Chapter 33: A bit about lions, cobras, soul alchemy, dark nights, Kundalini and Melchizedek priest training

This morning, a good friend about half my age reported being visited by Archangel Michael in a dream last night. Michael mentioned my attempt to find receptivity at a Reddit spirituality group for some of what I had been taught the old-fashioned way about the Melchizedek priest training. Then, there was some kind of commencement exercise, a graduation ceremony. Michael told my friend that there are a few Melchizedek priest candidates graduating, who can be put to good use even though there is very little receptivity to what that they know and experience. Then, the headmaster of the school told Michael there were no Melchizedek priest graduates. 

Later this morning, I wondered if the dream was meant to point me toward something I posted last week into a Reddit spirituality group, and my and other people's responses thereto, on which I then sat and did not publish (thus, graduate)? That became Chapter 32: Energetic shift, or one hand clapping? in this unfolding book. 

Then, as if by chance, something popped up in my I-Phone, which I had published into the same Reddit spirituality group about 9 months ago: a written report of a spontaneous vision I'd shortly before a 4-year dark night of the soul began to lift, which led to an interesting, deep discussion.

something about lions

Once upon a time there lived a woman named Alya. She was the medicine woman in her tribe, using herbs and poultices and spirit ways to help her people. Yet she had one flaw: she hated lions, because a lion had killed her father. Her hatred caused her to cast spells against lions, which caused her husband great concern. He often told Alya that her war with lions was going to get her into big trouble, but she was a medicine woman, she knew the ways of the spirits, and she did not listen to her husband. 
One day while Alya was out gathering herbs, she spotted a lion sunning himself in tall grasses on the savannah. She hatched a scheme in her mind to sneak up on the lion and cast a spell on him, which would enable her to steal his spirit and have it for herself. As she crept closer to the lion, she began chanting softly and seeing in her mind’s eye her spell taking over the lion. However, she was so focused on what she was doing, that she did not see in her mind’s eye the lion’s mate returning from hunting. Nor did she see the lioness catch her sent, drop her kill from her mouth to the ground and circle around behind. Too late, Alya realized her peril, just as the lioness took her from behind.
Next thing Alya knows, she is in the spirit world, standing before the Lion Spirit. Trembling with terror, Alya wants to run away, but the Lion Spirit speaks to her heart, says, “There is something you do not yet know.” 
Then, Alya is back on the savannah, watching a hunter from her tribe sneaking up on a nest of lion cubs, whose parents are away hunting. The hunter has a twisted spirit, and decides to kill the lion cubs just for the fun of doing it, even though killing any animal just for sport is taboo in his tribe, which worships the Lion Spirit. On returning to his village, the hunter tells no one what he has done. 
When the lion and lioness return to their nest and find their dead cubs, they are enraged. They catch the hunter’s scent and track him back to the edge of the village, where the lion hides in a thicket and begins roaring and bellowing out his rage over what has happened. The hunter knows why the lion is there, doing that, but still he tells no one. 
Alya’s father, the tribe’s leader, prepares to go out and face and kill the lion, because it his duty to protect his tribe from marauding lions. And so he sets out to face the lion, even as the hunter lets him go without saying what has happened to bring this about, and that a lioness is also out there with the lion. 
Alya’s father quickly finds and confronts the lion, and is preparing to kill it with his spear, when he is taken from behind by the lioness. In her horror, Alya helplessly watches on, even as she now realizes that her hatred of lions was completely misplaced. She feels awful.  

Then suddenly Alya is back on the savannah, stalking the lion whose spirit she once wanted to steal for herself. The lion looks up, stares into Alya’s eyes. She shakes all over, is terrified, but does not look away. Then something takes hold of her, she says to the lion, “I have lost my father and you have lost your cubs. I will be your cub.” The lion looks deep into Alya’s spirit, nods, says, “And I will be your father, and will always protect your front.” Then beside the lion is the lioness, who says to Alya, “And I will always protect your back.

hummingbirdgaze

Something about the strength card in tarot. When I realized the true meaning of strength was about strength of heart and compassion, a lot shifted. Thanks for sharing. 

 

Puzzleheaded (me) 

You're welcome. I lived that ... parable? ... in another realm in June 1995, as my heart heaved and rivers of tears gushed from my eyes and oceans of snot from my nose.  

 

Omeyz

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing. 

 

Puzzleheaded 

You're welcome 

 

Hephsters 

It sure does seem that trauma is at the heart of growth doesn’t it?

I’m glad you found a resolution. I often feel utterly alone but wonder if there’s a part of me that has made it this way and that I’m to blame for my own struggles. 

In any case, I have no real doubts that I’ll pull through my own tests just as you have. Thanks for sharing! 

 

Puzzleheaded 

Soul Alchemy, as I came to call it, seems to be a solitary journey into God, as I grew up calling whatever is in charge of everything. It is not supposed to be easy, and if were easy, would there be any point to it? 

In my case, in my 45th year, early 1987, I had reached the end of my rope, felt I had failed in every way a man could fail, was out of bright ideals and knew it. In that desperate state, I prayed, "Dear God, please help me, I do not wish to die like this, failed." Pause. "I offer my life to human service." I hoped to be successful there and not die, failed. I wept. 

About ten nights later in the wee hours, I woke and saw two spirit beings above me in the darkness. Shaped like sifts. White with slightly blue tint. I figured they were angels. I heard spoken plainly into my mind, "This will push you to your limits, but you asked for it (I recalled the prayer) and we are going to give it to you." I saw a white flash as m y body was jolted by something electrical. That happened two more times. The beings faded out. 

That was the beginning. Slow, at first. I was moved to a different city, put with a new woman companion, where it really started. She was moving into soul alchemy, but not as fast as I was. She did not think I was crazy, but it was solitary. I did meet people who did not think I was crazy. Some of the ones who accepted as real what I reported I was experiencing could believe I was not using LSD, peyote, ayahuasca, etc. 

There was a dark night of the soul, which was very rough. Then, there was a black night of the soul, which made the dark night seem like a vacation. There was a later dark night. I lived on the street off and on. 

I had been well versed in the journeys of Francis of Assisi and John of the Cross, and of Rumi and his teacher, Shams. It was one on one with the Spirit World, and it was angels, then came demons. I had to face and come to terms with the Devil inside me, and in other people, and in spirit realms. 

I was made aware ETs and ultraterrestrial beings exist, but I was steered to not get very involved with them. 

I was not put in a cave or monastery. I was steered away from fastening to spiritual teachers, gurus, spiritual community. I was left in the ordinary world, where what life served up, or was arranged to be served up, was the grindstone and furnace and tsunami and earthquake and volcanic eruption and alien invasion, so to speak, through which my soul and my human body, emotions and mind were threshed and tested ongoing. That's still happening, but I'm not financially stressed now, thanks to an inheritance. 

This summarizes my soul alchemy journey. There are various ways to go at it. Some travelers use long -established practices and rituals, that's what John of the Cross did. And Rumi, I think. Francis of Assisi just had it happen to him, and he somehow survived it, with God's help. 

That's what Jesus in the Gospels experienced, and a number of his men and women disciples went on to experience it. 

Buddha experienced it. Lao Tzu experienced it. I think Yogananda experienced it. And Kahlil Gibran. Aboriginal shamans experienced it. Women experienced it, but the male paradigm did not record many of the women. 

I knew very well a woman who experienced it at the deepest of of levels. It was given to her by angels after she met me. Her soul had agreed to it. I met a few other people it was given to. 

I know a younger man it was given to, who is being pushed really hard and he is determined to stick with it, as he knows beyond any doubt that angels whose names are known in the Bible are doing it to and for him. 

He is not a church person. His parents are not church people. I am not a church person, although in past times I was at times. We don't know when we are ever not in church, so to speak.

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Puzzleheaded
The Bible, if viewed as an internal journey, is a good soul alchemy text. In many ways, I was a bot (programmed, brainwashed), and my soul alchemy journey has made me less of a bot.

Hephsters
Thanks for that, it’s actually quite comforting right now. I think I’m in a bit of a dark night of the soul phase but the light at the end of the tunnel is finally starting to twinkle through.
I think what I’m wishing for is that mystical experience like your angels experience. It feels like I’m trucking on alone even though I know it’s not really true but yes, it is indeed a solitary journey as you said.
I think patience is the key and perhaps one of my major life themes.

Puzzleheaded
I had read, and then it became my experience, that the dark night of the soul is not of this world but very definitely affects those who experience it. It comes and runs its course and it lifts.
Modern mental health, including psychiatry, does not have much to offer other than perhaps a listening ear. Psychiatric medicine isn't particularly effective and can interfere with and hinder or damage what is in progress, which might look like depression, for example, but is something else entirely.
I loved the movie Brother Son Sister Moon, which is about Francis of Assisi's dark night and what happened after he came out of it.
The commentaries of John of the Cross explain his perspective of both the dark night and the black night. I learned about that in Antonio T. de Nicholas' book, ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS: Alchemist of the Soul, which I stumbled across before the dark night arrived inside of me.
The dark night changes a person, a different person emerges from it. The black night, if it then occurs, changes a person much more. God, by whatever name called, is very involved in both, despite it might seem like being abandoned by God. Angels also are involved, even if they are not visible. The soul agrees to have the experience, the Spirit World obliges.
John of the Cross was a cloistered Carmelite monk, who used certain rituals known to provoke the dark night, and then the black night. Francis of Assisi simply had it happen to him from out of the blue. He was a young man, moving along, then he was apprehended and redirected, so to speak.
That said, sometimes a dark night accompanies fear of being who we really are, we cannot bring ourselves to deal directly, verbally, actionably, with something important. We clam up. We are in a prison or fear. I certainly experienced plenty of that, as well.
In all events, I appreciate your comments and hope the very best for you.

Demon_Blade
You are walking through the shadow of the valley of death. I too have made my journey. Fear no evil my friend and love be with you.
Part of the experience of alchemy is to break down old materials within your spirit , and create new materials. Your ego on this plane had some lead weighting your spirit down. No worries hang in there.
It's has been refered to as the first death sometimes. It's part of the rebirth process.
ouroboros and the symbolism attached to it, often references the infinite and it's ability to change and adapt. Also at the same times it means the patterns locking yourself into a loop .
Ex. Sometimes you literally have to get your head out of your ass, because while you may have the programing for you to maintain a "safe" loop. It's good to take your tail from your mouth sometimes. To change the loops at hand and create a more heavenly experience.  

All pretaing to you on this ego level plane. For we are all just writing programs for ourselves on this level.

Hephsters
Wow, I feel like some synchronicity is at work here. This is more info I needed to hear right now.
I’m literally trying to let old habits die off right now and struggling to move into a new phase of existence, one that I know will be infinitely more rewarding than the old phase but it’s still such a struggle to spit that damn tail out!
Is there a good alchemical ritual system that exists that I could practise to help with the breaking down? Or does it just happen naturally?

Demon_Blade
The universe told me to speak to you.
There is entirely new energy afoot. It's here for healing. It will bring up all the unwanted nonsense for you to sort through. It's is your reasonability to choose what do with it.
The snake naturally sheds it's skin, but sometimes it uses a rock to help in the process .
Take notice of all your patterns. You find something undesirable to you. Do something outside of yourself to break that cycle.
Before my process I had a real problem with other people. I always had to wait on them to do things. And if they ended up not doing anything I missed out in an opportunity. That was not fulfilling to my true self. So I just took a trip in my car for about a week to the beach. I slept in it every night. I did everything I wanted to do while I was gone. For that process I would have never done that before.
You know better than anyone what you truly need to do for yourself . Create a new paradigm
Be mindful of your thoughts without judgment of them. The next step can be incredibly crazy feeling to lose your concept of self. But if you jump into the fire you will only be what you really are
As above so below. So without so with in.

Puzzleheaded
Thank you for your comments, Demon_Blade. I myself had to be dragged kicking and screaming much of the time through the ego resistance and sheer stupidity in myself by what I understood were angels, who are still very much on my case as I approach official dinosaur status - I'm 79. Little did I know what lay ahead for me when it suddenly began in early 1987, as I described earlier in this discussion thread.
Speaking of snakes, here's a "parable" I lived in 1995 with heaving heart, rivers of tears running out of my eyes and oceans of snot from my nose:
the gift …
A sleeping man dreams he sees the back of a young yogi meditating in the lotus position. Before the young yogi appear two cobras, raised up, hoods flared. One cobra is pure white, the other pure black. Both beautiful. The white cobra says to the young yogi, “We came to you once before because you were innocent, and you knew we brought a gift and you believed you had to chose one of us and you chose me.” The black cobra says, “We come before you again because you now are wise.” The yogi, now very advanced in years, weeps, chooses them both. The sleeping man, now an old man, awakens, crying.

Demon_Blade
You are welcome my friend. It is my duty to share wisdom when needed. Those willing to listen will hear.
Better not know now they never known at all.
Haha the same experience I have had. I have come to find out most call it a Kundalini awakening.
All is of one , our shadow and our light . All exist within understanding. Find balance, tune it with love.
It's beautiful to experience what this yogi has had. That moment it clicks and you are humbled to all.
Thank you for the reminder, namaste.

Puzzleheaded
I don't know if I have had a Kundalini arousal/awakening.
In the 1987 or the next year, I read Gopi Krishna's autobiographic report of his own spontaneous Kundalini arousal, which went up the left hand path? and nearly finished him off. As I recall his reporting, yogis he consulted were not helpful. Finally, he found someone who did know something and made suggestions and Gopi was able using certain internal exercises to reroute the Kundalini up the correct passage -the right?, and he rode it out.
The second book I read a few years later was by a Christian contemplative, Philip St. Romain, who had a spontaneous Kundalini arousal, about which he wrote: Kundalini Energy and Christian Spirituality. Romain was having a hard time and read some books and figured out what was going on and used some internal exercises he'd read to help the process along. He concluded the Kundalini is not a supernatural but is a suprahuman experience, which leaves someone substantially changed.
Not long after, I read some of the writings of Joseph Chilton Pearce, who, after his work with child development and books about that and other matters, took up with the yogi Muktananda, whose autobiography I also read, which includes some of his experiences with spontaneous Kundalini arousal. I personally knew several of Muktananda's American students, who said he was having sex with young women in his ashram. Anyway, Pearce wrote that the Kundalini is a natural phenomenon in all people, which in olden times rose naturally with long used rites of passage into adulthood. But as civilized views took over, the rites of passage were hindered, damaged or squashed flat, and the Kundalini stopped rising naturally in most people. Pearce was trying to change education methods and other ways of raising children to allow them to experience natural Kundalini arousal.
I read elsewhere, can't now recall the source, that contorted body postures been seen during a Kundalini arousal, and  became haha yoga sought to reverse engineer arousal of the Kundalini. I did hatha yoga for years, and while it was excellent exercise, as was tai chi, I didn't experience a Kundalini arousal. Nor afterward, in all the many varied and often really wild internal experiences. did I seem to experience it.
I read another book in the early 1990s by U.G. Krisnamurti, different from Jiddu Krishnamurti. Also India native, U.G. described his search, including meeting Jiddu and they talked and U.G. told Jiddu he thought he had seen but not tasted the sugar. U.G. later moved to England, where out of the blue he had a most unusual, as he described it, opening all all seven chakaras, one at a time, bottom upward, with clearly visible physical distortions at each chakra. After which, his mind only worked when somebody or something came along that required his mind to work. People came from here and there to meet and talk with him, and he told them all what had happened to him was unique and he had nothing to offer them. Yet, he wrote some more books about the topic. Maybe he needed money?
The journey I'm on is very interactive with the human world, and with the spirit world. I once was shown, by angels I figured, internal exercises to do with my eyes closed, in which phenomena came and I embraced them, and then things happened inside and outside of me, most of it was quite spectacular and emotionally moving. That all ended with the advent of the black night of the soul in 1997, which lasted 16 months and began lifting when I moved on from the poor woman who had the bad luck to be with me when it descended upon me, leaving me feeling like half my brain or half my soul had died.
During the black night, I remained mostly aware, but was so screwed up and thought by most people to be insane, that I seldom talked about what I saw going on around me and inside of me. One friend kept having dreams about me, which showed me I was not in as bad a shape as I felt. Yet every morning, I spent about 4 hours plotting how I would kill myself the next day. Having done that exercise, I relaxed and endured the rest of the day, knowing it was my last. The next morning, the same process, arriving at the same exact way of killing myself the next day -slit my wrists with my Swiss Army knife. For nearly 16 months, that went on. Then, I left that woman, stuff started happening internally and externally, and I slowly was pull out of it.
Did I feel enlightened after that and a 4-year dark night in the early 1990s? Nope. Did things get better. Nope. Then began internal healing and other commotion caused by angels, accompanied by my being provided a new female companion, who, gosh, got her views of just about everything rearranged by what was happening to me and to her. Some of it inside of me was so terrifying that I had to have someone with me to endure it. That went on about six months. Then, a different kind of malaise, physical, came, and that went on about. 6 months. Dreams became really important - again. It got a little better, and yet another woman was provided as a companion. The angels took her through it super fast and she emerged very wide awake and a fully operational shamaness. Then, we had some very unusual experiences with angels and Jesus and Melchizedek, and we ran out of money and that led to our parting ways.
I started living on the street here and there, as I was fully aware, I thought, and oh my did I feel like as stranger in a strange land, and still do, although I now have one male friend half my age the angels are putting through a warp speed change, and it is not much fun for him. I had a male friend after after the back night, who also got put through it, but it seemed to be too much for him and he got really mad at me over something I heard and was told to tell him, and he went his own way and I am pretty sure he crossed over a few years later.
For him, me, the two women and yet two later women companions (one at a time), and this newer younger male friend, the core of the alchemy is dealing with what the human world provides for us to deal with and using our training and what the angels tell us to navigate it. That is the engine for all the rest. It resembles this and that I have read here and there, but the closest thing to it I have seen is how it went for Jesus in the Gospels and for his disciples after he moved on. Perhaps that's due to my Christian upbringing.
Muktananda wrote I think in his autobiography that he had thought he was pretty hot stuff - advanced yogi - until a real yogi did something that woke up the Kundalini in Muktananda, and then the fun began. Muktananda and perhaps other yogis followed suit and were delivering "shaktipat" to their students (sanyasans) to awaken the Kundalini in them. I knew several of those sanyasans pretty well in America, and they were struggling.
Then, there is A Course in Miracles, which I read in 1989, but did not use because I seemed to be embarked on an angel -designed course in mirrors. The core of ACIM is projection and not reacting to anything that punches our buttons.

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Chapter 32: Energetic shift, or one hand clapping?

 

A koan is something like a spiritual riddle in Buddhism. Such as, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" Silence

This morning, a good friend reported being visited by Archangel Michael in a dream last night. Michael mentioned my attempt to find receptivity at a Reddit spirituality group for some of what I had been taught the old-fashioned way about the Melchizedek priest training. Then, there was some kind of commencement exercise, a graduation ceremony. Michael told my friend that there are a few Melchizedek priest candidates graduating, who can be put to good use even though there is very little receptivity to what that they know and experience. Then, the headmaster of the school told Michael there were no Melchizedek priest graduates. 

Later today, I wondered if the dream was meant to point me toward a post last week into a Reddit spirituality group, and my and other people's responses thereto, on which I sat and did not publish (thus, graduate)?

Energetic shift

Question

Does anyone else feel as though we are heading for a complete reset. That we have been living a ridiculous life for so long and now more and more people are starting to question this. Working 40 hours a week to merely exist. Doing a job we aren’t arsed about to put money in the back pockets of the large corporations. I guarantee If I was to run a poll and ask how many people would rather do a 4 hour work day and work 4 days a week the majority would vote yes. This is a life we could actually have but the majority of us do not have any control. I feel people are starting to question things a lot more and there is a tense energy in the air. I don’t know how much longer we can continue confirming and living this life. The world seems to be heading for a reset. Humanity and the all of the worlds species will be completely wiped out and we are all just plodding along working as oppose to spending time in nature, or connecting and being with our friends and family?! We need to all come together and start to push change.

Puzzleheaded (me)

If you, we, watch television news, read online news online, use social media, watch podcasts, we know there is zero chance we will all come together and there is 100-percent chance humanity, in the main, is devolving, As above, so below, As below, so above, paint the actual picture. The heavens are a screwed up, humanity is screwed up, the two reflect each other. It's on every person to separate from the herd, or not; to evolve, or not; to experience the fire and the rain of real soul alchemy, or not. No two people are alike, and there is no pat formula that works across the board. However, ruthless and relentless self-examination and introspection are essential, and that is not something the ego cares for even a little bit, nor does Evil, which is very real, as humanity proves every day. I cannot properly X-ray my own soul without help of angels known in the Bible. If my saying angels bothers some people, they can substitute Spirit World, or Source, or Force. It matters not to me. What matters is people need something far bigger and smarter than themselves to help them deal with their own egos and Evil. 

 

devianceisurissue

I have found the best course of action to be internal meditative work. If it feels like fear and hatred or some derivation of it try to understand it. If it feels like love and compassion and acceptance and empathy, then you're on the right course. And those still moments where coincidences build and synchronicities expose themselves to you, the messaging is clear. It's from within your own ego mind that the fear division allows the construct to grip you. You are loved so love yourself but love everyone else as you love yourself.

Ixora

For I am you. You are me. Every act of love I give is a reflection of self. The only way for me to truly find peace, is to understand that my ego has created my perception, and if I am feeling ANYTHING other than Love, Joy, Peace in this world, than my perception is wrong and I am disconnected from spirit.

Just corroborating your statement! The way the ego and our soul work in tandem is really quite simple. It's so simple understand but it takes so much practice and undoing many years of what the world has taught us. I was told by my teachers that everything I learned growing up was a lie told by the world. A belief that needed to be changed. It took years of hard inner work of meticulously pulling apart my beliefs to understand that I was the one forming the world I saw. 

 

devianceisurissue

Almost had a mental breakdown in my Awakening and since. Source provides.

Puzzleheaded

That goes along with waking up and increasingly feeling like you are no longer from this planet but are still living on it. 

 

hjay

This was beautifully said. And this is been my life for the past 6 years on my spiritual journey. I've done so much work on myself I don't even recognize who I am now and who I used to be. Searching hunting and battling every mental and emotional fear or anxiety to become the highest version of myself. I had no standards before my journey but now I have the highest expectations for myself 

 

LucidNomadicDreamer

We're living the days before the flood except Noah isn't one person speaking to "God". All of us here have spoken to Gaia. She has told us all the same thing: build an ark. Make your life one that is harmonious with Her. Once again, we must resume our role as the guardians of the soil. Gaia is the Universe and She will protect those that protect her. The rest shall perish. 

 

NotTooDeep 

It does seem that way on a cyclical basis. What I mean is every few generations, we have evolved enough to be better off than our great grandparents could have imagined. This creates a cultural tension between some of the elders and a lot of the young. This change and conflict can be seen by everyone. 

And to your points about the 4 hour work week, this rising general awareness has happened before; it is what brought us the 40 hour work week and child labor laws, reigning in the abuses of the self-entitled corporate overlords of olden times. Although I bet if you worked your poll a little differently, asking what kind of work people would thrive the most doing, you'd find we really aren't that committed to 4 hour work weeks. The kind of work is more important to most folks than quantity of that work. 

For sensitive people, there are more things they can be aware of but not understand. Sensitive people are more prone to reacting to major changes in energy. 

When the Earth changes her energy, it affects all life on the planet. Think major earthquakes for one example; just the energy, not the physical effects. Before an earthquake, there is a standing wave of energy built up between the parts of the crust that are about to move. Sensitive people pick up on this energy, even when that aren't conscious of it or can put a name on it. Our bodies are of the Earth. 

This global change in energy distorts and filters everything we see or experience in some way, amplifying some things and nullifying other things. Often times, the things aren't changed at all, just our perception of these things. 

Look up "The Population Bomb". It was published in 1968 and focused much of the energy of many other causes on one thing: overpopulation. To summarize: The oceans of the world can only accommodate so many flush toilets. The farms of the world can only make so much food. The fresh water of the world, once assumed to be infinite, is a limited resource that determines life or death. 

We've overcome many of the constraints that that book was based on; better farming techniques; better global supply chains. But, as the Theory of Constraints states, when you break one constraint, you find a different one takes its place. Today we call that climate change. 

I know it seems like the end of the world, but it seemed like the end of the world in 1968, and it seemed like the end of the world in 1929, and it will seem like the end of the world again. 

We get through stuff. We will figure it out. It will be messy and imperfect and really piss some of us off, but we'll get through this. 

Life here evolves into greater and greater complexity. Biology really does through a wrench into the physics stuff about entropy. The system of life on this planet will never reach stasis; it will only change and change again. Our part is to change it for the better as best we can. Even if we redistributed all the wealth of all the billionaires and ended world hunger, create universal health care for everyone, and create schools for everyone, we'd end up changing what we created. 

We don't all come here for the same reasons, but we all come here with the same basic abilities, and using those abilities changes things. 

I'm 70 and have asthma. It was caused in part from breathing copper sulfide (?) gasses as a small child living in a mining town near a copper smelter. A siren would go off when the wind would shift. We, every man, woman, and child, had two minutes to lay down below 18" from the ground and wait for the all clear. The smelter smoke would blow down over that town like a blanket of fog and if you took a deep breath of it, you could die. 

My asthma was later worsened by the smog in southern California in the 60s. I went to a shiny new high school on a hillside in the San Gabriel valley. Most of the year and especially in summer, you could not see our namesake, the San Gabriel mountains. There were kids in Orange county that never knew there were 10,000 foot high mountains just to the north of them. Then one winter, a big storm came in and blow all the smog away, and there were the mountains. Normally, the air looked like bourbon. Flights of small airplanes would be restricted to instrument rated pilots, the visibility was so low. 

That's not the case anymore. We figure out how to make cleaner burning cars and the air in L.A. is much cleaner. Still city air, but not like the 60s. 

The rich farmlands in the Tennessee Valley were severely under utilized because of flooding. Every year, some tributary of the Mississippi River would flood, wiping out families and crops. The Tennessee Valley Authority was created by the federal government, built a series of small dams, which curtailed much of the flooding and created the first electricity many of those rural farmers had ever seen. This is in the 1930s. Imagine that. Most of the states that we call "the South" had lots of farms with no electricity. 

If I learned anything from seven decades in this body on this planet in this country, it's we get through things. I don't know how. I don't know when. But I'm still hopeful we will get through this. 

Hell, there was a science fair/competition at the national level several years ago and the winner was a high school girl that invented a novel gene treatment for some really difficult cancer. We didn't teach her how to do that; we enabled and supported her, and got out of her way. 

One way to look at politics is who needs to get out of the way next. It's a generational thing again. We won't allow a civilian over the age of 65 to fly commercial airliners but we'll allow them to run the world's most powerful military and strongly influence its economy. 

I also expect that next week or next month, someone else will post on Reddit something very similar to your post without having read your post. They will pick up on a large change energy and will analyze as best they can what the reasons are for that large change energy, and they'll create a coherent story that explains their reasoning and their emotional responses. And they, too, will be mostly right. And then nothing will happen most of the time. 

Sometimes it takes a physical catalyst, like George Floyd, to crystalize us into action. We like our privacy and our lives, even when we're young and overworked and underpaid. But watching a murder slowly play out in real time committed by someone sworn to protect civilians? It brought us to our feet. 

So yes, I'm hopeful. I don't have to know or see how things will turn out to be hopeful. I just have to remember who we are. And the best in each of us is more effective than the worst in each of us. We rise to the occasion. This gives me peace.

And now that I'm sharing what I've learned about psychic abilities with the Reddit communities, how to ground and run energy, read an aura, heal yourself, I, too, am getting out of the way. I have no goal for what these younger folks who learn these techniques must do with what they learn. I know what the techniques can accomplish and how they accomplish that. I know what I've done with these techniques. So I share them and get out of the way. 

 

Puzzleheaded 

Dinosaurs, who have truly seen the fire and the rain, still roam this world, but are we a dying breed?

The personal and collective metaphysical, spiritual, not of this world factors aside, it sure looks crystal clear to me that humanity is on a fast track to destroy the planet on which ii lives. Nikola Telsa wannabe Elon Musk knows this very well; otherwise, why does he build space ships he hopes will allow him and his family and loved ones to move to Mars? What Martian, if such exists, in his, her, its right mind, wants human beings to live on Mars? So, back to the metaphysical, spiritual, not of this world factors. 

It has been said, it is better not to start on the spiritual path, than to start and then leave it. The fire and the rain are like the law's Jealous Mistress. The fire and the rain require every soul to be X-rayed and X-rayed and X-rayed, until there are no secrets left, nor any fig leaves. The fire and the rain take no prisoners. There is no we must do this or that. For the herd never was right, and never will be. It's on each person, or soul, to be consumed by the fire and the rain, and endure it, or not; embrace it, or not; become one with it, or not. Not to worry, there are many chances to do this, on this planet, or somewhere, contary to what some human religions teach, insist. 

But this is now, and the fire and the rain are now, and in the Gospels, Jesus said the Kingdom of God is at hand, now; it is not of this world, and to wake up, stop sleeping. While America is tugged back and forth by the "woke", according to the Republicans and the MAGAs, and by "the great unwoke," who are the Republicans and MAGAs. And by everyone else, who has not been woke up by something much bigger and smarter than themselves.

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com

Chapter 31: Is Donald Trump a fan of Adolph Hitler? (Hold a seance and ask Ivana)

I heard heard recently that it is legally forbidden in Germany to discuss Nazis and Adolph Hitler online. 

However, here is what this dinosaur Alabama lawyer used Wikipedia to find:

...the German criminal code reads:^[1][2][3]

§ 86 StGB Dissemination of Means of Propaganda of Unconstitutional Organizations

1. Whoever domestically disseminates or produces, stocks, imports or exports or makes publicly accessible through data storage media for dissemination domestically or abroad, means of propaganda:
   1. of a party which has been declared to be unconstitutional by the Federal Constitutional Court or a party or organization, as to which it has been determined, no longer subject to appeal, that it is a substitute organization of such a party;
   2. ...
   4. means of propaganda, the contents of which are intended to further the aims of a former National Socialist organization, shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine.
2. ...
3. Subsection (1) shall not be applicable if the means of propaganda or the act serves to further civil enlightenment, to avert unconstitutional aims, to promote art or science, research or teaching, reporting about current historical events or similar purposes.

§ 86a StGB Use of Symbols of Unconstitutional Organizations

1. Whoever:
   1. domestically distributes or publicly uses, in a meeting or in writings (§ 11 subsection (3)) disseminated by him, symbols of one of the parties or organizations indicated in § 86 subsection (1), nos. 1, 2 and 4; or
   2. produces, stocks, imports or exports objects which depict or contain such symbols for distribution or use domestically or abroad, in the manner indicated in number 1, shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine.
2. Symbols, within the meaning of subsection (1), shall be, in particular, flags, insignia, uniforms, slogans and forms of greeting. Symbols which are so similar as to be mistaken for those named in sentence 1 shall be deemed to be equivalent thereto.
3. The exceptions from §86 subsection (3) and (4) apply accordingly.

Perhaps America should have passed a similar law after World War II.

YouTube does not allow Adolph Hitler to be a podcast hash tag. I find that unfathomable, since Adolph Hitler is an actual historical figure, who greatly impacted Europe, Russia and America.

YouTube's position is, it doesn't allow anything that might incite violence. Perhaps some day YouTube will not allow Donald Trump in a hashtag? 

As for whether there is any similarity between Donald Trump and Adolph Hitler, in 2016, Trump was reluctant to renounce the endorsement of former KKK leader David Duke. 

After he was in the White House, Trump said there were good people on both sides of the Charlottesville, Virginia near-riots over Confederate monuments being removed from public view. 

Here is a photo of the good people on the side of not removing the Confederate monuments.

As for what Ivana Trump had to say about hubby Donald and Adolph Hitler, consider this Business Insider article.

Donald Trump's ex-wife once said Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed

Business Insider Sep 1, 2015, 7:25 AM

According to a 1990 Vanity Fair interview, Ivana Trump once told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that her husband, real-estate mogul Donald Trump, now a leading Republican presidential candidate, kept a book of Hitler's speeches near his bed.

"Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed ... Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist," Marie Brenner wrote.

Hitler was one of history's most prolific orators, building a genocidal Nazi regime with speeches that bewitched audiences.

"He learned how to become a charismatic speaker, and people, for whatever reason, became enamored with him," Professor Bruce Loebs, who has taught a class called the Rhetoric of Hitler and Churchill for the past 46 years at Idaho State University, told Business Insider earlier this year.

"People were most willing to follow him, because he seemed to have the right answers in a time of enormous economic upheaval. 

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When Brenner asked Trump about how he came to possess Hitler's speeches, "Trump hesitated" and then said, "Who told you that?" 

 

"I don't remember," Brenner reportedly replied. 

 

Trump then recalled, "Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of 'Mein Kampf,' and he's a Jew." 

 

Brenner added that Davis did acknowledge that he gave Trump a book about Hitler. 

 

"But it was 'My New Order,' Hitler's speeches, not 'Mein Kampf,'" Davis reportedly said. "I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I'm not Jewish.”

After Trump and Brenner changed topics, Trump returned to the subject and reportedly said, "If, I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them."

In the Vanity Fair article, Ivana Trump told a friend that her husband's cousin, John Walter "clicks his heels and says, 'Heil Hitler," when visiting Trump's office.

Here's the entire Vanity Fair interview.

Excerpt from the Vanity Fair article:

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

"Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?" I asked Trump.

Trump hesitated. "Who told you that?"

"I don't remember," I said.

"Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he's a Jew." ("I did give him a book about Hitler," Marty Davis said. "But it was My New Order, Hitler's speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I'm not Jewish.")

Later, Trump returned to this subject. "If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them."

Is Ivana trying to convince her friends and lawyer that Trump is a crypto-Nazi? Trump is no reader or history buff. Perhaps his possession of Hitler's speeches merely indicates an interest in Hitler's genius at propaganda. The Führer often described his defeats at Stalingrad and in North Africa as great victories. Trump continues to endow his diminishing world with significance as well. "There's nobody that has the cash flow that I have," he told The Wall Street Journal long after he knew better. "I want to be king of cash."

As for whether or not Donald Trump heads a white supremacy attempt to take over America, consider these photos:

In the law is the doctrine of Res Ipsa Loquitur (the thing speaks for itself), which is evidentiary in court proceedings.

Based on all this Independent former practicing attorney reads, sees on TV, on Facebook and elsewhere online, and hears in personal conversations, most Republicans and their MAGA siblings could care less what the rest of America, and the rest of the world, think about January 6. What they care about is making sure they retake the White House and all of Congress at the ballot box. They already control the US Supreme Court. 

Then there's:

President for life? Trump says 'maybe we'll have to give that a shot some day'

Gregory Korte

USA TODAY 

 

Mar 4, 2018 

WASHINGTON — President Trump spoke in approving terms of his Chinese counterpart's consolidation of power Saturday, telling campaign donors in Florida that maybe the United States should follow suit.

Calling Chinese President Xi Jinping "a great gentleman" and "the most powerful president in 100 years," Trump suggested that he'd like to follow Xi's example and abolish term limits.

"He's now president for life. President for life. No, he's great," Trump said. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot some day."

It was not clear whether the comment was made in jest.

The remarks came in a closed-door luncheon fundraiser at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Saturday. CNN obtained a recording of Trump's speech.

While it might be romantic to hope for the original Ghostbusters crew to return to action and debug Donald Trump and his heel-clicking legions, that might be as futile as hoping Trump is seized and put on one of Elon Musk's rockets to Mars to save America from a reincarnation of Adolph Hitler, on some of whose golf courses Saudi Arabia pays mercenaries huge sums just to show up and play. Trump must have forgotten he blamed Saudi Arabia for 9/11, but I doubt he forgot twice being financially bailed out by a Saudi prince.

Excerpts from a Rolling Stone article in my Apple newsfeed today:

Yet again, the only thing standing between former President Trump and a public stance is a signature on a check. At a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament, held at Trump’s Bedminster golf course Thursday, the former President told reporters that “nobody’s gotten to the bottom of 9/11,” signaling a reversal from Trump’s previous conviction that the Saudi government was responsible for the terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000 Americans.

The cash-rich LIV has been soaked in controversy since its inception, with many raising concerns that the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is using the golf circuit as “sports-washing” to rehabilitate its public image. In 2018, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated and dismembered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, allegedly under orders from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, prompting international condemnation. Two of LIV’s 14 events are slated to take place at Trump owned properties.

“I think LIV has been a great thing for Saudi Arabia, for the image of Saudi Arabia,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal in an interview on Tuesday. When asked by a reporter about the financial gains of hosting the tournaments, Trump deflected that he didn’t “do it for that,” but added: “They’ve been very generous.” 

Last week, family members of victims of the 9/11 terror attacks sent Trump a letter expressing their “deep pain and anger” over his decision to “host the Saudi Golf League (‘LIV’) at your Bedminster, New Jersey, property.” The letter reminded the former President of his previous public statements laying blame for 9/11 on the Saudis, including a 2016 interview on Fox News where Trump told host Sean Hannity that, “It was Saudi,” not Iraq, that “blew up the World Trade Center.” 

“Take a look at Saudi Arabia. Open the documents,” Trump insisted at the time. “We ought to get Bush or somebody to have the documents opened because frankly if you open the documents, I think you are going to see it was Saudi Arabia.” Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the attacks, 15 were Saudi citizens. “Those people would have not been in the country had my policies been intact,” Trump asserted. 

Hmmm.

Here's President Donald Trump being blessed by the Saudi Crown Prince, who had a journalist killed and sawed up, after the journalist was not kind to the Saudi Prince. 

When president, Trump railed against any and all news reports that did not paint him splendid. If he becomes president again, how do you think he will want to treat American journalists who do not please him? 

I read this morning that Great Britain's Prince Charles is involved in a large charity that accepted a one million pounds donation from the Saudi bin Laden family after 9/11, which recently was made known and the outrage in Great Britain is great.

So, I wonder how American armed service veterans in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, who have supported Donald Trump, now feel about him being up to his neck in bed with Saudi Arabia's LIV tour, and with him recanting everything he once said about the Saudis and Saudi Arabia being in on 9/11? 

I dunno, this is such a great deep and ever-widening toxic swamp that perhaps it's best for me to simply throw up my hands and say I'm so way out of my depth that I should just stick to what I was originally trained by angels to do, which is how to move closer to God, which America claims on its money, it trusts, claims in its Pledge of Allegiance is one nation under, and claims in its Declaration of Independence is its Authority.

While Donald Trump's robot legions click their heels and salute him.

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com

Chapter 30: Titanica

This and that from the American left and right has left me feeling America should change its name to Titanica. 

A ten-year-old Ohio girl, made pregnant by rape when she was nine, was sent by her Ohio doctor to Indiana, where she was able to get an abortion. The American Right said it was a hoax. When it turned out not to be a hoax, the American Right assailed the girl’s doctors. When it came out that the rapist was an immigrant, the American Right made that their main focus. There were cries that the young girl should have been forced to have the baby. Not once did I see the American Right demonstrate any love or compassion for the young girl. I concluded the American Right are not human, but are subhuman.

A Phoenix, Arizona man persuaded an Arizona state court judge to appoint him Executor of the estate of the fetus his third wife had medically aborted after he sued her for divorce and ended their marriage. As Executor, he was granted legal standing to file a wrongful death case against the abortion providers.

RONNY REYES FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 13:43 EDT, 15 July 2022 | UPDATED: 20:52 EDT, 15 July 2022

An Arizona judge says a man may begin establishing an estate on behalf of an aborted fetus so he can sue a clinic for terminating his third wife's pregnancy. 

Mario Villegas, 41, was allowed to establish an estate for the embryo, dubbed 'Baby Villegas,' in order to sue Jackrabbit Family Medicine Inc. and Camelback Family Planning, which carried out an abortion for ex-wife Meagan in 2018. 

Villegas, a U.S. Marine veteran who accompanied Meagan during the procedure and consultations, claimed doctors failed to properly inform her of the health risks of an abortion, as well as not telling his ex-wife about the 'satisfaction' that comes with being a mother.

I concluded the ex-marine and the judge are not human, but are subhuman.

A while back, the Saudi Crown Prince had a journalist, who had criticized him, killed and chopped up into small pieces. I concluded the Crown Prince was subhuman.

President Joe Biden said he would make the Crown Prince a pariah. 

Biden followed through last week, by taking a large entourage of American officials to Saudi Arabia, where they all bumped-fists, smiled at and kissed the the international terrorist's ass, hoping he will sell America more oil.

I concluded shit birds of a feather flock together.

In my youth and early so-called manhood, I played a lot of golf and was a fairly good player during some stretches, but in the end, my swing was unreliable, and my back was ailing, and I gave up the game, which the novella Golf in the Kingdom called an X-ray of the soul. 

Then along came the Australian legend golfer Greg Norman, who had made a financial deal with the Saudis to back a new golf tour. I had to wonder if Greg would have done that if 9/11 had occurred in Sydney or Melbourne, instead of in New York City? 

What do you think?

Fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 terrorists were Saudis. 

When 9/11 occurred, America closed its borders, so that no one could leave - unless they were members of the Saudi Royal Family, hanging out in their Los Vegas casino hotel. 

The new golf tour, LIV, offered high profile professional golfers so much money that they would never have to work again, if they didn’t want to. Quite a few of those high profile golfers went for it. About half of them, perhaps, were Americans.

Donald Trump, financially bailed out twice by a different Saudi prince, owns golf courses in Ireland and Florida, which made deals to host two LIV events.

The POLITICO article below was in my Apple news feed this very morning. After reading it, I wondered how many 9/11 survivor families voted for Donald Trump in 2016, and will vote for him in 2024?

Trump world reaches out to 9/11 families on eve of their LIV golf protest

Protests are planned for the tournament to be held at Bedminster this coming week.

Dozens of family members and survivors of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack will head to former President Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf club next week to protest the controversial Saudi-backed LIV Golf event there.

Brett Eagleson, a founder of the group 9/11 Justice, told POLITICO the group will hold a press conference on Friday morning down the street from the exclusive club. Trump’s Bedminster is the site of the next big event for the Saudi Arabian-funded golf series. And Eagleson’s group hopes to call attention to the Saudi government’s connections to 9/11 and call out the 48-man field heading to the tourney — which includes stars like Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson — for “choosing to take Saudi payouts and look the other way on the country’s human rights abuses and role in the worst terrorist attacks on American soil.”

According to Eagleson, over a hundred 9/11 victim families and survivors are expected to attend the protest. They will, in addition, have the support of members of Congress like Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), though it’s unclear if any lawmaker is able to show up in person.

The protest places yet another unfavorable spotlight on what has become a source of sharp criticism for Trump. His and his family's ties to the Saudis and his association with LIV has come against the backdrop of a renewed push for the U.S. to more fully distance itself from the country over its human rights record. President Joe Biden himself faced recent criticism for visiting Saudi Arabia after vowing to make the nation a “pariah.”

Trump appears to understand the sensitivity too. Eagleson, whose father, John Bruce Eagleson died in the South Tower on Sept. 11, said a representative for Trump personally called him yesterday in response to a letter his group sent relaying its “deep pain and anger” over the decision to host two different inaugural LIV golf events.

The aide, according to Eagleson, said Trump had read their letter, and told Eagleson “9/11 is really near and dear to him and it’s so important to him he is going to remember everyone who signed the letter and he personally told this individual to reach out.”

But, Eagleson said, it was of “little to no value.”

“My response is, if it was so important to him why did he tell you to call me, why didn't he call himself?” he added. “[The aide] just kept repeating the same talking points, one being that the contract is binding and there is no way out of it. And when I pressed on when [the contract] was signed, she said she didn't know and just continued to say that the President was flattered with the letter, which was a weird thing to say, since it was not a very flattering letter. It called him a hypocrite essentially.”

In addition to the letter, 9/11 Justice has also requested a meeting with Trump ahead of the tournament to express their concerns and discuss Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 attacks. The group is particularly focused on showing the public a clear connection between the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Saudi government. They point to newly declassified documents related to the U.S. government’s investigation of the attacks and suspected official Saudi support for the hijackers as providing clear evidence of the nation’s role that day. Fifteen of the 19 al Qaeda terrorists who hijacked planes on 9/11 were Saudi nationals.

The group’s letter to Trump noted that he himself blamed Saudi Arabia for the attack during a 2016 interview on Fox News.

The Trump Organization did not respond to a request for comment.

The tournament that is set to kick off on Friday at Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster is LIV’s second U.S event. The tour is backed by the Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund that is chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who U.S. intel has blamed for the gruesome death of a Washington Post columnist. It has not been without controversy since its inception. Critics of the LIV Invitational Series say it is an attempt by the Saudis to “sports-wash” their record on human rights.

And the golf series has split the golf community too, pitting the PGA against LIV, which is being led by golf legend Greg Norman. Pro golfers who have decided to join LIV — reportedly accepting as much as $200 million in signing bonuses — have been suspended from PGA Tour events, though are still permitted to participate in the four yearly major tournaments.

Trump responded to that ban on Truth Social, and encouraged pro golfers to go ahead and join LIV.

“All of those golfers that remain ‘loyal’ to the very disloyal PGA, in all of its different forms, will pay a big price when the inevitable MERGER with LIV comes, and you get nothing but a big ‘thank you’ from PGA officials who are making Millions of Dollars a year,” Trump said on his social media platform. “If you don’t take the money now, you will get nothing after the merger takes place, and only say how smart the original signees were.”

Trump’s decision to host the LIV series at two of his clubs (Doral in Miami will host the other) comes after the PGA decided days after the Jan. 6 riots on Capitol Hill to terminate an agreement to play the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster.

9/11 Justice isn’t the only advocacy group planning to protest the golf event next weekend. 9/11 Families United, led by Terry Strada, the widow of 9/11 victim Tom Strada, have also planned a press conference set to take place at the Clarence Dillon Public Library in Bedminster on Tuesday morning.

Eagleson said 9/11 families have been “beside ourselves” over Trump’s decision.

“We can’t imagine that the president, knowing what he knows and with his history on this, would host and facilitate the Saudi government have this tournament literally 50 miles from ground zero in a state where 750 were murdered,” said Eagleson.

I concluded shit birds of a feather flock together.

As I watch the not even remotely disguised effort by Trump, the Republican Party and the entire America Right, including five United States Supreme Court Justices, and every red state, to make America a right-wing Christian Caliphate modeled after Saudi Arabia.

As I watch many Americans of note and of common circumstances say there is no way in hell Trump will be president again! 

In 2016, I watched many Americans of note and of common circumstances say there was no way in hell Trump will be elected!

As I read online and see on CNN that Trump will be in prison over January 6, 2020, by the time of the 2024 presidential election. 

Do you bet your life and your soul the US Department of Justice can pick a jury of Trump's peers, which will convict him?

As I read online that Trump won’t run in 2024, because he is afraid he will be prosecuted and put in prison if he does run then? 

Do you think Trump fears being prosecuted? Can you imagine how much money he will make by asking for legal defense donations?

As I read online that the Republican Party will ditch Trump and run Trump's vice-president Mike Pence or Florida governor Ron DeSantis in 2024. 

Do you think either man will stand a chance against the Democrat candidate, without Donald Trump and his MAGA horde' votes?

As I hear on the grapevine that the Democrat Mullahs have decided to wait until 2024 to prosecute Trump, hoping that, and a new Democrat president and vice-president candidate - goodbye Joe and Kamala - will keep the Democrats in control of the White House, and, hopefully, the US Senate and House of Representatives. Can you imagine how much money Trump will make off of that?

People who actually know me, know I am a political independent and do not belong to any religion. They know I hammered Barack Obama, when he was president. They know I hammered Hillary Clinton, when she ran against Trump in 2016. They know I hammered Trump in 2016. They know I said Trump and Hillary should both be locked up, in adjoining cells. I said it many times. 

As a lawyer raised as a Southern Baptist, then as an Episcopalian, I knew just how Titanic it would be for Trump to get elected and appoint right-wing Christian US Supreme Court Justices and federal judges.

So, when I look at the sorry mess that is America after four years of Trump, who is making fortunes off his political Game of Thrones; who is no more worried about being tried and convicted than the Saudi Crown prince is worried about being tried and convicted; who will promise during his 2024 campaign to pardon anyone the Democrat-controlled government prosecuted and convicted; who recently promised to fire and replace every US Government employee, who is not a Trump loyalist ...

I think Trump will be the next US President, unless something unexpected happens.

Once again in the White House, Trump will do everything possible to make himself King of America, unless something unexpected happens.

What do I mean by unexpected?

I mean, Trump has a massive stroke and cannot function as subhuman any longer. 

I mean Trump has a massive heart attack and he dies. 

I mean Trump is abducted by aliens and never heard from again. 

I mean Trump wakes up one morning, after being visited in his sleep by Jesus Christ. 

Trump runs out of the White House stark naked, carrying a Bible raised high in one hand, screaming there are no fig leaves in paradise, nor any secrets! It is more blessed to give than to receive! He has seen the light. 

Trump resigns as president, gives all his money to the poor, and becomes a Franciscan monk street preacher in Washington, D.C.

A south Alabama amiga shared this poem with me in 2019.

Pigs in mud 

 

All want the security of the well fed pig.

Horror at the baseness unrecognized.

A lifetime spent in shirt stuffing.

And pen comparison.

Is truth more palatable when honeyed?

Is a stark soulscape less so with the eyes of Monet?

May my affectations always be known and understood.

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com