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DATELINE: 03 November 2016

The Polls are Tightening as Trump makes his final Hogue-Predicted Comeback. Could He still win?

We are five days away from the US Presidential Election. In Trump for President: Astrological Predictions, I documented over a year ago in October 2015, the following favorable forecast for his stars on Election Night:

This will go down as one of the most positively aspected election days any candidate can have. If Trump makes it all the way to 8 November 2016, as a Republican and not an Independent, he has the best chance beating Hillary Clinton in the presidential tournament and bringing to an end my 48-year streak of successful, 12 and 0, presidential forecasts.

Still I emphasized my prophetic final call was still picking Clinton the winner:

Clinton is going to be the next president, taking my streak to 13 and 0. No one else the Republican’s front has a chance to make that prediction wrong.

At the time I wrote that in early October there was a platoon of Republican candidates taking pot shots and receiving poisoned puckered-mouthed one-liners in reply from Trump in debates. Clinton was facing down three opponents too. I’ll say it again so that a minority of you don’t get confused by my teasing out alternative futures—like Trump breaking my winning streak. If it were at all possible, he’s the only one who could do it. So far, given that he did become the last GOP candidate standing, he’s halfway fulfilling that alternative prediction.

Half way is not all the way, folks. I’m predicting he won’t achieve this upset, but hey, I’m only human and keeping this winning streak going past 12 and 0 becomes ever more statistically challenging.

In further writings for Hogueprophecy.com, and musing on radio and television interviews, I began to sense by how much of the popular vote Clinton could either achieve victory; or, by scandals and political blunders bring the popular vote so close that Trump can actually break my 12 and 0 winning streak. I’ve always seen this election being as close and perhaps as confounded as Bush vs. Gore in 2000. Until recently I started wondering if my view of a popular vote margin of victory being within two percent was going to be wrong, since Clinton got a bounce from the debates that started looking like she’d win by seven or eight percent of the popular vote. Despite this, I always trust the intuition of the Oracle, even when events don’t at first support its vision. I don’t second guess it. I just wait and watch as reality so often comes around.

It’s going to be just as close as predicted, Hogue readers, especially when even CNN (the Clinton News Network) on 1 November polled Hillary only four-percent ahead of Trump in the popular vote in their ever-heavily Hillary-leaning CNN Poll of Polls. Even with a three-percent margin of error, the network that sometimes has its pundits read and sneak debate questions to ClintonCorp campaigners has her currently winning by a squeaker that’s well within my two-percent popular vote predictions.

Today’s ABC News/The Washington Post tracking poll has it tighter with Trump in the lead by one-percent. Add to that the margin of error and that translates to a toss-up. FBI chief Colmey’s late “Colm”-ing bombshell is making an impact. It vaguely declares an indirect reopening of the Clinton Email Gate via Anthony Wiener’s zipper-gate, sexting email records. They will “probe” and probe hard the Weiner’s thousands of emails, including those of his estranged wife and Clinton’s most intimate aide. It looks like a Republican FBI chief cop of the land is stripping himself naked of Justice Department propriety to get to Clinton back-door doggie style, as it were, tracking down private parts of emails yet to be denuded with the dirt on Hillary and aide, Huma Abedin.

Ah, October and its surprises! Clinton karma comes home to roost for roosting up a cock-a-diddle-doo of dallying Trump strumpet locker-room talk. Now the FBI is giving Clinton the “Weiner”! First it was Trump’s groping. Now we have the October “Halloweiner” weekend holiday “surprise” and this nebulous probe announced last Friday by FBI Director James Colmey is pushing hard her “polls” downward. Oh evil “Weiner”! You make the election a close, going Brazilian, commando shave.

I still say Clinton will win, if not the popular vote, she’ll beat Trump in the Electoral College vote. The fact is, this throwback solution from the 1780s ensures you have never voted in your life for any candidate. You vote for your state “electors” who may or may not vote for your candidate. A 2000-style election outcome might set in motion the fine print of a lot of constitutionally written and rare surprises.

Some of you might recall me saying on my most recent Coast to Coast AM appearances (12 September and 8 June 2016) the possibility of something really “Year of the raging red Chinese Fire Monkey” wrenching your political system. I told you about something that most of you listening perhaps hadn’t been yet aware, that a number of states have passed a new and legal interpretation of what their electors in the Electoral College will do in case of a disputed election. They will give their vote to the one who wins the popular vote.

Right now, enough states have joined this overlooked movement by the mainstream media to bring the votes pledged to the popular vote winner to around 161 of the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency. So here’s a reprise of what I said twice on Coast to Coast AM—two months and five months before the Election Day—about what kind of wacko, monkey-swinging scenario might be in store for you on 8 November.

What if we have a year-2000 style electoral deadlock, but Trump wins just a few thousand more popular votes than Clinton?

My State of Washington, being part of the movement would give its elector votes to the popular vote winner, even though it is a shoe-in blue democrat voting state. Sorry all you Demo-mules of Hillary. Your state goes to Donald Trump.

Now, because the movement hasn’t achieved 270 pledged electoral votes to the popular vote winner, the math could get very weird and though several million Democrat Washington State voters could be having palpitations of terror, Hillary still wins enough electors to win, even though, like G.W. Bush before her, she did not win the majority vote of the people.

Stay tuned on election night, as George Noory twice now had invited me on the air to be on his panel of political forecasters for his planned five-hour marathon show.

As we get closer to the big day, I will also be giving you my forecasts for US Congress seats. The closeness of the presidential race will definitely have an impact and it is more likely going to deepen congressional gridlock rather than give the winner of this race a Congress “she” can work with.

DATELINE: 03 November 2016

Hogue Prominently Interviewed for History Channel Special Nostradamus: Elections 2016 (Sunday, 6 November at 10pm EST)

I just got the release date from the Arts and Entertainment offices in New York who are producing this show for History Channel. Last Friday I made a rare visit off island to downtown Seattle to do a three-hour interview for this show. This documentary special is a unique experience for someone like me who has done over 100 documentaries since 1987. For one thing, a major production usually takes many months to put together. This one came together in several weeks! Also, it is a bold show attempting to anticipate the winner of the US National Elections this Sunday night—two nights before the votes are counted.

The new material about the election will be interwoven with footage from another documentary, in which I appeared last year, Nostradamus: 21st Century Prophecies Revealed.

I have already published a book about what a Donald Trump presidency would look like.

On the other hand, I’m already working on a book called President Hillary Clinton Prophecies because I hold that she’ll still win a very close election five days hence with a difference of less than two percent of the popular vote.

DATELINE: 03 November 2016

In Our Time of Corporate Fascism, Charlie Chaplin’s Great Dictator Speech is a Perennial Call to Peaceful Revolution

The other week, a Facebook Friend sent me a clip of Charlie Chaplin’s closing speech from his classic 1940 film The Great Dictator. The movie was a bold and politically incorrect commentary on persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. It has Chaplin’s everyman-downtrodden hero, the Tramp—the only other person famously identified after Adolf Hitler, wearing his mustache de-horned, as it were, with only a hairy rectangle under the nostrils. Hitler clipped his mustache that way because it made his rather ugly, shovel nose look smaller. The Tramp did his “stache” to make his stiff upper lip when wiggling, look funny on silent film silver screens

Chaplin had retired the Tramp by the mid-1930s. He put him back to work so to speak playing a Jewish barber who happened to look exactly like Adenoid Hynkel (a parody of Adolf Hitler). There had already been much talk of Hitler’s and Chaplin’ parallels. Both were born four days apart, rose from poverty and obscurity to become world famous and it seemed that Adolf Hitler had adopted The Tramp’s toothcomb mustache. Astrologers would tell you it was no coincidence the creator if the Tramp and his goose-“Trumping” doppelganger Nazi dictator had parallel lives because of their similar birth charts. This either cosmic collusion or circumstantial chanced similarity inspired the movie’s comedy tale of mistaken identity, when a simple, pacifist Jewish tailor by comedic hijinks and accidents turns up playing the indisposed Great Dictator of Tomania. Adolf-Adenoid is a persecutor of Jews and a Hitlerian Fascist about to invade a neighboring country as his “fist” step in world conquest. Here then comes the Tramp to the podium before his soldiers of conquest who, playing dictator, can instruct his men not to go to war.

So here’s the transcript where the impostor dictator, a Jew, sets things straight. What Chaplin says to an audience in 1940, he could say yet again to this audience in 2016:

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone – if possible – Jew, Gentile – black man – white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness – not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost….

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men – cries out for universal brotherhood – for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world – millions of despairing men, women, and little children – victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say – do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed – the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. …..

Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes – men who despise you – enslave you – who regiment your lives – tell you what to do – what to think and what to feel! Who drill you – diet you – treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men – machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate – the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” – not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power – the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then – in the name of democracy – let us use that power – let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world – a decent world that will give men a chance to work – that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world – to do away with national barriers – to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Charlie Chaplin’s movie The Great Dictator and this closing speech bring together some of the most human and highest virtues: Comedy and Foresight. True foresight is ever ahead of its times. What Chaplin called out in 1940, when Hitler was conquering Europe and seemed unstoppable, is exactly the same challenge he cries reaching all the way to our times when corporate dictatorship seems now equally unstoppable.

Heed the call.

Stop being robots.

Be Men and Women, not human machines. Be free.

The history of humanity living in a “Misery Force Field” of their unconsciousness repeats its stages of sleepwalking in cycles. The Fascism that Chaplin parodied in this unique cinema masterpiece is the same Fascism returned in our lives. It is spreading in an attempt to put out the light of our humanity. It has returned in a new guise: multinational corporate hegemony attempting to establish a new Neo-Feudalism.

It’s more subtle now, but no less Hitlerian. As I’ve often said, you don’t have a real choice in this election. The Choice is “theirs” the corporate fascists, since the US Supreme Court voted in favor of Citizens United, and made “corporations” more equal people than you and me who are true flesh and blood and full-hearted humans. Their money is “free speech” now—enough money to buy your elected officials and Supreme Court. We are all now political orphans. We’ve lost our Republic since January 2010 when Citizens United was allowed.

Americans need to rise up.

Rise up!

Take back your constitutional power.

A revolution is coming. It’s coming because the person that I’ve foreseen would be your president is about to achieve it. She has ever been the number one choice of special interests and multinational corporations that are part of this financial-sector fascist cabal. Don’t think for a moment that I’m saying, even between the lines, that you should vote for Trump, because these forces would quickly take him out of office and replace him with one of their own.

Again I say, you don’t have a choice anymore. The Choice is “theirs,” the corporations. Your political parties, all of them—RNC, DNC and the third parties too—are systems of control and polarization.

What you need is to establish a Political Community of Americans. Communities function by seeking balance, harmony and acceptance of people’s differences balanced with an understanding that we must all seek common ground and understanding of each other and then build upon that to sustain our communities. Political parties polarize and isolate people into herds. These are easily influenced by special interests that do not have their interests in mind. I see a New America where parties are abolished and political community is born. The revolution begins in 2020. May it be peaceful.

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I’ve sent you a link to the entire film because the excerpts of his final speech on YouTube are full of added and overwrought musical backgrounds that drown out Chaplin’s final speech. I want you just to witness this speech as Chaplin filmed it. So move the YouTube copy of the movie to this point in time: 1:56:53 and start paying from there.

I’ve started it where Herr Garbage (Goebbels) the propaganda minister gives his Fascist and racist preamble. Then Chaplin the barber pretending to be the dictator gets up and makes his perennial call to a new and better humanity. I suggest you keep watching after the applause to his speech otherwise you’ll miss the movie’s poetic ending that most speech excerpts leave out. The people who did that don’t seem to understand that this coda of pure and feminine power and heart is the pinnacle of what Chaplin’s speech is all about. It moves beyond politics to embrace Love.

The incredibly beautiful background music Chaplin chose is from Wagner’s Lohengrin prelude. Even in this there’s a subtle message about the misuse and misunderstanding of higher art. Hitler thought he understood Wagner’s music and message to be National Socialist; yet, despite the medium’s many faults, what Wagner ever channeled in his operas was the message that power is a curse that destroys. Only love redeems all human beings and the world, restoring the natural and ecstatic back into balance.

He was quite specific in his Ring Cycle that only a woman’s wisdom can give the world a death and rebirth. That Chaplin would use this visionary music to the prelude of Wagner’s Lohengrin both in parody and then later in a scene of transcendent beauty shows he got Wagner, like few have who can’t get past the fact that Hitler projected his evil political ambitions onto Wagner’s music.

Wagner’s Ring music dramas foresaw such tyrants as Hitler. This Double-Gemini genius depicted Hitlerian tyranny represented by two characters, Alberich the Nibelung dwarf—who, when he sings even sounds like a barking Hitler making speeches—and the king of the Gods, Wotan.

Alberich is demonic and human evil apparent. Wotan is the evil of good Gods and men, who coat their crimes as a necessary-evil means to achieve a noble end. Both are corrupted by Alberich’s ring of power that could only be forged out of the stolen red gold out of the Rhine River by one who renounced Love from his soul.

Is that not Hitler incarnate?

Wotan manages to steal the ring from Alberich and make it his own because only more noble Gods should wield such ultimate power over the world. (Yeah, right!)

Alberich curses the ring and thus the 14-hour, four-operas long epic is set in motion of power corrupting the world until it is destroyed and renewed by the wisdom of a wise woman, Brunnhilde.

She once had been a goddess-like Valkyrie, the wish maiden of her father, Wotan. He made her go against his heart because of the curse of power and she rebelled and was punished by losing her godhead and becoming a mere mortal woman.

That mortal human being could, in the end, see clearer than Gods what to do. So she set in motion with her immolation over the body of her dead hero and lover, Siegfried, the fires that would restore the ring to its owners, three nature spirits called the Rhine Maidens. They would repossess it after riding a tsunami putting out Brunnhilde and Siegfried’s funeral pyre after their immolation. This was their fiery signal to the Gods and heroes in Valhalla to set it on fire so that the world could be born anew.

If you would like to hear Brunnhilde’s immolation scene, death and rebirth of the world, click on this. This is what I consider the definitive recording of the final scenes of the Ring conducted by Georg Solti and played in studio in 1964 by the Vienna Philharmonic with Birgit Nilsson singing Brunnhilde and Gottlob Frick playing Hagen.

The first time you listen to this, don’t look at the YouTube photomontage. Just listen and let me guide your imagination after reading the following story:

The music starts at the point when Brunnhilde throws her torch on Siegfried’s pyre and you can hear the fires hungrily rushing and eating the wood. A moment before she had held the torch high over her head to illuminate Wotan’s great ravens in the rafters of the Viking-like all of the Gibichungs. They are his messengers. She beckons them to fly home and tell Wotan and the Gods that with her immolation of Siegfried and herself she sets loose the fire that will bring the fall of the Gods in Valhalla and the end of the world as it was known, cursed by corruptive power.

If you are sensitive and open to how music can make you see what you usually hear and hear what you usually see, you’ll hear and see the moment she throws the firebrand into Siegfried’s funeral pyre and the ravens are set upon their final flight home.

You’ll hear Brunnhilde greet her horse, Grane (Gran-aye) and prepare herself to ride the horse into the flames, building her singing to higher and higher levels of ecstasy anticipating her blissful union in death with Siegfried. While she’s singing you begin to hear the Love’s Redemption theme in the strings as the fires rise off his pyre setting the entire wooden hall of the Gibichung’s on the riverbank of the Rhine on fire!

Then, she mounts Grane and charges onto the pyre falling into the flames. You’ll hear this visual moment. The sting of fire and her collapse into the conflagration. Then comes the crashing of flaming timbers as the hall collapses.

Out of the Rhine rises a great Tsunami. It is ridden by the three Rhinemaidens mounting higher and higher the flood. You’ll hear the moment the wall of water douses out the pyre’s fire and recedes in the orgasmic richness of Wagner’s Eternal Sleep theme.

You’ll then hear the moment that Hagen, Siegfried’s murderer, attempts to swim the flood, retrieve the ring only to be drowned by the laughing nature spirits as the Curse theme is cut silent in mid-drown. You’ll hear the Rhinemaiden laughter in the music.

After this, they surface with the ring in their possession and begin swimming away as a great flame out of the high heavens illuminates the waters. At this point the music plays the glorious cadences of the Wallhall (Valhalla) theme with the ascending strings of Love’s redemption restoring the world and nature.

The music ascends and your consciousness ascends with it. Higher and higher, until the clouds part and you see the vast castle of Valhalla on an impossibly high mountain peak erupting in flames. You pass through the flames until you are taken inside the great hall of Valhalla itself to witness the multitude of heroes and Gods crowded around Wotan’s throne as they are burnt to ashes.

Valhalla collapses and explodes like a birthing star with a great shower of sparks and meteors. You’ll hear this sight and then hear, after a pause, the radiant theme of Love’s redemptive triumph giving birth to new heavens and earth.

Now I invite you to watch the equally-amazing picture collage that Mondolariano provides in this YouTube rendition. It is a symbolic and modern version of our times undergoing the same death and rebirth. Timeless is the kind of genius like Wagner has channeled, despite is many faults. May it be so with all of us equally faulty folk, that we becomes mediums for the great and ecstatic potentials of Existence!

DATELINE: 03 November 2016

WARNING: Billy Meier’s Prophecy about a Third World War in November matches the Month for war in Nostradamus’ short countdown

In A New Cold War: The Prophecies of Nostradamus, Stormberger and Edgar Cayce, Nostradamus gives us two potential timelines for a new cold war between the US and Russia going thermonuclear hot, either in three years and seven months or 13 years. This book details how the new cold war began in April 2014 with economic sanctions and counter sanctions fired by US-NATO allies and counter-fired back by the Russian Federation over the Ukrainian Civil War and Vladimir Putin’s seizure of the Russian province of Crimea from Ukraine back to Russia. That means we are about to cross the line of the first, and shorter countdown in November of next year.

Here is an extract from Billy Meier’s purported contact with human-looking aliens from the constellation of the Pleiades logged on Friday, 3 February 1994 at 12:01 am. The English translation from Swiss-German was by Heidi Peters.

World War III cannot be averted if Man fails to finally become reasonable! The war will begin with conventional weaponry and escalate to nuclear, chemical and biological warfare. The world war will begin in November of a specific year, after 5 years of intensive effort are spent reaching this goal which is preceded by 4 years of unspecified preparations. Should war actually break out, it will last for 3 years and 11 months and will therefore end in October of the fourth year. By this time, Earth’s northern hemisphere will be largely destroyed by nuclear fires and radioactive radiation that will annihilate the entire animal and plant world unless Man sees to it that the prophecy proves itself to be just a prophecy without fulfilling itself. Should this not be the case, the world will face some additional 11 bitter years of poverty, misery, starvation and many other ills. The nuclear radiation will cause the crippling and mutation of the children born at that time, and multitudes who survive the war will be contaminated and burned by radiation. Chemical warfare will cause horrifying and atrocious skin diseases, and biological warfare will produce festering sores and many other ills, not to mention vicious human freaks, etc.

This is how empires come to an end. And quite possibly the rest of the world.

ASSESSMENT
Note the “November” reference. It matches Nostradamus’ countdown. I can’t stress harder how important it is that you read A New Cold War, because the only thing that’s going to stop your next president from her blundering into a nuclear war over Russia is more people being informed of this imminent danger that start a peace movement. This war can only happen if we remain in denial that the danger is looming and miscalculations of an America that has lost its understanding of the world it seeks to dominate, sets this ultimate catastrophe in motion. Read this book. It might save your future.

DATELINE: 03 November 2016

A brief Word About Who’s Hacking Who and the Three Great Gorillas of the Obvious sitting in your roomy Minds

It always is a catalyst for an ever entertaining bewilderment, how people get caught up in the “lame”-stream media’s narratives of unproven suppositions, not seeing the Godzilla-girthed Gorilla of the obvious sitting the room of their chattering machinations.

I’m continually reading long discussion strings on my Facebook Public Page, where people go on and on theorizing the whys and wherefores of Russia’s hacking of the Democratic email servers; or, that WikiLeaks has used Russian hackers to gather tens of thousands of Clinton emails that her and her handlers had tried to burn off their hard drives with acid.

The first “Gorilla” of true consequence that no one notices hunched in the their mind chambered brains is not “who” hacked but the importance of “what” was hacked and hidden from the American people, such as Hillary Clinton’s schizophrenic relationship with the American people and Wall Street billionaires. She often says diametrically opposite things to both parties.

Who cares who leaked this information to WikiLeaks. Her two-timing doublespeak is bad. It means you REALLY can’t trust what your next president of the United States really says or promises.

The second Gorilla is something so obvious that only a so-called Free Press—this time, free of independence from corporate interests and thus free of journalistic skepticism and an adversarial relationship to those in power—can overlook. This Gorilla is a great, big, hairy, scratching ape-shit fact: No proof of any kind other than hearsay from the highest government organ-grinders, supports the assumption most of you from press to lowly people run with—that these hacks came from Russia.

They could have come from anywhere. The hacks of DNC servers could have come from that 27-year old Clinton operative, Seth Rich, who mysteriously and violently died around the time of the DNC Convention in July. Follow the hints from Julian Assange that he was the WikiLeaks source—not Moscow.

Which brings me to the third Godzillian Gorilla sitting in your minds unnoticed: If it were the Russians it couldn’t be Vladimir Putin’s hack.

Why?

Well, if you study this former spy’s modus operandi and other hacks factually attributed to his spy networks, they wouldn’t have been so obvious and sloppy like people wanting to be caught accidentally “on purpose.”

I wouldn’t put it pass our own CIA making this story up, using a double-agent in Moscow secret services to splice an ugly hack on Putin’s spooks.

One thing is certain, no one can really say who hacked whom until the US government steps up and shows the world incontrovertible proof of the Russian hack. They won’t because they can’t without exposing their plant making it look like Putin did it. If you’re Putin, the clever Judo black belt master of the unexpected feint, you don’t go out of your way to support Trump if you want Trump to win.

You make it look like you want Clinton to win so she looks like a stooge of Moscow, sending the sheeple US voters herding towards Trump.

(Duh…?)

DATELINE: 03 November 2016

Last but not Least, Why I break all “Good Karma” Chain Letters sent to me

Friends and fellow travelers, periodically I get these chain letters that first pump up your spiritual importance by passing a good deed of a good karmic thought from one reader to another with the trick or treat embedded. If you send it to five more people you get the “treat” of increasing your good karma. If you break the spreading of good karma, you get the “trick” of a veiled threat of bad karma. So here’s one of those letters passed along by a Facebook friend named “Robert F.” that required a unique, and I hope deeper understanding about karma and consciousness for him and for you:

ROBERT F.
Thought of you and I do believe in Karma. Hope u get something good out of it xx This is for u x Read till the end! I sent an angel to watch over you last night, but it came back and asked “why?” The angel said, “angels don’t watch over angels!” twenty angels are in your world. Ten are sleeping, nine of them are playing and one is reading this message. The universe has seen you struggling with some things and says it over. a blessing is coming your way. If you believe in Karma send this message to 14 friends including me, if I don’t get it back I guess I’m not one of them. As soon as you get 5 replies, someone you love will quietly surprise you… Not joking. Pass this message on. Please don’t ignore it. you are being tested and Karma is going to fix two big things tonight in your favor. If you believe in Karma drop everything and pass it on TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. DON’T BREAK THIS. SEND THIS TO 14 FRIENDS IN 10 MINUTES IT’S NOT THAT HARD. WHOEVER SENT THIS TO YOU MUST CARE ABOUT YOU

HOGUE
The hardest-to-recognize unconscious motivations and false givens come to us from the evil of good men. Case in point, the sin of the well-meaning Robert. First he “believes” in Karma, not realizing that beliefs are always borrowed from others. They are not a “knowing” from the presence deep inside of us. Belief is an action of ignorance, so it will beget the karma of spreading more ignorance if I keep this chain letter unbroken.

Robert then “believes” he can send his imaginary friends, his “angels” to watch over me. Then the flattery begins, Robert says I’m one of the “angels.” Preamble over, Robert jumps into his sales pitch. I’m going to get a karmic bargain blessing if I send his sweet message to 14 friends—especially to Robert too! Let’s all hoard away a bank vault worth of fiat good karma, already.

Now flattery turns into a veiled threat of a karmic “test.” That I must now drop everything I’m doing, get greedy to pass along and be rewarded a lot of good karma and grow the chain of love (greed for it actually) or face “the test.” And its easy! No skin off my aura.

What I am about to say will read harsh to many, but I’ll declare it now, I do not send this compassionate illumination in any heat of emotion or anger towards you, Robert. Your good deed embodies the evil of unconscious motivations that need to come out of darkness into light. It’s harder to recognize a good man’s evil than that of bad men. The sinner is not as subtle an evildoer as a “Saint.”

From Robert F.’s spiritual flattery to spiritual veiled threats, this new age sewage misunderstanding of Karma goes. Moreover, can you not see the spiritual greed hidden in such chain karma-caressing letters?

I recognize it because of a growing and deeper understanding of karma. I cannot sustain this chain of spiritual greed to get brownie points of good karma like putting coins in a piggy bank for a rainy doomsday.

I always break these chain letters, out of compassion because they hide the worst kind of lies—a self-nourishing, needy, greedy spiritual Ego, the hardest kind to transcend because it is costumed in a picture of Enlightenment and a pose of love. I know he means well but there is a deeper understanding—deeper than action and reaction (Karma)—that is required on the path of Truth.

Karma is just on the surface of life. It is part of the phenomenal misunderstanding of life in appearances when we are “en-formed.”

And here’s why:

When you do, say, or decide something, that action brings a reaction or response, but tell me, who is THAT which is committing actions and receiving reactions karmically? Don’t fall for the mind trap of sending me labels of identity, because what I’m hinting at is an understanding stripped of all labels and thoughts or feelings that we merely project from our mind only as false pictures of our stages of love and enlightenment.

Meditation, the science of self-observation, helps one watch the phenomenal world, and understand the body-mind mechanism that unconsciously chooses actions that have reaction. This witnessing becomes aware of an “Isness” that is not a party to this karmic business. It’s a witnessing consciousness that can see the underpinnings of spiritual ego and greed that appear as the roots of your seemingly beautiful chain letter.

I break this karmic chain, lovingly, happily, and offer Robert something far more profound than 20 angels, or the conceit of flattering your readers about being themselves angels, for if they are angels, they are equally little devils. They are “not two.”

When you begin to recognize the Whole of things in this meditation of feeling in your heart of hearts the “not two” then that which is not two awakens in your life like a sun-rising revolution, a growing, silent explosion.

So what then is your good and bad karma, Robert?

Not two.

Meditation can help.

If you permit me, I can send you links and information to the meditation techniques I use to understand the deeper realities beyond good and bad karma, the darkness and light, the rite of love-hate, the eternity beyond life-death. Just go to my website, push the Contact menu button and leave only one word in the subject line: Meditation. I will then send you this information.