The Signs of the Times

Look At This Picture:

Really Look At It.

What is it Saying?  It is a Sign of the Times.

If you don't know the Context of this Picture, perfect!  We'll get to that later.  What do the faces say to You?

The Man in the center exudes Happiness, Defiance, Assurance, Peace.  He walks with Purpose, Head held high and a Determined Grin.  His physique is Commanding, his Attire is bold, he Fears No Evil.

Look at the man and woman who flank Him.  They are Actors, doing what they're told.  They look befuddled, at best, confused.  They seem resolute, but as if there's no other Option.  The Man in the Center seems to have Every Option.

Both officers look downcast, and even out of shape. You can somehow sense they are perspiring out of physical, and mental, AND spiritual, exertion.  Their minds are connected, far away, to the offices and desks and superiors who are scrutinizing every move.  But the Man Up Front, of course, sees every tiny detail in this moment of His Arrest.  It is inspiring.

What is the Context of this Message?  There is a Global, and Local, Uprising.  It may have started in Tunisia but it has Spread across the Globe.  Liberty Everywhere is being proclaimed.  The World has never known a History when WE are Free of Repression.  But yet W.E. all Feel that is worth fighting for, and now's the Time, or Never.  So WE are Imagining New Paradigms, visioning New societies, and striving for Peace and Justice in spite of sold-out corporatism, pesticide, and the elite.  

Specifically the Man in the Front is of indigenous Heritage, and is an individual component of a Worldwide Demand from the tribes of Native Earth for cultural, environmental, and spiritual respect to the Web of Life from which All Emerged, and which some have not yet Abandoned.  They are prophets of a Movement who declare that the Earth should be left intact for Future Generations, and that We must not live as though we are the last generation on Earth, or we shall be.  

The Man in front is part of a group of indigenous People who were forcibly evicted from a Museum that they had begun to Occupy, in demonstration of the fact that the site should be reserved for the culture of their People.  They were forcibly evicted by the local police in their area of Brazil.  The Brazilian police required the Area for a renovation of a football stadium.  Such are the priorities of the Brazilian government, and such is what the local Police are expected to do: upturn the interests of culture and heritage for the passing interests of sports and entertainment.  Why entertainment?  Distraction.  Because elsewhere the interests of indigeous Culture, and the interests of the Environment, collide with the goal of Development under this same government.  And Development, which is rape of Natural Resources, is precisely what threatens the world's largest River, the Amazon, in the construction of the Belo Monte dam.  The Amazon should be a Planetary Sanctuary to the Creator of this Planet.  It should be preserved forever inviolate, our ancient Rain Forest, home to so many brother and sister Species, an engine for Atmosphere and Planet-Wellness and a haunt of our oldest cultures.  A cradle of our Creation Mythos as a Race.  But we allow Cheap Governments which follow the Will of Corporations, Not People, to Hijack its Very Existence and will seldom give it back unless a very high Ransom is paid.

The Brazilian police are the everywhere Police, because everywhere the law officials are the cronies of a government increasingly Corporate, increasingly Destructive, increasingly Unaware, increasingly Unaccountable, increasingly Tyrannical, increasingly Out of Control.  It does not matter if one speaks of Egypt or Tunisia or Canada or the United States or Brazil.  The problems are different by Degree but not by Kind.  Everywhere, the Elite is threatening our most basic rights to Being, and everywhere there is Indignation and Uprising.  Everywhere there is Repression, Media Distortion, and incredibly High Stakes.

These are the Signs of the Times.
-KiJjiT

Perfect Pi

Today was called "Pi Day," because it was 3/14.  So I looked it up.  You know how long that Number goes on?  It goes on Forever!  That's Irrational!

FoX  RiDDLE:
What else is Irrational, and goes on Forever?  I could think of a Lot of Things.

But Today could not really be Pi Day, because Pi is not 3/14/13.  Pi would more properly be 3/14/15, as the first five digits of Pi are 3.1415, not 3.1413.  So at Best, today was sort of a Dress Rehearsal.  People Love Pi, so they Notice it Everywhere it Turns Up.

HeRe'S Another Riddle!
What else is something People Love, and that they Notice Everywhere it Turns Up?

In Two Years I suppose that we can celebrate the REAL PI DAY.  The Perfect Pi Adventure!  I could Predict that it would Be a Great Transformational Day on the Planet!  You know, like 2012 was.
BUT BY NOW I HOPE YOU KNOW HOW THOSE PREDICTIONS WORK.
If We will gather Our Attention, as Humans, to a Specific Place or a Time together, all as One, We can Indeed, Change it.
The Notion that there is Free Will implies to me that there is Something Real at Stake.  Because We are the Only Ones who are Qualified to Change it.  We came to This Time for A Reason.   We all Know this and we Feel it Deep Inside...   there may even Be some who would deny that they do but they cannot deny to Themselves, in Secret.  So, are We not in Charge of This Time We are Given?  If we want PI DAY to be Another Great Transformational Day on the Planet, like December 21st and 23rd were in 2012... We can by all Means make it So!  If we Direct Our Minds to it, we can Choose the Day we collectively Shift the Planet into yet Higher Frequency.  After all, the Shift has been explained to me by my Teachers to be an intensifying crescendo of Consciousness that continues to rise beyond the specific dates we Focus on, but by planing and organizing together and building our Conscious link to the Clock of the Seasons, the Calendars of the Tribes, we can become Moving Forces in this field of gravity and levity known as the Cosmos, co-Equal with the Planets and the Stars and the Sun.

Pi Day will be 3/14/15... specifically at 9:26 in the Morning... a little more than 58 centi-seconds past the 53rd second (but whose counting?), let us Engineer another Exponential Rise in Consciousness, a Wave of Social Responsibility, and Personal Liberty, and Equality, and Sanity.  Let us Engineer a Mindframe of Courage, Victory, Alliance, and Unencumbrance, to take Place on that Date!  And let us Devote All our Minds to Evolving into that Mindframe in the Meantime.
-KiJjiT

Prediction: Victory is Assured.

A Letter to North Korea

From the Web site of the North Korea Freedom Coalition:

Attention Americans: Please Send a Letter from America to be broadcast into North Korea:  These letters expressing our hopes and dreams for the people of North Korea are a powerful way to introduce to the North Koreans to what Americans are really like.  Please send a message from you to North Koreans (you only need to include your first name and city and state).  The letter will be read, translated, and broadcast into North Korea by the defectors run radio station, Free North Korea Radio.  Please send your letters via email to skswm@aol.com, and note in subject area "Letters from America".

Here is my submission:

Dear People of North Korea: I am a Friend you do not Know from across the World.  My Name is Kevin, I live in the city of Salisbury, the state of Maryland, on the Eastern Coast of the United States of America.  I am 28 years old, and I have just begun a Family of my own.  I am Young and I'm in Love, and tonight, I am thinking heavily about the World that surrounds me.  I just finished reading a Book about what Life is like in North Korea, as related by secret journalists who have snuck across the Tumen River, carrying information and sometimes refugees.  It is strange to hear about your lives in North Korea.  I have friends in many Nations throughout the World, and I am free to move about from Nation to Nation myself, if I please.  When I was fifteen and again when I was sixteen, I traveled to Brazil.  The idea that You do not have this same freedom of movement saddens me, as does the idea that your government refuses to let Americans into your Country.  I hear that North Korea's countryside is very beautiful, I hear that Mt. Paektu-san is lovely.  I would love to hike it someday.   I also hear that the People of Korea are courteous and gentle.  I met a South Korean girl when I went to college ten years ago and she became a close friend of mine.  I imagine that if I ever met a North Korean we would similarly be great Friends, but I know that this is very difficult.  I learned in the Book that I just read, that a large number of North Korean refugees have been reaching the United States lately.  Apparently there is a Church only about a two hours' drive from my house where North Korean refugees worship God together.  I am strongly considering visiting, despite the fact that I do not speak Korean.  I know a few words and phrases, but would have difficulty having a face to face conversation.   I am inspired by the idea that some within North Korea find the Courage to flee the controls which the Kim regime has placed upon your Sovereign Lives, and I would dearly like to meet a few of the Brave Individuals who succeeded.  If I ever discovered that this letter I am writing now reached someone's ears in North Korea, and helped convinced him or her to try to leave, and they succeeded, I would be enormously Happy.   I wish You the best, my Korean brothers and sisters.  We are not that different, we are very alike.  I know that you all care for your families as I care for mine.  I hope that my Children Inherit a World where everyone can be Friends.  And I hope that Your Children have long, happy, prosperous Lives where they are never Hungry, where they are Free to Worship whomever they Like, or Free to not worship at all.  I wish with all my Heart that Korea would be unified, that those of You who have families already living in the South, or even here in the United States, or elsewhere in the welcoming World, would see Your families again, and never have to part.  I pray for You, that Change may come to North Korea, that a few courageous People will realize they were born for such a Time as this, and that a Beam of Light would enter North Korea.  I know that the Kim Family teaches You that Life is horrible outside North Korea.  I assure You it is not.  This is not Paradise, and the Government certainly does have its problems.  But people are Free to criticize, Free to try and Change it.  I recently stood in front of the White House in a crowd of 50,000 demanding that President Obama reject plans to build an oil pipeline across our continent.  I am, in general, a supporter of President Obama.  But I don't think twice about telling him how I think he should do his job.  And I hope that You will one day find a Leader for your Nation who listens to You, rather than making You listen to him.   Last of all I would like to tell You that We are living in an exciting Time on the Planet today.  It is a shame your information about the outside World is so restricted, because I take great delight each day in scanning the news information from all around the World on the Internet, watching videos and listening to interviews.  It seems that late in 2010 a great wave of freedom and democracy started in Tunisia and spread across Africa, into the Middle East.  Maybe you have heard of the so-called "Arab Spring."  To see people standing up to their governments in parts of the World where this has been historically uncommon made my heart rejoice.  Then in the Autumn of 2011 I became involved in it within my own Nation.  I joined what is known as the Occupy Movement, and became an outspoken critic of the United States' environmental policies.  This has been quite an Adventure and we have seen our government respond in small ways to our criticisms.   I know that speaking out against Your government would be a far riskier adventure.  I may have risked arrest a time or two, but I was sure that if I had been arrested, I would have a trial and a lawyer, and my time would have been short if I was sentenced (which was unlikely) and I would have been back in society, a citizen in good standing, relatively quickly.  Maybe just a couple days later.  This, apparently, is much different than what can be expected in North Korea at this time.  Nonetheless, I pray that somehow Change and Dissent comes, so that when my kids and yours are grown, both walk in Friendship and in Freedom. Sincerely, Kevin

A Letter to the President

Dear President Obama,

You Are A Prince,

With God as King,

And You are Well-Loved by Your People.

I am Wishing You Health.

I am Wishing You Safety.

I Am Wishing You Strength.

And I Assure You, Mr. President,

Every Day You Are In My Prayers

You Came Into this Post in an Unlikely Season.

You Are a Historic Personality.

The First One of Your Kind

You Represent THE BRAND NEW PARADIGM

Serve the Interest of Democracy, Now.

YOU Choose what to Carry Over,

Into the Future,

“Here Comes Tomorrow” Ricardo Gonzalez

For You are the Trend-Setter.

And although the Forces of Repression,

The Resistors of Change,

Russ Girling, CEO of TransCanada

The Inertia Which Speaks in the House

Oppresses You,

Yet You Are A Prince With God,

And it is the Future, not the Present, for Whom You Are the Actor.

Secure the Future.

Everyone Around You is Focused on the Short Term.

Corporations Are Incapable of Thinking Beyond the Financial Quarter

But You Must Be a Visionary

You Must See the Truth

And see it Thru

Sing it Softly into Being,

By Being Now, Every Moment, for the Future.

Mr. President, I Urge You to Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Sincerely,

Us