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I only hope I'm as "with-it" in mind/body/spirit at her age. Or heck, I hope I'm even Here! She can still outrun and often out-think any of us. (She explains that with vertigo she can't walk slowly or she falls over, but she can run!) She and her husband of 2 years are both hale and happy together. The whole family showed up to celebrate–both sides–hers and his, and there were no less than FIVE parties celebrating the acknowledged "Queen of Meadowood".
]]>First of all, when dealing with planets as slow as Uranus and Pluto, there's no point in splitting hairs. You'll be seeing dates for the EXACT squares, meaning degrees, minutes, and seconds, but thinking you'll only be damaged by a steamroller if you're within a millimeter of it's center isn't a very practical way to look at things. Richard Tarnas demonstrates that for world events, a full 15 DEGREE orb is reliable. But for this purpose–for seeing the eye of the hurricane of global change, we'll work with degrees.
Starting in December, Uranus and Pluto square each other at 12 degrees, creating high intensity, but not yet touching the World Point. On the other hand, this is likely to be one of the more stressful holiday seasons we've had for a while.
The last week of February brings both planets to 14 degrees. By March 12 they'll both be at 15 degrees. This is a time to breathe deeply and remove unnecessary stressful items from your to-do list. Plenty of more important things will come up to replace them. When we think of global events; weather, climate change, volcanoes and earthquakes top the list. A war that involves the resources and humanpower of most of the world isn't off the table, but isn't specifically indicated. Global financial crises may show up after an un-noticed December event. Pluto will remain at this degree til mid-June, so tensions stay high, even though events may not be as spectacular as they are in March. Pluto will return to this degree for a few weeks starting 12/31/15, but after a few close calls in January, Uranus will have marched ahead, marking the end of this long crisis period.
As I've mentioned before, the Uranus-Pluto conjunction of the 60s did not resolve the issues faced at that time. Legislation for civil rights, the end of the Vietnam war, didn't occur for another few years. My personal sense of the timeline ahead suggests that 2018 will be the beginning of the turnaround and we won't be putting this era behind us til 2024. The 2020 and/or 2024 US presidential election may be of historic importance.
]]> I recall a time when someone told me "astrology can't work for me because 'I' wasn't born when my body was born. I'm a 'walk-in'".
She was telling me that the soul that came with her body left, (in what appears to be a death) and her soul took over the body at that point, so she wasn't "born" with the body.
I didn't argue with her. I could see she was invested in her viewpoint and I didn't need to make a point. But I can now.
Astrology speaks to the conditions of the physical world. When a body is born, that BODY is part of the physical world and is affected by the physical world, including the astrology when the body was born. A so-called 'walk-in' must agree to step into the fate of the body they were about to inhabit. The soul must adjust to the conditions of the body.
Swami Rama, an Oxford educated spiritual master, talks about this in his book Living with the Himalayan Masters. Swami Rama lived with cave-dwelling swamis from the age of six until college, honoring a promise made by his parents. He recounts a visit with his teachers after graduating Oxford. There had been a terrible flood, and dead animals and humans were seen in the raging river that they were about to cross. One very elderly teacher said "Excuse me a minute" and jumped into the river. A few minutes later, a young handsome man walked out of the river and picked up the conversation where they'd left off. Swami Rama questioned him–was he still the revered teacher in a different body? The answer was "my old body was pretty worn out and I've still got a lot to do." (Living with the Himalayan Masters by Swami Rama)
Ohm Seti also experienced this, as described in the book The Search for Ohm Seti. Born in England in the late 19th or early 20th century (my memory needs a refresh), she fell down some steep stairs and apparently died at age 4. The family doctor pronounced her dead before she got up again and appeared to be fine. But from that day on, she was obsessed by Egypt, demanding to spend days and days at the Egyptology museums in London and learning the language of heiroglyphs. She was convinced she was the soul of a beloved mistress of Seti, an Egyptian pharoah. Her "memories" of the land, buildings, geography, and customs have been invaluable to archeologists and historians in locating and interpreting excavation sites.
When the physical body of someone we loves dies, we suffer a physical loss. Even while we know the spirit lives on, most of us are unable to communicate with that spirit and NONE of us are able to give and receive hugs and physical comfort with the spirit. The physical loss is great, and always brings questions about what we might find beyond the threshold of death.
SO–I promised you a bibliography, and here it is:
Destiny of Souls by Michael Newton; In this book, psychologist Michael Newton continues to map the picture of the "between lives" period that he began in Journey of Souls. While the first book was more the geography and mapping feature, Destiny shows the decisions we make between lives that help us see the Meaning of our lives, and helps us understand the kinds of decisions we make before we even enter this life. In a similar vein, you might want to read the works of Raymond Moody including his book with Elizabeth Kubler Ross: Life after Life.
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife by Eban Alexander. In this book Alexander not only recounts the details of his profound experiences during a period in which he was in a coma and virtually braindead from an overwhelming brain infection. He also explores, with the help of other medical specialists, all the scientific and rational explanations that might say his experience was an artifact of his disease or medication. This is a powerful testimony to the power of spirit, written by someone who still lives in the rational scientific world, and manages to explain his knowledge of both to his lucky readers.
The Map of Heaven (second book by Eban Alexander) In some ways even better than the first. He goes through many philosophical traditions and the collected reports of many others who have "been there" to make the case that we are part of a vastness of love that we can only barely begin to imagine.
The Search for Bridey Murphy by Morey Bernstein. This un-put-downable book details the research into the roots of the tale of a young woman who remembers a life hundreds of years ago in Ireland more than she remembers her life today. Originally written in 1956, it's been reissued many times. A fascinating tale.
The Search for Om Sety by Jonathan Cott and Hanny el Zeini. This is a more recent book and one with more profound impact on the scientific world. This book recounts the life experiences of an Englishwoman who believes herself to be the reincarnation of the true-love of a great Egyptian Pharoah. It's a paranormal story, a love story (he physically reappears to her frequently and they continue their deep love affair), and a story of archaeology. Om Sety (as she called herself, following the tradition of naming oneself after one's spouse) understands the physical layout and cultural meaning of many of Egypt's ancient monuments, and made significant archeological contributions as she explained to archeologists where to find specific temples and the meanings of architectural symbols as they related to practices in the temples and other buildings. Her contributions to Egyptian archeology are considered to be vital and fundamental.
There are many many other books on these topics, but if you're just now turning in this direction I can't recommend any more than these.
Unfortunately, my recorder cut out prematurely. Sharon Werner, of ASA also recorded the lecture, and her recorder also cut out, but at least the thought left dangling in the recording got to its completion.
And I'll tell you there's this scientist, Nassim Haramein, and I've talked about him before. He has actually done the paper with the math approved by a physics journal. And the paper was considered, it was given the award for the best paper in the, like, 2013, I believe it was, physics conference in Europe. And he did the math proving the concept of the holographic universe, which is basically that the Universe is comparable to a giant hologram. And if you, if you break a holographic plate, each part of it doesn't have a part of the picture. Each part has the whole picture. It just loses detail. And his paper was basically each one of us IS the Cosmos. Each one of us is the Cosmos. Each one of us contains all of the knowledge in the Universe. And he makes a big point – and it applies very well to archetypes – he makes a big point of saying mostly scientists think of infinity as larger and larger and larger and larger and larger. But infinity goes the other way too: smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller. And every time you build that Hadron Collider bigger and you find a smaller thing, you realize there's something smaller and you're going to have to build it bigger. It's infinite. What are they wasting their energy on? There is just an infinity of "smallerness." And so what you can see in an astrological archetype – Tarnas talks about Jupiter and Saturn in reference to the Shakespeare plays – and he'll say, okay, King Lear and Hamlet – they have a mood about them. And that mood is dark and ponderous and heavy and with King Lear it's about age and with Hamlet's it's about death and dying, and these are Saturn archetypes. And Jupiter is like Midsummer Night's Eve, the Merchant of Venice. The comedies are mostly Jupiter plays. They're expansive, jovial – that's a nice Jupiter word, the jove word – they're Jupiter energy systems. And he [Tarnas] said, how are you going to define —-
For astrological details, check out the newsletter archives for the previous issue. Right now, I'm gonna focus on what it feels like. And remind you that all this energy is only HEIGHTENED by the eclipse cycle we're in this month and this year. BIG BIG stuff. This doesn't happen every century. Believe me. We're at the beginning of new-world-creation. OK, that's the good news. The middle section below is tough stuff, and the end is good news again, so stick around.
The specific energies can be compared to a traffic problem, wherein we've got a 4-way intersection with no signage. Barreling toward this intersection are four huge vehicles: two semi- trailers and two giant touring buses. One semi is full of dangerous contraband. Another has potentially explosive high tech stuff. One touring bus is full of professors and students on a field trip. The other carries rock and roll bands.
If you have a planet near 13-14 degrees Cardinal (Aries/Libra, Cancer/Capricorn), you are standing in the center of the intersection. The closer you are to those degrees, the closer you are to the intersection. The rest of us are standing around watching. Tensions are high, and anyone trying to fight these energies will NOT win. YOU try stopping this collision by holding out your hand if you want to. It won't be pretty.
What can you do? First, if you're standing nearby, get out of the crash zone. Flying debris can disable even the most detached bystander. If you are experiencing very high tension, anxiety, self-righteous frustration or anger, the seemingly irrepressible urge to FIGHT an unfair situation, BACK OFF NOW. St. Francis' serenity prayer is the key to this, and the point of the point is in recognizing where you do NOT have the power and cede it to those who do.
This is Not what westerners like to do. We believe we CAN and MUST right every wrong. That's just flat-out unrealistic. There are higher powers at work, and we must surrender. If that's not possible, please recognize that you are entering the territory of martyrdom, which is a valid choice, but I'd rather you know you're making it.
In the world today, just a few examples of who's standing in the intersection includes the United States (the SUN, our identity and leadership); Vladimir Putin (HIS SUN–identity, leadership and career ruler), the Ukraine republic (her Neptune–ideals) and… Angela Merckel (her Jupiter–beliefs, optimism, and South Node–her comfort zone). I'm sure there are many more players involved.
Furthermore, the series of four TOTAL lunar eclipses over this year and next are hard on "the public" (Solar eclipses tend to remove heads of state or, in modern terms, heads of large international companies. Lunar eclipses cause difficulties for the public at large, or rank-and-file employees.) The lunar eclipse of April 15 is total over the USA.
Historically, these patterns bring great confusion and upheaval at the time, followed several years later by serious reforms. I have been concerned about this cycle because I have two planets, Mars and Neptune, involved in the cardinal cross. What I've experienced so far is a series of intense breakthroughs that appear to be dissolving dysfunctional emotional patterns dating to WAY before this lifetime. And a nice financial breakthrough when the hospital 'forgave' 93% of a humongous medical bill from an appendectomy last year. Believe me, I've been working on this "surrender" thing.
The key to benefits during this time is to allow the egg to crack open. There's a whole new life inside!
]]>For any of you who are interested in how this unique church has evolved over the past 50 years, you can see its current web site and principles at http://firstuc.org/are-we-right-for-you/
Dr. Joseph R. Walker, Thursday, July 18 1968
This is a memorial service to Douglas Rae. My great concern is that it shall be a celebration of faith and a cheering remembrance of greatness, not a further descent into sorrow, for our sorrow is deep enough and to spare, God knows.
If I may speak personally for a moment, having stood in this pulpit at other times, I feel strangely cheated as I stand here now, for it was already settled in our family that he was to do this for me. I wanted him to be the one to say whatever would be said at that time, for I knew he would say it with dignity, grace and genuine friendship and without pious cant. But that was not to be, for, as usual, he is ahead of the rest of us.
When I think of what I want to try to say, the thing that comes first to mind is Dietrich Bonheoffer's now famous declaration that, to be a Christian, a man must first and simply be a man; a genuinely fully human being. Next I remember his description of Jesus as the world's superlative example and symbol of the Man for Others. This, Bonhoeffer said, is what we must seek to be if we want to be followers of His.
Douglas Rae was a truly great minister of the gospel and an outstanding churchman. He could have gone as high up the ecclesiastical ladder as he wished in his denomination. His standing in his own community is indicated by the peculiarly delicate and important task to which he had been called when he left here.
He believed in the Church. He loved the Church. He understood what the Church is and what it is supposed to be, and he had a patient confidence in it in spite of the gap between those two. But first of all he was a truly genuine, thoroughly human person. He understood what it means to be a human creature and not God. He was content to be such and to be that unique human creature he himself was and not someone else. Being without pious illusions about himself, he was open to his fellow human beings whom he viewed with a quizzical, disillusioned, humorous, usually hopeful, and always generous and tender eye. His foibles, his tensions, his gusts of anger, his reactions to opposition and disappointment, all of these were truly human. I think this was one reason why the barriers between him and the rest of us came down so easily. He accepted himself as he was, and so he accepted us as we are. He did not have to posture and pose, and that made it easier for us not to posture and pose with him. He spoke his mind, he said his piece when it was necessary, with that quick little decisive way of his that made it easier for others to drop the mask and do the same. Also, if he decided he was wrong, he said so with the same unimpassioned candor. It was this willingness just to be himself that gave him the habit of positiveness and decisiveness which made him a natural leader without the arrogance which so often accompanies leadership.
I had a professor in seminary who had some of this same kind of unadorned manliness that draws people to such men. Once, in class, he said this: "Young gentlemen, only the grace of God can make a Christian minister." But, he added, "The primordial manhood in him will determine what kind of minister he is."
This was Douglas Rae. He was pre-eminently a man in his own right and in his own way. Just because he wasn't "hung-up" on himself, because fundamentally he liked being himself and not someone else, he was free to be a man for others. Except for a few strict disciplines that he laid upon himself, he did not have himself on his hands; so his interest was always going out to everything and everybody around him. I do not believe I have ever known a man who, within the limits of human frailty, was more of a man for others than he. He was for people. He was for you. Even if he did not agree with you, he was for you. Individuals of all sorts and kinds and descriptions were interesting to him, and he was for them. Terence's classic aphorism describes him well. "I am human. I count nothing human foreign to me."
I would like to say a word about the quality of his mine–its breadth, its range, its vigor–which always fascinated me when I was with him. Three words come to me as I think about this side of him. First, tough-minded. Second, sophisticated. Third, prophetic.
He looked cooly and skeptically on a number of beliefs and ideas which many people like to have their preachers speak about in sweetly pious and pretentiously assured tones. On the other hand, his convictions were usually so rational, so informed, so powerful, that if you disagreed with him you were forced to stand and deliver. He had the knack of striking directly at the intellect and at the conscience of cutting through verbiage to the core.
Then, as I have said, he was interested in everything, literally almost everything. To me, one striking facet of this was his sensitive, artistic imagination. He really felt and understood what our contemporary artists are trying for, and appreciated it. In this he was just way beyond me. One got the feeling that he could have been an artist or an architect of high creative talent if he had set his life that way. But most of all he was interested in everybody, in individuals, in his community, in his society. Whenever I wanted to know about something that was going on underneath the surface in Bloomington, I went to him.
I wonder if we in Bloomington will ever fully grasp the extent of his impact on our town! For thirty-three years we have had a minister of high calibre who was far ahead of his time in his understanding or the problems and crises of our society, those things which are now disturbing the country at large. This is what I mean by saying he had the prophetic mind. Of course, he did not pose as a prophet. He did not sit in an ivory tower and toss out oracles. He did something much more important and effective. When he saw something that he thought was wrong in our town, or something that needed to be done, he simply moved in on it. He began to talk about it. He began to pull strings, and he began to push. He kept on pushing. When the chips didn't fall his way, he would say, "Well, let's try again some other way." His concern for the poor or disadvantaged, for the young, for the old, for the down and out, for racial equality and justice came straight out of the Old Testament and the New Testament prophetic voice. It was a restless flame in him, and he lit fires all over this town.
He also knew the relation of these concerns to politics. One thing he did for us, I think, we cannot measure or trace. Laying aside the partisan aspects of politics and disagreements on particular policies, I am rather confident that he, more than any single man, changed the moral climate in which politics operates in our town. He anticipated by more than thirty years the prophetic spirit which is now stirring and disturbing the church at large and the nation at large. He taught us ahead of time. For thirty years he exhibited to us the preacher-citizen at his sensible best. At first he generated a lot of shock waves in doing so but they have long since subsided. Now the issues which are causing such upheavals in other towns and other churches cause only ripples here. In this he literally dragged us into the future, sometimes kicking and screaming.
But I do not think he could have done half as much for the community if he had been merely a reformer or a prophetic voice. Though the quality of his mind and his impact upon our consciences demanded our respect, it was his constant, quizzical, intensely hopeful concern for individual people that won our affection. He was a good minister and pastor to this congregation and to a lot of other people in this town. Somehow committee meetings and projects seldom seemed to keep him from being on the spot when someone needed him. I wonder how many people there are in this town to whom he has been a pillar of strength in weakness and a strong support in sorrow. He was too much the modern sophisticate to be shocked by any of the sins and follies that people confessed to him. Yet he was too committed in his trust in the goodness of life and the possibilities of life to be overwhelmed by people's woes or follies. He simply listened, and counseled, and helped, and stood by.
Some years ago I underwent a serious operation. Someone told him about it downtown on the Square. He went to a phone, called his secretary, cancelled his engagements, got into his car, and came to Indianapolis. He was there with y wife until they brought e back, four hours after the expected time. I wonder how many of us here recall such instances as this?
Underneath all of this there was a rugged courage in the man, sustained by simple faith. I think he learned much of this in the hard school of pain. He endured a lot of it off and on through the years. I once stood by his bed in a hospital when he was suffering a great deal. "You're a tough bird, aren't you?" I said. "You're darned right I am," he wrenched out. And so he was. And good for him!
Intellectually, I think he stripped the Christian faith down to its simple essentials and possibilities in our modern intellectual milieu. Then he just tried to live by it. And that is all I want to say about that.
This is a memorial service to Douglas Rae, a celebration of the past. But one thing I must say and I will say. He was a great humanist, but he was also a truly Christian man, a man of Christian faith. He made the ultimate Christian commitment. It follows that we must make some assessment of the future of a person such as this in the light of the great affirmations of the Christian faith.
Now it is quite true that good is better than bad in its own right, wisdom is better than folly and love is best of all. It is indeed "wiser to be god than bad, better to be sane than fierce." However, standing alone, such affirmations do not make much ultimate sense out of life, expecially in the light of our remembrance of a life like this. Just to shrug our shoulders at the end of the memorial service and say, "Well, that is all, and that is that!" does not make sense.
The drive of such persons toward human good and their opposition to human evil give the lie to the ultimate pessimism of any such view of the meaning and destiny of human existence. The temporal immortality of good deeds done and of fond remembrances left behind is very real, no matter what. Lives of good men do "remind us we can make our lives sublime. And departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time." But the waves wash them away, even the biggest tracks, and eventually all tracks.
Ours is primarily an age of repentance, of re-thinking. It is an age of criticizing, examining everything; of stripping away old shams, superstitions, hypocrisies, wishful thinking, self-delusion. Contrariwise, it has not been a great age of faith. Ours will probably be recorded as one of the revolutionary ages just because of this passion for re-thinking. This harsh, cleansing, purifying discipline which we have been called to undergo in our day has led many of us to be fearful lest the ultimate supports of courage and hope and love have been stripped away also, and to suspect that all we can do, really, is to huddle together to impart to each other a little warmth of human affection and mutual concern in the brief span allotted us. Then,we whisper, "The eternal night!"
But now that this stripping of repentance has taken hold and has done much of its work, I believe that the tide of ultimate faith in the goodness of life which has ebbed for a season has now turned. I think many of you will live to be braced and refreshed by this incoming surge. I do not believe that this is the post-Christian era. I think we are just emerging out of the pre-Christian era or, perhaps, the sub-Christian or semi-Christian era. I think some of those who sit here may live to see the first burgeonings of a new Christian era: the rise of a sturdier, more rational and more passionate faith. I think the dismal, chilling creed of materialism is on the way out. Animals are nothing but amazingly intricate machines! Man is nothing but a high-lass animal! I think this is on the way out. There are straws in the wind of modern thought blowing the other way.
Let me tell you of just one. J. Bronowski, in one of his addresses inaugurating a new lecture series on "Nature and Man" for the American Museum of Natural Science, says that the old queston of questions has taken many forms. In ancient times it was the question of the soul; later the relation of the soul and the body; then determinism and free will. Now in these latter days it is called the body-mind puzzle. We are fortunate, he says, that in our time we can ask the question in terms that can be answered. "Can man be both a machine and a self?" Then he gives us the answer, that the human brain is both machine and self in its workings. The human person is not just a machine. He givesus his reasons for saying this so lucidly and so simply that his conclusion is almost unavoidable, not in terms of speculative philosophy but by exploring the simple facts of what we know about ourselves and how our brains work.
Now if this is true, then the Christian affirmation about man's nature, dignity and destiny becomes viable again. If this is true, then this earth's human life may be only the beginning, not the end, of the adventure. It does not have to end. If this is true, then someday our sorrows now will be like the dimly remembered sorrows of our childhood n the glad reunions of a different tomorrow. If this is true, the good that good men do here is eternally important because they not only leave it behind to leaven time but they carry it with them into the eternal world.
Paul, in writing to the Thessalonians, sought to reassure them about God's intentions for their future. He did so in the pictorial language of his day, the only language he knew. He thought of heaven peopled with angels and archangels. He thought of God as making his presence and his purpose known in stentorian tones and with awesome trumpet blasts. He hoped to see with his own eyes the return of his Lord, literally, on clouds of glory. All of this picture language has become outmoded for us except as poetry. But through these ancient images and smbols the Eternal Voice still speaks to our condition as truly it did to theirs.
I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that sleep, that you sorrow not as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, them that sleep with Jesus will God bring with him. For this I say to you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord will not go before them that sleep. For the Lord shall come from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and the trump of God! The dead in Christ will rise first, and then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the air. And so we shall ever be with the Lord. Wherefore, comfort one another with these words.
]]>This is a long document, so you may wish to save it or print it to read off-screen. I thank you for your indulgence as I share some of the philosophies which have shaped my views.
Call to Commitment
Dr. W. Douglas Rae, Sunday, May 26, 1968.
A week ago we were in New York City with our Christian Faith and Life senior group of high school young people. We saw a great many things, went a great many places, including Coney Island. The day we went to Coney Island was a drizzly day and a very cold day. Nobody was in the water. There were some men fishing on the pier, but it was a drizzly, damp, cold morning. And we aw a man, and old walrus or a turtle of a man. He must have been sixty years of age, and he had all the signs of the old man. He was short and roly-poly, and came out of the bathhouse barefooted, with a pair of trunks on. He deliberately put one foot ahead of the other, didn't turn his head right or left, didn't look back, looked at the sand, walked diagonally across the boardwalk, which was approximately 130 or 150 feet to the stairway, and then started what was probably about a 1000-foot walk across the sand to the water's edge–absolutely deliberate, no turning–and everybody on the boardwalk and on the pier was looking at this man walking into that ice cold ocean, wondering whether he would do it or not. He kept walking, came to the edge of the water, walked in over his heead, turned around, and walked just as deliberately back up across the sand and into the bathhouse. He didn't speak to anyone, had nothing to say; but it was the most deliberate piece of acting that I have ever seen. Now, whether he had been doing this all year around or not I don't know, but at least he did it on this particular cold day.
And this morning I have a feeling that I am that old turtle, and that for the last three months we have been stripping down, throwing away all kinds of things at our house, getting ready for next Sunday, our last Sunday in the church, and I don't know whether I can do it as deliberately as this old fellow did it. The closer I get to the edge of the water the colder it is, and the more frightened I become, but I am walking as deliberately as I can walk.
The text this morning is from the Sermon on the Mount:
The rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew upon the house; and it fell not because it was founded upon a rock.
Now there is no such thing, as I have said to the official family of the church, as an indispensable man, or an indispensable minister. This church, by the grace of God, has survived–I don't know whether it is 30 or 40 ministers in a 143-year period; and it goes on. Over the last 33 years, many strong, independent individuals have left this church; and the church has gone on. We are now entering another period in the history of the church, and it is a testing period. It's not simply testing whatever foundation stones we've put down in this three-decade period. It is testing the foundation stones of this church for 143 years. It is testing the foundation stones of Christianity itself for almost 2000 years. Whether or not we can survive–strongly–without too many people jumping off the ship, the period which is ahead of us, which may be six months, a year, or two years before we secure a new minister, is the test of the foundation stones of the church and the ministry of this church.
In the New Testament there are two word used for church. One is "koinonia" and the other is "ecclesia." "Koinonia" suggests, at least most people who translate it think it suggests, fellowship, the fellowship of believers. We are not really clear on what it means, but it points to a unique life, a community existence of men and women who have banded together under one name, with common value systems, with many differences of opinion, differences of personality, who have discovered in their coming together something that they cannot find alone. To use the old illustration, there is some music which you can play on a violin by yourself–solo; and there is some music you cannot understand unless you play as part of an orchestra–a 100-piece orchestra. And so there are some things you cannot understand unless you are a part of a family, and in the Christian community unless you are a part of a Christian community.
We think of individuals, in a one-to-one, person-to-person relationship. Beyond the walls of the church there are things we can do which establish our Christian witness and our Christian convictions. But we have not given up–despite all the prophecies of the death of the church–the need for community and the need for a locus, a place, that we return to to express our Christianity. This community, this "koinonia," is both local and universal. It is both weak and powerful. It is made up of saints and it is made up of sinners, and it's this paradox which binds us together and which makes the community of the church strong, that it can contain within its walls both the weak and the strong, perfection and imperfection; and if ever the church becomes absolutely perfect then it is absolutely too small for the spirit of Christ. Because the paradox of the church is that we are sinners, all of us, that we are all caught with the very conditions of human life; we have to accept them. We have to accept our own imperfections ultimately before we can accept the imperfections of others, and we have to accept the imperfections of the church of which we are a part.
It is very easy for ministers these days to slip into the misery school and lament the passing of the church–and it is passing. The attendance figures are dropping; thousands of churches all over the world are empty. It is very easy to talk about embalming the church and condemning it to burial. But the church has a certain genius–as Jesus spoke of it–a leaven in the lump, a certain yeastiness. There have been many periods in the last 2000 years when the church has become insipid, when it is lost its thrust and its power and its strength and its life; but it has risen again, come to life, and this message of hope that the church dies and rises again over the centuries is basic to our gospel. Here in this church we have been preaching not only this hope but we have been preaching and writing a sermon together, and this is the sermon I am talking about this morning. We are not always agreed on it, but in general this is the sermon and the direction; and we've put it into wood and into stone so that no matter whether anybody is in the pulpit or not the sermon is being preached. It is being heard, and as long as men and women meet in this building they will see and hear the sermon which for some 50 years we have been attempting to write in this church. It's not always easy to read and it's not always perfect.
We begin with the communion table. It's long, made of solid walnut, and it's not just a piece of furniture. There are many who have misgivings about the communion service itself, that the phrases belong to another era–drinking the blood, taking the cup, eating the bread and the body–that these do not speak to our time. But this table represents a need, the basic need of the church to gather together about this table once a year, once a month, because it is the table at which we hep each other to be honest. Here, by our coming together around this table, we are confronted by the gathered church, by the judgment of each of us, by the forgiveness of each of us, and by the love of God, and as I said to the official family of the church, if I had one text to throw at you it would be, Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together. It will be very easy for this church to disintegrate in terms of attendance during the summer months. The pall, the uncertainty, may stretch into a year or two years. But we must come together, and this table stands as that great message of the church that it must gather in the name of Christ about the table.
A second object that is not furniture either is the pulpit itself. This pulpit has been a very wonderful pulpit for me. I suppose I could say I cut my teeth on it. When I preached my first sermon here I was frightened to death of two sermons a Sunday, wondering how I could go on for a year. The thing that I like about the pulpit is that with only one exception, an exception I have told you about before, I have never been throttled. Nobody has ever told me what to say or what not to say. This has been a free pulpit. And I did not make it free. You made it free. The minister who comes needs the same kind of freedom from this pulpit.
Whether there is somebody standing in this pulpit or not, it is speaking tremendous words, not only the words of the Bible but the words of life, the word of God ministered through the voice of a minister, the words of love and compassion and comfort to people who are in trouble, the fearless words of prophecy concerning the times in which we live, the sins of our age, the sins of our society, its greed and political manipulations and all the things that destroy the society in which we live. This needs to be kept the free pulpit and I hope that there will not be a committee, nor a board, nor a group that will ever stop a man from speaking the truth as he sees it from this pulpit, that it shall always be free, that there shall be no littleness in it, that even the words of denominationalism shall never muzzle a man. We have entered into a day far beyond any little denominational loyalty. Whether we are Baptists, or Methodists, or Presbyterians, or even Christians is immaterial. Most of the denominations have accepted the distinctive contributions of the Baptists to the Christian reformation of the Protestants. Even the Catholics have accepted many things which we taught for years. We are coming into a period when that particular label can be more of a stumbling block than anything else. From this pulpit we ought to hear the word of God without its being trimmed to suit any small denomination, whether it's the Baptist denomination or some other. This pulpit is beyond that. But above all, whenever you see this pulpit with the sword on the front of it–I came not to bring peace but a sword–remember that the word of truth spoken freely from the pulpit is as a sword dividing us one from another at the same time that it brings the great messages of love and hope and faith and justice.
Add to these two pieces of the sermon the two offering stones which we placed here. As some of you may or may not know, we had a problem what to do with the offering. It could be brought up and presented to the ministers and they could place it on the communion table. We felt that was not the place for the offering. The ushers could place it under the cross, or over here at the pulpit, but these places seemed a little too obvious. And so we made these two fine offering stones. We had never seen offering stones in anybody's church before, but there is an inscription on these two stones which carries a very real and vital message, and this is the message of the offering. It's not Freely ye have received, freely give. It is simply stated. First be reconciled to your brother. I will never forget a particular funeral service in this church when a brother who had not been reconciled sat squarely in front of that one stone and stared at it during the service. First be reconciled to your brother–there is no other way to worship in this church. I hope there never will be another way. First be reconciled to your children; first be reconciled to your wife or your husband; first be reconciled to those who are different from you, other races, other nations. First be reconciled, and if you are not reconciled, keep your money in your pocket. Do not give it until you have made that pilgrimage of reconciliation in your life, because if you do not do it then everything you do for the church really turns to ashes. The other stone has the remaining words of the text: then come and offer your gift. These stones we mean to preach the third point of the sermon over and over and over again so no one forgets it, that this is the way we have to worship.
Over to my left are the flowers. Three men of our church who have constructed various things for us built this place for flowers–I want to call it an altar. They completed it yesterday. I think the flowers in the church need to stand not only as something beautiful which is here today and gone tomorrow, which is very fragile the way life is fragile, but they need to say to us, "Here is something you cannot make with all your plastics and all your arts and all your skills." You cannot make these flowers. At least, if you make the in imitation they cannot reproduce themselves; they do not have the seeds of life within them as these do. I want the fowers to say, "Here is a spot of beauty, something you cannot buy, something you cannot package, something you cannot haul away in a truck. A million dollars will not really buy it if you do not have the eye for it." And the church needs to constantly say to the world, "There is something in this world that's more than money." We are living in a very materialistic period. I think it is all around us, but our particular society has outdone almost all other societies in its ability to give material goods to the great masses of our people. Many of us have become obsessed by them, enslaved by our cars and our houses and everything else. The church always calls us back, to this gift of beauty in the flowers.
To my right are the plantings, the green plantings which have been with us from the very beginning of this new building. I am always amazed when people go through the building–how they must go up to the plants and feel them to see whether they are real or not. I hope they will never discover they are not real. They are real! And they represent the whole celebration of life which is the worship service itself. They represent the growing edge–all those leaves as they come out month after month. There is growth here, there is life here. The plantings to the right have a minimum of sunlight and yet they survive, and I hope they speak to everyone who is struggling with his life, with darkness in life, saying that you, too, can survive, that you can reach for light, and that there is to your life and to the life of this church an edge which is always growing and always changing. And if this change which is coming to all of us us next Sunday has something to say to us, let it say that this is the condition of being alive, that you have to change, that you cannot always have it the way it was, that you have to tell it the way it is, and you have to live it the way it is, that there must be a growing edge and when the growing edge is gone, death is there.
Then there are the words inscribed over the chancel: One is your master, the Christ, and you are all brothers. I have preached on these words on several occasions. We chose these words with care. They speak to the whole question of differences and poverty and trouble. One is your master, the Christ, and you are all brothers. It was Harrington who first made us aware how poor people are, how many millions of poor starving people there are within the borders of the United States. A church like this, sitting on a little knoll on the south side of Third Street, can beome a sort of gem, a little architectural thing which you look at, you carry around on a pillow. If it does, it's lost its real reason for being. Its real reason for being is to reach out to wherever there is need, human need and poverty, and if we stop reaching out to the poor, this church will lose its reason for existence. This church is not just a sounding board for preachers. This is not a preaching station. This is a congregation of men and women who have committed themselves as a community and who are concerned for the poor, and if we ever stop being truly concerned, individually, and corporately as a congregation, we will have missed what we are here for as the followers of Christ. The poor heard Him gladly. The poor are not sitting in our congregation, in our pews–they may never sit in our pews. Our class consciousness may make it too uncomfortable for them to be part of this church, but it should never be said that we do not in this church reach out with money, with compassion, with love, with our ministers, with our people, to anyone in need; that we ever deny that the need exists. We are tackling poverty as poverty has never been tackled before in the history of the world. We have made many mistakes. There are many things we do not know about how to meet poverty, but we are at least trying and this church is trying, and I hope it keeps on.
The last place is the cross, which as you know is made of African mahogany, bound with black steel, prophetically speaking to the crisis of the races. My own opinion is that this particular symbol–not only because of its history in the Christian Church as a cross of suffering and love, redemption and reconciliation–speaks to our time and it will speak to this church for the next fifty years of a problem, a white problem, a black problem, which is not going to go away. Many of you are tired of picking up your newspapers every day and reading one to ten or twenty stories about the race question. If I hear one criticism more than any other about the minister, it is that I have been hitting you over the head with the question of the race problem. I haven't meant to do it, but I think that no matter if we are black or white this is the point at which whether or not we are Christian is tested by fire. The tests up to now have been simple tests, not very difficult. For twenty years we have had people of other races as members of this church, members of our boards, officers in the church; these are comparatively simple things. They stand merely as a sort of symbol to the world that this church has been alive for the past twenty years on this particular question. We have done many other things about it, but the worst is yet to come. With people buying guns, stockpiling food in their houses, with the polarization of the whites on one side, and the blacks on the other, we have no idea what is ahead of us.
On the boardwalk of Coney Island I talked to a man who was a Jew who had a souvenir store, souvenirs which sold for 50 cents or a dollar and which were probably worth two cents or a nickel. He had been on the boardwalk for over 20 years. Coney Island has changed since the fire, and this man said to me, "Were you here Easter? Do you know about Easter??" I said, "No, I am from Indiana," and he said, "If you are from Indiana you don't know anything about the problem." I said "Well, I was born in New York and grew up in New York, and I think I know something about the problem." He said, "Well, Easter Sunday, a hundred or two hundred thousand Negroes came to Coney Island and they filled our stores. They said terrible things to our women. I closed the store at four o'clock in the afternoon. I was frightened. I didn't know what to do. I'm really a liberal. I'm a Roosevelt liberal. I'm a liberal from way back. I'm a Jewish liberal. But if you would hand me a crd today to sign to join the Ku Klux Klan, I'd join it." And that is about the most frightening thing I have heard except all the sick jokes about Martin Luther King's death.
We have not seen what is coming. We do not know what is coming. We can hope for some unexpected twist and turn of events that may redeem us before we destroy our society, turn it into a couple of concentration camps. But it is here–and prophetically we have seen in this church that this is the place where we are going to be tested. In Bloomington I have never known so much hatred, so much prejudice against blacks as there is now. I have never before heard people speak with such feeling against them. On the other side of the fence, I have not before heard blacks speaking against whites the way they are speaking in Bloomington today. Now Bloomington is a microcosm. This is a very small segment of the problem. We may never know what will be known in Detroit, Newark, Gary, Chicago, New York, but as a Christian member of this community you cannot glibly dismiss this problem and say "I am sick of the race question." The race question is the world's question. It is an international question. It is part of the question in Vietnam. It is a question for all of us, and our Christianity will be tested by how well we do our homework and how much there is in us of the realism of Christ and the love and spirit of Christ.
The rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon the house.
They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31
This sermon was delivered from notes rather than from a manuscript, and the text as it appears here was taken from a tape recording.
The cycles we saw in the 1960's included a huge shift in the how society saw its relationship and responsibilities African Americans in our civil discourse. The dark American history of enslavement resulted in a culture that put huge barriers before people of color attempting to participate in the civil life of our country. The civil rights movements of the '60s resulted in a series of laws that prohibited different treatment of individuals based on the color of their skin.
Also in the 1960's we had the frightening overreach of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI; the controversially released Pentagon Papers exposing the machinations behind the Vietnam War; an increasing awareness of the gap between rich and poor Americans. These are all themes we are seeing repeated–in the Chelsea Manning war whistleblowing, the Edgar Snowdon NSA spying papers release, the huge and growing gap between the rich and poor in this country… and in the horrifying murder and subsequent verdict in the case of Trayvon Martin, coupled with huge roll-backs in civil rights protections for voters.
This was brought home to me personally when I visited Mom this summer. She handed me a booklet which contained the last sermon of the minister I grew up with, and the memorial service sermon after his death. These events took place in May and July of 1968, and both speeches specifically addressed the issues of OUR times. Referring to the racial unrest of the 1960's, Doug Rae (1908-1968) pointed out that the cross in the church, hanging above the words "One is the Master, the Christ, and you are all brothers" was made of African Mahogony and bound with black steel. He said "This particular symbol….. will speak to [us] for the next fifty years of a problem… which is not going to go away."
Today, despite (or perhaps because of) having the first African American President of the United States, a virulent racism is again erupting in the public and private arenas of this land. Frankly, I see it as the last of the roaches coming out from behind the woodwork after the exterminator leaves, but the effect of this ugliness is just as horrible for the individuals and families affected. And the result is that we all can see clearly that 47 years after that sermon was given, we have still not resolved the issue.
Astrology tell me that we will come closer–closer to closure, understanding, and learning how to live with all of these issues. And astrology tells me that 2013 is one of the big turning points in these struggles for fairness and justice.
The next article will address the factors that make this year–even what's left of it–so important to these issues. But first, I wish to stress the underpinnings of my beliefs.
Dr. Rae was a Baptist minister in a college town in Indiana. It was his only ministry, and it lasted exactly 33 years. He didn't preach dogma: he preached caring action. I grew from every sermon he preached, but I didn't learn much about traditional Christian faith. When I was 16, I got up the nerve to ask him if he believed in God, and if so, what is it?? He paused a moment and replied "The closest understanding I have of God……is what Albert Schweitzer called 'reverence for life'." I looked up the quote later. It is: "
There's no question at this point that the world is in a process of change. Whether we're talking about droughts, floods and epic storms, or the increasing distance between government and the people, or the over-reaching powers of corporations who seem to be buying laws that benefit them and squelching laws that help individual citizens, we can see that things are out of balance. More than that, they're in the process of change.
In most periods of personal change, our nostalgic desire is things to "go back" to how they used to be. However, I've never seen this wish fulfilled. As the patterns in the world around us change, our wish for things to "go back to how they were" is a dim hope, indeed. What we need to recognize is that change is a process of growth and evolution, and can only move us forward. Birth is a messy and painful process, but each one of us must experience it.
a. Mutating Sri-Yantra
We've got some help this year. Between July 20 and 30th, we will experience the development of an extremely rare Star-of-David, or Sri Yantra, pattern in the sky. This means that one planet will be at each point of a six-pointed star pattern. On the 24th, all but one of these planets are "traditional" planets, meaning planets from Saturn inward. The only "modern planet" filling one of the points is Pluto, and therein lies a tale. The ancient planets, bound by the physical world materiality of Saturn, delineates events in the physical world of things and action, and not just in our perception of things. But Pluto in Capricorn (still squaring Uranus) speaks to a profound death/rebirth process on the perceptual level. This is about our personal responses to the perception of dramatic change..
On a global basis, I don't expect this to produce a singular breakthrough of any kind. My teacher used to remind me that the world as a whole cannot advance to a level higher than reached by the vast majority of its citizens. But what we DO get at this time is an opportunity for enlightened action on an individual level. Enlightened because of the balancing effect of the two entwined triangles, and action because the traditional planets have to the world under the limits of Saturn: physical, material, bricks-and-mortar reality. This action is likely to be impelled by one's awareness of potentially catastrophic change. If you have planets near 3-10 degrees of water and earth signs (representing our ability to RESPOND to situations) you will be profoundly assisted by this pattern.
b. Uranus Pluto squares.
November of this year will deliver the 4th and 5th of the seven exact Uranus/Pluto squares that occur between 2012 and 2015. This year is the turning point, and I do expect some large system failures at this point. This is a good thing. To the extent that we anticipate changes and prepare for them we are easing the birth of the new, which is caused by the destruction of the outmoded. Pluto challenges us to the exact degree that we hold on to outgrown concepts. Start now to examine what is no longer working, both in your personal world and in the world around you. What alternatives can you introduce? How can you prepare for the better future? We'll talk more about this in the months ahead!
Well, first there was that week in February... when a meteor exploded over Russia (and hit ground, too), and a comet (or asteroid, depending on the report) passed INSIDE the orbit of the the Moon, and the Pope resigned on the same day that lightning struck St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican…. Those were symbolically huge events and in other years might have stood out as highlights, but so much more has happened this year that they recede into the background. My pre-2013 notes were unclear. Words for early February included changes of power and authority figures, long time associations, and big-money and power plays. Then Mercury went retrograde on February 23rd, which combined with the Pisces energy of February and March made much of the next month's news illusory at best.
In March North Korea scared much of the world by declaring that the truce with South Korea (and the USA) from the 1950's Korean War is now over, and they're getting ready to launch nuclear weapons at the US. Remember that the tropical zodiac had a huge stellium (clustering) of planets in Pisces–typically connected with illusions, delusions and lies. Sidereally this cluster was in Aquarius, indicating North Korea's status as a rebel against the rest of the world. Nevertheless, the warning was delivered and received. Pisces is also related to contagion, and China brought us news of the first deaths from a new avian flu, along with the bizarre news of 12,000 dead pigs found in Shanghai's water supply, the Huangpu River; and 1000 dead ducks in Sichuan's Nanhe River.
Also in March, the Vatican selected a new pope: Pope Francis is the first Jesuit and the first Pope from the Americas. Though he is conservative on much church doctrine, his care for ordinary people is unprecedented. In my notes for 2013, I marked March 17 as a day with world healing energy. Turns out this was the day Pope Francis made his first speech as pope.
Mid March, Mercury went direct (the 17th) and we not only had a clustering of planets, but the Sun and Mars were in a very long dance together, with the entire bundle moving, at month's end, into abrupt, aggressive Aries and building into conjunction with explosive Uranus and a square to death-related Pluto.
Which brings us to April: For the week of the 15th my notes said "Rage, danger; surprises, shocks." The Boston Marathon bombings, the fertilizer factor explosion that devastated the town of West, Texas near Waco, and the ricin letters sent to politicians all took place in that week. The culprit was the Sun with Mars and Uranus, squaring Pluto–along with a bundle of other planets in impatient and angry Aries. Uranus and Mars are a formula for explosions, and putting them both in Aries just makes it all bigger. The twice-yearly "eclipse season" also began in late April, with a Lunar eclipse in early Scorpio on the 23rd. Fairly close to Saturn, this tamped down subterranean anger which we may yet see explode on the larger scene.
I'd thought the Solar Eclipse of May 9 would give us another eruption of anger. Taking place in mid Taurus, the Moon's exaltation here may have softened the blow, but my notes bring more shocks thru the 13th and a strong likelihood of major flooding between the 14th and the end of June. There's cause for optimism around the 27th of May… and I'll round out the year in the next newsletter.
BTW, Kudos go to Naomi Bennet, astrologer from Austin, who predicted amazingly high stock market numbers for this spring. Indeed, the Dow Jones has reached and is holding its highest numbers EVER right now.
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Vedic Secrets to Happiness: Life's Handbook, by Anne Beversdorf, Stariel Press, Austin, TX, 2012. Softcover—282pp.–$22.95 (ISBN 978-0-9833930-0-9). Available from: www.stariel.com
In antiquity, astrology was about predicting future possibilities—and preventing them from playing out, if they didn't look good. The ancient Babylonians were masters at this, and in India to this day, practices are prescribed to eliminate or reduce the materialization of negative karma. For the most part, modern Western astrologers have forgotten how to do this—but Anne Beversdorf's new book may change all that.
To understand how this astrological methodology works, remember that the ancients viewed the universe not as completely material but as deeply rooted in spirit. They believed that the cosmos has a powerful subconscious mind, much like our own, but existing on a truly vast scale. If you understand the connections between the archetypes in this universal consciousness, you could reshape reality on a subtle level. This spiritual science was the basis of magic and of the astrological prescriptions still used in Vedic astrology.
In this stunningly brilliant book, Beversdorf shows how you can design your own astrological prescriptions, based on these ancient principles, "to help you improve life's good stuff and reduce the messes." What makes Vedic Secrets to Happiness so remarkable is that you don't have to be a Vedic astrologer to experiment with these techniques. In fact, you don't even have to know your own horoscope! Beversdorf teaches you how to diagnose the karmic imbalances playing out in your life, how they relate to planetary archetypes, and how to heal them through the heartfelt performance of appropriate actions, rituals, or prayers. If you're an astrologer—Vedic or Western—there's also advice on how to trace the real-life imbalances in your natal chart.
Beversdorf brings back the practical dimension to Western astrology, reinitiating modern practitioners into astrological remedies that are based on insights and techniques preserved in India. Whether you've been reading charts your whole life or are a complete beginner, there's a treasure trove of eminently useful astrological lore here.
Anne Beversdorf has taught at Indiana and San Diego State Universities, and owned an educational software company. She practices both Vedic and Western astrology in the Texas Hill Country. Vedic Secrets to Happiness is one of the most exciting astrology books I've seen in years. It could revolutionize the way astrology is practiced in the West by returning it to its ancient roots.
–reviewed by Linda Johnsen
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I gave a lecture in two parts: The first was Embracing Self, and the second wasRemoving Impediments.
The links to these lectures are HERE.
I have known Anne Beversdorf since 2003. She is an accomplished astrologer with 20 years experience. She says she has read some 14,000 charts and credits time spent at StarScroll 800 as a telephone astrologer for sharpening her skills. She is accomplished with both Western and Vedic astrology, having studied with Hart de Fouw and K.N. Rao, two of the leading Vedic astrologers. Anne has written for The Mountain Astrologer, as well as for many other journals and newsletters, including her own. She has given seminars in the US and abroad. She is the author of Vedic Secrets to Happiness, which at the moment is on my desk. Anne Beversdorf is, in sum, one of the outstanding astrologers of the present day. From long experience, she is sensitive to the needs of her clients, offering insights into psychological blind spots, as well as effective astrological remedies and useful predictive analysis.
Since 1993, I have run the Astrology Center of America, which, since 1996 has been on-line as AstroAmerica.com. I have long been the nation's leading astrological bookstore. Since 2002 I have published books under Astrology Classics, which now number nearly 50 titles. Since I first got into astrology as a profession in 1986, I have met most of the leading astrologers of the day. I am pleased to count Anne Beversdorf not only as an outstanding astrologer, but also as a personal friend.
Wow! THANK YOU, DAVID!
]]>The remedies are based on ancient principles from the Vedas, with specifics updated for modern western lifestyles.
Lecture for United Astrology Congress, New Orleans, 2012
Anne Beversdorf
This conversational lecture got great reviews. It's about principles of remedy systems and how to improve one's life with remedies based on Vedic principles.
Subject: Stariel News, Dec 2011
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Subject: Who Are We Becoming… A Symphony of Symbols.
We are nested within cycles of time. In addition to the larger patterns, we are also subject to the energy fields of shorter-term cycles, and these all interact to create the conditions of our times. How will it affect you? How will you affect our times? Listen here!
"I went to Anne's lecture for the IONS group. It was So packed, I had trouble finding parking! And I sat on the floor for part of it (gladly so). Anne is one of our best diplomats — spreading the word — making astrology appealing and palatable to the more general public (although I must say IONS people are definitely more open-minded that the regular general public). Every time I hear Anne talk, I feel validated in my experiences … like I am not crazy, there really is a reason why certain things have been going on. If you read her newsletter, you will find the same will be true for you. Example: my To Do Lists nowadays are empty threats and I often don't follow through on them (= Saturn's ways don't work as well anymore); my "bug antennae" are my best guide for what is to be my next step (Neptune ingress to Pisces)."
WOW! Thank you, Jeannie!


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Wealthy-country answers just don't fit
If doctors can't correctly diagnose a disease, how can they treat it?
That's what families are left to wonder in millions of villages, towns, and cities around the world that lack ready access to health care and the sophisticated laboratories that produce reliable diagnoses in wealthy countries.
In poor countries, health care facilities can be far away, serving widely dispersed populations. Specialized equipment, personnel, and safe waste-disposal systems just don't exist.
Imagine taking your infant with a fever to the doctor and coming away with treatment options that even the doctors can't be sure will help. Without diagnostic testing, health care professionals have to rely on just evaluating symptoms to diagnose and treat illness—an imperfect method given the similarity of symptoms between diseases.
This lack of clarity puts individuals, communities, and the world in danger. Incorrect diagnoses can harm people and even cost lives. And from a global perspective, ineffectively treated disease can become a starting point for epidemic or pandemic outbreaks.
Fortunately, there is an array of promising new tests in the pipeline—inexpensive, portable, easy-to-use diagnostics that are practical at even small, local health centers, delivering results the same day. Some are new takes on established technologies like the home pregnancy test. Others are exciting scientific advances.
PATH is at the forefront of this technology revolution, inventing and supporting the development of "point-of-care" diagnostic tests that will help families in poor countries to get fast results and the right treatment every time.
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Linde Werdelin 3-Timer Now Available in Green
The 3-Timer from Linde Werdelin is our favorite model from the LW lineup (along with the SpidoLite SA, of course). We took the 3-Timer with a white dial skiing with us over last winter, and we really fell in love with the subtle but sporty look and feel of this watch, not to mention killer dial.
Today comes word of a new 3-Timer, this time with a green dial and only produced in a series of 22 pieces. This new version will but accompanied by a black pointed calfskin strap and will retail for just under 5,000 euros (including VAT).
This is LW's second series of 22 for the 3-Timer model; the first of which was the now sold out brown 3-Timer that our friends at Fratello happen to own, and wrote a great review of here.
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Bahrain really has embraced Formula One racing this year, with initiatives led by the Bahrain International Circuit.
The enthusiasm for the sport was evidenced at the circuit and on all the major roads leading to it by the display of national flags from all around the globe, manufactured in the English city of Leeds by Northern Flags.
His Majesty King Hamad was in attendance together with Saudi Eastern Province Governor Prince Mohammed bin Fahad bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince and Supreme Council for Youth and Sport President Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa. They toured the paddock and garages and were received by several team owners. Later on Saturday His Majesty departed for an official visit to Egypt.
Children under 15 are allowed in for half price; giant television screens and BIC TV and radio have been keeping spectators fully informed of developments all through the day; there have been driver autograph of photograph sessions; Englishman Russ Swift has been entertaining fans with his Mini Cooper stunt driving display; there are opportunities for a birds eye view of the Sakhir circuit via a tethered hot air balloon; there was a fireworks display, a paddock show of coloured lasers and a family fun and games park. On Thursday spectators could also take advantage of bus rides around the circuit itself.
Elsewhere on the social side, Edinburgh-based DJ Stuart Duncan was flown in specially to perform at Likwid in the City Centre Hotel, where the official pre-race party was staged by one of the leading teams.
On track the support races include the Porsche Michelin Supercup imported from Europe, Formula BMW Asia and a Mini Cooper charity race, together with a Gulf Air-organised air display later today. Saturdays BMW encounter was won by polesitter Salman Al Khalifa after a tough fight with Australian Michael Patrizi. The local hero also clinched the Asian title with his success.
Perhaps the greatest attraction for those who experienced it was the magic performed by Thimon von Berlepsch, whose sleight of hand defied logical perception during the four-day Formula One Carnival at the Ritz-Carlton Bahrain Hotel and Spa.


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Tweak your computer with registry hacks, Part 2: The Classes Root (in a bit more detail)
Posted By Samuel On January 4, 2012 @ 10:21 AM In Tips 'n Tricks | 18 Comments
It has been long time since I posted part 1 in the registry hacks [1] series, and I hope you read it 10 times like you were suppose to. After much thought I've decided that I'll continue the posts on registry hacks by talking about the Classes Root. Now, for those of you who forgot what the Classes Root is, go and read part 1 [1]. If you decide not to, though, (hey, it's your computer's funeral, not mine) here is a quick reminder: the Classes Root is the "drive" in the registry that contains information about how to handle files types such as what name, what context menu to show, what icon to show, what to do when double clicking it, etc.
When you open up the Classes Root you'll see a huge list of extensions starting with *:
If you scroll down a bit further, you'll notice that soon the list of extensions end – after the extensions starting with .z – and the registry keys are no longer extensions, but rather they are the definitions for the extensions:
To make it easier to work with multiple different extensions that are really the same file type, like JPG and JPEG, Microsoft set it up so that you can create a definition and then link it to each different extensions. To put it in an analogy, the extension is the house address while the definition is the actual house. Keep in mind the difference between extensions and definitions and the relationship between them because that is really important.
Clicking on any of the extensions will reveal some values:
The only two we care about is (Default) and Content Type: (Default) is the name of the definition for that extension, while Content Type is the MIME [5] type that web developers are probably familiar. Only the (Default) value is required for a key, though if the file does have a MIME, it's not a bad idea for it to have Content Type also.
For every name present in the (Default) value for an extension, there is a corresponding definition key. For example, for the .png extension shown in the screenshot above, there is a pngfile definition:
This definition controls some key aspects for the file extension it is connected to, such as what the file type is called, the icon used by default, and what items appear in the right-click context menu for that file type. In this case, for definitions, (Default) is the name of the file type, like PNG Image (see above screenshot), Microsoft Word Document, or Video File. It can be any string, and yes spaces are allowed.
Under the definition key, there are a few sub keys:
The two we are interested in are DefaultIcon and shell:
For this (Default) value, you are allowed to either point it to the location of an icon file (i.e. C:\Icons\icon.ico) or the location of an icon embedded in an executable or a DLL (i.e. C:\Windows\System32\url.dll,0).
Not all the items you see when you click on a file are here; this list only contains items added specifically for this file type (as opposed to be global), like Open or Print. For each item there is a sub key with an internal name of the item, as you can see from the screenshot above. Each key's (Default) value is the text shown to the user in the right-click context menu:
The name of the registry key and the (Default) value may be, and probably are, the same, except the key cannot have any spaces; they can be different too, though.
Under each item's key there is another key called command:
(Default) for command is the command that is run when the item is clicked on (usually double left-click, but will vary depending on your computer settings). For example, as you can see in the above screenshot, clicking on Edit for a Word Document opens Microsoft Word: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE" /n /dde. The /n and /dde can be considered command line parameters – they give Windows special instructions on how to execute the command in question. Often times you may also find a %1 at the end of the command string. When you click on a menu item, Windows looks at the command, and replaces the %1 in the command string with the file, so if you are opening C:\text.txt and the command is C:\MyProgram.exe "%1", Windows launches C:\MyProgram.exe "C:\text.txt".
That is really all I have to say about the Classes Root for now. Keep in mind this is only a basic view of the Classes Root (yes, I know you advanced techies out there must be thinking – "he skipped over so many things") but for our purposes it is good enough. Get to know the Classes Root well and next time I'll show off some really cool stuff.
A quick thank you to PC Magazine's Neil J. Rubenking for showing me this – thanks Neil!
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Governor Nikki Haley – Less Than Zero
A Special Report by Paul Gable and Jeffrey Sewell
"Teflon" Nikki Haley gets her hard-earned place on the national political stage tonight when she gives a major speech to the Republican National Convention.
Whatever Haley's message, it must be looked at with a jaundiced eye. The saga of "Telfon Nikki" is and has been all about Nikki, image and personal gain trump substance and public service. This as she nears two years completed as South Carolina's governor.
While she was elected as the Tea Party favorite and promised the most transparent administration in state history, her performance after assuming office has been the direct opposite.
Just to mention two of her many contradictions, (1) Haley could only find $88 million in state funding to veto in the current record setting $7 billion state budget and (2) her administration consistently denies to provide information sought in Freedom of Information Act requests.
A synopsis of Haley's many contradictions are compiled in the articles listed below. Who is the Nikki Haley most South Carolinians know? Listen to her speech tonight and ask yourself what has gone so wrong in politics today wherein we allow such hypocrisy to present itself on a national stage as something other than what it is?
Haley's Ethics – Style Trumps Substance
"Actions speak louder than words, except in politics, where b__s__ political rhetoric is often mistaken for action. Haley's actions show her to be an extremely ethically challenged politician…"
The Internet Sweepstakes Café Conundrum
It is interesting to note that SLED only stepped up its raids of internet cafes after Senate District 23 candidate Katrina Shealy was left off the primary ballot for failing to file paperwork properly. In challenging incumbent Sen. Jake Knotts, Shealy has the support of Gov. Nikki Haley.
Haley Ethics Case Won't Make Difference
In Haley's case, complaints of ethics violations by Republican fundraiser John Rainey were never heard. The case against Haley was never presented. A total of 11 "witnesses" came before committee members providing testimony to exonerate Haley, without any substantive cross examination. Joe Stalin's show trials in the 1930's Soviet Union weren't stage managed this well.
Nikki Haley, Public Corruption and Nepotism
Charges of nepotism and apparent attempts at media intimidation have turned a non-story into a story affecting the administration of Gov. Nikki Haley as well as highlighting why South Carolinaranks as the 45th worst state in the nation in a public corruption study by the Center for Political Integrity.
Nikki Haley and The State, Simpatico…
Haley's $60 million in budget vetoes this week were a joke. For someone calling herself a conservative, she found very little to cut out of a budget that totaled nearly $7 billion in the generalfund and $23 billion overall.
The General Assembly was the recipient of nearly $1 billion in extra revenue and managed to spend it all. Haley, who likes to pit herself as opposing the 'good ole boy' system, allowed virtually all of the extra $1 billion in spending to stand.
Nikki Haley to Endorse Non-Republicans
Haley relishes role of 'kingmaker'
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" ~ William Shakespeare
Nikki Haley, The Innocent Little Girl
"Haley can sit back in the Governor's Mansion laughing at the state because her innocent little girl act was given a pass by the committee. And I'll bet that is exactly what she is doing today."
Nikki Haley's Festival of Lies
"With all due respect, Mr. Rainey is a racist, sexist bigot who has tried everything in hispower to hurt me and my family," Gov. Nikki Haley told the S.C. House Ethics Committee.
That statement sums up the performance Haley put on for the committee. Combined with what came off as an innocent little girl act, Haley got away with character assassination while Rainey was never called to testify.
Nikki Haley Defends Hubby's Bizarre Comments
Senator demands Michael Haley apology
Leventis seeks apology from Michael Haley, saying comments insulted slain Guardsmen A retired South Carolina Air National Guard general took to the floor of the …
Governor Haley Conducts No State Business For 10 Days
Imagine this: Over a 10-day period in mid-March a sitting governor conducted practically no state business through letters, emails, texting, or through Facebook, Twitter or fax. That's what Gov.Nikki Haley would have you believe, according toinformation her office turned over in response to aFreedom of Information Act request by The Nerve.
The ethics of an ethics investigation
Earlier this week, Gov. Nikki Haley's attorneyoffered to unveil a list of lawmakers with ties to lobbyists.
Sounds sort of ominous, huh?
Well, that was the idea. It was meant to distract everyone here from the real issue — which is whether the governor broke the law.
Rainey: Nikki Haley Lied to Ethics Committee
"Haley lied to this committee," Rainey concludes bluntly in a memo sent to ethicscommittee chairman Roland Smith, whose panel is seeking additional information regarding Haley's previous employment with Lexington Medical Center and Wilbur Smith Associates.
Nikki Haley and Lost Trust II
"The influence of big money at the General Assembly is probably greater than it was 20 years ago,"
Twenty-two years ago, it took a sting operation by the FBI to clean up some of the corruption and vote buying prevalent among General Assembly legislators and lobbyists.


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Preparing for spring on the BVRT
LEWISBURG — 2014 will be a big year for the Buffalo Valley Rail Trail with expansion projects getting underway. The Buffalo Valley Rail Trail extension will get underway in 2014 and will continue in phases, according to Samantha Pearson, of the Buffalo Valley Recreation Authority.
Pearson said, "We want to acknowledge that this is hard to conceive of as one project. We are calling it Phase Two, but it has many different components and they are spread out along all of the municipalities that the Rail Trail touches."
She gave a list of the main projects. They are listed as follows.
1) new bike racks and benches
2) a new trail head being designed and built in East Buff alo Township where the trail ends at 12th Street
3) design for a grade crossing at Route 15 in Lewisburg
4) final design and construction of what is called the "L" in Lewisburg, which is a segment of trail that will connect to Hufnagle Park
Shawn McGlaughlin is planning director in Union County and says the expansion of the trail will be good news for the many people who use it. They had Bucknell complete a study for them on usage of the trail.
McGlaughlin said, "Bucknell's Department of Civil Engineering did some research and they found that there are about 400 users a day on the Rail Trail. They estimate that over a period of a year, there is about 80,000 to 100,000 distinct visits to the trail."
Now that Spring is just around the corner, the Buffalo Valley Recreation Authority is requesting help from the community to clean up the Rail Trail by picking up litter, removing brush and trimming trees. The cleanup is Saturday April 12th beginning at 1 p.m. Participants can meet at Buffalo Valley Outfitters at 12:30 p.m. for an informational meeting. (Ali Stevens)
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owner of middlesex county, n.J., construction company indicted for paying $350,000 in cash bribes and kickbacks
October 4, 2012 |
Payoffs Connected to Millions of Dollars in Public and Private Construction Contracts
TRENTON, N.J. – A Monmouth County, N.J., man was indicted today on charges he paid $350,000 in cash bribes and kickbacks to a N.J. Department of Transportation official and a private port terminal operator in connection with millions of dollars in construction contracts, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
George Chrysanthopoulos, 49, of Little Silver, N.J., the vice-president and an owner of Tarheel Enterprises Inc. of Morgan, N.J., is charged in a seven-count Indictment with one count of conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud, one count of mail fraud, one count of wire fraud, three counts of using the mail and facilities in interstate commerce to facilitate bribery, and one count of federal funds bribery.
According to the Indictment:
Between 2002 and 2008, Chrysanthopoulos agreed with an employee of a private terminal operator at Port Elizabeth, N.J., that Chrysanthopoulos would pay cash bribes and kickbacks to the employee in exchange for the employee's influence in assisting Tarheel in obtaining millions of dollars of construction contracts from the terminal operator. In 2002, Chrysanthopoulos and the employee agreed that Chrysanthopoulos would pay the employee $20,000 in cash for every $5 million that Tarheel earned from the terminal operator. Chrysanthopoulos paid approximately $300,000 in cash bribes and kickbacks to the employee during that period.
The employee began cooperating with law enforcement and recorded a series of meetings with Chrysanthopoulos between February 2011 and April 2011. During a recorded meeting on Feb.14, 2011, Chrysanthopoulos and the employee discussed rigging the bid process for a $3 million construction contract at the terminal operator in Tarheel's favor in exchange for $10,000 to $20,000 in bribes and kickbacks to the employee. Chrysanthopoulos and the employee also discussed steering $150 million in additional construction projects at the terminal operator's facilities to Tarheel. Chrysanthopoulos was informed by the employee that in exchange for the employee's assistance in getting Tarheel the additional projects, "we could do the same thing like we did last time, George . . . like for every $5 million, I get 20 grand, boom, . . . I'll be happy, man." Chrysanthopoulos responded, "Right . . . yeah." Chrysanthopoulos later told the employee, "I know what the parameters are . . . 20 per 5." At that same meeting, Chrysanthopoulos also told the employee not to invite certain other contractors to bid on the 2011 project, and that he would give the Employee the names of contractors that should be invited to bid.
Chrysanthopoulos gave the Employee the names of additional contractors to invite to bid for the 2011 project and told the Employee that those contractors would be submitting bids higher than Tarheel's. Chrysanthopoulos also told the Employee that he wanted to give the Employee a $50,000 bribe and kickback for the Employee's assistance in getting Tarheel the 2011 project, that he had included that amount in Tarheel's bid, and that Chrysanthopoulos would pay a portion of the bribe and kickback upon the contract being awarded to Tarheel. Later, Chrsyanthopoulos complained to the Employee that, of the contractors that Chrysanthopoulos had sought to submit bids for the 2011 project, only one (Contractor No. 2) had agreed to do so. When only Tarheel and Contractor No. 2 submitted bids for the 2011 project, the Terminal Operator solicited additional bids.
From 2006 to 2008, Chrysanthopoulos paid approximately $48,000 in cash bribes to a N.J. Department of Transportation (the NJDOT) engineer (the Engineer), in exchange for the Engineer's official influence and assistance in connection with a $44 million contract that the NJDOT awarded Tarheel in 2005 to provide road construction services on Routes 1 and 9 in Bergen and Hudson counties. The engineer served as NJDOT's resident engineer on the 1&9 Project and the engineer's responsibilities on the 1&9 project included oversight of work performed by private contractors for the NJDOT.
The mail fraud conspiracy, and mail and wire fraud charges in Counts One, Three, and Four are each punishable by a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. The charges of using the mail and facilities in interstate commerce contained in Counts Two, Five, and Six each carry a maximum potential penalty of five years in prison. Count Seven, which charges federal funds bribery, carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Each count carries a maximum fine of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense. The Indictment also seeks forfeiture of up to $17 million in proceeds related to the criminal conduct charged in Counts One and Two.
U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of the FBI's Trenton Resident Agency, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Michael B. Ward, for the investigation leading to today's Indictment. He also thanked special agents of the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General, N.Y. Regional Office, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Douglas Shoemaker, for their assistance in the investigation.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Harvey Bartle of the U.S. Attorney's Office's Special Prosecutions Division in Trenton.
The charges and allegations in the Indictment are merely accusations, and the defendant is considered innocent unless and until proven guilty.
Defense counsel: Michael Critchley and John Vazquez Esqs., Roseland, N.J.


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Pirelli will return to F1 next season for the first time since 1991. The Milan-based firm will supply all the Formula One teams from 2011-2013 with six types of tyre: four for dry weather, one for rain and one intermediate tyre. Pirelli – which has supplied tyres exclusively for the GP3 championship this year – will also supply the GP2 championship from 2011, becoming the sole provider of tyres for the most prestigious single-seater championships in global motorsport.
Here is the full text of Pirelli press release on F1 and GP2: