The Demise of Globalism

There is a silver lining to every dark cloud. If we have gained anything from the coronavirus outbreak and quarantine it is the imminent demise of globalism. Globalism, as a concept, is being destroyed across the globe by the coronavirus. Globalism, in and of itself, is not a bad thing. It's really not a bad idea that people stop seeing themselves as separated by things like artificial borders, the country they belong to, ethnicity, religion, skin color, culture, or other socio-economic circumstances. It would really be a good idea for all of us to see ourselves as members of one unified humanity, sharing one planet together. From that perspective, globalism is a beautiful thing, a perfect uptopian ideal. One world, one humanity.

But globalism, as it has been implemented on planet earth, as it continues to be pushed for, is driven as a political agenda by an elite few that we refer to as the dark cabal or the Illuminati. The bloodline families that are running the planet behind the scenes have been powerfully pushing for globalization because it is the linchpin in their plan for world domination. You cannot dominate a planet that's fragmented by borders - where you have to persuade local governments to do things.

The European Union was a very interesting exercise in globalism. It began as an effort to convince the people of many nations that it was in their best interests for them to open their markets and borders to each other. It started really as just a European common market. And then it slowly expanded from being just a common market to more and more common laws being made, not by elected officials, but by bureaucrats who believed they were wiser than the people of each nation in the union. Thanks to Brexit and other changes, the European Union plan is falling apart. Europe was the template or model that was to be used across all nations to make one world. Conceptually, it sounds good, until you learn that it is administered by unelected officials who are nothing more than bureaucrats that get their marching orders from the dark cabal.

With the coronavirus, it becomes immediately apparent that it's not a good idea to have, for example, all of America's manufacturing in China. If we import all of our surgical masks from China, and China stops exporting its masks, we quickly learned that we're in trouble. Just extend that idea to everything else. It's really not a good idea to have such substantial power in the hands of a foreign nation, if you're trying to look after your own people, trying to look after your own nation. So, for an unrelated reason, globalism is dying and that's a good thing. Even better, as nations awaken to the need for their own sovereignty, the agenda of the cabal is being taken down.

Keep Your Eye on this Mover

Some Republicans are starting to use the term "fake science" to describe what they see as a globalist attempt to shut down the economy and benefit Big Pharma and the government of China. The most articulate advocate of this point of view is Shiva Ayyadurai, a Mumbai-born and U.S.-raised entrepreneur with a PhD in ideological engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His academic research was focused on modelling whole cells. He was also a Fulbright scholar who studied how to integrate traditional medicine in South India with modern biological systems. Ayyadurai is seeking the Republican nomination to run for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts in 2020.

In a video posted on Twitter this weekend, he claimed that the United States has been "at war, politically" as a result of the novel coronavirus. "As an MIT PhD in biological engineering, it's my view that the fear-mongering is really being used to suppress dissent, it's being used to support mandated medicine, and it's being really used to support crashing this economy," Ayyadurai alleged.

He's launched a campaign to persuade U.S. president Donald Trump to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, an immunologist and director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

https://twitter.com/va_shiva/status/1246526633206353921

Ayyadurai has accused Fauci of representing the interests of a wide range of organizations, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Clinton Foundation, the World Health Organization, and the government of China.

According to him, they're all working in concert with Big Pharma, which makes money in three ways: through biomedical devices including diagnostic testing, vaccines, and drugs.

Ayyadurai said in his recent video that drugs aren't paying as great returns nowadays because of lawsuits and the cost of obtaining government approvals.
 

He suggested that this has led the pharmaceutical giants to focus more attention on the two other areas: testing and vaccine development.

"This manufactured fear-mongered crisis—when you actually look at the numbers who've died, about 6,000, 7,000, 10,000, whatever it is—that number is so small compared to the 600,000 people who die from heart disease, the nearly 580,000 people who die from cancer, the 440,000 people who die from medical errors or the other 200,000 people who die from prescription drug issues," Ayyadurai said. "We're taking an issue which has been completely hyped by Fauci to really drive an economic policy that's to the detriment of the American worker."

(According to the worldometer, there have been 68,419 deaths worldwide due to the novel coronavirus, as of this writing, including 9,444 in the United States.)
  

In another video on YouTube, Ayyadurai said that the World Health Organization, which created a diagnostic code for COVID-19, generates royalty revenues from companies that conduct diagnostic tests.

In contrast to government epidemiologists' advice to everyone to practice social distancing and stay at home to block the spread of the novel coronavirus, Ayyadurai argues in favor of "precision and personal" medicine.

In an open letter to Trump last last month, Ayyadurai claimed that there is "no need to shutdown our entire country. There is no need to quarantine all of our citizens."

Instead, Ayyadurai called on Trump to categorize citizens into four groups:

• those who test positive for COVID-19, who should be quarantined and given 400,000 IU of vitamin A palmitate per day for two days and 50,000 IU of vitamin D per day for two days;

• those who are hospitalized and in critical condition, who should receive the same treatments, as well as a 100-gram drip of vitamin C per day;

• those who are immuno-compromised. He thinks children in this group should receive the same levels of vitamin A palmitate and vitamin D as mentioned above, as well as 500 milligrams of vitamin C per day and three drops per drink of iodine/iodide once per day. Adults who are immuno-compromised, in his view, should receive double the dose of vitamin C and iodine/iodide as children;

• and those not in the above three groups, with children receiving 1,000 IU of vitamin A palmitate per day and 2,000 IU of vitamin D per day, along with 250 milligrams of vitamin C and three drops per drink, once a day, of iodine/iodide. He advises that adults in this group consume 10,000 IU of vitamin A palmitate and 5,000 IU of vitamin D per day, along with 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C per day and six drops of iodine/iodide per day.

Healthy individuals based on the above protocol should get back to work immediately, and follow their daily program as aforementioned," Ayyadurai wrote to Trump.

This is the type of advice that is going to drive mainstream doctors and public-health professors into conniptions. But judging by Ayyadurai's social-media following, it is gaining a foothold among libertarian-minded Americans who subscribe to his viewpoint.

In one YouTube interview, Ayyadurai even rejected the widespread view that HIV causes AIDS, also calling this "fake science".

In the same interview, Ayyadurai expressed admiration for molecular and cell biologist Peter Duesberg, who was ostracized by other scientists after publishing a paper in 1987 questioning whether HIV caused AIDS.

Advocates for combination therapy involving antiretroviral drugs, such as Vancouver's Dr. Julio Montaner, have published papers in peer-reviewed journals documenting how these treatments have turned what used to be a terminal condition into a chronic and manageable disease.

Ayyadurai, on the other hand, advocates a "systems approach", which focuses on the immune system.

He describes this system as "complex". To support this, he cited the existence of the innate immune and interferon systems, the adaptive immune system, the microbiome that includes gut bacteria, the virome of nearly 380 trillion viruses, and the gut-brain axis.

According to him, when people have a compromised immune system, the body's defenses overreact and attack its own cells. He has pointed out that this can occur after the immune system detects parts of an invader, like the novel coronavirus, left over somewhere in the body. He called this overreaction a "cytokine storm".

Those with strong immune systems, on the other hand, can manage this, he insisted.

Ayyadurai accused Fauci of not providing the president with sufficient insights into how the immune system operates, leading to public policies that are wrecking the U.S. Economy.

And as this is occurring, he claimed, China will use its vast amounts of U.S. currency to buy up undervalued American assets, including real estate.

This will serve one country: China," Ayyadurai insisted. "China is a country that will profit from this."

As of this writing, Trump has not fired Fauci.  TRUMP KNOWS ALL ABOUT FAUCI.  NO MYSTERY TO TRUMP.  HE IS USING HIM AS A TOOL TO EXPOSE THE DARK AGENDA.

From Straight.com, 07 April 2020

Managing the Viral Outcome

As the coronavirus runs its course and casualties mount, the authorities are becoming better able to manage its course through treatment and prognose an outcome. Any viral outbreak is a threat to public health, but particularly to those with weakened immune systems and those already teetering on death's doorstep from some other health challenge. It is unfortunate that so many are dying, but the circumstances must be kept in perspective. We all die. During the time of this outbreak, fewer people have actually died in the United States than during the same period from all causes during any of the last five years. The disease will run through its cycle, a final body count will be made, we'll take a close look at what we could have done better, and we'll move on. At this time next year, it will be but a memory that we don't think about very often. It came, we survived, we moved on. Other immediate concerns will occupy our attention.

Of greater concern at this juncture, something that is getting less media acknowledgment, is the potential indirect consequences of this outbreak and how it is going to change our lives and the world once it is over. For instance, what is the cost of the fear that the media is seeding in society? When people are fearful, when they fear for their lives, when they fear for their well-being, when they feel that they, their loved ones, their family members, and those they support are at risk, many may respond in violent ways. Riots can happen when people get hungry. When people get scared they riot, they loot, they burn, they do violence. Social upheaval is a very real possibility as a consequence of this virus.

So far there has been enough food to eat. So far the authorities are managing the situation so that people have not reacted with violence. But an economic implosion to some degree is inevitable. It is already apparent. Companies are closing; some will not reopen; people are losing their jobs. The effects of this are going to be felt for a very long time. When people lose employment, they don't just no longer have a job to go to. They don't just lose a salary. They lose all kinds of other things: social networks and a sense of purpose in the world. And when people lose this, when they lose their direction, when they lose income, when they lose their purpose, when they lose their sense of self-value, when they notice economic implosion going on around them, they can lose hope. If enough people lose enough, societal upheaval becomes more of a possibility. This is where the media and the authorities should be placing most of their concern.

As soon as is reasonably possible, we need to return to work and restore as much normalcy in our lives as we can. The longer things are shut down and people are restricted because of this outbreak, the greater the effects of the economic implosion and the greater the risk of societal upheaval through violent reaction.

Einstein on Science and Spirituality

“If we want to improve the world we cannot do it with scientific knowledge but with ideals. Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, and Gandhi have done more for humanity than science has done.

“We must begin with the heart of man—with his conscience—and the values of conscience can only be manifested by selfless service to mankind.

“Religion and science go together. As I’ve said before, science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind. They are interdependent and have a common goal—the search for truth.

“Hence it is absurd for religion to proscribe Galileo or Darwin or other scientists. And it is equally absurd when scientists say that there is no God. The real scientist has faith, which does not mean that he must subscribe to a creed.

“Without religion, there is no charity. The soul given to each of us is moved by the same living spirit that moves the universe.

“I am not a mystic. Trying to find out the laws of nature has nothing to do with mysticism, though in the face of creation I feel very humble. It is as if a spirit is manifest infinitely superior to man’s spirit. Through my pursuit in science, I have known cosmic religious feelings. But I don’t care to be called a mystic.

“I believe that we don’t need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here—to love and to serve.

“I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I’m concerned with this time—here and now.”

“Creation may be spiritual in origin, but that doesn’t mean that everything created is spiritual. How can I explain such things to you? Let us accept the world is a mystery. Nature is neither solely material nor entirely spiritual.

“Man, too, is more than flesh and blood; otherwise, no religions would have been possible. Behind each cause is still another cause; the end or the beginning of all causes has yet to be found.

“If I hadn’t an absolute faith in the harmony of creation, I wouldn’t have tried for thirty years to express it in a mathematical formula. It is only man’s consciousness of what he does with his mind that elevates him above the animals and enables him to become aware of himself and his relationship to the universe.

“I believe that I have cosmic religious feelings. I never could grasp how one could satisfy these feelings by praying to limited objects. The tree outside is life, a statue is dead. The whole of nature is life, and life, as I observe it, rejects a God resembling man.

“Man has infinite dimensions and finds God in his conscience. [A cosmic religion] has no dogma other than teaching man that the universe is rational and that his highest destiny is to ponder it and co-create with its laws.”

What Have We Learned by Staying at Home with our Children?

If we are looking for a silver lining in the coronavirus crisis we may need look no further than our children forced to stay home during this quarantine. For some families, it may be a time of discovery of just how joyful it is to guide our children in learning at home. The manner in which schools have handled the crisis should also be raising suspicions about the efficacy of sending children to public school. By and large, what we have just witnessed is that schools just cut their students loose, without sending home any sort of curriculum or support for families to work with their children during the interim, as if to say “you're on your own until the schools can figure out what they are going to do.”

Why is it that schools don’t know what they’re supposed to be teaching next week? Why is it that we have to wait three or more weeks for them to get their act together so that the teacher can email the student lesson plans? It’s not like an effective medium for communication with the teacher doesn't already exist via email.

A conclusion is beginning to come into mind that our entire approach to education in the United States with its government-funded schools is not getting the job done. And, yet, the system seems very good at this whole college and career readiness idea, where they gear up parents to be prepared to pay a lot of money to colleges. But does college actually even lead most young people to viable careers anymore? Not so much, really, and at an inexcusable cost. So, maybe we need to take a step back, and really rethink our entire approach to educating our children in government schools. The coronavirus – perhaps fortuitously – has provided us not just an opportunity with all this time off, but the impetus to look closer at the means and results of public education.

We need to look first at how government schools have encouraged parents to believe they are not up to the task of educating their own children. Parents are taught that they are incapable. It seems to be an overarching message of our education bureaucracy – to make parents aware of just how inadequate they are, to make them feel uncertain about how well they could actually perform as educators at home.

So many parents accept being denied any input into what their child is taught, or entirely excluded on matters where their child might be struggling with serious issues like pregnancy or gender. The reason parents today may be so complacent is that they’ve been taught, as students, to behave and not question the way thigs are – by the very same system that now demands compliance from them as parents. Whatever school administrators demand, we have learned to comply with, without question. Our children are too precious to sacrifice on the altar of tradition or trained obedience.

The argument is made that by pulling our children out of public schools we deny them adequate socialization opportunities with their peers. But why are we thinking that by sticking our child in a room full of other children of his or her age somehow he or she will magically become socialized? In many public schools, despite policy, children are still being bullied instead of socialized. There are no guarantees that attending a public school means children will become better citizens in society.

What we're talking about here is education, preparation for successful living. We’re not talking about socialization. If our highest desire for our children is education, then socialization must take a back seat to that.

Einstein on Education

“From the age of twelve, I began to suspect authority and distrust teachers. I learned mostly at home, first from my uncle and then from a student who came to eat with us once a week. He would give me books on physics and astronomy.

“School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. Teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.

“This was a Catholic School in Munich. I felt that my thirst for knowledge was being strangled by my teachers; grades were their only measurement. How can a teacher understand youth with such a system?
 

“The more I read, the more puzzled I was by the order of the universe and the disorder of the human mind, by the scientists who didn't agree on the how, the when, or the why of creation.

“I began to suspect everything I was taught. I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.

“The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.

“If we look at this tree outside whose roots search beneath the pavement for water, or a flower which sends its sweet smell to the pollinating bees, or even our own selves and the inner forces that drive us to act, we can see that we all dance to a mysterious tune and the piper who plays this melody from an inscrutible distance – whatever name we give him – Creative Force or God – escapes all book knowledge.”

Einstein on Intuition

For Einstein, insight did not come from logic or mathematics. It came, as it does for artists, from intuition and inspiration. As he told one friend, "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of imagination has meant more to me than any talent for absorbing absolute knowledge." Elaborating, he added, "All great achievements of science must start from intuitive knowledge. I believe in intuition and inspiration.... At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason." Thus, his famous statement that, for creative work in science, "Imagination is more important than knowledge"

“Many people think that the progress of the human race is based on experiences of an empirical, critical nature, but I say that true knowledge is to be had only through a philosophy of deduction. For it is intuition that improves the world, not just following the trodden path of thought.

“Intuition makes us look at unrelated facts and then think about them until they can all be brought under one law. To look for related facts means holding onto what one has instead of searching for new facts.

“Intuition is the father of new knowledge, while empiricism is nothing but an accumulation of old knowledge. Intuition, not intellect, is the ‘open sesame’ of yourself.

“Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition that advances the humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

“I do not need any promise of eternity to be happy. My eternity is now. I hve only one interest: to fulfill my purpose here where I am.

“This purpose is not given to me by my parents or my surroundings. It is induced by some unknown factors. These factors make me a part of eternity.”

Understanding the Hairy Man

Twice in my life I have seen a bigfoot. Each time, the creature I observed was walking away from me – the first time in Pennsylvania near where I live, a mere one hundred yards away; the second time in North Carolina, at a distance in excess of two hundred yards. Each time I was running and got a clear sustained view of a six- to seven-foot tall dark bipedal hairy creature with noticeably broad shoulders and disproportionately long arms hanging down to just above the knees.

In both sightings, the creature vanished from sight in an instant. In the second sighting, because of the distance and the thickness of undergrowth, I will admit that the creature may have quickly stepped off the trail and escaped into the brush. It is the first instance that continues to boggle my imagination to this day.

With the Pennsylvania sighting, the creature was walking with long strides on a paved highway in clear mid-day light inside the white line painted on the edge of the highway. To the right, less than fifty feet away was a broad river with no obstructing brush or debris along its edge other than a few willows. To the left was a steep unclimbable embankment of broken shale rising straight up for most of thirty feet before the slope moderated enough to enable trees to take root. Nothing could climb or jump up this crumbling wall of rock on the left and there was complete visibility on the right.

From the time I spotted the creature until I was standing in its tracks was less than thirty seconds. Stopping for several minutes, I investigated every possibility of escape. Since that time I have run past the same place countless times and continue to conclude that there is no way something that size could escape so quickly given the landscape. It simply disappeared.

There are countless accounts of bigfoots simply disappearing like this. In addition there are a wealth of stories and photographic records of bigfoot tracks simply coming to an end in an open area in the middle of nowhere. In some instances, observers have witnessed the creature literally phasing out of existence right before their eyes. So the big question among bigfoot researchers and curiosity seekers is how these mysterious creatures simply vanish out of view.

There is plenty of speculation about how they may have the ability to pass through portals into another dimension at will, or even raise their vibration enough through frequency modulation so as to appear invisible. It is all very fascinating, but nothing more than quasi-scientific guesswork. What I am more inclined to believe is what empathic scientific researchers have learned from spending years with wild dolphins in their watery home.

Dolphins are purportedly a closer genetic match to humans than apes and chimpanzees. They are our cousins and more like us than different, but different enough to demonstrate perhaps that they have, in many respects, advanced well beyond our current progress along the path of evolution. Like bigfoots, dolphins also have this ability to vanish at will. Because of our growing success at being able to communicate with dolphins, scientists have been able to collect some remarkable answers on this curious topic.

Dolphins perceive what we call portals more like windows in time, or in an interpretation of their language: “the Sometime Place”. They do not dematerialize so much as they enter a temporal timeline. Quantum physicists who study wormholes might call this traversing parallel timelines. Apparently, what we are observing with such disappearances is the merging of temporal timelines. They simply enter dimensions at will that we are unaware of. Our limiting linear-time beliefs do not apply to these creatures, and probably not to a lot of other creatures outside our common experience. Because of their ability to transcend time and space they can drop in or leave whenever it suits them.

Another fascinating possibility is that bigfoots may be able to super-charge the air around them, producing areas of concentrated plasma energy, and then manipulate the area using electromagnetic fields. If they can generate these fields it may not only explain their ability to cloak themselves, but also explain their uncanny ability to “zap” people, causing them to freeze in their tracks, and to disable electronic equipment like cameras and drain batteries. Such a concept is not inconceivable since it is already an established fact that the U.S. military has developed technologies that enable them to cloak, or hide, aircraft and naval vessels from both visual sight and radar.

Can individual humans learn to jump timelines or cloak? It would seem so. Even modern physics admits to the possibility of jumping from one timeline to another. Shamans throughout the ages have demonstrated the ritual ability to disappear or become invisible. A simple search turns up a lot of suggested practices to make this happen. And maybe it already happens frequently in the natural world, usually when someone doesn't expect it – like with all the disappearances in the mysterious triangles all over the world. Just an accounting of all the people who disappear throughout the world every year gives one pause to consider that maybe it's not so exceptional after all - just mysterious or even frightening because of the limitation of our own perception of time and space.

But back to bigfoot – still a mystery in many, if not most, people's minds. Aside from two personal sightings and the personal anecdotes of friends, I have probably had more encounters of one sort or another than most people who take an active interest in the subject.

Most remarkable was a vocal exchange I witnessed in a remote part of Oregon south of Mount Hood at midnight under a full moon – a conversation between two bigfoots – one near me and one at a distance. There were seven vocal exchanges between the two, showing very clear change-ups in inflection and intonation, unevenly spaced, with clear moments of explanation and inquiry. It was a fascinating exchange I recall vividly enough to be able to still imitate.

Aside from seeing plenty of physical evidence and even receiving an answer to my own tree-knocking, I have never seen a bigfoot track in sand or snow. Twice I have been growled at in the early morning hours by something I apparently surprised in the woods. Each time it was clear that I was interrupting something and not welcome. The growls were clearly not canine or feline or ursine as I have been around the usual predators that lurk in the woods my entire life and heard what sounds they make. These guttural sounds were of a lower frequency than I had ever experienced; you could feel the vibration of these growls within your chest. It was a gripping feeling that insured its intent, as in both instances I kept running, but at a quicker tempo, to gain some distance on the unseen force making the growl.

So what do I think bigfoot is? In my opinion, bigfoot is a sapient creature with a good sense of humor, not originally from earth, but a part-time resident here, likely here even longer than we humans. No matter where it is witnessed, I believe bigfoot comes and goes at will from some other place or time. If it is a single species, then it shows variety just like the human species. That includes a variety of temperaments and dispositions as well. Most, I believe, are benevolent, but not all have gentle behavior. You don't want to piss them off. And you don't want to violate their territory.

Genetically, we are certainly related; virtually every life form in the universe that has two legs, two arms, and a face on top is a relative of ours, with genetic encoding that is more similar than different to our own. Bigfoot is not an animal like a bear or a mountain lion or a wolf. It is a sentient being like ourselves with a personality, a playful if not mischievous sense of humor, wide-ranging emotions, and a problem-solving brain. It demonstrates great patience, subtlety, amazing stealth, cautious judgment, and incredible situational awareness. While it may hunt to sustain itself and shit in the woods, it is more of a hairy man of the woods than an ape.

These creatures are very intelligent with many apparent skills that supercede our own. They are reported to have highly developed powers of telepathy and have been able to mindspeak with many humans, just as have dolphins. Bigfoots are almost autistic in their power of memory and attention to organizational detail. Any change in their world is quickly detected. They are hard to trick and masters of camouflage. How else could they have evaded our capture, and notice for the most part, throughout our long cohabitation on this planet?

They are extremely curious about us, especially their children and juveniles, but do not necessarily want to be friends. We think they smell bad and are horrendous in appearance; the perception is probably mutual. Generally, they just want to be left alone.

Given my many years of hunting game animals, I believe bigfoots are expert at reading intention, as most wild animals are. They can sense our presence at a distance, and they instinctively recognize whether our intention is benign or malevolent. They are famous for jamming electromagnetic devices. Game cameras are a waste of time to capture a bigfoot image; they know when cameras are there and either avoid or jam them with some form of electromagnetic energy. If you enter the woods with the intention of finding evidence of bigfoot, they will avoid you, even to the point of not leaving tracks. If you enter their home with an attitude of detachment or acceptance, you are more likely to have a gentle encounter. Taunt them and they can be your worst nightmare. Do not taunt them. Do not attempt to trick them. They will tolerate humans only so far.

Perhaps my best bigfoot story was when I awoke from my tent early one sunny morning at a remote campsite on the Mogollon Rim in Arizona; there were two sun-bleached pelvic bones from a small deer or elk placed carefully just outside the screen door of my tent – placed there during the night by something with a prehensile thumb – either another human or a gentle giant. It was a gift, of sorts. I interpreted the gift as an acknowledgement that I was accepted by the bigfoots there.

Some researchers speculate that there may be only a few thousand bigfoots spread across the globe. I am more inclined to believe they are prolific, that there may be thousands of them in many states, and that they virtually occupy every ecosystem that we do. Chances of a bigfoot encounter may, in fact, be better closer to where we live than in some remote wilderness simply because the food opportunities are much greater closer to civilization. The same goes for any other predator or scavenger.

If you see one creature, it is generally not alone. They don't exist as solitary creatures. Bigfoots have extended family networks, with babies and children, and communities like we do. On one occasion in which I sighted a bigfoot, it was in a fairly populated area, essentially a greenbelt between suburban homes. It was not a random bigfoot just passing through, as evidenced by a large amount of sign of their presence for an entire summer one year, then not thereafter. One need look no further than the greenways, parks, and patches of woods in our own neighborhoods to find an active population likely co-existing right near where we live, mostly out of sight.

I generally accept bigfoot as a part of the world of nature that I spend so much time in; I know the hairy man is there, more often than most believe, and that is okay; I do not fear sharing the woods with another being that just wants to be left alone. If we should ever encounter each other again, I expect it will lead to another good story. If we don't, we will just continue to do our own thing with an accepting acknowledgement of the other. I leave them alone, and they do the same with me. I have the same agreement with bears and rattlesnakes – you don't bite me, I won't shoot you. It is a pact that has worked so far. I refuse to express fear over any unfounded concern for something violating this natural agreement that I have with the world of natural things, seen and unseen. 
 

Opening the Third Eye

The pineal gland or sixth chakra is located deep within the center of the brain and was considered by French philosopher Rene Descartes to be the “seat of the soul.” Mainstream society has long overlooked the pineal gland, but evidence of its multifaceted function is coming to light as the consciousness of the planet rises. The pineal gland has served as a symbol of spirituality, intuition, and clairvoyance in many religious traditions across time. It is often referred to as the “third eye” because it possesses a lens, cornea, and retina, and has light sensitive internal structures that are similar to the rods and cones of the eyes. Once activated, it allows an individual to perceive into the spiritual realms.

Unfortunately, toxicity in our environment - of our own making - has caused the third eye to calcify and become dormant in most people in the West. An awakening is occurring, however, in which more and more people are rediscovering their third eye abilities as alternative science uncovers what were once well-known mysteries of the sixth chakra.

The primary function of the pineal gland as understood by mainstream science is to produce melatonin during sleep, as well as regulate body temperature and skin coloration, all of which depend upon the presence of light from the sun. Melatonin, a hormone produced from serotonin, is secreted by the pineal gland only in the absence of light, and is responsible for repairing cells, governing circadian rhythms, and eliminating free radicals. Any deficiency in melatonin production is a direct result of atrophy of the pineal gland, which in turn leads to difficulty sleeping and accelerated aging. Many neurological diseases, including autism, Alzheimer's Disease, depression, dementia, anxiety disorder and Parkinson’s disease, have connections to abnormal sleep patterns and are directly linked to pineal gland dysfunction.

The cells of the pineal gland become damaged and calcified due to exposure to electromagnetic radiation, especially while sleeping, like from a digital clock or cell phone left next to the bed at night; or the presence of any light during sleep for that matter. All these interfere with the signals that tell the pineal gland to start producing melatonin. When we have our cellular devices in our bedrooms they are emitting radiation and EMFs which the pineal gland recognizes as light, therefore reducing the production of melatonin, directly impacting our brains, sleep, happiness and spiritual connection.

It doesn’t stop with cell phones. Wifi does the same thing. There have been studies about the stress levels of people with and without WiFi and the data is hands down that WiFi in any form is not good for human health. In a study done in a school environment, children planted seeds near WiFi and other seeds in a non-WiFi area. Guess which seeds never opened? Nonetheless, in this day and age of widespread use of WiFi and cell phones, it doesn’t mean we can’t turn them off at night or leave the phone in the kitchen.

Supplemental melatonin can drastically reduce the rate of pineal atrophy, slow down the aging process, and treat a wide array of diseases by boosting the immune system, allowing the pineal gland to maintain a balanced ratio between melatonin and serotonin levels in the body. Cancer patients have been successfully treated with supplemental melatonin, many seeing a significant improvement in their condition. Even though melatonin is a vastly important part of pineal health, it is not the compound responsible for inducing mystical experiences. That would be DMT, also produced by the pineal gland, the subject of my post of March 8, 2020.

There are many toxins in our food and environment responsible for pineal calcification. Two pervasive substances in modern industrialized nations are aluminum and glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup. These two toxicants work together to induce severe neurological damage. Calcification prevents the pineal gland from functioning correctly and leads to decreased melatonin and DMT production.

Add to that fluoride, mercury, and a plethora of processed foods and you have some idea what our pineal glands are up against. Fluoride is found in toothpaste and most of America’s water supply, and is one of the chief causes of pineal calcification. A calcified pineal gland contains the highest concentration of fluoride in the body. Fluoride and mercury have been shown to effect brain function as well, and to even lower IQ. Mercury can be found in vaccines and tooth fillings, and has been linked to the onset of autism in young children. Fluoride can be removed from tap water with filters specifically designed for that, or we can drink spring water. Mercury and other heavy metals can be removed from the body, as well, with supplementation.

Processed foods contain a plethora of additives, chemicals, and artificial compounds that indirectly cause pineal calcification, as well as a host of other health problems. Over half of the standard American diet consists of processed foods. Since their inception in the early 1920's, processed foods have become a staple in many American diets, with Americans consuming 31% more processed food than fresh food.

There are numerous ways to activate and open the third eye; each method can be individualized to suit a person's needs. One of the most widely practiced pineal activation techniques is through meditation. Through the science of neuroplasticity, a person can intentionally rewire their brain. A variety of patients with terminal illnesses have been able to successfully rewire their brains merely through positive intention and deliberate thought.

When a person is awake and alert they are generally in a beta state. When one begins to enter a meditative trance the brain enters alpha, theta, and gamma states, with the latter being the slowest and most conducive for healing. These slower frequencies allow the brain to readily access the field of quantum possibility when an intention is set because the brain is not preoccupied with tasks of daily survival and is able to expand its focus beyond everyday needs. Therefore if a person sets an intention to open their third eye, it can be activated with regular meditation practice.

The use of supplements coupled with a more plant based diet is an excellent way to decalcify the pineal gland. Nascent iodine is an electrified form of iodine that is readily absorbed by the body, helping eliminate fluoride, bromine, chlorine, and other toxins. Not only does nascent iodine remove pineal toxins, but it also stimulates the thyroid, improves mental clarity, and aids in boosting the immune system.

Chaga fungi (see previous post) is one of the best supplements for pineal decalcification because of its high melanin content. Melanin is produced by the pituitary gland in the presence of melatonin and is a primary pineal food source. Chaga is one of the highest natural sources of antioxidants, and helps balance the immune system and prevent cancer, as well as a host of other diseases. Chaga fungi can be made into powder, tea, and single or dual extracts. Dual extracts are the most potent because they contain both the water and alcohol soluble compounds of the mushroom and are rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream.

Adding magnesium bicarbonate to drinking water not only decalcifies the pineal gland, but alkalizes the body and eliminates calcium deposits that have formed in other tissues and organs. Magnesium in water is absorbed 30% faster than magnesium in food and the bicarbonate amplifies the amount of magnesium absorbed by cells.

Since the pineal gland is a light sensitive, sun-gazing is also a simple way to decalcify it. Sun-gazing is the practice of looking at the sun during the hour of sunset or sunrise in order to absorb its light energy. See my previous blog posted yesterday about sun gazing for improved health.

Science once believed the pineal gland was a vestigial organ with no function, but its mysteries are slowly unraveling as science and spirituality merge their understandings. As people begin to connect to their spiritual nature through pineal decalcification, meditation, and other holistic practices, the power of intention, belief, and thought will increasingly become a means of healing and spiritual attunement. We have only just begun to tap into the importance of the pineal gland to our overall physical and spiritual wellbeing. As scientific evidence continues to confirm its importance, we may find mystical experiences becoming used more and more as tangible tools for physical and spiritual wellbeing.

Adapted in part from the writing of Kevan Ryon at the Awake and Empowered Expo

A Novel Idea: Breaking Up DC

 OPINION OF CHARLIE KIRK, Newsweek, February 13, 2020

Over the past 12 to 18 months, an argument has been made by liberals and conservatives alike that it's time to apply our antitrust laws to the Big Tech monopolies like Google, Amazon and Facebook. The reasoning is that these companies have become so large and powerful that they pose a threat to our continued freedom. In that spirit, we must seriously consider a different sort of breakup. The president has the authority to do it on his own. It's constitutional, and its time.

We need to break up the federal bureaucracy and scatter the various departments to the four corners (and the middle) of the country.
Alexis de Tocqueville, the great observer of democracies around the Western world, once wrote of England in the 1830s, "It is not in the nature of things that a central government should be able to supervise all the wants of a great nation. Decentralization is the chief cause of England's material progress."

This is not a new idea, but it is new in its potential to become a reality. For the first time in our country's modern political history (perhaps ever), we have a president who is willing to consider bold ideas and see them through. If President Donald Trump embraces this during his 2020 campaign, you can bet you will start to see it happen in 2021. The best part is that even the 9th Circuit can't stop him!

Here are my suggestions for decentralizing the central government, making it simultaneously more accessible and responsive to citizens and less vulnerable to control by Washington Beltway lobbyists:

Department of Housing and Urban Development: Moves to the state of Michigan, where a variety of reform programs over the past two decades have contributed to that state's revitalization.

Department of the Interior: Colorado is the new location (Utah is also worthy of consideration). The only way to get more "interior" is to go subterranean. Colorado is situated at the continental divide, is a state that is home to a variety of natural resources and is proximate to other states that occupy much of the department's time. It's a "natural" fit.

Department of Labor: Perhaps Youngstown, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Pennysylvania, can vie for the location of this department. Each of them has earned the opportunity after suffering from years of neglect by an agency unconcerned with protecting American jobs.

Department of Health and Human Services: This department goes to Minnesota. The home of the Mayo Clinic is a natural location for a department in charge of protecting the health of Americans.

State Department and Department of Treasury: Both move to Manhattan, where they can be near the United Nations and Wall Street, respectively. While I'm not happy about this placement, it makes too much sense to let my own personal bias get in the way. We will, however, need oversight of the foxes watching the henhouses.

Department of Education: In lieu of simply closing up shop altogether and returning control to the states, Milwaukee gets the nod. Wisconsin is the original state to embrace school choice programs. Its reward is the prestige and the jobs that will come with the relocation. Perhaps it can teach the feds a few things about Milton Friedman and vouchers?

Department of Justice: Make the current regions even more autonomous with only the attorney general and a small staff staying behind in Washington. Perhaps a "federal republic-like" structure will produce a higher level of integrity than the current swamp-led Washington model.

Department of Agriculture: Iowa. Next.

Department of Energy: Texas is the obvious choice. The Green New Deal will have to work its way through the Lone Star State. Big hat, no cattle Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of her cronies will find it harder to tank the world economy if they have to take on Texas to do so.

Department of Transportation: Chicago has to be the choice. Despite the gross negligence and mismanagement of the city and the state for decades, it remains the transportation hub of the country. While they get the initial award, they are starting out on "host probation." One false move and transportation gets transported, maybe down to Dallas or Atlanta.

Department of Commerce: California, city to be determined. I'm hoping that giving California responsibility for commerce oversight will become a teachable moment for all of the anti-capitalists in the state that has perhaps benefitted the most from capitalism over the past century.

Department of Defense: Stays in Washington, D.C. Those charged with defending our nation's liberty have to stand at the side of the president at all times.

Department of Homeland Security: Phoenix, Arizona. Let's move the department close to our greatest threat, which is the chaos, the drugs and the human trafficking surrounding our southern border. Perhaps if the bureaucrats in the department start to suffer some personal loss from illegal immigration and stare its consequences in the face on a daily basis, they will become more motivated to act.

Department of Veterans Affairs: Tampa, Florida. With the United States Special Operations Command already located at MacDill Air Force Base, the people in this area have a natural love and concern for our nation's most important working class. This will hopefully translate into a more responsive agency.

Environmental Protection Agency (honorable mention): Abolish it.
No other presidential term in office has exposed the Washington establishment rot fighting the manifest, democratic will of the people. It's time to uproot the weeds that have gathered in Washington that constantly corrupt, self-enrich and obstruct. Breaking up the pieces doesn't reduce any existing regulations or decrease any budgets (at least not at first), but it does send a message that a change in philosophy is here. Geography is culture. Bureaucrats will know they aren't being moved from Fairfax to Youngstown to preserve the status quo.
Washington, D.C., and the surrounding area has become the most morally and institutionally corrupt region in the country, and it's the region that controls all other regions. Power will be harder to consolidate with a dispersed executive branch. The ruling class and the parasites that feed from it will find their ecosystem disrupted.

If and when the president follows through on big, bold thinking like this, he will leave our nation a better place for generations to come. He's just the man for the job.

Sungazing for Enlightenment

Since the time I was young, I was told that if you look at the midday sun, you can seriously damage your eyes. And I learned the hard way that if you stay out in the sun for too long with pale skin, you can get burned. However, abstinence from sunlight is arguably just as harmful as getting too much. Afterall, the sun provides the basis for all life on Earth. It provides the planet with energy, and we are all energetic beings, so when we have no direct contact with the energy source of our planet, it seems reasonable to say that our energy centers suffer, that our health and happiness are compromised. There is a good reason that cloudy days feel gloomy, and sunny days feel happy and energetic - the sun nourishes and energizes us.

From the time I was a young man, I have always kept in mind a quote of Henry David Thoreau: “Only that day dawns to which we are awake.” Thoreau's daily habit of making sure he was present to witness the rising and setting of the sun has left a lifetime impression upon me. While not as disciplined as this Thoreau, I still find that if at all possible I like to be somewhere in nature facing due east at the moment when Old Sol first shines light upon the world. It is always reaffirming to be present at sunrise to celebrate the beginning of another glorious day in this place.

By taking up the practice of sungazing, deliberately taking time to stare at the sun, we can each tap into the sun's energy to help reach our highest potential as humans - physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Perhaps by sungazing, we can even tap into higher spiritual realms, higher levels of consciousness, and improved states of physical health. Some believe we can absorb energy directly from the sun, thereby completely bypassing the need for food. Maybe they are crazy, or maybe there is substance to their claim? I am always at the ready to suspend disbelief and imagine!

Sungazing is the ancient practice of gazing directly at the sun as a form of meditation. It is recommended to do so only within an hour of sunrise or sunset during which period the UV index is at or near zero, thereby reducing the potential for eye damage. If you do sungazing at the recommended times when the sun is near the horizon, although it may seem very bright at first, you should not experience pain or discomfort. It may be an alarming experience at first, but there should be no pain. The brightness wears off after a few seconds and you’re left looking at a beautiful, pulsating orb of light. No matter how many sunrises I stop to appreciate, it always seems like the first time. And it always has a certain magical calming effect.

I share the following method for sungazing, which was devised by a man by the name of Hira Ratan Manek (HRM): Do not wear glasses or contact lenses. Start by gazing at the sun for 10 seconds the first time. That’s it for the first day. It will be bright and perhaps a bit uncomfortable. It’s recommended that for the first few sessions you wait until just a few minutes before sunset or after sunrise since the sun is less intense at those times.

When you sungaze you should be barefoot and standing on the bare earth. That is, on sand, dirt, or mud - not concrete, not grass, not rock, but the bare earth. In this way you connect your body directly to Earth while you absorb the energy of the sun through your eyes.

Relax your entire body and try to have no thoughts. Simply look at the sun and allow it to enter your brain through your eyes. Blink as needed, but try to relax your face and not squint.

Each day you increase your sungazing time by 10 seconds, no more. It’s not a race. The benefits can’t be hastened. After nine or so months of increasing your time in 10 second increments, you will reach 44 minutes of continuous sungazing if you are consistent with your practice. The rays of the sun are not visible about half of the time for the start and finish of the day where I live, so it may take awhile longer to reach 44 minutes. Once you reach that milestone, you’re done. Your body and mind are fully “charged” and there’s no reason to continue the practice. You only need to walk on the bare earth for 45 minutes per day to stay fully charged.

Although the HRM method is a good way for beginners, the numbers (10 second increases, 44 minutes final, etc.) are completely arbitrary, really. HRM invented them. There is no scientific or even empirical basis for these numbers, and as such, there is no reason to follow his method strictly. Nor is there any scientific evidence of the benefits HRM claims to result from his sungazing protocol. But it does form the basis for measuring progress toward a reasonable target.

That said, sungazing is far from a scientific practice, so you take from the experience whatever you want for that matter, just like with any meditative practice. The benefits can be whatever you want them to be. While sungazing you can pray for or meditate on any benefits you want to receive, whether they’re emotional, physical, or otherwise.

If you’re not able to stand barefoot on the bare earth while doing so, your results may be delayed or different, and that’s also ok. Whatever you end up making of your sungazing practice is absolutely perfect however it happens. It’s a very individual practice and the end results vary with each individual. As with all things in life, no one else will experience exactly what you experience, and you won’t experience exactly what anyone else experiences.

According to the HRM method, when you reach 15 minutes of sungazing, you will achieve improved mental health. What sungazers do find is that if they are experiencing depression, it will tend to leave, and mental confusion will be diminished or eliminated; you may find yourself becoming more of a compassionate, happy person also, much more in control of your emotions. You may also find, on a spiritual level, answers to many questions you have been wondering about for a long time.

When you reach 30 minutes of sungazing, you should expect to find improvement in physical ailments, especially if that is your goal. At 35 minutes your hunger for food may be greatly diminished. As a breatharian HRM says the body really does not need food, only energy. And as your body opens up to receive the energy of the sun directly, your need for indirect energy from food decreases. After all, the energy we consume from food originated from the sun.

When you reach 44 minutes of constant sungazing, your body will be fully charged and you only need to walk upon the bare earth with bare feet for 45 minutes per day, 6 days per week. After one year of doing this, you only need to expose yourself to a few minutes of sunlight every few days to maintain a charged, enlightened state. When you complete the HRM method, you may achieve a pure mental state and a pure physical state devoid of any impurities or ailments. You become enlightened. You don’t need to eat food as you are now able to absorb your energy directly from the sun.

While I certainly seek a more enlightened state in this life, I am not planning to move into a cave and sit in a lotus position facing east, posed in a mudra for eternal bliss. I still plan to have a beer and eat some guac and chips whenever I choose to pause from loftier pursuits. The sacred rite of sungazing holds much appeal, however, and is likely something I will seek to do more of just because it sends me to a place I like to be. Nothing more, nothing less. And that's Nirvana to me.