Hello Everyone, Staying Awake was originally to have been a long journal of feel good synchronous moments, so we’d feel included with clusters of people who actually stay awake to our intuitive being. After writing numerous ezines early on, I discovered it’s just as much fun to talk about, even gawk at, the circumstances that brought together the moment. Here’s a scenario I especially enjoy. A few weeks ago, a friend and I decided to have lunch at a nearby hotel. We entered the restaurant, and began our saunter to smell and look at the usual foods displayed in cafeteria style. Meats and vegetables, desserts and beverages were feasted upon as we’d done a thousand times in other places. After a few minutes of enjoying ourselves and our meals, we noticed a man sitting down at a table across the room. He forked in some food, pressed keys on his laptop, then up to his ear went his cell phone. I looked and looked again at his face, and knew I had seen him before. At once, I had it. He could have passed for a twin brother of the messianic global warming lobbyist, Al Gore, except the man across the room wasn’t paunchy. My friend and I thought nothing more about the Gore double as we left the hotel and drove home. I parked the car while my friend went to the mail box to collect the day’s delivery. A few minutes later in the kitchen, she laid an envelop in front of me, and pointed to the return address on the unsolicited piece. Printed in an amiable typeface and benign blue ink was the name ‘Al Gore.’ We guffawed mostly at the synchronicity! The politico memo regenerated a few common annoyances to which my friend and I shrugged our shoulders. We went on with the afternoon’s agenda after tossing the fund raising solicitation along with questionable environmental ethics it represented. The Winds Do BlowThe winds of ethics, and lacks thereof, do blow on us from all directions. These are the times to actually stay awake and feel, not run away from, the brush of the ethical against the unethical. Being mostly asleep to everything political prior to September 11, 2001, the geopolitical has become a fascinating perusal; a topic that’s useful when probing global warming doublespeak polished politicians have memorized for their public performances and private soirées.
Spatial politics clearly show the winds do blow from directions gusting from mouths of political brotherhoods and professional cartels, who obviously flip flop on issues depending on which friend or foe voices the mightiest alarm. Similarly, lumping Earth’s massive environmental nuances into one term global warming is a dramatic and fraudulent method manly alliances, lobbyists, fellowships, and the like, hustle fear into voters’ imaginations already trained to revere anxiety. By political and religious stratagems, many governments and commercial media conceal millennia of astronomical and scientific climate inquiry—similar concealments apparent in vaticanic medieval history. Consequently, too many humans’ imaginations are fixed with simplified science that can as easily be read in comic books and viewed in convenient mockumentaries. Magnates’ maximized bottom lines, fastidiously calculated, distinctly display why the winds do blow Earthlings’ considerations and convictions this way and that through generations. To Let Us KnowThe Sun is too frequently overlooked, so it’s seen in Staying Awake’s banner to keep us reminded. Global warming, climate change, global climate change, the warming globe, or whatever the term du jour, are distractions from putting studies of the Sun into the public’s notice. ¹ But, reputable scientists and writers, perhaps not tethered to corporate bottom lines, are publishing books and reports to let us know the Sun is analyzed for probable impacts on and in Earth.
To let us know by way of reminder, the Sun is presently in its cycle #24 as of September, 2006, and, as NASA reports, apexes in 2011 or 2012. The Sun is forecasted to move into its solar maximum cycle in late 2007, and the cycle could be as much as fifty percent stronger than its most recent maximum. During the maximum period, unexpected catastrophes to Earth’s landscapes could occur from solar storms, putting in peril infrastructures and lives of our global sisters and brothers for whom we must stay awake. If We Be WiseThere’s so much for which to be awake and wise, we might be all the wiser by not staying awake and deceiving ourselves about ethics. Since the year 2000, global governments’ administrations have helped us remember our rulers’ religious and debtor systems very likely developed from intergenerational practices of ancient leaderships in China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Sumeria. If we be wise, we global sisters and brothers would notice we’re not experiencing anything new in unethical matters. We just forgot to note rulers’ accomplishments in our ancestors’ lives as they lived through the villainous vaticanic medieval age; through the early industrial aged egregious financial accounting houses; then into the multi-headed beast of central banks in the commercialized 20th century. Do you see a thread in cosmology here? From the 20th into the 21st century, we have enough information to observe the peaceful advantages of art, music, philosophy, and leisure for some chosen nations, while quick disruptive gusts of change for other nations. Governments’ figureheads, mostly men threatened within inches of their lives by other men, have for millennia, and by design, quickened the pace of changes to such an extent that only pockets of peace existed for citizenries and their governances in any given generation. Through religious governments on every continent, escalated disruptive changes generated by ‘my God is better than yours’ serve the central bankers’ colossal profits and loans, and manifest purpose for religious radicals, war, and debt. If we be wise, we’d note that until they’re no longer purposeful, monotheisms, keeping people divided with their allusions, symbols, hymns, metaphors, and shepherds for sheeple, represent intolerant fundamentalists’ traps—until they fold in on themselves like castles built in sand. ² It’s Time to RiseAt this point in writing this newsletter, I thought it’s time to rise and take a break. I went out for a sandwich and beverage. On the way back to my desk, it dawned on me that you and I, our global sisters and brothers, all are a species. In our bizziness with family and friends and enterprises, we mostly forget we’re living on a planet.WE are a SPECIES, living on a PLANET, and the Sun nurtures nature for our nourishment. I think it’s time to rise to educate ourselves about the emergence of Earthlings’ feminine energies intuiting their way to nurture a balanced consciousness. Just maybe our species can move into a numinous cosmology not thwarted by masculine rulers refusing more information, knowledge, and intuitiveness than can be magistrated; a cosmology again filled with serendipity after an epoch of not less than five thousand years of malevolent imaginations.
Around the planet, women see women rising to educate each other in gender differences, governmental matters, children’s education, and health care; talking, managing, documenting, administering; thwarting wars before they begin, stopping wars once they’ve begun, while nurturing families and energy conservations, too! When you’ve twenty minutes or so, watch the TED dot com video presentation of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first female Finance Minister in Nigeria. She invites philanthropists to rise to the occasion by actually sitting down, listening, and talking with local Africans the donators want to financially help—a novel idea! Only by throngs of women helping each other, our magnificent species has hope.
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