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GOP’s Jim DeMint is right. The Republican Party is dead if it doesn’t change its tactics. We want our country back. There are a great many gurus who possess the secrets of a life of bliss. It doesn’t matter what they call it, it’s our conscious connection with universal consciousness that leads us to our bliss.

Is my imagination running wild or is my awareness expanding? I’ve a story that has yet to be told, to the benefit of our politicians. It can’t be told in a few words, but if you will bear me out, my story may expand your conscious awareness and save America from the misguided in control.

My telephone rang, my wife calling from her work place to tell me to turn on our TV. I was horrified at what I saw. That terrible day for the American people is now brought back to mind by the flap over building a mosque near Ground Zero, which has nothing to do with freedom of religion or bigotry and everything to do with the arrogance of those we elect to high office. Thousands of Muslims danced in the streets over the 9-11 event. Certain politicians, those of the liberal persuasion, have been painting a phony picture ever since 9-11. Along with this, they have an agenda to transform America into something most Americans could not recognize. What is going on? Most Americans smell a rat.

Being retired and nothing better to do with my time, in May 2001, I started writing my memoirs. It was like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle. The September 11^th event put in place the Phoenix legend, a bird that after a life of several hundred years immolated itself on a pyre and from the ashes came a new life—bringing the thought of after the calamity hope and renewal.

My memoirs began with my decision to take on Uncle Sam over the constitutionality of federal income tax—in its implementation, not per se. I was flying with eagles. I had a bigger than life calling. At the time, my business was on the rocks and my wife was divorcing me. Ever since that time, in 1973, instead of going to the dogs and blaming the world for my misfortune, my spiritual guides have been directing my life. But who in his right mind would challenge Uncle Sam on the income tax? I went on Edward S. Corwin’s The “Higher Law,” Background of American Contitutional Law, America on might makes right. I won. Had America gone on the “Higher Law,” America would not now be going to the dogs. It’s not too late. Everyone reading this, where there is life there is hope.

Coincidentally, on Good Friday 1975, I drove out of my driveway and never returned. I drove from North Texas to South Florida, bought a live-aboard sailboat and set sail on the South Atlantic. Good Friday is a day Christians commemorate as the day Christ was crucified. I’m not a Christian so it was happenstance that I departed on Good Friday, but it ties in with the Phoenix legend. While I was at sea, miracles occurred. I don’t have to be a Christian to know Jesus’ message is the hope of the world. Since I’d been writing about God’s hand being on my wheel, naturally, the 9-11 event came into my thoughts. Was the 9-11 event, the same as the Good Friday event, a symbol of man defying his truth, the truth Jesus taught, over and over, ignoring the “Higher Law” over and over. Was I put here as a messenger?

In early May 1980, I was sitting at the bar of the Greenwood Inn in Portland, Oregon. I was there for the purpose of dancing off the extra pounds I’d been putting on. It beat other forms of exercise. The last thing I wanted was another wife. I’d had three bad marriages. I asked Karen for a dance. The music was fast and she was having trouble keeping with the beat. Normally, I didn’t sit with my dance partners.

The moment our hands connected, I felt Karen’s warmth. I suggested that we sit that dance out. Talk came easy. I felt as though I were talking with an old friend I’d not seen for a long time. I’d been thinking about hiking the mountain trails near Portland. I asked Karen if she would like to hike with me. She accepted my invitation, but she had already made plans to spend a week vacationing with her two daughters. We made a date to hike on May 18, 1980. The reason I remember the date is because that was the date Mt. St. Helens erupted.

Karen and I were sitting on a log chatting on a trail about 50 miles southeast of Mt. St. Helens. Karen blurted out that she wanted ours to be a “platonic relationship.” I laughed. I thought what a funny thing to say on our first date, hiking. I wasn’t at all out of line in my talk. At that very moment, we saw that the sky in the northwest was black. We hurried back to the car where we learned on the radio that Mt. St. Helens had erupted.

In short order, ours was more than a “platonic relationship.” We were made for each other. I learned what true love was about. Was the eruption yet another symbol of after the calamity hope and renewal, or am a reaching? You be the judge. Fifteen years after the calamity, a friend with an astrological compatibility program in his computer printed out our compatibility. In it I read, “The platonic thing was there from the start and there is a sense of the brotherly and sisterly between you. Even if lovers, you will always be first and foremost, good friends.” Our lives together keep getting better and better.

I have on my book shelves a number of books that connect me with a bigger than life self, including the Bible, books on astrology and numerology, and books on quantum physics. I’ve found hundreds of connections, too many to call it coincidence. On earth as it is in heaven, consciousness, I refer you to Genesis 1:26. “And God said, Let us make man in our image.” Who is us? What is our distinguishing characteristic? Why do we act like brutes? Aristotle, in The “Higher Law,” said, “to invest a man is to introduce a beast, as desire is something bestial. . .” We are blessed with reason. Aristotle: “law is reason without passion. . .” Our conscious awareness gives us dominion over all other life on the planet. The more power an individual has, the less consciously aware he becomes. Therefore, what God said was, “let you and I make man in our image.” Let us make use of this great power that saved my life.

In the Introduction of The Scofield Reference Bible, “the progressive order of the divine dealings of God with humanity, ‘the increasing purpose’ which runs through and links together the ages, from the beginning of the life of man to the end in eternity. Augustine said: ‘Distinguish the ages, and the Scriptures harmonize,’” think in these terms: We’ve drifted down the lazy river to the opening of two great rivers of thought. The choice is yours: Obama’s rewritten Constitution, which leaves out God-given rights, or the original Constitution, the one with which I beat Uncle Sam and went on to live a most rewarding life. Obama’s river has a waterfall, the other flowing smoothly.

In Jeanne Avery’s Rising Sign, under “Aquarius Rising,” she writes, “the individual (speaking of this individual, I’m Aquarius rising) has a unique approach to life that makes him somehow ‘different’ from other people. He may have a most unusual personality, or be so far ahead of his time that he is accused of being eccentric. . .The planet Uranus is on the ascendant of the chart of the United States. ” the planet Uranus is on the ascendant of my chart. Is there not a connection? Of course there is!

In Cosmos and Psyche, “distinguished philosopher and cultural historian Richard Tarnas demonstrates the existence of an astonishingly consistent correspondence between planetary alignments and the archetypal patterns of human history.” We read, under “World Wars, Cold War, and September 11,” that the unfavorable alignments of Saturn and Pluto have brought about “the destruction of an earlier mode of life that in retrospect may seem to have been marked by widespread indulgence, decadence, naiveté, denial, and inflation.” We further read, under “The Saturn Pluto Cycle,” that between November 2008 and August 2011 Saturn and Pluto were in unfavorable alignment.”

In Astrologer’s Handbook, Frances Sakioan and Louis S. Acker write, under “Saturn trine Pluto” (a trine is the most favorable of alignments), “This trine gives the natives the ability to understand the laws by which subtle forces are organized. . .” On my chart Saturn is trine Pluto. President Obama was elected in November 2008, under an unfavorable alignment of Saturn and Pluto. Things are not going well for Obama. My life is as good as it gets. Does this not connect? Of course it does. Let you and I make man in our image.

We read that we are leaving the Age of Pisces. Pisceans, we read, are extremely responsive to the thoughts and feelings of others. They desperately want to do the right thing, but as a rule they do not have strong willpower. They are easily influenced by external factors, such as those loons’ idea that freedom of religion gives Muslims the right to build a mosque near ground zero. No question about it; they have the “legal” right, but “legal” is merely the form of law. Hitler was “legal.” Let us make man in our image.

The symbol of Pisces is two attached fish swimming in opposite directions, making the statement that they have duality of emotions. What’s in their emotions we need to know that they are not telling us? Is it fear? Say astrologers, they must learn to stand alone and face the unknown with a simple faith.

We read that we are entering the Age of Aquarius. Aquarians, we read, are individuals born under the sign of brotherhood and fraternity. They have as their symbol the water-bearer. We read that Aquarians are eccentric and are determined and stubborn in their beliefs. They dislike hypocrisy in any form. We read that Aquarians operate as equals among equals; that they are not dependent on their environments for their security, because they derive this from being in the company of others.

In The Physics of Consciousness, under “A God for Tomorrow,” Evan Harris Walker writes, “it has only been with the advent of quantum theory that we have discovered proof that we exist as something more than pieces of matter. Does this not connect with making man in our image? Of course it does. In the development of quantum theory, the observer emerges as a co-equal in the foundry of creation. . . Consciousness, the substance of this newfound reality that defines the observer, has fundamental existence. It is the quantum mind that is the basic reality.”

in Numerology and The Divine Triangle, Faith Javane and Dusty Bunker write that as my life lesson number, “You are here to use and to develop your mind.” Does that not apply to making man in our image? Of course it does.