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Seeds of Greed

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SEEDS OF GREED

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Hossca Harrison

2011

 

It is easy to point out the greed in a capitalistic society. However, all other government forms find it easy to point out the greed in their social structure. If greed is a moral concept, which many claim it is, then is it not to understand all moral concepts of belief change from one age to another age or one society to another society. Does morality come from emotional values? One can state morality comes from God or religious values. Morality from the God you worship, religious values, or emotional values have shown to change over time. One can look at the Old Testament’s moral values, where the law commanded parents to kill their children, husbands to kill their wives for breaking their laws on morality, or tribes were commanded to kill other tribes. How has this changed, at least in the western world? Traditional morality changes from one age to another age; laws on morality change from one generation to another generation. Socrates once stated, “When one attempts to place morality based on emotional values, it can be nothing but a mere illusion.” Just what is morality? If one wants to understand the seeds of greed, then do they need to understand morality?

In this age, it is effortless to place a moral judgment on a Wall Street executive paid an eighty to one hundred-million-dollar bonus because he ended the jobs of tens of thousands and put them on unemployment, but he made money for his stockholders. In this age, it is straightforward to look at leaders in Europe who accepted bribes and achieved great wealth as their countries fell into a morass of debt, lowering the quality of living for millions.

Look at the middle class in America, Europe, Mexico, Australia, Japan, and China. How does greed enter their lives? When announced a natural disaster is about to occur, what happens at the grocery stores or gas stations within hours? Has morality, even the simple act of being courteous, gone out the window for survival? Look at the poorest places such as Haiti, the Republic of the Congo, and The Solomon Islands. Does greed exist among the dying, the impoverished? If the opportunity presented itself, would a poor man or woman hoard food and medicine for their family, even if it meant others in the community went without and perhaps died?

If the elite, powerful, wealthy, middle class and poor all carry greed, does greed need to be looked at from a different perspective? If greed exists at all social-economic and political levels, perhaps greed needs to be examined from nature’s perspective. Does greed have a purpose? Is greed good or bad? Why does greed exist?

One day many years ago, I took my grandchildren to the zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado. On our visit, we walked into the building to view the gorillas. Soon after we arrived, they placed vegetables out for them to eat. It started to rain, and I noticed the most massive gorilla collected all the vegetables, more than he could hold, and walked into a shelter. Other gorillas attempted to take the vegetables from the large one but were slapped when they tried. It was apparent this gorilla had the size and power to take what he wanted, and he did not seem to care if the other gorillas liked it or not. He had his food. As we watched him in the shelter, he sat and ate, feeling very content. When he stopped eating, the other gorillas approached him for the vegetables, and again they were slapped. He had the power, and he used it. Was this greed? If it was greed, the giant gorilla certainly did not attempt to hide or care what the other gorillas thought of him.

Are animals greedy? Is this greed accepted as normal? I recently watched a DVD series that I highly recommend, titled Planet Earth by BBC. If you watch this with the thought of looking for greed in the animal kingdom, you will often find it. What about looking at the plant kingdom? Does it have greed?

I once owned a piece of property that had beautiful blue spruce on it. One spring, I noticed it was not looking well. I ask the forest service to look at it and advise me of the problem, as this tree had undoubtedly been there for over a hundred years. As soon as they drove up, they said, your problem has to do with all the aspens surrounding this tree. They are blocking the sunlight and absorbing the limited water supply. The aspen will kill your blue spruce if you do not remove them. Soon the aspens became firewood. Was it greed on the part of the aspens to take water and sunlight to the extent they were killing the blue spruce? There was plenty of space in the meadow for the aspen to thrive and not interfere with the blue spruce. I do understand most would not look at this and state, “Greed is occurring.”

As humans, we tend to look at ourselves and place value judgments on each other. I am not stating this is right or wrong, and I am merely saying that is where our social focus resides.

Throughout nature, you see greed. The strongest of the species survive. Why? Is this built into life, is it also evolved into humans?

Many years ago, I was walking with my Chinese teacher. As he would often do on our walks, he shared a story with me. Many of these stories came from ones he called the “Ancients.” This particular story was about land and the beginning of humans. Many ancient cultures have a very similar account. Some call this story Adam and Eve, but this story is not exclusive to the book of Genesis. This story comes from over forty different cultures, such as Islamic, East Indian, Norse, Aboriginal, Hopi, Lakota, Babylonian, Chinese, Hawaiian, and many African tribes. Many of these stories predate the story of Adam and Eve in the bible. With so many similar stories, there appears to be a root truth hidden within them. As my teacher began telling me the story by the “Ancients,” I could see many similarities between the Christian version and other versions I had studied over the years. According to the “Ancients,” the Garden of Eden was not a particular location on earth. It was a higher dimension; some call it the fourth dimension. Adam and Eve were not a single couple, but rather a race of people. This race of people lived in total harmony with the earth. The earth was in balance. Earth shifts such as earthquakes, tidal waves, floods, volcanoes, hurricanes, and tornados did not exist. Violence did not exist among this race of people. Murder did not exist. Child abuse and disease of any kind did not exist. Their form of government was self-government. They did not need a government to make people behave nor to protect them from hostile people. There were no temperature extremes throughout the earth. The extraordinary moisture in the stratosphere significantly filtered the light. Harmful radiation from the sun did not exist.

Paradise, where did it go? Humanity has written much in their ancient text about paradise. Most religions speak about paradise. This paradise, spoken by the “Ancients,” has nothing to do with religion or salvation. Indeed, the question I had after hearing of this place in history; why would we choose to live in a continually evolving world instead of an evolved world? Why would we choose to live in the cradle of disease, humans crawling over each other to survive? Certainly, questions I had about this story by the “Ancients.” His answers helped me to understand the seeds of greed.

The story continued to describe the place we currently live as the third dimension of the earth; a dimension of evolution, evolving plant life, animal species, insect species, and many different viruses. My teacher would often state, “All life has an inherent desire to evolve to higher consciousness. When that inherent desire is suppressed, it lowers one’s vibration, consciousness.”

Look at this in nature; the first example of the plant kingdom. Say there was a perfect flower garden, and for some reason, the flower garden lowered its vibration, lack of care, lack of water, lack of sunlight, whatever it might be. What if a vibrationally lower plant attempts to take over, such as an invasive noxious weed? The beautiful garden will soon be gone and in its place is a strong noxious weed patch. The second example is the animal kingdom where some mature animals eat the young of their species, sometimes their immediate offspring. An example is chimpanzees. Groups of adult males will occasionally attack and eat their infants. Indeed, they eat monkeys. Some state this is a means of clearing out the weak from their troops or a male chimpanzee establishing their power base. Evolution? Survival? Animalistic nature of greed? Does greed promote survival of the fittest, the survival of the most powerful to survive the severity of nature?

Do humans carry an animalistic nature of survival? Look at Google. It has over 77 million sites on survival. Look at the social beliefs of spirituality. How many seek survival, from either the rapture, Christ returning, promised seven virgins, or perhaps even a space ship? If one is going to live under the consciousness of survival, they will need greed to survive. It reminds me of the movie 2012, where the powerful and wealthy used greed to survive. After the movie, it gave the appearance of a new society, a new unpopulated land. Were the powerful and wealthy going to be the teachers of the new society?

Does survival mentality use greed to survive? By looking at the examples of nature, I would say yes. However, the more important question I would have, does one need a survival mentality of greed to live a life of joy, peace, and universal tranquility?

My teacher taught me a game to teach others, called “What If Game.” In this game, you temporarily release absolute beliefs and allow your mind to explore the possibilities. In this game, what if the story of the “Ancients” is correct? What if humans had lived in the fourth dimension of total balance, peace, love, and tranquility? What if the fall, as recorded in many ancient cultures, existed? What if humans did fall or lowered their vibration to that of an animalistic vibration?

Moreover, to survive, they took on the energy of greed. Is the seeking of salvation a form of survival? Is the seeking of a savior a form of survival? What possibilities can the mind explore while the defenses of absolute beliefs are on hold? Should ones with the animalistic nature of greed be the ones who decide morality for others? Is morality from an animalistic nature of greed an illusion? I cannot teach you anything. I can only encourage you to think beyond your box of absolute beliefs.

My teacher once told me, “The need for survival, greed is only needed for those who have no plan to journey home.”

Freedom versus $ecurity

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FREEDOM VERSUS $ECURITY

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Hossca Harrison

2010

 

Freedom and security seem to be words tossed around lately; regrettably, they are tossed into the trashcan of history. Why, why have the world’s populations been so passive? Most of my readership is in the United States and Europe, as well as Canada, Mexico, Australia, Africa, and Asia. Some of you who live in parts of Africa, Asia, or Russia knows what it is like to deny freedom and liberty. The older generations of Europe know by experience how passiveness has no home in a society that claims freedom and liberty. What about the United States of America? Unlike many other countries, an outside source has never militarily defeated the United States. But then again, an external source never defeated the Soviet Union militarily. It collapsed from within.

When one looks into the history and studies significant world events that lead to the collapse of societies, do they ask, what was the consciousness of those people? What was their thinking process? What was the topic of communication between neighbors and friends? Were they filled with a passive consciousness? Did neighbors and friends communicate with each other, saying, “I don’t like it, but what can I do?”

Since September 11, 2001, when the United States was “attacked,” our politicians have continued to state, “Our freedoms and liberties are at stake.”

More potent than the “secret attack” on Pearl Harbor, this single event galvanized the nation to rally around its president. “Make us safe,” was the cry from across the land.

Knowing that Congress takes years and years to pass laws, should it not have taken years to pass laws limiting freedom for increased security? Should it not be surprising if not unbelievable that the United States Congress could write and pass the USA Patriot Act in less than six weeks? Is it not amazing if the Attorney General of the United States, John Ashcroft was able to submit the massive proposal to Congress in 1 week after the “attack?” Is it not amazing if not unbelievable that he requested the United States Congress vote on the USA Patriot Act in 3 days? “Make us safe,” was the cry across the land. “Do what you need to do; just keep us safe.”

The cry across the land is now crying, “I don’t like it, but what can I do?”

A new energetic, powerful speaker came out of nowhere to ask the American people make me your leader, “Something you can believe in,” he would state.

In 2008 then-Senator Barack Obama said, “One of the first things I want to do is ensure the constitutionality of all the laws and executive orders passed while President Bush has been in office.” After all, Mr. Barack Obama was a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago Law School.

Freedom versus security. Throughout history, when society and the leadership of that society embrace total security, freedom ends as embers from the fire. I do not like it, but what can I do? Call the ancient voices of history, from Greece’s ancient temples to the pillars of ancient Rome. We can walk through their ruins, listen to the faint voices of history, cry out, and say, “Can you not hear us, for our dust is sprinkled throughout these ruins?”

“Keep us safe,” was the cry to the Bush Administration, who appointed Michael Chertoff to Director of Homeland Security. He was also co-author of the USA Patriot Act, the son and grandson of Rabbis and Talmud scholars whose family emigrated from Russia. Mr. Chertoff is now co-founder of the Chertoff Group, a risk management and security consulting company. Mr. Chertoff’s company has a contract with Rapiscan; worth 173 million dollars, some say 300 million. Within days of the man called the underwear bomber who attempted an attack on Christmas Day of 2009, Mr. Chertoff went on a media tour, promoting the use of these naked scanners without disclosing Rapiscan was paying him, knowing Rapiscan is under contract by TSA, the agency he helped create. The nude picture machines were ready; all they needed was a fear event and a passive public crying, “Keep us safe.”

Why is it when these events occur, the laws are ready to be passed, the machines are prepared to be sold, the profit of millions, billions are ready to be had by many of the same people who wrote the laws? 

I don’t like it, but what can I do?

What about Thomas, a bladder cancer survivor humiliated after a pat-down broke his urostomy bag, leaving the 61-year-old covered in his urine? Although Thomas said he warned the TSA officials twice that the pat-down could break the seal. What about Cathy, a long time flight attendant and breast cancer survivor who had a breast removed and forced by TSA to remove her prosthetic breast? What about the 13-year-old girl who was forced to allow a stranger to feel her developing breast and then feel her pubic area or the 12-year-old boy who was forced to have a strange man feel his scrotum. I do not like it, but what can I do?

When the shoe bomber failed, hundreds of millions of people had to remove their shoes. When the underwear bomber failed, I thought, TSA will force hundreds of millions to show or remove their underwear. I was wrong; they want pictures of your genitals or feel your genitals or breasts in the name of safety. I thought to myself, thank God he did not put the bomb up his anus. Perhaps I was feeling what is coming next, as a TSA official stated on FOX News, “We have no plans to check body cavities,” a pause, then he said, “at this time.”

As I am writing, women have come forward saying TSA agents have put their fingers up their vagina. If one is to be curious how passive our societies are, look at the polls stating over 50% of Americans agree with the new invasive procedures. They can do anything to me as long as they keep me safe, which is the new cry across the land.

Perhaps TSA does stand for Touching Sensitive Areas, as Joseph Armeanio recently told me.

The passive worldwide public has permitted its leaders to herd the public as cattle for the sake of security worth millions and billions. How many multi-millionaires has Al-Qaeda made in the last ten years? 

Ron Paul, a congressional representative from Texas, has stated, “Enough is enough” at the United States’ capital. He has put forth legislation to stop what he calls the draconian measures placed on the public.

Then you have Linda Hall Daschle, a former administrator for the FAA and wife of the former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who was paid $100,000.00 just this year to lobby for the advanced imaging technology. She states, “We don’t believe there is any health risk at all.”

Unless you are a scientist whose expertise is radiation, you need to choose whom to believe. Many have stated that these scanners’ fallout is high enough to cause cancer, especially to those prone to disease or are battling cancer. Whom do you believe, one who has the public’s interest at heart, or the ones paid what to say and when to say it? 

I don’t like it, but what can I do?

Will a passive public stand and watch their young daughters and sons be groped by strangers who have total authority over you, your children? Will you stand and have your children watch as strangers grope you? 

Pastor Martin Niemoller spent eight and one-half years in a Nazi concentration camp. Pastor Niemoller gave this statement when he addressed Congress on October 14, 1968.

First, they came for the Jews

and I did not speak out–

because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the communists

and I did not speak out–

because I was not a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists

and I did not speak out–

because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me–

and there was no one left to speak out for me.

I don’t like it, but what can I do?

What can you do? How much power do you have? How much influence would a passive society have if they become proactive? Not proactive in violence or harming anyone, but active in stating to the Draconian Elite, “Enough is enough.” On the other hand, shall we become like the ancient Greeks who allowed Draco to write the laws that most crimes called for the death penalty, even minor offenses. His name lives in history as the Draconian consciousness; some call him the donkey’s ass of ancient Greece, the Draconian Elite, those in power who see humans as cattle, needing to be herded into a passive consciousness.

What can I do? Encourage all citizens of the world to not fly for one week unless these Draconian measures, including the naked scanners, are rescinded. If the passive peoples of this world become proactive citizens, then the Draconian Elite will have no stage to establish their decrees. 

It did not work; too many people said it was too inconvenient.

I like it, but what can I do?

A young man moved by my last two blogs sent me an e-mail. His e-mail presented a question with a disconcerting answer. “Many of my friends are fighting in the war. They believe they are fighting to preserve our freedom.” This young man stated, “After reading what you wrote, I decided to research questions I have had. I found this quote from Hermann Goering, second in command of the Third Reich under Hitler.”

The following statement was made in prison after WWII while awaiting execution, which did not occur as he committed suicide the day before the appointed time. His quote below has several different versions, but all say the same thing.

“Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor America, nor Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the country’s leaders who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” Hermann Goering.