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Reality to policy makers : Immediately change the nature of the drug war to legalize substances safer than liquor

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Immediately change the nature of the drug war to legalize substances safer than liquor and promote freedom and health.
(authors note, watching my grandpa waste away in pain, though he is strong enough to be able bodied if it can be called that at all, makes me ponder the sad reality of his alcohol and opiate use ( mainly opiates ) when he clearly needs a new lense on life, love, something he never even knew was possible, being a child again at least a few times a month from MUCH safer medicine, the illegal reality of my benevolent 0 harmed religion is hard to deal with, so is the fact my ideal career cannot exist until freedom matters to our people again)

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If a person goes to a liquor store they can drink themselves to death. They will not be punished for alcohol overdose. Families are encouraged that alcohol is a part of life to be used responsibly, yet on the other hand cannabis is a medicine, has been around since the beginning of time and in every pharmacopeia of the world, and is a safer responsible choice. Putting healthy productive GOOD people in jail for using any drug safer than alcohol makes no sense. It is like legal assault rifles but 40 year jail sentences for buying paintball guns.

Cannabis, iboga, magic mushrooms, peyote, and more have substantial long term benefits to RESPONSIBLE users. Irresponsible use is a health-care situation not a crime. Killing is a crime. Drugs are not.

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DEEPLY AWAKE - CONFLICT

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DEEPLY AWAKE – CONFLICT

 

On Christmas Eve, my ex-husband, Jerry, picked Sam and I up at our house and drove out to my dad's. It was a quiet night, our small clan broken off into little splinters, talking, telling jokes, each of us shirking off our issues and our worries to come together and exchange gifts, kindnesses, remembrances.

 

We each got very nice stuff, though it was shockingly sparse all-around this year, and then it was time to go home.

 

I sat in the little truck cab flip-seat behind Sam. Closer to home, I felt myself becoming a little overwhelmed, a little overcome. So I put my arms in front of me and draped them on my son's chest, and I put my head down on the headrest that was right in front of me due to how small my seating space was. I rested my head, felt my hands holding Sam's chest, turned my head, and looked at the way my son's head was resting on the car window, fast asleep as he was.

 

Why is my position so important? Well, it's not. I guess I wanted you to know that while crammed into a child's jump seat, in a car alternately freezing and like a furnace, I had a revelation.

 

On the futility of worry and the illusion of control

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These ought to be just footnotes to what is really important right now, which is to grasp and understand the depths of your own self, or to grasp and understand the depths of your own experience of reality, the two being one whole truth in experience, but alas, apparently divided and contradictory realities in language and thought.  For many, however, these issues are not so much footnotes as the necessary a footbridge to that very problem, because worry and the illusory struggle for control over your reality lies between you and  a full understanding, thus a full possession, of either yourself, your life or your reality…

 

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What you seek to control in your life is controlling your life. Haven’t you noticed that?

 

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Worry and try to control…I’d be lying if I said these are tendencies I struggle against. They aren’t. I have learned that it is never, never useful or liberating to worry, and such an insight saves me a vast amount of inner tension and energy. If you can secure this truth for yourself – and the truth demands not just the mental understanding but the experience which affirms it – then worry can begin to fall away: never will you solve the problem of worry if you think the problem is outside of yourself which the worrier always does.

 

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What do you actually control? Do you control the texture, temperature, duration of your experience or your body or your life?Do you control your fine movements? Do you control even a significant portion of the minutia of experience? What do you really control but for the yes or the no, reaction or else the non-reaction? You control nothing but your non-reacting to the world, let me tell you that much for sure.

 

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Heart Song December 26th 2012

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 The Heart Song for December 26th 2012 is

"Melodies From Heaven" by Kirk Franklin

 

   Melodies from Heaven
Rain down on me
Rain down on me

Melodies from Heaven
Rain down on me
Rain down on me

Take me in Your arms and hold me close
Rain down on me
Rain down on me

Fill me with Your precious Holy Ghost
Rain down on me
Rain down on me

Melodies from Heaven
Rain down on me
Rain down on me



Melodies from Heaven
Rain down on me
Rain down on me

Take me in Your arms and hold me close
Rain down on me
Rain down on me

Fill me with Your precious Holy Ghost
Rain down on me
Rain down on me

Rain, rain down on me
Let, let, let, let, let it fall on me

Melodies from Heaven, melodies from Heaven
Melodies from Heaven, melodies from Heaven

Rain down on me
Rain down on me
Rain down on me
 
 
Love Geeta  

Forgotten Knowledge

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There is a hole in the wall of a mountain.  It is covered by a waterfall.  Within the hole of the waterfall, there are gifts from the Ancients. This is not a mystery; it's forgotten knowledge.

 

The water falls from the side of the mountain,

The gifts from old, are contained inside of the fountain.

 

There is knowledge, Wisdom, and stories that shall be ever told,

And, yes, there IS a source of infinite gold.

 

The god/goddesses are the keepers of this land,

It's only for the meek; the treasures shall fill THIER hand.

 

Oh, on that grand day the world shall behold,

Forever, together, our story shall be told.

 

The Children of the Sun, the Love of the God of Truth,

We shall all stand together, under the Rainbow Lit Roof.

 

We shall sing, we shall dance, we shall play in the water,

Yes, US,  WE ARE thier earthly sons and daughters.

 

Is this real, or, just a figment of my imagination,

Heart Song December 25th 2012

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The Heart Song for December 25th 2012 is

"Let It Snow"
(Boys To Men feat. Brian McKnight)

 

 Let it snow, let it snow

Hey, it's another Christmas Holiday
It's a joyous thing let the angels sing
Cause we're together
We got a thing can't let is slip away
When our bodies meet
I don't care about the weather

Let it snow, let it snow
Outside it's could but the fires blazin
So baby let it snow
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Ohhhh, come over here and help me trim the tree
I wanna wrap you up baby
Then you'll see you're the only present I need
There's so much more
Waiting for you in store
From this precious day
I can gladly say
There's no place I'd rather be
I know you are my everything, com a little closer
God must have sent you down from heaven

Let it snow, let it snow
Outside it's could but the fires blazin'
So baby let it snow
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Let it snow, let it snow
Let it snow, let it snow
I don't care what the weather may be
As long as you're here with me



 

Love Geeta

Higher self wanted me to buy candles

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When reconnected your guide sometimes have ideas or jobs for you. So two weeks ago it send me to the candles in the supermarket and places with lower priced candles. Allright so i buy some to experience the deeper reason. Now the last days are somewhat dark, foggy and clouded that i can have breakfast or read a book in the bathtub with candlelight.

 

Feels good, thanks higher self for the idea.

 

 

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