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The world’s oldest profession is being a politician. Biblically-speaking, the serpent was the first politician. Here we have a being pretending to be helpful, looking out for the welfare of Adam & Eve but actually committed to being self-serving and damaging to the human race.

Adam and Eve did not discern the intentions of the politician they were dealing with. They fell for the words whispered to them. They accepted the fear of loss that was planted in them by the serpent.

An effective strategy might have been to ask themselves, “How does the serpent ‘benefit’ from this ‘kindness’? Today, to grasp what is really happening, we say, “Follow the money” and you will find the driving force behind politicians’ serpentine maneuvers.

A few years ago, Senator Martinez in Florida put out two weird points in his newsletter. First, he made a strong point about the problem of having 7 political prisoners in Cuba. He overlooked us having political prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba! He also overlooked two other more important and obvious facts: in 2007 the US had 2,300,000 prisoners and Florida had the second largest increase in Federal prison population of all states.  Perhaps a small bit of attention to Florida’s needs could result in a reduction by at least 7 the entire prison population.

The second point he stressed was the need for more foreign trade between the US and Latin American countries. His list of  suggested trading partners EXCLUDED Cuba!

Does this look like a serpent in the garden? Does this look like a blatant vote-whore?

Senator Bill Nelson’s website emphasizes his commitment to Florida’s citizens but his office can’t be reached by phone! The website serves to present his facade of caring.

Are the practitioners of the oldest profession most accurately labeled politicians, prostiticians, or polititudes

The politicians create unreal enemies for us to fear so we turn to them for help and protection. Sounds like the pharmaceutical companies marketing new diseases so they can peddle drugs to us.

Where are the days when prostitution existed in which both parties to a transaction chose to do what was being done?

From MoveOn.org (the organization I’ve been volunteering for over the past 6 years):

Want to see what change looks like? Real change?

Well, here it is. Last week, President Obama unveiled his budget—his blueprint for America—and it’s ambitious, amazing, and unapologetically progressive. As Paul Krugman said, it will set America on a “fundamentally new course.”1

President Obama called his budget “a threat to the status quo,” and trust me, the status quo noticed. Oil companies, big banks and insurance companies are already mobilizing to stop it.2

Unfortunately, most folks don’t realize how far-reaching and progressive the plan is—that’s where we all come in.

Here are 10 really incredible things about Obama’s plan. Check them out and then send them on to your friends and family so that millions of people will have the information they need to fight to make this vision a reality.
10 things you should know about Obama’s plan (but probably don’t)

The plan:

1. Makes a $634 billion down payment on fixing health care that will go a long way toward paying for a more efficient, more affordable health care system that covers every single American.3

2. Reduces taxes for 95% of working Americans. And if your family makes less than $250,000, your taxes won’t go up one dime.4

3. Invests more than $100 billion in clean energy technology, creating millions of green jobs that can never be outsourced.5

4. Brings our troops home from Iraq on a firm timetable, finally bringing the war to a close—and freeing up almost ten billion dollars a month for domestic priorities.6

5. Reverses growing income inequality. The plan lets the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire and focuses on strengthening the middle class.7

6. Closes multi-billion-dollar tax loopholes for big oil companies. 8

7. Increases grants to help families pay for college—the largest increase ever.9

8. Halves the deficit by 2013. President Obama inherited a legacy of huge deficits and an economy in shambles, but his plan brings the deficit under control as soon as the economy begins to recover.10

9. Dramatically increases funding for the SEC and the CFTC—the agencies that police Wall Street.11

10. Tells it straight. For years, budgets have used accounting tricks to hide the real costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush tax cuts, and too many other programs. Obama’s budget gets rid of the smokescreens and lays out what America’s priorities are, what they cost, and how we’re going to pay for them.12

This is the change we voted for. President Obama has done his part, now we need to do ours.

Can you pass this on to your personal network and then click HERE to let us know how many people you told, so we can track our impact together:

Thanks for all you do.

–Daniel, Tanya, Peter, Justin and the rest of the team

P.S. Turns out there are way more than 10 amazing things in Obama’s budget and we couldn’t resist sharing just a few more.

1. Stops unnecessary government subsidies to big banks, health insurance companies and big agribusinesses.13,14,15

2. Expands access to early childhood education and improves schools by investing in programs that make sure every child has a qualified, strong teacher.16

3. Negotiates for better prescription drug prices using Medicaid’s tremendous bargaining power.17

4. Expands access to family planning for low-income women.18

5. Caps the pollution that causes global warming, and makes polluters pay to support clean energy innovation.19

Sources:

1. Climate of Change, The New York Times, February 27, 2009

2. Obama Calls His Budget Sweeping, Needed Change, The New York Times, February 28, 2009

3. Obama Offers Broad Plan to Revamp Health Care, The New York Times, February 26, 2009

4. Obama Expects Fight Over $3.55 Trillion Budget Plan, Bloomberg News, February 28, 2009

5. Energy Budget Is Sunlight After Eight Years of Darkness, Center for American Progress, February 26, 2009

6. The Economic Cost of War in Iraq and Afghanistan, The New York Times, March 1, 2009

7. Tax Cuts, The New York Times, February 26, 2009

8. Energy Budget Is Sunlight After Eight Years of Darkness, Center for American Progress, February 26, 2009

9. Student Loans, The New York Times, February 26, 2009

10. Obama unveils budget blueprint, CNN, February 26, 2009

11. Obama budget would boost SEC, CFTC, FBI, Reuters, February 26, 2009

12. Obama’s budget, Los Angeles Times, February 27, 2009

13. Health Insurance Stocks Dive on Medicare Advantage Cuts, The Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2009

14. Agriculture, The New York Times, February 26, 2009

15. Investing Wisely in Our Children, Center for American Progress, February 26, 2009

16. Obama Offers Broad Plan to Revamp Health Care, The New York Times, February 26, 2009

17. Obama Offers Broad Plan to Revamp Health Care, The New York Times, February 26, 2009

18. Setting ‘Green’ Goals, The New York Times, February 26, 2009

WOW what a weekend – More later

This is a “new” technology (not) but it certainly is powerful.  Think about how powerful you would feel if you could go back in time and “fix” things that happened to you?  For example, what if you broke a finger in a car door and with the technology learned in this weekend you could go back in time before you broke the finger and bring that state of being (no broken finger state) forward such that you no longer had a broken finger.  SOunds pretty weird doesn’t it.  But it is not.   This seminar was head numbing – in fact my brain got fried trying to “do” too much to understand.  The secret is to do nothing and get out of the way.  Lots to learn for this control oriented, left brain person.

More later as I reflect.

Testing a separate category for Mary Ann’s Corner!

Get Excited and Stay Excited!

Being alive is not the same as being a D battery with a finite amount of energy stored in it.

Years ago when I lived on West End Avenue in Manhattan, New York I would awaken early to run in Riverside Park along the Hudson River. Walter, the night porter, would still be operating the elevator. He would go, “Tsk, tsk, tsk” with his tongue at me to indicate a warning. Upon my questioning, Walter said, “You will use it all up. You will use up all your energy and then …” He looked sad at the end of sentence so I interpreted that to mean the he was concerned that I would die when I used up all my energy due to foolishly running in the Park.

Life is not the contents of a container, even the body-container. We don’t die when the ‘contents’ are used up. Life is a flow of energy. People can allow or disallow the flow so it is a trickle, a stream, a river, or an ocean of energy.

When we put our attention on an idea a desire is generated that increases the energy flow. As we offer/direct more energy (attention, intention, desire, etc.) to that mental object we become more excited.

We are streaming energy to that object.

We have started and are increasing the flow of energy in proportion to our level of excitement.

Now, instead of being like a regular D battery a better description is a recharging dynamo even as it is working.We transmit. We broadcast. And we receive energy. We receive the equivalent of what we have sent.

If you feel lethargic, search for something that excites you. Search for some action. Put your attention on someone else’s need and take action to fill it. Moving energy with purpose tends to excites one’s imagination as to what else is possible.

When a client says to me, “Nothing excites me” I take that as a very serious statement that they have stopped or limited the flow of energy

from themselves

and consequently, to themselves. They have turned off the faucet of life and the ultimate result of that condition is death.

Rule #2: Don’t let anyone else kill you.

I recall playing doctor as a young boy. I don’t recall if I initiated the game or my ‘patients’ did. Looking back this childhood experience of curiosity about the human body seem very natural.

Looking forward, we didn’t suspect that we, as a society, would be on the wrong end of the serious game of people ‘playing doctor.’

There are a lot of deadly risks in life. Not being killed by those risks is our responsibility. It might seem obvious but it is worth repeating:

the ‘killers’ have agendas other than keeping you safe!

Imagine your role, not from the viewpoint you would normally see it from, but as the other person could be seeing it. Are you a piece of meat on an assembly line being processed, a certain number per hour, in a money-oriented business?

Consider the people sitting in the waiting room in the doctor’s office or in the hospital emergency room and ask yourself if this stockpile of human beings is evidence of the level of respect and appreciation the doctor or hospital personnel has for you and the other people.

The number of people killed in the US each years is calculated to be between 400,000 people to 1,000,000 people with some experts believing the figure is certainly at least 780,000. Those casualties are the ones that are known and identifiable. Those numbers don’t take into account the deaths that are hidden.

Folks, the odds are that you are now or will be killed by your doctors, their treatments or mis-treatments, the drugs given to you, or diseases you catch while in the hospital! Going to the doctor is like going to a casino and betting your life. When someone dies due to a medical screw-up, you will not hear, “He (or she) died of a medical screw-up.” You will hear, instead, “He (or she) died of complications of their illness.” No, they didn’t!! More than likely they died of complications from their treatment! The things that complicated the treatment are the things that killed them!

When you perceive the inaccuracy of, “My doctor is taking care of me” you will recognize that while your doctor is taking care of his medical business, it is your responsibility to take care of yourself. Let’s take the doctor’s point of view when they see someone entering their office and that person obviously doesn’t care about himself, won’t take responsibility for himself, and wants to shift the job of their health to the doctor. Why should the doctor invest his caring in such a wasted effort? If a doctor fell into that trap, the doctor wouldn’t last a year in the medical business. They would die from frustration and anger, disappointment and grief.

Rule #1: Don’t kill yourself.
For most people, death occurs at the end of a long series of ‘losses of life.’ Lots of ‘losses of life’ have a cumulative effect until there is not enough life left to keep the body functioning.

Losses of life are like cuts in the skin that cause bleeding. Some cuts are small nicks where only a few drops of blood (life) are lost. Other cuts are huge and dramatic and lots of blood is lost.

On a physical level, the body is a bag of blood. Breaking the skin is not a good idea. Think of this the next time someone wants to poke you with a syringe full of poison.

If you consider that, energetically, we may be a bag of energy contained within an invisible skin, we wouldn’t want to break that ‘skin’ either since energy would spill out.

Energy losses, like cuts in the physical skin, vary in severity at the moment and in the long-term.
This is really where ‘loss of life’ occurs. Insults, betrayals, humiliation, disapprovals, assaults, non-love, non-caring, the list of adverse childhood experiences all can result in loss of life.

Self-disapproval is the main weapon used in suicide. Self-disapproval results in loss of life so that the person is weakened spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically so that high vibration thoughts, emotions, and actions are not available to one’s awareness.

Opportunistic energies influence a weakened person to the point that lies are believed to be true, reason is reversed, and non-existence is felt to be better for the world and for the person. Actually, nothing is further from the truth.

Disapproval is a control device used on people from birth. When we mis-learn the lesson of disapproval we begin to use self-disapproval as a way to control ourselves. It doesn’t work any more than stabbing yourself with a knife would inspire greater achievements.

Having mis-learned lessons of control and disapproval, we then embark on the second most common characteristic of suicide–we try to control what can’t and shouldn’t be controlled by us.

We were controlled by others so we learned that control of others produces what we want. No, it doesn’t! The idea that one’s health, happiness, and success will come from controlling others sets conflicting energies in motion.

Self-control is the only viable and valuable form of control. When we try to control another we literally give energy to the other. It is our loss.

On sane person would stand up, walk over to a wall in the room they’re in and start pushing, expecting the wall to transform into a door in that spot. “What are you doing?, we would asked. “Trying to make this wall a door”, could be the answer. “The door is over here”, we would offer helpfully. “I want the door to be here and I want this wall to be the door!”

As this scenario continued and frustration and anger escalated, we might see the person running, crashing, screaming, and flailing to get the wall to be the door. All that human energy, devoted to trying to control outer circumstances, would be lost from the person. Death results from these accumulated losses.

Another way people toxify themselves to the point of death is to connect to their self-disapproval and project it onto other people. Anger, blame, cruelty, etc., actually prime the invisible ‘energy pump’ which responds, abundantly, with the same type vibrations we use to prime it.

When we offer gratitude to the object of our attention, we are priming a pump that will provide more vibrations that resonate with gratitude. That is, more things worthy of gratitude will come into our experience.

However, when we offer or project negative, lower vibration energy liike resentment, more things that resonate with the vibration of resentment come to us as surely as if we directly asked to feel more resentful.

These toxic vibrations, expressed through us and resupplied to us, will destroy the physical body even as they damage the mind and the emotions.

Expressing poison is the same as drinking poison. That fact, unknown to most people, is what gradually kills them. It is helpful to know, “You are drinking what you are expressing.”