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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,[Except Blacks and Women] that they are endowed by their Creator [Named Jesus, Allah, Yahweh, Odin, Thor, KRSNA, Buddha or a Thousand Other Names] with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”[Unless your Pursuit uses Marijuana or Psychedelics as a Sacrament] - DANG... So Many Disclaimers... Was This Written by a Freaking Lawyer?

The Era Of Hatred is Ending. I Plan to Put Some Effort into Forgiving People That Believe The Exact Opposite of What I Believe. They are Just Confused and Helping Them Would Make the World a Better Place to Live. Break The Chains of The Trump Brainwashing Cult. Free Yourself... Life Will Become Better! Try Noticing Reality for ONE WEEK and If It Doesn't Help, You Can Always Go Back To Believing Lies

WAKE UP! Robot Two-Tone Coffee Mug for sale.
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or Mindless Vegetables for Trump! WhatEVER!

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Next: The US Senate Races in Georgia are Undecided. Help Campaign for Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. Please Share These Campaign Websites on Social Media... US SENATE ELECTION RESULTS ARE CURRENTLY 50-48 We Do Not Know If The US Senate Will Be Democratic or Republican.

Jon Ossoff:
https://electjon.com/ - and- https://youtu.be/jzaTlMJRIP0

Reverend Raphael Warnock:

https://warnockforgeorgia.com/

and then I Read a Rant of Facebook By My Friend KG: "Liberals get ready to fill out your reports on me, cause I'm going to vent here...I believe we all have the right to worship as we please, but I also know that our country, the United States of America, was founded on Christian principles. I believe we should be proud of our country. A quote is a quote. It should not be amended or watered down. The news media organizations should not be afraid to use the "Love of Christ" part. Why they state, “Because, using the words Christ or God might offend someone!” Well, now it's my turn to be offended! I'm offended that the news media would edit it out. Offended that Christians are being asked to tread lightly, so as not to offend someone of another religion. This man, Jesus, loved God, loved his people, loved the world, and gave his life for the sins of all people. Those who believe in Him, and accept Him as their personal Savior, will have everlasting life !!!

This Founding Principle is actually embedded in our Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

I hope every Christian or every person that believes in God who is offended will copy this and paste it to their status.....

“If we ever forget that we're one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under.” ~Ronald Reagan.

*Before you say it, I already know that a lot of you don't copy & paste.* It’s easy... hold your finger on this post when the word copy appears just touch it then go to your home page and where it says "what's on your mind" touch it and hold your finger where you would start writing your comment and "paste”

If you read this to the end, can I get an "Amen”?

📷AWoman!"

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and I said: I was driving over Highway 36 at night and pulled off the side of the road... Looked at the stars... Just amazing... I used to live in Chico and then I moved to Eureka... So Highway 36 & 299 are my roads! Unless they're closed due to snow and then I take number 20... Clear Lake...

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Buying Used Stuff at Thrift Stores DOES NOT CAUSE ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE Like Buying New Stuff Does. When You Buy a New Product, the Corporation Has to Replace It. 

They Mine Raw Materials, grow plants (like cotton) using pesticides and herbicides, Log Forests, Employ Slave Laborers in the Orient, Burn Gasoline Shipping the Plastic Crap Here From China... and on and on and on... Used Products ALREADY EXIST and so Buying Stuff at The Eureka Rescue Mission Thrift Shop (my local store) does NOT Harm the Planet. Actually, They Hire Local People to Work as Clerks and Do Delivery. We Bought ALL our Living Room Furniture there. Three Chairs and a Sofa... and Men Delivered It Upstairs in Our Home. NO WAY could I Move those Heavy Objects Up That Staircase... I Tipped those Guys $10 Each... and they were really Thankful. Yes, I Could Have Spent a Fortune at Sears or KMART but... I Prefer to Keep The Money IN MY WALLET. I Like Employing Guys That Live At The Rescue Mission. The Mission Does Good Work Here in Eureka and I've Met a LOT of Real People That They Help. I did buy new Beds at Sears. Somehow, those were just too Personal to Buy Used... also, I Do Not Buy Used Underwear... BUT, Clothes? YES! It's actually fun to find thrift stores in Super Rich Neighborhoods and Live Like the TV Show "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous..." A Great Place to Shop is North Shore Lake Tahoe... Snow Bunnies often Donate Extra Stuff When the Season is Over... and There is Also DUMPSTER DIVING in College Towns at the End of the School Year... FREE STUFF! 

Oddly, I Expressed These Opinions during a Group Discussion at an Ecology Class at Humboldt State University and ALL THE OTHER STUDENTS SAID I WAS WRONG... They said that Used Stuff Still Requires Ecological Damage to Exist at All... I tried to explain that the Manufacturing Damage Happened IN THE PAST and it is impossible to Change History but Buying New Stuff CAUSES Purchasing Agents at Corporations to Hire People to Create New Stuff IN THE FUTURE to Fill the Shelves At The Store. No One Grasped the Concept. But I Did Make The Other Students Think. and That's a Good Thing. It's a difficult concept... I Wish I Could Explain it in a Shorter Sentence... Maybe YOU can Re-Write the Concept Better and Post it in the Comments Section... Thanks!

Remember: There are Two Ways to Get Everything You Want. Get More or Want Less. and... You Can Get More Stuff Per Dollar At The Eureka Rescue Mission Thrift Shop... or Your Own Store... Did You Know that There is a Fashion "Thing" where Corporations PRE-RIP Clothes? Intentionally Making Them LOOK USED! Really! They Hire People to Rub Jeans over Rough Surfaces to SIMULATE Wear and Tear of Normal Use... I'm Not Making This UP! All the Pathetic Dupes are Wearing Clothes Like That! On My Own Webstore... I Offer Hats that have been "Distressed" to look like they are Old... It's an Option... I wish I could write a Mocking Slogan Poking Fun at this Fashion Trend... Then I Could Sell a Hat with That Saying... Sort of like the Question: "Can You Imagine a World Without Hypothetical Situations?" or The Page that says: "This Page Is Left Blank Intentionally." A Cosmic Haiku Slogan... I do sell a Hat that says "PRESS" so people can wear it at Protest Marches and Avoid Being Bashed on the Head By The Police... I Do Not Really Know if It REALLY Helps Avoid Police Violence... I Do Know That People Made T-Shirts Saying "Backstage Pass - Shoreline Ampetheater - Bill Graham Productions" and Used them to sneak past Security Guards... I admire the Guy that Made a Sign that Says "This is a Sign." Was That Absurdist Theater or End Times Warning?

"Life is More Complex than a Slogan on a Hat."

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SE SAID:

There is too much plastic in the world. Practically everything is packaged in plastic nowadays. Shampoo, conditioner, liquid soap, dish soap, laundry detergent, vinegar, coffee, salad dressing, barbeque sauce, mayonnaise, mustard, hand lotion - these are just a few things I have here in my apartment which are packaged in plastic. Also, bottled water, soft drinks, and juices are bottled in plastic bottles...and of course we also have our plastic storage containers for food and other stuff. Plastic pretty much lasts forever, and it's lightweight and convenient, and those are some of the reasons why it's everywhere. But it's so bad for the environment. It ends up in the landfills where it doesn't degrade. Or worse, it ends up in the ocean. When you consider the fact that nearly everything is packaged in plastic all over the world, and plastic is filling up landfills and ending up in the ocean all over the world, it's really a problem. But I don't know what the solution is. Plastic is so convenient and lightweight, and if you drop it, it won't break, so people aren't going to want to go back to drinking soda out of glass bottles or bringing their lunch to work in a ceramic casserole dish rather than a plastic storage container. I don't know what the answer is.

I Replied: We can Make Plastic Out of Hemp.

https://ministryofhemp.com/blog/why-isnt-hemp-plastic-everywhere/

Boycott Plastic Garbage! Chicken of the Sea Tuna is Marketing "Infusions" with a Plastic Bowl, Lid and Fork. Trash that will pollute the Earth for 10,000 Years. REFUSE TO BUY PLASTIC CRAP.

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I Oppose Small PLASTIC Containers for Single Servings of Food. Since We Already Have the Technology to Make Milk Cartons, WHY NOT use Waxed Paper for Cheese, Coffee, Yogurt and Sliced Ham? https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/06/i-oppose-small-plastic-containers-for.html

I keep on seeing TV advertisements for Keurig Coffee that puts ONE CUP Worth of coffee grounds in a little PLASTIC container... Ridiculous! We have been brewing coffee for Hundreds of Years without Little Plastic Cups! You buy a two pound Aluminum Can and scoop a few spoonfuls into your percolator... or your drip coffee machine... using brown paper filters... simple, easy, clean, ecological and NOW, ALL OF A SUDDEN, WE HAVE AN INVENTION THAT CREATES MILLIONS OF LITTLE PLASTIC CUPS!

Bubble Up Economics - Simply Raise the Minimum Wage and Social Security Checks and all that extra money will BUBBLE UP throughout the Entire Economy - In a Rising Tide, ALL Boats Float! - meme - gvan42

and Then on Facebook I read This Long Story...

SE SAID: The main issue I have with buying clothes online is that you end up losing money when you have to return stuff, unless it happens to be one of the rare stores that allows free shipping on returns. But unfortunately, most stores make you pay for return shipping. I don't know how many other women have this problem, but for me, I rarely know exactly what size is going to fit me because sizing is all over the place now. Sometimes I fit a 2, and sometimes I fit a 6. Sometimes I fit a small, sometimes a medium, and sometimes a large. I almost never get it right on the first try. If I'm shopping at a brick-and-mortar store, I can take several sizes into a fitting room, try them on, and buy the one that fits...or, if I don't feel like doing that, I can buy them all, try them on at home, and then return the ones that didn't fit, and I don't lose any money in the process because nothing had to be shipped. But when you order online and you aren't sure which size is going to fit, you need to PAY to return the ones that didn't fit, so basically you're paying to try them on! Also, sometimes you love the look of an article of clothing, but after you try it on, you realize that it's unflattering on you, or it just doesn't look as good as you thought it would look, so you decide not to buy it. This process is free when you shop in person, but when you shop online, this process ends up costing money because you paid for the item, tried it on at home, decided you didn't like the way it looked, and now you get to PAY to send it back. If more and more clothing stores continue to disappear, and we are eventually forced to buy everything online, it would be really helpful if ALL clothing retailers would offer free shipping on returns so people can try stuff on without losing money when they return the stuff that doesn't work for them. Otherwise, they'd better allow us to continue to have brick-and-mortar clothing stores where we can try stuff on for free before we buy it. 

I'm having this issue right now, as a matter of fact. There's a dress I'm eyeing online, but I've never owned anything in that brand before, so I have no idea if I would fit the 4 or the 6, and it's an expensive dress, so I can't afford to buy 2 of them and pay to return the one that didn't fit, or to find out that it doesn't even look good on me in the first place, so then I have to pay to return it. I'm probably not going to buy it in the first place because it's just too big of a hassle if I can't try it on ahead of time for free.

CF SAID: Have you tried a subscription service? I really liked StitchFit. They set you up with a personal stylist who you can text pictures and things to. (I loved mine; we would just chat randomly and she sort of felt like a friend.) And return shipping is free, and they keep shopping until they've found you looks you'll love!

SE REPLIED: I did try Stitch Fix a few times. I liked the way it worked, but I only kept one of the items they sent me, a blouse which I like a lot. But most of their stuff was either too expensive or just didn't work for me for whatever reason. I think I prefer picking out my own stuff rather than having someone do it for me. It's an interesting concept, though, and I can see how it might work for others.

I Said: I also buy clothes online... Big and Tall refused to tell me what size I wear... They COULD Have Just Looked Up what was Ordered Last Time but NO... It was a Gift and The Giver's Privacy is Top Secret... So I Guessed, Guessed wrong and Simply Gave the Pants to a Guy Who Lives Here... I was too Lazy to Figure Out How to Return the Pants... HOWEVER... Online Shopping DOES HAVE MY SIZE and Most Brick and Mortar Stores Do Not... So It was a Great Step Forward when online Shopping was Invented! The Best Place to Shop is at the Thrift Store... I Love the Eureka Rescue Mission Store... Not only do I Get Great Used Clothes Cheap but I'm Employing Homeless People That Live at the Mission... AND... When You Buy New Clothes the Corporations Automatically Order More New Clothes to be Created... with Slave Labor and Pesticides in the Orient, Dyes That they Dump Right into the River... Diesel Fuel for the Boats to bring them Here from There... an Ecological Disaster... None of that Happens with Thrift Store Clothes... AND... If You Shop in a Rich Neighborhood, The Clothes that are Donated are Super-Duper! North Shore Lake Tahoe is Excellent... All Those Ski Bunnies would Rather Donate their Extra Clothes Than Pack in a Suitcase and Fly Home... 

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Martin, Patti and Vanessa moved to this new home in San Francisco in early 2004. They are quite close to Mount Sutro and can see Golden Gate Park off the back balcony.

 It is a 4 story home and there are balconies on three of the stories. There is a garage which is quite a blessing due to impossible parking in the city. 

The picture above shows Martin and Nicole sitting on the balcony with the park in the background. 

This is the view that they see... It is absolutely stunning in person. The financial district is seen to the right, Transamerica Pyramid... You may have to scroll right to see the entire picture... This photo does NOT show the ocean and Golden Gate bridge that are off to the left... Nor does it show the Mount Sutro which is off to the right. The view is a little bit scary due to being so high off the ground. I think that is called vertigo. After a few minutes, I felt safe there... It is possible to climb up a ladder and get on the roof... It was too much effort for me to climb it when I visited, but the view should be astonishing. One time Martin and Vanessa had to go up on the roof to use brooms to sweep the water from a rainstorm off the FLAT Roof... and Prevent Leaking indoors. 

Here are Nicole and Vanessa in the kitchen. I am standing on the floor above and peeking out of an inside window... Originally, this area was a courtyard but a previous owner roofed it in. 

This is the front of the home with Sutro Tower. It broadcasts television signals and is visible from my dad's house in Los Gatos... 50 miles away... We had a The Biggest Radio Shack TV Antenna installed on the roof of Dad's Home and We Were able to get all the TV Stations from San Francisco... In Fact, Broadcast TV Signals require "line of sight" to be received... 

We Had a Rotator installed as well and Dad Could get Sacramento Stations as well... 

Here is Dad, Patti, Vanessa and Bonita. The photo above with the checkerboard floor was looking down on this scene. This house seems to go on and on and on. Vanessa showed me all the rooms and some are quite different. There is a bathroom that is entirely covered with mirrors on all the walls. You can see hundreds of reflections of yourself. I have never seen anything like this except at the Smithsonian Modern Art Gallery... There is a walk in closet/crawlspace that is large enough to house another entire family. Since this place is built on the side of a steep hill, there are odd shaped nooks and crannies underneath. There is a piano room that has walls that are intentionally made NOT-PARALLEL so that the sound waves will echo in an acoustically pleasing manner. It also has movable sound dampening sections... Like a classical music concert hall...

Grandpa Vanderlaan's house in San Francisco

I remember this house from my childhood. Especially the very high quality grand piano. It is on a hill near the University of San Francisco medical center between Sutro Tower and The Panhandle section of Golden Gate Park.

more pictures of Martin's new house...

Martin and Nicole on the balcony. 

The front of the house with a view into the blessed garage. Parking on the street is often difficult and a constant source of frustration. Generally, it is illegal to park in the space that you find... That is dad's white car...

dad and Vanessa near the kitchen... 

Since this is a tall and thin house 

they get lots of staircases... 

 Martin and the fireplace in the living room...

Interesting Leader: Steven Dinan of The Shift Network. His Book: Sacred America, Sacred World. Fascinating Ideas about HOW TO Move the Entire Human Race a Giant Leap Forward... to build a more wise, balanced, loving, enlightened world.

and My Term Paper about the Book "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz... 

https://theshiftnetwork.com/

Steven foresees a Major Upgrade to American Democracy. Trump is Exposing the "Horror Show" of Obsolete Ideas of a Time Long Ago. "Father Knows Best" is a nostalgic and quaint TV Show but not relevant today. By Outraging the vast majority of the people, Trump is Motivating us En Masse to build a Better World. We can Guide Humanity to the Next Level... Liberty, Equality, Justice for all... "We the People" can trigger Global Awakening... Equal Opportunity... Blending the Wisdom in the Capitalist System with the Wisdom of the Democratic Socialist System. The Best of Different Approaches. Learn from other people's examples... Finland's Education System. Scandinavian Ecological Theories... Really... "Raking the Forests" (removing fuel - dead trees) to prevent wildfires. 

Spiritual Practitioners often refuse to participate in Politics. Denying the Nation of their Wisdom... That allows low level humans to be the winners by DEFAULT. Those of us who are Interested in Doing Good often decline Power Trips. 

Ironically, the TERM "Do Gooders" was written by People in order to Ridicule Morality so that no one will notice that They themselves are in favor of EVIL as a way of life.

"Conservatives" often promote any idea that they are Paid to promote by the Corporate-Corporate Welfare State. The Government provide Subsidies to fund certain businesses... Like OIL, Plastic, and Nuclear Power. That's Corporate Welfare!

It's the West Coast's JOB to pioneer IDEAS... We are all the children of people who got in wagons and left the East Coast and the Mid West and so... The Pioneer Spirit is Still Alive and That's Why Silicon Valley is on the West Coast and Seattle has Microsoft, Amazon and Costco employee owned store... The exact opposite of WALMART. 

The Shift Network is Gridwork of Light Connecting and Interlinking Awakening People - America 7.0 - An accelerator to move the Human Race a Giant Leap Forward. Esalon Intitute Ideas at a Lower Cost and Bigger audience using The Internet. Big Sur for People all over the world. End the War Games and rehire those people in useful tasks. Survival of the Species is our Goal. 

A little child will lead us... Greta Thurnberg... poster child of Climate Change Defiance... When we burn fossil fuel, we are killing that little Scandinavian Girl. The Shift Network's Goal Influencing 100 Million People in the next five years. One Candle Flame can Light a Million other Candles. You have Your Candle, I Have Mine. Becoming Evolutionary Agents for Humanity. We are all here to grow and expand to Higher Levels of Consciousness and become Visionaries... 

He Cites Heidi Harmon the Mayor of San Luis Obispo... She could be Crucial in Training those Cal Poly Students in Appropriate Technology...  

and Terri Andersen the Mayor of Nevada city. 

They are Smart Organic Enlightened Leaders... Outrageous Feminists.

David Gershon - Cool Block Initiative - bringing neighborhoods together to fight climate change. 
https://coolblock.org/welcome

Tree Sisters Organization - Fusing Tree Planting and Women's Empowerment. https://www.treesisters.org/

Log Cabin Republicans - Gays http://www.logcabin.org/


The Aware Show with Lisa Garr. https://theawareshow.com/

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Great Book: Sacred America, Sacred World by Steven Dinan Interviewed on The Aware Show with Lisa Garr... E Plurbus Unum... Out of Many One...
https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-America-World-Fulfilling-Mission/dp/1571747443

Trump is bringing us all together to fight his obsolete ideas. Since we have been shocked AWAKE due to his obvious insanity, we can come together to move THE ENTIRE WORLD FORWARD. GEE, maybe we ought to be Activists and Write, Talk, Sing, Paint and Dance in favor of Good and Opposed to Evil. https://theawareshow.com/

Shift Network. He is an Esalon Institute Alumni - Big Sur Retreat Hot Tub. https://theshiftnetwork.com/

Evolutionary Growth of humanity to the Next Level... Share the Wisdom. Global Awakening is Real and Happening Now. 

BOOK REVIEW:
Infused with visionary power, Sacred America, Sacred World is a manifesto for our country’s evolution that is both political and deeply spiritual. It offers profound hope that America can grow beyond our current challenges and manifest our noblest destiny, which the book shows is rooted in sacred principles that transcend left or right political views.

Filled with practical ideas and innovative strategies honed from the author’s work with over 1000 luminaries via his company, The Shift Network, Sacred America, Sacred World rings with a can-do entrepreneurial spirit and explains how America can lead the world toward peace, sustainability, health, and prosperity. This vision of the future weaves the best of today’s emergent spirituality with seasoned political wisdom, demonstrating ways America can grow beyond its current stagnation and political gridlock to become a world leader in peace and progress.

Published to coincide with the party conventions and presidential debates, this book will promote a return to the sacred principles cherished by America's forefathers in order to create a “transpartisan,” non-ideological, pragmatic approach to social reform. This uplifting discussion explores evolutions in political leadership, environmental concerns, and economic reformation.

It is time to forge a bold new image of America’s future. Here is a road map for getting there.


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I feel very Patriotic towards California but not much towards the USA... At least half of the country would be better if they were a Different Country. Idaho, Utah, Texas, the Midwest and the South are a financial drain on the USA... Let those states secede and stop holding us back. GTFO!


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

My New Book: AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS [Since 1945, The Pentagon Has Never Defended The Country, Not Even Once] by Gregory Vanderlaan

Chapter Zero. Ever since VJ Day (Victory in Japan), All of Our Wars have been Marketing Tools to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex. One time there was a Need to Defend the Country and The Military Failed Completely. Civilians took down the Airplane in Pennsylvania on 9/11/2001. Frankly Speaking, Can't We Buy Total Failure at a Lower Price?

If you want to contribute Knowledge or Opinions to my BOOK email me at gregvan@yahoo.com I really want to hear from Veterans and Defense Contractors... You may be quoted or remain anonymous... Have fun! I might be entirely wrong about the facts and conclusions of this Book. I would want to know what to improve...  BEFORE PUBLICATION.

Think this through with me... 

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

Digital Whammy Bar for Electric Guitar - moving the time knob changes pitch of the echoes...

Peyote Button Eyes - Tribute to Don Miguel Ruiz and His Book The Four Agreements

Great Books: "The Exception to The Rulers" by Amy and David Goodman... "Will" by G. Gordon Liddy... "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/great-books-exception-to-rulers-by-amy.html

Great Book: "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz

My Final Paper: Philosophy Class at the College of the Redwoods...

Don Miguel Ruiz is a Toltec Brujo from Mexico. A Brujo is an Indian that works as a Doctor/Priest/Teacher. Don Miguel is part of a line of Brujos that stretch back to the dawn of humankind. His sons carry on his work. He is also an AMA licensed M.D.

1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don't take anything personally.
3. Don't make assumptions.
4. Always do your best.

Starting at birth we are told what to think by our parents, schools and church. These people give us free advice to help them live out their dreams. Their advice may not be in our best interests. By telling us what to think they mold what our reality looks and feels like. Even though we do not know it, we have made agreements with them to live our life according to their rules. Don Miguel Ruiz calls this "The Domestication of Humans". Like we have domesticated horses and bent them to serve our purposes, humans have been enslaved. The first step in breaking free of the bondage that our elders have placed us in is to realize that we are slaves. Then we may reject the agreements that were made without our knowledge and write our own. These new ways of viewing reality can be to our benefit.

Instead of living our lives helping someone else accomplish their goals, we can work to help ourselves realize our own goals. We can stop living the life of a slave and be free. The people that have been programming our minds are not necessarily evil. They themselves have been programmed by their own parents, school and church and do not realize that they are carrying out the wishes of their elders. The Toltec Warrior's goal in life is to wake up and see the world as it is. We are all living in a dream world that is not of our own making. They are engaged in a battle for their
own minds.

1. Be impeccable with your word.
Do not lie. Do not gossip. Choose what you say carefully and if you
make promises, carry them out with action. If you break your promise or make a bad decision, admit your error. Words are extremely powerful. They can motivate people to take action. A powerful speech can convince a country to go to war. Even if the speech is based on lies, millions of people can be fooled into taking mistaken action. In recent history, our 'resident Bush gave a State of the Union speech and sent our nation to war with Iraq. The US Senate's 9/11 commission has shown that the basic reason for attacking Iraq was totally false. Whether he lied intentionally or was fooled by his advisors does not change the damage done to both Iraq and America. A lesson to be learned from his mistake is to be impeccable with your words. Check to see if what you say are facts are actually true. Making up falsehoods about other people can be fatal. Repeating falsehoods told to you by other people can be equally fatal. Don Miguel Ruiz says that gossip and words used with evil intent is black magic.

2. Don't take anything personally.
He recommends that you be skeptical about what other people say. They might be telling falsehoods. If you believe them then you may be fooled into taking action that is wrong. You have a responsibility to reject lies told to you. In order for a lie to be successful, two people have to work together. Both the teller of the lie and the believer of the lie must agree that falsehood is true. In our modern world, where we are bombarded by advertising, it is a required survival skill to reject lies. The goal of advertising is to make a profit for the company paying for the advertisement. Marketing people are trying to make themselves happy. They are not trying to make you happy. If you were completely satisfied, you would not come back and try to buy happiness later. Skillful marketing people promise that buying their product will bring happiness but intentionally make sure that there will always be an unsatisfied desire. We should always consider what the other person is going thru when evaluating their statements.

For example: A person may scold us unmercifully for a trivial error in behavior. If they make our "crime against humanity" seem to be extremely significant, it may be because they are going thru a crisis of their own that has nothing at all to do with you. It could be that the speaker attacking you has stopped taking their psychiatric medicine and is hallucinating. This is not an uncommon event. It could be that they have learned thru a lifetime of pretending that every silly challenge is a major crisis that "freaking out" is an efficient skill for getting their way. I have been fooled by "drama queens". The first time you witness them having a major crisis most people are sympathetic and help. After repeatedly seeing them do their act, most people are no longer fooled. The master of the "drama queen act" does their performance for new audiences in order to reap maximum benefit. We should also consider the source when dealing with other people's actions. Let us suppose that you have been arrested for smoking marijuana. It would be useless to blame the policeman for locking you up in a cage. He has voluntarily selected to make a career out of enforcing questionable laws. Whether his behavior is morally right or wrong is not significant. He has a gun and the legal right to use it. From a practical point of view, might makes right. Even when a person is doing you harm, don't take it personally because there is no advantage to doing so. Spending your psychological energy hating the policeman will poison your own mind. Put your effort into actions that will have effect. A little

prevention could have saved you a lot of trouble. Making the effort to check for dangerous people in the immediate vicinity before you light up a joint is essential to staying out of jail. Just like looking both ways before you cross the street will prevent injury due to being run over by a car, remembering to never break the law when a policeman is around will prevent handcuffs. If you choose to live a life of crime, take precautions! Realize that you have made yourself a convenient target. He would probably arrest anyone that was smoking a reefer in his presence. It was not a personal attack. His job review counts how many arrests and convictions he makes. His paycheck depends upon proving to his boss that he is doing his job. Feeding his children and providing shelter for them depends upon a steady stream of criminals. Even when people are praising us, don't take it personally. People often say "Don Miguel, you write such wonderful books". By taking this personally, he would start writing with the goal of getting praise from fans. This goal would cause
confusion in his reasoning and future books would be of bad quality. Keeping his mind focused on waking up from the Dream World allows clear thinking and writing.

3. Don't make assumptions.
Working from incomplete information and jumping to conclusions can
cause disaster in your life. Do research and find out enough accurate facts before making a decision. Remember that people might be lying to you and factor in bias when researching. A common error is to assume that other people know what you know. People often refer to a concept called "common knowledge". There is no such thing. We all have had different life experiences and learned different lessons. We actually live in completely different worlds because of the way we were raised. The parents, school and church that brainwashed me had different agendas than the ones that brainwashed you. Since we describe our world using the words taught us by our elders, our entire view of the planet is filtered by their beliefs. We are so used to our own view of the world that it is

surprising to find out that other people have never even heard of ideas that we regard as standard. A simple solution to the problem of assumptions is to speak accurately and tell the other person
exactly what you think. Then, check to see if they understood. If you assume that they understand and it turns out later that they did not, everyone suffers. Furthermore, ask them to speak accurately
and check to see if you have grasped the concepts they are explaining. Ask questions until both of you understand the subject. Communication breakdown is further degraded by the fact that many people do not speak the same language. This problem is improving as the internet spreads
worldwide and exposes vast quantities of people to English. The majority of the content on the internet is written in English and people worldwide are realizing that in order to use the power of the computer it is important to learn to read English. People that cannot read English find that the vast majority of the web pages are useless. Of course, it is possible to publish your ideas in any language but the audience is limited if you select to use non-English language. As time goes on we will find that an increasing number of people will be bi-lingual.

4. Always do your best.
Sometimes, your best may not be very good at all. If you are in bad health or confused by intoxication or distracted by gossip and lies you may make bad decisions and take bad actions. Accept this fact as an unchangeable part of history and try again. It is a very efficient way to live. All the time spent punishing yourself for past mistakes is saved and can be put to better use. It may be difficult to even remember what the four agreements are. Try again. Locate a copy of the book and reread it. Copy the words and put them on a card to keep in your wallet. You are trying to
overcome the brainwashing of a lifetime. Every time you use one of the four agreements it becomes easier to do it again. Don Miguel Ruiz says that there is not an infinite space in your mind for storing agreements. If you put a good agreement in the same space as a bad one the bad one dies. He says that the agreements we made without our knowledge have taken a life of their own and live as a parakite in our mind. We become self-domesticating animals. Our elders have brainwashed us so completely that we voluntarily brainwash ourself. We create an internal "Judge" and "Jury" to review our own actions and convict ourselves when we do not live up to impossible standards. Suppose you failed in an endeavor, the Judge and Jury would punish yourself for failure. A Toltec Warrior would simply realize that he had done his best, shrug off the defeat and go to battle again tomorrow.

I was first introduced to this book by a friend in Chico. He could not afford the price of purchasing this book. What he did was to go to Wal-Mart and read a chapter and then leave. He went for weeks reading and rereading this book. This is a clear example of doing your best. He could not organize his life well enough to get the extra ten dollars to purchase the book but found a way to get the information for free. I feel that this philosophy is a great way to live life. Each step builds upon the last. Just realizing that we have been domesticated is a great leap forward. If all we can do at this time is understand that we have been brainwashed by our elders and that they did it to accomplish their own goals, that is the best we can do today. Tomorrow we can understand this basic idea and be
impeccable with our word. By doing these two things, we can gradually kill the paracite that lives in our mind. With our new found power, it might be possible to take three steps and then four steps and then five steps. As a child, we had no choice about what agreements to make but we are adults now. We can voluntarily discard agreements that are not in our best interest. We can intentionally select to make Don Miguel's agreements or we can write our own. His agreements seem to make sense but we should be skeptical. Using his own concepts to judge the validity of his book is the best path to follow. I question his motivations before agreeing to accept his agreements. Is his main goal to sell books and make a pile of money? Does he wish to create a cult of brainwashed robot followers to do his bidding? Has his ego been so corrupted by praise that he has forgotten to not take things personally in his own life? In my humble opinion, I feel that he is living an impeccable life and is being
true to the disciplines of a Toltec Warrior. Of course, I may be wrong. I have only read this one book and his recent work may be poor quality. I've never met the man and know nothing about his personal life. However, this one book is of such high quality that if we ignore everything else he has done we will have a valid plan for life. The entire book can be reduced to a bumper sticker slogan.

THINK FOR YOURSELF AND QUESTION REALITY.

What would you do if your doctor told you that you had one week to live? Some people would spend that week bemoaning the fact and crying
"poor, poor, pitiful me". A Totlec Warrior would make the best of the time left. There would not be time enough to have arguments with people and spread gossip. Why bother with hatred? There is only a week to live and important tasks need to be done! Writing that love song for your wife would be very high priority. Calling your Mom and Dad and thanking them for giving birth to you would be important. Well, your doctor called and he has bad news. The only question is that he is not exactly
sure about the time frame. He says that it could be one week or it could be one day or it could be 80 years. He is not exactly sure about when it will happen but he is certain that you are going to die. Mexican celebrate El Dia de los Muertes to remind themselves that the future is uncertain and the end is always near. Putting your priorities in sensible order is essential to living life to the fullest. We all want to be happy. If we live our lives working to accomplish someone else's goals it is unlikely that we will be happy. We should reject their goals and create our own. We have the freedom to choose. We have the freedom to reject the reality taught to us by our parents, schools and church.

We can intentionally create our own reality by voluntarily selecting what agreements to make.

Don Miguel Ruiz selected to make the four agreements explained in this paper but you have the freedom to write your own. Why not live in a wonderful world?


A little historical background: Thousands of years ago, the Toltec were known thoroughout southern Mexico as "women and men of knowledge".
Anthropologists have spoken of the Toltec as a nation or a race, but, in fact, the Toltec were scientists and artists who formed a society to explore and conserve the spiritual knowledge and practices of the ancient ones. They came together as masters (naguals) and students at Teotihuacan, the ancient city of pyramids outside of Mexico city know as the place where "Man becomes God". In the United States, most people's knowledge of Mexican Indian culture was found in the books by Carlos Castaneda. He describes the teachings of Don Juan Mateus. Juan used native plants to awaken interest in spirituality in his students. After the student has been forced to acknowledge that there may be something totally outside their normal view of reality, the plants become unnecessary to the teaching. Carlos's first book gained public attention by his vivid descriptions of Psilocybin mushroom intoxication. His next ten books focus on the sober
experiences he had without the mushrooms. The stories aroused controversy because they described events that are clearly impossible (in the belief system of rational western culture). Critics argue about whether to put his books in the Anthropology section of the library or the fiction section. They do open the door to questions that lay outside of mainstream American thinking and for that we can only be grateful.

His books also inspired the rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac to write the song "Hypnotized". Part of Bob Welch's lyrics state:

They say there's a place down in Mexico
Where a man can fly over mountains and hills
And he don't need an airplane or some kind of engine And he never will
Now you know it's a meaningless question
To ask if those stories are right
'Cause what matters most if the feeling
You get when you're hypnotized
Seems like a dream
They got me hypnotized

His opinion is that no matter where you place the Carlos Castaneda's books in the library, The important thing is to read them with an open mind and get the feeling. Many of the basic ideas of Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Juan Mateus are similar. They appear to be derived from the same ancient wisdom. I recommend that after you read The Four Agreements you start reading the Casteneda books to help gain background knowledge. They both stress the idea that everything you take for granted about reality might be false. They both recommend that you question your fundamental assumptions and intentionally choose to create your own world. A world that is designed to accomplish your goals, not the goals of others.