July 17, Secret Society Friendly Fire

Okay, you are going to have to stay with me on this one today boys and girls, for it is so esoterically deep I fear sharing it with you might get us band from the cafeteria, but here it goes:

Today is July 17, and as I have demonstrated over and over again, each day is Esoterically encoded for those of us with eyes to see. 

First of all, On July 17 in 1861, the U.S. Congress authorizes the printing of paper money for the first time ever.  This, in fact, was the beginning of the "Federal Reserve," which as we all know is the tool of the top 1% (1%ers) and their Secret Societies which now control all money, and most information. 

Not a coinkydink that on July 17 in 1945, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain met in secret to divide the world after WWII.  Expediently, they left the fourth ally of war, China, out of the meeting.  This is because the Western Secret Societies, the Freemasons, Illuminati, etc., met to divide the spoils of war amongst themselves, and not their number one competitor, the Eastern secret societies, most notably, the Heaven and Earth Society of China.  Commonly known as the Chinese Triad, they began in the Qing Dynasty, and just like the Western Secret Societies, never went away, only became more invisible with more money.  Xi Jinping who's family power/money history goes back to the Qing dynasty, is their puppet -- but that's for another post. 

Yes, China was snubbed by the west and don't think they forgot it. More on this later, but first, let's go back to July 17, 1917.  Li Yuanhong, was the leader of China with his progressive ideas which included, oddly enough, a paper dollar, or yuan (yoo'an), printed by the American Bank Note Company (commissioned by the Bank of China),with his face on it. This dollar never made it to circulation because Li was ousted by a Nationalist party who wanted to Make China Great Again and build another wall.  Yes, this set China back another 50 years but who's counting. Failed political parties build walls, create havoc, and fortunately, eat themselves alive.  

Li Bank Note

July 17, 1995, what happened?  The U.S., under President Bill Clinton, in response to China's aggression towards Taiwan -- they wanted their baby back, along with any land they've ever owned in the past two-thousand years -- sends the biggest military maneuver to Asian since the Vietnam War, in defense of Taiwan.

What really happened behind the scenes to deescalate this standoff we will never know, but the Taiwan/China issue just kinda, faded. 

Or did it?  You see, as I have written on before, on July 17, 1996, a sleepy, seven-hour flight from New York to Paris burst into a fireball and plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean.  This has been a conspiracy since, some say Syrian-backed terrorist, some say US friendly fire, and some say Clinton did it himself to win reelection. 

Today, I simply say, "add 'China's Secret Society payback' to the collection of theories."

You decide, I mean shit, it's a conspiracy. 

One things for sure though, on this day in 1952, David Hasselhoff was born.  That's a fact. 

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Here is the conspiracy as I reported a few years ago. 

It was on this day (July 17, 1996) twenty-two years ago that a sleepy, seven-hour flight from New York’s JFK airport to Paris burst into a fireball and plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean.  No one survived.


Two years after the flight, with no clear cause, conspiracies flew:  Syrian-backed terrorist shot it down and President Clinton suppressed info to win re-election.

Clinton had it shot down because two of the passengers were Arkansas troopers on their way to Paris to spill-the-beans on Clinton’s corruption to Le Monde newspaper.

Then the most popular:  a friendly-fire missile strike.

Pierre Salinger 1970

The missile strike rumor was mainly being splattered about by Pierre Salinger: a World War II veteran turned spokesman for President John F Kennedy, and finally, the character “Lucky Pierre” on the 60’s television version of Batman.  Salinger wrote a book and went on the media-circuit tour stating he had proof the aircraft was shot down by “friendly fire” from the USA.  His proof from a video-still of a blip of light headed for the aircraft just seconds before the crash.  This claim became more valued when 150 eyewitnesses came out and stated that they had seen a light hit the plane before its crash.

Salinger as a crooked lawyer on Batman.

 

Following Salinger’s claims, James Sanders published his book on the subject titled “The Downing of TWA Flight 800,” where he wrote about having uncovered a few pieces of foam from the crash with reddish stains on it.  These stains, he wrote, were the stains from missile fire.

In the end, CIA investigators answered the call by stating that the “strike of light” the witnesses saw, was just leaky fuel, which fuels exploded from a bad wire, and that the aircraft had faulted wiring.

So that should have ended it, but then, why did the CIA get involved in commercial airline flight?

It’s a conspiracy.

 

Happy Bastille Day, a Great Day to Be a Liberal!

July 14th is a great day to get things done as a group.  In 1789 on this day the Liberals and Free Thinkers of the day had had enough of the king's militant rule and demanded a Democracy the only way one gets one: a F*(king Revolution.  

The Bastille was a fortress in Paris, known formally as the Bastille Saint-Antoine.  It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison.

King Louis XIV used the Bastille as a prison for the upper-class members of French society who had opposed or angered him.  These were the Free Thinkers, Pagans, Artist, and Poets, mostly -- just as Vladimir Putin does today in Russia, and the Republican Party hopes to do in the USA if they reclaim the White House.  (Wait and see.)

The revolution began when a mob of some 800 Parisians attacked the Bastille, and freed the prisoners.  This action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution, in which King Louis XVI was overthrown and tens of thousands of people, including the king and his wife, Marie Antoinette, were executed.  

A fact not often mentioned in history books, is the fact that Thomas Jefferson was the United States minister to France when the revolution happened, and Jefferson became an ardent supporter of the French Revolution, even allowing his residence to be used as a meeting place for the rebels.  Freedom was in the air! 

So if you are celebrating Bastille Day today, do so with pride in knowing it is a liberal cause, founded on liberal principles, in a liberal country that has been hijacked by Conservative Anti-Progress Greedy Haters. 

As a footnote to this beautiful day, in agent Egypt on this day the falcon-headed god, Horus, was honored with the lighting of blue candles, frankincense, and myrrh.  

Uruz Ruin

 

Also, the runic half-month of Ur commences on this day.  Ur represents primal strength and collective action, and the month of Ur is the time when society's powers are best applied to projects that serve the common good.  

 Stay strong, history proves again and again that the people win in the end, no matter how Elon Musk and his Oligarcy friends try to bully us.  We're winning!

Happy Bastille Day!

~~ Eso Terry

John Dee

On July 13th 1527, the noted magician & astronomer, who studied at Cambridge, John Dee, was born.  He was a brilliant man who was accredited for being a Mathematician, Astronomer, Astrologer, Imperialist, Occult Philosopher, Diviner and so much more.  John Dee lived his life somewhere between Science and the world of Magic.

He served the court of, Queen Elizabeth I, as a consultant, and used his position to create the largest personal library in all the world.

John Dee spent his entire life studying the Occult and Magic.  While many tried to murder him for being of the devil, Queen Elizabeth I, made sure that their wishes of execution never happened.  While no one could burn him alive while the Queen lived, after her death in 1603, John Dee was instead forced to die as a pauper five years later in his home at Mortlake, after being shunned by James I, the Queen’s successor.   He at least was able to shut his eyes one final time among the many books and literary wonders he had spent his entire life collecting.

I've written about John Dee before, he was a man before his time brave enough to look beyond the empty religions of his day. 

July 12th and the Hungry Spirits on Disco Demolition Night in Chicago

On July 12th, 1271, the Daishonin writes a letter to a most loyal follower about hungry spirits.  IN his letter, the Daishonin exposes how hungry spirits are divided into thirty-six kinds, among which the most popular are the Caldron-Shaped hungry spirits with no eyes or mouth.  They got this way because in the world of the living they robbed people of their food.  This might not have been the actual action of stealing food out of someone's pantry, but stealing food from their livelihood by doing such evil things as not paying them a fair wage for their labor -- think about that you profit grabbing capitalist at the top wanting to keep us down.   

Another interesting Hungry Spirit, is the Law Devouring hungry spirits.  They are those who renounce the world and spread religion.  They think that if they preach the Law people will respect them, and because of their ambition for fame and profit, they spend their entire present lifetime striving to be thought of as better than others.  They use religious teachings to satisfy their own desires. 

There are many examples, but the bottom line is don't be a greedy, self absorbed, asshole; instead, be a loving, giving, kind person.  It's easier than you think.

Other points to ponder in referencing Hungry Spirits on a July 12th:

In 1690 at the Battle of the Boyne, Protestant forces defeat the Roman Catholic army. This battle for power would go on for years until the two would realize they have more in common than apart when compared to Muslims and Buddhist, and so they joined hands as Christians Against the World -- especially in the USA after the 80's.  How wonderful it will be in another 400 years when we realize all religions have more in common than apart and come together as humans.  One can only dream for now.

In 1843 on a hot July 12th night in the USA, the leader of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith, approves the practice of polygamy as a result of a divine revelation.  Hmmmm, not sure what to say here, but to each their own, hungry spirit or not.

Perhaps the greatest example of the force of Hungry Spirits in a group, happened on this day in 1979 when there was an anti-disco promotion at a baseball game in Chicago.  The wealthy owners wanting to increase profits (most Hungry Spirit stories begin this way), wanted to fill the seats of a baseball stadium for a losing team and so dubbed a baseball game "Disco Demolition Night."  

Deeply discounted tickets to Comiskey Park would be given to people who brought along a disco record to be destroyed.  Of course, it turned out to be a Hungry Spirit conference with more people turning out than expected, and they started throwing firecrackers and empty bottles onto the field.  They also threw the vinyl disco albums that had not been collected at the gate.  

The night climaxed with a popular dics jockey, Steve Dahl, driving onto the field in a jeep before announcing, "This is now officially the world's largest anti-disco rally!...  Now listen, we took all the disco records you brought tonight, we got 'em in a giant box, and we're gonna blow 'em up reeeeeeal goooood."

With that, a massive blast sent fiery shards of vinyl 200 feet in the air.  The crown roared and thousands of people rushed the field.  Anything that wasn't destroyed by the explosion, the mob finished, stealing bases, pulling down batting cages, and dancing manically around the burning remnants of disco anthems.  

"Holy Cow!" the famed sports announcer Harry Caray called out to the crowd over the loudspeaker, asking them to take their seats.  When the plea received nothing but a taunting response, the ballpark launched into the song "Take Me Out to the Ball Game."  Then the riot police came in and the mob dispersed.  The Sox forfeited the game to the Detroit Tigers.  Go Tigers!

~~ Eso Terry 

July 11th and the Gift of Lessoning One's Karma in This LIfe Time.

 

On July 11th in 1274, Nichiren Daishonin, the Japanese Reformist monk who gave us the form of Buddhism that changes karma in this lifetime by chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo (please try for yourself), writes a letter to a follower (WND, vol1, page 456-459) in which he tells her, "Neither heaven or hell exists outside oneself; both lie only within one's own heart.  Awakened to this, one is called a Buddha; deluded about it, one is called an ordinary person.  The Lotus Sutra reveals this truth, and one who embraces the Lotus Sutra will realize that hell is itself in the Land of Tranquil Light (heaven)."

He concludes this letter by saying, "...you should base your mind on the ninth consciousness, and carry out your practice in the six consciousnesses."

As I have said before, Nichiren gave us the greatest gift by a religious leader, the gift of changing our lives no matter what we have done in the past.  To create a true happiness now, in this life by suffering what there is to suffer, and enjoying what there is to enjoy.  The "ninth" consciousness of which he speaks of is nothing more than the nine levels of discernment.  The first five consciousnesses correspond to the five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.  The sixth consciousness integrates the perceptions of the five sense into coherent images and makes judgments about the external world.  The seventh consciousness corresponds to the inner spiritual world and generates awareness of the self and the ability to distinguish good from evil.  The eight consciousness, called alaya-consciouness, receives the results of one's good and evil deeds and stores them as karmic potentials or 'seeds,' which then produce the rewards of either happiness or suffering accordingly.  The ninth consciousness, called amala-consciousness, which remains free from all karmic impurity, is defined as the basis of all life's functions and is identified with the Buddha nature." 

In a nut shell, this is how the Lotus Sutra allows us to change past karma today, this moment, and live out a nature, happy life overcoming past karma retribution by simply chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.

It's a gift.  Use it!

 

~~ Eso Terry

July 8: Spoils of War in the Name of Caesar, Christ, and Percy Shelley(?)

In 52 B.C. on July 8th, before it was called "July" after Julius Caesar, July conquered a fishing village called Lutetia Parisiorum.  Under Roman rule this city became quite popular and was eventually renamed "Paris." As such, July 7th is still credited as the founding day of Paris.  To the victor goes the spoils. 

Speaking of the Spoils of War, on this day in 1853 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, representing the U.S. government, sails into Tokyo Bay, Japan, with a squadron of four vessels.  Under threat of attack, the Japanese accepted letters from President Millard Fillmore, making the United States the first Western nation to establish relations with Japan since the slaughter of the Christian Missionaries known worldwide as the Martyrdom of Nagasaki, when Japan turned the Missionaries away and avoided losing their beautiful culture which is still with us today (maybe that's why the U.S. dropped the unnecessary nuclear bomb on Nagasaki to end a war they had already won?). 

The Christian martyrs of Nagasaki. 16th/17th-century Japanese painting.

"So what is so esoteric about July 8,"you ask?  July 8th, 2022, is the date that Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan was shot over his beliefs in the Unification Church from South Korea. The Unification Church was founded on the standard Christian beliefs left in Korea by the Missionaries that Japan had turned away.  The young man, Tetsuya Yamagami, was pissed at the church he once belonged to because his mom gave away most of her earnings to the church, and in the mind of Yamagami, had little to show for it.  Yes, the circle was unbroken. 

All not bad on July 8th, on this day in 1918, Ernest Hemingway was shot in the ass driving an ambulance for the America Red Cross.  In the hospital he did like most wounded soldiers at war do: he fell in love with his nurse, and subsequently, used this experience in his great novel, A Farewell to Arms.  A novel I actually counted the word "hand" written over a hundred times.  Needless to say my professor wasn't impressed with my work and so gave me an "E" on the paper for "Excellent."  That's when I decided I would rather blog, that write.  It is a far, far, better thing I do now.... or as Hemingway opened his novel with:

"In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in the village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains.  In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels.  Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees.  The trunks of trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves." 

 Is it any wonder July 8th just happens to be the day that Percy Bysshe Shelley died in 1822.  I'm not sure how many "hands" Percy used in his works, but he did have an interesting take on the Christian missionary saviors of yesterday:

 "Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God."

"I'm not 'Peter the Hermit,' but I am in the Public Domain.  So, yes, I am the Hermit Man of which you speak."

And finally, on July 8, 1115, that great guy Peter the Hermit dies.  Peter the Hermit is fondly remembered in the Christian history books for killing Jews.  Yes, the Nazis Patron Saint.

No, no!  Not the Peter the Hermit story again!

 

You can't make this shit up.

 ~~ Eso Terry 

July 5th, The Day Churchill Gave Us The Bikini(?)

Despite having been loved for his strength during WWII, Winston Churchill is voted out of office on this day in 1945.  Seems all the returning war veterans knew that the Conservative Hard-Ass was good for war, but not good for workers.  They must have remembered all his union-busting, Tory activities before the war, more precisely his sending in armed soldiers anytime workers threatened to ask for better working conditions or wages.  The most notable was Churchill’s sending in soldiers to stop a strike by the Tonypandy minors in 1910.  This worked so well in defending the corporate elite, that Churchill used it again a year later in Liverpool where two strikers would be shot-down in cold blood simply for asking for better working conditions.  There are other reasons Churchill probably didn’t get re-elected in 1945, the world was becoming less racist and Churchill was definitely not.  This is obvious from such statements of his as, “I do not admit that a wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America...By the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race has come in and taken their place.”

Other racial slurs by Churchill include, “I cannot understand this squeamishness about the use of gas” — this was in regards to his use of nerve gas to beat back an Iraqi revolt in 1920.  Then who can forget Churchill’s distaste for one of the greatest men of the 20th century, Mahatma Gandhi, who Churchill considered a “fake” and had hoped he would starve to death (Don’t believe me?  Google it).

Okay, Churchill did probably save the world as we know it.  I’ll give him that, but in a roundabout way, Churchill gave us something men would adore for years to come, because exactly one year later on July 5th, 1946, French designer Louis Reard unveils a daring two-piece swimsuit inspired by the U.S. atomic test that took place off a Bikini island, Reard dubbed the new fashion bikini.  However, this bikini was nothing knew for Churchill, for British women had already worn a bikini that consisted of a halter top and shorts in the 1930's when wartime rationing of fabric saw the removal of the skirt panel and other superfluous material.  

So, in a very strange way we have Churchill to thank for the bikini, now don't we?

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In ancient Egypt, July 5 is sacred to the goddess Maat, who presides over truth and wisdom.

The 4th of July, Hot Dogs, and that Liberal Document Called "We The People."

 

Happy 4th of July everybody!

July 4th, yes, time to play with fireworks.  So, here goes it:  no one, and yes I mean no one understands the Fourth Way, yet, they soon will.  For the times they are a changing, the Nazi emblem is spinning, and capitalism is going the road of other 'myth' religions.  The same aggressive right-to-be here attitude that gained America from the Native Americans is now claiming America from the claimers.   MAGA is a lunch bucket filled with baloney sandwiches and Capri-Sun drinks.   The USA is not a nationalistic movement.   Never has been, never will be.   Grow, Tonto,  grow.   For the lord of tomorrow is today.

And all the angels joined in to oppose the Christofascist in love with power. 


                                                                                                         -- heavenly angelic creature

Lady Liberty

Why is the hotdog one of America's favorite foods?  

Besides being associated with the esoteric "Dog Days of Summer," the term dog has been used as a synonym for sausage since the 1800s, with one thought being that it came from accusations that sausage makers used dog meat, starting in at least 1845.  In the early 20th century, consumption of dog meat in Germany was common. The suspicion that sausages contained dog meat was "occasionally justified."  Enjoy your meat this summer you ferocious meat eaters.


The Reason You Will Drink Too Much Beer This Day, eat Dog Meat, and possibly blow off your index finger with a firecracker?

The Declaration of Independence.   Yes, that liberal doctrine that provided the ideological foundations for the democratic government of the United States, promoting the idea that the government exists to serve the people, who elect representatives to express their will.  A "social contract" between people and their rulers, which can be dissolved if rulers fails to promote the people's welfare for a group of white supremacist -- I added the last part.

Least you forget, please read the following section out loud today and take a deep breath, it really is okay to be liberal boys-and-girls, it is the basis for the founding of this great country:

 “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

— That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

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Concordia

 In ancient times, the 4th of July was the date that Pax, the Roman goddess of peace and harmony, who was also identified with the Greek goddess Concordia, was honored with a considerable amount of feasting and revelry.

Happy 4th Everyone!

July 3: Dog Days of Summer, Yin and Yang, Rock Stars Die in Water.

We've all grown up hearing the words, "The Dog days of summer."  Well, they begin on July 3rd in Northern Tradition.  You see, the Pagans of old, long before they were forced to convert to a single god theory or lose their family, looked up at the sky and saw Sirius, the brightest star in the sky alongside the sun in the Northern hemisphere and knew this was no coinkidink, but a sign from the gods.

Nonetheless, here is where July 3 gets its Yin and Yang: 

In 1775, on a hot July 3, George Washington formally takes command of the Continental Army by drawing his sword; in 1957 on a July 3, Nikita Khrushchev takes control of the Soviet Union by orchestrating the ouster of his most serious opponents. 

In 1940, the legendary American comedy duo of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello debut with their radio show; in 1946 the comedy duo of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin meet for the first time in Atlantic City.

In 1969, the founder of the rock band, The Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, dies.  The guy who played sitar on the song Paint It Black, and the recorder on Ruby Tuesday, is found dead in a swimming pool; in 1971 on this day, Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors, a group whose name was a reference to breaking through the doors of perception, is found dead in a bathtub of water. 

According to the I Ching, "3" is defined as, "From difficulty there is a great development...." The Yin: "Weak people at the culmination of difficulty, in extreme danger, without any helpers...." The Yang: "If the leadership is correctly oriented, and has the assistance of wise people who are strong and clear minded, then it is possible to solve difficulties." 

As a Yin and Yang fresher: Yin and Yang is a Chinese philosophical concept that describes opposite but interconnected forces. In Chinese cosmology, the universe creates itself out of a primary chaos of material energy, organized into the cycles of yin and yang and formed into objects and lives.  In a nut shell, Yin and Yang is the Mystic Law esoteric and exoteric Buddhist obtain by chanting the words "Nam Myoho Renge Kyo."  

~~ Eso Terry 

July 1st: Day of Snakes, Rough Riders, and TV Ad Society.

July 1st, the beginning of the month of July, the seventh month of the current Gregorian calendar and derives its name from Julius Caesar.  

The traditional birthstone amulet of July is the ruby; and the larkspur and water lily are the month's traditional flowers.

July is shared by the astrological signs of Cancer the Crab and Leo the Lion, and is sacred to the following Pagan deities: Apt (or Apet), Athena, Sothis, Spider Woman, and Rosea. 

In Napal on July 1st people celebrate the festival of Naga Pachami, which is devoted to the snake gods called Nagas.  Sacred snake images are adorned with flower garlands and displayed on religious altars, and offerings are made at snake holes.  People line the streets for elaborate parades featuring beautifully costumed participants and live serpents. 

Roosevelt and His Rough Riders

In history, July 1st is known for, among other things, how in 1898 Theodore Roosevelt and his volunteer cavalry, the Rough Riders, won the Battle of San Juan Hill, the decisive battle in the Spanish-America War.  In his book "On This Day in History," Carl M. Cannon quotes Roosevelt's daughter when she said, "her father (Teddy Roosevelt) was someone who never attended a wedding without wishing he was the bride or a funeral without wishing he was the corpse." So history only tells the Roosevelt story; however, there is another important story we're missing: The Buffalo Soldier story.  That's right, alongside Roosevelt's fighting militia were the black army men of the 9th Calvary.  They were the first to take the hill to victory.  Of course, history doesn't show it this way, and Teddy Roosevelt never mentioned the fighting black men in his recounts of the battle.  Hmmmm, indeed, a day of snakes.  Is it any wonder that July 1st is also the day the television station NBC aired the first official TV commercial in America, creating our modern Orwellian reality of of lies, half-truths, exaggerations, and plain, outright, character assassinations of anyone speaking truth to power! 

Bob Marley "Buffalo Soldier" lyrics (Excerpted for the Esoteric)

 If you know your history
Then you would know where you're coming from
Then you wouldn't have to ask me
Who the heck do I think I am

I'm just a Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America
Stolen from Africa, brought to America
Said he was fighting on arrival, fighting for survival
Said he was a Buffalo Soldier, in the war for America

~~ Eso Terry

June 30, Busy Abraham Lincoln, and hello July!

June 30th, if you are like me you are busy as hell.  But get this, so what! On this day in 1864 Abraham Lincoln was busy as hell too accepting the nomination of his party for a second term, along with the resignation of his Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, and informed his general fighting the Civil War for him had just lost a gruesome battle at Cold Harbor.  

So what does busy Abraham Lincoln do on this day?  He reconfirms his call for a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, as well as, signs legislation setting aside a track of land in California that couldn't be used for mining and hunting which gave us our first National Park, Yosemite National Park.  

So no matter how busy you may be fighting a war, do something great.  Abraham Lincoln wanted it that way.

 

July is a special month for special people for special reasons.

To begin with, July 4th is the day that the USA gained its independence from the British Empire.  Now if that isn't special, I don't know what is. 

 

Americans Revolt

 

Another special thing about July regarding my Nichiren faith, is that on July 3rd of 1945 a leader of the Soka Gakkai (Josei Toda) was released from prison after refusing to give up his Buddhist faith during the Japanese militarist authorities. 

And finally, it was in July of 1921 that Mao Zedong and a dozen other delegates gathered together in secret to form a new political party. That's right, the Chinese communist party...

 

oppsss, sorry, anytime I mention Mao Zedong my computer crashes and I get this message from the Republican Party asking for a donation?... Not sure what that means. 

That's it for today. 

June if gone and July is here.  

 

June 28, the Founding of the USA not on Jesus, and How I Escaped A Death Dream.

On June 28, 1787, while approving the new American Constitution, Benjamin Franklin suggested the delegates seek guidance from a higher authority.  This of course set off a shit storm because, well, none of these men were Christian, Catholic, or for that matter, Buddhist.  That's right, not one of them were bible thumbing believers as today's Christian Church would have you believe.  In fact, everyone one of the men at the convention were deist, if not atheist, and all part of the equivalent of today's "Woke" movement: the French Enightenment movement.  

 

Woke Frankly

Addressing the presiding officer, Franklin said, "Our prayers were heard, sir, and they were graciously answered... How has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings?"

And on that note, they all agreed to bow their heads before every session in silence honoring a higher power.  Period!  No Jesus, no Deuteronomy, and most definitely, no Blasphemy!  

These men were followers of the "Age of Enlightenment," which the USA was to be a beacon, with beliefs like those of the French philosopher,  Denis Diderot, who once said "a Deist is someone who hasn't lived long enough to become an atheist." (Diderot was a close friend of our beloved Benjamin Franklin.)   

It is wrong for today's Extremist Christofascist to say the USA was founded on Jesus.  It wasn't.  Franklin's father was a Puritan priest, a practice Franklin left as a young man.  In his life, Franklin went from a Calvinist to a Deist.  "I believe," Frankly wrote at the age of twenty-two, " there is one Supreme, most perfect being."  Sixty-two years later, he wrote that although he harbored "some doubts" as to Jesus' divinity, he believed "in one God, the creator of the universe...who governs by his Providence. He further wrote: "the most acceptable service we render to Him is doing good to his other children."

Now, to this Buddhist who believes in the Mystic Law, anytime I hear the word "providence," I think of the universal Mystic Law that Nichiren Daishonin wrote about over 700 years ago in Japan.  The law of the universe.  Hmmmm, I guess the USA is a Buddhist country after all, founded on the law of "Light" and "Providence": The Mystic Law. 

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Now for my dream. 

So you all know about how I recently lost my best friend.  I wrote about it a few days ago in my Don MaClaren's Not Dead... post.  Well, he came to me in a dream the other night.  It was one of those dreams like I had the night my mother died and I dreamed she leaned over me and kissed me good bye. 

In my recent dream, Don and I were in the hotel room in Chelsea New York we once stayed in for a weekend of fun and drinking.  He said he was tired and wanted to go to sleep.  Before I could answer, I sensed there was someone on the front porch of the old house I lived in when I was around nine years old.  I left the room and there were two people snooping around the porch. 

Next thing I know, as dreams go, one of the people on my porch is in the room with me.  He's got long hair, well built, and he starts pitching a fancy imported beer I should try. He has samples with him. I questioned him about how he got in, he lies.  I know he is lying, but I am afraid of him, very afraid.  "Where is the other guy that was on the porch with?" I ask. 

"What guy," he answers, handing me a beer.  

"I no longer drink," I say, "thanks anyways. I'll pass."

Suddenly, I am back in the room where I left Don, he isn't there.  He has walked to the room across the hall.  It's my old bedroom where we lived when I was thirteen.  I open the door.  Don is there on the floor, and there are several Japanese futon's around him.  He motions for me to take one.  

"I not tired yet," I say.  

"It's here when you are ready," he says.

"I'm not ready!"

End of Dream.

Wow, I'll be analyzing this dream for a longtime, but it's obvious Don is on the other side with a room ready for me.  The man with the beer, death himself, enticing me to have a drink.  The drink I am not ready to take.  The drink of death. 

The Daishonin Has Risen

And the two people on the porch?  

As we see, one was death, and the other?  

I'm not sure, but the next evening, my neighbor showed me video footage from his security cameras of a man trying to break into my patio, which I had locked from the inside -- something I rarely do. I looked at the timestamp of the video footage, 1:15am, around the time I was dreaming of Don, Beer, and people on my porch. 

It's obvious death was at my door, and Don was there to greet me. And the man I couldn't see?  The living man trying to get into my house.  Maybe, the criminal who breaks in my house and kills me in another reality. The reality I have avoided to write another day.  

Esoteric.

~~ Eso Terry

"What am I doing here?... Heck, what are any of us doing here?"

June 27th: Nuclear Meltdowns and Thanks, Elvis.

So it is June 27th, a very special day.  On this day in 1968 Elvis Presley, the Sun King of Rock and Roll, made his comeback.  He had started the rock and roll craze by singing songs he grew up hearing the blacks sing in church.  Yes, like the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and the other white rockers, they made millions off the songs the original singers never saw a dime of.  God bless America, and Elvis. 

I was eight when Elvis did his live concert on television.  It was a family event.  I still remember the taste of the popcorn.  Little did I know I was feeding the beast. 

Imagine a world with free electric, no need for nukes, I did (Tesla)

Speaking of "Beast," in 1954 on this day the worlds first nuclear generator begins producing power in the Soviet Union.  Of course, like the other early nuclear power generators on Three Mile Island and in Fukushima Japan, they would destroy the earth underneath them with cleanup cost far exceeding their benefits.  But heck, it's hot as hell today and we need AC.  I'll admit it, I enjoyed Elvis in 1968, and I'm enjoying the nuclear powered AC  here in my Dallas home. 

On a brighter note, a centuries-old Native American Sun Dance ritual is performed annually on this day by many Plains Indian tribes in honor of the Summer Sun.  Unfortunately, due to censorship, it can only be seen from the hip up.  Thanks Elvis!

Yes, we were here first.  Get over it!