The United States Social Forum

I went to the United States Social Forum in Detroit this past June, this is the first time that I am attempting to write about what happen during that time. I have been asked to express how I felt about attending it and all I could say was that I was transformed. For the first time I asked "What I could do in order fill my role, what is my part" ( *shrugs*)? I healed with past pains, rested by the water, released, and expressed a deep sense of gratitude. It was a beautiful moment for me. 

I believe the transformation is evident in the melting of my judgment of others, being able to sit quiet in a place wrought with maladies and cry mournfully, and look my fellow beings in the eye, as if to say, I acknowledge your being. 

When I first arrived I was sitting downtown before the opening march began, I noticed a woman on a bike and she was not wearing shoes. I looked at her and honestly thought she was a bit off, for not protecting herself better against the elements. I didn't know her or understand her story, but I judged her harshly. Towards the end of the conference, my views broadened and I walked a shoeless path. 

The day before the last day I sat along the water and cried, feeling the birth of grief for the loss of my mother and decided that I needed to re-connect with my original mother, mother earth. That day I realized shoes were bondage and capable of halting the energy flow between earth's energy and our own, I wanted to connect with her intimately. The good parts, like the cool soil contrasting the warm day, the blades of grass that were supple an supportive, as well as the heat of the asphalt, and the other risk that come with walking in the city environment.

What I learned from that moment was to truly trust my journey, to trust that if my feet touched something they didn't like, I would still survive it and appreciate that uncomfortable part of my journey. As an activist, I realize that this is going to be a long uphill battle, to create a change that I believe in, but as Gandhi states, " Be the change you wish to see." With that being stated I plan on smiling while changing the world, pretty sure I'm gonna be cursin some.. But I will definitely be standing up while doing it. 

So as I walk through this journey of growth and fulfillment I hope you do too.

Peace,

Natalie

Now Tell Me What a Black Life is Worth?

I admittedly am working on my own race relation issues, I don't want to feel that there is a race other then the human race. Furthermore, I don't wish to feel contempt of disdain for other races, particularly white folks. I wish that when I heard the term post-racial it did more than incite a hardy laugh, but that's all it did, even more is the context in which it was used was to describe how articulate our fucking President is...Chris Matthews, you bone head if we are in a post-racial society and you barely remembered that the President was a black man, that makes you one and idiot and two literally color blind, but not in the good way that children are, but in the fact that most men are color blind and don't know black from white or purple from red.

I am ranting because it feels like there is a great deal of racial tension boiling over as people in the media are making the most inflammatory statements about for instance the poor conditions that Haitians lived under. As if the fucked foreign policy and egregious miscarriage of justice had nothing to do with their living conditions. Argggh!! I am so over dumb asses and so over racism, I really want a peaceful society were terms like post-racial are laughed at because we have all melded to a nice beige color.

Another thing dude get off of Obama's back I didn't see a ne'er one you complaining about Bush's dick to ass policies, so now a brown person is in office and all of a sudden the world is a catastrophe?

Money the Servant of Humanity

I admit it I have swallowed the red pill and my eyes are continuously and vastly opening and it is a little scary, but you know what, I am a bit of a masochist and like some pain. Unlike, the rabbit hole of the matrix that is sleek and futuristic I have learned that going back into herstory ( yeah I'm gay) and looking at the mere repeating cycles in the banking industry, wars, reproductive justice, and slavery have come back and are newer, sleeker and ever pervading our daily lives. Yet no one speaks of it, because we are all under the impression that time is not a continuum and what has happened in the past is simply that, in the past.

I am going to share a few simple facts that I have recently learned about and will provide you with resources so that you can check it out, perform your own research and formulate your own conclusions. My reason is because knowledge is power and the more aware we are of the game being played the better off we all will fair. According to Aristotle, There are two sorts of wealth-getting, as I have said; one is a part of household management, the other is retail trade: the former necessary and honorable, while that which consists in exchange is justly censured; for it is unnatural, and a mode by which men gain from one another."

Which basically means that accruing wealth is honorable, yet it is when "usary" or interest is associated in order for bankers/money changers/goldsmith to make a profit is when it is dishonest. Historically money has been anything that the mass considered valuable, so feathers, coins, etc.. could be used to make exchanges for goods and services. When bankers came into play they began to produce money and then charge the consumer interest on that newly fabricated money, the consumer then made their purchases and the banker made money off of the interest.

What is dishonest about this is that money has subsequently gone into the hands of bankers, creating super elite indivduals that control the world and the average person has become poorer and poorer, ever notice the shrinking middle class? The Federal Reserve for example, consist of private banks that America has to borrow from in order to bank roll wars, and other profitable industries. Now if the President of one of the most powerful nations needs to sign on the dotted line to take out a loan, who has the power? Certainly not the President of the Country, but the President of the bank itself. "Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce." -- James A. Garfield, President of the United States

Our government is supposed to and has the ability to create interest free money, thereby creating a society based on fair prices, and equitable shares for all; a few have done so namely, Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson." The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government.. Democracy will rise superior to the money power." Abraham Lincoln

Since only a few control the wealth they can flood the market with it or hold it back creating a depression or a recession. "We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it." -- Congressman Louis T. McFadden in 1932 (Rep. Pa)

All of this boils down to one thing-- SLAVERY! I highly recommend watching, " The Money Masters" and "Money is Debt" they help to present our present day economy in a way that is digestible and you can see for your self how President and leaders of the past have tried to stop the evil nature of the banking practices. Learning how to free yourself from physical debt is equally as important and spiritual freedom, for you can perform greater social endeavors being free from debt. 

The giftings that keep on giving.

At what point do we all open our eyes and realize that we are all threads in the same fabric of life. I was talking with my friend Van, yesterday and we were speaking about occult symbols being used as tools to oppress a majority of people while a few elite maintain full control. As trite as the question,"what purpose does it serve to have a few in control while the rest toil about like sheep?" She looked at me like only an Aries can and said why do you think? The love of money is a powerful intoxicant and man has fueled wars in the name of ( freedom, religion, turf etc...) but it all boils down to the love of money.

When will the rest of us wake up to realize that A) as beings on this planet we are guaranteed to have all of our needs met, if we only realize that there is no such thing as scarcity. We have an inalienable right to have all of our wants, needs and desires met, if we only open our minds to it. The difference between living the life that we chose or continuing in a cycle; is realizing that we are in full control of our destiny. That our security does not come from a secure neighborhood, but through our own consciousness. We are gifted with the ability to manifest what it is we desire, by pulling away the weeds of negativity and cultivating what it is that we wish to see in our lives. The secret really is not a secret, the law of attraction is the name of the game in this realm, we are the master manifestors  and in full control of what does come to us.

With that being said we must also realize that what we call to order may present itself in a different manner or an obstacle, however if we persevere beyond that point the well of blessings is on the other side. Moreover, part of the blessing is realizing that the obstacle itself is a catalyst for the desired effect that we want.

Therefore, there is no reason to be a sheep following a herder, let your spirit guide you. Its like being a farmer in the richest land with all of the tools that you need. You just need to realize that you have everything you need to get everything you desire.