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Michelle Thompson is knee-deep into stage 4 cancer, but you wouldn't know it from looking at her.
Her silver-blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes are just as bright as they were prior to the presumably devastating diagnosis in early 2013.
"I have this cancer that is supposed to mean a long, slow decline, but, all of a sudden, I'm feeling better," Thompson said. "I am reversing a no-reversible trend, and that sort of thing makes you happy."
It helps, too, that she's pushing herself to be better every day, including employing a newly FDA-approved procedure that eliminates her most hearty source of pain - tumors that dot her radiation-plagued broken spine.
Approximately 1.5 million Americans are diagnosed with cancer every year, and two-thirds will develop bone metastasis, with the spine being the most common site, according to the International Journal of Surgical Oncology. The painful spine tumors are particularly prevalent in breast cancer patients, like Thompson.
Prior to September, when Spinal Tumor Ablation using Radio-frequency, referred to as STAR, was approved by the FDA, the pain could be treated less than ideally with morphine, or palliative radiotherapy requiring multiple radiation treatments at a hospital.
"What we're now doing in the image-guided tumor ablation has been done all over the body, in the liver, kidneys, pancreas and breast for decades," said Dr. James Carlisle, an interventional oncologist at the Utah Vascular Clinic in Salt Lake City. He said he performs the outpatient procedure once every couple of days.
"People are living longer with cancer because of great other treatments available for cancer," he said. While the STAR procedure isn't a cure, he said it can improve a person's quality of life, getting their pain to a more manageable level.
Thompson, 52 and from South Jordan, Utah, is not taking any narcotic pain medications and doctors can't really give her an accurate prognosis due to all of the nontraditional treatment methods she has employed. About a year ago, however, she was told she had a 20 percent chance of surviving five years.
"Your fate is in God's hands, not the doctors'," she said, joking that maybe she'd die sooner if she just gave up.
But she's not giving up, not in the slightest.
"You need to figure out if you have something to live for ... then start living," Thompson said, adding that she's "still got stuff to do."
"I figure, get this stuff out of my bones and then go back to work," she said.
Getting the cancer out of her bones isn't easy, and doctors, Thompson said, haven't exactly given her a road map. But she believes that if she can give her body what it needs to heal itself and eliminate everything it doesn't, she can live longer and be happier and healthier doing it.
"My cancer is further along, so it might take longer," Thompson said. "But our bodies are designed to heal themselves. We just need to give it the tools to do that."
As a former pharmaceutical sales representative, Thompson dealt with oncological drugs and spent much time researching cancer to stay current in the industry. She said she learned a lot about how other countries' medical communities respond to the disease and figured she'd have to head to Asia if she was ever diagnosed.
But when the time came, she was far too weak to pack her bags or to board a plane.
At one point, Thompson said, she was so weak that she'd put her dirty laundry in a pillowcase and kick it down the hallway to the washing machine, to be cleaned a few pieces at a time. A gallon of milk had to be separated into two pitchers so she could handle pouring it. And the most she could lift was a 15-pound bag of cat food.
Few options for treatment
Having waded through various possible diagnoses prior to the confirmation that it is cancer, Thompson received few options for treatment along the way.
Thinking she didn't have a choice to get rid of the debilitating tumors throughout her body, she succumbed to months of physically and emotionally exhausting radiation, but her resulting condition led her to think, "Maybe we are treating cancer the wrong way (in America),'" she said.
"Oncology is like the Wild West. Cancer is a disease that is not well understood, and I understand how much is not known about it," Thompson said. "(Doctors) are hoping you're the patient who has the best outcome, but they don't really know."
For someone who was previously physically active, the post-radiation body wasn't cutting it. And on top of the residual pain, Thompson learned that radiation not only wiped out her healing white blood cells, but left her with weakened bones.
STAR, developed by San Jose-based medical device company DFINE, has helped Thompson regain core strength, as her back is more able to straighten without pain. It's enough of an improvement that, even with stage four cancer, she is riding a bike and no longer using the shopping cart she would lean on to get around.
"I've always been a type-A overachiever," she said. "I didn't feel like I was done with the stuff I wanted to do before I die."
Thompson underwent her second STAR procedure on Friday. Within hours, she was already feeling better.
Through three malleable probes inserted into vertebrae in Thompson's back, Carlisle heated tumors to the point of elimination and then filled the space with cement that solidifies quickly, providing stability to the spine.
Worldwide, DFINE has treated 150 patients with the new procedure, 95 percent of whom report experiencing pain relief, according to the company's website. Thompson's procedure was accompanied by a DFINE clinical specialist, as the technology is still relatively new.
The minimally invasive, image-guided cancer therapy, Carlisle said, "is revolutionary."
"The ability to articulate and bend a needle is something I've never seen before," he said. "The robustness within the system to make a curve within a bone is absolutely remarkable."
Cancer may come back
Metastases may show up again after others have been ablated, as radiation treatment for cancer can weaken the bones and cancers remain in the body. Carlisle said that as long as they're symptomatic and causing problems, they can be ablated, but "it isn't necessary if pain medication takes care of it."
And while Thompson is not the typical patient, given her background in pharmaceuticals and her "phenomenal energy and enthusiasm," Carlisle said, she is the type that "can influence the outcome for other patients."
"When a patient is changed by something in medicine and they become an advocate, they move the ball down the field in a way that an individual physician or group of physicians just can't do," he said. "Michelle is someone like that. She is really changing things for future patients."
Thompson is a participant in a STAR clinical trial at the clinic, but she is responsible for the cost of her surgeries there. When she reached her lifetime radiation limit, she had to find other options to treat her pain, and ultimately, her cancer.
"I have to work on me," she said, adding that she has family histories to write.
For now, though, Thompson is beating the odds and she's loving it.
And, frankly, so are her pets - a 100-pound Akbash dog and what has grown from one to five cats. She is more able to get outside with them. She's exercising more. She's taking care of herself - in more ways than one.
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As reported by Tim Cummings in The Guardian, the man credited with "almost single-handedly bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West," was the Dalai Lama's emissary, Gerald Yorke, a personal friend and secretary to Aleister Crowley, the godfather of twentieth century Satanism.[1] Yorke also wrote an original foreword to a secret book on the Kalachakra initiation, and Aleister Crowley, the Golden Dawn, and Buddhism. Yorke also served as consultant to Lucifer Rising, by experimental film-maker Kenneth Anger, based on the concept from Crowley's Book of the Law. Anger, who was at the center of the bizarre nexus of rock 'n roll and occultism in Laurel Canyon during the 60s, was also closely associated with Anton LaVey, head of the Church of Satan and members of the Mason clan.
Also, in October 1998, the Dalai Lama's administration acknowledged that it received $1.7 million a year in the 1960s from the US government through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[2]
Sound link an incongruous mix? Not when you consider the real history of the Dalai Lama, distinct from the phantasm that has been portrayed in the mainstream media.
The popularity of the Dalai Lama, as an expression of the wisdom of Buddhism is actually related to the occult myth of Shambhala, which has its origin in the geopolitical antics of the Great Game, the strategic rivalry and conflict for supremacy in Central Asia, between the British Empire and the Russian Empire in the eighteenth century. Not to say that the rival Empires battled for control of a shibboleth, but rather that occult myth seems to have been nurtured to serve imperial ambitions.
Shambhala, the legendary home of the Aryan race, was derived originally from the notion first proposed by Emanuel Swedenborg and popularized by Scottish Rite Mason, Chevalier Ramsay, of the Hindu Tantra as an expression of an "Asian Kabbalah," which provided the opportunity to propose an origin of the occult tradition in a people other than the Jews, and to identify them as the purported ancestors of the Europeans.
Kalachakra in union with his consort Vishvamatr
There is some substance of Swedenborg's claims, as Gershom Scholem also noticed that the Kabbalah bore a marked resemblance to those of both Indian Yoga and Muslim Sufism."[3] However, instead of ancient Aryan migrations, such similarities can be attributed more likely to later Gnostic influence in India. In other words, it was Jewish Kabbalah that influenced Indian Tantra, not the other way around.
Tantra is a style of occultism recognized by scholars to have arisen in medieval India no later than the fifth century AD, after which it influenced Hindu traditions and Buddhism. The Gospel of Thomas, discovered among the Gnostic gospels near Nag Hammadi, in 1945, is named for the apostle Thomas, who is traditionally believed by Christians in Kerala, in south-west India, to have spread Christianity among the Jews there. Edward Conze, a British scholar of Buddhism, pointed out that Buddhists were in contact with these Thomas Christians."[4] Elaine Pagels mentioned that, "Trade routes between the Greco-Roman world and the Far East were opening up at the time when Gnosticism flourished (A.D. 80-200); for generations, Buddhist missionaries had been proselytizing in Alexandria."[5]
In 1833, Csoma de Körös was the first to report of the legend of Shambhala in the West. Based on the linguistic affinities between Hungarian and the Turkic languages, de Körös felt that the origins of the Hungarian people were in "the land of the Yugurs (Uighurs)" in Xinjiang, a province of Northwestern China. In a 1825 letter, Csoma de Körös wrote that Shambhala is like a Buddhist Jerusalem, and believed it would probably be found in Kazakhstan, close to the Gobi desert. Others later would also locate it more specifically either in Xinjiang, or the Altai Mountains.[6]
H. P. Blavatsky
Csoma's knowledge of Shambhala was derived from the Kalachakra Tantra of Tibetan Buddhism, a superstitious and highly ritualized set of beliefs that evolved from an amalgam of Buddhism, Hindu Tantra and the pre-Buddhist shamanistic religion of Bön. Developed in the tenth century, the Kalachakra is farthest removed from the earlier Buddhist traditions. In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, it is claimed that the Buddha taught Tantra, but that since these were "secret" teachings, transmitted only from guru to disciple, they were generally written down long after his other teachings. However, historians argue that assigning these teachings to the historical Buddha is "patently absurd."[7]
The Kalachakra Tantra is considered by the lamas to be the pinnacle of all Buddhist systems, but there have traditionally only been individual experts who truly command its complicated ritual. For the Yellow Hats (Gelugpa), these are the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama. In public, as revealed in the comprehensive study of Victor and Victoria Trimondi, the Dalai Lama performs only the seven lowest levels of initiation, while the secrets of the upper eight degrees may not, under pain of torturous punishment, to be discussed with the uninitiated. In these upper degrees, extreme mental and physical exercises are used to push the initiate into a state beyond good and evil. Mirroring tendencies found among the Gnostics, the Kalachakra Tantra requires the initiate to indulge in killing, lying, stealing, infidelity, the consumption of alcohol, and sexual intercourse with "lower-class" girls.[8]
Csoma de Körös' mention of Shambhala became the basis of the mystical speculations offered by H. P. Blavatsky, who founded the Theosophical Society, and came to be regarded as an oracle of Freemasonry and the godmother of the occult. Blavatsky became largely responsible for initiating the popularity of Buddhism as a font of the Ancient Wisdom. More specifically, Blavatsky saw Tibetan Buddhism as the only true preservation of ancient shamanism and the traditions of magic.
The White Tsar
Gérard Encausse (aka Papus)
The exploitation of the myth of Shambhala was in alignment with the new political directions of the Great Game, that would feature actors connected to the Theosophical Society and the Martinist Order, headed by Gérard Encausse, also known as Papus. As a young man, Encausse studied Kabbalah and later joined the French Theosophical Society, and was also a member of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor and the Golden Dawn.
Papus had also founded the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Croix (OKR+C) along with Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, Grand Master of the Martinist Order, who proposed the political philosophy of synarchism, which became the bedrock of much twentieth century fascism. Synarchy came to mean "rule by secret societies," serving as priestly class in direct communication with the "gods," meaning the Ascended Masters of Agartha, a legendary city that is said to reside in the hollow earth.
Agartha was connected to the myth of Shambhala, popularized by Blavatsky as the legendary home of the Aryan race, and derived its influence from Bulwer-Lytton's occult novel, The Coming Race or Vril: The Power of the Coming Race. It was probably through Martinist channels that the Polish explorer Ferdynand Ossendowski learned of the legend of Agartha. Ossendowski wrote a book in 1922 titled Beasts, Men and Gods, in which he tells a story he claims was imparted to him of a subterranean kingdom which exists inside the earth. This kingdom was known to the Buddhists as Agharti, which is associated with Shambhala. Ossendowski was told of the miraculous powers of the Tibetan monks, and the Dalai Lama in particular, which foreigners could barely comprehend, and continued: "But there also exists a still more powerful and more holy man… The King of the World in Agharti."[9]
Ferdynand Ossendowski
In establishing the OKR+C, which came to be regarded as the "inner circle" of the Martinist Order, Papus dreamed of uniting occultists into a revived Rosicrucian brotherhood, as an international occult order, in which he hoped the Russian Empire would play a leading role as the bridge between East and West.[10] Papus believed that the vast Russian Empire was the only power capable of thwarting the conspiracy of the "Shadow Brothers," and to prepare for the coming war with Germany. Papus served Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra both as physician and occult consultant. Through Papus the Imperial family became acquainted with his friend and spiritual mentor, the mystic Maître Philippe who exercised an important influence on the royal family before Rasputin. He was believed to possess remarkable healing powers, as well as the ability to control lightning, to travel invisibly. The purported forgers of the Protocols of Zion were also said to have made use of an earlier version of the work discovered by Papus.[11]
Among these circles, the city of St. Petersburg became a hotbed of plots surrounding the Great Game, of confused British and Russian interests. As reported by Richard B. Spence in Secret Agent 666, in the summer of 1897, Aleister Crowley had also travelled to St Petersburg in Russia, under the employ of the British secret service, aiming to gain an appointment to the court of Tsar Nichoals II.
Lama Agvan Dorjieff
A key actor in these intrigues was the Lama Agvan Dorjieff (or Dorzhiev), chief tutor of the Dalai Lama XIII, who became his ambassador to the court of the Tsar Nicholas II. In 1898, only a few months after Crowley's visit, Dorjieff himself travelled to St. Petersburg to meet the Tsar.
Dorjieff's meeting with Nicholas II was arranged by the Tsar's close confidant, Prince Esper Ukhtomskii (1861 – 1921). A Theosophist, Ukhtomskii's closest ally was Count Sergei Witte, Russia's Minister of Finance and first cousin to Blavatsky. When Ukhtomskii accompanied Nicholas II while he was on his Grand tour to the East, he made contact with Blavatsky and Olcott at the headquarters of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, India, and promised to use his influence to push forward their projects.[12] Hinting at the nature of the Russian ambitions he represented, Ukhtomskii wrote, "in our organic connection with all these lands lies the pledge of our future, in which Asiatic Russia will mean simply all Asia."[13] As he explained,
The bonds that unite our part of Europe with Iran and Turan [Central Asia], and through them with India and the Celestial Empire [China], are so ancient and lasting that, as yet, we ourselves, as a nation and a state, do not fully comprehend their full meaning and the duties they entail on us, both in our home and foreign policy.[14]
Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
By the 1890s, Dorjieff had begun to spread the story that Russia was the mythical land of Shambhala, that Nicholas II was the White Tsar that would save Buddhism, raising hopes that he would support Tibet and its religion. By 1903, both Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, and Francis Younghusband became convinced that Russia and Tibet had signed secret treaties threatening the British interests in India and suspected that Dorjieff was working for the Russian's. The fear of Russia drawing Tibet into the Great Game to control the routes across Asia was therefore a reason for the British invasion of Tibet during 1903-4. According to legend, Dorjieff then fled to Mongolia with the Dalai Lama.
It is possible that Dorjieff was also involved in a later plot to carve out a huge Mongol empire in Central Asia, by the "Mad Baron" Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, who in 1921 established a short-lived regime in Outer Mongolian during the Russian Civil War. A self-proclaimed warrior Buddhist who dreamed of leading a holy war in Asia, the Baron adhered to the "Shambhala" myth, believed himself to be a reincarnation of Kangchendzönga, the Mongolian god of war, and allegedly tried to contact the "King of the World" in hopes of furthering his scheme. Dorjieff's disciple was Sternberg's supply officer, and Ferdinand Ossendowsky was also a key advisor, having joined the baron's army as a commanding officer of one of the self-defense troops.
Dorjieff was widely suspected as being one and the same as George Gurdjieff, a charismatic hypnotist, carpet trader and spy, who worked as a Russian secret agent in Tibet during the early part of the twentieth century. Having been in contact with the Bektashi Sufis of Turkey, Gurdjieff also put forward the myth of Central Asian Shamanism as the source of the occult tradition.
The Green Dragon Society
George Gurdjieff
Gurdjieff also had alleged ties to British intelligence.[15] And there has also often been the suggestion that he and Joseph Dzhugashvili, later known as Stalin, met as young students while attending the same seminary in the Caucasus. Gurdjieff's family records contain information that Stalin lived in his family's house for a while.[16] There are also suggestions that Stalin belonged to an occult "eastern brotherhood," which consisted of Gurdjieff and his followers.[17]
Louis Pauwels, a former student of Gurdjieff, in his book Monsieur Gurdjieff, asserts that one of the "Searchers After Truth" that Gurdjieff speaks of in his book Meetings with Remarkeable Men, was Karl Haushofer who, through his student Rudolf Hess, influenced the development of Adolf Hitler's geopolitical strategies. Haushofer was also a leading member of the Thule Society, from which evolved the Nazi Party, and which was founded by Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorf, who had studied Kabbalah in Turkey under Bektashi Sufis who were also Freemasons. Haushofer was supposed to have been with Gurdjieff in Tibet, supposedly advised Haushofer to adopt the swastika.[18]
The Thule Society also was to have established contact with secret monastic orders of Tibet through a small colony of Tibetan Buddhists, which was established at Berlin in 1928. According to Pauwels and Bergier, in The Morning of the Magicians, the Thule Society sought to make a pact with Shambhala, but only Agarthi agreed to help. Haushofer believed, following occult legend, that subsequent to a global cataclysm, the Aryans split into two groups. One went south and founded Agarthi, the holder of the right-hand path and positive vril. The other tried to return to Hyperborea-Thule, founding instead Shambhala, a city of the degenerate left-hand path and negative forces.
Karl Haushofer & Rudolf Hess
Already by 1926, explained Pauwels and Bergier, there were colonies of Hindus and Tibetans in Munich and Berlin, called the Society of Green Men, in astral connection with the Green Dragon Society in Japan, to which Haushofer belonged. The leader of the Society of Green Men was a Tibetan lama, known as "the man with green gloves," who supposedly visited Hitler frequently and held the keys of Agharti.[19]
Mel Gordon in Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant discusses the career of an occult figure in late Weimar Berlin, sometimes referred to as the "Magician with the Green Gloves," in the service of the Nazis. He was not a Tibetan, but a Jew who went by the name of Erik Jan Hanussen. A devotee of Asiatic and tantric traditions, he enjoyed the company of Germany's military and business elite. In March 1932, when Adolf Hitler's political future seemed doomed, Hanussen predicted a resurgence of the Nazi Party. Dr. Walter C. Langer, a psychoanalyst, prepared a psychological profile of Hitler for the Office of Strategic Services in 1943, according to which: "…during the early 1920's Hitler took regular lessons in speaking and in mass psychology from a man named Hanussen who was also a practicing astrologer and fortune-teller. He was an extremely clever individual who taught Hitler a great deal concerning the importance of staging meetings to obtain the greatest dramatic effect."[20]
Erik Jan Hanussen
A 1933 book, Les Sept Tetes du Dragon Vert (The Seven Heads of the Green Dragon) by Teddy Legrand, also makes mention of the same society. "Teddy Legrand" was a pseudonym, the author's real name being Pierre Mariel. Under the name Werner Gerson, he would also later write Le Nazisme: Societe Secrete ("Nazism: Secret Society"), one of the first books on Nazi occultism. Mariel was also a one-time French grand master of Antiquus Mysticusque Ordo Rosae Crucis (AMORC), founded in 1915 in New York, and which was developed from the of Aleister Crowley, and borrowed heavily from Theosohy and the Golden Dawn. Mariel was also a member of the Martinist Order, which he hinted might have had links to the Green Dragon.[21]
The book presents the Green Dragon, or simply "The Greens," as an insidious international cabal who seek world domination. Mariel also implies that connected with this conspiracy was also Rudolf Steiner, founder of the Anthroposophical Society, a breakaway organization from the Theosophical Society, through his connections to pan-German secret societies. Mention is also made of Gurdjieff and Blavatsky's successor, Annie Besant.
In the book, two brother spies are inspired by their shared curiosity about an object supposedly found on the executed Tsarina Alexandra's body, which bears an enigmatic inscription in English: "S.I.M.P. The Green Dragon. You were absolutely right. Too late." They quickly determine that the first element, which is accompanied by a six-pointed "Kabbalistic" symbol of the Martinists, stands for "Superieur Inconnu, Maître Philippe." As reported by Legrand, after the murder of the Russian imperial family in 1918, a judicial investigator, Nikolai Sokolov, concluded that German intelligence had been active in both the Tsarist and the Bolshevik camps.
The Tsarina had apparently adopted the symbol of the swastika as her personal signature, which seems to have been used to communicate with an organisation attempting to support them. The leader of the organisation, Boris Soloviev, was Rasputin's son-in-law and also a triple agent for the German secret service. Soloviev deceived the Tsarist camp by pretending to work for their cause, while actually delivering them all to the Bolsheviks. Rasputin was an agent in this scheme, receiving letters from his handlers in Sweden signed "The Green." Supposedly then, Maître Philippe had tried to warn the Tsarina of the threat of the Green Dragon, represented by Rasputin, who eventually replaced him at the court.
Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln
During their quest, the two spies also sought the assistance of Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln (1879-1943), a real-life character who was a Jewish adventurer of Hungarian origin, who for a time had also been a Christian priest, as well as British Member of Parliament, convicted fraudster, German right-wing politician and triple-agent, and Buddhist abbot in China. He was initiated to the occult by Harold Beckett, an ex-Indian Army officer who allegedly had ties with Maître Philippe and Papus, after which Trebitsch-Lincoln went on to join numerous secret societies including the Freemasons, the OTO and Chinese triads.[22] In 1925, Trebitsch-Lincoln underwent a "mystical experience" in a hotel room in China, after which he embraced Theosophy. His revelation opened his interest in Tibet and Buddhism, and he received initiation as Dordji Den at a monastery outside Lhasa.[23]
Among the secrets Beckett supposedly revealed to Trebitsch-Lincoln was that there are only seventy-two "True Men" for each generation. These are identified with the Green Dragon or, more simply, "The Greens," who number precisely 72 conspirators, who were, presumably, the "72 unknown superiors" of occult legend. They are also considered the same as mentioned by Walter Rathenau, a Jewish politician who served Foreign Minister of Germany during the Weimar Republic.[24] Just before he died, he blamed the "seventy-two men who control the world," as responsible for his assassination on June 24, 1922, two months after the signing of the Treaty of Rapallo which renounced German territorial claims from World War I.
Trebitsch-Lincoln himself was suspected of being the "Man (or Lama) with the Green Gloves."[25] According to Trebitsch-Lincoln, the society of the Green Men, the parent of the Thule Group, originated in Tibet.[26] In 1939, Edouard Saby published Hitler et les forces occultes, in which he depicts Hitler as a medium, a magician and initiate, and also refers to the connection with Tibet: "Wasn't it Trebitsch-Lincoln, the friend of the Tibetan Badmaiev, who initiated Hitler, by revealing to him the doctrine of Ostara, a secret school of India, where the lamas teach the supremacy of the Aryan?"[27] The Mongol Dr. Piotr Badmaev, a practitioner of Tibetan herbal medicine, was an associate of Lama Dordjieff, Ukhtomskii and Sergei de Witte in St. Petersburg, at the court of Nicolas II, whom they envisioned as the "White Tsar of Shambhala."[28]
Trebitsch-Lincoln even won the confidence of the Gestapo's local representative, SS Colonel Joseph "The Butcher of Warsaw" Meisinger, who he convinced he could rally the Buddhists of the East against any remaining British influence in the area. Meisinger urged that the scheme receive serious attention, and sent him to Berlin, where Heinrich Himmler was enthusiastic for it, as was Rudolf Hess, but it was abandoned after his flight to Scotland in May 1941.
Expeditions to Tibet
Ernst Schäfer expedition to Tibet (1938)
Haushofer, therefore, apparently acquainted Hitler with the teaching of the Society of the Green Dragon, and taught him the techniques of Gurdjieff's Fourth Way, which were ostensibly based on the teachings of the Sufis and the Tibetan Lamas. Under the influence of Haushofer, Hitler authorized the creation of the Ahnenerbe in 1935, that sponsored expeditions to locate the Aryan forefathers in Shambhala and Agartha. The 1939 expedition was said to have gone to Tibet with the specific purpose of setting up vital radio contact between the Third Reich and the lamas in 1939, and Blavatsky's Stanzas of Dzyan were used as a code for all messages between Berlin and Tibet during the War.[29]Pauwels and Bergier argue that Hitler sent the expedition out of his desire to find Agarthi, which he had been made aware of from his relationship with "the man with the green gloves."
Ernst Schäfer, a German hunter and biologist, participated in three expeditions to Tibet, in 1931, in 1934 – 1935, and in 1938 – 1939, supposedly for sport and zoological research. Among the expedition was Dr. Bruno Beger, a member of Himmler's personal staff, who was the actual "expert" who pushed forward the racial studies of the Ahnenerbe.[30] In 1939 he went to Tibet as a member of the SS Expedition, when measured the skulls of more than 400 Tibetans in order to investigate a possible relationship between the Tibetan and Aryan "races." In 1943, he was sent to Auschwitz where he took the measurements of 150 mainly Jewish prisoners. In 1971 he appeared in a German court and was sentenced to three years imprisonment on probation for his crimes as a Nazi.
Dalai Lama & Bruno Beger
Dalai Lama & Heinrich Harrer
Beger was also connected to the current reigning Dalai Lama XIV, who was revered as representing a special connection between the Nazis and Tibet.[31] Acting as the young Dalai Lama's personal tutor until the early 1950s, was former SS officer, Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber, competition skier, geographer, and author.[32] He is best known for his books, including Seven Years in Tibet (1952), which was the basis of a film in 1997, starring Brad Pitt in the role of Harrer. A strong friendship developed between Harrer and the Dalai Lama that would last the rest of their lives.[33]
Coinciding with the Schäfer expedition of 1934 – 1935 was another conducted by Nicholas Roerich in search of Shambhala, in inner Mongolia, Manchuria and China, organized by the US Department of Agriculture.[34] According to some researchers, Roerich became a member of Papus'the Ordre Martiniste while in St. Petersburg prior to World War I.[35] There, Roerich was involved in the construction of the Buddhist temple under the guidance of Lama Agvan Dorjieff.[36]
Roerich's affinities to Martinism and synarchy were also found in his link with Harvey Spencer Lewis, who was keen on making Roerich a legate of AMORC on his expedition to Tibet, which apparently Roerich never was. Nevertheless, AMORC claims to this day that Roerich communicated certain occult techniques from Tibet which were since integrated in their Rosicrucian teachings. Lewis boasted of the correspondence he received from Roerich's second expedition.[37]
Nicholas Roerich
In Shambhala: In Search of a New Era, Roerich also hinted at a similarity between Shambhala and Thule, and mentioned the association of Shambhala with the underground city of Agharti, reached through tunnels under the Himalayan mountains. Heinrich Müller, who was in charge of a Gestapo section of the Nazis, claimed that Roerich was known to the Gestapo under the code word "Lama," and that he had contacted the Nazi regime in 1934 to ascertain whether they were interested in supporting his undertakings in Inner Asia.[38]
One of Roerich's followers was a young Russian Theosophist, Vladimir Anatol'evich Shibaev, an agent for the Communist International (Comintern) working with Indian nationalists. Shibaev introduced the Roerichs to other Soviet officials and encouraged their plans to move to India as a first step towards their Great Plan. Roerich held close ties to the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police (later renamed OGPU, NKVD and eventually KBG). The head of the OGPU's "Special Department" was G. I. Bokii, a former member of Papus' Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Croix (OKR+C), who belonged to Badmaev's circle in St. Petersburg, that included Lama Dorjieff.
G. I. Bokii
Aleksandr Barchenko
During the Stalinist purge trials, Bokii confessed to having been part of a Masonic lodge in 1909 that had been founded by Gurdjieff and that included Nicholas Roerich and his wife.[39] Bokii was an associate of Aleksandr Barchenko, also a former member of the OKR+C, and former student of Gurdjieff. Bokii was also a member of the Edinoe Trudovoe Bratstvo (ETB), founded by Barchenko, whose primary aim was establishing contact with Shambhala, and included numerous other current or former Chekists and British double-agents.[40] The ETB lasted until it was disbanded by Stalin in the late 1930s, following charges leveled against Bokii, Barchenko and their associates, that their occult activities were part for treasonous plots associated with British intelligence in the Far East.
It was Bokii and Barchenko who were charge of the OGPU's effort to exploit the services of Nicholas Roerich. Roerich's expeditions began in 1925, attended by OGPU agents. According to his wife Helena, they were also under the guidance of one of one of Blavatsky's "Mahatmas," Master Morya, or Master Allal Ming. As Markus Osterrieder explains:
It cannot be denied that they seriously interpreted themselves and their "mission" as part of some larger spiritual Plan that ultimately should serve the advance of human evolution, especially since Master Allal Ming warmed them up by revealing their illustrious previous incarnations, thereby freeing vanity and arrogance – a phenomenon that occurs not exclusively in esoteric circles, but finds a especially fertile grounds among adepts – and politicians.[41]
Their ultimate objective, usually referred to as the "Grand Plan," like Dorjieff and von Ungern-Sternberg, was to establish a pan-Buddhist, transnational "New Country" spanning from Tibet to southern Siberia, including territory that was then governed by China, Mongolia, Tibet, and the Soviet Union, to be ruled by the Panchen Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, who had been forced to flee the country in 1923 because of disagreements with the then Dalai Lama, the country's secular leader. It was prophesied that the Panchen Lama's return would signal the beginning of a new age.
Henry A. Wallace
Hearing that Roerich's expedition was nearing the Tibetan border, the British counseled the Dalai Lama not to allow him to reach Lhasa. Roerich then set out again on a second expedition, this time with the support of the Vice President Henry A. Wallace, who was also a member of the Theosophical Society. It is widely suspected that it was Roerich who inspired Wallace to add the Great Seal of the United States, first designed in 1782, on the reverse side of the dollar bill, featuring an unfinished pyramid and the Illuminati symbol of the All-Seeing Eye.[42]
With Wallace's help, the Roerichs were also able to gain the support of President Roosevelt, who had become a member of the high grade Scottish Rite in 1929. FDR was deeply fascinated by the geography and history of Inner Asia, from Tibet to the Siberian border, what he called "the chess board of international politics." This attitude is reflected in the series of eight letters addressed to him at the instigation of "the Masters," and written by Elena Roerich between late 1934 and early 1936. The "Master" communicated to the President that:
…a Great State will be created in the East. This beginning will bring that equilibrium, which is so urgently needed for the construction of the great Future. America was since long linked with Asia. [...] Thus one must accept that the peoples occupying the larger part of Asia are destined to respond to the friendship of America. [...] The alliance of the nations of Asia is decided, the union of tribes and peoples will take place gradually, there will be a kind of Federation of countries. Mongolia, China and the Kalmuks will constitute the counterbalance of Japan and in this alliance of peoples, Your Good Will is needed, Mr. President.[43]
Roerich's true ambition was to prepare the coming of a New Age of "peace," which would be ushered in by Rigdenjyepo, the earthly manifestation of Maitreya, who is the prophesied Lord of the New Era of Shambhala. He is the "Ruler of the World," and Maitreya himself, the Last Avatar who brings the Kali Yuga, and whose representative on Earth is the Dalai Lama. The Roerichs did not expect to wait long to witness these events. Helena Roerich, channeling "Josephine Saint-Hilaire," gave the heralds of Northern Shambhala five years to arrive, and a lama predicted to them "someone of greatness will come" in 1936.[44] Tenzin Gyatso was born in 1935, and identified as the incarnation of the Dalai Lama in 1937, becoming the current Dalai Lama XIV.
Esoteric Hitlerism
Savitri Devi
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
The Dalai Lama continued to maintain important ties to fascists, particularly Chilean diplomat Miguel Serrano (1917 – 2009, who was an important exponent of what is called Esoteric Nazism. Serrano was inspired by Savitri Devi (1905 – 1982), who achieved wide influence among neo-Nazi circles through her development of a religious form of Nazism that assimilated many notions from Hinduism and glorified the Aryan race and Adolf Hitler. She linked these ideas to the Hindu notion of the avatar, who incarnates the periodic descent to earth of the deity, typically Vishnu.
Savitri's ideas concerning the origins of the Aryans were drawn from the books of Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856 – 1920), the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement. The British colonial authorities derisively called him "Father of the Indian unrest." He also helped found the All India Home Rule League in 1916–18, with Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Annie Besant. Tilak was an accomplished scholar of ancient Hindu sacred literature. In 1903, he wrote the book The Arctic Home in the Vedas, in which he argued that the Vedas could only have been composed in the Arctic, and that Aryan bards had brought them south after the onset of the last ice age.
After the defeat of the Third Reich, Serrano continued to believe that Hitler had escaped from the ruins of Berlin and found a refuge in Antarctica. The idea was widely rumored in the Latin American press during the summer of 1945. In The Golden Thread: Esoteric Hitlerism, Serrano claimed that Hitler was in Shambhala, formerly at the North Pole and Tibet, but which had been relocated to an Antarctic base in New Swabia. There, Hitler was in contact with the Hyperborean gods, and he would someday emerge with a fleet of UFOs to lead the forces of light over the forces of darkness in a last battle and to inaugurate a Fourth Reich.
Serrano's assertions are a reflection of the claim of Nazi contact with the Society of the Green Dragon. German conspiracy author Jan Udo Holey, who chose as his nom de plume "van Helsing," after he read Bram Stoker's Dracula, offers details of the mythos. In Secret Societies and their Power (1993), Helsing claims that Tibetan monks worked on the establishment of the Third Reich with Templar Knights who were organized in the highest lodge of the "black sun," which purportedly continued to maintain an underground base in the Himalayas. The ruler of the underground kingdom is said to be "Rigdenjyepo," with his representative on Earth being the Dalai Lama.
Similar claims were put forward by the controversial Trevor Ravenscroft's The Spear of Destiny (1973). According to Ravenscroft, the Nazi missions to Tibet had the aim of establishing contact with the Aryan forefathers in Shambhala and Agharti, adepts who were the guardians of secret occult powers, especially Vril, and also mentions the recurring story of the establishment in Berlin of the Society of Green Men, and their mysterious leader the "Man with the Green Gloves."
UFOs in Antarctica
Although these claims do not ring with much plausibility, Allen H. Greenfield, who was also Bishop within the Gnostic Catholic Church–Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), purportedly corroborated the story. Greenfield claims to have personally interviewed an anonymous Knight of Malta who met with the esoteric leadership of the Third Reich in 1937, attended by Haushofer, to "sell" the Nazi regime on contact with what he called "the coming race." When asked by Greenfield in 1979 to explain what he meant, he explained, "the Ultraterrestrials, of course. The Germans had noted their 'ghost rockets' in Sweden, and were aware of their power. Most of the older Nazis present, though, were former members of the Thule Society or the archaic Vril Society, and took me to be talking about Tibetans or Aryan supermen or some such bunk. Except Haushofer, who knew better, and the 'Man with the Green Gloves' who, though supposedly a Tibetan himself, was certainly an Ultraterrestrial."[45]
Through his diplomatic appointments, Serrano met many leading Indian personalities, becoming a personal friend of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi's closest collaborator, who became the first Prime Minister of independent India (1947 – 64), was recruited by Annie Besant at the age of only thirteen, herself presiding at his initiation ceremony.[46]
During his ambassadorial postings in Vienna and subsequently in Switzerland, before he was dismissed from the Chilean diplomatic service in 1970s by President Salvador Allende, Serrano cultivated ties of friendship with Arnold Toynbee, Arthur Koestler, Aldous Huxley and leading former Nazis and international fascists like, among many others, Otto Skorzeny, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Hanna Reitsch, Herman Wirth (ex-director of the Ahnenerbe), Ezra Pound and Wilhelm Landig.[47]
Black Sun
Wilhelm Landig was the leader of the Landig Group, also known as the Vienna Lodge, formed in 1950 to revive the Aryan mythology of Thule. Described in Göten gegen Thule, at what he refers to as Point 103 is a secret base that has been established by the SS elite in Arctic Canada, with a large underground complex equipped with advanced technology including flying saucers. Many foreign delegates attend a great conference held in the assembly hall of the base, decorated with astrological symbols and an enormous icon of Mithras slaying the Bull. The delegates who have all been flown to the base by flying saucer include a Tibetan lama, Japanese, Chinese, and American officers, Indians, Arabs, Persians, an Ethiopian, a Brazilian officer, a Venezuelan, a Siamese and a Mexican Indian. The Arabs belong to secret Islamic brotherhoods, the Indians and Persians to ancient Aryan traditions, and the Orientals allude to their occult orders and a mysterious world center. Attired in their uniforms or national dress, many of the delegates make speeches identifying their national myths and ideals with those of the Thule and pledge their full support when the time comes for action.
Serrano also boasts of being "good friends" with the Dalai Lama XIV, and provides his explanation of the curious relationship as follows:
I also met the Dalai Lama at the moment he escaped from Tibet during the Communist Chinese invasion. He was very young, 25 years old. I went to meet him at the Himalayas. He never forgets that. And when we met again during the funeral of Indira Gandhi in Delhi. He invited me to go to Dharmasala, where he lives now. We had a very interesting talk. It is good to know that before Buddhism was introduced in Tibet, Tibetans were a warrior's race and their religion, the Bo, used also the same swastika of Hitlerism. Until today Intelligence Services of England and United States have been unable to discover the real mysterious links that existed between Tibet and Hitlerist Germany.[48]
Dalai Lama & Miguel Serrano
As was the case with most Nazi assets, the Dalai Lama passed into the hands of the CIA after World War II. After the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950, the CIA began training Tibetan resistance fighters against the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China. A CIA-financed front, the American Society for a Free Asia, publicized the cause of Tibetan resistance, with the Dalai Lama's eldest brother, Thubtan Norbu, playing an active role in the organization. The Dalai Lama's second-eldest brother, Gyalo Thondup, established an intelligence operation with the CIA as early as 1951.[49]
As explain Victor and Victoria Trimondi, for over more than 25 years, many hundreds of thousands have been "initiated" by the Dalai Lama XIV through the mysteries of the Kalachakra Tantra and Shambhala, which have become central pillars in the mythology of religious neo-Nazism.[50] Serrano incorporated the Fourteenth Dalai Lama into the formulation of his esoteric myths around Hitler. His "skill," he said of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, is "closely linked with that of Hitler's Germany… on the basis of not yet discovered connections."[51] The Dalai Lama has never distanced himself from Serrano. Instead of opposing fascism, he recently called for the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to be spared a trial, making reference to the need for "forgiveness."[52]
See also:
Paul Vallely, "I was a Tantric Sex Slave." The Independent (February 10, 1999)
Michael Nenonen. "A different Tibetan Buddhism." (September 29 to October 12, 2005, No 123)
[1] Tim Cummings, "Beyond belief," The Guardian, (Saturday 10 July 2004).
[2] "World News Briefs; Dalai Lama Group Says It Got Money From C.I.A." The New York Times, (2 October 1998).
[3] Kabbalah, p. 180.
[4] E. Conze, "Buddhism and Gnosis," Le Origini dello Gnosticismo: Colloquio di Messina 13-18 Aprile 1966 (Leiden, 1967), p. 665.
[5] Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (New York: Vintage/Random House, 1979), p. xxi.
[6] Alexander Berzin, "The Nazi Connection with Shambhala and Tibet," The Berzin Archives, (May 2003)
[7] Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa, The Religious Traditions of Asia: Religion, History, and Culture, (Routledge, 2002) p. 80.
[8] Dalai Lama – The Kalachakra Tantra – Rite of Initiation (London, 1985), S. 348 ff.
[9] Ferdinand Ossendowski, Beast, Men and Gods, (1922), p. 118.
[10] Mehmet Sabeheddin, "The Secret of Eurasia: The Key to Hidden History and World Events," New Dawn, No. 68 (September-October 2001).
[11] Cesare G. De Michelis. The Non-Existent Manuscript: A Study of the Protocols of the Sages of Zion, trans. Richard Newhouse, (Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2004) p. 115.
K. Paul Johnson, Initiates of Theosophical Masters, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995), p. 133.
[13]Ukhtomskii, Travels in the East of Nicholas II Emperor of Russia when Czarewitch 1890-91. Translated by Robert Goodlet, edited by James Birdwood. (Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1896), p. 60.
[14] Ibid.
[15] Richard B. Spence, "Red Star Over Shambhala: Soviet, British and American Intelligence & the Search for Lost Civilisation in Central Asia," New Dawn, (September 25, 2005).
[16] Luba Gurdjieff, A Memoir with Recipes (Berkely, CA: Ten Spead Press, 1993, p. 3; cited in Paul Beekman Taylor, Gurdjieff and Orage: Brothers in Elysium, (Weiser, 2001), p. x.
[17] Margarita Troitsyna, "Joseph Stalin's occult knowledge and experiments," Pravda (June 23, 2011).
[18] Gary Lachman, Politics and the Occult; James Webb, The Harmonious Circle (Thames and Hudson: London, 1980).
[19] The Morning of the Magicians, (London: Souvenir Press, 2001) p. 189.
[20] A Psychologial Profile of Adolph Hitler; see also Walter C. Langer, The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report, (New American Library, 1972), p. 40. Langer originally mistyped his name as "Hamissen," but in the same sentence subsequently spelled the name correctly two times as Hanussen. In the 1972 reprint of the document by New American Library, the name "Hanussen" is spelled correctly.
[21] Oleg Shishkin, Ubit' Rasputina, (Olma Press: Moscow, 2000); cited in Dr. Richard B. Spence, "Behold the Green Dragon: The Myth & Reality of an Asian Secret Society." New Dawn No. 112 (January-February 2009).
[22] Serge Hutin, Governantes Invisiveis e Sociedades Secretas (Sao Paulo: Hemus, 2004), p. 28, 46, cited in Richard B. Spence, "The Mysteries of Trebitsch-Lincoln: Con-man, Spy, 'Counter-Initiate'?" New Dawn No. 116 (Sept-Oct 2009).
[23] Jean Robin, Hitler: l'elu du dragon (Paris: Guy Tredaniel, 2009), p. 95-96.
[24] Jean Robin, Hitler: l'elu du dragon (Paris: Guy Tredaniel, 2009), p. 95-96.
[25] Richard B. Spence, "The Mysteries of Trebitsch-Lincoln."
[26] The Morning of the Magicians, (London: Souvenir Press, 2001) p. 189.
[27] Edouard Saby, Hitler et les forces occultes: La magie noire en Allemagne. La vie occculte du Fuhrer (Paris: Société d'Éditions Littéraires et de Vulgarisation, 1939): 131, trans. N. Goodrick-Clarke in T. Hakl, Unknown Sources, p. 26.
[28] Fr. L, "Esotericism and Espionage: the Golden Age, 1800–1950," Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition, No. 16, Vol. 2. Vernal Equinox 2009.
[29] Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany 1890-1935. (Wellingborough, England: The Aquarian Press, 1985) p. 221.
[30] Victor & Victoria Trimondi. "The Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Part II – 12. Fascist occultism and it's close relationship to Buddhist Tantrism."
[31] Ibid.
[32] "Rolf Magener." The Telegraph. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
[33] "His Holiness the Dalai Lama said Heinrich Harrer Will Always be Remembered by the Tibetan People." Central Tibetan Administration. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
[34] Alexander Berzin, "Mistaken Foreign Myths about Shambhala," The Berzin Archives, (November 1996, revised May and December 2003)
[35] Markus Osterrieder, "From Synarchy to Shambhala," p. 15.
[36] Frank Joseph & Laura Beaudoin, Opening the Ark of the Covenant: The Secret Power of the Ancients, the Knights Templar Connection, and the Search for the Holy Grail, (Franklin Lakes, NJ: New Page Books, 2007) p. 28.
[37] Ibid., p. 16
[39] Paul Beekman Taylor, Gurdjieff's America: Mediating the Miraculous, (Lighthouse Editions, 2004), p. 164.
[40] Oleg Shishkin, Bitva za Gimalai (Moscow: Eksmo, 2003), p. 48; cited in Richard B. Spence, "Red Star Over Shambhala," New Dawn, September 25, 2005.
[41] Ibid., p. 1.
[42] Ibid.
[43] Dnevnik, 10 November 1934, t. 40: 15.08.1934–03.02.1935; cited in Markus Osterrieder, "From Synarchy to Shambhala," p. 12.
[44] Joscelyn Godwin. Arktos: The Myth of the Pole in Science, Symbolism and Nazi Survival, p. 102.
[45] Allen Greenfield, Secret Rituals of the Men In Black, (Lulu.com, 2005), p. 28.
[46] Meyer, Karl Ernest & Brysac, Shareen Blair, Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game And the Race for Empire in Central Asia, p. 459.
[47] Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, p. 177.
[48] "Dalai Lama's Depressing Past, Disappointing Politics," Foreign Confidential, (Monday, March 31, 2008).
[49] Loren Coleman, Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti (London: Faber and Faber, 1989).
[50] Victor & Victoria Trimondi, "The Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Annex: Critical Forum Kalachakra."
[51] Miguel Serrano, Das goldene Band, p. 366.
[52] "Forgive Pinochet, says Dalai Lama," CBC News, (Friday, November 10, 2000).


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Alright, not everyone will agree with me about dipped strawberries being better than gift cards, but they sure change up the gift giving game. And let's be honest, they are a pretty perfect gift for any occasion, be it Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's Day, or Teacher Appreciation Day. When it comes to teacher appreciation gifts I never really know what a teacher needs. I know that no teacher NEEDS chocolate or strawberries, but I know that indulging in a delicious treat helps calm my nerves, and lets be honest, we are nearing the end of the school year. If kids are going crazy, teachers are too.
Chocolate dipped strawberries are easy peasy, so long as you can manage to find some perfectly ripe strawberries, and get your chocolate to a good consistency, they shouldn't give you too much trouble.
So whip up some chocolate dipped strawberries, add a cute little note, and throw them in a berry basket. Done and Done. Last minute gift complete.


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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Hail the Austrians! (Do the math)
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"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." ~ Mark Twain
The current economic collapse and financial system breakdown were forecast and explained by only one "school" of economic theory: the Austrian. The irony is that the other two "major schools" - the Keynesian and Chicago (Supply Side/Monetarist) - are fixated on empirical data yet incapable of recognizing that history refutes their theories. The two mainstream schools are really very similar with only a difference of opinion on the size of government and the amount of monetary inflation. But the continual failure of the ever elusive predictive mathematical models they both seek just doesn't provide the intellectual spark needed to look outside their statist boxes. The abandonment of logic for faith in fantastical assumptions has induced an ivory tower-delusion on a grand scale. Luckily for us the Austrian Economic Theory has survived the Dark Ages of Economics and we have the intellectual tools to be able to rebuild a healthy, productive and prosperous society.
Austrian Economic Theory is based on understanding that the human ability to act combined with the natural desire to survive leads to purposeful action. Humans act with purpose. Interfering with people acting towards those purposes perverts both the actions and the people. Third parties butting in between other people who have agreed to cooperate for their mutual benefit are superfluous at best and deal killers at worse. There may be compromises as individuals adapt to the force of those interventions allowing for diminished satisfaction, but the end results are inevitably spoiled. The Keynesian Cultists see humans as guinea pigs to be experimented on while the Chicago Schoolboys counsel some limits to those experiments. We have common sense being assaulted by arrogant madness and it's time to say stop.
Economic theory is just like any other type of theoretical study in that the discipline must be dominated by academics. Academia is not real life; it can't be, shouldn't be and never will be. It can foster clear thinking, it should promote realizing intellectual potential and it will go on in spite of any resistance to learning. Do not allow the mysticism associated with "halls of higher learning" going back to pointy hats with stars on them to put a spell on you or repulse you. The good news is that most Austrian School academics understand more clearly than their counterparts that the real world is what counts, not the fantasyland of ivory towers.
A defining difference between the statist economic theorists and free-market economic theorists is the use of mathematical models. The free-market Austrians rely on logical arguments stemming from human action. This point of view recognizes that the study of economics is more of a philosophical discipline than a scientific one. The statist economists believe the exact opposite. This line of thinking seeks to put the study of economics in the realm of physical scientific disciplines. This fallacy damns the statist economists to an eternity in purgatory because economics is about human relationships, not numerical relationships. Real science requires the use of the scientific method and reproducible results. I was fortunate to have been blindsided by this insight when still in college before ever even hearing of the Austrians.
Calculus was a 'weeder course' at the university I went to that is required to enter certain colleges. At the time those students wanting to enter the business college like me had to take classes with those students wanting to be mechanical engineers, chemists and physicists. Further, these classes were graded on a curve where a certain percentage of the class was going to fail which led to a very competitive atmosphere. After it became evident that most of the business student wannabes were getting their asses kicked by the more serious students, the rumbling began. The discussion one day in class was eye-opening.
A bold business student better suited for sales than calculating complained that the trouble was that all of the problems in the book we were asked to do as homework and also on the tests pertained to the physical sciences and not economics or business. Therefore, he said, we were at a disadvantage when interpreting a problem in order to solve it. The teacher pointed out that the subject of the problems did not affect the correct formulation and calculation of answers. Basically two plus two is always four whether or not it's apples or oranges. As one of the few business students that passed the course that semester, I agreed that this made sense and kept my mouth shut.
The mutineers pressed on, "But there are practice problems in the book that are based on economics problems like what we'll be doing and you never assign them." The teacher smiled and several A-students laughed.
One said, 'Yea well the rest of us don't want to waste our time jerking off.' This raised the emotional level of the conversation and the hair went up on the backs of several business students.
"What's that supposed to mean?" the ringleader responded indignantly.
"It means that economics is mathematical masturbation. If you're going to make up the inputs and pull the relationships out of your ass, then you might as well just make up the answers."
"We can measure the temperature that water will boil and the speed of objects falling, because we can reproduce these experiments proving quantifiable results."
"In physics, we can test our facts. Economics is bullshit in, bullshit out. It's a waste of time."
The professor made a comment about language and indicated that he would throw in an economics problem once in while if some students thought that it might help them understand the subject better. I didn't think calculus was all that hard, but also figured I'd never use it again out in the real business world. I got my B- and was right. I do still use algebra and geometry all the time, but passing calculus was just my ticket of admission to the next level of miseducation.
In spite of this slap in the face, when I took my first micro-economics course, I thought wow, now this is something that will be useful. Looking at prices, costs, profits, and other seemingly real stuff on graphs with curves was cool. If this or that happens then the curve shifts this way or that way according to apparently sensible mathematical formulas and assumptions. I thought, well maybe there is something useful to this economics thing. Then I took macro-economics and was introduced to the prevailing theory that depended on aggregates of totally unrelated items and a slew of assumptions of things like 'perfect markets.' This class led me to realize that it was all a scam and time to move on, get my degree as soon as possible, stop wasting time and start making money. You see, I was not from a wealthy family and paid my own way through college, so practical concerns dominated my thinking.
So if you ever thought that Paul Krugman, Ben Bernanke and the whole gaggle of Ivy League economists were jerk-offs spewing out unadulterated bullshit, you were right. Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard and a whole bunch of underappreciated Austrian economists said as much and were marginalized by ignorant media whores. So what is the basic difference?
The biggest thing is recognizing the folly of central planning. The bigger is better, everybody line up, and one-size fits all, conformist type of thinking does not enhance the survival of individuals, much less promote prosperity in a society. Individual planning, however, typically leads to cooperation that requires collective planning on at least some small scale. The "I can do it," "let me help," and "'let's all do what we can do" type attitude is what gets things done. Not regulations, by-laws, bureaucrats, politics or queen bees. This principle also applies to money and banking, by the way.
Von Mises identified what he called the "calculation problem." That means that socialist/central planning has no metric, like profit and loss in the free market, to determine a price for goods and thus a rational allocation of resources. It is therefore impossible for the brainiest group of planners with the most powerful computers in the world to make the infinite number of decisions necessary to make an economy run smoothly. Their decisions will always cause shortages, lead to lower quality products and services, and eventually shut down any economy. It's just a matter of time. Ludwig von Mises predicted that the Soviet Union would collapse back in 1927, yet was scorned and then ignored by the "economics profession" because of it.
The Keynesian Pre-School adherents preach the gospel of central planning, which is why central planners/politicians subsidize their "work." Their argument stems from the fact that the free market does not always result in maximum satisfaction of needs and desires. Duh! That "welcome to the real world" insight is easily dealt with by most working individuals coping with survival on a daily basis, but for some reason, the calculus of this condition cries out for correction by self-styled supernatural beings with obviously too much time on their hands. If only all of us working saps would just follow the plans put forth by our masters then we would all be happy cogs in a well-oiled machine humming along at maximum efficiency! Of course, it doesn't take very long until the standard of perfect harmony that the free market was held up to is abandoned when judging the results of central planners.
The Chicago Boys believe the market is great, except for the most important thing, which is money and banking. What tools. Talk about hacking at branches while missing the root of the problem. They realize that the leg irons are holding back productivity, but the handcuffs must stay on. Only the Austrians assert that like liberty, free markets mean no chains at all. Of course, that doesn't mean that fraud, theft, and violent coercion are allowed. That's just a stupid red herring you hear a lot.
The elite fascination with central planning is stuck in an eternal feedback loop. The plan is forever changing, but the monopoly on planning must never be questioned. There can be arguments over how much central planning is optimal, like between the Keynesians (communists) and the Chicago Boys (fascists), but the efficacy of central planning is never allowed to be discussed. Ludwig von Mises gave us the insight that free market interventions by central planners inevitably leads to additional interventions meant to fix problems caused by previous interventions. This results in more and more interventions until the central planners exhaust the energy in the system chasing their tails. Somehow the obvious alternative to stop going in circles is shunned as too radical.
The fascist political operating system that burdens our society makes its number one priority survival. This is why court economists will tout absurd, discredited ideas long after they have been consumed in the burning flames of their crashed theories. This article is not a scholarly expose of economic theories right and wrong; it is a tip of the hat to those with the common sense to see what works and the courage to stand up to institutional bias. But the usual suspects deserve to be scolded for their silly posturing and counterproductive influence. People like Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Jim Rogers and others who saw this economic catastrophe coming have been marginalized by self-serving ignoramuses because they were right. The Wall Street, media, Ivy League and Washington, D.C. morons that didn't see what was coming, then denied the reality of the situation long after it was here and now are still clueless as to what really happened, are now the ones "in charge" of "fixing the economy." God help us.
As a real estate market analyst and lover of liberty interested in economics, I discovered long after college and my Libertarian infatuation with Milton Friedman the works of Leonard Reed and Murray Rothbard. This led down a path to Henry Hazlitt, Ludwig von Mises and a whole bunch of other people who are still living and writing stuff that makes sense about economics. While many of my colleagues stuck with their empirical data models that always miss turns in the market, I was inspired to use logic and consider other sources of knowledge. After being called a "gloom and doomer" among other more vulgar terms for killing multi-million dollar deals as economically unfeasible at the peak of the boom, I now have clients and friends calling me "Nostradamus" for saving them from making some pretty big mistakes. I tell them that my insight isn't due to superior intellect or crystal balls, but to my study of Austrian economics.
For a more skillful orientation and comprehensive explanation of economic theories, I suggest starting at the Ludwig von Mises Institute website at www.mises.org. Any person interested in understanding why we are in the current mess would be well served to study Austrian economics; but beware, it is like taking the red pill in The Matrix.


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12 U.S. Code § 1443 - Forms of bank stock and obligations
2008—Pub. L. 110–289, which directed amendment of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act (this chapter) by substituting "the Director" for "the Board" and "Director" for "Federal Housing Finance Board" wherever appearing, was executed to this section by substituting "the Director" for "the Board of Directors of the Federal Housing Finance Board", to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
1989—Pub. L. 101–73 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section read as follows: "In order that the Federal Home Loan Banks may be supplied with such forms of stock, debentures, and bonds as may be necessary under this chapter, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to prepare such forms thereof as shall be suitable and approved by the board, which shall be held in the Treasury subject to delivery, upon order of the board. The engraved plates, dies, and bed pieces executed in connection therewith shall remain in the custody of the Secretary of the Treasury. The board shall reimburse the Secretary of the Treasury for any expense incurred in the preparation, custody, and delivery of such stock, debentures, and bonds."


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Recently, I polled some fabulous moms of Irish dancing boys from around the world about their sons' hair styles and anything different that they might do to get ready for a feis or major competion or show as far as hair care.
Sooooo....... your son is getting ready for a feis..........
What does he do to his hair? Any products he especially loves? Gravity-defying, gelled styles?? Do you do it or does he do it?
There were answers from moms saying that their sons could care less about their hair and that just making sure it was clean was enough, but for the majority, their sons did something. Something being at the minimum a little hairspray to the maximum being a whole routine of several products that would create a gravity-defying style that would be a needle-sharp danger to any small bird who might accidently alight on their son's head.
Some of the younger guys are still letting mom do their hair, but about the time they hit 12 or 13yrs of age, they take it upon themselves. These masters-of-rhythm with their feet seem to have artistic talent elsewhere as well. They LOVE to use this artistic talent with their hair. It becomes its own medium for them to express their personality. Based on some of the styles I've seen, we have some truly rebellious characters and independent-thinkers.
Everything, from faux-hawks to full on spikes, goes. One of the most popular looks is the short all over and then a spikey area going straight up at the front. Also, popular is the tousled spikey look.
The favorite products of the boys are the Got2BGlued line of gels and sprays and Aussie Instant Freeze spray.
The one thing that was the same across the board was getting any haircuts needed done about 2 weeks out from competitions. This way there's time to get that crowning expression of who they are, whether they are a rebel or a classy guy, to look just right.
***The fabulously handsome boys above, sporting some of the most current and popular styles, are (from top to bottom):
Tristan N, Sean S, Lucas M, Ciaran T, Caleb H, and Breandan O
Thanks to the boys and their moms for the fabulous photos!


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The World's Nerdiest Restaurant
It wasn't so long ago that nerdy stuff was in the minority. Nowadays, however, the mainstream and the, uh, geekstream have become total BFFs. Shows like Game of Thrones deliver HBO its highest ratings ever and just about every big summer blockbuster is based on a comic book. What's next? An awesome South Korean restaurant.
Designer Woong Cho has taken his lifelong passion of collecting geeky film memorabilia and turned it into a restaurant. Cinema World, located in the city of Daegu, is a science fiction fan's paradise. The eatery is filled to the brim with Star Wars statues, Iron Man toys and, count 'em, four life-size Terminators. Oh yeah. They serve food, too.
Just how many cool things does Cinema World have on display? A Saudi Arabian businessman offered Cho more than a million dollars just for the Star Wars stuff alone. That ought to give you an idea.