An Age Old Battle: Collectivism Versus Liberty

An Age Old Battle: Collectivism Versus LibertyEthan Indigo Smith – You are in an institution and there are many institutions around you. We all exist in national institutions and are surrounded by institutions within our nation. Institutions exist because of individuals, and yet sometimes become more important in the minds of individuals than other individuals.

When institutions and institutional pursuits become more important than individuals a psychic sickness reveals itself in societal symptoms of monolithic repression up to and including overt war. Continue reading

The Social Tyranny that Threatens Thoughtful Americans

libertyStephen F. Gambescia – One of the earliest lessons we learned in school was likely to include the spirited explanation of Patrick Henry’s “give me liberty or give me death” speech to move colonists to declare independence from the British Kingdom in 1775.  By high school, some may have dug deeper into the roots of the American Revolution by reading or hearing some excerpts from Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense.

Most social science majors, and certainly political science majors, in college likely worked through John Stewart Mill’s On Liberty (1859).  Liberty is what we Americans cherish, and we learned in our history courses about the chains of tyranny brought on by governments. Continue reading

We Are At War With Enemies Of Liberty, Domestic And Foreign

communist infiltrationJ. Robert Smith – We are at war with enemies of liberty, domestic and foreign.  Domestic enemies are now pressing relentlessly.  Why shrink from the word “enemy,” the simple definition of which is “one seeking to injure, overthrow, or confound an opponent.”  Who other are these warmakers?

This war is much more than disputes over fraudulent elections, though that would be cause enough.  The Democratic Party is a means.  The new war has been imagined, developed, and phased in over decades by the left.  It’s unconventional, asymmetric, and cunning. Continue reading

Liberty or State Control? You Decide

Laraine C. Abbey – President Obama’s statement “giving up some freedom in exchange for security” [1] was a lance through my heart.  Give up freedom for security?? Patrick Henry, of “Give me liberty or give me death” fame, must be rolling over in his grave!  We are losing America.

Love him or hate him, Donald Trump has been the catalyst for a volcanic eruption of raw emotion about all that seems wrong in the governance of our country.  Citizen unrest predates Trump’s electoral campaign but it has acted as a lightning rod that laser-focused on many issues alarming and infuriating Americans.  In “shock and awe” style, ultra-liberal filmmaker and Bernie Sanders supporter Michael Moore had this to say in his “out of context” Ohio theater speech:

Our citizenry has increasingly lost its faith and trust in government following the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. The Benghazi situation, Middle East wars, banking/financial crisis and housing market mortgage mess have done nothing to support confidence in the powers-that-be.  Leadership has failed us.  We’ve seen millions maimed or killed in these horrific unjust globalist wars.  A call for change is on many lips and given a voice in presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Trump threatens the power structure, while Hillary is the power structure. 

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Oracle Report ~ Friday, September 9, 2016

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“Pelican Rock” – photographer Ivy

First Quarter Moon in Sagittarius: step out of comfort zone, take action

Aspect of the Aeon Sophia (Wisdom): Shodashi, Goddess of Beauty/Goddess Who Aligns With the Highest and Best; Kali, Goddess of Endings and Beginnings

Aspect of the Aeon Thelete (Will): Kathe, God of the South

Skill: maintain your attention

Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Month: “two heads looking out and beyond the shadows” (seeing beyond duality/divide and conquer, integration, transcending difficulties)

Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Year: “the magic carpet of Oriental imagery” (the renaissance of humanity, transcending difficulties)

We continue through a window of time with strong energetics, open through September 12.

Yesterday’s energetics of “volcanic eruptions” (and an earthquake-level weapons test) flow into altogether different dynamics that are, in a word, hypnotic.  Our psyches tend to wander into “faraway lands.”

We are more susceptible to suggestion with this, so it is important to maintain our own minds.  In other words, staying true to one’s own discernment and truth.

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