Showing posts with label Be Here Now. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Be Here Now. Show all posts

Ban MY Book! Please! --->Banning Increases Sales<--- Here's a List of Truly Great Books... and Ten that NEED to Be Banned!

As Texas targets 'inappropriate' books, I say keep going: Here are 10 other books that should be immediately BANNED from all school libraries.
1. “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen. For starters, “pride” is a known LGBTQ term. And “prejudice” might make my white child feel guilt, which is an unacceptable emotion. So you want to expose my kid to both pride AND prejudice? I don’t think so!
2. “The Black Stallion” by Walter Farley. Clearly the liberals have found a way to sneak critical race theory into an otherwise decent story about a horse.
3. “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Nice try, commies.
4. “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison. Presumably another feminist attempt to silence American men. We will not tolerate such wokeness.
5. “It” by Stephen King. Oh, for Pete’s sake, the title is a darn pronoun. I see what you’re up to, Stephen King. We all know pronouns can lead young people to explore and eventually embrace their true identities. Not on my watch!
6. “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway. Sounds like some kind of climate change propaganda. Add it to the burn pile.
7. “Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville. This one’s self-explanatory.
8. “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer. Brimming with filth and perversion. Also promotes the acceptance of iambic pentameter, better known as “Satan’s rhyming pattern.”
9. “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas. Sounds both foreign and vaguely gay.
10. “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury. A dystopian tale of a future America in which books have been outlawed and are rounded up and burned by “firemen” who enforce the laws and … on second thought, let’s keep this one.

written by Rex Huppke: https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-targets-inappropriate-books-keep-183406562.html

My Favorites! 

The Violet Overgrow - An Eco-Warrior's Journey by Gregory Vanderlaan - [FICTION BOOK] 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-violet-overgrow-by-gregory.html


AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA, Not Even Once. by Gregory Vanderlaan 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/great-book-americas-bogus-wars-since.html

The Monkeywrench Gang by Edward Abbey,

1984 by George Orwell,

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate by John Marks,

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe,
The Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand,
One Flew Over The Coo Coo's Nest by Ken Kesey,
My Problem Child by Dr Albert Hofmann,
Remember, Be Here Now by Ram Dass,
The Psychedelic Experience by Dr Timothy Leary and Dr Richard Alpert,
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence by Robert Pirsig,
America's Bogus Wars by Gregory Vanderlaan,
Island by Aldous Huxley,
Foundation by Isaac Asimov,
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein,
You are not the Target by Laura Huxley,
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley,
The Time Machine by HG Wells,
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne,
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol,
Thru the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol,
The Wizard of OZ by Frank Baum,
Tom Sawyer - Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe (and Everything
else he wrote),
The Call of Cthulu by HP Lovecraft,
The Teachings of don Juan by Carlos Castaneda,
The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz,
The Art of the Failed Deal by don Trump,
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles Mackay,
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
2001 by Arthur C. Clarke,
Dune by Frank Herbert,
The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle,
The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien,
The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien,
#France1789 by Gregory Vanderlaan,
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card,
The Bible by Various Authors (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,
Ezekiel, Enoch, Peter, Paul and Mary),
Still Here by Ram Dass,
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov,
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov,
Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley,
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda,
Alcoholics Anonymous by Bill W.




In this World where The VAST Majority of the American People DO NOT READ BOOKS... Here are links to my favorite Great Books... Maybe spark an interest in reading!
Psychedelic art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan - FREE

Great Book: "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein. He invented the word GROK. Which means to understand in a extremely deep level. Like the feeling you get reading Haiku on LSD. 

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/07/great-book-stranger-in-strange-land-by.html




Great Books:The "Lord of the Rings" Trilogy by JRR Tolkien. "The Hobbit" Classic fiction popular with Hippies in the Late Sixties. Made into Great Movies and Led Zeppelin Songs.


http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/07/great-books-lord-of-rings-by-jrr.html 


Great Book: "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" by Philip K Dick. Science Fiction about Martian Mineral Miners that Escape the Bad Quality of Life by Taking Psychedelic Drugs and Playing with a "Barbie Doll" House. 


http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/07/great-book-three-stigmata-of-palmer.html

Great Books: Project MKULTRA CIA LSD American History "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate" by John Marks



My Recommendation for the Book: 

"The Call of Cthulhu" by HP Lovecraft...

Cthulu Cartoon

or... 

"The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K Dick... 




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



tRUMP's EPA Legalizes Pollution. Laws Will Not Be Enforced During Coronavirus Pandemic. Corporations May Dump Toxic Waste Right into the River... Somehow THIS is Going to Make America Great?

"Art in the Time of Covid-19" Mug For Sale.

YOU MAY CHANGE THE WORDS IF YOU WANT TO... 
The Swirly Background Allows Plenty of Space to Write Your MANIFESTO... Or The Great American Novel...

"Art in the Time of Covid-19" Mug
by gregvan

Critics blast EPA (Enable Pollution Agency) move as license to pollute during pandemic...

 


Critics worry a new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) policy will leave the agency unaware of how much pollution is leaking into air, water and soil as companies are given the green light to suspend monitoring during the coronavirus outbreak.
directive issued by EPA late Thursday informed companies they would not face fines or other enforcement actions from the agency for failing to monitor and report their pollution. 

EPA Indefinitely Suspends Enforcement of Environmental Laws... 

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/27/headlines/epa_indefinitely_suspends_enforcement_of_environmental_laws


free coloring book art by gvan42

free coloring book art by gvan42


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"Art in the Time of Coronavirus" Coffee Cup for Sale...


YOU MAY CHANGE THE WORDS IF YOU WANT TO... 
The Swirly Background Allows Plenty of Space to Write Your MANIFESTO... Or The Great American Novel...

Great Books: "Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying " by Ram Dass - Dr. Richard Alpert (All the words of the Preface included here)

https://www.amazon.com/Still-Here-Embracing-Aging-Changing-ebook/dp/B00FPWS4ZG

Preface:
   Be Here Now was first published in 1971. It recorded the two major experiences I had Had during the Sixties; one of them was psilocybin mushrooms, and the other was my Guru, Maharajji. Both of them - mushrooms and Maharajji - did many things for me, one of which was to give me a familiarity with other planes of consciousness. They showed me that there's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life. 

   There were a number of transformations in Richard Alpert (my name at birth), which were inspired by mushrooms and Maharajji, and the best, I think, is the one that opened my heart and gave me a chance to serve. For me, the way the compassion seemed to express itself was showing people what I had done, how I had approached my experiences, and so opening avenues for them where their own spirit could emerge. I felt incredibly fortunate because of all the things that had happened to me in the Sixties, and I wanted to spread the grace around. So there were lectures, there were books, there were tapes, and there were videos - a patchwork of different means for sharing my life with people. Ghandi once said, "My life is my message." That's what I aspire to. 

   As I opened my heart, various forms of suffering in my fellow human beings presented themselves, and I decided to dowhat I could to help. Prisoners read Be Here Now, and then wrote to me, and through corresponding with them I realized that many people can do deep spiritual work in prison. So I started the Prison Ashram Project.

   Then I noticed how frightened we are of death in our culture, and what a lot of suffering that was creating. That was in contrast to what I'd seen in India, which has a much different understanding of death than we do because of their knowledge of the continuation of the soul. I wanted to find ways of sharing that, so I instituted the Dying Project.  I started hanging out with people who were dying - including my mother, my father, my stepmother, people with AIDS and cancer, many, many people over the years, who I've been with as they died. To each of these individuals and situations I brought what I had to share - my acquaintance with other planes of consciousness, and the way that affects how we perceive our living and our dying. 

   I started to look at the social institutions in the world around me, to see weather the spiritual tack I was taking might be commensurate with social action. A couple of friends were starting the Seva Foundation, and invited me to join them to do work with doctors and activists, doing work in India, Nepal and Guatemala, and with American Indians and in the Inner Cities of America. Other friends had wondered how business, which is the institution which has the most power in out society, might become more informed bu Spiritual Awareness and I Started the Social Venture Network. They are compassionate business people who invited me to work together with them. I joined the board of Creating Our Future, which was an organization for teenagers who wanted to inform their lives with spirit. These organizations were trying to prevent suffering in areas in which I felt a personal connection. For some people, it's world hunger or literacy. For me it was seeking spiritual answers to many of our problems. 

   My interest in aging came from a personal direction. I was getting older - ans so were the baby boomers, who were fast approaching fifty. In this youth-oriented culture, aging is a profound source of suffering, and that is what I was responding to when I decided to turn my attention to conscious aging workshops, and to writing this book. 

   One evening in February, 1997, I was in bed at home in Marin County, contemplating how to end this book. I'd been working on the manuscript for the past eighteen months, weaving together personal experiences and from talks I'd given around the country on conscious aging, but somehow the book's conclusion had eluded me. Lying there in the dark, I wondered why what I'd written seemed so incomplete, not quite rounded, grounded or whole. I tried to imagine what life would be like if I were very old, not an active person of sixty-five, traveling the world incessantly as a teacher and speaker, caught up in my public role - but as someone of ninety, say, with failing sight and failing limbs. I fantasized how that old man would think, how he would move and speak and hear, what desires he might have as he slowly surveyed the world. I was trying to feel my way into oldness. I was thoroughly enjoying this fantasy when the phone rang. In the process of my fantasy, I'd noticed that my leg had seemed to fall asleep. As I got up to answer the phone, my leg gave way under me and I fell to the floor. In my mind, the fall was still part of my "old man fantasy." I didn't know that my leg had fallen asleep because I'd had a stroke. 
   
   I reached for the phone, on the table near my bed.
   "R. D. ? Are you there?
   
   I heard the voice of an old friend in Santa Fe. When I didn't respond coherently, he asked. "Are you sick?" I suppose I still didn't answer, so he said, "If you can't speak, tap on the phone. Tap once for yes and twice for no." When he asked if I wanted help, I tapped "no" over and over again. 

   Nonetheless, he contacted my secretaries, who live close by, and the next thing I knew they rushed into the house and found me on the floor. There I was flat on my back, still caught in my "dream" of the very old man, who had now fallen down because his leg wouldn't work. My assistants seemed very frightened; they called 911. My next recollection is of a group of young firemen, straight out of central casting, staring into the old man's face while I observed the whole thing as if from a doorway to the side. I'm told I was immediately rushed to a hospital nearby, but all I remember was being rolled down the hospital corridors, looking up at the ceiling pipes and the concerned faces of nurses and friends. I was fascinated by what was happening. 

   Only afterward did I learn that I had a stroke and realize how close to death I had actually been. The doctors told my friends I had a massive cerebral hemorrhage, and only a ten percent chance of survival. I noticed the looks of deep concern on the faces of the doctors and my friends, but the thought of dying was nowhere in my mind, so I was perplexed by their grave expressions. 

   Three hospitals and hundreds of hours of rehabilitation later, I gradually eased into my own post stroke life as someone in a wheelchair, partially paralyzed, requiring round-the-clock care and a degree of personal attention that made me uncomfortable. All my life I had been a "helper"; I had even collaborated on a book called How Can I Help? Now I found myself forced to accept the help of others, and to admit that my body needed attention. Because I'd spent my adult life concentrating on the realms of the spirit, I'd always been able to rationalize the distance I'd maintained from my body by saying that my detachment was a spiritual witnessing of the physical form. But that had only been partly true. The truth is that I distanced myself from my body. I saw my body as merely a vehicle for the soul. I ignored it as much as possible and tried to spiritualize it away. 

   From a physical perspective, the lack of love I had shown towards my body contributed to my stroke. I was negligent about taking my blood pressure medicine, and a month before the stroke, ignored an unusual one-side hearing loss while scuba diving in the Caribbean.  Before the stroke, although I was in my 60's, I saw myself as young and powerful, with my MG, golf clubs, surfing, and speaking gigs. Illness had shattered my self image, and opened the door to a new chapter in my life. 

READ MORE IN THE ACTUAL BOOK...
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Memorial Service Video: Joan Baez and Bob Weir Sing Amazing Grace. Bob tells the Story of Meeting Richard Alpert for the First time... 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=eXghn7xJWbc&feature=emb_logo


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Great Backpacking Trips in Northern California

Hetch Hetchy: A level path goes around the lake. A good place to camp about 5 miles in. We used it as a base camp for "free climbing" granite. Be careful of accidentally slipping into the river... I did upstream of Wapama Falls. That Morning we ate LSD and Peyote and Smoked Marijuana. Since we were Stimulated and Filled with Electric Energy given by the LSD, We were able to Climb Up a Chimney. The Granite Rock Was Split Vertically and I Was able to climb with my Left Boot on one side and my Right Boot on the other side. I felt as if I was Spiderman... Never Before or since have I been able to climb like that. After wandering around above Timberline we went down to look at the river. It had carved a large pool with a Short waterfall flowing into the pool and a Large Waterfall flowing OUT. I did not NOTICE the REALITY of the WET GRANITE and I slipped right in. Swimming in a river with a powerful current That was out of my control. I was forced underwater and I gave up and accepted Death. Then by a Miracle, The river Bubbled me up at a place where I could climb out. We walked back to camp and I spent the rest on the trip IN my sleeping bag, asking my friends to bring me beverages, food and weed... I cannot say that I had any Cosmic Revelations with my Near Death Experience... No Great Wisdom... Except NOTICE REALITY!  


A friend of mine That I Met at AA in Chico FAILED TO NOTICE REALITY. She did not notice that her car was driving directly into the front of a Loaded Logging Truck. She was Driving while Blind Drunk. So, she went head first thru her windshield and... after that... She was not very Smart anymore... She was a Nice, Pretty Young Mother but, Brain Damaged. 

One thin we all can di is Learn from our Elders. Try to Not make the same mistakes as our Parents. For Example: My Mother Held a Resentment Against Her Sister for Sixty Years. Mom refused to talk to my Aunt and They Took That Fight TO THEIR GRAVES.  We had a great time at my Aunt's Funeral because I did not know much about her and I got to talk to her children that we never saw... ever... My Cousins Lived about a hundred miles from us but we had No Contact for Most of my life. WELL, I'm not going to make that mistake in MY life. I made an effort to Make Amends with everyone I Hurt and Forgave Everyone that hurt me. It's a Step in Alcoholics Anonymous... That's a Smart Task!

The belief system of AA has some similarity to Ram Dass' Teachings. Compare "Be Here Now" and "One Day at a Time." I remember Having a Group Discussion about the idea "Be Here Now"at an AA Meeting in Bidwell Park Chico right next to the creek with the little birdies chirping, etc etc etc... There we were with friends in one of the most beautiful parks in the world and... I Came to the realization that it's pretty easy to "Be Here Now" when You are Having Fun but MUCH MORE DIFFICULT when Your Dentist is Drilling... ahhh... It's All Just Grist For The Mill... https://www.amazon.com/Grist-Mill-Awakening-Ram-Dass/dp/0062235915
Link to Google Map of Hetch Hetchy: GO THERE!

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hetch+Hetchy+Valley,+California+95321/@37.9429661,-119.765467,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x80971f8a91c736fd:0x423983ee122b8b47

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapama_Falls


https://www.amazon.com/Be-Here-Now-Ram-Dass/dp/0517543052

Great Book: "Be Here Now" by Ram Dass AKA Dr. Richard Alpert... Autobiography and Illustrated Eastern Religion... with amazing art created using rubber stamps for letters and symbols...

At the Rainbow Gathering in California, I spent an afternoon at Ram Dass' Tent... Just relaxing with other people and enjoying some marijuana... There was a long line of people that wanted a personal meeting with Ram Dass and I declined to wait in that line... This tent was at an intersection of two main trails at the Gathering and so there was a lot of interesting looking people walking by... and the Rangers were providing free car rides for disabled people. Right next to us there were a group of Teenagers that were begging for Candy... Well, why not? They used the Slang word DZUZU... Once I found out what that word meant, I threw small bags of M&M Candy at them... and they cheered... Chocolate falling out of the sky! Later I met a DOG and had a long Conversation because I fed him some Summer Sausage... That got the dog's attention... free meat! and he refused to leave me alone until I Hid the Sausage in my Backpack... Then, since he could not see the meat, he believed it was all gone and walked away...

The next day, there was Live Music at the Ram Dass Tent... and they played the most CONSONANT music I have ever heard... Very similar to Christian Music... where they play Major Chords and never stray into Minor Chords or 7ths... I wandered away because I wanted to be part of the July 4th OM at Main Circle... I took this Photo and then Put the Camera in my Pocket, Held Hands and Chanted... Sometimes it's best to ACTUALLY LIVE LIFE instead of DOCUMENTING LIFE... and then Years later someone on the Internet wrote the slogan... and Potatoshopped it into this Photo... THANKS! I was just surfing the web when Surprise! I saw My Photo with words written on it! 



Rainbow Gathering in California - July 4th OM - Photo by Gregory Vanderlaan
https://www.amazon.com/Food-Gods-Original-Knowledge-Evolution/dp/0553371304

Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution. 

by Terence McKenna  (Author)

An exploration of humans' symbiotic relationships with plants and chemicals presents information on prehistoric partnership societies, the roles of spices and spirits in the rise of dominator societies; and the politics of tobacco, tea, coffee, opium, and alcohol.

Digital Yin Yang Locket Necklace
This Rainbow Hued Hexagon 
Yin Yang is Hidden by the Lid but... 
it's available on other necklaces...
Two Different Color Schemes 
on Two Different Necklaces.

Great Book: "Be Here Now" by Ram Dass AKA Dr. Richard Alpert... Autobiography and Illustrated Eastern Religion... with amazing art created using rubber stamps for letters and symbols...

At the Rainbow Gathering in California, I spent an afternoon at Ram Dass' Tent... Just relaxing with other people and enjoying some marijuana... There was a long line of people that wanted a personal meeting with Ram Dass and I declined to wait in that line... This tent was at an intersection of two main trails at the Gathering and so there was a lot of interesting looking people walking by... and the Rangers were providing free car rides for disabled people. Right next to us there were a group of Teenagers that were begging for Candy... Well, why not? They used the Slang word DZUZU... Once I found out what that word meant, I threw small bags of M&M Candy at them... and they cheered... Chocolate falling out of the sky! Later I met a DOG and had a long Conversation because I fed him some Summer Sausage... That got the dog's attention... free meat! and he refused to leave me alone until I Hid the Sausage in my Backpack... Then, since he could not see the meat, he believed it was all gone and walked away... 

The next day, there was Live Music at the Ram Dass Tent... and they played the most CONSONANT music I have ever heard... Very similar to Christian Music... where they play Major Chords and never stray into Minor Chords or 7ths... I wandered away because I wanted to be part of the July 4th OM at Main Circle... I took this Photo and then Put the Camera in my Pocket, Held Hands and Chanted... Sometimes it's best to ACTUALLY LIVE LIFE instead of DOCUMENTING LIFE... and then Years later someone on the Internet wrote the slogan... and Potatoshopped it into this Photo... THANKS! I was just surfing the web when Surprise! I saw My Photo with words written on it! 

Rainbow Gathering in California - July 4th OM - Photo by Gregory Vanderlaan


https://www.amazon.com/Be-Here-Now-Ram-Dass/dp/0517543052

AND...

Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying


“We’re talking about metamorphosis
We’re talking about going from a caterpillar to a butterfly
We’re talking about how to become a butterfly.”

In March 1961, Professor Richard Alpert – later renamed Ram Dass – held appointments in four departments at Harvard University. He published books, drove a Mercedes and regularly vacationed in the Caribbean. By most societal standards, he had achieved great success... And yet he couldn’t escape the feeling that something was missing. 

hand drawn lettering - Remember Be Here Now - Great Book by Ram Dass aka Dr Richard Alpert


Psilocybin and LSD changed that. During a period of experimentation, Alpert peeled away each layer of his identity, disassociating from himself as a professor, a social cosmopolite, and lastly, as a physical being. Fear turned into exaltation upon the realization that at his truest, he was just his inner-self: a luminous being that he could trust indefinitely and love infinitely.

And thus, a spiritual journey commenced. Alpert headed to India where his guru renamed him Baba Ram Dass – “servant of God.” He was introduced to mindful breathing exercises, hatha yoga, and Eastern philosophy. If he found himself reminiscing or planning, he was reminded to “Be Here Now.” He started upon the path of enlightenment, and has been journeying along it ever since. 

Be Here Now is a vehicle for sharing the true message, and a guide to self-determination. 

With over 150 pages of metaphysical illustrations, practical advice on how to implement a yogic regiment, and a chapter dedicated to quotes and book recommendations, Be Here Now is sure to enrich your emotional, physical, and spiritual life.





Why would anyone Watch Television? It's all Corporate Brainwashing.

You could Be HERE Now if you lived in Northern California. HERE is Clam Beach looking at Trinidad Head... Humboldt County.
Stop Watching Television... Perky Pat
With Netflix, Facebook, Youtube, Photoshop and Google...
Why would anyone Watch Television?
and Farmville!
The GOAL of Television is to sell advertising time... The most common ads are for Booze and Cars... It makes me MADD to realize that they are promoting Drunk Driving...

and selling concepts... Like: We need to spend a fortune on Weapons of War.
and they do it by reporting DANGER, DANGER, ALIENS APPROACHING!
Fear of Strangers is used to Sell. Sell, Sell.

Since defense contractors do not sell to the general public they market their goods by making Everyone Believe in Endless Global War... And that way, the US Congress can award vast fortunes with Constituent Support. 640 Billion Dollars in 2014... "It's what the Sheeple Want!"

I have not watched Television since 1/20/2009... and it feels good to not let them rent space in my mind... I get my News from Google... They allow me to select what subjects to read about. That's better than letting Others Select For Me.
Accelerate Global Awakening
TV Sells Endless War by Pumping Fear into our Brains.
Look around you, things are not that bad... In Reality. 
"Come on Wall Street Don't Move Slow, Why Man this War's A Go-Go. Plenty Good Money to be Made, Supplying the Army with the Tools of the Trade!" Lyrics by Country Joe McDonald...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuUBCF3KKxc
psychedelic art
The Possibilities are Truly Endless...
Rant about Airport Security... It seems like the Government is using "fear" as a tool to control the masses... increased spying, strip searches, brainwashing, mind control and that totally contrived event of 9/11/2001...

We Successfully got my wife onto her flight to Delaware for a week with her family. As we were driving into the airport, there was a sign stating... "threat level orange"... She asked me, with fear in her voice, what does that mean? I replied "It means the government is fucking with your head, everything is all-right"... This hit me at the biological level and made me angry. Someone was causing my woman to be afraid... without good cause... As a human male, it offends me greatly to have someone hurting my mate. That is a basic biological fact.

I'm of the opinion that 911 was a staged event. The US Government either caused the crime or allowed the crime to happen. WHY? In order to sell more weapons. Here are some troubling unanswered questions.

Question 1. Why did the US Air Force and NORAD fail to protect the country from attack??? They had over an hour to respond after the airplanes were hijacked. It was 55 minutes between the time the first airplane crashed into the World Trade Center and the time the missile hit the Pentagon. How is it possible that the entire US Air Force did nothing? According to the 911 commission they were all in Canada playing war games. Practicing what to do in case of an attack from the Soviet Union... Quite bogus... We haven't been enemies of the USSR since the Berlin Wall came down... Why was the National Reconnaissance Office practicing what to do in the event of an airplane crashing into their office building ? They had the fire drill on the morning of 9/11/2001...

Question 2. Why did World Trade Center building SEVEN fall down? No airplanes hit it... there were random fires of office equipment and flooring in that building... It is a 42 story skyscraper that fell down in what appears to be a planned controlled demolition... How did the demolition crew know a week in advance that they should place explosives to demolish that building???

Question 3. Who profited from the insider trading that happened a week before 9/11/2001 ??? According to the 911 commission report, the wall street insider trading did happen, Al-Qaeda did not profit and they did not say who did...

Question 4. Why are some of the supposed hijackers still alive? 9 of the people accused of the crime have been interviewed on television stating that they were falsely accused... go figure... How is it possible to interview a dead person??? Could it be that the names of the hijackers were bogus ? Like bogus WMDs ? Like bogus Yellowcake Uranium sales?

Question 5. Where is the plane that supposedly crashed into the Pentagon ??? There is no photographs of the airplane... none... go ahead... find a photograph and send it to me... It magically disappeared... 

Why would anyone Watch Television? It's all Corporate Brainwashing.

You could Be HERE Now if you lived in Northern California. HERE is Clam Beach looking at Trinidad Head... Humboldt County.
Stop Watching Television... Perky Pat
With Netflix, Facebook, Youtube, Photoshop and Google...
Why would anyone Watch Television?
and Farmville!
The GOAL of Television is to sell advertising time... The most common ads are for Booze and Cars... It makes me MADD to realize that they are promoting Drunk Driving...

and selling concepts... Like: We need to spend a fortune on Weapons of War.
and they do it by reporting DANGER, DANGER, ALIENS APPROACHING!
Fear of Strangers is used to Sell. Sell, Sell.

Since defense contractors do not sell to the general public they market their goods by making Everyone Believe in Endless Global War... And that way, the US Congress can award vast fortunes with Constituent Support. 640 Billion Dollars in 2014... "It's what the Sheeple Want!"

I have not watched Television since 1/20/2009... and it feels good to not let them rent space in my mind... I get my News from Google... They allow me to select what subjects to read about. That's better than letting Others Select For Me.
Accelerate Global Awakening
TV Sells Endless War by Pumping Fear into our Brains.
Look around you, things are not that bad... In Reality. 
"Come on Wall Street Don't Move Slow, Why Man this War's A Go-Go. Plenty Good Money to be Made, Supplying the Army with the Tools of the Trade!" Lyrics by Country Joe McDonald...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuUBCF3KKxc
psychedelic art
The Possibilities are Truly Endless...
Rant about Airport Security... It seems like the Government is using "fear" as a tool to control the masses... increased spying, strip searches, brainwashing, mind control and that totally contrived event of 9/11/2001...

We Successfully got my wife onto her flight to Delaware for a week with her family. As we were driving into the airport, there was a sign stating... "threat level orange"... She asked me, with fear in her voice, what does that mean? I replied "It means the government is fucking with your head, everything is all-right"... This hit me at the biological level and made me angry. Someone was causing my woman to be afraid... without good cause... As a human male, it offends me greatly to have someone hurting my mate. That is a basic biological fact.

I'm of the opinion that 911 was a staged event. The US Government either caused the crime or allowed the crime to happen. WHY? In order to sell more weapons. Here are some troubling unanswered questions.

Question 1. Why did the US Air Force and NORAD fail to protect the country from attack??? They had over an hour to respond after the airplanes were hijacked. It was 55 minutes between the time the first airplane crashed into the World Trade Center and the time the missile hit the Pentagon. How is it possible that the entire US Air Force did nothing? According to the 911 commission they were all in Canada playing war games. Practicing what to do in case of an attack from the Soviet Union... Quite bogus... We haven't been enemies of the USSR since the Berlin Wall came down... Why was the National Reconnaissance Office practicing what to do in the event of an airplane crashing into their office building ? They had the fire drill on the morning of 9/11/2001...

Question 2. Why did World Trade Center building SEVEN fall down? No airplanes hit it... there were random fires of office equipment and flooring in that building... It is a 42 story skyscraper that fell down in what appears to be a planned controlled demolition... How did the demolition crew know a week in advance that they should place explosives to demolish that building???

Question 3. Who profited from the insider trading that happened a week before 9/11/2001 ??? According to the 911 commission report, the wall street insider trading did happen, Al-Qaeda did not profit and they did not say who did...

Question 4. Why are some of the supposed hijackers still alive? 9 of the people accused of the crime have been interviewed on television stating that they were falsely accused... go figure... How is it possible to interview a dead person??? Could it be that the names of the hijackers were bogus ? Like bogus WMDs ? Like bogus Yellowcake Uranium sales?

Question 5. Where is the plane that supposedly crashed into the Pentagon ??? There is no photographs of the airplane... none... go ahead... find a photograph and send it to me... It magically disappeared...

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1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...The culture of the United States was radically different After the 1960's...



*American History: "The Thunder Machine" was a Giant Sheet Metal Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like a Drum. Made by Ron Boise and used at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.

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Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote)


My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA.

I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... I feel blessed that not only did I grow up in a great location but I also grew up at a great time. I missed the Vietnam War by ONE Year and Silicon Valley Was Hiring Like Crazy When I Needed a Job.
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History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was...

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