Is It Worth Fighting For?

For years I've listened to black leaders and activists speak about the plight of Black America. And now that I'm older and can discern the messages I wonder whether the simple idea of fighting against the Elite is in a way 'fuel' for the elite. I mean isn't it simply about the art of war? What do I mean? Well, how can you control a population of people? Problems, problems. Keep everybody focused on the problems in the world. Then you get a reaction. Then you work on the solution. It's like what my man David Icke was saying. That's how you keep it going. Let's study this problem, and that problem. Let's keep their minds focused on arguing about problems and solutions. Look at their reactions.

And so the people react. And they react each day and year. They keep on fighting and fighting. And they hold conferences where everybody gets serious and says "This is the problem, X, and here is the solution, Y, but how are we going to get from X to Y?" And so they argue some more and offer more solutions. Stuart Wilde once said that all true power is hidden. And there is something to be said about that statement. We don't see the true power out there. Why? Because it is not out there!

None of can see it, yet we know its there, and others have sworn to a vow of secrecy not to reveal the truth. That the truth is left better hidden and disguised because if people knew the truth there is going to be anarchy. Men of hidden power know this. They make deals on the golf course, not in the boardroom; in the cigar bar, not the office; in the bedroom, not the bookroom; they are sworn to secrecy...and so they understand something deeper in the hearts of men, and prefer to maintain control over a society they believe cannot handle the truth.

So the people are fighting against those who seek to hide the truth. The people are fighting against the power of secrecy. The people are fighting against their own sense of powerlessness. The people are fighting for change in a world of lies, greed, and violence. But is it worth fighting for?

Famous High School Dropouts

Richard Branson... Billionaire British businessman.
George Carlin... Comedian.
Jim Carrey... Comedian and actor.
Tom Cruise... Actor
George Eastman... Founder of the Kodak company.
Albert Einstein... Mathematician.
Michael J. Fox... Actor.
George Gershwin... Composer
Wright brothers... Inventors of the airplane.
Peter Jennings... News anchor and reporter.
Billy Joel... Singer.
Keanu Reeves... Actor.
Thomas Sowell... Economist, author and political commentator.
Quentin Tarantino... Movie director.
Dave Thomas... Founder of Wendy's restaurant chain.
Uma Thurman... Actress.
Randy Travis... Country music singer.
John Travolta... Actor, airline pilot.
Ansel Adams... Photographer, author.
Bryan Adams... Songwriter, singer.
Jack Albertson... Oscar-winning actor.
Peter Allen... Australian songwriter, composer, singer.
Dhirubhai Ambani... Billionaire Indian businessman.


What are schools for then? Schools and education I believe have nothing to do with each other. You can be educated without going to school. And you go to school with little sense of the bigger picture. I know. I have been there and done there, wrote the book, seen the movie!

On Children in Our Schools Part 2

Our kids are taught they must respect each other, share, be responsible, care for each other but they don't. They don't see it that is the reality. Outside of school, they see only fighting, violence, conflict, anger, or a hyper-glamorized reality through media outlets. Especially, the kids from poor communities. They are taught that school is a way out of poverty. What about kids from wealthy communities? They are taught their education will provide them with access to more wealth and power-and also the inheritance of positions and institutions. They are also taught to think about the nature of reality, question its premises, and the tools of creation.

Now some people will say those things are changing. And yes, they are. But the harsh reality remains that 75-80% of prison inmates are high school dropouts.Hmmm...is that a coincidence? They are punished for not graduating from one prison to the next?
The corporations have cleverly designed it where if you want a job(err...make little money we pay to you for long hours) then you must have your GED or high school diploma. Now the notion is that people must be educated to create a productive workforce. But, who owns the corporations? A few families and everybody else has to follow the rules while the elite make the rules.

So our children, being innocent as they are, have no idea that they are already in an unfair system. It is set that way to maintain the elitist system and status quo. Now there are those who have fought hard to educate the young in 'alternative education' programs. They have set up and created institutions that promote a different view of living and being. Waldorf school, Montessori, charter schools, private schools, and other alternative learning models seek to establish a different blueprint to educating the young. However, we are faced with even an alternative system that only allows for a few and not the many. We have not learned to create a true system of equality. Even the radical thinkers and their children suffer from this inability to create a larger educational system and model that raises the awareness of diverse populations.

So where does this leaves our children? Children only know how to be children. They don't know how to be adults. And they shouldn't. We are expecting them to know what they cannot know. Even if they are mature, in some way, they must grow and learn in their own time and space. We can try to help and protect them from pain, struggle, loss, and sorrow, but they must walk through the shadow of life on Earth. We must step into the belief that our children will be okay no matter what they do. Though we may believe things are getting worser and worser, we can change this belief and remember every soul is choosing their own paths of growth and development. And guess what? It may be one of pain and punishment, guilt and shame, but each soul has the light of truth of them inside of them no matter what their circumstances.

Is it the fault of the elite and those in power who seek to maintain a system of oppression? NO! We are witnessing a massive awakening from all parts of the world. Where we are headed with this nobody knows but it is exciting and inspiring. Do we have to know where we are going? Maybe or maybe not. There are many probable pasts, presents, and futures spreading out across the universe. We are moving in many directions. We are capable of changing our lives at any given moment with the power of a thought. Though we may look at the schools, observe its demise and failures, we are never left without the prospect of freedom and love in a shadowy system. Ulitmately, it is this recognition of love that will free us from the our individual and collective prisons.

On Children in Our Schools

After spending years in America's public schools I realized that the school system is not designed to serve the interests and needs of the individual. It is, however, an institution created for people to serve the systerm. This is perhaps not a novel idea to those who have studied and worked in the system for years. This compulsory schooling system is perhaps the most damaging institution to the lives of people because it is designed to control the behavior and minds of people. As a result, people spend 12 years of their lives being indoctrinated into the idea of success and failure; have and have nots; inferiority and superiority; repression and aggression. For years this happens, 9 months out of the year and then our children are released from one prison as they seek to move into the next one.

I saw this the other day as I was working with a group of boys at school. I realized how we all come into this world with this great light and energy but as we get older that light is darkened by our experiences in school and home. It is a dark period for children because society is against impulsive behavior; our programs and structures do not allow for the expression of the whole self. Instead, kids are taught to use their left brain to solve problems rather than the right brain or the whole brain. Kids are not taught how to resolve and so they are left constantly defending themselves against an army of strangers on the playground and in the classroom. They are thrown from teacher to teacher, room to room, subject to subject, until they are exhausted and tired from the heavy workloads assigned by teachers. These teacher are silent agents and conspirators in the educational system. Their ideal as interns was perhaps to impact the lives of students but instead has become simply disciplining and grading students.

Was the school system a solution to the corporate and political leaders 40-hr week schedule? What will kids do as the parents go to work in the fields and factories? Yes. Let's teach them how to get ready for what their parents are doing! We will tell them that they must do this if they want a job, be successful, have a home, and raise a family. The schools program kids everyday into thinking that they NEED to go to school in order to be happy in life.

In the modern world, children are faced with overstimulation from all sides: food, video games, TV, music, and all the technology you can find today. However, as they sit in the classrooms, they are asked to act in a way that is contrary to what they are constantly getting in the world. In other worlds, they are asked to 'behave' 'sit still' 'be quiet' in a world of noise and constant activity. Hmmmm...interesting, huh? This confuses our kids and they react towards things they don't understand and things unquestioned.

To be continued...

"Little One Inside of Me"

There is a Little One
Inside of Me
Growing In Another World
Like a Seed of a Tree
It plays, laughs,
cries and run
Knowing truth as Life
Is having fun
Little One flees
And falls down
I stand beside him
As an angel surround

"Now you have fallen
Be not afraid,
I am here to lift you
Every step of the way.
Things are going to get
messy and you may feel
alone. But know that I
am You in a distant time
A future home of Joy, Peace,
Love, and Truth.
So remember when you forget
how to get back up,
Call upon me I will guide you."

Little One inside of Me
Beyond this time
Growing as a Seed of Love
Out of Sight, Out of Mind.

A Shortcut To Love

Life has a way of showing you that no matter what you have experienced in life and how tough things have been, there is always a new day around the corner. Within the past month, I have experienced an amazing presence of love and joy unparalleled in my life. I feel the sense of excitement, passion, and creation. How did it happen that I could so easily move back into the authentic person I'd always been? How could it be that I would resurrect myself from the coffins of despair and sorrow?

Choices. I decided that I wanted a different life. It was not simple at first because I realized that it was old beliefs that I didn't want to let go. And I did everything in my power to maintain an illusion supported by a false belief system. I kept making the same choices because I was afraid that I was going to fail and lose if I made new choices. I was afraid of letting go. I believed that love was somehow a reality without boundaries whether on the job, family, friends, and relationships.
The choices that I made up to this point was based on the belief that I needed certain people to make me happy, that I needed to do certain things to make me happy when in fact I realized that to know true love all I had to remember was to be myself.

A shortcut to love is making choices based on what's important and your true desires. Together these will serve as the foundation for your authentic self which will lead to an authentic love and its expressions. A new life begins when we let go of the old ways of thinking and allow new ways of expressing greater aspects of ourselves to develop and blossom. That is what I am learning. That is what I feel.

Nothing happens separate from our thinking it into our physical world. We are connected by a magnificent and grand force that once we remember to pay attention to can release us from the psychic prisons that we have created for thousands of years. Now is the time to be our authentic selves as expressions of a grander aspects of being in a physical world. We can achieve and accomplish anything we want when we choose what truly matters and what we feel. A shortcut to love happens quickly as the result of knowing what we want and living from conscious expectation.

Cold Ears, Warm Nose

Cold ears, warm nose
laughing tears, smiling toes
Oily skin, benevolent hands
Flesh cuddle, souls dance.