This week has been an active one for me.  From ‘reports’ I’ve had coming in, I’ not the ~only~ one experiencing such activity.  Most of what I hear about, comes to me in the form of people calling me.  Sometimes not really knowing why they called, just feeling like calling.  Like my son did from college yesterday.  I had time to catch up with him late last night.

What’s going on concerns the subject of “power”.  And as the bottom falls out of our understanding of what it is and how to use it, the ground is also swelling under a totally *new* understanding of what it is and how to use it.  We’re swtiching from one energy flow to another on a very basic level.  Likened to swtiching from AC to DC currents.  Some of us call this level “quantum”.

Even my own energy field has been fluxuating.  Electronics and electrical appliances and equipment acting ~scewry~.  Blowing light bulbs all over the place.  I spent yesterday replacing a pressure swtich to our pump system…so we would have running water again.

Hear that?  I did it.

I was able to perform the task, with the arm and hand dexterity required.  My left arm and my left hand.    The ones that used to be numb and paralyzed, then operated only under severe pain.   And I did it without feeling any pain or discomfort at all.

that’s not all that has changed…

I am taking my walks now, without tears streaming down my face from the pain in my legs.  It simply happened all of a sudden, ~this~ week.  I can walk all the way to my destination of the bend in the river and back without stopping to rest until the pain subsides.  There and back…NO pain.

And the reason why my son and other people have called me, is because they *know*, I *know* what is happening and how to understand it.

I am going to speak for all the people in our world that have never ‘qualified’ for credit.  The ones of us that did not meet the “conditions”.

Since the markets have been fueled by credit demand, they have responded to only fulfilling the desires of those who have it and use it, while a vast percentage of our populations’ basic needs have been ignored.  Like a basic need for water.

When our pipes started flowing with water that tasted ‘bad’, how did we respond?

We responded by creating an industry that sold bottled water fit to drink.  Which in turn has created further challenges in disposing of the empty plastic bottles, as well as, all the costs of the materials for the plastic itself, and the energy expended in the production of said plastic bottles.

Which also left a lot of people stuck with the awful tasting water coming out of municipal pipes.

BECAUSE this was the way we RESPONDED to our need for water, ~now~ more and more of us are going to be stuck drinking the awful tasting water coming out of our pipes, UNTIL SUCH TIME as the problem is addressed that satifies the need of the many.  It’s simply a matter of HOW many it is going to take until such time as we decided to RESPOND differently to the problem.

HINT.  HINT.

Take PROFIT out of the picture when it comes to our water supply.

How about that scare a few months ago involving our pet food?    Ever take a look at how MANY brand names were effected?   ALL coming from the same plant?

Did it even dawn on us to question WHY we needed ALL those brands of essentially a lot of the same thing?

Last but not least I ask…

Wouldn’t it cost a lot less and get us a lot further, if we based our markets on the SPIRIT of Cooperation, rather then Competition?

After we walk the mile in another’s moccasins, we end up *knowing* the value of a good pair of walking shoes…ones with support.

Every day it seems I hear some moron on TV talking about how our nations’ security depends on oil. I understand the relics in the oil industries’ security is tied to oil but not this country’s. To even sell that idea to the American public is a betrayal of the public Trust.

Trust, now that’s a word, isn’t it? What’s happening to all that Trust now? The Trust we misplaced in others?

I think we could use a reminder of exactly Who we ARE.

We’re A M E R I C A N S!!!!!!!!!!!!

What follows is a speech given on July 4, 1946…

“I propose today to discuss certain elements of the American character, which have made this nation great. It is well for us to recall them today, for this is a day of recollection and a day of hope.

A nation’s character, like that of an individual, is elusive. It is produced partly by things we have done and partly by what has been done to us. It is the result of physical factors, intellectual factors, and spiritual factors. It is well for us to consider our American character, for in peace, as in war, we will survive or fail according to its measure.

Our government was founded on the essential spiritual idea of integrity of the individual. It was this spiritual sense which inspired the authors of the 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 inalienable rights.”

Inspired by a deeply spiritual sense, this country, which has ever been devoted to the dignity of man, which has ever fostered the growth of the human spirit, has always met and hurled back the challenge of those deathly philosophies of hate and despair. We have defeated them in the past; we will always defeat them.

Another element in the American character that I would bring to your attention this morning is the idealism of our people. This idealism, this fixed regard for principle, has been an element of the American character from the birth of this nation to the present day.

In recent years, the existence of this element in the American character has been challenged by those who seek to give an economic interpretation to American history. They seek to destroy our faith in our past so that they may guide our future. These cynics are wrong.

In Revolutionary times, the cry “No taxation without representation” was not an economic complaint. Rather, it was directly traceable to the eminently fair and just principle that no sovereign power has the right to govern without the consent of the governed. Anything short of that was tyranny. It was against this tyranny that the colonists “fired the shot heard ’round the world.”

Woodrow Wilson’s idealism was the traditional idealism of America. To such a degree was this true that he was able to say, “Some people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.”

The idealism with which we had entered the battle made the subsequent disillusionment all the more bitter and revealed a dangerous facet to this element of the American character, for this bitterness, a direct result of our inflated hopes, brought a radical change in our foreign policy

We failed to make the adjustment between what we had hoped to win and what we actually could win. Our idealism was too strong. We would not compromise. It is now in the postwar world that this idealism–this devotion to principle–this belief in the natural law– will meet its greatest trial. But, if we remain faithful to the American tradition, our idealism will be a steadfast thing, a constant flame, a torch held aloft for the guidance of other nations.

It will take great faith.

Our idealism, the second element of the American character, is being severely tested. Now, only time will tell whether this element of the American character will be true to its historic tradition.

The third element of the American character that I would bring to your attention this morning is the great patriotic instinct of our people. This American patriotism has always had as its core a strange and almost mystical love of the land.

Early in our history we acquired, as James Truslow Adams has pointed out, “a sense of unlimited energy face to face with unlimited resources.”

The American character has been not only spiritual, idealistic, and patriotic, but because of these it has been essentially individual. The right of the individual against the State has ever been one of our most cherished political principles.

The American Constitution has set down for all men to see the essentially Spiritual and American principle that there are certain rights held by every man which no government and no majority, however powerful, can deny.

Conceived in Grecian thought, strengthened by ethics, and stamped indelibly into American political philosophy, the right of the individual against the State is the keystone of our Constitution. Each man is free.

He is free in thought.

He is free in expression.

He is free in worship.

To us, who have been reared in the American tradition, these rights have become part of our very being. They have become so much a part of our being that most of us are prone to feel that they are rights universally recognized and universally exercised. But the sad fact is that this is not true. They were dearly won for us only a few short centuries ago and they were dearly preserved for us in the days just past. And there are large sections of the world today where these rights are denied as a matter of philosophy and as a matter of government.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. It was the price yesterday. It is the price today, and it will ever be the price.

The characteristics of the American people have ever been a deep sense of Spirit, a deep sense of idealism, a deep sense of patriotism, and a deep sense of individualism.

Let us not blink the fact that the days which lie ahead of us are bitter ones.

May God grant that, at some distant date, on this day, and on this platform, the orator may be able to say that these are still the great qualities of the American character and that they have prevailed.”

John F. Kennedy