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I Heard God Laughing - Renderings of Hafiz - Daniel Ladinsky

I know the Way You Can Get

I know the way you can get
When you have not had a drink of Love:

Your face hardens,
Your sweet muscles cramp.
Children become concerned
About a strange look that appears in your eyes
Which even begins to worry your own mirror
And nose.

Squirrels and birds sense your sadness
And call an important conference in a tall tree.
They decide which secret code to chant
To help your mind and soul.

Even angels fear that brand of madness
That arrays itself against the world
And throws sharp stones and spears into
The innocent
And into one's self.

O I know the way you can get
If you have not been drinking Love:

You might rip apart
Every sentence your friends and teachers say,
Looking for hidden clauses.

You might weigh every word on a scale
Like a dead fish.

You might pull out a ruler to measure
From every angle in your darkness
The beautiful dimensions of a heart you once
Trusted.

I know the way you can get
If you have not had a drink from Love's
Hands.

That is why all the Great Ones speak of
The vital need
To keep remembering God,
So you will come to know and see Him
As being so Playful
And Wanting,
Just Wanting to help.

That is why Hafiz says:
Bring your cup near me.

For I am a Sweet Old Vagabond
With an Infinite Leaking Barrel
Of Light and Laughter and Truth
That the Beloved has tied to my back.

Dear one,
Indeed, please bring your heart near me.
For all I care about
Is quenching your thirst for freedom!

All a Sane man can ever care about
Is giving Love!

Stop Google from Spying On You

I got this email from Jamie Court of the Consumer Watch Dog Group:

Your computer may be having a conversation about you with Google and you don't even know it. That's why we made this video: to show how Google tracks your every key stroke, and to ask the company to stop.

If you believe Google needs to better protect our privacy, please send a free message to the company's board of directors through this link:
www.consumerwatchdog.org/corpo...pact4/
(if the link doesn't work, try highlighting it with your mouse then copy and paste the URL into your web browser)

Last week, we talked to Google's team about making privacy a bigger priority. The team leader said it was just a question of how much "real estate" on the screen Google was willing to devote to privacy. Join us in telling Google how valuable your privacy really is.

Google's role is now unprecedented—the Internet goliath is no longer merely collecting some data about how we search and surf the web. Its new browser and software are actually sending information from inside our computers to its servers.

Recently, Consumer Watchdog wrote the Justice Department to stop Google's planned advertising alliance with Yahoo on the grounds that Google's growing dominance over every aspect of personal computing is a serious threat. Read our letter to Google's founders and to the Justice Department. (The government is reportedly blocking the deal absent major concessions.)

It's time for Google to become a standard bearer for privacy.

Please watch the video and send it to your friends. Google has already agreed to fix a small privacy problem pointed out in the video. But, overall, the company claims its users don't expect much privacy. Now it's time for the users to speak up.

Thanks for all you do,

Jamie Court

Consumer Watchdog is a non-profit, non-partisan consumer protection organization. Your contributions are tax-deductible.

LA DECOM 2008: Bird of Paradise - Come fly with me

This performance was at the Funky Munky stage that Chris and Annemarie Penny hosted. I want to thank Bettina for filming and Alexis and Tetro for their contributions as well. Enjoy!

www.youtube.com/watch

Could cell phone radiation be dangerous?

Hey wow! I was researching DMT and melatonin secretions by the pineal gland and found some interesting studies that demonstrate the presence of electrically sensitive calcite crystals in the brain. This is an important finding that supports the conclusion many are reaching that cell phone use is directly linked to brain cancer. Check out this article:

inventorspot.com/articles/...te_co_7354

The Dharma of Brahma

Dear Brothers, Sisters and Friends of Blue Horizon Oasis,

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law!

We welcome you to celebrate with us the Summer Solstice like you've never done before! This time our magickal team of ritualists has given Aliester Crowley's Rite of Jupiter a Hindu spin and transformed this dramatic ritual into:

THE DHARMA OF BRAHMA

You are invited to witness what wonders unfold as East meets West on the field of our own imagination. The Hindu Brahma has reached the pinnacle of his power and is ready to manifest upon the earth. What form wilt Thou take? Come to our Summer Solstice event and behold the next incarnation of Bhrama!

This Rite begins with one strong drink, so come prepared as you will. 21 and over only.

When: Saturday June 21 at 8:00 PM
Where: Blue Horizon Oasis, 3212 1/2 Honolulu Avenue, La Crescenta, 91214
Directions are available at our website, www.bluehorizon-oto.org
We hope to see you there.

Love is the law, love under will.

Frater Apollion
Secretary, Blue Horizon Oasis

News release: Schrodinger's cat let out of bag!

David Wolfe's website www.thebestdayever.com features some articles on Nassim Haramein.
Here I've paraphrased much of what David reports from his recent visit to Nassim's retreat in Hawaii.
This brilliant man shares a number of interesting ideas on the following subjects:
Planetary Physics
Intergalactic Intelligences
Mayan Cosmology
and Global Warming

In regard to planetary physics, Nassim asserts that the Earth and all other spinning planets in our solar system are actually double toroids (not spheres). A toroid is a donut. Imagine two donuts , one on top of the other with both together torqued down to an approximate sphere and that is what the planets are like. That means that underneath the polar ice caps on all planets, the energy swirls into the planet like a whirlpool. This is occurring right now, visibly on Saturn's South Pole...please look for this on NASA's website or web-search: "Saturn South Pole Storm."

Because the vortex, swirling action is a COOLING action, the water on the Earth freezes causing us to be unable to see the flow of energy, fluid, etherealized matter, etc. into the north and south poles of our planet.

Nassim hypothesizes that the poles are melting not entirely due to global warming, but mostly due to activity changes in our Sun due to our approach of the galactic ecliptic. As we approach the galactic ecliptic (the equator of our galaxy) we, and our sun, are being bombarded by cosmic light (enormous amounts of energy). This is causing major changes in the Sun and all the planets. It is estimated that we cross over the very center of the galactic equator-ecliptic on December 21st, 2012. In addition to that, Dec. 21 is the solstice and there will be a solar eclipse that day.

Here's more on the subject of galactic cosmic rays:
www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblo...ay-c.html

Nassim also suggests that the moon is not a natural satellite of the Earth, but was positioned where it is by other intelligences in order to dramatically shift the position of the Earth, the weather of the Earth, the dominance of certain life forms...basically, as an experiment. For those of us who have never heard of this before, we might take note that the moon is the only celestial body ever observed that does not rotate about its own axis.

Nassim also believes that our sector of the galaxy is filled with many different types of aliens, all of whom are essentially observing us, experimenting on us and, for the most part, trying to help us expand into galactic consciousness. The "evil alien invasion" is a deliberate construct fabricated in order to perpetuate fear and control once the one-world-government, micro-chipped population, goal is achieved. There is a strong argument given in the second part to the film: zeitgeistmovie.com/, which elaborates more upon this. I highly recommend it.

Have a safe trip if you're going to the 15yr Moon Tribe Celebration!

Love,

Sno

Close Guantanamo

Hello,

I have some great news to share with you, and what a wonderful surprise!
Finally, the Bush administration system of injustice is starting to fall apart!!

The Supreme Court just issued an historic decision restoring the rule of law to the prison at Guantánamo. This is a stunning blow to the Bush administration's system of injustice.

Help make sure this decision marks the beginning of the end to reprehensible practices that have been carried out in the name of the American people at Guantánamo Bay, including the failed Military Commissions system.

Sign the petition now!

Call on America's leaders to shut down Guantánamo Bay and end the military commission system of injustice:
www.aclu.org/justice

FROM THE ILLUSTRATORS’ PARTNERSHIP

Visual Artists Go to Washington, Independent Record Labels Oppose Orphan Works Act:

Last week over two dozen visual artists, representing illustrators, photographers, fine artists and the arts licensing trades went to Capital Hill to explain to legislators how the Orphan Works Act will harm creators and the hundreds of thousands of art-related small businesses that serve and are dependent on them. At the same time, independent music labels have joined the opposition to orphan works legislation as it currently exists.

The Illustrators’ Partnership has stressed that Orphan Works legislation should be limited to true orphaned work and not act as an unwarranted compulsory license imposed on commercial markets. IPA, the Advertising Photographers of America and the Artists Rights Society have joined to offer amendments to that effect.

Excerpted from the Washington Internet Daily/Monday June 09, 2008:

"The visual-arts community hit the Hill last week to protest what it portrays as a hijacking of the orphan-works issue as it was presented in a 2005 Copyright Office report..."

The Copyright Office ran a bait-and-switch from its 2005 notice of intent, which focused on facilitating libraries', museums' and other nonprofits' efforts to digitize collections to improve access to them, [Illustrators’ Partnership co-founder Brad] Holland said. Artists want the issue narrowed back to that focus, scrapping commercial use, he said...Copyright Office roundtables on orphan works never addressed alternates to registries, an "untested, untried, unaccountable market system" favoring Google, Getty, Corbis and other commercial aggregators, Holland said. [Cynthia] Turner [also of the Partnership] said artists would incur high costs registering works, and they hesitate to hand over high-res, commercial versions to Google or others.

In the same article, Washington Internet Daily also reports that the leading group of independent music labels has broken with the corporate music trade associations. The American Association of Independent Music has published a position paper opposing the current orphan works bills. The article quotes a music industry executive: "I can tell you that nobody in the music business" sought the bill.

... the executive said the bill is "de facto... establishing a new compulsory license" by putting unregistered artists at a legal disadvantage in court. The law can't explicitly require registration or it will violate the Berne Convention, TRIPS and other treaties the U.S. has signed, the executive said. Book publishers and music executives in the U.K. think the U.S. will be in trouble, the executive said, citing a recent visit: "I can tell you there are European commissioners that are looking at this right now."

-Excerpts from “Orphan-Works Bills Scorned by Visual Arts, Indie Labels” by Greg Piper, Washington Internet Daily June 09, 2008

Also see www.artinfo.com/news/story...orks-bills/

Please forward this message to every artist you know.

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What's wrong with voting by mail?

Many of you may have been considering voting by mail, especially after yesterday's low voter turnout. I would like to strongly urge you to reconsider after reading this blog:

novbm.wordpress.com/why-not-vbm/