I grew up in a country at a time
when even the neighborhood Good Humor man could afford a modest home in a
decent suburban community, pay his bills and provide for his family. Little did
I know that while everyone seemed to be happily chugging along, behind the
scenes were very powerful, soulless men with evil, greedy hearts, who were
members of a secret society responsible for devising a scheme that would ultimately
allow them to control the world’s finances by perpetuating the crippling of the
unsuspecting, hard-working middle class. Sounds like a bit of a horror movie,
doesn’t it?
Here I am some fifty years later,
witnessing close friends and relatives who have toiled through the years only
to watch their houses go into foreclosure and lose everything they’ve worked
for, such as retirement funds and pensions. Several of my acquaintances have
gone into bankruptcy as the American Dream they labored to achieve is slowly
turning into an irreversible nightmare.
As a kid, everything made sense
to me. Life was simple with easy steps to follow; get a college degree, find a
job, invest in a house, raise a family, buy a bigger house with the profit from
the sale of the first house, retire and live happily ever after. I was planning
on providing for my children and allowing them to have the same or even better
opportunities, paving their road to a secure future. It seemed foolproof, what
could possibly go wrong?
One by one, local businesses are
shutting down. Jobs are scarce and salaries can’t keep up with the rising costs
of life’s basic necessities. For sale signs are staked into the front lawns of
every other home in every town. Gasoline prices are nearing five dollars per
gallon, fruits and vegetables are being genetically modified depriving human
beings of the nutrients mother earth was designed to provide for us. Safely
grown organic produce is so expensive, only the wealthy can afford them.
Processed foods are not fit for human consumption, yet they are the bulk of
what is affordable and available on supermarket shelves. We are what we eat,
therefore the majority of the nation is sick and under the care of doctors who
only know how to write out prescriptions for pharmaceutical drugs. Medical
insurance plans will not cover safe homeopathic remedies, but gladly cover the
astronomical costs of synthetic drugs with harmful side effects, thereby
keeping the population ill, addicted to pills and fattening the ever increasing
pockets of the pharmaceutical companies who just happen to be in cahoots with
the FDA. Coincidence, I don’t think so!
How did this happen? I can’t say
for certain, but I have some theories. North America was once a land occupied
by Native Americans who revered the Great Spirit, the Earth and everything upon
it. Religiously oppressed white men from across the ocean set sail for new
lands in search of religious freedom. When they arrived, in the name of the God
customized to suit their needs, they swindled, raped, slaughtered and spread
disease, wiping out virtually millions of America’s inhabitants. The
“civilized” white men colonized and set up governments under the pretext they
were here with God’s blessings and all those who followed bought it hook, line
and sinker. Not unlike the Jews who were thoroughly convinced that the nation
of Israel was the apple of God’s eye, the early settlers believed
wholeheartedly America was the new Promised Land. The indoctrination process
had begun and America eventually grew into an arrogant, greedy, self-righteous
nation underhandedly causing havoc around the globe with the pretense God was
on their side, “One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all,” a lie
just as blatant as the ones claiming that Honey Nut Cheerios lowers cholesterol
or Wonder Bread grows strong bodies in twelve ways!
The sacred philosophy of the
country’s natives vanished right along with them. What was once deemed as hallowed
ground became disrespected and abused as an Industrial Revolution with no conscience
for the environment, ravaged the land and polluted the skies and rivers. Not
satisfied with what existed within our own borders, we began to terrorize the
globe, instigating wars with no regard for the planet or human life, all under
the false premise that God was rooting for us. The greed has escalated to the
point where American politics has become a joke, our crumbling nation is the
laughing stock of a volatile planet and people worldwide are defenseless and
fed up. Has anybody figured out that maybe the contrived God this crooked
nation has been claiming to honor and serve since annihilating practically an
entire race is a far cry from any semblance of truth?
Depending upon one’s mindset, we
are currently living in an age that can be looked upon as very exciting or very
frightening. There’s no doubt that every system created by man is on the verge
of collapse. Government, religion and economics are failing. The human race has
become so consumed by the illusion of materialism, people have forgotten to
give credence to the reality of spirit. What would inspire a thinking person to
believe that a Divine Entity capable of creating an infinite Universe might
even consider favoring a geographical location on a speck in the cosmos such as
The United States of America or a religious cult such as Christianity? The
notion is totally preposterous. The occupants of Earth desperately need to
unite, redefine themselves as Earthlings, and join in an undying effort for the
common good to develop ecological alternatives to fossil fuel energy. They need
to succeed in restoring the soil and the waterways so that our food source will
once more grow in abundance and provide the essential nutrients. When a belief
system has been advocating an escape plan to the so-called inevitable end of
the world to its millions of brainwashed followers for the past two-thousand
years, why would any of them be overly concerned with caring for a planet they
assume will one day explode into oblivion?
Unless human beings alter their manner of thinking, readjust their value
systems and rise above the physical, they cannot and will not survive. Unless
we learn to respect one another, recognize each other as a collective soul, and
rise up to a higher level of consciousness, survival will be out of the
question. It is time to revolutionize by recognizing the Divine within and
allowing the positive energy of love to guide and sustain us. It is time to
tear down the dark walls of the boxes that have been dividing us and to step
into the eternal light. It is time for all men to acknowledge the false
security of the comfort zones we created for ourselves. This era calls for the
disabling of our stubborn egos, to let go of the unproven theories we wrongly
defend, realize our connection to all life and to finally identify ourselves as
One. Those of us who continue to remain asleep by clinging to the lies,
misgivings, delusions and agendas of a misguided past will be in for a rude
awakening. World without end, Amen! 
