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SPACE IS OUR DESTINY: A TRIBUTE TO THE CREW OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER!
Twenty-eight years ago today, January 28, 1986, the space shuttle, Challenger, blew up during its ascent, killing everyone onboard, including teacher, Christa McAuliffe.
As a lifelong believer in the potential for the human race to eventually become part of the galactic community by reaching out to the stars, I felt particularly affected by the event, and even more so because people began claiming that human beings had no business in outer space.
In fact, I felt so moved to speak out on the need for humans to explore the galaxy that I wrote an open letter to President Ronald Reagan volunteering to be the first person from the social services profession to fly on a shuttle. The letter, in edited form, was published in the New York Times.
Here it is:
As a lifelong believer in the potential for the human race to eventually become part of the galactic community by reaching out to the stars, I felt particularly affected by the event, and even more so because people began claiming that human beings had no business in outer space.
In fact, I felt so moved to speak out on the need for humans to explore the galaxy that I wrote an open letter to President Ronald Reagan volunteering to be the first person from the social services profession to fly on a shuttle. The letter, in edited form, was published in the New York Times.
Here it is:
"Space is our destiny"
Published in the NY Times: February 9, 1986
To the Editor:
The shattering tragedy of the Challenger on Jan. 28 will no doubt stir up such sentiments as ''if man were meant to fly, he'd have wings.'' Some will say that we should send only unmanned probes into space.
I disagree. Human beings do have wings. Our wings are our minds, and our minds have always compelled us to reach out and look beyond the boundaries of the observable. We honor the spirit of Christopher Columbus for daring to explore ''the edge'' of a flat Earth, as we reveled in the spirit of Christa McAuliffe, who dared to teach from beyond the classroom.
The logic of statistical probability tells us that we are only one of perhaps millions of civilizations in this universe, that we most surely have brothers and sisters out there. We are compelled to meet them and know them because we are all part of the same whole. Perhaps we can be helped in our development someday by a more advanced civilization. Perhaps we can make a contribution. But we cannot stay at home, retreating into ourselves. People must be prepared to travel in space. It is our destiny.
I envied Mrs. McAuliffe. She was living out my greatest fantasy: to view the Earth as a whole planet from space. I am a psychiatric social worker, waiting for the day when a President or NASA asks for someone from the human-services field to volunteer for a similar mission. I am ready to go!
To the Editor:
The shattering tragedy of the Challenger on Jan. 28 will no doubt stir up such sentiments as ''if man were meant to fly, he'd have wings.'' Some will say that we should send only unmanned probes into space.
I disagree. Human beings do have wings. Our wings are our minds, and our minds have always compelled us to reach out and look beyond the boundaries of the observable. We honor the spirit of Christopher Columbus for daring to explore ''the edge'' of a flat Earth, as we reveled in the spirit of Christa McAuliffe, who dared to teach from beyond the classroom.
The logic of statistical probability tells us that we are only one of perhaps millions of civilizations in this universe, that we most surely have brothers and sisters out there. We are compelled to meet them and know them because we are all part of the same whole. Perhaps we can be helped in our development someday by a more advanced civilization. Perhaps we can make a contribution. But we cannot stay at home, retreating into ourselves. People must be prepared to travel in space. It is our destiny.
I envied Mrs. McAuliffe. She was living out my greatest fantasy: to view the Earth as a whole planet from space. I am a psychiatric social worker, waiting for the day when a President or NASA asks for someone from the human-services field to volunteer for a similar mission. I am ready to go!
PETER V. LOFFREDO New York, Jan. 29, 1986
ADDENDUM TO: "NOBODY NEEDS ME! (HATING WAR IS NOT THE SAME AS LOVING PEACE!)"
Last spring I began my series, "The Truth About Everything," and one of the 10 Truths was entitled, "Nobody Needs You!" Well, I am discovering for myself that when it comes to politics and social evolution, nobody needs me!
When I began this blog in 2007, in addition to the psychological and metaphysical understandings that I wished to impart through FPL, I also used the blog as a forum for commenting on what was happening politically in the country as the energy was building up for the upcoming 2008 presidential contest that would eventually lead to the election of Barack Obama. By 2010, I pretty much stopped using FPL for that purpose, feeling called to devote my posts to the Wave leading up to the end of 2012 and the raising of consciousness as we approached the great transition of 2013 and beyond into 5D.
Well, I have a confession to make. I continued to indulge my fascination/attachment to things political by posting anonymously on the craigslist politics blog, a repository of very low vibrations indeed (I won't even put a link!).
At first, I thought I was offering an antidote or counterbalance to the very extreme mentality there. By the middle of last year, however, I realized that I was "hating war instead of loving peace," and (a.) not benefitting or changing anyone there, and (b.) that the endeavor was creating toxicity in me.
So, I created my own program of detoxification and consequently, I have not posted on said blog in well over 4 months.
Almost immediately after I stopped the posting on CL, two things happened: (1.) I began to see how - without my help - the energy of low vibrations and the forces of fear, hatred and general negativity were imploding with all due speed on their own in our society at large in 5D, and (2.) I freed up my energy to do more gratifying and creative writing at a vibration more aligned with my Higher Self. As a result, I finished an episode of the second season of City Rock, and started writing more extensively on my FPL blog and in my own personal journal much more.
Never underestimate the need to honor and protect your vibration and energy field, folks. Hating anything, battling anything, fuels and energizes the very thing you hate and battle, and keeps it glued to you. Embracing, accepting and loving everything does not mean that you have to engage in the lower self vibrations of others. It just is the truest, fastest, and basically only way to transform anything... by transforming yourself in love.
P.S. THIS was the headline of a news story in the NY Times yesterday by Frank Rich: "STOP BEATING A DEAD FOX" On the Huffington Post today it read: "FOX NEWS DYING!"
Peace.
When I began this blog in 2007, in addition to the psychological and metaphysical understandings that I wished to impart through FPL, I also used the blog as a forum for commenting on what was happening politically in the country as the energy was building up for the upcoming 2008 presidential contest that would eventually lead to the election of Barack Obama. By 2010, I pretty much stopped using FPL for that purpose, feeling called to devote my posts to the Wave leading up to the end of 2012 and the raising of consciousness as we approached the great transition of 2013 and beyond into 5D.
Well, I have a confession to make. I continued to indulge my fascination/attachment to things political by posting anonymously on the craigslist politics blog, a repository of very low vibrations indeed (I won't even put a link!).
At first, I thought I was offering an antidote or counterbalance to the very extreme mentality there. By the middle of last year, however, I realized that I was "hating war instead of loving peace," and (a.) not benefitting or changing anyone there, and (b.) that the endeavor was creating toxicity in me.
So, I created my own program of detoxification and consequently, I have not posted on said blog in well over 4 months.
Almost immediately after I stopped the posting on CL, two things happened: (1.) I began to see how - without my help - the energy of low vibrations and the forces of fear, hatred and general negativity were imploding with all due speed on their own in our society at large in 5D, and (2.) I freed up my energy to do more gratifying and creative writing at a vibration more aligned with my Higher Self. As a result, I finished an episode of the second season of City Rock, and started writing more extensively on my FPL blog and in my own personal journal much more.
Never underestimate the need to honor and protect your vibration and energy field, folks. Hating anything, battling anything, fuels and energizes the very thing you hate and battle, and keeps it glued to you. Embracing, accepting and loving everything does not mean that you have to engage in the lower self vibrations of others. It just is the truest, fastest, and basically only way to transform anything... by transforming yourself in love.
P.S. THIS was the headline of a news story in the NY Times yesterday by Frank Rich: "STOP BEATING A DEAD FOX" On the Huffington Post today it read: "FOX NEWS DYING!"
Peace.
"BECKI" LIKES PL'S POST ON "LOVE AS THE MAJOR CREATIVE FORCE IN 2014"... AND SHE LIKES HIS TABLE!
Becki said...
"Wow! Thank you! I love the way you explain things in an understandable and direct way. And with enthusiasm :)
Your table is gorgeous, btw!"
"Wow! Thank you! I love the way you explain things in an understandable and direct way. And with enthusiasm :)
Your table is gorgeous, btw!"
PL says:
Thank you, Becki! Can't wait to polish it this weekend!
Thank you, Becki! Can't wait to polish it this weekend!
Best,
PL
5D ALSO MEANS LESS MURDER!
Yes, although an earlier post pointed out that the death rate is going up, the murder rate is going down.
This is from a piece entitled: "The Year in Murder: 2013 Marks a Historic Low for Many Cities," on The Daily Beast website. America, led by New York City and Philadelphia, is reportedly on track to have its lowest murder rate in 4 decades.
Death rate going up, murder rate going down?
Yes. Because it's 5D, those who cannot maintain the higher vibration are leaving the planet, as we are coming to know it, in greater numbers, but also because it's 5D, they are not leaving through violence as often.
Very interesting.
This is from a piece entitled: "The Year in Murder: 2013 Marks a Historic Low for Many Cities," on The Daily Beast website. America, led by New York City and Philadelphia, is reportedly on track to have its lowest murder rate in 4 decades.
Death rate going up, murder rate going down?
Yes. Because it's 5D, those who cannot maintain the higher vibration are leaving the planet, as we are coming to know it, in greater numbers, but also because it's 5D, they are not leaving through violence as often.
Very interesting.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! "MIRACLES ARE THE RESULT OF NATURE UNIMPEDED!"
That is one of my favorite channeled quotes. It says something so important and so counterintuitive to a 3D mentality.
This is from a most beautiful book and movie, “The Legend of Baggar Vance,” by Steven Pressfield, who also wrote “The War of Art”:
“There's a perfect shot out there tryin' to find each and every one of us... Now it's somewhere... in the harmony... of All That Is... All That Was... All That Will Be... All we got to do is get ourselves out of its way, to let it choose us.”
Exactly. The "Zone," as we've called it, is that place we enter when we “get ourselves out of the way,” or more specifically, when we get our ego, self-will and Resistance out of the way.
In this year now begun, in this moment, you will find it quite easy to witness miracles. Synchronicity, serendipity, meaningful coincidences... all you'll have to do is look around. If you miss them, it doesn't mean they're not there, not happening, it means you're choosing to ignore them. It means you're still hanging on to Murphy's Law, which has been reversed in 5D.
Here’s a little more Baggar Vance:
“Inside each and every one of us is our one, true authentic swing. Something we was born with. Something that's ours and ours alone. Something that can't be learned... something that's got to be remembered. You got to seek that place with your soul... Seek it with your hands.. Don't think about it... Feel it... Your hands is wiser than your head ever gonna be...”
People often ask me: “What does it mean to let go of your ego?”
One answer is a variation of what Baggar Vance is saying, which is to get out of your head, out of your obsessive, thinking mind, and follow your body, follow your five senses, along with your sixth sense, your gut instincts, your first impulses, the callings in your heart. We all have them, but we have trained ourselves to ignore them, to hesitate, second guess, over-think, calculate and calculate, and so, we miss the opportunities, the messages, the assistance, the bounty and the booty!
There is a great gift inside each of us waiting to come out. No one is without it. Some souls have chosen to give us a demonstration in one particular area or another, but examples are all around us... and within us. Seek them and you will find them.
Try this: walk around and pay attention to what you see, hear, smell, taste and feel, not to what you’re thinking, which is usually what you’re always doing. Go ahead. Go out. It’s a beautiful day. Walk. Give yourself, and the world, your gift. We’re waiting for you!
This is from a most beautiful book and movie, “The Legend of Baggar Vance,” by Steven Pressfield, who also wrote “The War of Art”:
“There's a perfect shot out there tryin' to find each and every one of us... Now it's somewhere... in the harmony... of All That Is... All That Was... All That Will Be... All we got to do is get ourselves out of its way, to let it choose us.”
Exactly. The "Zone," as we've called it, is that place we enter when we “get ourselves out of the way,” or more specifically, when we get our ego, self-will and Resistance out of the way.
In this year now begun, in this moment, you will find it quite easy to witness miracles. Synchronicity, serendipity, meaningful coincidences... all you'll have to do is look around. If you miss them, it doesn't mean they're not there, not happening, it means you're choosing to ignore them. It means you're still hanging on to Murphy's Law, which has been reversed in 5D.
Here’s a little more Baggar Vance:
“Inside each and every one of us is our one, true authentic swing. Something we was born with. Something that's ours and ours alone. Something that can't be learned... something that's got to be remembered. You got to seek that place with your soul... Seek it with your hands.. Don't think about it... Feel it... Your hands is wiser than your head ever gonna be...”
People often ask me: “What does it mean to let go of your ego?”
One answer is a variation of what Baggar Vance is saying, which is to get out of your head, out of your obsessive, thinking mind, and follow your body, follow your five senses, along with your sixth sense, your gut instincts, your first impulses, the callings in your heart. We all have them, but we have trained ourselves to ignore them, to hesitate, second guess, over-think, calculate and calculate, and so, we miss the opportunities, the messages, the assistance, the bounty and the booty!
There is a great gift inside each of us waiting to come out. No one is without it. Some souls have chosen to give us a demonstration in one particular area or another, but examples are all around us... and within us. Seek them and you will find them.
Try this: walk around and pay attention to what you see, hear, smell, taste and feel, not to what you’re thinking, which is usually what you’re always doing. Go ahead. Go out. It’s a beautiful day. Walk. Give yourself, and the world, your gift. We’re waiting for you!
NO NEED FOR PROGRESSIVE RADIO, CANCER TREATMENT OR ULTIMATE FIGHTING IN 5D!
HERE's a headline from this week:
"New York City Losing Its Last Commercial Progressive Talk Radio Station"
That's right. When WWRL 1600 AM turned into a Spanish-language music radio station on Sunday, December 29, New York City lost its only remaining commercial progressive talk radio outlet.
Well, of course, it's 5D!
What? Is 5D against liberals? Does 5D favor conservatives?
LOL! Read on...
HERE's another headline from this week:
"Millions Falsely Treated for Cancer, Says National Cancer Institute Report"
Yep. A significant number of people who have undergone treatment for cancer over the past several decades may not have ever actually had the disease, admits a new report commissioned by the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI). Published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), this government study identifies both over diagnosis and misdiagnosis of cancer as two major causes of the growing cancer epidemic. These two together have led to millions being falsely treated for cancer with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, who in reality had no such cancer.
Well, of course, it's 5D!
All right, come on, PL, what are you trying to say about 5D?
Glad you asked.
I'm saying what I said in my post - "NOBODY NEEDS ME (HATING WAR IS NOT THE SAME AS LOVING PEACE!)" - which is that in 5D, where egoism and karma creation and 3D vibrations aren't allowed, there's no need to fight negative forces, because those still attempting to operate at lower vibrations are clearing themselves out through self-exposure. (Remember the ADHD doctor, who admitted on his death bed that ADHD was a false diagnosis?)
So, we don't need progressive talk shows railing against the retrogressive forces because the retrogressive forces - in the media, the medical profession, politics, indeed, in all of our institutions - are doing the job themselves of either transforming or eliminating themselves, which is another road to transformation.
Folks, as I've been writing, this is 5D, the new "Golden Age," Murphy's Law is reversed. Everything that can go right will go right. There's no need to protest, rally against, fight for... just clear yourself, meditate and put out your intentions for your highest, most exciting preferences... and watch.
Next up: Football? Ultimate Fighting? War? Processed food?
"New York City Losing Its Last Commercial Progressive Talk Radio Station"
That's right. When WWRL 1600 AM turned into a Spanish-language music radio station on Sunday, December 29, New York City lost its only remaining commercial progressive talk radio outlet.
Well, of course, it's 5D!
What? Is 5D against liberals? Does 5D favor conservatives?
LOL! Read on...
HERE's another headline from this week:
"Millions Falsely Treated for Cancer, Says National Cancer Institute Report"
Yep. A significant number of people who have undergone treatment for cancer over the past several decades may not have ever actually had the disease, admits a new report commissioned by the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI). Published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), this government study identifies both over diagnosis and misdiagnosis of cancer as two major causes of the growing cancer epidemic. These two together have led to millions being falsely treated for cancer with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, who in reality had no such cancer.
Well, of course, it's 5D!
All right, come on, PL, what are you trying to say about 5D?
Glad you asked.
I'm saying what I said in my post - "NOBODY NEEDS ME (HATING WAR IS NOT THE SAME AS LOVING PEACE!)" - which is that in 5D, where egoism and karma creation and 3D vibrations aren't allowed, there's no need to fight negative forces, because those still attempting to operate at lower vibrations are clearing themselves out through self-exposure. (Remember the ADHD doctor, who admitted on his death bed that ADHD was a false diagnosis?)
So, we don't need progressive talk shows railing against the retrogressive forces because the retrogressive forces - in the media, the medical profession, politics, indeed, in all of our institutions - are doing the job themselves of either transforming or eliminating themselves, which is another road to transformation.
Folks, as I've been writing, this is 5D, the new "Golden Age," Murphy's Law is reversed. Everything that can go right will go right. There's no need to protest, rally against, fight for... just clear yourself, meditate and put out your intentions for your highest, most exciting preferences... and watch.
Next up: Football? Ultimate Fighting? War? Processed food?
BEWARE THIS BOY!
"This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy."
This is what the Ghost of Christmas Present says to Scrooge in a climactic moment in the hard-hearted protagonist's journey in Dickens' classic story of redemption, "A Christmas Carol."
But why does the spirit make a point of warning Scrooge, and us, against Ignorance more than against Want? Why is this such a crucial understanding for all of us in our journey towards self-actualization?
Well, it is this: the problems of our world do not start with need or greed. In fact, need and greed are but two sides of the same coin - of ignorance. Need and greed are both based on the same erroneous belief, the same misunderstanding - that there isn't enough.
There are no end runs around this, folks. There is no avoiding the repercussions of proud ignorance and stubbornness in 5D. When you say that you don't want to look at something, don't want to talk about something, when you stick your chest out and say - "That's what I believe and that's all there is to it!" - know that you are inviting a warning from the Ghost of Christmas Present, and interfering with the peace and enjoyment you've earned on your path.
As Jacob Marley, on his death bed, advised Scrooge with his last breath: "Save yourself!"
This is what the Ghost of Christmas Present says to Scrooge in a climactic moment in the hard-hearted protagonist's journey in Dickens' classic story of redemption, "A Christmas Carol."
But why does the spirit make a point of warning Scrooge, and us, against Ignorance more than against Want? Why is this such a crucial understanding for all of us in our journey towards self-actualization?
Well, it is this: the problems of our world do not start with need or greed. In fact, need and greed are but two sides of the same coin - of ignorance. Need and greed are both based on the same erroneous belief, the same misunderstanding - that there isn't enough.
There are no end runs around this, folks. There is no avoiding the repercussions of proud ignorance and stubbornness in 5D. When you say that you don't want to look at something, don't want to talk about something, when you stick your chest out and say - "That's what I believe and that's all there is to it!" - know that you are inviting a warning from the Ghost of Christmas Present, and interfering with the peace and enjoyment you've earned on your path.
As Jacob Marley, on his death bed, advised Scrooge with his last breath: "Save yourself!"
"A2PERSON" ON PL'S POST: "FATHER OF ADHD: 'IT IS A FICTITIOUS DISEASE!"
Bravo, PL, that you continue to bring awareness and skepticism to this issue. How much of ADHD is a dopamine-deficiency, and how much of ADHD reflects a particular wiring for humans which just happens to not compute with our modern way of life? The "Hunter-Farmer" theory even suggests that ADHD-ish-brains, far from pathological, were an adaptive trait that allowed our hunter ancestors to hyper-focus on the task at hand ("I'm gonna get that bear") and disregard all the boring stuff. Where would all the historical artists, intellectual, poets, inventors who clearly had an ADHD-ish brain be if they had medicated their brains into the neurotypical range? Props also for citing the danger of drugging our children at younger and younger ages and consigning them to a lifetime of medication dependency.
While it's hard out there for those of us who don't fit that neurological mold- this does not mean our wiring is 'pathological' nor does it mean stimulant medication is an appropriate response or long term solution.
AND YET, on a 3-D level here, ADHD-ish symptoms are REAL and they present REAL problems. Ask a young person with scatter-brain tendencies who is struggling to finish school, hold her job, pay bills, and ultimately navigate our our sensory-processing-labor market, and, odds are, she'd be pressed to call their ADHD-brain a gift. Sadly our global economy is such that we don't have the capacity to tailor-mold everyone a customized, personalized job that matches their distinct neurobiology and optimizes their gifts. Indeed, we live in a one-size-fits-all, information processing age, where prolonged executive functions in our prefrontal cortex is the goldstandard of professional competence. Likewise, many people do not have access to ADHD coaches, neurofeedback practitioners, naturopaths, or the myriad of other healers who are working outside of big Pharma. Those of us that do have that access been truly fortunate. Thanks again for your post! (In true ADHD fashion, I posted this twice :P Please delete the prior post!)
A2Person
While it's hard out there for those of us who don't fit that neurological mold- this does not mean our wiring is 'pathological' nor does it mean stimulant medication is an appropriate response or long term solution.
AND YET, on a 3-D level here, ADHD-ish symptoms are REAL and they present REAL problems. Ask a young person with scatter-brain tendencies who is struggling to finish school, hold her job, pay bills, and ultimately navigate our our sensory-processing-labor market, and, odds are, she'd be pressed to call their ADHD-brain a gift. Sadly our global economy is such that we don't have the capacity to tailor-mold everyone a customized, personalized job that matches their distinct neurobiology and optimizes their gifts. Indeed, we live in a one-size-fits-all, information processing age, where prolonged executive functions in our prefrontal cortex is the goldstandard of professional competence. Likewise, many people do not have access to ADHD coaches, neurofeedback practitioners, naturopaths, or the myriad of other healers who are working outside of big Pharma. Those of us that do have that access been truly fortunate. Thanks again for your post! (In true ADHD fashion, I posted this twice :P Please delete the prior post!)
A2Person
MORE ON FICTITIOUS DISEASES LIKE ADHD! (HOLD THE ZOLOFT, PLEASE!)
Now, research headed up by neuroscientists David Gurwitz and Noam Shomron of Tel Aviv University shows that SSRI's (Selective Serotonin ReUptake Inhibitors), so-called anti-depressants like Zoloft, Lexapro, Prozac, and more, do not actually prevent or treat depression. Why not?
Wait for it...
Because... “There’s really no evidence that depression is a serotonin-deficiency syndrome,” says Alan Gelenberg, a depression and psychiatric researcher at The Pennsylvania State University. “It’s like saying that a headache is an aspirin-deficiency syndrome.”
Welcome to 5D, Big Pharma!
Wait for it...
Because... “There’s really no evidence that depression is a serotonin-deficiency syndrome,” says Alan Gelenberg, a depression and psychiatric researcher at The Pennsylvania State University. “It’s like saying that a headache is an aspirin-deficiency syndrome.”
Welcome to 5D, Big Pharma!
TODAY'S "LIGHT TSUNAMI" QUOTE!
"The Light tsunami that is about to hit the solar system, planet earth and you, will shatter the remaining debris and barriers of the old energy; it will not survive the increase of frequencies. You will survive for you were born to this time, this day when the birth of a new being was to occur. The planning and preparation for this time has taken many lifetimes, on many planets, in many dimensions. Each of you has been seeded with a unique blend of gifts and talents with which you have been endowed by Source, through your own efforts and by the fractals of your composite being.
"Yet still we sense there are those among you who persist in denying their own power, who seek to lash out at others in a bid to gain some sort of protection for themselves by establishing as being authorities on any issue. This is an old game of the ego, desirous to protect its territory and to retain its rule over your future destiny. It is a game that the ego will not win, for the cycles have moved beyond the control of mind, ego and emotions to continue to limit humanity to the 3D belief system that was constructed specifically to control and suppress this very thing from happening – the birth of HuManity, into all its beauty and splendor."
(Channeled by Elizabeth Ayres Escher)
IS THERE BEER IN 5D?!
Apparently even beer has had to make the transition to a higher vibration.
According to data by the Beer Marketer’s Insights, American sales of nine major brands, including the once top-selling Budweiser, declined by more than 25% over the past five years. Miller is down 56% and Michelob Light’s U.S. sales declined by nearly 70%.
Yep. It seems that in 5D, so-called "craft beers" and beers made in local microbreweries are what's happening.
In other words, like everything else in 5D, even beer has to be brewed with love and a conscious, personal touch to make it.
Oh, and by the way, you may have never heard of this Chinese pale ale, but Snow Beer is about twice as popular as Bud Light!
According to data by the Beer Marketer’s Insights, American sales of nine major brands, including the once top-selling Budweiser, declined by more than 25% over the past five years. Miller is down 56% and Michelob Light’s U.S. sales declined by nearly 70%.
Yep. It seems that in 5D, so-called "craft beers" and beers made in local microbreweries are what's happening.
In other words, like everything else in 5D, even beer has to be brewed with love and a conscious, personal touch to make it.
Oh, and by the way, you may have never heard of this Chinese pale ale, but Snow Beer is about twice as popular as Bud Light!
REPOST OF PL's FAVORITE "TODAY'S QUOTE!"
Frank Buckles, the 108-year-old last surviving veteran of World War I, when asked his secret to a long life, answered:
“When you start to die, don’t!”
“When you start to die, don’t!”
WE ARE ALL THE WALRUS!
Just as I can still remember what I was doing, as a fourth grader, on the day John F. Kennedy was killed, and where I was and who I was with on the morning of September 11, 2001, I remember distinctly the details of the night of December 8, 1980, 33 years ago tonight.
I was riding a bus home from the evening shift at Covenant House, the then famous shelter for runaway teens in Times Square, when it was still a seedy Mecca for nefarious characters and lost souls from all over the country. I worked there per diem as a social worker, supplementing the income from my full-time day job at another social service agency. On Thanksgiving of that particular year, just 2 weeks before John's murder, I worked the evening shift at the shelter serving a sumptuous dinner to the kids that had been donated to Covenant House by John and Yoko. Each place setting had a card with artwork from John decorating it and a greeting from John, Yoko and Sean Lennon.
On that bus on December 8, around midnight, I was pretty much alone, lost in thought when the bus driver addressed me: "Did you hear what happened?" He asked. I just kind of mumbled, not really wanting to engage him. "They shot Lennon," he said. I thought to myself, "Oh boy, this guy's crazy," because I thought he was talking about Lenin, the communist leader who died almost sixty years earlier. The driver persisted until getting through and rocking my world. "Yep. They shot John Lennon," he said.
I could feel the blood drain out of my face.
Impossible.
"They shot John Lennon?!"
What?! Who?! Why?!!?
What?! Who?! Why?!!?
Interesting, isn't it, that the bus driver used the pronoun "they?" It's not an uncommon usage, but who are "they?" Chapman clearly killed John and acted alone in doing so, but yet, when the driver said "They," it seemed somehow appropriate. On 9/11/01, the person who first told me about the attack also said "They flew planes into the World Trade Center," even though it was not yet known who actually did it.
Who are "they?"
Well, "they" are "us."
As John Lennon himself once wrote:
"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together."
John came to understand something in his short time on Earth about the true oneness that exists in All That Is. Many of his lyrics, during and after the Beatle era, reflect some of that understanding. By choosing a lifetime in which he would be so monumentally famous, and die so infamously, you might say that John "volunteered" to play out the dualistic drama for us in his physical and emotional life, even as he sang about the true nature of our oneness and the synchronicity of everything that occurs:
"Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be."
Nothing truly, irrevocably tragic occurs, folks. We desire as souls to experience everything that we can conceive of, to know everything there is to know. In the "experiment" that was 3-dimensional physical reality in a linear time continuum, we explored how love, the essence of All That Is, can be expressed in that dimension. It was intense. And now, we are done with that particular experiment, which is why so many feel ready to move on from the experience of separateness.
Maybe that's what John was asking us to imagine - no Heaven, no hell, no religion, no country, no possessions... in other words, a world without duality.
"All you need is love."
FINAL SCENE FROM THE CITY ROCK PILOT!
This is the final scene from the City Rock pilot episode: "While You're Busy Making Other Plans," a moment when our main character, Frank Cello, confronts the ghost that has been haunting him throughout the episode, the spirit of the teen who died on Frank's watch, on the same night that John Lennon was murdered. Frank named his team after the kid.
EXT. NYC STREET - NIGHT
Frank is walking, lost. He arrives to the Gramercy Park Softball League playing field, walks past the Virgin Mary statue in centerfield and heads over to sit on a bench. He looks out onto the dark asphalt schoolyard, lit up only by the street lights.
CITY ROCK
Hey, man, your team was tough.
FRANK
What? What are you doing here?
CITY ROCK
What are you doing here?
FRANK
Look, what do you want?
CITY ROCK
What do you want?
FRANK
Tonight is not a good night for questions.
CITY ROCK
Can’t have answers without askin’ questions.
Silence for a long moment.
CITY ROCK (cont’d)
Remember that night John was killed?
Frank remembers and looks pained.
CITY ROCK (cont’d)
Four months ago tonight. That was not a good night.
FRANK
Don’t remind me.
CITY ROCK
Why’d you name your team after me?
FRANK
I don’t know. It just came to me.
CITY ROCK
I like that you did that.
FRANK
You never told me your real name.
CITY ROCK
Nobody has a real name on the street.
(beat)
Maybe it was his time, you know? John. I wasn’t into the Beatles. Kinda cool, though, that we checked out on the same night.
FRANK
Cool? Not exactly.
CITY ROCK
You couldn’t save me, Frank.
Frank starts to object.
CITY ROCK (cont’d)
No. I mean you couldn’t save me. You can’t save anybody, Frank. That’s what I’ve been tryin’ to tell you, but you don’t want to hear it.
Frank looks at the boy, then hangs his head for a long moment.
FRANK
Then, what am I doing? What’s the point? What’s my point?
CITY ROCK
What would Kirk say? You just know what you gotta do and you do it.
FRANK
You know Kirk?
CITY ROCK
(smiling)
Yeah, we just met. Hey, maybe you just keep going, Frank. These are crazy times comin’ up. This decade, I got a feelin’ a lot of people are gonna split. But what you’re tryin’ to do, it still matters.
Frank looks out at the ballfield under the moonlight, then looks back at the boy... but he isn’t there.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. CENTRAL PARK - SAME MOMENT
We see a crowd of people holding a candlelight vigil in Central Park in what will soon become Strawberry Fields.
DISSOLVE BACK:
EXT. GPSL PLAYING FIELD - SAME MOMENT
Frank walks over to home plate, stands there, looking out onto the field, then heads for home.
FADE TO BLACK.
EXT. NYC STREET - NIGHT
Frank is walking, lost. He arrives to the Gramercy Park Softball League playing field, walks past the Virgin Mary statue in centerfield and heads over to sit on a bench. He looks out onto the dark asphalt schoolyard, lit up only by the street lights.
CITY ROCK
Hey, man, your team was tough.
FRANK
What? What are you doing here?
CITY ROCK
What are you doing here?
FRANK
Look, what do you want?
CITY ROCK
What do you want?
FRANK
Tonight is not a good night for questions.
CITY ROCK
Can’t have answers without askin’ questions.
Silence for a long moment.
CITY ROCK (cont’d)
Remember that night John was killed?
Frank remembers and looks pained.
CITY ROCK (cont’d)
Four months ago tonight. That was not a good night.
FRANK
Don’t remind me.
CITY ROCK
Why’d you name your team after me?
FRANK
I don’t know. It just came to me.
CITY ROCK
I like that you did that.
FRANK
You never told me your real name.
CITY ROCK
Nobody has a real name on the street.
(beat)
Maybe it was his time, you know? John. I wasn’t into the Beatles. Kinda cool, though, that we checked out on the same night.
FRANK
Cool? Not exactly.
CITY ROCK
You couldn’t save me, Frank.
Frank starts to object.
CITY ROCK (cont’d)
No. I mean you couldn’t save me. You can’t save anybody, Frank. That’s what I’ve been tryin’ to tell you, but you don’t want to hear it.
Frank looks at the boy, then hangs his head for a long moment.
FRANK
Then, what am I doing? What’s the point? What’s my point?
CITY ROCK
What would Kirk say? You just know what you gotta do and you do it.
FRANK
You know Kirk?
CITY ROCK
(smiling)
Yeah, we just met. Hey, maybe you just keep going, Frank. These are crazy times comin’ up. This decade, I got a feelin’ a lot of people are gonna split. But what you’re tryin’ to do, it still matters.
Frank looks out at the ballfield under the moonlight, then looks back at the boy... but he isn’t there.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. CENTRAL PARK - SAME MOMENT
We see a crowd of people holding a candlelight vigil in Central Park in what will soon become Strawberry Fields.
DISSOLVE BACK:
EXT. GPSL PLAYING FIELD - SAME MOMENT
Frank walks over to home plate, stands there, looking out onto the field, then heads for home.
FADE TO BLACK.
GOOD MORNING! IT'S A BEAUTIFUL 5D DAY!
As promised, HERE is the link to Wendy Kennedy's channeled piece on why so many people are experiencing "symptoms" of fatigue, dizziness, flu-like feelings, etc.
This is a time of major energetic activity and transition, folks. I have never seen so many people waking up so quickly. (In fact, find a way right away to see the documentary "Wake Up." It's available on Netflix, if you have it, or you can rent it HERE.)
It is a wonder, and wonderful, to see the look on people's faces when they describe their experiences with wide eyes and exhilaration, followed by the bittersweet tears of saying farewell to their prior life as if it were simply a dream they once had.
Good morning to all!
This is a time of major energetic activity and transition, folks. I have never seen so many people waking up so quickly. (In fact, find a way right away to see the documentary "Wake Up." It's available on Netflix, if you have it, or you can rent it HERE.)
It is a wonder, and wonderful, to see the look on people's faces when they describe their experiences with wide eyes and exhilaration, followed by the bittersweet tears of saying farewell to their prior life as if it were simply a dream they once had.
Good morning to all!
ANGELS IN THE ARCHITECTURE! (MORE ON THE HUM HEARD ROUND THE WORLD!)
HERE is something amazing! The person who recorded these sounds describes them as an "angelic chorus in perfect harmony." I believe he is more correct than he might think.
So, like the news story on people around the world hearing an unusual hum, I have heard other personal stories of people hearing "things" - things that they try to describe in terms they can understand, but yet don't quite fit exactly into a familiar frame.
What do you think?
Read more HERE.
These are lyrics from Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al":
"He looks around, around .....
He sees angels in the architecture,
Spinning in infinity,
He says, Amen! and Hallelujah!"
So, like the news story on people around the world hearing an unusual hum, I have heard other personal stories of people hearing "things" - things that they try to describe in terms they can understand, but yet don't quite fit exactly into a familiar frame.
What do you think?
Read more HERE.
These are lyrics from Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al":
"He looks around, around .....
He sees angels in the architecture,
Spinning in infinity,
He says, Amen! and Hallelujah!"
HUM HEARD ROUND THE WORLD! MORE ON WAKING UP!
"It's known as "The Hum," a steady, droning sound that's heard in places as disparate as Taos, N.M.; Bristol, England; and Largs, Scotland. But what causes the Hum, and why it only affects a small percentage of the population in certain areas, remains a mystery, despite a number of scientific investigations."
Hmmm...
The veil is lifting between physical and non-physical realities, and that the sounds of previously unrevealed energies and entities that have always been around us are now becoming audible. It's kind of like an opportunity to get used to the presence of their company. Visuals will be next, folks!
Read more HERE.
Hmmm...
The veil is lifting between physical and non-physical realities, and that the sounds of previously unrevealed energies and entities that have always been around us are now becoming audible. It's kind of like an opportunity to get used to the presence of their company. Visuals will be next, folks!
Read more HERE.
TODAY'S EGO QUOTE!
"When the ego becomes too concerned with daily matters, with worry in other words, then the works of the tool [the ego] become clogged. It becomes ineffective. Dissociation [not identifying with the ego], and I will give you many ways of achieving it, unclogs the tool and is absolutely necessary."
Jane Roberts (Channeling "Seth")
FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY!
Fifty years ago today, in another linearly measured reality, President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas. I was nine. I don’t "remember" much from the actual day, and my memories are blended with all the footage and stories of the events over the subsequent years. I remember being sent home from school with the whole world seeming to be focused on the event. Everything stopped in a way that is rare. Being just a kid at the time, I remember being disgruntled that I couldn’t watch any of my favorite TV shows because they were all pre-empted. After all, there were only a few TV channels in 1963, and Mom and Dad were watching only the news that day.
The murders
of Martin Luther King and RFK in 1968, John Lennon’s murder in 1980, the
Challenger explosion in 1986, and of course, 9/11 all were in the same
world-stopping category of events. But somehow, the assassination of JFK looms larger and
more unique. I realized in watching a documentary about JFK’s presidency
recently that his singular mission here on earth may have been to turn the
world away from nuclear annihilation, which he effectively did during the Cuban
Missile Crisis. More or less on his own. The world never got back to that brink
again, and now here we are, alive and well, shifted to a new vibration and ready to meet our galactic and
intergalactic neighbors.
JFK’s
death was the beginning of the end of seeing "politics" and "social movements" as the solutions to
anything related to our further evolution. The Viet Nam War, Watergate, Kent State, and for me personally, and
finally, the election of Ronald Reagan turned me inward in my search for ways
to improve life on Planet Earth. That search and inward turn have never relented, and I would have to say today, have yielded much fruit.
“The kingdom of Heaven is within each of you.”
Indeed it
is, and many are beginning to get that those words were not meant
metaphorically. Life is an inside job. Creating reality, individually and
collectively, begins within each of us.
I look
around me today, as a reflection of looking within, and I see many people waking
up. It’s beautiful. We made it. Good job, everyone. Nicely done.
Enjoy the coffee.
NEW ADDRESS FOR THE PATHWORK GUIDE LECTURES!
To All FPL Readers: In case you have tried to access the PWG Lectures through the link to the right and gotten a "FORBIDDEN" notice, fear not. This is 5D and access to higher wisdom is never denied. They just changed their address. You can now link to it from FPL and from HERE.
WHAT'S SO FUNNY ABOUT 5D?!
Apparently something.
The cover story of Time Out New York this week is about - and I'm not paraphrasing - the current "comedy boom."
"LIVE COMEDY Takes Over NYC"
That's the headline. No joke (Sorry.)
The New York Comedy Festival (What?!) was apparently in full swing here last week, unbeknownst to me, but not slipping my notice is the current surge of interest in all things funny. As of yesterday, I now personally know of at least three people who just decided to take-up stand-up. Just like that and they're off to any number of the city's countless comedy clubs, or grabbing an open mic in a bar whenever and wherever they can find one.
On the personal front, around our house, like many, many households these days, we don't watch CNN or MSNBC for the news anymore. We watch Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Bill Maher. Comedians. Not only do our adolescent kids keep informed on world events via Comedy Central, but our 16-year old son, an old soul indeed, is infatuated with stand-up comedy, and not just as performed by Louis C.K., Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifia...whatever, and Wanda Sykes, et al, but he's also into the old-timers like Billy Crystal and Robin Williams, and even the deceased funny, like Richard Pryor and George Carlin.
So, what gives?
Well, in case you thought 5D was a "serious" dimension, think again. While interpersonal turmoil, creative labor pains, natural disasters and generalized existential angst were part of the initial Wave in 2012 that took us to 5D, humor, laughter, joyfulness and satisfaction in love and creativity will be the ambience post-Wave. And all of our Higher Selves know that physical life is "just a ride" anyway, as comedian Bill Hicks blithely pointed out (See the FPL post HERE)
So, lighten up enlightened readers. In the words of Michael the Archangel, as portrayed by John Travolta:
"You gotta laugh. It's the key to loving."
The cover story of Time Out New York this week is about - and I'm not paraphrasing - the current "comedy boom."
"LIVE COMEDY Takes Over NYC"
That's the headline. No joke (Sorry.)
The New York Comedy Festival (What?!) was apparently in full swing here last week, unbeknownst to me, but not slipping my notice is the current surge of interest in all things funny. As of yesterday, I now personally know of at least three people who just decided to take-up stand-up. Just like that and they're off to any number of the city's countless comedy clubs, or grabbing an open mic in a bar whenever and wherever they can find one.
On the personal front, around our house, like many, many households these days, we don't watch CNN or MSNBC for the news anymore. We watch Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Bill Maher. Comedians. Not only do our adolescent kids keep informed on world events via Comedy Central, but our 16-year old son, an old soul indeed, is infatuated with stand-up comedy, and not just as performed by Louis C.K., Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifia...whatever, and Wanda Sykes, et al, but he's also into the old-timers like Billy Crystal and Robin Williams, and even the deceased funny, like Richard Pryor and George Carlin.
So, what gives?
Well, in case you thought 5D was a "serious" dimension, think again. While interpersonal turmoil, creative labor pains, natural disasters and generalized existential angst were part of the initial Wave in 2012 that took us to 5D, humor, laughter, joyfulness and satisfaction in love and creativity will be the ambience post-Wave. And all of our Higher Selves know that physical life is "just a ride" anyway, as comedian Bill Hicks blithely pointed out (See the FPL post HERE)
So, lighten up enlightened readers. In the words of Michael the Archangel, as portrayed by John Travolta:
"You gotta laugh. It's the key to loving."
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