Today, among all the other exciting and leisurely things that’ll we’ll do, reading the Declaration might be insightful.

>Today we are dependent upon foreign oil.
>Today we are dependent upon the federal government for too much of life.
>Tomorrow we will pay the price for dependence on the Federal Reserve’s money pump.
>Tomorrow our dependence upon external forces over the internal ones will bring much grief.

I could make a very long list of “dependencies and co-dependencies” but why bother? We have been called to produce more not consume. We are called to aspire to greater thing rather than exploit the many things. Today we need to affirm a declaration of independence from pointing fingers, casting blame, living in duality, denying personal responsibilities, and continuing to live in the egoic cocoon of false religions that advocate a separate-ness between Creator and creation (us).

The straight jackets of religious orthodoxy, political sectarianism, philosophical duality, psychological skitzophrenia, and emotional detachments form Mother Nature need to be lifted. We need to awaken to the truth of our being which is divine at the core. May we allow each person to express their views and concepts without an either-or, hammer. We’ve come too far, we’ve sacrificed too much, and we’ve been divided too long.

May we each take time this weekend to make some notes on the bondages that beset us and may we use July 4, 2009 as a launching pad to make a new declaration of independence for our lives such that a light might come forth from the interior of our being and not only guide our steps but be bright enough that others might see as well.

Caution: declaring our independence isn’t an egoic determination; rather, it is a spiritual awakening to the truth of who we ARE: I AM, ONE with ALL!

I don’t get the moral outrage by the trio, nor the UN, or OAS!

You have the president of Honduras (Zelaya) trying to become a dictator, defying the Supreme Court, defying the Congress, firing the military, allowing illegal drugs to be laundered through his nation, and totally abandoning the Constitution of Honduras. So, when the Congress and Supreme Court asks the military to remove him, it’s a COUP? I guess a military take over has many different definitions.

And then after the military removes Zelaya, they back off and let the Congress and Supreme Court rule.

The regime that ousted Manuel Zelaya in Honduras claimed Tuesday that the deposed president allowed tons of cocaine to be flown into the Central American country on its way to the United States. “Every night, three or four Venezuelan-registered planes land without the permission of appropriate authorities and bring thousands of pounds … and packages of money that are the fruit of drug trafficking,” its foreign minister, Enrique Ortez, told CNN en Espanol.

“We have proof of all of this. Neighboring governments have it. The DEA has it,” he added.

So, here’s a man who wants to change the constitution so he can rule for life like Hugo Chavez and Obama is outraged? I don’t get it While Zelaya wins widespread support, including from President Obama as well as Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, critics in the United States are asking why the U.S. leader doesn’t take a stand against clearly illegal actions by Honduras’ ousted chief executive.

Why indeed?

One would be hard pressed to deny that the past twenty years have been anything but normal!

The Harmonic Convergence (a planetary alignment) was and is seen as a global awakening to love and unity through divine transformation of sacred information. The Harmonic Convergence was predicted by author Tony Shearer in his book Lord of the Dawn (1971), and according to Jose Argüelles’ interpretation of Mayan cosmology, the selected date marked the end of twenty-two cycles of 52 years each, or 1,144 years in all.

It all sounds very mystical and “new-age” until one looks at the indigenous tribes (such as the Mayan, Hopi, Ican, etc.) and their predictions about or around 2012. Adherents of the “convergence” believe that a “major energy shift” would begin and last for 30 years as we pass through the galactic center (until around 2016-17). The electromagnetic pulses (a photon band?) would carry energy powerful enough to change the global perspective of man from one of conflict to one of co-operation.

Sound too weird, crazy, maybe impossible?

Argüelles believed in a 26-year countdown to the end of the Mayan Long Count in 2012, which would be the so-called end of history and the beginning of a new 5,125-year cycle. Evils of the modern world (war, materialism, violence, abuses, injustice, oppression, etc.) would end with the birth of the 6th Sun and the 5th Earth on December 21, 2012. Others, me included, see this “passing” as a thirty year event. Whatever or whoever is right or wrong, one must admit that we’re experiencing unique times, and I think it not strange that many ancient civilizations have pointed to these times in their written and oral traditions.

Unlike the Y2k ten year computer phenomenon, can these esoteric and ancient indigenous people have something right? For me, we’re not waiting for a date; rather, we are in the moment (albeit a 30 year one). But, when one considers the enormity of the universe, how does one measure this concept called TIME?

First we have Obama very involved and telling a head of state (Israel) exactly what they should no and not do. Demands have been made about giving Palestine state hood even though they vow to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. How is it that any head of state can so dictate such policy towards a sovereign state: especially one that has been our friends in so many ways?

And then there’s Iran!

The government has been killing demonstrators, imprisoning and torturing dissidents, and shutting off as much news and information coming out of the nation as possible as a means of covering up their atrocities. And yet our administration is initially TIMID about saying anything that might hurt future diplomatic relations. However, when scenes from Iran show such brutality that staying moderate in our condemnation was a political liability. Finally, our nation calls such treatment of the opposition as “appalling”.

Then we have an up-and-coming dictator in the making in Honduras and we condemn the actions immediately!

Let’s see now. The president of Honduras, Zelaya, wanting to be a dictator forever, like Chavez, illegally fires the military heads, defies the Supreme Court orders, and goes against the pronouncement of the legislature and nothing is said. However we say nothing. Then when he defies even his own party, Supreme Court, and Congress, and the military is ordered to remove him, we call FOUL.

One has to wonder just how much moral authority we need to exercise on the rest of the world, and maybe we could even come up with some definitions that are consistent to to the rest of the world we look like we know what we’re doing outside of furthering our own interests. Ah, but maybe that’s too much to ask out of politicians. Oh yes, and one other things. All presidents (maybe exempting Reagan) did it so this isn’t an anti Obama infomercial.

Do you think it not strange that General Motors is now owned by the government? Who would have spoken that possibility two years ago? Little North Korea is threatening a nuclear war, thumbing its nose at the world, and testing rockets with little adversity. Women are taking to the streets against their spiritual head, removing their veils and burqas, and saying hit me if you want. What’s going on here?

Is it a beam of energy being transmitted to us from the Galactic Center that’s upgrading our DNA, rewiring our brains and advancing our consciousness in ways that are causing breakthroughs in all aspects of our lives? Possible?

As Janae Weinhold wrote, “Social breakdown is not caused by a specific disaster, but arises out of the actions of individual people who are experience traumatic breakdowns related to social, economic and political crises.” And what is the cause of those changes? Consider these recent events.

In October 2008 group of Kuwaiti equity traders marched on the emir’s office to demand the closing of the stock exchange to stem losses. A similar thing happened in Greece in late 2008 when riots sparked by the police shooting of a teenager, became tinged with economic dissension. In February 2009 riots in Ireland threatened to close the banks. The economic collapse of Iceland may presage civil disruptions there, as job losses multiply and credit bills come due. And we’re currently seeing dissent in Iran like no one could ever believe would possibly happen.

Physically our planet is dying.

Ecologically, the Earth is experiencing extinction events in its ecosystem, such as the disappearance of many amphibian species due to the discovery of immense dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico. This is happening well before scientists anticipated, validating that we are in the midst of the long prophesied shift of 2012. How much can we attribute these changes to the galactic window of 2012 (1986 to 2016)? How much can we say is NOT attributable to these 2012 foretold times?

In the next few years I believe that we’re going to see many more events that are “firsts” and unthinkable. We are going to see total breakdowns, and yet at the same time, we’re seeing a rise in consciousness that’s exponentially expanding. Why? Why indeed?

The crowds were punished, people were beaten, and others such as NEDA were killed.

State Department officials monitoring events in Iran from Dubai have relayed back to Washington that Mousavi’s Web site “Kalemah,” his last link to the outside world, is completely shut down. They also noted reports on Iranian Web sites alleging that jailed Mousavi supporters have been tortured in an attempt to force them into TV “confessions” of a foreign-led plot against the Islamic regime.

All that is getting out (news-wise) now is what Twitter can produce!

A newspaper with strong ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has published a letter calling on Iran’s Justice Minister to prosecute Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi for allegedly violating Islamic and constitutional law through her human rights advocacy. Whatever the Iranian pro-democracy crowd lost, the world gained as insight into the repressiveness of the Iranian model.

Iranian media are reporting that ten percent of the ballot boxes will be recounted in the presence of the Guardian Council’s post-election committee and media, with the findings released to the public. The U.S. officials in Dubai noted that former candidate Rezai’s newspaper reports Karroubi has agreed to cooperate with the committee, while Mousavi has already rejected the Guardian Council’s review and demanded a complete recount.

Mousavi’s life is forever been altered and probably greatly reduced in tenure. How long can he stay alive?

Neda remains the clarion call until the day Mousavi takes her place.

There’s so much more to think about in our daily lives what with this messy recession and will the Red Sox be able to hold off the high-powered Yankees. Who has time for the likes of transdimensional “anything”?

But, if there was a time to give such an area a thought, wouldn’t 2012 or the 2012 window (1986-2016) be a good time to do it? I guess a first question would be are you open to a multi?dimensional universe? The words and the mind games can get pretty deep here. Who understands string theory, or geometric space, or a space matrix consisting of elemental superstrings? Not I so, let’s dumb it down a bit.

New words and concepts are flying into our faces every day. One such paradigm is the “lightbody” which is poetic; however, it comes close to my Christian background which has told me that the Creator of the world is LIGHT, that Jesus was LIGHT, and that I am a child of LIGHT (one of the trillions of rays that make up the WHITE LIGHT! Are you still with me?

Among other things light is about information and transformation. We probably have more information than we can handle, but we sure need some transformation. Transformation does not come though with more information. Enlightenment isn’t a cerebral process: it cannot be “reasoned” out or drummed up with ecstatic voodoo. We must experience transformation which in part means we must BE STILL. We must simply BE. The more I BE, and AM, the more I sense that my body, actually my DNA, is being altered, reprogrammed. Sounds weird doesn’t it? It even feels strange.

I am being bombarded by electromagnetic pulses being sent from the galactic center? Am I experiencing the Hebraic, or Kabbalistic “merkaba”?

I don’t have any proof, but what I can tell you is that starting around the time of the Harmonic Convergence (86-87), my Spirit became restless and I began “moving out”, moving WITHIN! And starting 3-4 years ago my spirit-psyche, and being shifted gears into a much more intense deeper state. Am I being connected to something else, something bigger? Quantum physics seemingly has a similar answer as the Bible: As above so, below, and vice versa.

Initial jobless claims rose by 15,000 to 627,000 in the week ended June 20, from a revised 612,000 the week before, the Labor Department said today in Washington. The number of people collecting unemployment insurance gained by 29,000 in the prior week, to 6.74 million. That is nearly 7 MILLION people trying to live on unemployment insurance from money that the U.S. government does NOT have!

So, how’s that work?

It doesn’t.

And the news from the states is even getting worse. One week and counting. An unprecedented number of states have only days left to pass their fiscal 2010 budgets. At least 19 states are still hammering out their spending plans as the recession wreaks havoc with their finances and sparks fights between governors and lawmakers. If spending plans aren’t approved, state workers may not receive their paychecks and some government offices may shut down.

And then there’s California!

California’s controller said on Wednesday that he would have to issue IOUs in a week if lawmakers can’t quickly solve a $24 billion budget deficit, and the state’s treasurer plans to tap a reserve fund to meet debt service costs. The measures came as a budget crisis deepened in the most populous U.S. state and the gridlocked legislature failed to pass a proposed $11 billion in cuts. “Next Wednesday we start a fiscal year with a massively unbalanced spending plan and a cash shortfall not seen since the Great Depression,” Controller John Chiang said in a statement announcing that he would be forced to use IOUs to pay the state’s bills beginning on July 2.

The BILLIONS & TRILLIONS in so-called STIMULUS STUFF simply isn’t working. We are headed in the wrong direction and we’re going there at supersonic speeds. Is there anyone who can stop this freight train called America before we hit the wall at the end of the track?

We’re wearing glasses with a prescription for social issues, political directions, economic advocacy, religious bias, and so on.

The true self is covered up with such a baggage of beliefs that we know not who we really are, and yet we are in a season where more and more people are awakening to their “drugged condition”. Plato said it long ago, “Know thy self”. The unexamined life is not worth living and yet we plod on. But there is GOOD NEWS. We’re within the thirty year window of 2012 (1986 to 2016 or thereabouts) where the electromagnetic pulses from the Galactic Center are burning off layer by layer of our cultural junk!

Our DNA is being rewritten!

The software that operates our Being-ness is being altered. Our DNA is inviting in the strong torsion fields, clothing themselves with unconditional love and much like the water experiments of Masaru Emoto, we seeing that the SPOKEN WORD and the Logos Word (even on the outside of the water bottle) is changing the contents. We always have been, we’ve just not seen. Once we were blind, but VISON is returning.

What BELIEFS are you afraid to give up? Show me your sacred cows!

The largest group that will have the most difficulty with the Galactic Shift are the deeply religious, especially those who arrogantly think that THEIR RELIGION is the only TRUE one. Why is it so hard to see that such thinking is totally self serving, prideful, and highly discriminatory, especially to the Creator of ALL- not just one sect or religion? The MIND has imagined SEPARATION. It is not so. We are ALL ONE.

The next six years will see the awakened awareness to this reality. It can’t come soon enough!

The hard line, hard core, and far right wing religious leaders can dictate all they want, but they are not nearly as powerful as they think.

Several indigenous cultures have been telling the world for centuries that we’re entering a time when the MALE will no longer be dominant. The sexes will be equal! Our own Hopi Indian culture resonates with the same message and have been in their “2012 predictions”. It’s not just in Iran, but in Saudi Arabia where women are treated anywhere from dogs to second class citizens that the old establishment is being challenged.

Even from France can the tremors be felt! President Nicolas Sarkozy said the Muslim burqa would not be welcome in France, calling the full-body religious gown a sign of the “debasement” of women. Finally, a national leader, male at that, is saying enough! In the first presidential address to parliament in 136 years, Sarkozy faced critics who fear the burqa issue could stigmatize France’s Muslims and said he supported banning the garment from being worn in public. Woo-hoo!

“In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity,” Sarkozy said to extended applause at the Chateau of Versailles, southwest of Paris. “The burqa is not a religious sign, it’s a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement — I want to say it solemnly,” he said. “It will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic.”

So, where’s the American leadership, or does the rest of the world no longer look to American for leadership these days?

Amid the clashes and chaos, there has been a recurring scene on the streets of Tehran: Women, in their scarves and traditional clothing, at the heart of the struggle. Some are seen collecting rocks for ammunition against security forces, while video showed one woman trying to protect a fallen pro-government militiaman wounded in the government crackdown. At Shiraz University, riot police clubbed women dressed in black robes. “Don’t beat them, you bastards,” one man yells.

When security forces come to attack, the 19-year-old woman protester says she looks them in the eye and asks: “Why do you kill your brother? Why do you hit your mother, your sisters?” Women of the world rally around and support the women of Iran!

It’s not a pretty picture at all, and that’s a major understatement!

Celente writes, “In the Spring of 2009, delusion was in full bloom. The sentiment was that the global economic emergency was ending. Americas stock market was up 37% from the March 9 lows. Hope and optimism were broadcast. Trillions of dollars backed by NOTHING were magically manufactured. beneath the media hype, Obama’s rock star gig was met with mixed reviews at the April 2009 G-20 meeting in London. But, from here in 2012 there are now food riots, tax protests, farmer rebellions, student revolts, homeless uprisings, tent cities, ghost malls,………. and general strikes.”

I only listed a few of the things that Gerald Celente saw from 2012.

Who knows if he is right about the next four years? What I do know is that he’s been RIGHT so often in the past that it’s sacry thinking he could even be half wrong. Here’s some past comments on Celente.

1-”If Nostradamus were alive today, he’d have a hard time keeping up with Gerald Celente”. — New York Post
2-”When CNN wants to know about the Top Trends, we ask Gerald Celente”. — CNN Headline News
3-”Those who take their predictions seriously … consider the Trends Research Institute”. — The Wall Street Journal
4-”A guy that obviously knows his trends.” — Bill O’Reilly

I don’t know what the world will look like in 2012 even though I write extensively about it (www.2012FinalFantasy.com) and have for years. This I do know. We’re doing financial things (bailouts, printing money, taking over corporations, telling other CEO’s how to run their business, etc.) that DO NOT WORK! SOCIALISM does not work and we’re seeing it up close and personal (and I’m not a Republican drum-beater who listens to El Rushbo, nor Sean Hannity). I’m a follower of some of the wisest financial guru’s with decades of experience (Harry Schultz and Richard Russell to name two). They are all very concerned.

But, like with the national health care proposals, Obama doesn’t have any “street-wise” people making the decisions. Instead there are theorists, politicians, and number crunchers. Where’s the town doctors and the people who are practicing medicine. I love Kathleen Sebelius, but she’s not the one who should be the 21st Secretary of Health and Human Services.

May Obama LISTEN to some other voices than just the 1992-2000 Bill Clinton era re-treads!

But before God created LIGHT ands all those other six days of creations things, God SAID!

God SPOKE the world into existence. And, I can do all sorts of things with the verse in 1st John which says in the beginning was the WORD. Ah, how we’ve neatly compartmentalized that. But, I’ll leave that for my religious web site (www.LRCHouston.com). I need to go in another direction with this commentary. I have a few questions.

1-What was there about the Gospel of Love that the Cathers held so dearly that Rome didn’t like?
2-Why has it taken so long to understand the impact of torsion fields?
3-What happened to the Gregorian chants and the ancient Solfeggio frequencies?
4-Why has there been so much emphasis on DNA protein synthesis when it makes up only 3% of the process-activity?
5-What is Bird Language? Have you ever checked that one out, and why did the Hebrews leave out the VOWELS?

What are these questions referring to: would you believe SOUND?

In physics, a phonon is a quantized mode of vibration occurring in a rigid crystal lattice. The study of phonons is an important part of solid state physics, because phonons play a major role in many of the physical properties of solids, including a material’s thermal and electrical conductivities. But, in particular, the properties of long-wavelength phonons give rise to sound in solids. Bingo!

Remember one Edgar Cayce? He said more than 70 years ago, “Sound will be the medicine of the future.”

It’s just something to think more deeply about while we’re looking for TRUTH and what makes the world go-round. In addition to the photon belt that we’ve supposedly entered, have are we also encountering unique sound frequencies from the Center of the galaxy?

Sol Luckman asks this question, “What IF on some level we are made of SOUND? What IF the music of the spheres is no myth? What IF we ourselves ARE a harmonic convergence? Now, there’s a few things to ponder!

The word most often spoken from around the world is UNPRECEDENTED!

The decisive margin of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s victory in the June 12 election stunned many observers and angered his opponents’ supporters, who in the ensuing days took to the streets in protest by the hundreds of thousands. Many experts have called the effect unprecedented: Several powerful figures have openly supported the top challenger, Mir Hossein Moussavi, even as the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has endorsed the official results favoring Ahmadinejad.

Social networking sites such as Twitter, Iranians have been able to get around the government’s efforts to restrict media coverage, and the outcry against the election result has intensified. It’s not your daddy’s Oldsmobile! In fact the car itself doesn’t exist any more.

At Friday prayers in Tehran, Khamenei told a partisan audience the “ruling elites” would be “held accountable for all violence and blood and rioting.”

After the revolution in the 70’s, he regime’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, laid out his special interpretation of political Islam in a series of lectures in 1970. In this interpretation of Shia Islam, Islamic jurists had divinely ordained powers to rule as guardians of the society, supreme arbiters not only on matters of morality but politics as well. When Khomeini established the Islamic Republic of Iran, this idea was at its heart. Last week, that ideology suffered a fatal wound.

I don’t know about you but the last thing I want to see in America is any religious group leading our government. Regardless of their religious credentials I don’t want Focus on The Family, The 700 Club, or TBN running our government. God FORBID! And, it just may be coming a forbidden concept in Iran as well.

NEDA has become one of the many battle cries as a result of the violence and deaths over the last week.

“RIP NEDA, The World cries seeing your last breath, you didn’t die in vain. We remember you.” That post on Twitter came from a man who identified himself as an American guitarist in Nashville, Tennessee. Amid the hundreds of images and videos of Saturday’s brutal crackdown on protesters in Iran that flooded the Internet, it was the graphic video showing the death of a young woman that touched a nerve among those following the events in Tehran for more than a week.

What the religious leaders in Iran have discovered is that the internet and digital world that w now live in has great perils for their power.

Having done all that they can to block out the deaths, violence, and mayhem, the news is still getting out through social networking formats such as Facebook and Twitter!

One blogger posted that Neda was protesting with her father in Tehran when pro-government Basiji militia opened fire and shot her in the heart. “The final moments of her tender young life leaked into the pavement of Karegeh Street today, captured by cell phone cameras,” the unnamed blogger posted on Newsvine.com. “And not long after, took on new life, flickering across computer screens around the world on YouTube, and even CNN.” As the adage goes, a thousand deaths is a statistic: while one personal death is a tragedy.

Who would have guessed that the young life of Neda would become the new FACE of the Iranian election?