My Music Video: FREE ALL THE CANNABIS PRISONERS - A Mockery of Nancy Ray Gun... Jest Say KNOW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z7C0t31hww

LYRICS: 

Free All The Cannabis Prisoners...[3X][G D A D A] We Could Use the Empty Jail Cells...

for a Homeless Shelter. [2X][E, F/E, E] Nancy Reagan Was a Speed Freak.

Eating Doctor Pills. [C/E, B/E] and Then She Decided... to Clean UP... [Bb/E, A, E, A]

That's when she went on the

"Just Say Know" Crusade... [C/E, B/E] She Decided That Everyone Else

Should Clean UP TOO! [Bb/E, A, E, A]

Hey Kids! What Do You Say...

When Your Doctor Offers You Drugs? [2X] [G D A D A] Don't Be Like Nancy and Say Gimme MORE...

Gimme MORE Gimme MORE MORE MORE![E F F# G G# A] "Just Say Know!" Knowledge is Important!

K. N. O. W. [G D A D A] [3X] Knowing What Drugs are Safe...

Could Save Your Life... [E, F/E, E] Reagan's War on Drugs Turned Out

To Be a Horrible Disaster! [C/E, B/E] Millions of Lives Ruined. [Bb/E, A, E, A] Billions of Dollars Wasted.

All because Nancy Was Getting Wasted... [C/E, B/E]

Look at her! She Was an Obvious Meth Monkey! [Bb/E, A, E, A] Nancy Was a Speed Freak! That's Why She Was So Skinny![3X][G D A D A] Well, sHE'S dEAD nOW...

eVENTUALLY THE dOCTOR pILLS kILLED hER... [E, F/E, E] hER oPINIONS Just dON'T cOUNT aNYMORE!... [E, F/E, E] Legalize the Kind Herb... Tax It, Regulate It. [2X][G D A] Use The Money for Health Care...

Instead of "For Profit" Prisons... [E, F/E, E] We Need Treatment For Addicts...

Before we Have ANOTHER 400,000 Opioid Deaths...[E, F/E, E] They Say Medical Marijuana has No Medical Value. [C/E, B/E] The Government is Lying and...

Kids are Not That Easily Fooled! [Bb/E, A, E, A] Consider This: The Government Lied to US... About Marijuana... [C/E, B/E] Could they Be Lying about

EVERYTHING ELSE TOO? [Bb/E, A, E, A] 9/11? Roswell? The Kennedy Assassination? Enquiring Minds Want To Know! [G D A] Why Should Taxpayers Pay and Pay and Pay for Incarceration? [2X][G D A D A] That Makes No Sense! [2X][E, F/E, E] C/E = E0 A0 D5 G5 B5 e0 B/E = E0 A0 D4 G4 B4 e0 Bb/E = E0 A0 D3 G3 B3 e0 A = E0 A0 D3 G3 B3 e0

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Let's Legalize Marijuana, Tax it and Free ALL The Cannabis Prisoners. REFUND The Money Currently Wasted on Law Enforcement to The Taxpayers!

It's A VOLUNTARY TAX!
I Wouldn't Pay a Penny 'Cause I Don't Smoke...

Contact your Senators and
Representative in the House...
Tell 'em to END CrazyLaws®
https://www.senate.gov/
and
https://www.house.gov/

Biden's Position: decriminalization, expunging past convictions, federal rescheduling, legalizing cannabis for medical purposes and letting states set their own policies.

THAT'S BETTER THAN CRAZYLAWS Like We Have Now!

What's Trump's Position? 

Marijuana (cannabis) and the rights of individual states to legalize recreational and medical marijuana was an issue of President Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and he formally stated during his campaign that he believed states should have the right to manage their own policies with regard to medical and recreational marijuana.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_policy_of_the_Donald_Trump_administration

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Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics: Why Not Let Doctors and Patients Decide What Medicine is Best? Get the BRIBED Politicians OUT! They Are Puppets of Big Pharma!

 If the FDA Regulated Psychedelics; Quality, Purity and Dosage Testing would protect the consumer from Unknown Dangerous Drugs. Currently, Criminals That Sell "ACID" often Mix a Witches Brew of Chemicals that Make People Feel Strange... For Example: Fentanyl and Methamphetamine makes for a Pill that Truly "Blows Your Mind" but Often Kills the Consumer... 

“Robert Crumb”
Bronze statue Commissioned in 2002-03 by Felix Dennis for his “Garden of Heroes & Villains” in Dorsington, England. 

ZAP Comic Cover:

The first poster to bring Wes Wilson to the doorstep of future fame back in 1965.... I've got my original and rare first printing framed in very fitting chrome barbed wire with blood red barbs that I made. One of the very first posters that Wes signed for me over 50 years ago!
We're not too far off the mark these days.... more than ever!

Mountain Girl and Bus

The Merry Pranksters are a group of people who formed around American author Ken Kesey in 1964 and sometimes lived communally at his homes in California and Oregon. The group promoted the use of psychedelic drugs. Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters are noted for the sociological significance of a lengthy road trip they took in the summer of 1964, traveling across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus enigmatically and variably labeled "Further" or "Furthur". Their early escapades were chronicled by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Wolfe also documents a notorious 1966 trip on Further from Mexico thru Houston, stopping to visit Kesey's friend novelist Larry McMurtry. Kesey was on the lam from a drug charge at the time.

Notable members of the group include Kesey's best friend Ken Babbs and Neal Cassady, Carolyn Garcia (also known as Mountain Girl), Wavy Gravy, Paul Krassner, Stewart Brand, Del Close, Paul Foster, Kentucky Fab Five author Ed McClanahan (also known as "Captain Kentucky"), Gurney Norman, George Walker, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt, Anonymous (Linda Breen) and John Page Browning (also known as "Rampage" or the "Cadaverous Cowboy").

A hippie was a member of a liberal counterculture, originally a youth movement that started in the United States and the United Kingdom during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The word hippie came from hipster and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into New York City's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The term hippie was first popularized in San Francisco by Herb Caen, who was a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle. The origins of the terms hip and hep are uncertain, although by the 1940s both had become part of African American jive slang and meant "sophisticated; currently fashionable; fully up-to-date”. The Beats adopted the term hip, and early hippies inherited the language and countercultural values of the Beat Generation. Hippies created their own communities, listened to psychedelic music, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs such as cannabis, LSD, peyote and psilocybin mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness. In January 1967, the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco popularized hippie culture, leading to the Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast. Hippies in Mexico, known as jipitecas, formed La Onda and gathered at Avándaro, while in New Zealand, nomadic housetruckers practiced alternative lifestyles and promoted sustainable energy at Nambassa. In the United Kingdom in 1970, many gathered at the gigantic Isle of Wight Festival with a crowd of around 400,000 people. I was there! In later years, mobile "peace convoys" of New Age travelers made summer pilgrimages to free music festivals at Stonehenge and elsewhere. In Australia, hippies gathered at Nimbin for the 1973 Aquarius Festival and the annual Cannabis Law Reform Rally or MardiGrass. "Piedra Roja Festival", a major hippie event in Chile, was held in 1970. Hippie fashion and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, many aspects of hippie culture have been assimilated by mainstream society.

During the past few years, attempts to put on exhibits to expound on the Hippies or Summer of Love or of Woodstock was and is well meant, but somewhat futile as is like trying to capture lighting in a bottle….. Nice try, but (IMHO) …no cigar. The philosophies of the true Hippie does still live on but these days to run across a true Hippie is a lot harder than you may think. Alas…..keep your eyes open, they’re still out there just the same, but not always where you may think them to be.

Still lett'in MY Freak Flag Fly!

and then SC Replied:

I was born too late to be a TRUE Hippie (1962), but I am & always will be a Hippie in my Heart. I got on the Grateful Dead bus in 1980 & never got off 

 I've kept the ideals of peace, love & environmental activism my whole life! I'm married to a slightly older, late blooming Hippie as well. (40yrs next month!)

and then SD Said:

A hippie was a lifestyle choice not a person or thing we lived on in our lives with a acceptance mindset that went beyond being liberal it was being truer to our inner spiritual self and a willingness to accept that we may not change others but we could change ourselves I know many that have not changed a bit and some who have but I judge not least I believe in the inherent ability of our creator to give us strength to adapt to change and still be able to be a hippie at our core Loving caring forgiving gentle and generous humans...

and SOC Said: 

Very well explained and very accurate. I lived it and my inner Hippie lives on at age 70. I'm so glad to have come up in that Era, with all the great music, experimentation, play, and fantastic creativity. We were encouraged to be ourselves, not clones. We were colorful, to say the least. And we were well intentioned, with perhaps an air of too much naiveté....I so agree with you that the summer Hippie Fests are just so wanna- be and syrupy. You really had to live it to really get it. It truly was spontaneous and very organic. To recreate it just isn't possible in today's world. Blessed am I have to have been part of that scene while it lasted.

• HOLY GRAIL of ROCK POSTERS •
One of the most rare and sought after psychedelic rock posters from any era. From the summer of 1969 comes this Hawaiian Aoxomoxoa by the late & legendary Rock Artist Extraordinaire Rick Griffin. It was for a show that was CANCELLED so the posters are very few and far between, only a couple of dozen are known to exist! Griffin did the first Aoxomoxoa for a series of shows the Grateful Dead did in January of 1969 at the Avalon ballroom, and the Dead in turn, flipped that artwork into the cover of their third album. Griffin reworked the art from those shows, into the Hawaiian Aoxomoxoa. This poster is SOOOOO VERY rare. It was for an event in Hawaii, that was supposed to be for three days at the Honolulu international Center in Honolulu Hawaii. Besides the Dead, It's a Beautiful Day was also on the bill. Can you imagine how many hours went into this poster ?!
The shows were cancelled, the promoter never paid the printer, and the printer threw most of the items in the trash can. Of course there wasn't a collectors market for these items at the time. Legend has it that Rick Griffin captured a few before they were thrown out and brought them back on the plane with him. A few of the cut ones, and a few of the ones with the handbills still not cut off of them. These are the ONLY remaining ones that have survived.
And so it was on this day 54 years ago that the Aoxomoxoa Tour with the Grateful Dead, It's a Beautiful Day and Starchild at the Honolulu International Center was "supposed" to take place. The second reprinting of this poster is somewhat smaller than the original and is recently beginning to rise in price as well. The second printing as seen here also has a white border while it is black on the original as you can see in my framed picture of the poster in the comments.

Aloha.... Share this rare one!
Most definitely Approved by
ProfessorPoster

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics: Let Doctors and Patients Choose What Medicine is Best for Themselves... No Need for Bribed Politicians Making Medical Decisions... They are Puppets of Big Pharma!

Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That WE Have Had Enough of the Madness!

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

https://www.senate.gov/general/contacting.htm

https://www.house.gov/representatives

I Also Emailed a Scott Weiner, State Senator in San Francisco using a Fake Address and Phone Number I Found on Google Maps... 

 https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/contact

I Just Emailed My California Representative and Senator. HERE IS HOW To Find Your Own! 

http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/ Click on this Link and Type In Your Home Address... California... 

I Said: "Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics. Let Doctors and Patients Decide for Themselves what Treatment is Best... Legalizing Recreational Psychedelics is a Great Idea TOO. 

Legal LSD Would Be Manufactured by High Quality Scientists and PURITY, QUALITY and ACTUAL DOSE would be Regulated. Often ILLEGAL ACID is Not LSD at all but some other chemical, Like DOM (STP) a Three Day Nightmare Trip... People That Buy Ecstasy Often Do Not Get Actual MDMA but get A Bizarre Combination of Methamphetamines and WHO KNOWS WHAT!

Legalize Psychedelics For the Public's HEALTH...  Criminal Chemists Pose a Hazard To The People's Sanity! FDA Approved Psychedelics Would Be Better... Do It For The Kids!"

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Link: the Highest Selling Gear on my 

Zazzle Gregvan Giftshop - 

This is What the People Want

https://www.zazzle.com/store/gregvan/products?st=Orders <--- Link to My Store!

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Shredded Rainbow Spiral Business Cards For Sale.

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MORE Shredded Rainbow Spiral Art 

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*JUST JOKING* A Step by Step Guide to the Violet Overgrow of the Ruling Class - A Novel by Gregory Vanderlaan *JUST JOKING*

Step #1: 

Boycott Everything Until Prices Come Down. 

Corporations owned by the 1% keep on raising prices and collecting windfall profits. They will keep on doing that until people quit buying. If they could, they would charge $100.00 for a Quart of Milk... 

Step #2: Sneak Marijuana Cookies onto the Buffet Tables of the Hotels near Capitol Hill in Washington DC. If the "Suits" that Run the Government had a Cannabis Trip... maybe they would think twice about doing evil for a living. Place some Cannabis Edibles in the Senate Dining Room also... At the very least they would change the CrazyLaws® about Marijuana... 

Step #3: Cut the Pentagon Budget in Half. This will really anger the Ruling Class as They Profit Greatly from Corporate Welfare. Remember: Since 1945 the US Military has Never Defended the USA... Not Even Once... So all that money being spent at the Pentagon is Just a Way to Transfer Wealth from the Taxpayers to the Owners of Defense Corporations...  The same Owners Finance the Campaigns of the Senators and Congressmen that Write the Bills that Fund the Pentagon... So the Money Travels in a Tight Circle... and YOU GET NOTHING... 

Step #4: Stop Funding Fossil Fuel Corporations. "U.S. taxpayers spend tens of billions of dollars a year subsidizing new fossil fuel exploration, production, and consumption, which directly affects how much oil, natural gas, and coal gets produced—and how much clean energy doesn’t." https://generation180.org/the-absurd-truth-about-fossil-fuel-subsidies/

Step #5: YOUR IDEA HERE! Email Me: gregvan (at) yahoo (dot) com 

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/digital-monkeywrench-silly-science.html

Project MKULTRA: The CIA Mind Control Experiment That Escaped The Laboratory and Got Out Onto The Dance Floor! Was "The Sixties" Really a Test to Just Find Out What Would Happen IF A Million People Took LSD?

At First, The CIA Allowed Millions of Doses of LSD to be Distributed at Grateful Dead Concerts JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE CURIOUS... and then Later, The CIA Deployed All Those Vendors BECAUSE IT WORKED! Many People Who Took LSD Became "NOT A THREAT" To The Ruling Class. People Became interested in Learning How to Play Guitar instead of Being Interested in The Violet Overgrow of the US Government... People Became interested in Organic Farming... Again, Remote Marijuana Farmers and Organic Vegetable Growers DO NOT POSE A DANGER TO THE IVY LEAGUE EAST COAST ESTABLISHMENT... 

They Even Had a CIA Consultant Touring Coast to Coast Advising Young People to "Turn On, Tune In and Drop Out." Yes, Dr Timothy Leary Worked for the CIA Designing the Leary Personality Test. --- AND --- People who "Drop Out" are Mostly Harmless... There were a Couple of Exceptions: Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin Started the "YIPPIES" and Protested Against the Vietnam War... Causing Thousands of People to Surround the Pentagon to Try and Levitate It. They also Created the 1968 Chicago Riots... 

READ MORE: 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-cia-project-mkultra-was-wildly.html

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I Did a Scientific Experiment On How Drugs Effect My Skill Level Playing Chess.

Results: Coffee Made Me Play Better. Alcohol and Marijuana Made me Worse. LSD Made Me Reject the Entire Idea of Tests and I Refused to Play Games…

It was a Simple Test and You Could Recreate it Yourself for a “PEER REVIEW” – I owned a Chess Computer that Played at Different Skill Levels… I Took Those Drugs – I Played against the Machine and Determined What Level I Could Beat the Machine… and That’s Why… all these years later… the only drug I take is Coffee… and a Dozen “Doctor Drugs” That Don’t Seem to Do Anything but Don’t Seem to Do Any Harm Either… After All... “One Pill Makes You Larger, and One Pill Makes You Small… and The Ones That Mother Gives You Don’t Do Anything at All…” – Grace Slick

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/i-did-a-scientific-experiment-on-how-drugs-effect-my-skill-level-playing-chess/ 

MKULTRA: The mystery of Mary Pinchot Meyer. She was a friend of John Kennedy and supposedly gave him Marijuana and LSD while at the White House as a guest. Then, a few days after his assassination, she was killed and the crime has never been solved. Her family gave the CIA her diary to help them figure out what happened, and they claim to have burned the diary-unread... She was a friend of Timothy Leary.

A group of women were turning on the top 1% of the men in society: political leaders, movie stars, artists, scientists and business leaders. The idea was to change the whole world by changing the minds of the leaders...
http://www.serendipity.li/cia/cia_lsd.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pinchot_Meyer

On FaceBORG I Read in the Group:

Buddhism, Zen, Tao & Meditation

Looking Into Death:

To begin to grasp the truth of death, it’s necessary to see how the human mind has made a concept of what is essentially an intrinsic part of life. Death is always perceived to happen in another body; the reality is that death is utterly subjective and occurs within the inner space of the outer form. Death intrigues and appals people in equal measure, since no-one can avoid the fact that it comes to us all in time. The psychological effect is to escape into the world as a projection of hope, the mantra of the masses being that death comes tomorrow and never today.

The fear of death is now deeply ingrained in the human race, which necessitates hope and is the last thing to go when all is lost. When the death process begins and the focus merges with the psychic vortex, all fear disappears and, with it, all hope of coming back. This is the state of peace and the freedom from existence, and can often be observed in the dying. It’s irrefutable that every body dies. But the life within doesn’t die; it merely withdraws, just as it does every night when the body goes to sleep. The only difference is that at physical death the thread which connects the senses to the surface awareness is severed. This signifies the end of that particular recurrence and the beginning of a new phase of life.

Prior to physical death, and sometimes in life-threatening situations or extreme shock, there’s a crossover between the normal fixed position of mind to an altered state of consciousness. This is commonly referred to as ‘an out of the body experience’. The body is not actually ‘left’ because the reality of the body extends beyond the physical limitations of material existence and has no definitive shape. So from this perspective the attention can appear anywhere, from a point of consciousness looking down upon the body to the deepest constellation in space.

Everyone is engaged in the process of death from the moment of birth, as the whole ageing system is a gradual preparation for the physical body’s demise. Just as the body is programmed for its eventual disintegration, so the emotional body prepares for death through the gradual detachment from the experience of sensory existence. The difficulty is that people become so attached to the continuity of life, particularly in their relationships to loved ones, that the transition in the death process is invariably distressing to some degree. Nevertheless, in life’s infinite compassion, the trauma is neutralised and the man or woman goes unconscious through the passage of death to awake into a new phase of life and incomparable wonder.

At the time of death, freed of the enormous strain of holding up existence in sense, the intelligence speeds up and opens up a new realm of heightened perception. After each living recurrence, the essence of the individual’s virtue gravitates towards the enlightenment point. The attachment to the world determines the depth an individual consciousness reaches within the gradations of reality. Someone who has been totally immersed in the external world during their lifetime may be more comfortable in the space nearer to the earth. Here they can experience the after-death process in a similar but less formal version of their earthly existence. Someone else, having made the search for truth a more conscious part of their life will gravitate to a deeper level of the psyche and participate in an even finer version of their inner reality.

To die consciously and pass from one state of being to the next is to participate in the totality of life everlasting. Similar to a vapour trail of a jet or the shimmering light of a shooting star, consciousness creates a celestial beam impressed upon the human psyche for others to draw upon during the crossing of death. The evolution of mankind is towards the bridging of the material and psychic worlds. It will be a world of immortality, with death effectively transcended as a necessary function of human existence. In future earth cultures, the immortal state will ensure that death is no longer a restriction to life.

Lance Kelly

Feeding the mind. by Michael Kewley

Although Dhamma is always very simple, it is rarely very easy to apply, even when we are able to see the mechanics of our mind, of our life and of our suffering.

Life as we usually experience it is a series of habits, recurring mind states empowered through unawareness, moment after moment. The more often we empower them the more we cultivate the habit of them and so the more often they return. Our life becomes cyclic as we find ourselves in the same kinds of situations over and over again, reacting in the same way over and over again, and always experiencing the same outcome, over and over again. How could it be different?

The International Meditation Centre, just outside Budh Gaya, in northern India, is the place where we would conduct our annual series of ten day highly intensive Vipassana meditation retreats, from November to February each year.

These were always well attended and the students who came to sit with us had many opportunities to observe their own habits of mind, both in the sitting meditation practice and in their limited daily activity.

We would begin our day at five o’clock in the morning with sitting meditation and so breakfast, two hours later, was always welcome.

Life on retreat is deliberately kept as simple as possible, principally to give space to the mind, and so breakfast was always the same meal consisting of porridge, a small banana and two cookies.

However, for whatever reason, the cookies were not popular with the students and so they would keep them to one side and then when they had finished eating, take them out of the dining room to feed to the dogs.

The International Meditation Centre had three dogs that would roam about the property freely all day, but every morning at breakfast time they would be waiting outside the dining room to be fed with cookies. The more they were fed, the more they came back. Every day was the same, no surprises and no changes. The dogs would appear, wag their tails, open their mouths and they would be fed. The relationship between the two forces never deviated. The dogs arrived and they were fed.

The mind is exactly the same. The more we feed it the more it returns - more dogs waiting for cookies. To change this habit we don’t have to kill or destroy the dogs, of course not, we only have to stop feeding them. Only in this way will they stop coming every day for food.

Dhamma is always very simple, though rarely very easy, but changing our life is mostly about remembering to be different. To stop feeding the habits of our mind and so be free.

May all beings be happy.

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Loving support: by Michael Kewley

Many years ago I led a retreat in the south of France at a private meditation centre. When the retreat had ended I was invited to give a public talk the next evening in the beautiful old walled city of Carcassonne.

I was driven there by my organiser and translator and the talk went ahead. After the talk we walked back to the car park to where the car was parked, but now the space was empty!

I said, “Your car’s not there.”

My friend immediately took her glasses out of her bag just to make sure she was seeing properly, but had to agree that the car was missing.

Very calmly she said, “O.K. we have to report this to the police and then call my husband to come and collect us.”

After we had arrived back at the retreat centre and sat with a cup of tea I told her that I had been very impressed by her calm manner and attitude when she realised that the car had been stolen (It was taken by ‘joy’ riders and found some days later completely destroyed).

“Thank you,” she said, “but it was only because you were standing next to me.”

We often think of ourselves in a small way, continually rejecting any idea of self worth and value, but the truth is that everything is affecting everything else, and our presence in any situation can be a support and even a blessing to others.

For myself I met this many times when I lived with my teacher. To see him responding in different moments in a wise and loving way was always inspirational. Never showing anger or irritation, but always being strong and clear.

When we are angry that has an effect in our life and everything that we come into contact with.

When we are loving, that too has an effect in our life and everything that we come into contact with. Of the two, love is better.

However, here is the spiritual paradox, if we try to be someone who manifests only certain beautiful qualities we miss the point of practice.

We train ourselves to let go of conditioned ideas of behaviour and simply allow the heart to emerge.

The heart (intuitive understanding) ‘just is,’ and so never tries to show itself. It responds to the moment without looking over it’s shoulder to see who’s watching. It does not look at the spiritual scoreboard to see how well it’s doing. The heart serves and asks for nothing in return and so is pure.

Purity of being is the highest practice.

Our own spiritual training is to let go of any limited sense of self identity and be one with this infinitely loving and generous heart.

In this way our life becomes a blessing to ourselves and then quite naturally, a blessing to all beings and situations that we meet.

May all beings be happy.

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Other Journeys

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Virtual Journey: Canada Tourist Guide & Autobiography. We Went on our Honeymoon to Vancouver, BC. We Rode a Bicycle built for Two in Stanley Park... and Many More Wonderful Places to Visit.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/05/canada-tourist-guide.html

Virtual Journey: Eureka, Arcata, Trinidad - Visit Northern California's Coast. We Have Our Own Little World Here Behind The Redwood Curtain! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/05/eureka-arcata-trinidad.html

Virtual Journey: Trinity Alps, CA, USA - Drive the Bigfoot Highway (299) From Arcata on the Coast to Redding in the Central Valley. White Water Rafting! Gold Rush Ghost Towns!

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/04/highway-299-virtual-journey.html

Virtual Journey: to the Star Wars Flying Motorcycles Redwood Forest on Hwy 36 in Remote Humboldt County, CA, USA - and the Bridgeville UFO Festival, The Town of Mad River. 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/03/virtual-journey-hwy-36-remote-humboldt.html

Virtual Journey: Lost Coast, CA, USA on Highway 211 - From Victorian Ferndale to The Beach, the Mountains of Mateel to the Avenue of the Giants. Humboldt County. 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-virtual-drive-thru-remote-humboldt.html

Virtual Journey to San Francisco - Boat Ride on the Red and White Fleet. Under the Golden Gate Bridge and Around Alcatraz Island... and MORE!

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/04/journey-to-san-francisco.html

Virtual Journey: The Smithsonian and Washington DC. Instead of Buying Gasoline and Driving There, Take this Magic Trip Instead! A Guided Tour to the Places My Family Wanted to See... 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/05/virtual-journey-smithsonian.html

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  A Virtual Drive Thru Remote Humboldt County, CA on Highway 211. [73 Photographs] From Ferndale to The Lost Coast, Mateel and the Avenue of the Giants.

  It's an Excellent Part of Planet Earth. Start a Few Miles South of Eureka on Highway 101.  MAP: https://goo.gl/maps/JUXBSKjDWsqoiqYTA Th...
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  #ArrestPutin - Here are 83 email addresses for Russians at Big Businesses. Send 'em a message. Like: END THE WAR NOW! Put Putin in Prison before you lose all your Money!

  dmitry.sudakov@pravda.ru, advertising@pravda.ru, gramota@pravda.ru, home@pravda.ru, rating@mail.ru, pravdareport-off@newsteam.ru, readers-of...
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  Fox News is on a Frantic Search for Robert Hunter's Laptop... But He Wrote Most Lyrics with a Pen on Paper... "How Can He Even Read This? Get a Word Processor, Hunter!" - Sucker Carlton

  Are You Tired of Having Your  Words of Wisdom Vanish after Three Months?   FaceBORG AI Erases Them...  Comments HERE Will Live Forever.  Try...
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  What If We Moved "The Office" to Abandoned Stores In the Shopping Mall? That Would Be a Much Shorter Commute to Work. Because Malls are Located Near People's Homes.

  I Know People that Commute from the Central Valley of California to the Bay Area. That's Insane but That's Where the Jobs Are and Th...
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  How To: Denial of Service Aeroflot & Russia Train Online Ticket Sales - Command Your Browser to Automatically Visit Their Web Page 1,776 Times... [Disclaimer: This Code Example is For Educational Purposes Only]

  <script type="text/javascript">  for ( i = 0; i < 1776; i++ )  { window.open(' https://www.aeroflot.com/ru-en?_prefer...
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  US Navy Decides to Bomb Whales & Dolphins off the Coast of California... Causing Deafness. Public Input Apparently Ignored...

    I Went to a Protest at the Wharfinger Building in Eureka, CA. The US Navy was planning to Train Sailors how to deploy depth charges off th...
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  Lefty Leaks is An Alternative to WikiLeaks... This Twitter Account shows all the Examples of "The Left" doing Dastardly Deeds... Liberals EXPOSED! - Actually, no leaks are posted... Maybe it's Satire? Maybe they JUST FAILED...

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