Dear Mr. President

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Dear Mr. President:

Thank you for your letter.

I know that presently we are looking at the "entitlement" programs, Medicare and Social Security.

As are many of the quiet folks from whom you will hear nothing because they are used to not being heard and have been discouraged by the cruel, demeaning and heartless language that the "entitled" people use to describe the vast millions of others who have worked as much as they possibly could to have a decent life and raise good children, I am very concerned about the "looking" that is happening.

While I may not have a "seat at the table", I do have a voice and a heart and the experience of having lived one of those lives myself and I know where of I speak.

The entire concept of entitlement has been spun so that it makes those who are the beneficiaries of these programs seem unworthy. You know that this effort to label the common people as inferior and less than, started long ago. It was the base that supported the concept of serfs and Royalty or the mob and the Entitled--Kings, Queens, Dukes, Duchesses and other people of Quality--to actually treat people as property for centuries.

Our Revolution but a big hole in that delusion, but then we had to sort of reinforce it with the Civil War.

However, I clearly recall the reappearance of that lie in this country. It occurred with the launch of Ronald Reagan's offensive, Reaganomics. Among other things this carefully planned assault on Democracy whipped up hatred and resentment toward common people (another phrase whose meaning has been changed from "that which appears most often" to "something very much less than special".) and changed the image/meaning of welfare, specifically a program called Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC),  from something that the people with hearts do for the common good and general welfare of a country, into a scheme for lazy and worthless people to get benefits like food stamps and cash aid--that barley came close to the poverty levels--at the expense of good hard working, mostly white, people.

The self appointed Entitled people, those individuals who have aligned themselves against "more taxes" and want to cut "social programs" have no use whatsoever for the common good or the general welfare. They have everything they could possibly want, let alone need.  Because they have exclusive ownership of these resources, they see themselves as entitled to them. They deserve them because they have worked hard for them.

They assume, or pretend to assume, to justify their entitlement, that anyone who works hard will have what they have. The fact that one does not have is proof that one does not work hard, or are somehow otherwise undeserving. These assumptions, ancient, ingrained delusions in the human psyche, are the source of most of the suffering on the planet.

I want to encourage you stand firm on the two programs, Medicare and Social Security.

   

These two programs are a major part of the bedrock of our concept of government of for and by the people which supports and grows the Common  Good and the General Welfare. They are indeed entitlement programs. That is they support the people who are entitled to receive the benefits from them.

Our entitlement rises from the fact the these programs are Laws of the People. They are Of The People; they were legislated into existence By the People. They were meant to support the Common Good, and they are, therefore, For The People. In addition, they are paid for By the People through self legislated taxes to support the Common Good and the General Welfare of the Nation.

This is Democracy, government of for and by the people.

The People elected you. You are running our government. This fraction of our brothers and sisters who are still lost in the illusion of a separative reality where might makes right need for us to stand strong so that they can see their way out of that cave, that morass which in truth has at one time or another engulfed us all.

The Common Good and the General Welfare has to embrace everybody.

I can see that we are on the same page, because I really resonated with his quote from your letter. "Despite all our differences, we are one American family, and our country is at its best when we accept our obligations to one another and to future generations.  While we have faced great hardship, we know that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come."

lots of love

-tom

R U READY?

 R U READY?

Celebrate, Friends! the Calvary  is coming.

It is a thundering, uncountable herd of 4 to 30 year olds, and more of them are being born every minute. For those of you who do not understand or even accept the Cosmic Law of reincarnation, this fact may not be that exciting. However, your opinions on the matter really do not matter.  The thing about the Cosmic Law of Reincarnation that one needs to grasp is that it only makes sense. If  you can get recycling, you should be able to get reincarnation. Without it evolution is a joke. Anyway that is another topic for another  blog.

The thundering herd which is avalanching toward us contains an untold number of us who have been evolving, that is becoming more and more conscious of who and what we are, for a  very long time. This scientific fact puts light on the incredible explosion of humanity, that is the humane principles which are the core of our humanity and which are rapidly manifesting through these coming ones, that we are witnessing.

If your head is still in the sand of yesterday, you might not be aware of this  amazing unfolding event. It is an event that makes any tornado, earthquake, storm volcanic eruption a fly speck in comparison to the changes it is bringing about and will continue to bring about only on a more advanced and obvious scale in the immediate future.

These coming ones, a huge number of whom have already arrived,  are not riding horses. They ride waves of light and information on the world around internet. They are armed with the very latest electronic communication systems, and they use them with incredible skill. They, the ones who are old enough to have their own interface systems any way, are much better informed regarding the real world and what is going on in and on it than the vast majority of their seniors many of whom are exhibiting a kind of early manifesting senility, or mental degradation due to having drank the cool aid and becoming fixated on platitudes, shibboleths, illusory slogans, attitudes which, if they were ever true in some strange context, are worn out and useless now, as well as certifiable outright lies woven by the sophist of today and yester year.

This advancing avalanche of young brothers and sisters is remarkable for other reasons as well. For starters this avalanche includes, in fact is often driven and directed by, women and girl children. This fact alone makes the size and collective power of the group millions and millions of times more powerful  than any previous evolutionary expansion of consciousness, which is what this phenomena is, of which we have any records.

Also, the huge percentage of this Life Wave, of this new root race, to use some esoteric jargon, have hearts that actually work, that do something besides pump blood. Their hearts are sensitive to and able to register the feelings, the equality and beauty of others and to honor them as themselves. This is what the heart was designed to do. The program is in the DNA, and there was, as we are seeing, no escaping its inevitable manifestation.

They care for some things which they consider to be other and greater than their own personal, immediate comfort. Their goal  is not to "get ahead" at the expense of their brothers and sisters, but to actually, through collective government of the people by the people and for the people, see that everyone gets ahead. And ahead does not mean for them that everyone has a personal jet, yacht, island and penthouse apartment in some Dubai, New York, or Paris skyscraper.

Ahead for them means that everyone's essential humanity is respected and encouraged and helped to flower. It means that we understand that there is, after all only One Humanity and One Planet. There are no commodities on planet Earth. Everything, from the rocks to the people is part of this world and all are to be respected and encouraged to evolve in their individual patterns.

No evolutionary pattern  is in competition with another for survival. Patterns, like competition and exclusivity which depend on the enslavement or death of others for their own survival or comfort are alien to this world. The Life Force of the Planet will eventually bring them to a point of extinction.

In the mean time, don't just hang in there help it out. Celebrate! That is get involved in some joyful activity.

BIG HINT! If it isn't joyful or happy. Do not do it. Life is a joyous, unfolding revelation of what is really going on.

lots of love

-tom  

  

Dear Mr. President:

Thank you.

Your heart talk today was a wind of courage and truth that will fan the flames of other hearts and ignite those smoldering sparks of longing and hope in untold legions of our brothers and sisters into a new blaze.

So thank you.

For me it was a refreshing clarion call to action. It is self evident that we are created equal. However, as you clearly pointed out, manifesting that equality in systems, and programs is totally our responsibility. You moved this image of Truth, which we call an idea, this fount of incredible power, from idealistic language into the forefront of the people's hearts and minds and the practical, actionable, reality of everyday living.  We are not done yet!

You clearly lighted the Path forward: from the comfort of the few to the necessities of Life for WE THE PEOPLE. Through eliminating our enemies by making friends of them rather than going to war with them. For in the last analysis there is only One Humanity, and we all need each other to be complete.

The Path ahead, as are all paths that are truly ahead, will be challenging, hard, and with plenty of struggling, but it will be a joyful challenge because we will triumph. It will be bridging into a New World, a One World for the One Humanity where boundaries are simply lines on maps that indicate the incredible diversity and beauty of Humanity rather than separating walls.

As one man, one brother to another, I want to thank you for stepping up for us. You said that this was our time, and I deeply resonate with that truth. It is also your time, and I want to thank you for grasping it so beautifully, so powerfully. I also want to thank US for having the wits and courage to recognize you and to elect you to lead in this most incredible time of opportunity.

Loving Us

-tom

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Dear Mr. President:

Can't find the correct words to describe the way we (you) are handling the present maneuvers of the Sophists masquerading as elected representatives of the People. It is apparent that you are well aware of the line of light that lies between the two great fields of force. As they say, "the measure of understanding is the degree of love.", and it is great to, once again, have a President, a leader, who loves enough to understand the greater needs of Humanity.

I would like to make a suggestion regarding a solution to a present and growing problem. I suspect that, given the group nature of our collective consciousnesses, you will have heard this from other angles, so its value may be in the fact that I, who on the international stage am virtually no one,  am suggesting it.

The issue is the link between education and employment.... It is broken. An article in this morning's NYTimes, "For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall", a great piece real reporting, triggered this missive.

I have personal life experience with these conditions, and I have given a lot of thought on how to ameliorate the damage to our society as we work to bring sanity back into the system. I was a high school English teacher in much better by gone days when education really did mean something. I am the father of a brilliant daughter who has been unable to complete the work on her PhD thesis because of the need to "earn money" and is now, saddled with that "crushing debt", ($90 K), incurred while completing the academic side of that degree. Now, including the 20 paid hours a week she actually stands in front of the students, she is working 60 to 70 hour weeks trying to teach 4 classes, about 120 students, in an "educational furniture store." As an adjunct professor, an euphuism for "teaching slave", she is paid (only for the time in the class  room) a total of $1319.( Her other 50 plus hours of work are her unpaid gift to the system.) No benefits of any kind. These young brothers and sisters are the poor, the sick and practically illiterate products of our broken elementary schools.

You have been a teacher, still are, so you know that this woman, one of our children, is performing miracles everyday in those class rooms.

Over the past few years I have asked the young people I encounter working as wrappers and checkers and clerks in grocery stores and coffee shops about their education. Probably 70 percent of them have some college experience and 25 percent of them actually have BA degrees. These are the best jobs they can find, and they are constantly looking.

So, to heal this breach in our path to a greater good for all, I am suggesting that we go, as a nation, on the offense.

Our posture is to be constantly and totally on the defense. This the core rot that is generating the rapidly increasing decay of our democracy. I can't even imagine the amount of  the people's resources that we as a people are spending on defense. Actually, the concept of "defense" creates enemies and is a counterproductive hold over from ancient times when we were concerned with "savages" or wild animals coming from out of the bush to rape and kill. It is a ridiculous point of view in today's world created and nurtured by people who are "walking backward into the future".

So, the proposal is to create a Department of Reconstruction. Forget about a Department of Peace. In its present manifestation peace needs war to have meaning. I suggest that we simply forget about both war and peace and start to focus on reconstructing or building the Greater Good.

Realizing that these kinds of reconstruction take time to percolate through the collective consciousness, I would suggest that we fund the Department of Reconstruction with half of the budget we now devote to defense or, to be truthful about it, the Department of Endless War. Half of whatever gigantic billions of our money is being wasted on fear and ignorance now would be enough to provide, not just the U. S., but  the planet with a mutual force of arms if and when they were needed.

The other half would be put into those things that will really keep humanity from going over the Cliff of Oblivion. First and foremost, which anyone who actually thinks will see, is the education of our children and, now, that huge group of adult victims produced by these broken systems over the past 30 or so years.

We would not be educating these people to take places in assembly lines or other menial mindless jobs. (There will soon be no assembly lines anyway.) We will educate them to be human beings. They will know how to think, hence they will be highly useful in all sorts of human service and interface jobs hundreds of which I could name beside teachers in all disciplines, doctors, nurses, scientific expertise in all areas of environmental applications and so on.

The heart of this suggestion is that, since these are our children and our people, and since we have paid to educate them, we are obligated to provide them with meaningful labor. Humans need to labor. Labor is what gives a brother or sister honor, respect, dignity, but the labor needs to have meaning. So, we create branches of the Department of Reconstruction in agriculture, environmental quality, all fields of science, teaching, all the health and human services fields. These branches, sort of like the Peace Corps (which was a beautiful idea), will provide abundant opportunities for meaningful labor for people all around the world. If we initiate, manifest such a concept it will be picked up and utilized in all our brother and sister nations. This would be leading in the true sense of that concept.

We need to move out of the box of ignorance in which we have been trapped for centuries and into the light of reason and common sense.

lots of love

-tom  

Saturday, December 01, 2012

Dear Mr. President:

I watched your little talk from the toy factory. It was great. I posted it on my face book page, as I am sure millions of others did as well. I also saw and posted Joe's bit at Costco.

I think that using the internet for these kinds of information messages is wonderful. It will reach many more of our people, especially our younger brothers and sisters. During the election process, I talked with many of these younger people. I was amazed with the lack of knowledge and awareness

regarding simple issues like unemployment, student loans, lousy wages, and the use of part time work to avoid paying benefits,  if they did have jobs. I encountered any number who were terrified to say anything for fear of being fired or "Walmarted" as they termed it, and I met a couple who had been fired by managers who enjoyed doing it.

So, the more of this sort of messaging that can be done the better.

There is another level of messaging as well. It is the kind of messaging that has to do with Principles, with justice, freedom, dignity, kindness. I know in my bones that you are a Teacher. I also know that you are acutely aware of these Principles because you model them.

I urge you to talk to us about these touchstones which are the building blocks of a just world. Such messages will do far more than inform us about the very important details of getting bills passed and what that means. Such messages will touch our hearts, ignite and reignite the flame that made us what we are. Please give some thought to this.

loving us

-tom  

Monday, November 26, 2012

Dear Mr. President:

Well, as we knew we would be, we were triumphant in this most recent struggle with the Retrogressors. Once again, we have seen that "from the beginning they struggled. From the beginning we triumphed." We triumph because we put everything we have and are into the struggle.

   

So, onward!

I suppose that you will be getting lots of input for your inaugural speech; however, I would like to suggest some ideas around frequencies and themes that would be most beneficial to the reconstruction of the Planet, the Nation, our neighborhoods, and the unfolding of our destiny.

As the physicist will gladly tell us, there are no coincidences. There is only a chain of cause and effect. We think of this chain as something that goes back in time, and it does. However, it also involves the unfolding of Cosmic Principle from inner dimensions, or the future, a process in which time, because it is relatively endless, while still important, is not such a huge factor.

From the beginning of this Nation, relative as that may be, we were a continuation of the manifestation of the expanding ability of human consciousness to register or see the unfolding Cosmic Principle of Unanimity. The fact that in the last analysis there is only one world and one humanity was growing more clear to us every year. That inner longing for freedom and equality that drove us from the stagnating conditions of Royalty and privilege supplied the will and the courage to strive, no matter the cost, to implement those conditions that foster the expansion of Reality on the physical dimension, as nearly true to the Impulse as we can, into Law, into  systems, programs and structures that support the One World and the One Humanity. Thus was born this Nation.

In 1966, some 200 or so years into the current chapter of the Great Struggle, humanity launched a rocket that made it possible for us to actually see a photo of the One World, an image of Earth from space. As we know, for many of us, seeing is believing. This photo, and the many more that followed, gave physical evidence to what we have known for eons to be a fact. It became an omnipresent and very powerful symbol of the fact of the One World.

This symbol has in the intervening 45 years or so begged for meaning. The search for that meaning by thinking people the world around was like a fermenting yeast in Human consciousness. While still very much in the bud, Concepts like The Common Good and The General Welfare grew from idealistic fantasies not only into visible facts but to real, achievable goals for Humanity. Neil Armstrong's first step on the Sea of Tranquility in 1969, was a significant sign-post of our ultimate destiny.

These were steps, small but significant, in our history. There have been "giant steps" (as well, the Constitution, the Civil war,  The Four Freedoms and our collective triumph in the Great War over the retrogressive forces of the Nazis) that are easily recognized as growth points in our evolution. To me the step which mankind took in this past election, the step that reelected you, was one of those giant steps.

You, of course, understand that although the election was held here in the United States it was the Good Will of the world's people that helped generate the power which swept us to victory. This Good Will was generated and fostered by the steps you took, mostly ignored or not even noticed by the forces of retrogression, in the realm we call "foreign affairs". Your efforts and those of Ambassadors Clinton and Susan Rice in terms of including Humanity in our visions for freedom and equality were enormously effective ideas in the reelection.

The reelection in itself was a step of affirmation, a step that revealed the continuing expansion of consciousness that we as a people have made in the past 12 years, a step that indicated that we are committed to the Principles of the Common Good and the General Welfare for Humanity.

So, these are the themes and frequencies that I suggest you consider deeply in your upcoming inaugural address: One Humanity, the essential divinity and value of every single human being; One World, reveling the nature of our relationship with this planet, our role as stewards of it; The Common Good and the General Welfare, Ideas that include not only the world's people, but the planet.

I also think it would be good to keep in mind that you are addressing not just our citizens, but the citizens of the world, all of whom will be watching and listening.

lots of love

-tom

   

11/4/2012

Dear Mr. President:

I am and have always been confident that we will emerge triumphant from the present stage of Humanities eons long struggle to create a world that is in balance with Reason and Beauty, with the Cosmos. "From the beginning they struggled, from the beginning we conquered." Largely because of the collective vision of the One Humanity, of the value and divinity of each one of us which you hold and model, I have known from the "get-go" of this particular struggle that you would be leading us into the dimensions of peace, of mutual respect, appreciation and world community which are opening before a united Humanity.

You lead with love, with compassion and understanding, gained through deep experience. It is not surprising that your vision of embracing the whole was/is not understood by many of our liberal brothers. These energies which you bring to the struggle generate cooperative reconstruction rather than competitive and forceful destruction.

We have been following the path of force and domination for untold eons. And although we have continually conquered, progress towards the destiny of the harmony and beauty of the One Humanity was painfully slow for at the end of each period of struggle, whichever side "won" only invited a counter stroke.

The Path of cooperation and reconstruction is always more difficult to implement than destruction and force because it struggles to include all of us. This is the path which you have set before, not only us in the United States, but in the Community of Nations which make up our Planet.

I do not think that this election is the last battle, but it is the beginning of the end of war on all dimensions, and it is beginning of the laying of the foundations for the future of co-creative cooperation of all of Humanity in the building the new truly civil civilization.

I want to thank you for the model of leadership which you have provided for us. It is reminiscent of some words I encountered some time ago. Perhaps you are familiar with the following:

 "My Hands know not repose. My Head upholds the weight of the works. My Mind searches out the solidity of solutions. The power of experience defeats alien infirmity. At the point of loss do I pour in the new possibilities. On the line of retreat I build strongholds. In the eyes of the enemy I wave the banner. I call the day of fatigue a day of repose. I recognize a manifestation of non-understanding as rubbish on the threshold. I can conceal the sacred in the folds of a working garment. A miracle means for Me only the mark of a horseshoe. Courage means for Me only the arrow in the quiver. Resoluteness for Me is only the daily bread." Community, 70.

loving us

-tom