Imagine a people living today who have no cancer, no diabetes, no stress, no suicide, no neurosis, and whose idea of a good time is running up and down some of the steepest and deepest canyons in the world along with their 70-year old neighbors, their children, their spouses racing the folks in the next village over for 50-100 miles at a stretch!

Check this out:

Caballo Blanco is a friend from many years back, in Colorado and Chihuahua, and I am profoundly inspired by all the heart-to-heart connections that he is weaving, the friendships and adventures that he is nourishing, and the hearts and mouths he is feeding.  This is a perfect example of how lives can be enhanced through relationship.  Perhaps the ultra-marathoners who go to Copper Canyon also take the time to develop personal appreciation and relation to the Rarámuri and their canyons.  See more here.


And a great one about running free in the true America!

The following was written in response to Will's excellent post which I highly recommend:

The global monetary system is the most sophisticated system of global slave-holding ever invented by man and, as long as we think somebody like Obama or McCain is going to fix anything, we'll still be enslaved. 

Whether you invest in the stock market or simply hold cash in the bank, you're still playing the same roulette game, except that I'd say your losses are guaranteed holding cash. 

For those who'd like to understand how the monetary system works, precisely, check out:
The inevitable collapse of the U.S dollar

The video "Money as Debt" is a great start:  the solution they propose is dangerous, as far as I'm concerned, because it's another government solution, which means a solution by a group that has a monopoly on legalized violence and coercion, but the explanation of our current system is very clear, accurate and easy to grasp.

So what DO you do with your investments?  I teach an investment method that I developed that combines Taoist Yin-Yang theory with the teachings of Seng Ts'an, the Third Zen Patriarch, particularly the verse from the Hsin-Hsin Ming (Verses on the Faith Mind).  It has allowed me to triple my investments over the last 7 years and to view the present meltdown with profound serenity.  Here is one of the clues to the method:

"The Way is perfect like vast space
where nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess.
Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject
that we do not see the true nature of things.
Be serene in the oneness of things
and such erroneous views will disappear by themselves."

The first clue to this system that I received was reading Harry Browne's Fail-Safe Investing which I HIGHLY recommend. 

Read it and you'll see how it ties in with the above-quoted verse and how to invest profitably and safely through politically-manipulated market insanity.

Yes, we are up for some profound change AND we are being manipulated.  Some of the propaganda that the corporate media is promoting is that "the free market failed" and "capitalism is dead" and "we need more, not less, regulation."   This is being used to prep the populace for even further centralization of power.

But the fact of the matter is that this was not a failure of the free market because there was none.  This was the fruit of political entrepreneurs, not free market entrepreneurs, creating a system whereby Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and their shareholders would profit from circulating internationally all of the lousy loans made over the past year and, since the FM's had a de facto government guarantee, the taxpayer and all holders of US dollar-denominated assets would be left holding the bag once the rot was exposed.  The taxpayers, i.e. citizen-slaves of the national protection racket, lose on all counts:  their currency depreciates, their taxes increase and their economy collapses. 

The holders of US dollar denominated assets, such as the Chinese who hold huge amounts of dollars, lose because those dollars are worth less and less since the debt that backs them is expanding to such a huge extent that the only way that they'll be paid back is with worthless dollars.

Let me illustrate that another way:  six months ago I could have showed you, legitimately, how to invest ONE single dollar and become a BILLIONAIRE overnight, just by taking a plane flight to another country.  What am I talking about?  If you had invested one U.S. or Australian or Canadian dollar and invested them in Zimbabwe dollars, your one dollar would have bought you billions, yes BILLIONS, of Zimbabwe dollars.  And just so you know, it took about 3 BILLION dollars to buy a banana.

And this is precisely what is at play in the world's economy:  it's not that the Chinese doubt that the U.S. will pay them back: the question is how much those dollars will be worth a year from now, two years from now, thirty years from now, when those Treasury bills mature. 

And the U.S. financial sector, which is truly the global financial sector with its roots in the very Bank of England that was the true power in Britain when the American Revolution was fought, has infected the entire global monetary system with their securitized fraud. 

Why did Europe, Iceland, and the entire world go along with it, knowing full well that the entire maneuver was based on hype?  What "solution" will they try to sell us now?

Keep your eyes and ears open, and teach your children the true history of our present enslavement.

I personally think that the Dow is going to rally, maybe even back up to the 10,000's, but we're just at the beginning of exposing the rot in the system, and this time it's global.  The U.S. dollar has been the reserve currency for the entire debt-based currency system since Nixon unhinged it from gold in 1971, and the unimaginable corruption that is rampant in the U.S., thanks largely to a citizenry that worships without question anything that has a flag decal on it and consistently defends the right to remain ignorant, is endemic to the entire global financial slave-holding racket.

Please, please, PLEASE remember: 

CRISIS IS THE PRAXIS OF GOVERNMENT!

Governments ALWAYS create, yes CREATE, crises so that they can then accrue more power.  As Machiavelli said, and I paraphrase:

If you would impose upon your people a situation so draconian that the mere description and suggestion of it would cause immediate rebellion against you, what you must first do is create a crisis for which the situation you want to impose becomes the solution and the people will acclaim you.

In a nutshell:

Keep your eyes and ears open: 

And as Mr. Crowley said long ago: 

"Love is the law.
Love under will.
The slaves shall serve."

And as Seng Ts'an said:

"Have no opinions for or against anything."

Here's the latest on "Create a Crisis, Impose a Solution" on our way to a monolithic, global, slave-holding, welfare/warfare nanny state:

The alternative is to try a truly free market:  free market money where every individual & business has the right to decide what mediums of exchange they trust, free market health care where people are free to decide who they want to take care of them and how, etc.

Kind Regards

I listen to John Trudell who, by the way, is one of my favorite poets, musicians, warriors and speakers of truth, one of the leaders of the American Indian Movement takeover of Alcatraz, and I'm reminded of my last trip to Taos Pueblo:  so many Native people, shopkeepers, spending their days reading history, politics, economics, true trackers of human activity.  And I look around at the white American culture they read about, the illiterate slave culture that surrounds them, and you can just tell which culture is slated to be short-lived. 





A little interview from 2003


None of this is new to the Natives.  If the non-Natives could remember, none of this is new to them either:

I look back 20-some years ago, going to the woods with the Three Sacred Arrow Brothers, picking mushrooms, singing songs to Life and the Directions of the Whole.  K. told me one day, "You know, the Indian's Bible is written on his heart, so we go to our hearts to read it."

I was a 20-some year old, and I took those words as metaphor, poetic and right.

Now, having wandered through this world and finally stopping to behold what I continually wandered away from, and what all my knowledge could lend neither peace nor direction to, I fell into my heart, without romance acknowledging, at last, the pain, realizing that the heart is the true organ of knowing and had known all along what my mind tried to convince me wasn't so.

What do I know by heart?

That the heart knows,

truly,

what cognition papers over with "knowledge."

This article is a fascinating look at the history of slavery in the Americas and the brutality of British enslavement of the Irish.  That Irish slaves were less expensive than African slaves, and thus often mated to African slaves to produce higher value African slaves goes a long way toward explaining the high level of European blood in African-Americans here, in addition to the known rape that was prevalent.

I think that slavery is THE major issue facing humanity:  not just the enslavement of others, but how so much of our cultural presumptions emerge from a culture of enslavement.  Enslavement? you might ask.  Yes!  When you consider how Christianity was forced upon the indigenous peoples of Europe, the treatment of the Irish at the hands of other Europeans lends a fairly late-historical glimpse at how some of the last remnants of indigenous, proud and independent people were wiped out and brought into subjection.  That subjection is at the very heart of notions of majority rule, for example, i.e. individuals and minorities should be brought into subjection, other people's property, their lives, their beliefs, their choices should be brought into subjection.  Our lover should be subject to our desires.  Our "mate" should be subject to belonging to us, etc., and in intimacy anything less than subjection is betrayal.

How we each carry that legacy is a profound consideration.  I sincerely hope that this will lend fresh perspective to our understanding of our human sojourn.

When we appreciate that the very word slave comes from the word "slav" we get a sense of the ruthless treatment and traffic of human beings by others. 

I have said for a long time that slavery in the United States was not abolished, it's being continually perfected and generalized.  It's been made into an equal-opportunity proposition and pasted over with slogans like "freedom, courage, patriotism."  Notice that actions portraying the latter are usually celebrated when carried out by people in a "chain of command," i.e. slaves, serfs, subjects of others' decisions.