I’m way out of the mainstream. I make connections most don’t make.
In particle physics the Standard Model is a theory on almost everything. It’s the basis for building more exotic models which include extra dimensions and fundamental interactions of the simplest of particles—quarks, leptons, and gauge bosons. I’m referring to the way they communicate with one another, without the limitations of space and time: instantaneously.
Renown quantum physicist Richard Feynman was heard to say, “I think I can safely say that no one understands quantum mechanics. Do not keep asking yourself, if you can possibly help it, ‘but how can it be like that?’ Nobody knows how it can be like that.”
That is, nobody but Quantum physicist Evan Harris Walker, who says, “But 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. In the development of quantum theory, the observer emerges as a co-equal in the foundry of creation. . . The observer interacts with matter. Consciousness, the substance of this newfound reality that defines the observer, has fundamental existence. It is the quantum mind that is the basic reality. . .”
“I think one thing at least is certain: It is clear that consciousness can be broached scientifically. Consciousness exists. And for the first time, we understand what consciousness is. We can understand mind as including conscious experience and will. We can see how these fit into the physical processes in the brain and are involved in thinking, the data-processing of the synaptic junctions in the brain.”
Nobody knows how it can be like that because we are not supposed to think in the terms quantum physicist and brain doctor Walker lays out for us in The Physics of Consciousness. (He’s accused of trying to smuggle God into physics).
For convenience’s sake, we separate church and state. We separate science from religion. The “Higher Law” can’t be separated. What we’ve got in the law is now you see me now you don’t law, shell game law—for expedience’s sake. I come before you as a voice of experience (84 years) in the School of Hard Knocks.
I was born in the “Roaring Twenties.” Born in 1925, here’s an omen for you: the year Congress authorized the IRS to examine everyone’s personal records for income tax purposes, in 1925 only the very rich paid taxes. But the end justifies the means law got its foot in the American taxpayer’s door in 1925. The depression of 1920 was over, President Woodrow Wilson’s work, he was progressive in a big way—for big, oppressive government, Coolidge brought down the size of government, and taxes.
But, alas, I was age eight when the Great Depression of 1933 hit, said to be President Herbert Hoover’s work. Progressive President Franklin D. Roosevelt took the reins. The Great Depression lingered 11 years, until World War II put everyone to work again. And now, history repeating itself, President George W. Bush’s work brought us progressive President Barrack Obama. You picked the right time to lead us, Barrack, with Saturn in unfavorable alignment with Pluto, meaning just what we are seeing, great division.
However, we are leaving the Age of Pisces, whose symbol is two attached fish swimming in opposite directions, entering the Age of Aquarius, whose symbol is the water-bearer. I’m Aquarius rising. Astrologers say it means I could show the rest of humanity the way to their future. In my astrological chart, Saturn is trine Pluto. In Astrologer’s Handbook I read, “They are able to work slowly and make fundamental and irrevocable changes in their own and others’ lives. Often there is a sense of destiny or a peculiar karmic mission which they must fulfill.”
In numerology, I get the number “7” as my Life Lesson Number. “You are here to use and to develop your mind. . .You should learn to spend time by yourself, in the woods . . .” Karen and I now live in our dream home in the tall timber near Mt. Hood, Oregon. I spend a lot of my time thinking about my life, connecting events, and writing about them.
Amazing, isn’t it, how little we know. Consciousness exists, and some of us are conscious of what is taking place. It’s a matter of choice. By coincidence, when my ruling planet, Uranus, had transited to a position opposing itself when I was born, said to mean pressure to change, by coincidence, my business enterprise of 25 years and my second marriage were on the rocks. I was at a jumping off place and nothing to do but jump into the unknown.
By coincidence, I’d run across Edward S. Corwin’s The “Higher Law” Background of American Constitutional Law. I got the feeling that voices of the past were speaking to me, encouraging me to take action. And did I ever! I took the IRS to court on my own, without the help of a lawyer, claiming the IRS had unconstitutionally robbed me of my property. Imagine what would have happened in America if the courts had ruled in my favor? The courts and government, having painted themselves into a corner, rejected me. That didn’t stop me. I took the court record and IRS action to block me to The Palm Beach Post and got a front page story. Here is what the IRS told the world about the IRS.
“Holger Euringer, IRS pubic relations officer in Jacksonville, said last week that the agency had been wrong all along and that Smith soon would receive a letter of apology from the IRS district director.”
“’We did make numerous mistakes in the collection procedures.’ Euringer said. ‘We are very sorry and we apologize. We did not intend in any way to harass or intimidate him, but I can see why he might have that impression.”
“Court documents, IRS letters and Smith’s files tell a chilling story of IRS bumbling that began in 1975 when the agency disagreed with Smith on how much he owed in 1973 and 1974 taxes.”
“During the three years it took to get his suit settled, Smith said, the IRS improperly held $5,000 it owed him because of business related operating loss rebates. He said the IRS first applied part of that money to the erroneous assessment. He said he later was paid the full amount of the rebates.”
“Euringer said the IRS is not allowed to withhold refunds pending the outcome of court cases unless the total amount is applied to taxes owed.”
“If what he’s saying is correct, we were wrong,” he said.
“Then, in 1980, (after the Supreme Court threw out my constitutional claim) the IRS took a second look at Smith’s 1973 and 1974 tax returns and said he owed $2,556 plus interest. The IRS took that money out of proceeds from the sales of a condominium in Portland, Ore.”
“Smith said he told the IRS about the previous tax court decision and said he didn’t owe the money. The IRS stuck by it decision, and he filed a refund claim for the $2,556, which he said the IRS failed to answer.”
“Euringer, however, said the IRS rejected the claim, which allowed Smith to take the matter to court.”
“In 1983, Smith filed suit in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach to get the money back” (after I was turned down on a G.I. loan for a home, because I had an outstanding IRS tax lien against me).”
“But before the case could go to trial, according to documents from the tax division of the U.S. Justice Department, the division declared the $2,556 a wrongful levy (and the tax lien a wrongful tax lien. I got my G.I. loan approved).
Kayla Lettow, a tax auditor with the examination section of the agency’s Problems Resolution Office, said last week that the assessment was dropped because Oregon IRS revenue officer W. J. Manderfeld incorrectly analyzed Smith’s tax liability.” (Manderfeld also forgot to do away with the tax lien he filed after he lawlessly confiscated my property.)
“So on Nov. 28, 1984, Smith signed an agreement with Justice in which he dropped the suit in exchange for a refund of the $2,556, plus $1,675 in interest.”
“Smith said he waited for months, however, and no check came. So he reopened his suit. On March 11, 1985, U.S. District Court Judge James C. Paine ordered the IRS to pay us in 30 days.”
“Smith received a check for $4,231 on April 12, 1985, five months after the deal was made and only one day before the government would have been in contempt of Paine’s order.”
“On Nov. 5, the IRS issued a notice to Barnett Bank of Palm Beach saying it wanted the $960 in Smith’s bank account because he owed $961.70 on his 9774 return.”
“Euringer said the Nov 5 bank account levy was a mistake.”
I got my property back with interest, without apology, in fact, with more threats. The IRS, after 11 years of harassment, gave up, but later went after my wife, Karen, on a “mistake.” The unmerciful IRS, which is allowed unlimited mistakes—the taxpayer guilty until proven innocent—threatened to take our home and sell it to pay back taxes Karen did not owe. Roosevelt—our savior—gave us the end justifies the means law; in other words, might makes right, his so-called New Deal. It was as old as the hills. Our congressional representative intervened, stopped the IRS from putting us on the street on a “mistake,” but the strain was too much on we aging Americans. Karen underwent an operation for cancer and I was diagnosed with a heart condition.
Your government, after putting us through hell, now Obama driven, says we are throw-aways, too expensive to keep. We’re now going to ration health care. Obama’s new health care chief loves the British system. The American people, up to their eyeballs in debt, like there is no tomorrow, with an out of control government, are whistling Dixie.
In 1999, Karen and I sold out and hit the road in our RV. We traveled for nine years. The irony of it is that government entitlements now provide Karen and I our dream home. I’m a World War II veteran. I applied for and received disabled veteran’s pay, not to mention Social Security, and as a disabled veteran free health care—a tax free average American existence. God works in mysterious ways.
It had been 15 months since I’d applied for disabled veteran’s pay. Karen said, “Joe, I hate to think about living in our RV the rest of our lives.” When Karen spoke those words, the Veteran’s Administration was making its decision. A week later, I received written notice that I’d been accepted.
In The Scofield Reference Bible’s Introduction, I read, “The Dispensations are distinguished , exhibiting the majestic, 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.’”
Take your choice: the progressive order of the divine dealings of God with humanity, or progressive government. God doesn’t throw us away when we’re old and gray.
In numerology, I’m in my ninth and final cycle of life. “9 is selflessness and compassion. Encompassing a love for all, it desires to apply its energy to universal service. It bestows an impersonal but just view of life, one that is generous, benevolent and patient. This is the artist and thinker who has developed skills through the preceding cycles and is now ready to share his or her knowledge with the rest of the world.”
