The Spirit of Our Age

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Fate-Based Systems

You Are NOT the Father

Let's suppose my son comes from 23 generations of prize-fighters. Our family gets separated and he is forced to learn to fight from the descendant of a student of some competing training-camp. What if the founder of that training-camp learned all their valuable skills and techniques from my great-great grandfather, but their founder left no written record of that study and accomplishment? What if records were left by students of that rival camp's founder, who passed those down from generation-to-generation leaving out any reference to their founder receiving that training from my great-great grandfather? Could my son, then, inherit from those teachers the same valuable wisdom he would have gained from his fore-fathers or would he likely receive something of less value?

Greeks are credited with being the founding fathers of Western civilization. Consequently, the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras is credited with being the founding father or Mathematics and Numerology. The problem with this is two-fold. First, Pythagoras never left a written record of his accomplishments or what specifically led to those accomplishments. Second, evidence does exist which proves that Pythagoras studied nearly 20-years in the mystery schools of ancient Egypt. So, how could he be the father of anything legitimate, when history records that he studied for 20 years elsewhere and wrote nothing down? Pythagoras simply does not past the test of paternity.


In the modern world, we tend to follow patterns devoid of true paternity. I call these constructs "fate-based systems". A fate-based system is one that offers the illusion of choice, when the reality is that those choices are confined to that system. If numerology pre-dated Pythagoras, yet he is given credit, then why? It is because the modern world was constructed on the idea of Western Imperialism. The Greeks adapted systems from more ancient cultures. The Greco-Roman Empire became the Holy Roman Empire. The Holy Roman Empire became the Church and established Western science, which touts accepted dogma and the merits of new, empirical evidence as scientific proof. Our metaphysical view is even decidedly Western, because our schools build solely upon the philosophy of those founding fathers.

So, while we have the illusion of evolutionary continuity with respect to philosophy and the sciences, much of the ancient foundation on which modern spirituality, philosophy and science are built has been hidden from us or is lost to us. What has been offered to us are fate-based systems that work within the present illusionary construct of reality. These systems fit within the framework of western-rule and do not allow for a true seizing of individual or collective destiny, divine or otherwise. In other words, we are trapped in a matrix.

In writing the Book of Numbers, I chose to deviate from the pattern of derivative work. I recognize that it would be easier to author a numerology work that agrees with all the others. But, the Book of Numbers is something new and different. There are reasons why one means X and two means Y. Fate-based information has hidden some of the knowledge that would liberate us from confinement to the present system. One cannot say the information is "wrong", because it works within the framework of the system. However, that information will not get us beyond the confines of that system.

Many of us feel we hit an invisible wall at-times - that there is just no getting beyond a certain level in our growth and development. What you are perceiving are the parameters upon which the system is based. Pushing beyond those parameters is nearly impossible without the tools with which to see beyond those parameters. Destiny-based numerology and astrology offer us two of those tools. All human behavior can be seen to fit patterns. That which enables us to transcend and transform those patterns changes the world. But, who wants to be the father and mother of the New World?! That's the question.

Reincarnation: A Chance To Do It All Again

When the Church chose to leave the concept of reincarnation out of its official dogma, we lost our ability to see how our past has a significant effect upon the present. If the use of drugs and alcohol by our parents can affect our genetic predisposition to adopt those same behaviors, it stands to reason that the scourge of war has a devastating effect on human physiology and behavior as well. It stands to reason that we have a predisposition to getting even, striking back and wiping the enemy off the face of the Earth that result from over 5,000 years of war.

And, while we can faintly recognize this effect as being passed from generation to generation via the gene pool, we are absolutely blind-sided to the effect that war has on the souls of men who live to die to return again through the process of reincarnation. For all of recorded history, civilizations modern and ancient have recognized that reincarnation is a reality. And, where we don't learn from the patterns of past-lives, those patterns are repeated in subsequent lives until we evolve beyond them.

I was reading an article in the UK Daily Mail on the Battle of Verdun in World War I - how 750,000 lives were lost in that 303 days of fighting. The article records that Ernst Toller wrote, "We were cogs in a great machine which sometimes rolled forward, nobody knew where, sometimes backwards, nobody knew why." That statement is sure proof of our unconscious consent to continue in this pattern.

Another French soldier wrote, "‘What a bloodbath, what horrid images, what a slaughter! Hell cannot be this dreadful." So, it would seem that in some ways we create our own hells, including the killing fields that play host to the generations of men. And, when given a chance to do it all again, we so willingly oblige. We think that "getting it right" means winning and continue in a pattern of personal self-destruction. Well, getting it right is ending the pattern of self-destruction that knows no right or wrong, only here and gone. It is not cowardice to abolish war, but the sensible policy of an evolved race. It's far-past the time to make let's 'do it all again' mean something new for all of humanity.

James Will M. Power

Absence: One of the Most Powerful Tools In Your Arsenal

The Tampa Police Union has called for a boycott of Beyoncé's Formation World Tour. They have vowed they will not secure the venue in protest of Beyoncé's Super Bowl 50 half-time show. And, while it is hard to fathom how her half-time performance was anti-police, it is well within the right of the police union to act on the behalf of officers in this way. In fact, this is a strategy the Black Lives Matter movement and all of Black America might want to consider employing ourselves.

Absence can often be a more powerful and effective tool than a boycott that calls for your presence. First, you have your perspective and others have their own. Often, arguing against another's perspective only strengthens their resolve to hold firm to their chosen viewpoint. Second, sometimes the very people you're addressing have no intention of listening to your concerns what-so-ever. There is a saying - "Power cedes nothing without a demand." So, the powerful are often unmoved, until and unless forced to act.

The act of 'not showing up' gets people's attention, especially if and when they have an expectation that you will be present. So, the police union is putting Beyoncé and all entertainers on notice. You will not align yourself with any group, action, ideology (or in this case imagery) that even suggests anti-police sentiment. Again, it doesn't matter that the Black Panther Party was pro-community. Further, it doesn't matter that the group disbanded decades ago. To those who fear some kind of imagined Black uprising, the iconography stands as a threat.

The sad thing is - the Tampa Police Union did not seek discourse or dialogue, toward determining if Beyoncé's performance was intended as anti-police sentiment. This further broadens the divide that exists between the community and the police, because it feels like the police are using the well-worn 'go-to' strategy of bullying individuals into submission. To the on-looker, this is absolute over-kill. It is reminiscent of so many stories we tend to hear about in the news - that the police shot multiple times, without being provoked to do so.

However, protestors can learn a thing or two from the Tampa Police Union. Absence is a very powerful weapon to have in one's arsenal and at one's disposal. As opposed to showing up to protest, don't show up at all. Don't join any conversations that don't include you or concern you. If Blacks and Mexicans, especially, got that our presence is needed for the game to continue, we would quit arguing with opponents and focus on having our constituency pull-back from the table.

Without criminals and crime, the police would not be in business. So, we are better served convincing the community to stop showing up in that way. We should push for an 80% reduction in crime in our communities, as a means of reducing the police-force by 50%. Let them face the challenge of going to school and finding legitimate work (or turning to a life of crime) like others feel forced to do. A drastic reduction in crime would force the very focus of the police department to change from "law enforcement" to "service-orientation".

Second, we must form our own towns, where we can live free from negative influences. Then, the police who are hired to arrest Blacks and poor-people can police their own communities. Let's see if they can do a better job there. We must stop showing up for the debate on whether gun-ownership makes sense. The numbers suggest it does not, especially in the inner-city we use guns to kill ourselves. Why continue to showing-up in support of gun-ownership, when we are the victims of the very laws that make it easy to acquire guns??? Funny how the gun is never available as a defense against the perceived threat.

We must stop showing up at polling places to defend candidates who perpetuate a broken two-party system, until and unless we have 'a dog in the race'. We must stop showing up to support a culture that has determined that certain classes of people will always be under-represented and under-valued. We must limit our cultural contribution as a means of forcing change.

Last year, I proposed the formation of a day of absence. I called it Black Out Mondays. The goal was and is to have Black people spend nothing on Mondays. In withdrawing our regular financial support of a 'corrupt system', it will do two things. First, it will shake things up. The 'system' will realize that we do make a substantial contribution and over time some course corrections will be made. Second, it will stand as proof that we can empower ourselves if and when we choose to do so.

Absence is a strategy worth employing because it has been proven to work. We have spent 50 years arguing for Civil Rights, only to find ourselves in the same condition in 2016. So, it is time to separate ourselves from those who are unwilling to cultivate relationships that foster real and lasting harmony among the whole of humanity.

Very simply, there are two types of relationships worthy of our consideration. The first is friends and family. You know your friends and family, regardless of race, culture or class. You love and support them. They love and support you. These are your loved ones. Otherwise, if it is not a relationships of intellectual, cultural or economic exchange, why keep showing up for people who absolutely refuse to show up for you? Your absence can make as powerful a statement as your presence. #absence #protest #blacklivesmatter #beyonce #formationworldtour #tampapoliceunion

James W. Power

The Book of Numbers (Now Available)!

 

My new book is now available!!!

We live in a society where 80% of Americans hold only 7% of the wealth, a society where the top 1% hold 40% of the wealth. Not limited to income inequality, we seem to have a rather interesting relationship with numbers when it comes to our calendar and measurement systems. As opposed to having a year with 27, 28, 30 and 31 day months, why not simply use a calendar with thirteen, 28-day months? Scientists say global warming is real. So, why do... we live in a society where nearly 50% of the population has an opposing opinion? Bottom line is – we have an interesting relationship with numbers (to put it mildly).

In every sphere of life, we are making choices about our relationships with numbers. Many of those choices relate to patterns of thinking that have been pre-determined for us. Thus, it seems we are fated to think, feel and act in certain ways with respect to numbers. In understanding the origin of numbers and their meanings, we begin to develop a new relationship with numbers, a relationship based upon a new-found destiny of our choosing. The “Book of Numbers” is a technology designed to facilitate new patterns of thinking about numbers. It is an extraordinarily powerful and unique spiritual tool that is simple and fun to use.

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James Will M. Power
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How This Photo Can Help You Win Arguments

This is one of my favorite photos. It is a reminder to me of a simple truth. One has to be able to soar over the bull and the nonsense that is a natural part of life. When you decide you’re going to wrestle a bull, you have to deal with the horns and you have to take the bull-crap that comes with it. There is no avoiding it. It is in a bull’s nature to snort, to buck and to fight.

In attempting to soar over it all, you might get grazed by the horns a few times in the beginning. And, there is the distinct possibility you will miss your landing from time to time. However, dodging the nonsense gets easier. And, like the matador who side-steps the bull with seeming ease and grace, you develop the power to avoid most meaningless arguments and unnecessary conflict.

It is in an animal’s nature to simply react to stimulus by fighting, fleeing, or folding (seeking a place of immediate safety). Beings of higher-consciousness often have access to a wider variety of choices, with respect to how to respond to conditions in our external environment. Sometimes, the best response is none at all. When someone throws you a ball, there is no universal rule that says you have to catch it. We are merely conditioned to catch the balls thrown to us.

So, in deciding you’re not going to mirror behavior that is unbecoming of you, you are choosing to operate as a more evolved consciousness. Your idea of what it means to win changes and the strategies you employ in gaining victory over the perceived threat change also. Most times, that means soaring over the haters as a means of not even entertaining the messiness and nonsense. And, guess what? There is nothing wrong with saving yourself time, energy and aggravation whenever you choose to do so.

James Will M. Power