Monday, October 17, 2011

POWER AND MONEY

Hillary Clinton said in a speech Friday that in today’s world, economic power matters more than military might; consider this: the United States is the sole global military power, and yet our influence is waning.

Ancient Rome was known for their sword (the blessing to Esua, twin brother of Yaakov progenitor of the 12 Jewish Tribes, was to live by the sword) and their coin, the coin of Rome. All roads lead to Rome because that is where the money is – the basis of money.

Money used to be backed up by gold, a raw precious metal that could be implemented, but our money is only based on promises from a government trillion of dollars in debt. What makes these governments so sure of themselves is the Roman religion – Christianity.

Religion, also makes promises they can not keep. After the Tech Bubble and after the Real-estate Bubble is the Reality Bubble; the previous reality woven by religion and substantiated by power-economics is soon going to burst, to be replaced by a bright future.

As the Sword of Rome, dulled by too much use, retires and the coin of Rome, with tarnished reputation, shrivels in worth and the assurance of religion lands on the deaf ears of the illiterate, something beautiful is being born before our eyes, as witness to the future.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

THE PEDOPHILE PRIEST

The first U.S. bishop criminally charged with sheltering an abusive clergyman has been accused of failing to protect children after he and his diocese waited five months to tell police about hundreds of images of child pornography discovered on a priest's computer.

Religion, for a long time, has taken the arrogant position of being above the law; while others suffer, they pay no taxes on their vast holdings and investments – religion is the biggest landowner in the world. Religion sells heaven by exploiting God.

Arrogance leads to improper action; arrogance justifies all actions – religion gives but only to their own. The stork, in Hebrew is called Chasida from the word Chesed/Kindness, yet it is not kosher because the stork gives kindness to their community, but not to others.

Religion always wants their dues for the services rendered; from birth to death religion is there with their hand out. There is no word in the ancient languages, Hebrew, Arabic and Sanskrit for religion; organizations become religious for the tax break.

Religion is a paper tiger, a house of cards ready to fall because they lack foundation; if they actually read the books they espouse perhaps they would not be as they are. Religion is akin to the Tents of Korach that God swallowed into the earth and they were gone.

OCCUPY THE WORLD

The Occupy Wall Street movement and its We Are the 99 Percent theme went global today with protests springing up in Japan, China, Europe, and Mexico, as well as numerous U.S. cities, including New York City and Los Angeles.

The world-wide birth process promised in the Torah is happening; the Jewish People know this 3500 year-old promise as, Moshiach/Oil Pourer, but Moshiach comes for the entire world. Moshiach brings the world into the seventh millennium – the thousand years of peace.

Birth causes the senses to open and the mouth to breath air into the lungs, as the Talmud-Book of Law maintains, At birth the stomach closes and the mouth opens. The Midrash–Book of Metaphor teaches, The person is a small world; is then the world a big person?

According to the Cabala, everything in creation is formed from the YHVH, this four letter Name referring to God beyond time and space is replicated in the form of the four spiritual worlds prototype to the four elements and emblematic of the human being.

The world is giving birth to a new type of human being who is emerging from 6000 years of human history on planet earth, seeding the soil with the bones of the dead to arise in new bodies, meant to live for a thousand years. Life is pulsing through the earth.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

HAPPY SUCHOT

Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by Hamas fighters more than five years ago, sparking outrage across Israel; now he's set to be freed in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.

This welcomed news coming on the brink of the seven day holiday Suchot/Coverings also knows as the Celebration of the Tents. Beginning tonight the Jewish People throughout the world leave the confines of their homes and for seven days dwell in a hut thatched with palm.

The Mitzvah/Commandment of Suchot is the only one of the 613 Commandments that is entered; once inside the Sucah, the palm, the myrtle and the willow are combined with the Etrog (a unique citrus from the Middle East) and shaken in all four direct plus up and down.

The Cabala explains, the holiday of Suchot, which comes four days after the completion the Ten Days of Repentance (Rosh HaShana to Yom Kippur) draws down the blessings prepared at the conclusion of the Ten Days when the Shofar/Ram's Horn is sounded breaking the fast.

The greatest blessing is our children; to bring one home after five years of cruel captivity is a joyous event. The seven days of Suchot are known as Yomin Simchatanu/Days of Our Happiness; happiness derives from the pleasure of revealing that which was hidden.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

BIG MOUNTAIN

A new image from a NASA spacecraft has shone a light on a massive mountain taller than anything on Earth rising up from the south pole of the huge asteroid Vesta.

According to scientists a big bang produced all this extraordinary rubble, but according to the Zohar-Book of Secret the creation of the universe came about through a contraction within the OreAinSof/LightWithoutEnd, making a place for time and space.

The Cabala explains how within the Hard Light were specks of hiddenness called Atzmot Atzmoto/Essence of Essence; when the light was removed these specks smoldering at a slow boil, pockmarking the surface of cooling globs of condensing essence into matter.

The reason why matter conveys essence better than spirit is because God's Will can be accomplished in the physical realm, called Mitzvot/Commandments. There are 613 Commandments given to the Jewish People and Seven Commandments given to the other nations of the World.

Each bit of creation, particularly within the confines of our Solar System, are congealed essence that existed previously embedded with the OreAinSof/LightWithoutEnd. From the quark, to the atom, to the universe – there is not bit of matter, big or small, that has no meaning.

Monday, October 10, 2011

PIONEERING LIGHT

Steve Jobs, the legendary co-founder of Apple spoke about his youthful experiments with psychedelics, Doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life; hallucinogenics liberate human thought from the prison of the mind.

According to the Cabala, the world is evolving from substance into form by bringing spiritual reality down to the Earth; the mind is the portal of into heaven – the mind propels consciousness into the infinite, because all things are possible within the mind.

For six thousand years the soul has fed the earth; ideas put forth from the mind were concerned with conquering the environment – in the future, according to the Zohar-Book of Secret, the earth will feed the soul through the refinement of the atoms of the earth.

Being able to manipulate atoms to produce toys for the earthlings is the opposite of idol worship that manipulates the heavens into giving miracles stolen from God. The soul is replenished and brought higher in heaven by using spiritual knowledge to imbue life.

The mind is the fulcrum between heaven and earth; LSD, according to Timothy Leary, is the key to the door but once the door is opened then the person needs to walk through the opening and into the light. Steve Jobs was a pioneer into the world of light and imagination.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

THE DREAM ACT

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the California Dream Act allowing illegal immigrants to apply for state-funded scholarships and aid at state universities.

In the Torah there is a law called the Ger Tashav/ Dwelling Stranger, one who wants to live on the land with the Jewish People but does not want to be Jewish; the Jewish People are obligated to bring the Ger into the land and share with them all the Jewish holidays.

The Jewish People are meant to be, Light unto the nations and it is considered a privilege to share with the nations our ways and our knowledge. The Jewish People are meant to be an example for other nations to follow – for example, how to be nice to the immigrant.

Before the modern world, people were valued and immigration was encouraged; today, because of technology, the value of people has decreased to the point of being chaff before rich wheat. Who we have become needs to be reevaluated and reworked.

As the New Year of 5772 begins it is prudent to remember the meaning of 72, the essence of the human being, according to the Cabala; the time is ripe for a change – revolution need not be violent or disruptive, but it needs to be smart and spiritually connected.