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Courageously Approaching Peace of Mind

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Mental SpiritualitySome of my readers have expressed concern about the tone of recent articles. They are concerned that I’m roaming too far from providing Peace of Mind News into providing stories laced with conspiracy theories and warmongering.

Today, I provide a little perspective.

This website is not designed to report on peaceful experiences.

The reason is simple.

Peace of Mind is not the result of peaceful experiences. It is the result of responding peacefully to whatever you experience. Sometimes, those experiences are anything but peaceful.

In addition, I believe that a peaceful response requires knowledge and understanding.

Sometimes, this knowledge and understanding is disturbing.

This is most evident when we realize how we have accepted the messages given to us by religion, media, and government. This has programmed us to think and believe a certain way.

This belief system has programmed our emotions to respond a certain way.

This programming permeates our lives and influences the way we act from the bedroom to the board room and everywhere in between.

When we observe an event, we frame it within this belief system.

We see other nations as our enemies. We see disease as fighting germs. We see money as evil. We see traditional education as the only way to learn. The list goes on and on.

This belief system is the source of much of our planet’s drama.

Ironically, it provides stability for most of our fellow humans.

Unfortunately, this stability is built upon the lie of duality.

I believe one of my roles in writing about Peace of Mind is to expose this lie. This includes writing about so-called “conspiracy theories” and explaining warmongering.

Let’s look closer at those two terms.

The term “conspiracy theory” has been used to label evidence that doesn’t agree with “official stories.” It implies that people are crazy if they believe this evidence. It distracts from the facts and, in many cases, is all that is needed to keep people from considering them.

Since, the truth of unity is often within that evidence, Labeling that information a conspiracy theory is a smoke and mirrors act, used to keep the world in duality.

Every time I have honestly investigated the evidence behind conspiracy theories, I find compelling information for unity that is often difficult to refute.

Therefore, I often write about this evidence.

Since duality is the root cause of war, much of this evidence is about “warmongering.”

The marketing efforts and lies used to propagate war use terms such as “freedom,” peace through strength,” and “democracy.” This is part of the programming that keeps humanity entrapped in fear and destruction. This is how we are programming to think, feel, and believe a certain way.

This belief system, built on a lie, is crumbling.

When a person discovers this for the first time, he loses stability. Often, this stability is something he has stood upon for decades.

This disrupts his Peace of Mind.

This unresolved state opens a path for questioning everything. It is within that questioning that truth appears. As truth appears, Peace of Mind may be built upon it.

I believe it is foolish to ignore this process.

Therefore, I step into the role of pointing out the lie behind that belief system. I rip apart established programming by pointing out the truths within conspiracy theories and warmongering techniques.

Like I said, this disrupts stability. It disrupts one’s underlying beliefs. It even temporarily disrupts Peace of Mind.

It opens the mind to receive the truth of unity, the only place where permanent Peace of Mind resides.

I readily admit this is a mental exercise within a spiritual journey.

Some readers want to know why I don’t focus more on the spiritual part of it.

The reason is simple.

It is difficult to accept a spiritual truth when much of what we have been taught teaches an opposite viewpoint. Therefore, we must present information that mentally frames the truth of unity because, for many people, they will not accept a spiritual truth any other way.

Using Forest Fires as Terrorism

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Yesterday, I briefly mentioned the story in an Al Qaeda magazine that contained instructions on how to use forest fires in the Western United States as a terrorist tactic.

The story especially caught my attention because I live in the Southwestern United States, just a few miles from a National Forest.

Forest FireIn addition, it brought back memories of last summer when a large Arizona wildfire, more than 250 miles away, sent smoke into the valley we call home. The haze blocked out the sun and reduced visibilities to less than a quarter mile.

There were other fires too. One was fifty miles northeast of our home, in the Santa Fe Mountains. The other was forty miles away, in the Jemez Mountains, and on the edge of Los Alamos National Laboratory, a nuclear lab.

My office has two windows on the north wall. I work facing those windows and, for almost a month last summer, I only had to look up to see smoke from each fire framed within each window.

It was also last summer that I heard sirens and realized smoke was billowing from a source to my east, much closer to my location. I quickly put on my shoes, made sure the water hoses were attached to their bibs, and grabbed a pair of gloves and spray nozzles. A fire fighter friend had told me that a mist of water was the best way to fight fire and I wanted to be ready. Officials quickly extinguished the outbuilding fire before it spread.

I was grateful for their quick response.

I live beside the Sandia Mountains and those who live here know that a well-placed fire would cause great destruction. The United States Forest Service (USFS) has allowed dead trees to build a tinderbox on the east side of Albuquerque. The USFS is too understaffed to clear the underbrush and there are draconian penalties if citizens remove the dead wood.

The same situation exists in the Manzano Mountains, southeast of the city. Those mountains border Kirtland Air Force Base, and Sandia National Laboratory, New Mexico’s other nuclear lab. They host empty nuclear silos – at least the general public has been told they are empty.

Except for a couple of relatively small fires, Albuquerque’s bordering mountains have avoided fire damage during the twenty-five plus years we have lived here.

You can see why the forest fire story caught my eye. I live beside a large tinderbox, overdue for a fire, close to a population of a million people, within a short distance of nuclear laboratories and their storage facilities.

There was another reason the story earned my attention.

It doesn’t take much imagination to see a pattern similar to 2001.

There was a major event on 9/11, done in coordination with anthrax attacks. Everything was blamed on Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

As I have shown in previous articles, Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda are CIA operatives.

An investigation of the anthrax attacks confirms CIA involvement. The evidence links the anthrax to a CIA contractor. This contractor created the anthrax strain used in the attacks, quite likely at the request of the CIA. Some sources claim that contractor was the ONLY source of that particular strain.

Anthrax was being promoted as a terrorism threat prior to 9/11.

It appears that Chicago is setting up as a major event, comparable to 9/11.

Based on the mainstream media promotion, it is reasonable to assume that the follow-up acts of terrorism would be major forest fires in the Western United States.

Said another way, New York is to Chicago as anthrax is to forest fires.

I could be wrong about all of this and I hope that I am.

However, if the pattern holds, we will see a major false flag event this weekend in Chicago followed by forest fires in the Western United States.

What is the peaceful response?

Remain aware of how the current military power structure manipulates terrorist activities to stir up fear and create a need for the products and services they offer. Understand that any dramatic weekend events are the last violent jerks of this dying power structure.

And, if you live in the Western United States, keep your shoes, gloves, water hoses, and spray nozzles close at hand.

The Arrests are NOT Necessary

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In the midst of all the stories about false flag events, mass arrests, bank failures, and currency collapses, I’m greatly encouraged by another theme I see in current news.

Several stories from insiders say the mass arrests may NOT be necessary.

This doesn’t mean the financial transition isn’t necessary.

It means there is a better way to make this financial transition.

Personally, I have been struggling with using arrests to initiate the financial transition. I have been willing to support it with the hope that this would be the last time force would ever need to be used.

However, I felt like a hypocrite for doing so.

I believe our world is moving towards world peace.

I believe a financial transition away from fiat currency into system that uses real assets is the next step.

I believe a peaceful world does not include forceful actions. We do not get to peace via war.

FreedomNow that I’m hearing we can have a financial transition without force, I’m elated.

The solution is quite simple. The parties in the various lawsuits make a lawful agreement and keep it. If this happens, en-FORCE-ment isn’t necessary.

We have assumed those who control The Fed will resist this financial transition. We have assumed they would need to be forced from their belief system. It is time we release these assumptions.

Every day, I read reports of people who say, “My eyes have been opened to the truth of….” Then, they list topics such as how war is used to create markets for certain businesses or how currency isn’t a real asset. They understand these things must change for us to experience world peace. If those people’s eyes can open, why can’t our leaders’ eyes leaders open?

Several years ago, I moved from a belief system of judgment and punishment to one of love and acceptance. I moved from a belief system of acquiring massive wealth to one of seeing the wealth around me and realizing I have what I need each day. If my eyes can open, why can’t our leaders’ eyes leaders open?

Those who have selfishly used the world’s assets are just as capable of changing as anyone is.

What will it take for this to happen?

Malcolm Gladwell says it takes about ten percent of humanity to create The Tipping Point for an idea. That means seven hundred million people have to be convinced of the idea of world peace before we can experience it. I suspect ten percent of the world’s population understands our current situation. However, seven hundred million is a large number.

Greg Braden says the number needed for change is less, much less.

His documented research shows that if the square root of one percent of the population is activity involved in prayer or a similar spiritual exercise towards a peaceful goal, peace happens. In other words, it only takes about 8400 praying people to create peace for seven billion people.

Is it possible that, as things have heated up over the past few months, more and more people are focusing their attention on creating a peaceful transition?

Is it possible that, as we acquiesce to the need for a new financial system, we are releasing the fear of rioting and martial law?

Is it possible that we are about to walk away from the point of destroying our world?

It appears that, collectively, we are closing in on this number of people. In fact, based on the changes we are experiencing and the messages coming to the surface, we may already be there.

After all, if what Braden says is true, 8400 people collectively holding a vision of world peace, brought about through a financial transition, is all it would take.

Arrests would not be necessary, rioting and martial law would not happen, and we could make this transition in a peaceful manner.

Starting today, I’m seeing that vision, sending energy to it, and manifesting it from the spiritual realm to the physical realm. I’m holding space for more eyes to open.

I believe the signs of this weekend’s government meetings and solar eclipse indicate we we are at a crucial time in our evolution.

I believe we have the power to choose how this ends.

I believe that, as 8399 other people join in this effort, we will combine with the change energy of the upcoming weekend and move bravely into a peaceful society.

Preparing for TAP

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I used yesterday’s article to list the players in what I call “The Abundance Plan” (TAP).

What I didn’t say in that article was that I initially learned of these people through a variety of sources. Then, I watched as they found one another and began to coordinate their efforts to work together on TAP.

I recognize The Law of Attraction at work in their lives. I believe this verifies their message.

Even though each person’s perspective may be slightly different from the other, each person’s goal is to create prosperity and world peace. This is the primary reason they interest me.

Abundance PlanIn addition, the longer I study TAP, the more I understand it. The more I understand it, the more it resonates with me. My sense is that TAP is about to receive “the green light.” When it does, things will change dramatically. The size of this event will feel like 9/11 or, for those who are old enough to remember it, the JFK assassination.

(NOTE: I’ve provided a summary of background material about TAP in other articles on this site. David Wilcock’s website has much more detailed information. If you are reading my writing for the first time, I encourage you to use those sources to do your research. I will use future articles to review and update this information.)

(ANOTHER NOTE: Until TAP is implemented, I have other work responsibilities that require my time. Therefore, I only write one 500-700 word article each day. Once I receive word that TAP has started, I will devote most of my work day to writing about it.)

For today, I believe the priority is preparedness.

Here is the latest information, as I understand it, and what we can do to prepare.

There will soon be an enforcement action taken against The Federal Reserve and related international banks. This action will close down those banks. This will force fiat currencies and all related debt to devalue to zero.

It will also result in the arrests of numerous people who have run this system.

There will be a warning issued 24 hours prior to this action. I have networked with those who will make this announcement. I will re-post it on this website.

Once this action has begun, bank products and services such as credit cards, debit cards, and electronic transfers will not be available. These will remain unavailable during a transitory time as a new economic system is put into place.

Utility services should operate during this time. This includes electricity, gas, phone, cable, internet, water, and sanitation.

Of course, if you are a regular reader of this site, you know that this information isn’t new. I have been writing about it for several months.

However, what IS new is that I have seen news stories, both in mainstream media and in other sources, over the past few days that indicate most, if not all, of the pieces are in place for this to happen.

My sense is that this will happen in May and could happen this week.

Please understand this a hunch based on my research and my putting together of the pieces. No one else has publicly announced a date for this action.

What is the peaceful response?

  1. Maintain Peace of Mind so you can connect with your intuition and make wise decisions.
  2. Become informed through knowing what is taking place and why.
  3. Stockpile 2-4 weeks of basic necessities. This includes food, water, paper supplies, and Federal Reserve Notes. (Even though FRNs will eventually be worth nothing, you should be able to trade them for basic supplies during this transition.)
  4. Maintain a full tank of gas and be ready to travel if necessary, especially if you live in an urban area.

I will explain why I believe these are prudent acts and what recent news stories have to say about this during tomorrow’s article.

A Peaceful Response to Truth

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Yesterday marked a turning point for me.

As I have said many times, I produce this site for me. I write about things that puzzle me so I can become clear about them. I now see that that the knots I wrote about yesterday were the ones in my stomach. I had received information about 9/11and I wasn’t accepting it. The implications were almost too much to bear.

After writing yesterday’s article, after listening to Thursday night’s discussion between Bill Wood and Drake, after listening to David Wilcock interview Winston Shrout, and after last night’s Peace of Mind News discussion group, I realized that I was the one having trouble digesting the truth of my writing topics.

That realization hit me during last night’s debate about whether all of this was real.

Truth handsI heard myself say, “I believe this is real. I think the plan we are hearing about from Drake is real and that it will take place as he says, unless we find a better way to accomplish the task.”

As I accepted the truth of our current situation, I felt the knots in my stomach loosen.

In addition, I suddenly wondered if German citizens felt this way when they realized what their country had done during the holocaust. Did they have trouble accepting the truth? Did they deny it? Did they ignore it? Did they say, “I have a family to support, just let me go to work and do that. I don’t want to think about it?”

I’m not being overdramatic here.

Once I accept that 9/11 was an inside job, funded by the CIA, that used secret energy technology, I must accept many other things about our nation. This includes the motivations for all of the wars dating back at least a hundred years and possibly back to the American Revolution.

The Holocaust, as horrible as it was, is just a fraction of the world’s human misery.

Yes, I believe the United States has participated, either covertly or overtly, in initiating numerous false flag operations through history that had led to the loss of millions of lives.  I’ve come to accept this as fact. This is my perception, based on the information I have researched and discovered.

What is the peaceful response?

I believe there are two actions that we can take.

The first is to understand Universal Laws and implement those in our daily lives. Different spiritual traditions describe them in different manners. I describe them as The Law of Miracles, The Law of Attraction, and The Law of Abundance. I teach about them in Complete Peace of Mind Training, a ten hour video series that is available through The Peace of Mind Training Institute.

By understanding these laws, an individual can frame news and life in a peaceful perspective.

The second action is to become informed about what is taking place in our world today.

It is to accept the evidence before us, without denial, and realize the implications.

This evidence indicates that bankers and powerbrokers greatly influence the world’s governments. They manipulate economies, governments, and militaries for their financial benefit.

It is time for this to change.

In the past, this change has been attempted through the kind of war where bullets fly, people die, and buildings fall. This enabled the bankers and powerbrokers to grasp greater power and control.

This new war must not be fought be that way. That is not the peaceful response.

The peaceful response is to see this war as an infowar. It is one where each person must understand how the world operates. It is one where each person must understand the plan to change this method of operation. With this understanding, the peaceful response that leads to world peace will be obvious.

I will describe what I understand about it, including the most recent updates, in tomorrow’s article.

The Indigestion of Truth

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I wrote yesterday that if we accept Michael Ruppert’s assertions that the CIA was complicit in the 9/11 attacks and we agree with Judy Wood that the twin towers were turned to powder by something other than fire, bombs, or thermite, we have a problem that solves itself.

The problem is that we are running out of petroleum resources. The solution is the energy technology that caused the building to disappear.

If this is the case, I would expect us to be jumping up and down at the good news proclaiming, “The world’s energy problems are solved! Long live free energy!”

However, we are not.

Upset stomachWe know that if we substantiate Ruppert’s writings and Wood’s research, we imply many other things must be true too. Those things are difficult to stomach.

For example, if the CIA planned the attacks on 9/11, one would have to wrestle with the following facts:

  • A United States intelligence agency killed more than three thousand American citizens on American soil. This resulted in a long-term war on foreign soil that killed 1.5 Million Iraqis. This doesn’t count those killed in other countries.
  • One of the motivations for these deaths was acquiring the control of Middle Eastern oil wells.
  • Another motivation was to prevent the new Taliban leadership from restricting heroin trade out of Afghanistan.
  • A third motivation was to create business opportunities for military and industrial corporations through first, destroying those countries and then, rebuilding them. Since the destruction included acts that would cause emotional upset to those nations’ citizens, the military would need to stay in place to protect those doing the rebuilding.

As a United States citizen, those things are difficult for me to stomach.

They indicate that our country’s government is involved in killing for the sake of oil and drugs. They demonstrate that the drug trade is important to our government. This raises questions.

Questions such as:

  • What else will the CIA do on American soil?
  • Is the CIA bringing drugs into the United States?
  • Is this being done to fund the CIA through the selling of drugs?
  • Is this being done to support the prison industry through the enforcement of drug laws?
  • Is this being done to create cash reserves for banks through the laundering of drug money?
  • What would happen to the banks if they didn’t have this cash?

Emotionally and psychologically, this is difficult to stomach.

If a secret energy technology was used on the towers, a person would have to accept the following facts:

  • Someone, either within or without the United States government, has a weapon so powerful that it can surgically remove the world’s tallest buildings.
  • The energy in this weapon literally changes the composition of certain materials. Not only does it turn building materials into powder. It also causes automobiles to rust, almost instantly.
  • This energy could be used for positive purposes such as the production of electricity. However, it has been hidden while we attempt to continue to run the world’s electricity using petrol.

This raises questions such as:

  • Who controls this energy?
  • What is it?
  • Why is it being hidden?

Emotionally and psychologically, this is difficult to stomach too.

However, if we all agreed that Ruppert’s well-documented conclusions are accurate and if we all saw what Judy Wood shows us is obvious, we would have to look at all of those things.

This would be difficult, extremely difficult, to stomach.

This explains, at least partially, why many people won’t look at this information. They won’t even consider it.

They are afraid they will discover it is true.

Then, they would have to respond.

If you have a knot in your stomach, you know exactly what I mean.

A Problem That Resolves Itself

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I believe that within every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure is something of equal, and usually greater, positive benefit. My observation is that the greatest obstacle to this benefit is one’s resistance to receiving it.

This raises the question, “What benefit from 9/11 are we resisting?”

My latest reading material is Michael Ruppert’s Crossing the Rubicon. I introduced Ruppert a few days ago in another article.

Ruppert, a former LAPD detective, uses Rubicon to thoroughly connect the dots between oil, drugs, money, government, banks, and the 9/11 attacks. There is no doubt in his mind that the CIA, with the endorsement of top United States government officials, orchestrated 9/11 to accomplish several goals. These include controlling the diminishing oil supply, ensuring liquid cash from the drug trade, and an excuse for domestic repression during an anticipated resource shortage.

The premise of Ruppert’s thoughts centers on a concept he calls “Peak Oil.” It is the idea that mankind has passed the time of peak oil production. He argues that consumption of oil continues to grow while production has started to decline. He believes this will eventually lead to the collapse of humanity.

Of course, Ruppert has his detractors. Google his name with the word “crazy” and more than three hundred thousand hits appear. If we look into those criticisms, it is difficult to find any that dispute Ruppert’s research.

The reason is simple. Ruppert, like Judy Wood, carefully documents his statements.

While reading the first hundred pages of Rubicon, I noticed something else.

SolutionsIf we link Ruppert’s research with Judy Wood’s discoveries, we get a problem that resolves itself.

Rupport claims government used 9/11 to gain control of oil supplies and liquid cash from the drug trade while implementing domestic repression during upcoming resource shortages.

Wood implies government used an alternative energy source on 9/11.

Do you see what I see?

Wood’s evidence opens the way to overcome Rupport’s resource shortages. It makes control of oil and cash a non-issue.

If the energy source that turned the twin towers to powder really exists, – and we have to assume it does because of what happened – why couldn’t it be used to resolve the forecasted energy shortages?

If an energy field can be created that turns one million tons of building materials into dust and causes automobiles to spontaneously combust, why can’t it be used to generate electrical power?

If this energy source could be used instead of petrol, the United States military would no longer need to control foreign oil fields. This would free financial resources and cash reserves to be used on sustenance items.

Is it possible that the destruction on 9/11 has distracted us from the bigger story?

Is it possible that the disappointment and heartbreak of 9/11 holds something of greater, positive benefit?

I believe it does.

I believe that positive benefit is an alternative energy source – and possibly several – that, if made available for the use of the general public, could turn into the so-called “free energy system” that many people claim has been hidden from the general public.

Ruppert clearly shows us that government officials were complicit in the acts on 9/11.

Wood clearly shows us that an alternative energy source was used on 9/11.

Now, it is up to the general public to take this information, hidden in plain sight, and find a way to implement it in our day to day lives.

In spite of all of this information, it appears we are hesitant to receive this benefit.

Why?

I’ll look at the reasons in tomorrow’s article.

R.I.P MIC

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Regular readers of this site may be puzzled about why I took yesterday’s column to forecast the demise of the National Football League. After all, it isn’t football season and the NFL really isn’t on the radar of most people who read my writings.

I wrote the column to make a point.

I believe that how we do anything is how we do everything. I see that our leisure activities reflect our personal philosophy. An event in the sports world is an indicator of how we feel about things in the non-leisure world.

Therefore, the outcry over the violence for the sake of money in the NFL indicates that our society is reaching a tipping point regarding violence for the sake in money in other parts of life too.

money and gunThis includes a league that is even more profitable than the NFL. It is called the Military Industrial Complex (MIC). This league orchestrates and manages the game of war.

Obviously, war is brutal. From my perspective, there is no valid reason for war.

However, even those who believe war is viable would be shaken if they knew about the atrocities that happen outside of the “normal killing” of war. I believe this knowledge would cause such an outcry from the general public that, like with the NFL, the MIC would have to make major adjustments in the way war is played.

I believe the fact that these stories are coming to the surface indicates that war is headed down the same path as the NFL.

A few months ago, former Navy Seal Bill Wood, aka Bill Brockbrader, told us of his involvement in bombing “soft targets” in the time between the two Iraqi wars. This included the controversial destruction of a quiet little Iraqi village that ignited internal fights between these highly trained Special Forces units.

A local author, who is also my client, has written a book about his involvement in taking out soft targets during the cold war. More than fifty years later, the horrors of carrying out the assignment to blow up an orphanage still cloud his brilliant mind.

Another client has told me stories of a brother who is currently locked away so that he doesn’t tell about the atrocities he committed while employed by the United States military.

I have heard numerous other firsthand accounts of wartime destruction that had no military value.

In every situation, the MIC has covered up, denied, or twisted these stories.

After all, if the general public knew the truth, there would be outcry and lawsuits, just like there are in the NFL. The truth is hidden from us by the MIC-controlled mainstream media because the MIC has too much money to lose if the truth becomes public.

Therefore, when a platoon of up to twenty soldiers, supported by helicopters dropping chaff to hide them from ground attack, killed more than a dozen Afghanistan civilians, the official story, which borders on the impossible, was that a single gunman with mental and alcohol problems did the killing.

Afghani investigators were not given the opportunity to question the solder further. He was rapidly removed from the country and is reportedly being held in the United States.

News agencies that reported something other than the mainstream media story were quickly ostracized by the MIC and condemned for their “propaganda.”

In other words, the MIC, with the cooperation of mainstream media, hid facts and prevented investigation. They know that for the game of the war to be played and accepted by the general population, it must be less brutal. The MIC’s income stream depends upon it.

However, war, by definition, is brutal.

Therefore, the effort to make it less brutal, just like the effort to make the NFL less violent, is counterproductive.

As the truth of brutal acts for the sake of money comes to the surface, the MIC must face the consequences of its brutality.

At that point, the game will be over.

R.I.P NFL

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I love sports. I especially love team sports.

Football is one of my favorites. The strategy, the athleticism, and the pageantry make for exciting and spectacular events. Major college football taps into the pride and success of large alumni bases to fill huge stadiums on Saturdays. This one sport often produces enough revenue to support a school’s entire athletic department.

However, the real football money is in The National Football League (NFL). The NFL has managed its product and TV contracts to become the world’s most valuable sports league.

NFL ShieldThe NFL logo, what some call “The Shield,” has come to mean deep voiced announcers, communicating violent drama, played out on a one-hundred yard battlefield.

Loyal NFL fans pack stadiums in all types of weather to cheer on their hometown team. Those who can’t make it to the stadium watch games on their TVs, computers, and smart phones.

The NFL’s popularity has invaded Europe. At least one regular season game has been played in London during the past few seasons.

Super Bowl Sunday, the day of the NFL Championship game, has become an unofficial American holiday. The game has never been more popular or more profitable.

From my perspective, it never will be again.

May I be the first to say that The Shield is toast?

That’s right; the NFL is destroying itself.

The game has reached its apex and has begun its slide downhill into oblivion.

It will soon go the way of the bloody Roman Coliseum’s battles between man and beast and man and man.

There is no room for doubt. I absolutely believe the clock is approaching midnight for the NFL.

Here is why.

As much as I enjoy the strategy, the athleticism, and the pageantry, the game is about violence. It is about the big hits that take place as each team attempts to move the ball down the field.

These hits take an enormous toil on the body. Therefore, a few years ago, The Shield started fining players when they made big hits. As the same time, the NFL enacted rule changes to reduce the violence of the game.

More recently, the league has found itself embattled in a bounty controversy over teams rewarding players for injuring opponents. Coaches have been suspended and fined for motivating their players to make big hits on other teams’ key players.

The NFL has hypocritically reacted with shock to something that has been a part of the game from the beginning. The competition, the hits, and the injuries have always been there. The NFL has looked the other way for years.

Now, after several lawsuits from former players, The Shield has decided to address the issue of brutality in the game. The league is attempting to outlaw the violence in a game built on violence.

It is an impossible task that will eventually destroy the game.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining about any of these acts being taken by The NFL. After all, I believe in a peaceful world. I believe gentleness is preferable to force.

I’m just saying that The NFL is legislating away the very things that made it popular. It is reducing the game to something that it is not.

It is walking a tightrope between maintaining its popularity and avoiding lawsuits. I believe these lawsuits indicate that our society is tired of violence for the sake of violence.

The NFL will continue to adjust. The billions of dollars being made in the game motivate the league to balance a vicious game against reducing the violence.

This hypocritical practice will cause the game’s popularity to wane as the public realizes it is supporting senseless violence in the name of money.

At that point, the game will be over.

Utopian Differences

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Utopia CartoonA friend recently confided to me, “I’m afraid of utopia, especially if it is someone else’s idea of utopia.”

“Tell me more.”

“Well, what if that person’s idea of utopia is different from my idea and that person has bigger weapons? Isn’t that what happened in Russia?”

I realized those were valid questions.

My friend continued.

“I’d be happy if government would just get out of the way, let me live my life, let me do business with those I want to do business with, and leave me the hell alone. That would be utopia for me.”

I smiled.

I realized my friend was saying something profound.

A world of love and peace isn’t something that can be enforced upon a society. It is something that happens as each person practices love and peace.

The same is true for prosperity and freedom.

The same is true for openness and transparency.

The current internet excitement over the forecasted arrests that will remove those blocking our prosperity and holding us as slaves may be misplaced energy if we don’t already know how to live in a world of love and peace, prosperity and freedom, and openness and transparency.

Like the adult elephant that believes it is still held by a rope that bound it as a baby, if we don’t know how to step into freedom, we won’t.

Will we know how to respond if we suddenly have freedom?

Will we know how to respond if we suddenly have prosperity?

What would we do with our days if debt disappeared, the IRS closed, and technology allowed us to live at a fraction of the current prices?

Would we wait around for someone to tell us how to live their version of utopia?

Or, would we step into this new world with curiosity and courage?

Many of those who are excited about the potential arrests believe that our new leaders will be loving and benevolent. They anticipate help from beyond. They look for peaceful ETs to set up utopia.

What if their idea of utopia is different from ours?

Will the rules they establish for their utopia put us back into slavery and poverty?

The answer is obvious. Utopia enforced by rules and regulations is not utopia.

It is totalitarianism.

Utopia only comes through freedom. It comes as each person releases the need to infringe upon the rights of another person. It comes as we provide true value in our financial exchanges.

For this to take place, we can no longer have police states and fiat currency. One person can no longer enforce his will upon another person.

The forecasted arrests are important only to the degree that they allow each person to practice the privilege of taking responsibility for his or her world and living a livelihood of love and peace, prosperity and freedom, and openness and transparency.

May I suggest that we go ahead and live this way now? Who knows? If enough of us live this way today, it is possible the arrests may not even be necessary.