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A Science Fiction Tale:
Prelude: The Return of the Forgotten One
In an instant, in one space/time snapshot, a wonder-full story began and then spun out across time and space – toward the past and toward the future. Many snapshots later (or earlier, if you prefer) a crucial time in history arose – when time and space literally seem to converge on each other, at first not sure if they will make love or war. The Figure 8 had transversed its course and both ends were meeting in that middle land once more.
It was shaky going. Just as soon as one felt like he/she knew what was real anymore, it changed again. And, that was okay, even though it often felt the opposite. “It’s all good” would be the modern saying for the hope that comes from just giving all one has each day, and praying for the best outcome of all concerned. After all, we see and move forward by faith, not sight.
It was a time of great upheaval, of suffering. But, oh, a time for hope, as well. The people had been living on the planet for ages. So long, in fact, that memories of entire generations of people on the planet – and their children – had been forgotten….or erased.
Details about their Source, their purpose, and their true identity and nature and life fuel seem to have evaporated. Some people sought to remember these threads, others to forget…while perhaps the majority, these days, simply had forgotten that there was anything to remember or forget. They were numb, raw, overexposed to images and information and stimuli. They were used to being afraid.
Sometimes, this “forgetting” was due to catastrophic events on the planet – threats from underneath, from the surface, and above. And, some times, the threats seemed to come from the ethers, invisible threats. Who knows if these type exist apart from the minds of the inhabitants – apart from the echoes they can hear across the land – or not?
Both threats and opportunities had come too from others “worlds” – from people unknown to the planet’s inhabitants. Aliens. For, if the people would know that others existed beyond their planet, they could, if in dire trouble, call on these “others” to help. Across time, and across space, and across dimensions. Nothing was impossible.
Such is the time of our telling. This time, human DNA had triumphed. Humans had rose to the top of the food chain and maintained their position – above dogs, and cats, and reptiles, on down to amoebas. The humans were multiplying rapidly, using up their resources and minerals and organs, experiencing dis-ease, further imprisoning each other, polluting the planet, and beginning to fight for food and water. One place or another on the planet was at war, constantly.
For, you know, the ancient story goes that once the First War began, it never has ended, whether above or below, or in that gray bridge between. The planet’s people were bidding time against catastrophe – in one form or another. On their own, in their own minds, they had succeeded in making great technological advances. In fact, so superior were their advances that they had done what they had not intended; they had created ways to eliminate themselves, to wipe out their entire race.
Greed, too, had swept the planet – to the extent that some would eliminate others just as easily as they strip a $20 bill from their money roll to pay a black-suited valet. The Little People – who knew no better, would be better off with the educated and powerful in control, anyway, right?
So, what The Little People were told, and how they were molded was very important. And, it was most important that the strings that tweaked them would be so subtle and so cunning that the People would not even know that they were being herded for profit – and had been for years. It would be better still if what they were told actually looked like it was a way to help them in their suffering.
There were governments. Some had celebrated their people; some had eventually slaughtered their people. None had lasted very long, for varied reasons. But, without question, nearly all the people kept falling farther away from one important truth: that peace was their legacy.
There were temples and churches. Some on the planet believed in good and evil. Some believed that all is One. And still others believed in nothing (or is it, no-thing?) For, it is often true that if a situation or experience is a paradox, the more real it actually is. That’s as reliable of a barometer for discernment as any other.
There were sprites and elementals, and there were the clouds, and the shadows. There was the Sun, and the moon, and the stars, and all sorts of space debris surrounding the planet. There was activity going on in space beyond ones wildest imagination, sometimes obscured.
And, then… There were the leaders, strong leaders, who had led the people to new heights at each new juncture along the planet’s own journey… and some men and women, who had caught the planet in addictive downward spirals, with each recovery a bit harder than the last. Pull and tug. Pull and tug. Pull and tug.
Legend has it that strong leaders need to be peacemakers – speaking and negotiating with anyone, looking for commonalities first – to get the ball moving. Strong leaders have been around the block, and above all, have sought and discovered truth from his/her own experience and mistakes – rather than just through the images and limitations presented to them. As Martin Luther once said, they “sin boldly”. To these men and women, richness is in relationship and depth and wisdom and nature, not necessarily blood line or “authority”.
Never forget, we still are writing history and herstory one blink, one experience, one tear, one kiss at a time.
Rest assured, Love will prevail.
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Check back on the site later for Chapter One of “The Return of the Forgotten Ones” – coming soon.
(Note: The photo is of an Analemma – a trace of the annual movement of the Sun on the sky – is well known among experts of sun-dials and old Earth’s globes as a diagram of change of seasons and an equation of time.)
Usually Wikipedia isn’t the most well-trusted source for information on the web, however found this current description of “private space flight” to be quite interesting.
Article entitled: “Emerging personal spaceflight: SpaceShipOne has a 5-meter wingspan and a 3-person cabin”
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“Before 2004, no privately operated manned spaceflight had ever occurred. The only private individuals to journey to space went as space tourists in the Space Shuttle or on Russian Soyuz flights to Mir or the International Space Station.
All private individuals who flew to space before Dennis Tito’s self-financed International Space Station visit in 2001 had been sponsored by their home governments. Those trips include US Congressman Bill Nelson’s January 1986 flight on the Space Shuttle Columbia and Japanese television reporter Toyohiro Akiyama’s 1990 flight to the Mir Space Station.
The Ansari X PRIZE was intended to stimulate private investment in the development of spaceflight technologies. The June 21, 2004 test flight of SpaceShipOne, a contender for the X PRIZE, was the first human spaceflight in a privately developed and operated vehicle.
On September 27, 2004, following the success of SpaceShipOne, Richard Branson, owner of Virgin and Burt Rutan, SpaceShipOne’s designer, announced that Virgin Galactic had licensed the craft’s technology, and were planning commercial space flights in 2.5 to 3 years.
A fleet of five craft (SpaceShipTwo, launched from the WhiteKnightTwo carrier airplane) is to be constructed, and flights will be offered at around $200,000 each, although Branson has said he plans to use this money to make flights more affordable in the long term.
XCOR Aerospace also plans to initiate a suborbital commercial spaceflight service with the Lynx rocketplane in 2012. First test flights are planned for 2010.
In December 2004, United States President George W. Bush signed in to law the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act.[17] The Act resolved the regulatory ambiguity surrounding private spaceflights and is designed to promote the development of the emerging U.S. commercial human space flight industry.
On July 12, 2006, Bigelow Aerospace launched the Genesis I, a subscale pathfinder of an orbital space station module. Genesis II was launched on June 28, 2007, and there are plans for additional prototypes to be launched in preparation for the production model BA 330 spacecraft.
On September 28, 2006, Jim Benson, SpaceDev founder, announced he was founding Benson Space Company with the intention of being first to market with the safest and lowest cost suborbital personal spaceflight launches, using the vertical takeoff and horizontal landing Dream Chaser vehicle based on the NASA HL-20 Personnel Launch System vehicle.
Some have speculated on the profitability of mining metal from asteroids. According to some estimates, a one kilometer-diameter asteroid would contain 30 million tons of nickel, 1.5 million tons of metal cobalt and 7,500 tons of platinum; the platinum alone would have a value of more than $500 billion at current prices.[25]
While the potential rewards from asteroid mining are indeed huge, the technical challenges are equally large and it seems likely that the private sector will wait for the publicly funded space program to solve them (e.g. by establishing experimental mines on the Moon).”
Milky Way Galaxy – Astronomers, astrologers, and NASA are all heralding a unique alignment this summer. Some are saying that “bridges between worlds” will be opened during this where/when, in one way or another. It is an opportunity for peace, a turning point to truly discuss the resolution of our perceived differences.
Heralding Peace: Changes on their Way
On June 13, 2010, six of the largest planets in our solar system will begin their procession into a balanced alignment. Along with the Sun, their combined gravitational pull offers an enormous contribution to a phenomenal event.
What’s happening?
“The alignment of planets will appear from Earth like a straight line of six planets with the sun in the middle; Uranus, Jupiter and Mercury lined up on one side of the sun, while Venus, Mars and Saturn will be lined up on the opposite. The Earth will thus be perpendicular to this alignment, forming a giant T-shape.”
Then, on Sunday, July 11, 2010, a total eclipse of the Sun is visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses Earth’s southern Hemisphere. The path of the Moon’s umbral shadow crosses the South Pacific Ocean where it makes no landfall except for Mangaia (Cook Islands) and Easter Island (Isla de Pascua). The path of totality ends just after reaching southern Chile and Argentina. The Moon’s penumbral shadow produces a partial eclipse visible from a much larger region covering the South Pacific and southern South America.”
(More information can be found here, along with an interesting discussion on how this alignment may affect paranormal activity and ghost sightings.)
Here is what NASA has to say on these planetary occurrences.
And, here is the entry that already appears on Wikipedia about this phenomenon.
Tracking the Eclipse
On July 11, 2010, one of the most unique, special, and potentially “one-of-a-kind” total solar eclipses will occur across a long track of the Southern Pacific Ocean. Approximately half-way through this eclipse, the path crosses over Earth’s most isolated, and storied specks of land – Easter Island.
For just over 4 minutes and 45 seconds, the darkened sun will hang nearly 40° above the northwest horizon. Without a doubt, a photograph of the eerily blotted out Sun in the background, framed by one or more of the brooding, giant Moai statues that stand silently on guard throughout the landscape of this barren island, has to quality as the “penultimate Kodak Moment” for any serious photographer
One company, Twilight Tours, on Easter Island, is already promoting a trip to see the spectacle.
What The T will bring
Bill Street, who runs the Astrology for the Soul web site has this to say about the meaning and effect of the 2010 planetary alignment and total solar eclipse:
“Given historical precedence and the archetypal dynamics involved, The Saturn, Pluto, and Uranus T-Square of 2010 should coincide with a period of socio-political upheaval and destabilization, if not crisis. This alignment is arguably one of the most important astrological signatures of the first half of this century, certainly of the first three decades.
This T-Square symbolically represents a turning point in which economic, cultural, and political difficulties of the last decades come to a head and demand resolution.
Out of this alchemical vessel of 2010 should arise significantly original and unprecedented social and political movements and reform. Certainly, there is a hope that what will emerge out the tensions of this time will produce greater freedoms, tolerance, peace, and prosperity. However, to remain true to past patterns, we can only say that what will materialize we be both progressive and regressive, tolerant and fascist, peaceful and oppositional — polarities that grow stronger.
If astrology is to grant anything to collective knowledge, it is the visionary capacity to see through the contingencies of history and see into forces and energies that inform and are in dialogue with our collective evolution. Whatever the period surrounding 2010 may bring — environmental catastrophe, financial collapse, political reformation and counter-reformation (or any combination thereof) — it is best not to see the events as an isolated crisis.
Rather, astrology suggests that the events around 2010 should be seen upon a continuum in which tension and problems of the era demand and create growth and evolution. Thus, the astrological paradigm is not the province of Cassandras who intuit gloom and doom but is a way of seeing that potential greatness and maturity doesn’t come without growing pains and birth pangs.”
The position of the Planets
Follow the changes for yourself. You can bookmark this helpful web site which shows you the position of the planets for any date you enter.
Saturday, 11/21/09
Washington D.C. – Capitol Hill is the place where your representatives are going to vote to open debate on the new health care Plan today. It’s not clear when the vote will be. Reuters is reporting today that the debate is likely to take about three weeks, followed by the vote. Some media sources reported that the vote may actually be today.
What is evident is that there is great urgency on the part of some of our representatives to get it done super fast.
This vote will affect your pocket bock/wallet, and also most likely your health, and your family’s health.
Get involved
Is this “new improved” Health Care System a good deal for the American people? You decide. The resources are here to begin doing your homework. (A link to the text of the new bill is at the end of this article. Let’s all read it, ask questions, and as the people of America, change what we don’t agree with.)
On Thursday, Senator Reid introduced HR 3590, a re-vamping of the original bill. It is 2,074 pages – too long for many Senators to actually read it, much less give many of the American people any real chance to understand it. And, like usual, it has a lot of other legislation tacked onto it – some of it pork and payoffs – that gets even less review and publicity, some say by design. Let’s change that.
Why is it that as important as this decision is to Americans, some of our representatives are trying to push it through as fast as possible?
Yesterday, Roger Gray of KETK News stated: “To read (HR 3590), you’d have to read a page a minute, 24-hours a day until the Saturday vote. That’s going to be tough.”
Pay in advance?
If voted in, according to many of the reports, American taxpayers will be taxed to begin paying for the Plan in advance, though it won’t be operational until 2014. Some say that the official COB estimates on the actual cost of the Plan are also grossly underestimated, and the System will be a burden not just on us now, but especially on our kids and grand kids.
Will the Plan break America on the backs of the people – when the goal, supposedly, is to bring health care costs down?
And the quality of care you’ll be “entitled” to receive is also being debated. Where does that stand? Let’s see. After significant outcry by medical doctors, the American Cancer Society, and the Susan Komen Breast Foundation on Wednesday - as well as protests by thousands of U.S. citizens – The White House is backing off the Federal Government’s announcement earlier this week that guidelines for breast cancer mammograms should be changed from 40 years old to 50 years old. Many say that by setting this new guideline, the Government is putting womens health and longevity in peril – for the sake of saving money.
The same holds true for the pap smear guidelines they just announced yesterday. What’s up with all of these “guideline” announcements just before the health care plan debate and vote? And why are all of the announcements publicized so far about womens health? Why does the government belong in issues that are between a person and his/her doctor?
I invite you also to take an open-minded look at many of the drug and insurance commercials – on TV, in print, and on the web. The Government and these corporations often seem in concert. Certainly, the banks and the drug companies, and large retailers like WalMart, are connected into the System. What ever happened to free enterprise?
Small business, too, is in peril. How will they be able to pay for this Plan and survive? It is difficult for many to keep their doors open now. Will they be asked to police who is enrolled in the Plan and who is not? Do you wish to pay an extra 2.5% tax if you decide not to participate?
To view a newscast by Roger Gray of KETK News that weighs these issues, visit:
http:/www.ketknbc.com/news/the-senate-healthcare-revealed
This newscast summarizes some of the contents of the revised health care bill. (You decide what to look into next.)
In the meantime, call your senator today, email him or her, or march down to his/her office. Here are the web sites that list the contact information for your Congressional representatives. I suggest that you bookmark them and use them often over the coming times.
Link to Senate website – with contact information.
Link to House of Representatives website – with contact information.
The people you elect to represent you, are not mind readers. You want to believe that they will listen to you – to their constituents – regardless of the enormous pressure put on them to vote for this bill, and the incentives offered to them to vote in a certain way. All I say is – Test it out and see to what extent they really hear you and vote accordingly.
Your representatives do NOT know where you stand on the health care System issue unless you tell them. Don’t depend on someone else to tell them. They may not act, and then you’ll be left paying in the end – literally and figuratively.
It’s not too late to be heard. Make the time today to contact your Senator first, and also your representative in the U.S. House.
Health care access and costs may be difficult now. The debate, though, is whether this new Plan will cost you more – to receive limited, controlled coverage in the end? That’s an equation that doesn’t add up for the benefit of the people.
Even if less care for more money is a possibility at all, we owe it to ourselves and our families to slow down this process to make sure it benefits the people.
You know, I am sick and tired of the Republican machine telling us one thing and the Democratic machine telling us another. (The actors and their continuous arguments back and forth are unproductive.) I’ve heard many say that the two-party system – with the media handling their PR – has become a circus.
Perhaps, the overall goal is to keep the people confused, off-balanced, and fearful. Whether it’s a goal or not, it’s often the reality. Then again, perhaps it’s a case of how far they can push, adjust the “anger meter,” and then push again, trying to ramrod things along so fast that people don’t know what even happened to them.
You know, there is a wise, non-partisan statement that goes like this:
There are three types of people in the world:
1) those who make things happen;
2) those who watch things happen; and
3) those who wonder what happened (in retrospect, that is!)
Which are you?
Read the text of HR 3590 – the revised health care bill today – at this link:
http://www.opencongress.org/senate_health_care_bill
And, contact your senator NOW.
Dateline: 10/23/2009
Article Title: Sunflower COO calls on Congress to rein in media conglomerates
Writer: Mike Robuck
Selected Excerpt:
“Sunflower Broadband COO Patrick Knorr testified before a recent House subcommittee that media conglomerates are taking advantage of consumers who are served by small, independent cable operators. In his written testimony, Knorr, who was the immediate past chairman of the American Cable Association, asked Congress to put a halt to programmers’ current contracting practices.
“We hope you will take advantage of this unique moment in time to consider how to improve the rules that govern our marketplace that are nearly two decades old and pre-date the emergence of the Internet,” Knorr wrote. “Consumers deserve better services than can be provided under today’s regulatory regime. We are also concerned about the future of a free and open Internet that is being threatened by the emerging business model that compels consolidated and dominant content providers to leverage their video content in anti-consumer ways.”
Knorr appeared before the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, a panel that has jurisdiction over cable operators, broadcasters, satellite TV companies, vertically integrated cable programmers, phone companies and the Federal Communications Commission.
In his remarks, Knorr described a marketplace that he said was being distorted by outdated laws and regulations that unfairly supply media conglomerates with powerful leverage to take full advantage of consumers served by Sunflower Broadband and nearly 1,000 other small- and mid-size cable operators represented by the ACA.”
Which web site was this from? : Communications, Engineering & Design Magazine
Who are they? (as explained on their web site.)
“CED, the premier monthly magazine of broadband communications. Editorial focus is on the technological developments that are shaping existing broadband networks and the communications networks of the 21st century. CED’s target audience is corporate and system management and engineering/technical management at cable TV, telecommunications and wireless operations, as well as data professionals and interactive- multimedia providers and developers.”