Scarlet Jewels

The Cove

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:55:19 GMT

Their own version of 'Oceans 11' and it was better than - and more so!

I have just signed the letter to Obama and Biden with these comments:

I just watched The Cove in West LA. I am disgusted with the farcical IWC's nonsense, and Japan's nonsense science and cartel with impoverished nations trying to legalize whaling including small cetaceans! This is empire consciousness with NO REGARD for conscious and intelligent life. This entire coup is so corrupt I think the IWC needs to be investigated and something must be done to protect our dying oceans! The mercury poisoning and the devastation to our marine life is unconscionable!!!

This is a must-see film. It is not OTT with graphics and only the last 5 minutes shows what their 'Mission Impossible' coup uncovered. It doesn't pull on your heart strings to a place where one cannot discern and consider the story and the important information.

I think those men (and woman) are the sexiest bravest men alive - and what a beautiful soul that woman diver had!

Empire consciousness has created this massive cover-up in Japan. However if we had hidden rocks and cameras in our own empire, who knows what we would uncover also? It's not that Japan isn't trying to be the next Empire just like we did after the Europeans.. but it's the cartel they have created with the IWC, International Whaling Commission. Really dispicable... Japan buying countries into joining the IWC. Countries that have been literally manipulated into Japan's nonsense science -- actually trying to say cetaceans are the reason the food crisis, ocean fish crisis is so severe! The reason is the Japanese cartel on the world wide fish markets. In 40 years, or less, it will be gone. 70% of all humans get their primary source of income from fish from the seas. New commissions and new visionairies are required to EXPOSE these horors -- but also to create a less corrupt mandate, governed by science and thorough investigation by environmental groups. It is very powerful the man who trained 'flipper' is the biggest activist in this film. I am inspired. DEEPLY INSPIRED. Bravo to these renegade film makers! GO SEE THIS FILM! ONE OF THE BEST EVER MADE SINCE SCHINDLER'S LIST BUT WAY EASIER TO WATCH!

Relevant Links:

SOCIAL VIBE - WHALEMAN
http://www.socialvibe.com/charities/35

THE AWFUL IWC
http://www.iwcoffice.org/commission/iwcmain.htm

THE COVE MOVEMENT
http://www.takepart.com/thecove/

A New Blog?

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:39:58 GMT

I was hit with the profundity of this yesterday:

Often when I have 'ran away' from myself, my life or a version of my self or my life I wanted to run away from --- I became more courageous in the things I did, the places I went, the extremes I went to -- in order to run away. I never felt like I was running away, but rather running towards... but usually I was fleeing in some sense... so isn't that interesting? In a seemingly cowardice act --- one becomes more drastically heroic than ever imagined? The energy to run away from what one no longer wishes to BE... in my case, the energy I expelled to DISCARD that which I no longer identified with - allowed me to plunge fully into a new Self/ Life/ Adventure... and I therefore boldly went where very few would have dared to go 'with a plan'. This boho adventure has, in retrospect, defined me. And I think allowed me to realize I was indeed a hero in my own story. By default? Not totally. The crux was the impetus to 'create again'. No Matter What. I MUST... bla blah. It didn't matter what I focused on doing, it was harnessing the elements to literally LEAP. It was a taking off and literally a charging forth.

I suggest everyone live their lives as if the audience is watching. Because it is.

(BTW, in as much as I love the space the old Scarlet Jewels blog holds, but am considering launching a new blog with a new vibe... solely focusing on what it means to live the Mythic Life. Sub-themes include the Synchronicity Thread, as well as the Divine Imagination.... I am not sure...)

For now/ For Today -- I will put the ideas here in this new category.

Legions of Light in Stealth Mode

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:26:04 GMT

I've been contemplating the following as of late:

1. The Lesson of Wall*E: The reason the world's productivity machine that has fed industrialised capitalism has come to a crashing halt in the last quarter is VERY GOOD NEWS! This means, children, that our world will not become like Wall*E. Doesn't that make sense? Simple Simon, right?

So let's plant some seeds!

2. NewAge 101 (ie 'The Secret', Louise Hay, Eckhard Toile, etc) ..... First Step. One needs to detox her 'ego' , and get out of her 'mind'.

Then one aligns with their Self, Heart, Joy, Love, Truth, Authenticity, and one's Humanity....

Generally this is ONLY the first step. This doesn't mean the ego is bad or the mind is bad. This means when that part of one is running the show, running one's personal life, also running the planet, running the schools, running the institutions, running the societies... then we are in big trouble! (Like Now!)

3. But, that is only a perception.

"A Miracle is a CHANGE in Perception" !!!

So, the idea is that one re-members (like Humpty Dumpty) who she is.

We put ourselves back together again!

That's the game.

4. Therefore - there is no 'other' and no one 'out there' that can fix it for us.

No real messiah in the objective sense (ie Obama)....

But we manifest perhaps a symbolic 'unifier' who is radiating at the pulse of the collective's desires.

Today in the Aquarian Age - this means a transpersonal more collective spirit of cooperation and brotherhood/ sisterhood with our fellow humanity.

There is no issue that is not connected to our lives.

Therein is the idea of Self Sustainability.

5. Going back to point 2 - the ego and the mind are not bad.

New Agers get a grip.

We need an enlightened mind and a healthy ego/ persona. That's what makes this fun.

Aligned with the Heart, the Kundalini, The Shakti, the Spark of Imagination, Insipiration and Creative Force.

The Spirit comes through the electrical currents of our biological experience.

6. Oh yea, and

And the Universe is made of Magic.

So righteous ones, please stop hating Disney.

Get on the only ship that is here.

All you ever learned in life you learned in Kindergarden (that's why I left the UK - they try to skip that part!)

7. What Does Heaven on Earth Look Like?

We're in this together. Let's find a way to embody who we Really Are.

And let it always begin, with ME!

Legions of Light update 12 March 09.

stupid white people

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:03:31 GMT

Wow! Embarrassed to say I got the WORSE possible bigoted forward from a family member today.

I thought I'd give him and all whom he (even more embarassingly!) forwarded it to -- the opportunity to wake up and do some research on White Entitlement issues 101!

- - -

Dear fellow citizens on our ONE planet,

Clearly only an ignorant, uneducated, white bigot would write something as completely untrue, insensitive and FEAR based as this forward.

Wake up and find your Soul before it's too late! Change is a comin' baby and Fear is loosing the day.

There is indeed a 'white fund': It's called White Entitlement. Look who has been running the Western world, the US govt and most financial institutions. Tis white men. The odds are in your favour. Oh but you need a brain to get there (sorta Dubya!)

As the balance of power shifts to better democratic experiments in South America, India and also Asia -- I will pray for the ignorance of fat white sorry-asses who are so afraid.

Get your facts straight!

Some basic education:

The Minature Earth - if the Planet were a village of 100 people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drSDhlnm0e0&feature=related

New updated numbers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNnbO8x4JAY

The US with the same glance
http://shetterly.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/if-the-usa-were-a-village-of-100-people/

The Rich Keep Gettin' Richer in the US
http://afferentinput.blogspot.com/2007/12/if-america-had-100-and-100-people.html

Lutherans who Care
http://www.osjspm.org/files/officeforsocialjustice/files/2009%20Budget%20Deficit2.pdf

And here's some intelligensia and basic opinion on the matter of white privilege:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/opinion/18rich.html
http://mmcisaac.faculty.asu.edu/emc598ge/Unpacking.html

white like me
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2629192&page=1
http://www.tellingthoughts.com/us-politics/white-privilege-prophetic-poetic
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1755
http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/1294
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG9h-0UO_Nc
http://www.hulu.com/watch/10356/saturday-night-live-white-like-me

http://www.diversityinc.com/public/973.cfm
http://www.diversityinc.com/public/3672.cfm?sd=105

Zeitgeist
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/dloads.htm

More info on White Privilege:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege
http://cwsworkshop.org/resources/WhitePrivilege.html
http://www.prisonactivist.org/archive/cws/sharon.html

note her bibliography at the end of the page - for anyone who cares about becoming educated and informed - before it's too late!
"Some materials that have helped me understand white privilege:

Robert Allen, a. Reluctant Reformers: Racism and Social Reform Movements in the United States. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1983. b. Black Awakening in Capitalist America. New Jersey: Africa World Press, 1989.
Theodore Allen, a. "Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race," Radical America. May-June, 1975, Vol. 9, Number 3. b. The Invention of the White Race. Vol. 1 (1994) and Vol. 2 (1997). New York: Verso Press.
Toms Almaguer, Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Derrick Bell, Race, Racism and American Law. Second Edition. Boston: Little Brown and Company.
Robert Blauner, Racial Oppression in America. NY: Harper & Row, 1972.
Ward Churchill, Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Expropriation in Contemporary North America. Maine: Common Courage Press, 1993.
European Dissent, The Journey of European Dissent, the newsletter of European Dissent, a white anti-racist organization affiliated with The People's Institute.
Paula Giddings, When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. NY: Random House, 1984.
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. In the Matter of Color: Race & The American Legal Process: The Colonial Period. NY: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Elizabeth Martnez, 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures. Albuquerque: South West Organizing Project, 1991.
Alfredo Mirand, Gringo Justice. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1987.
Victor G. & Brett de Bary Nee, Longtime Californ': A Documentary Study of an American Chinatown. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972.
People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, Undoing Racism Workshop and especially the work of white core trainers Diana Dunn and David Billings. (The People's Institute is located at 1444 North Johnson Street, New Orleans, LA 70116. Phone is (504) 944-2354).
Mab Segrest, Memoir of a Race Traitor. Boston: South End Press, 1994.
Herbert Shapiro, White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.
more >

Intelligentsia

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:32:52 GMT

It seems to me, that there is enough evidence to suggest, that:

One must 'learn' less to learn how to critically think.

One who is taught too much, therefore cannot truly THINK.

One who is highly schooled in a highly competitive environment, therefore, might be trained to be stupid.

And those who have the funding for more progressive education, are groomed to think slowly and to solve the world's problems.

But how can the gentiles teach the masses, then, when the evil matrix wants to condition the sheep they are smart, because they have learnt so much?

Here-in lies the problem between altruistic Western empires and Roman thugs.

Neither wins.

My 'story' I just uploaded to change.gov

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:11:21 GMT

I was raised on the myth of Camelot by a boomer mother, born in a post-Doris Day world who just sorta 'missed' the 60s, perhaps due to her reaction to the killings... So in our isolated world in an idillic suburb outside Portland Oregon, I was raised on this myth... honestly believing the civil rights movemetn had happened and that indeed women and 'blacks' were free and equal. I remember going to a 'kinder-college' whereby the teacher taught us about civil liberties and even the right to burn the flag! Wow! Well like the rest of my Gen X, the 80s were a terrible wake up call. I was a gifted honors student who basically 'sold out' to the yuppie dream -- once I realized with so much disheartened apathy, that the myth was just that.... Lapse dissolve to a decade of self-help LA lifestyle personal 'work' later, I left the meaningless corporate grid sell-out game to a road less travelled... at 32 years old I ran for the olde countries, based myself in the UK and did research on a deep and meaningful book... got married, had a child, started and closed a business and alas after 9 years ran back to the America of my dreams... I was registered in Oregon so got to vote by mail there although Chantal my beautiful 7 year old and I, are now ensconced back in LALA lande...

Meeting Bill Clinton in Oregon was a highlight of my life. I loved the Clintons due to their passion and well, internationally he is so VERY highly regarded by the intelligentsia for his work in Israel, Ireland, and Africa... Just before I left the UK, I had 'fortnightly' meetings with American moms. There were 4 of us. Two were on the fence toward Obama and 2 were on the fence toward Hilary. I was in the latter camp. I really wanted to move back to America and change my mind.. but I truly didn't know you well enough and had really always been a fan and supporter of the Clinton's core principals... but everything changed when Hillary stepped down. What a week! Her speech and YOURS - allowed me to move forward behind you... When I was in the UK my favourite speech you gave was on Race. I was sorely disappointed how the full transcript and video was rarely showed by the mainstream media... I was also btw very disappointed in your FISA vote, and feel that was giving away Constitutional rights!

But Denver and Palin changed everything. You became stronger, and the Movement became more important. I began to trust you. We all did. And also it was as you said, not really about YOU - it is about US. We ARE all in it together. I love oration. I was taught to recite the Gettysberg Address by heart at 12 years old. We became deeply moved and inspired by your words, and your promises, and your AUTHENTICITY. Emails about 'the truth' became stupendous. We gave small amounts here and there, bought the T shirts and the bumper stickers, and even made phone calls.

I remember when I was at your Victory speech party in Hollywood, everyone was talking about their personal email they got before you addressed the crowds at Grant Park!

I seriously couldn't believe it. It was as if my birth and the purpose and meaning of the times I was born -- was FINALLY full circle. Like Camelot was a brief shining moment. And this is the Aquarian Age. The Real Deal. Not the New Deal. But the REAL Deal !!!

i was overwhelmed with hope, longing, a sense of History and a sense of Purpose, for the collective... not at all attached to my own story... but totally enthralled with the story we are here, to now, write, and rewrite, together!

If it weren't, I feel, for mobilized INDEPENDENT media by people like Moveon, CommonDreams, and Huffington Post, you would not have made it. I think you ran an unprecedented campaign, but also if it weren't for H. Wasserman and the guys that were exposing the GOP corruption in Ohio 2004 - it would not have gone the way we saw it. I personally would bet a million dollars that you won by a much larger percentage! I think everyone knows this is true...

One word of advice -- nip that media elite in the butt with their insane rhetoric that this is NOT a sea-change and that you only won by pretending to be centre-right! Your mandate is PROGRESSIVE! Please keep it that way - that's what the people want!!

Finally my daughter Chantal, 7, British born, would always say when she met a McCain supporter... 'but he is not going to help our country'... !!!!

And I am sooo happy I came home to be a part of all of this! What an honour! What a blessing! What a TRIUMPH of the human spirit!

We did it!!!!

Here Comes the SUN! - INDIVO

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 21:56:54 GMT

Here Comes The Sun - INDIVO
Uploaded by INDIVO

Election Jubilation! Americans choose change!

This music video shows the work and efforts of these Americans. The wisdom of a past president, John F. Kennedy and the prophetic words of a Martin Luther King.

America is the true Promise Land!

Yes We Can!

Yes We Did!

History is NOW

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 09:16:29 GMT

For all you who are still sitting on the fence, thinkin' this is about Obama vs McCain - or thinkin' it's not about a politician saving us - cuz he can't -

CATCH IT!

This is a paradigm shift, this is a wave, this is spiritual BEYOND MEASURE.

This is all we need - "love love love - oooh, it's easy!"

The only real Love, that Is. Agape.

This has NOTHING to do with Obama, but we couldn't have got Right Here, Right Now, without him! So it also, of course, has EVERYTHING to do with him! God BLESS AMERICA! GOD BLESS PURE INTENTION, FOCUS AND CALM INTELLIGENT RESOLVE WITHOUT EGO!

GOD BLESS THE COLLECTIVE WE!

I went to sleep last night literally feeling my body bathed in the Light of the World. I could literally See bright light as my eyes closed, and I felt it wrapped all around me like a blanket of GOOD WILL... So thankful for the beautiful souls I shared the eve with in the hills. Looks like we've made it! And looks like we're going to! Full circle to my generation's living myth - infused in our childhood all the ethos of the civil rights movement, so lost in the greed and corruption of the 80s yuppiedome... alas God almighty we are free at last!

Why Portland is So Great!
Thanks Ben! You are soo right! I love you Portland!

What a Moment! - The Nation's Newspapers!

Maya Angelo and an incredible video with a great appearance of Maya Angelo on CBS's "The Early Show" this morning! AWESOME!

Ending with her great poem 'I Rise:'

'You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I'll rise. Out of the huts of history's shame I rise up from a past rooted in pain I rise. I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise into daybreak miraculously clear I rise. Bringing the hopes that my ancestors gave, I am the hope and the dream of the slave.' And so, Harry Smith, we all rise.

Amen Brother's and Sisters.
Amen!

Changing Our Ideas

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:40:10 GMT

Obama talks a lot about a change in perspective, ending the illusion of duality. I loved this. It's not about bigger or smaller govt but better govt. It's about values, ethos, and changing our minds.

A miracle is a change in perception.

I was thinking the other day, 'what if I lost my drive?'... then I was thinking maybe I used it all up in the first half? third? of it! I was so full of energy!

Then I realized, the idea of drive is about the patriarchal mind. I need to prove something so I have drive to prove it. Yes I am still passionate, but feeling less like I want to prove I can do it! I know I can. I have proven it/ that... whatever IT is!

So now what? It's about inside-out. Centering, aligning, breathing, becoming, expressing... flowing into a true embodiment of what IS, not 'it'. Subjective becomes shared, rather than objective games of proving 'it'....

Even CNN is aware of vote fraud!

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:57:14 GMT

THEY SEEM TO CARE ABOUT PROBLEMS AT THE BALLOTS ALSO! Maybe the tides are turning!

CNN Voter Hotline
"If you have a problem voting or see a problem, call the CNN voter hot line at 877-GOCNN08 (1-877-466-2608); CNN will report on some of your calls, and our partner, InfoVoter Technologies, can help you get in touch with your election board or find your voting location."