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The relative sizes of the sun and planets in the Earth solar system
NOW, Imagine the YOU helped to create them, in a long-forgotten, past…..
Or, that we ALL continue to create them together, as Immortal Spiritual Beings!
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi or Bapu (Father of Nation), was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world.
The son of a senior government official, Gandhi was born and raised in a Bania community in coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women’s rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from British domination.
In London he committed himself to truthfulness, temperance, chastity, and vegetarianism. His return to India to work as a lawyer was a failure, so he went to South Africa for a quarter century, where he absorbed ideas from many sources, most of them non-Indian. He was exposed to Jain ideas through his mother who, was in contact with Jain monks. Themes from Jainism that Gandhi absorbed included asceticism; compassion for all forms of life; the importance of vows for self-discipline; vegetarianism; fasting for self-purification; mutual tolerance among people of different creeds; and “syadvad”, the idea that all views of truth are partial.
Gandhi strongly favored the emancipation of women, and he went so far as to say that “the women have come to look upon me as one of themselves.” He opposed purdah, child marriage, untouchability, and the extreme oppression of Hindu widows, up to and including sati. He especially recruited women to participate in the salt tax campaigns and the boycott of foreign products. Gandhi’s success in enlisting women in his campaigns, including the salt tax campaign, anti-untouchability campaign and the peasant movement, gave many women a new self-confidence and dignity in the mainstream of Indian public life.
In his last year, unhappy at the partition of India, Gandhi worked to stop the carnage between Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs that raged in the border area between India and Pakistan. He was assassinated on 30 January 1948.
Gandhi’s philosophy was not theoretical but one of pragmatism, that is, practicing his principles in the moment. Asked to give a message to the people, he would respond, “My life is my message.”
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1984 has come and gone. The prophecy of George Orwell have been fulfilled. Now we know, without any doubt, that wars are started by bankers and politicians to make a financial profit and to gain personal power for themselves. In the United States there are no more wars of “defending oneself”. (False Flags propaganda notwithstanding). Since WW II the ONLY reason any war was ever fought — and factually, during the last 5,000 years human history — was for the profit of private banks and corporations. Don’t take my word for it. Study the history of warfare. Actually, there has always been a “Big Brother” in every period of history from the Egyptians to the Rockefellers. “Big Brother” is the bankers and politicians — with the blessing of the priests.
However, they are NOT the people who load the shells, fly the planes, drop the bombs and pull the triggers that kill people. They are spineless cowards who hide behind curtains and desks and rhetoric and secret police. It is each individual soldier who “is just doing his duty” that does the killing for the despicable slime we call our “leaders”. Until soldiers refuse to become soldiers there will be perpetual wars. I refused to be inducted into the military in 1969, during the Vietnam War. So can you now. All it takes is the balls to say the words: “HELL NO! I WON’T GO!”
So what can “Big Brother” do to you? Put you in prison? Shoot you in the head? So what?! Sacrificing your life is a small price to pay compared to relinquishing your personal responsibility to the whims of a pack of psychopathic power-brokers. It’s just a matter of time before the next person they’ll order you to kill is your own mother, brother and sister — in this lifetime or the next. What goes around, comes around.
Every time you “volunteer” to go out and kill people, or support the parasites who tell you it is your “duty” to murder the “enemy” they created for you, you — not anyone else — are the killer. I have heard a million reasons why it is OK to be a soldier. As a way to earn a living, almost any job is less destructive, and more honest, than helping a Gang of War Profiteers to invade entire countries so Wall Street bankers and Corporate Arms manufacturers can make another billion dollars on selling guns to your “enemies”. How many reasons can you think of to help “Big Brother” continue to slaughter millions and millions of people for their personal financial profit for the next 5,000 years? — Lawrence R. Spencer. 2012.
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Watch the following video with footage from the Vietnam war: notice who’s doing the killing and who’s safe back home in their offices: you guessed it, “Big Brother”.
Here is a quick less on how BIG BROTHER (“The Party”) keeps getting away with murder, theft and mayhem for their personal power and profit, at our expense:
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” ― George Orwell, 1984 — published in 1949.
HERE IS A FREE ON-LINE COPY OF THE COMIC BOOK VERSION OF THE BOOK 1984
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The North Korean man in this video was born in a prison camp. Three generations of the families in this prison were also born, and lived their entire lives there without ANY knowledge that they were INSIDE and prison, or that there was any life beyond the prison! They lived in as virtual, and literal state of “amnesia”, regarding their past, and where they came from!
This is a real-life demonstration of the phenomenon that isolation causes Amnesia. I am referring to the kind of Amnesia that human beings, as immortal spiritual beings, experience here on Earth. On Earth, as a “prison planet”, we are completely isolated from all other sentient civilizations in this galaxy. We are born here, we live here, and we die here, generation after generation, with NO communication or certain knowledge that there is ANY other life beyond the walls of our confinement on Earth.
The experience of the young man in this video interview is a grim reminder that we can forget WHO We Really Are, as Spiritual Beings. Through perpetual isolation, and the lies of “evolution”, we also forget Where We CAME From, and who we arrived on Earth, as spiritual entities. When we know nothing about life beyond the walls of our prison, it is easy to forget our Immortal past.
However, I would like to Remember Who I Really Am. I would enjoy knowing other Beings who also remember life outside the walls of our prison. If we want to “escape”, we must begin somewhere. The first step toward “escaping” from prison, it to discover that we are living IN a prison! This may seem like a completely “crazy” idea. But, think about it…. It is really outside the realm of possibility that an an intergalactic, totalitarian government could set up a planet as a prison camp? For details about this idea, read the Top Secret transcripts published in the book ALIEN INTERVIEW.
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George Ivanovich Gurdjieff 1872 – 1949) was a Georgian mystic and a spiritual teacher of what came to be called “the Work” or “The Fourth Way”, in which he taught people how to increase and focus their attention and energy through various awareness exercises. According to his teachings, such inner development is the beginning of a possible further process of change, and spiritual evolution.