\nwhat’s going to happen next. You can make \ndetailed plans but those plans are linear — step one do this, step two\ndo that, etc. The problem is that life is non-linear. In life there are too\nmany people, too many situations, too many possible variables to keep track of\neverything. People you don’t even know come out of the woodwork and enter your\nproblem space! Life is too complicated to control everything, even though I\nwant to. I won’t elaborate on this because we’ve all experienced it.  So how do you cope?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of people just work harder. When Jay Leno was breaking\ninto the comedy business he wanted to be famous, but it wasn\u2019t happening even\nthough he was working 12 hours a day. His solution? Work 16 hours a day. Well,\nit got him the host of the Tonight show, so maybe working harder is the\nsolution for everyone. But many of us work our butts off and we don’t see\nsuccess like Jay Leno did. Or success at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My solution has always been to think my way through and work\nhard. However, as the Shift gets more and more powerful, that isn’t working for\nme anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Shift<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What is the Shift? It’s a change in human consciousness that\nis sweeping the planet. Even the dullest person can see that change is sweeping\nthe country. People are going bananas, shooting up nightclubs, schools,\nsynagogues, and public gatherings. The polarity in politics has never been more\npronounced. Haters abound on both sides of the political spectrum. No one knows\nwhere the economy is going. No one knows where ANYTHING is going. That which\nhas been predictable is now unpredictable. The rapid pace of change is\nliterally unbalancing people. Uncertainty is the most prevalent theme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is causing this? The only explanation that makes sense\nto me is an esoteric one. You can’t model what’s happening; there are too many\nvariables and they are changing too rapidly. There seems to be no structure to\nthe changes that are occurring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The primary esoteric cycle on this planet is the precession\nof the equinoxes, a 25,772-year wobble of the planet about its axis. The\nancients knew it. In the Mayan calendar it is approximately 5 sequences of 13\nBaktuns, each sequence being approximately 5,128 years. The planet’s wobble is\nalso the subject of prophecy in many cultures. The Mayan Long Count ended on\n(approximately) December 21, 2012, which was the end of a 26-millennia-long\nprecession cycle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens after that? The Shift. The Shift is a long\nprocess in which human consciousness transcends the duality and attains a\nhigher state of awareness. I used to think that this could happen at the speed\nof thought — overnight. But that was a pipe dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s going to take a while. If current events are any\nindication, we have a lot of crap to work through.  Darkness has been the order of the day for\nmillennia. To see this take a cursory glance at the history books! At the end\nof these precession cycles there is a great reckoning. A civilization must deal\nwith its accumulated karma during the previous cycle! Fortunately we made it\npast the end of the precession cycle without destroying ourselves and the\nplanet in a nuclear war. But there is a lot of karmic housecleaning to do\nbefore we can march off into a golden age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When consciousness goes from dark to light there is hope,\nexcitement, and a feeling that things are going to be a lot better. And there\nis also the dark baggage attached to that. The spiritual system on this planet\nvalidates responsibility. That’s what karma is all about. We don’t get to be\nslackers. A magic wand isn\u2019t waved and everything is perfect, that is an\nadolescent idea. Everything we are working through is because, in our past\nlives, we did a lot of dark things. All of it is stored in our Akash, and\nwithin the grids of subtle energy that are part of the earth’s esoteric system.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why? Because it\u2019s a spiritual accounting system; a sort of\nesoteric ledger that validates responsible action. We don\u2019t get away with\nanything because the system tallies everything we do. If we killed or betrayed\nsomeone in a past life, that action is recorded. Karmic energy is created and\nit is entered into the ledger of the soul who incarnated on the planet. When\nthat soul comes back he or she has to pick up the karma that was created in the\npast life and work through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did this esoteric system get established? Through the\nUplift, or the Seeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Uplift<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My understand is that 200,000 years ago, humanity were\nhominids. For some reason this planet was chosen as the site of a great test of\nenergy. The gift of dark and light — the precursor to evolutionary growth —\nwas given to humanity. This is recorded metaphorically in scripture as the\nGarden of Eden and the Tree of Knowledge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our DNA was enhanced. Every life form on this planet has 24\nchromosomes, but humanity has 23. The Seeding, or the Uplift, elevated human\nDNA from hominid to human being. Logically, this could not be accomplished by\nthe low consciousness which existed on the planet at that time. It must have\ncome from a Graduate planet with an advanced race of beings. So our heritage is\nfrom the stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Brin, the SF writer, has this right in his Uplift\nseries of books. Graduate, or high consciousness civilizations, help out their younger\nbrothers and sisters by enhancing their DNA and giving them a shot at higher\nconsciousness. What happens after that is entirely the free choice of the\ninhabitants of the Uplift. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this conception, there is a galaxy out there filled with\nlife, and we are a part of it. We are not alone in the universe, which is an absurd\nand adolescent concept that comes with low consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whichever Graduate race Uplifted us \u2013 your guess is as good\nas mine \u2013 transformed the 24th chromosome \nwith a multidimensional component through an enhancement of human DNA.\nThe planet was also seeded with grids of subtle energy that would record\neverything that occurred during the Great Experiment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do this?  Again,\nto create a spiritual system that validates responsibility. Gaia is a\nparticipant in this system. The planet records the decisions and actions of\nhumanity and cooperates with human consciousness.  Gaia reflects back to humanity, via the law\nof attraction, the state of humanity’s collective consciousness. It’s a good\nsystem. According to Marshall Vian Summers, there are a few Graduate planets in\nthe galaxy; those who have attained a very high consciousness through spiritual\nevolution. But the rest of the galaxy, according to Summers, is like earth\nexcept with advanced galactic technology (a la Star Wars). Perhaps this seeding\nof planets is an attempt to raise consciousness in the galaxy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A civilization that stays mired in primitive materialism\nwill never be able to reach the multidimensional spiritual gateway to higher\nconsciousness. The seeded civilization has to recognize that there is something\nbeyond the John and Mary of life (“if I can’t see it it’s not real”),\neven though this spiritual gateway is completely invisible and un-provable.\nThat\u2019s what Old Souls have been doing on the planet for a long time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DNA enhancement of humanity was the responsibility of\nthe Seeders. Whatever galactic technology they used is beyond our\nunderstanding. But the 24th chromosome would have a multidimensional component.\nIt would be the potential connection between a race of hominids with no\nknowledge of esoterics, and the Great Central Source, the creator of all. It is\nwhat is meant by the phrase “God inside.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clearly, during this test, humanity chose the dark side. If\nyou have any self awareness at all \u2013 by that I mean a knowledge of the Light\nwithin you \u2013 you have experienced pushback from the dark. You probably got\ncriticized, taunted, even physically confronted if you expressed your views\nabout spirituality. You were probably perceived as \u201cdifferent.\u201d Many of us\nlearned to shut up and not push too hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, despite all that we made it past the extinction events,\nwe made it past the December 21, 2012 marker. So what\u2019s next? The Shift to\nhigher consciousness. We\u2019re in it now! To understand this,  just look around. Try to talk politics to\nsomeone. Whew! Opinions have hardened. The false dichotomy is Liberal vs Conservative,\nLeft vs Right. That\u2019s what the mainstream media promotes. The true dichotomy is\nbetween love and hate, tolerance and intolerance. There is hate and love on\nboth sides. We have to choose in a way we never thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So \u2013 the Shift is the great battle at the end of the world\nbetween hate and love. More and more people are discovering the Light within\nthem, but those who have many lifetimes on earth are also discovering the\ndarkness that accompanies it. We are now in the window between the second\nprecession cycle and the beginning of the third.  It all began in Lemuria over 50,000 years ago\n(before that homo sapiens was just evolving from hominid to human being). After\nthe fall of Lemuria many other civilizations rose and fell during the second\nprecession cycle. Most of these will never be discovered. Our present\ncivilization began about 18,000 years ago after the last ice age. We made it.\nWe are now in a short 36-year (or thereabouts) period after the second\nprecession cycle. Whatever humanity decides collectively will set the stage for\nthe next 25,772-year cycle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the time we are in is a really big deal folks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Shift is causing people to choose between love and\ntolerance over hatred and intolerance. The Shift is being framed, falsely, by\nthe media as a Trump-Clinton dichotomy, or a Democrat-Republican conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Head vs Heart, Intellect vs Intuition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

 As the Shift proceeds\nit is creating a chaotic situation where the parameters of the old system recede\nand new potentials arise. Many people don\u2019t recognize this, they are simply\nliving their lives and not questioning anything. But old souls are having a\nharder time of it. If you are reading this you are almost certainly an old\nsoul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In quantum physics a system can be described as a\nsuperposition of potential states, any of which could manifest. When a system evolves\nit settles into a new set of parameters, which then manifest a different\nphysical nature or structure. The beginning of a system shift always involves a\nperiod of chaos, in which many of the superposed states are presented for\ninspection. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening now. Current events are chaotic, if you\nhaven\u2019t noticed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me personally, I used to get by being cerebral and\nworking hard, but this is not working for me anymore. In fact, my life right\nnow is at a complete standstill. A lot of blackness has descended on me during\nthe last few months. After a lot of meditation I figured out that this\nblackness wasn\u2019t some outside force \u2013 it was my own Akash trying to clear. The\nlonger you have been on the planet, the more karma you have to clear. The time\nit takes to clear is time dependent. How many lifetimes have you had? What shit\nhave you been involved in? That\u2019s what determines the strength and duration of\nyour clearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have no idea how long this is going to take for me but at\nleast now I have an understanding of why and how. I told you I was cerebral and\nfor me it\u2019s important to understand why stuff happens. God understands\neverything and all of us carry a little piece of God within us. The desire for\nunderstanding is a divine impulse! You may not feel this way and if not, the\nShift is probably going to be easier for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my meditation last night I discovered the difference\nbetween intuition and the intellect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human beings exist in a body-mind-spirit framework. The\nbrain, the mind, the intellect and the ego are all linear systems. You have a\nproblem, you analyze the problem, you take step by step action to solve the\nproblem. The idea that intuition could be involved in solving life problems doesn\u2019t\nreally occur to the intellect, or to any linear system, because it is\nillogical. \u201cI\u2019m going to use intuition to solve my problem,\u201d you say to the\nbrain. The brain responds, \u201cWTF are you talking about? Identify the problem and\nuse logic to solve it. Make a plan.\u201d To a linear system, a non-linear solution is\nnot comprehensible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as the body goes, the body is just focused on its\nneeds and desires. The body can get in the way of intuitive understanding if\nthe person is focused primarily on the body\u2019s needs and desires. That’s where a\nlot of people are at right now. Just watch TV and media for a little while!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The heart understands intuition and love because it is the\nseat of intuition and love. The heart is the key to spiritual understanding. In\nmy clearing sessions I place my attention in the heart chakra and I don\u2019t\nattempt to analyze how or why I am feeling the way I am. Logically, there is no\nreason whatsoever for me to feel bad about anything. I have a great life! But if\nthat is so, then why do I feel so crummy? The explanation is non-linear and\nesoteric. It doesn\u2019t involve psychology or the standard self-help formulas. The\nclearing of the Akash goes way, way beyond these simplistic explanations that\nonly involve the current life, and it applies primarily to old souls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The heart is the seat of intuition and non-linearity. So\nwhenever the darkness comes in I power up the heart chakra and send pulses of\nlove to the rest of the body, especially the head. (I’ve noticed something\ninteresting: I always feel the darkness center around the head.)  Everything seems to calm down. When I realized\nthis it was in a flash of understanding; a kind of illumination. \u201cHey brain,\nhey mind, you don\u2019t have the tools or the understanding to deal with what is\nhappening. Stand down.\u201d That doesn\u2019t go over well with the part of me \u2013 the\nlinear part \u2013 which thinks it\u2019s really stupid and that it will never work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I realized I had become cerebral because of my upbringing. I\nwas raised Catholic. My father was very devout. When I looked at the images of\nthe saints and other holy figures, they always had halos. Look at these\nrepresentative pictures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"StNicholasHalo.jpg\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"StMaryHalo.jpg\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"ChristHalo.jpg\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

St. Nicholas, St. Mary, Christ<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The halos of these holy figures surround the head. So, the\nhead must be the most important bit if you want to advance spiritually, right?\nAfter all, the head contains the pineal gland, the organ that transmits the\nesoteric, sacred energies into the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s things like this that slip inside your box of beliefs.\nYour parents tell you something, you read something in a college textbook or in\na sacred text, you hear something from a respected scientist or a spiritual\nleader or a mentor. You don\u2019t think about it, but it becomes part of your\nbelief system. Then you begin operating on those assumptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea that \u201cspiritual advancement comes from the head\u201d\nthus entered my box of beliefs. But I have discovered that those halos should\nreally be centered in the heart area, and encompass the entire body not just\nthe head. The head \u2013  the mind, the\nintellect \u2013  is linear, and there is a\nplace for that. We use the brain and the mind to negotiate through daily life.\nWe need it. But now my life is changing in ways I never thought it would\nbecause of the Shift. I need something more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intuition is Non-linear<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What I have been doing for the past several months while all\nof this was going on, is trying to guide my life only by intuition. For my\ncerebral, linear personality this has caused a ton of worry and anxiety. \u201cBut\nhow are you going to make money? What are you going to do? We need a plan!!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I haven\u2019t got a plan. But my old life is now going away,\nit’s a weird feeling. The old linear ways of thinking and planning just feel\nwrong. The answer to these questions of life is, for me right now, \u201cI don\u2019t\nknow. It will all work out. I\u2019m trusting my intuition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not good enough,\u201d the mind says. \u201cWhat are you, a\nspace cadet? Get your act together fool!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suppose you could call this a “mid-life crisis.”\nBut it’s not. I’m 67 years old now, my mid-life crises are all behind me. Been\nthere, done that. No, this is something much more profound. It’s part of the\nyear of illumination for me. Apparently I’m headed off on another life path,\nbut right now I haven’t a clue what it is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently the new life path has to do with clearing my\nAkash. The exciting thing is that during this clearing of darkness, whenever I\nfollow my intuition I get excited and a feeling of certainty happens as long as\nI am doing action cycles associated with my intuitive guidance.  It makes no sense logically. But gradually,\nover the months, I am learning to trust my intuition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a writer. I was sitting at my desk last August when I\nbecame inspired to do some more research on the geometry\/math textbook I wrote\nsome years ago. \u201cWrite up a research paper about the truncated icosahedron\n(soccer ball) and add it to your book,\u201d my intuition told me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhere did this come from?\u201d my brain asks. \u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJust do it,\u201d my intuition says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I begin to work every day on analyzing this polyhedron (a\npolyhedron is a geometric solid like the cube. These geometric designs are\nfound in nature and in mathematics and in sacred geometry). About two weeks\nlater I get a call from a guy who has read my book. He says, \u201cI am a curriculum\ndeveloper. I have some high level contacts at several universities. I want to\ncreate a college course using your book.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, you could have knocked me down with a feather. Where\ndid this guy come from? I wondered. I look him up and remember he communicated\nwith me a few years ago about the book. So that\u2019s coincidence, right? My\nintellect says, in its linear fashion, \u201cYou got lucky. You can\u2019t run your life\nlike this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two weeks later I finish the new paper and add it to the\nbook. My intuition then says, \u201cRewrite some of the chapters for greater\nclarity.\u201d I start on that and the curriculum developer calls me again, saying\nhe is developing a plan to get the book in a college course. I\u2019m thinking,\n\u201cWow, that\u2019s another coincidence.\u201d We have another conversation and start\ntalking about what we are going to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six weeks later I get another intuitive flash. \u201cScalar\nVector Graphics. Create your book using SVG images so they look really good and\ncan be studied easier by students.\u201d Scalar vector graphics are mathematical\nobjects, not pixels. So you can make SVG images as large as you want with no\nloss of resolution. SVG graphics look sharp and clear no matter how big they\nget. In my book this is important because I am doing a detailed analysis of\nthese polyhedra. I have a lot of diagrams that show the guts of these polyhedra.\nI need sharp, clear images so people can understand how these things are built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It takes me another month to do that because I have to learn\nhow to do it, and there are 170 images in the book. Then my intuition says,\n\u201cMake all of the sections of your book, and the images,  linkable.\u201d That takes me another two weeks. It\nis now the middle of December and I have been working on this every day for 8\nto 10 hours since the middle of August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile I am not working, I have no money coming in, and\nmy brain is freaking out. \u201cWTF are you doing!!! Get off your butt and find some\nwork!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My intuition tells me to relax. \u201cComplete your book, don\u2019t\ndo anything until the end of December. \u201c So now it\u2019s almost the end of\nDecember. My life is still up in the air. \u201cHow is this going to turn out?\u201d my\nlinear brain says. My intuition says, \u201cStop worrying. After you finish this\ngeometry book finish up your latest novel.\u201d Last year (2017) I started writing\na novel called The Old Soul<\/em>. But I dropped\nit in 2018 because I couldn’t figure out how to end it. So now I’m working on\nthat and it’s the end of December. Bills are coming in and the brain is getting\nworried. My intuition tells me to relax. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m realizing that there IS a multidimensional component to\nlife. I’m experiencing this in my meditations and in my life now. It\u2019s not\nlogical, it\u2019s not  understandable to the\nbrain.  It\u2019s the law of attraction, which\nI wrote about in my book The Vibrational\nUniverse.<\/em> The law of attraction is a wonderful, helpful concept that I have\nbeen using for a long time. But now I\u2019m finding that my old life, for some\nreason, is over. Probably because of the meditations and visualizations I have\nbeen doing over the past year, during this year of illumination. Some of these\nmeditations have been very powerful. Now my life is changing in unexpected\nways. Now I have to trust that the things I have been asking for will come. I\nam ready to grab any opportunity. But it\u2019s a little scary not knowing how or\nwhen things will turn around. The process, I am beginning to realize, is\nnon-linear. So by definition I can\u2019t figure it out with my intellect. I have a\nfeeling that artists and creative people live their lives like this, but I am\nnot used to it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I say to myself, \u201cI don\u2019t know where I\u2019m going or how it\nwill turn out, but I trust that the universe is benevolent and that my\nintuition will guide me to the right place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whew! That really doesn\u2019t appeal to my linear personality at\nall. But I\u2019m learning. It really is a different way to live. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s my report for this month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy New Year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Events Update<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wow \u2013 the bullshit from the media is reaching epic\nproportions. Let\u2019s take a step back and figure out what is really happening. In\nthe first place, the reason for the \u201cWall\u201d nonsense at the end of December 2018\nhas little to do with the current government shutdown. Trump can build it, and\nis building it, from monies already appropriated. There is a parallel\nnegotiation going on between the Republicans and the Democrats and it involves\nInspector General Horowitz and his assistant John Huber, who have 470 trained\nDOJ investigators looking into corruption. The Democrats tell Trump to shove it\nby refusing to appropriate money for his Wall. Trump counters by instituting a\nlong government shutdown, thus making the Democrats’ victory in the House\nhollow as long as the govt is shutdown. But not to worry folks! Congress\nalready passed a law  that guarantees the\nsalaries of lawmakers during the shutdown, even though Federal workers and\ntheir own staffers don’t get paid! How’s  that for democracy! (Federal workers will get\npaid for the time the govt is shutdown anyway. They just don’t get the money\nuntil the government shutdown is over). There are other factors involved as well,\ntoo complicated to discuss here. There are deeper forces at work than the\ndebate over a stupid wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019 there is probably going to be a financial reset for\nthe entire planet. The current financial system hasn\u2019t been working for a long\ntime.  This is going to cause turmoil in\nthe markets, it\u2019s already begun in the anticipation of this. The market has\nbeen jumping wildly because investors get spooked by every announcement from\nthe Fed, or an event that gets blown out of proportion by the media, or  a Trump tweet.  According to Benjamin Fulford (who is\nsometimes way off base but gets it right a lot of the time) a decision has been\nmade at the highest levels of world power to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem\nand turn that city into an international free zone.  This is why, along with the financial reset,\n2019 is likely to be a year of great change. The Jerusalem free zone will\n(hopefully) be the precursor for a permanent solution to the intractable Middle\nEast problem. But there will probably be a lot of insanity during that process\nas unbalanced people on both sides overreact!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Meanwhile the do-nothings\nin Congress will be trying to impeach Trump (in the Democratic House) or investigating\nDemocratic corruption (in the Republican Senate). The fact is that there\nare  thousands of sealed proceedings\nsitting at the Department of Justice right now (see pacer.gov for a\nstate-by-state list). Inspector General Horowitz and his assistant John Huber\nhave been compiling indictments against criminals all over the country,\nincluding politicians from both parties. (The IG has over 470 trained\ninvestigators, in comparison to Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s pathetic 15.\nThe Mueller report will be an afterthought, but it will be blown (as usual) out\nof proportion to its real significance by the media.) Why do you think so many politicians\nhave resigned or have decided not to run again during 2018? Almost all of the\ngerrymandered Congressional districts in the US are shoo-ins for incumbents. The\nreason these people are resigning or not running again is that most of them are\ncrooks, and Horowitz and Huber have the goods on them. In exchange for their\ncooperation, they are being allowed to walk quietly off into the sunset. I\nposted a list of these politicians in one of December\u2019s posts. There will probably\nbe more in 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019 will also see many of these sealed indictments go\npublic. It will be interesting to see who is named and what is revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hating on Trump or the Clintons, or  Democrats or Republicans, will not get us\nwhere we want to go. Hate will drag us down. I have turned off the news. I read\na few sites I trust, very briefly. True journalism is dead because 99% of the\nmedia (on both sides) have an agenda. For example, here are two headlines from\nthe Washington Post. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"WashPostHeadlines.jpg\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why is Trump pulling troops out of Syria? Why is he going to\npull our military out of Afghanistan? Why did he negotiate peace with Kim\nJong-Un and President Xi of China so we can get our troops out of the Korean\nPeninsula? Because the people who want them there, fighting and creating\ntension, are the same people whose agenda is endless war and the protection of\ntheir worldwide corporate interests. Just as the conservative Nixon was the\nonly guy who could make overtures to Red China back in 1972, so too it is the\nmilitary-friendly Trump who has the cred to bring our troops home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s about time!!!! Personally I’m all in favor. The US\nshouldn’t be the world’s policeman for a corporate fascist state run by elites\nthat look out only for their own interests.  Those who truly want peace will support\nTrump’s withdrawal of U.S. troops. Those who don’t will bullshit about\n“maintaining alliances” and “terrorist threats.” That’s old\nenergy talk for, “We want the world to stay the same so we can continue to\nexercise our influence.” You can tell who’s for peace and who isn’t by\nreading and listening. The Post, <\/em>for\nexample, is owned by Jeff “CIA” Bezos. The CIA is a wonderful organization\nknown across the planet for its peaceful pursuits and its integrity!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides, the US has been bankrupt for many years. We can’t afford troops all over the world. I don’t understand anyone’s objection to this. The Post<\/em> is totally wrong about this, IMO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My advice: Turn off the \u201cnews\u201d and meditate instead. Find\nthe God within. Be nice to yourself, your family, your neighbors, and your\nco-workers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s make 2019 a year of light!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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