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Open Letter: Looking for a Philanthropist

First, a disclaimer.

I am extremely grateful for my current incarnation.  While I could do without the genetically modified, ignorant subscribers of modern detriment, I am still awed with existence.  The fact that I am a body sitting in a chair with individual thoughts and am able to convey them to other forms of consciousness all around the world still baffles me.

I find fault with the current insurrection taking place against the timeless universal law.  As a society, we have fallen from the grace and harmony bestowed upon us.  We are selfish, arrogant, and ignorant.  If a sociopath is an individual who ignores societal law, what do you call a society that ignores universal law?  Whether it is because of the legislation, or because of the constituents, the outcome remains the same.  Change is necessity or extinction is imminent.

After countless red-eyed hours of internet digging, I unearthed the solution to our current debacle.  It is extremely simple, yet unrelentingly arduous.  We must go back to the land.  We must tighten our circles.  I am not advocating an exclusionary existence, but a path of open awareness.  Seeing where  your food is grown and witnessing the inter-workings responsible for your existence produces a grounding effect on the individual.  The web is much more apparent when it is literally wrapped around you and can be experienced with all of the senses on a daily basis.

Sadly, I have lost faith in the political process.  I am through trying to convince people of the scathing effects of disharmony.  It is time to take matters into my own two hands.  Literally.  I need to live off of the land in order to reconnect to the higher power. You can fill in any synonym you like, the meaning will remain unchanged.

I have discovered methods of building shelter and sustaining existence that are intuitive, relatively inexpensive, and can be done by a novice with the proper intentions.  If you've never heard of cordwood masonry, Earthships, or the concepts of passive solar and thermal mass, I highly suggest you check out MotherEarthNews.com.  While I am in no way affiliated with the website, they provide an extensive library of articles on the aforementioned topics and much more.

But alas I am broke.  While I am saving as much as I can, the prospect of land purchased outright seems to be decades away.  A realization as cold as any I have ever encountered.  Ten more years of slaving away in serfdom.  Doing jobs that conflict with who I am so I can afford to eat.  It seems outrageous that one needs to become "rich" in order to have enough money to become sustainably poor.

Not only am I pursuing the land as a sense of physical freedom, I am pursuing a spiritual discipline as well.  Which leads to a complication of ethics.  In order to purchase land and live sustainable; I need two things, money and know-how.  I feel I have the base know-how to do so, yet  I am lacking in funds department.  Pursing a career based on solely money is not an option for me.

So if you're a philanthropist looking to invest in the future, I can promise no financial returns, only an honest attempt at harmony.

And if not, it'll take me longer and make me stronger, but I'll have that slice of simple one day.

First Snow of 2012 - Central Pennsylvania.

The Quickening Approaches.

If you are in the "know", you understand, if not fully, adequately that the world in which we live is undergoing a tremendous upheaval.  Across the oceans wars continue to dominate the landscape.  A new dictator rises into power, or an old one bows out.  While here in the U.S. our elected officials continue to plague us with oppressive laws and continue to ignore our grievances.  They attempt to brainwash us with a torrent of mind-numbing pop culture and institutional disinformation.  While we in the United States are witnessing the full on force of subversive wars, our brothers and sisters worldwide feel the much more overt, violent side of our misconception's wrath.

Here in the U.S., things are escalating dramatically, and are seemingly transitioning to a much more blatant oppression.  In the halls of Congress, the "Stop Internet Piracy Act" or SOPA, and the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 threaten to cripple our remaining freedoms.

In SOPA, the government aims to censor the internet through the guise of stopping online piracy.  An obvious attempt from the established entertainment industry to maintain their stranglehold.  If you are unfamiliar with their ability to influence law, do some research on the penalties for bootlegging music or movies.  If the jail sentence was the only determining factor, you'd be better off selling cocaine.

One of the many problems, but possibly most alarming, of the National Defense Authorization of 2012 is the fact that U.S. citizens, who are charged with the ambiguous title of "terrorist", can be held without trial for an indefinite period of time.  Which as I'm sure you know, goes against multiple constitutional rights and essentially initiates martial law.

If you couple those with the stresses of living in the society that produces such blatant disregard for freedom,  I can understand how you would be angry or depressed.  But I am here to tell you, neither of those will work in the favor of a peaceful future.

I must admit, upon hearing of the aforementioned bills, I was initially outraged.  How could those elected to sustain our institutional freedom go against their vows?  I am not naive to the current state of politics, but these 2 bills seem arrogantly blatant.

And then epiphany's cold hand slapped me in the face.  If, like the mystics say, 2012 is not the end of the world, but the end of an era, and a conscious awakening, then the mere fact of these bills being present not only threatens physical freedom, but is presently crippling mental freedom.  While we worry about the egregious politics, and occupy wall street, we are forgetting the true value of this time in history.

The veil between contemplation and manifestation grows thinner each day.  It is allowing us to truly become who we are destined to be.  A part of the whole.  A common individual.  No amount of physical firepower will be able to dislodge the ideology of the over-society.  They possess enough warheads to blow up 3 earths.  While we occupy the streets, most are forgetting to occupy their spirit and minds.  They allow the negative to control their actions.  While their actions may be positive, they are still a response to the negative, an effect, not a cause.  Which is ignoring the unique difference between positive and negative, or good and evil.  Evil cannot create, it can only corrupt.  As where good can only create, it cannot corrupt.

Regardless if your Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Atheist, Agnostic or somewhere in between, I suggest you open your heart and mind to the change that is abounding.  The mystics of all the religions agree, we are all one.  And even  the scientists are starting to agree.

So regardless what happens, keep a level head and an open heart, as a world run off of love can fight no wars.

Mount Kailash travel guide - Wikitravel

On my list of places I'd like to experience.

Mount Kailash travel guide - Wikitravel:

Autumn Sunset at Fort Hunter in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. [As Seen by Wellis Fool]

Sunset at Gettysburg Battlefield. [As Seen by Wellis Fool]