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What About Karl Loren Skills And Character That Suggest You Trust Him For Economic Analysis and Prediction?

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It has been a delight to me to write about my life and how I succeeded in business. I write here about the "thunderbolts" that have hit me or my area, and which were life-changing events -- always for the better.

I've only recently realized that my life has been shaped by "life-changing, triggering events" that had dramatic impact on me at the time, and which, every one, led me to a new and better understanding of life and my further increase in man's greatest ability -- my ability to OBSERVE, and to detect the truth when it is observed. The ability to OBSERVE can be done close or far or in your mind AND on your time track of past experiences. Yes!

With that increased ability to observe accurately, the observations shifted from the present simple realities to "future realities" based on application of LOGIC to the data as it was observed in the present. Can you "understand" a three dimensional object portrayed in two dimensions? Can you, yourself, create the portrayal of some three dimensional object into a two-dimensional image? Surprisingly, the subject of "logic" starts with "honesty" and includes much on the principle that logic cannot be found or understood without a shared agreement on the precise definitions of the words being used.

Too philosophical?

These changes start with CHOICES I made or which were made for me, in the core values in any man -- his understanding of God and Life whether you start with the Bible, the Koran, or your own voyage of discovery.

Why did I write this page?

I have a very strong sense of mission to report the truth that I see and that apparently not too many others see -- the coming dark times and the truth about the Obama mess.

This is such an "advanced subject" in terms of 50% of the population in the US already having fallen into a hypnotized stupor and voting for him, that I suspected strongly that the "average" person might be interested in my research on heart disease and cancer, but the "average" person has proven to be interested only in his own self-destruction when it comes to Obama.

So, I predicted, as I was getting ready to write on these subjects that half or even more would think I was crazy and react with hostility.

So, I decided to write this very personal and detailed biography to explain just how it has been that I have arrived at my present philosophical status -- and ability to see the truths about which I write.

That is this page.

The evidence that some apparently nice, even famous, even rich, people might read a small part of this material and quickly become hostile. Exactly that has happened and I've published an exchange with a very famous person in the UK HERE.

This woman was the top model in the UK and became famous for her sex escapades, porn, being arrested for drunk driving, addiction to cocaine, use of psychiatric drugs and treatment and claimed friendship with the author of Harry Potter.

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Karl Loren's First Religion -- Grandmother's Choice

Top My father, Wilbur Loren, was a "Christmas Christian," who went to Church at least every Christmas.

My mother, Milda, was a "Sunday Christian," who went to Church most Sundays.

My grandmother, Eva, (on my father's side) was a "true believer" who went to Church seriously and with intensity for the rituals and practice. She was not into philosophy, but into practice without thought.

Being as casual as they were about religion, my parents were glad to give over to my grandmother the job of "taking me to Church."

I lived in Willobee-On-The-Lake, a tiny town, yet even now still found on Google Maps which helped me find "Windermere Drive" in what is now called Willoughby, Ohio. I spent most of my first 13 years there.

I don't much remember my very early childhood, other than through stories from my mother and father:

I knew from them that before they got married, my father led an adventurous life. At one time when he was young, he and a friend bought a small sailboat and started the sail to South America. They did not make it, landed somewhere on the way and had to give that up.

When they were first married, already in Willoughby, Ohio, my father was first a "honey-dipper" (emptied septic tanks and cess pools), then became the man who delivered blocks of ice for the "ice boxes" we all had then.

He took a turn at being more of an entrepreneur when he got the agreement of the local grocery store to "handle the fresh fruit and vegetable stand" for the store. My father simply took his truck out among the many near-by farms, picked up fruit and vegetables that had been harvested by the farmers. He brought that all into Fishers Grocery Store and spent more of the day selling the fresh stuff.

He then got a "regular" job as a "Deputy Chief of Police, Lake County, Police Headquarters in Painsville, Ohio, and eventually became their motorcycle cop. The image on the left links to their home page.

I remember, faintly, being taken for a ride by him on his cycle. I was very proud, years later, of a photo of him standing by his motorcycle. I just wrote to that office, made friends and the Sheriff (Dunlap) promised to look for any old records.

He didn't like some of what he saw in that Police Department. His brother, Olin, was a cop on the Cleveland Police Force and my dad thought the Lake County Police were a bit too connected with the criminal gambling element in that rural area.

My father ran in the election for SHERIFF against incumbent Sheriff Sweeney, and lost big time.

He HAD to leave the police force then, took a job as a salesman for the Carey Roofing Company. This part of the story continues HERE. From that section you can click to return HERE.

My grandmother was a "serious and intense Church-goer and therefore I became a "serious and intense true believer" in HER church, a standard protestant Church. There I learned nothing other than ritual and ceremony. That was all I needed to take me to the next triggering event.

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I never missed Sunday School, got a free bible for perfect attendance, was rated as the "best reader of the Bible in Sunday School Class." I could read a line out of the Bible and NOT stop at the end of the line, but only stop or pause at the end of a thought -- a rare skill in my Sunday School Class.

I also learned the hymns by heart and could sing along with the adults when I had that chance.

The EarDrum Adventure -- Thunderbolts Often Hurt Like Hell

Top So, I was a true believer in a regular Protestant Church until the time that my long time family physician, Dr. Loren Aiken, came to my home to treat an "ear infection."

He was as tall as my father, had the same first name as both my father and I carried. He was trustworthy, I thought.

Young kids get scrapes and infections -- I was not different. I had no idea of where my painful ear came from, or that it was "serious" or that it was even an ear infection.

Our family doctor made house calls, of course, and came to treat me one day for this severe ear ache that hadn't been getting better.

It happened that, at that time, I slept in an old-fashioned four-poster bed -- the kind, like the originals, that had no springs or even a mattress. Instead it had "pegs" along the "side rails" that were used to run back and forth a rope to hold up the comforter that was laid on top, rather than a spring and mattress -- then with sheets on top of that.

For a small body, not weighing much it was an easy and comfortable bed to sleep in.

Funny thing about those old four-poster beds: No metal fasteners were used in the construction -- the side rails "fit" into the holes and "locked in place" to make the bed structure very firm and strong. Wooden pegs were used in some places rather than metal screws, bolts or nails.

That was the bed I was in when the Doctor arrived, my father already waiting in the room. The doctor didn't explain much to me -- I was about 6 years old. He simply said he was going to fix both ears, starting with one first.

He certainly did not tell me that he was going to deliberately "puncture" my ear drum -- or that there would be great pain. I think my father knew -- that's why he was in the room.

My father stood by, casually.

The inner ear looks like this image:

The ear drum and the "puncture" of that ear drum is found in this medical image and medical text:

You could perforate (i.e. poke a hole in) your eardrum.  We’re all aware of this danger and have adjusted our ear cleaning techniques appropriately after the one time we dug a bit too deep and couldn’t hear for the rest of the morning.  Luckily your ear drum (called the tympanic membrane) is one of the fastest regenerating tissues in your body.  Thus, a perforation will be able to heal itself relatively quickly and you will regain normal hearing.(SOURCE)

Myringotomy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Myringotomy is a surgical procedure in which a tiny incision is created in the eardrum, so as to relieve pressure caused by the excessive buildup of fluid, or to drain pus. Myringotomy is often performed as a treatment for otitis media. If a patient requires myringotomy for drainage or ventilation of the middle ear, this generally implies that the Eustachian tube is either partially or completely obstructed and is not able to perform this function in its usual physiologic fashion. Before the invention of antibiotics, myringotomy was the main treatment of severe acute otitis media (middle ear infection).(SOURCE)

It doesn't reduce the pain of THEN to find out that medical treatment was common THEN but hardly used NOW.

The doctor leaned over me, leaning on that four-poster bed and started to put something into my one ear. So far it didn't hurt. Then I trusted the doctor and relaxed to let him do his thing, but suddenly -- all hell broke loose. As far as I know, even now, he simply placed a scalpel or needle into my ear drum, hoping to drain built-up pressure there. He punctured the drum deliberately, with no warning and certainly no anesthesia or sedative.

It hurt.

A lot!

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You can bet that I, knowing that he intended to do the other ear, started fighting back with all my young strength.

My father then got into the act to help hold me down on the bed while Dr. Aiken, our friendly family doctor, put another sharp instrument into my other ear -- and punctured the other ear drum.

I was little, but my anger was huge. I had been betrayed after trusting "my friend." I shook and fought so much that the bed fell apart -- all the pieces came apart and the three of us all landed on the floor in a heap of collapsed bed. A broken egg can't be fixed -- a broken bed can -- little did I know that I had a future betrayal after trust to teach me further.

You probably have not had such an experience? It was a "triggering event" for me.

The worst pain I had ever felt, and it was an invasion of my inner self -- directly into my skull -- a deliberate puncturing of my ear drums.

Barbaric, you think? I thought this for years. Only when recalling this life-changing event did I research it and discover that "puncturing ear drums" was a common old practice, even though not done in modern times.

But this story doesn't end here. When that bed collapsed, I made a vow!

My OWN choice of a Religion

Top In my little neighborhood I played with kids mostly my own age. I KNEW them well. I also "knew of" the adults in those houses, but not well at all. I did know "Flossie Hippler," an older woman (they were all "older" when they were adults). The tiny but now-pertinent thing I "knew" about her was that she belonged to a church that "didn't believe in doctors!"

That's all I knew about her religion.

All we know about Obama's religion is shrouded in mystery:

The critical question to be answered is not whether Obama is now a Christian as opposed to being a Muslim, but whether Obama was ever a Muslim, as numerous friends and teachers have unequivocally indicated before Obama announced his candidacy for President in February 2007.

" Obama's campaign aides have emphasized his strong Christian beliefs and downplayed any Islamic connection. The Illinois senator was raised 'in a secular household in Indonesia by his stepfather and mother,' his chief spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said in a statement in January after false reports began circulating that Obama had attended a radical madrasa, or Koranic school, as a child.

"'To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago,' Gibbs' Jan. 24 [2007] statement said. In a statement to The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday[March 14, 2007], the campaign offered slightly different wording, saying: 'Obama has never been a practicing Muslim.' The statement added that as a child, Obama had spent time in the neighborhood's Islamic center." (Source)

Obama certainly joined the Chicago Church, Pastor Jeremiah Wright Jr., a matter of convenience to increase his power connections, and not, as I allege, to seek any better understanding of himself or God.

Many politicians today are "fake Christians" because it is the politically correct thing to do. In retrospect, that is the type of Christian I was when MY grandmother put me into her church.

Religions were pretty simple to me in those days.

The Church I belonged to? It had reading Bible stories and singing -- they were all I "knew" about "religion" there.

I realized later in life that "God" was used mostly to create fear in kids -- if they didn't "do good," they could burn in Hell, or God wouldn't take them into Heaven. A terrible fright for a young kid who could never understand who or what was "God."

The thought that there might be a "religion" that "didn't believe in doctors?" That was a novel thought to me. All I knew about this religion -- all that appealed to me was that "they didn't believe in doctors" and I didn't either, now that my ear had been punctured by one.

I SWORE to myself that I would join this Church and would NEVER again have some doctor betray my trust in him. That was my vow. That was my "postulate" for my future.

As soon as I could get out of the house, I went to visit Mrs. Flossie Hippler. I told her I wanted to join her Church -- I wanted to avoid doctors. Like any devout member of any religion, she was eager to spread her faith to this little boy -- me.

Neither of my parents much cared WHETHER I went to church or WHICH church I went to -- they knew Flossie, had no idea what "Christian Science religion" was, but it sounded "Christian" and "science" was a good word.

The next Sunday, my next life-changing event took place when I went to the Christian Science Sunday School -- sang hymns, read from the (same) Bible and heard MORE words from the pulpit that I never understood, but I liked.

Christian Science Preaches the Kingdom of God and Heals the Sick

Our great Master, Christ Jesus, taught the people by the seaside, on the hills, and in the valley. His teachings were tender, compassionate, full of the Father's loving provision for His creation. He healed the multitudes who sought him. (source)

I was ready to trust "Christ Jesus" rather than a doctor and looked forward to learning how people could be healed -- without doctors. My new trust was strong and guided me for many years until I decided that I had, perhaps, not been betrayed, but that I hadn't "learned" how to heal myself or others.

I read the motto and believed that I would be able to "heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons and cleanse lepers."

Even the failure to learn how to do that was no matter. I liked the hymns better than the other Church and THESE people didn't believe in doctors. My betrayal was long into the future for Christian Science. It never interested me that this was "Christian" but it really interested me that this was claimed to be "science."

I enjoyed my many years as a Christian Scientist -- I now look at those years as a STEP toward a truth that I was not yet ready for then. I've long believed the motto, "The teacher will appear when the student is ready." I was not yet ready for more truth than Christian Science, and IT was just the right level of truth for me, so my teacher "appeared," Flossie Hippler.

I wanted to learn that science just as I greatly enjoyed learning physics in high school some many years later. I only recently found out WHY I chose physics and never chemistry as a subject. I can share that "why" with you if you write to me.

Karl was "Taught" That Goodness Can Be Godless?

Top Before I was old enough to be in high school, however, I found another intriguing thought -- a "scientific" approach to "goodness" and my mother allowed me to go for a summer camp in New York with the Ethical Culture Society -- here was a life-changing event that I didn't recognize as life-changing until many years later.

Like an implanted ticking time bomb, this short summer camp experience did not explode for years later. At the Ethical Culture Society summer camp I learned many things of interest to me, but I also got manipulated and prepared to "discover" the betrayal of the trust I had placed in Christian Science, and God Himself.

The Summer with the Ethical Culture Society was not, itself, a BIG triggering event, but it prepared me for that event -- later.

Let me set the background for this experience with the Ethical Culture Summer Camp when I was about 14 years old.

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I had lived a very free life style -- often leaving my home in the early summer mornings, traveling all over the several blocks of my child-hood neighborhood, took my dog, rode my bike and returned whenever I felt like it.

Sure my mother wanted me home for meals, but our community was so safe that no one ever worried about a kid out all day. One of my favorite foods in those days was plain white sugar coating a single slice of Wonder Bread -- sweet and nutritious, thought I. As I recall some 70 years ago, Wonder Bread sold for ten cents per loaf.....

I could just as easily open the doors of a dozen or two dozen homes, open without knocking, enter, go to the refrigerator (mostly "ice boxes" then), take out what I knew I was allowed to take, even feed my dog, not even leave a note that I had been there, and move on. (One of my father's entrepreneurial jobs was selling and home-delivery of blocks of ice.)

BUT, in my whole city there was not even ONE Black person. I had never seen one. I had some of the biblical ideals of "loving my neighbor," had "heard of black people and had heard of "prejudice." The only Black people I even saw pictures of were entertainers.

The only "churches" that I knew, in my area, were rural and "white."

There were roads to them, but they were often in the middle of farm territory and certainly did not have Blacks in the congregation or area.

I just thought prejudice was bad -- against God. I was unhappy with prejudice and thought that "people should love blacks as well as whites," but had no experience doing that.

By this time I was an active and devout Christian Scientist -- reading my Bible Lesson every day and praying for harmony in the world -- upset about, among other things, the disharmony of racial prejudice.

I prayed a lot -- I had faith in Christian Science. I never really prayed for personal things, but I did pray.

I was active in my Christian Science Church for many years.

At this time, when I was about 14, some 64 years ago, I attended this summer camp in New York, run by a group called the "Ethical Culture Society." I went there as a devout Christian Scientist -- reading my Bible every day.

What We Believe

Ethical Culture is a Humanist and Ethical movement inspired by the ideal that the supreme aim of our lives is to create a more humane society.

We stand for separation of church and state. We believe acting morally does not require belief in a god. We place our faith in the demonstrated capacity of people to do wonderful things. We believe in the worth and dignity of all living beings. (source)

There I was in an interracial, inter religious, co-ed group of others about my age -- about 14. I had never had a date with a girl, was deeply religious and had never met a black person in my neighborhood or school...

I came, later, to realize that this summer camp was a front group for "fuzzy communism" whose mission was to spread the communist "truth" that there was no God and other radical social concepts disguised with "goodness." This message about God was mixed in with other messages about "equality" and "justice" that really appealed to me.

I met Black people for the first time -- found that they were just like me. I met people of other religions and of no religion and found that they, too, were mostly just like me -- just had different beliefs on rather trivial things. I also met GIRLS and found that they could be "people" too -- just like me. I didn't have to date them or have a "love relationship" with them.

I learned about "politics" and "government" and this was all new stuff to a young, impressionable mind -- fascinating because I loved learning new stuff and I had nothing comparable to their political teachings to compare them with. Unlike today, back then no schools taught about communism, socialism, gays, sex or religion.

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I had come to know several Black people at this Camp -- a decidedly healthy new experience for me -- and a natural hook for the communists to appeal to an idealistic youngster. Communists divide the world into two classes of people: The Elite and the slave. A Black Elite is well accepted and so are Black or White slaves.

It is not unusual for Whites to pose as great friends of the Blacks -- in order to enslave them.

But these were much later realizations. At the time of the Ethical Culture Summer Camp, I accepted all their stuff without recognizing that some of it was bad.

Karl Prays to HEAL A Tree Root?

Top As I got older, into my teens, I had chores which included cutting the grass. I recall, one day, running that gas mower over a tree root that was sticking partly out of the ground. After I saw that I had cut the root, I thought about how "prayer would heal" I hadn't had more health problems after my ear ache -- perhaps it was my Christian Science -- so I hadn't had much need to URGENTLY try out this "prayer thing."

I decided that I would "heal that tree root."

After all, it was a living thing -- the tree. I had injured it, so I should be able to apply the science of Christian Science prayer to that root and make it whole, not so?

I prayed for several days -- coming every day to look at the root and see if it had been healed yet.

It never healed.

But this was a small matter -- no trust of importance had been betrayed. I put the repair of that root aside. My failure to heal a root did not much affect my faith in God.

It would be some time before I had another of those life-changing, triggering events.

But "some time" passed, as it always does.

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My God, don't let this happen!

Top During these years of my young life, my parents were fighting and although "divorce" was no word in my vocabulary, the turmoil in my parents life greatly affected me. I was praying for peace and harmony in my family.

One night I was upstairs in my bed, heard angry shouting downstairs -- between my mother and father.

I couldn't understand the words, but certainly understood the emotions.

I did hear and understand some word exchanges. I could hear that my father was "leaving for good."

I remember my prayer at that moment -- with great clarity.

I prayed "hard" and often in those few minutes, asking God to not allow my family to be broken and asking God to NOT ALLOW my father to leave my mother.

He was also LEAVING ME -- abandoning ME.

The door slammed shut and closed forever on a precious part of my life -- my father left, eventually got a divorce and at the age of 15 I lost my family.

My God had betrayed me when I trusted Him, prayed to Him.

It took me many months more to realize that my loss of faith in my God was seriously real. I could not believe in a God, omnipotent and omniscient, who ignored the intense prayers of my Christian Science belief that God could heal anything.

I didn't then think of the tree root that didn't heal.

I didn't then think of the Ethical Culture Society that taught that God was not needed in order to accomplish GOOD.

I became an Agnostic, quit reading the Bible and didn't go back to "that" Church with any hope that they had some "science" of healing.

I never got seriously interested in Catholicism. I had a cousin who was Catholic and I liked her, but all I could see in her home was that she "bowed down to 'graven images' -- a violation of one of the ten commandments." She had a plaster Jesus Christ on her wall. As far as I could see she "prayed to" this graven image.

Back then I had no idea of how true, how unworkable, was the Catholic practice of "confession."

Later I learned, also, via "Angels and Demons" that the Illumanati represented the Catholic Church's missed opportunity to find a true "spiritual science" since they renounced the "physical science" modernization brought to them by the Illumanati, and had chance to move into spiritual science without finding a way to explain ALL physical science within their religious philosophy.

Later I also learned that the "Confessional Technology" of the Catholic Church did NOT relieve a person of the burden of his sins -- as proven by the constant repetition of those sins even once supposedly "forgiven."

It makes no sense to "forgive" sin when it is well proven that such a person has not changed his behavior. Removal of the burden of sin must also make it possible for a person to be free from the compulsion to commit more sin.

So, not even knowing then what I was looking for, I wanted a spiritual philosophy that was based on all the physical sciences, that had a "confessional technology that truly freed man from his "devil-driven compulsion" to repeat a sin, and, of course, not only taught the existence of God, but the fulfillment of TWO important-to-me sayings from Jesus: "Know the truth and it will make you free" and, "Even the least among you can do all that I have done, and greater things."

I wanted to find the truth about God and my life, and I wanted to heal and be able to do what Jesus did, and more. These were the promises I held to during my early Protestant and Christian Science days, but did not find.

I did keep looking....

I did go back to the Christian Science Church, because the habit was strong, the hymns were still comforting and, by now, many people in that Church gave me me affection that I wanted and needed, coming now from a broken home. That initial faith was enough for me to follow their strict rules: no alcohol, no tobacco. I remained true to those rules for many years, even after I lost faith in any "science" of that religion.

I came to believe that I just didn't know if God existed -- precisely the purpose of the Ethical Culture Society -- they had dozens, even hundreds of youngsters, 13 to 15, every summer, for a summer camp that threw these impressionable youngsters into a heady experience -- co-ed, inter-racial (which I strongly supported) inter-religious (to weaken anyone's faith with "alternatives") and idealistic teaching on the glories of socialism and communism.

Why were THEY doing this?

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Because they were applying one of Karl Marx's "rules" of how to make the change from democracy to socialism to communism.

We are seeing, if you are willing to look, that same RULE being applied in America today. We have become a Nation of Christmas Church Goers. "Church Going" is now a "politically correct" behavior -- all the best people do it -- even Obama.

The creation of a Nation of Godless is NOT accidental, but deliberate by people, often coming from training in psychology ("study of the spirit???") and psychiatry.

I charge Psychiatry with the deliberate destruction of morality -- and have written great gobs on that. I've included some of that material on THIS page -- don't miss it.

Drive God out of a person's life and out of the society -- that is the Communist way of taking over the government. Communism usually gets its start from a Godless Citizenry that VOTES for "social change" and gets tyranny.

The image on the left is a typical scene of the Catholic Church Exorcist who "drives the devil out of the Church." It is a real part of the Catholic Church:

International Association of Exorcists

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

International Association of Exorcists is a Roman Catholic organization that was founded by six priests including the world-famous exorcist of Rome Father Gabriele Amorth and Father Jeremy Davies in 1993.[1][2]

Although the membership is restricted and exclusive by 2000 there were over two hundred members.[3] A priest must have permission of his bishop to join and they meet bi-annually in Rome. The association sends out a quarterly newsletter where members can tell of particularly difficult or interesting cases.

Within the Roman Catholic Church a priest may only do an exorcism with the express consent of his bishop.

Father Amorth began the organization in the hopes of increasing the number of official exorcists world wide. Although Father Amorth is the honorary president, the current acting president is Father Giancarlo Gramolazzo. (source)

I guess if the Church could drive the devil out of the Church for many decades, the Devil can drive God out of the Church also? Not so? Is the the role being played by the obvious liberal push to remove God from Society?

I could find no logical or scientific explanation of what a "devil" might be -- and feel that "faith" is not a substitute for science.

The Ethical Culturists didn't "teach me" that my Christian Science was bad or wrong, but they did expose me to the thought that you could have a "good" society without the need to believe in God.

I didn't buy into that "Godlessness" then because my faith in Christian Science was strong. At this time I had not yet had that life-changing event of the divorce of my parents. (Yes, I DID become an agnostic, but I re-discovered my faith in God as I moved along with life-changing events.) I changed from a robotic believer in God, to a man who questioned that state (agnostic) but never became an atheist.

Atheism is the basic of communism:

Atheism (from the Greek α – negative prefix, θεός – God). Godlessness, the conviction that there is no God or supernatural or divine ground for nature and human life. In practice atheism rejects the need to bring individual and social life into conformity with the demands of religion.

Materialism as a philosophical school, in denying the existence of supernatural powers, encouraged atheism. The atheistic world view began to spread with the progress of natural science in the 17th–18th century and the increasing criticism of established religion and church authoritarianism. The French Encyclopedists, and later the German materialist philosophers, removed the spiritual and divine element from their theoretical speculations. Yet, not all of them were active atheists: some of them merely claimed that nothing could be known about God and remained indifferent to religion (agnosticism). Karl Marx's historical and dialectical materialism denied the existence of God, and his political program presupposed an atheistic world outlook. (source)

It has taken me many years to find the best religion for ME.

Later I discovered that it was impossible to have real morals or honesty without a spiritual component to the technology which would accomplish that successfully.

If you don't have that in your religion, and see the value of it, perhaps you should be looking?

At that Summer Camp I also didn't change at all toward "accepting communism" but I learned that communism was WORTH LEARNING ABOUT. I learned the idealistic features of communism, but not the necessity of a dictatorial government to allow it to exist in a previously free society.

It was there I learned some "quick definitions" for socialism and for communism. They stuck with me as truth -- no experience to contradict them.

I've found those same definitions on a modern web page, but that same page does just what Marx suggested: Change the definitions to confuse people as to what we have.

I recalled learning the first statement from this modern web site:

Socialism: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his deeds”.

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Communism: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” (source)

I had been active in my Christian Science Church, but this Ethical Culture experience may well have the implant into my young head that turned me from believing in God to being, what I think the Ethical Culture people be lived, to be an agnostic. But, now with more time to contemplate, i think they, at heart, are atheists.

The same summer camp source described above for those definitions gives the thought I remember having those 64 years ago:

Communism distributes the reward for accomplishment, ideally equally, amongst those who did the work and those who did little or nothing.

Was Jesus Christ the greatest communist to have ever lived?

I believed in the teachings of Jesus Christ. It was easy for me to "see" in those teachings that He "gave" to people on the basis of NEED, not DEED.

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My father, being an entrepreneur (as I surely have been and am today) taught me that "rewards are in proportion to production of things of value to others."

My father's long history of entrepreneurship was plenty enough to keep me on that path and having no interest in giving the fruits of my labors to the people who didn't work for it.

I recall well an teaching incident in my life -- my father was an extremely hard-working man, at one time took a salesman's job with the Carey Roofing Company. (Return to earlier section with story about my father.)

My father had mostly, himself with friends, built the home I lived in for many years in Willoughby, Ohio. He knew construction and had learned it from HIS father.

My father, Wilbur Loren Troescher, became the best salesman Carey Roofing Company ever had -- he was selling more than any other person.

"SO" the Company cut his territory into pieces, gave some of his best areas to other salesmen so they could sell more, and told my father that "you can build up this smaller area into the same large sales."

He quit.

I did much the same a few times in my life -- learned that lesson from my father.

He did NOT quit life, or slip into apathy. He called on one of his customers, an old man who owned a hardware store and was planning to retire. My father bought the store and was in business for himself.

That store, just at the beginning of WW II, had a "ration coupon" for buying steel. Steel was not available for general use -- was all allocated to the war effort -- but some was allowed for general use if you had a ration card to get it.

This little store HAD a ration allocation for steel.

It will be another tale, for another day, to describe how my father turned that "scarce" resource into a multi-million dollar business that he continued, turned on to his other children to run and was still running well at the time of his death in his 80s.

I learned a lot from him.

My decision to become an Agnostic (I later recovered my faith in God), seemed "logical" to me. At this time the "logical religion" (Christian Science) that had "failed me" gave me no hope for THAT religion but spurred me on to find a better religion -- one that I could understand on the basis of observation of reality and logic.

Just LOOKING for that type of religion apparently liberated me to being curious about "life" and "God," and I started studying many different religions.

I didn't realize it then, but I do now: Almost no one "chooses" a religion, but, rather, they are "installed" by their parents in a Church. I felt liberated in looking for a religion I could choose for myself.

I did not realize it then, but I also started experiencing spiritual abilities -- never thinking I was different from any one else.

Karl started to "see the future" Karl's third "religious realization" -- the need to look no further

 

Top he "future," for me, was just a "logical extension of the present" but I seemed to be more aware of the present and more comfortable with logic than many others.

For instance, my first year in high school, with many hundreds of students in Willoughby, Ohio Union High School, it was my "look into the future" without really seeing it clearly, that led me to decide to take a typing class. I had played with a typewriter much earlier. I "saw" the future need for any businessman to be a capable typist -- it was logic based on my prediction of the future.

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I was the only boy in that class. It was not until years later when I realized that typing skill was an essential for any business leader, and even more so for the types of business my predictions took me into.

In College I was the President of the Chess Club. I had played chess since I was about 7 years old --- a game of observation, logic and looking into the future, based on that logic and knowing the rule of the game.

They were?

I had a burning desire to live and work in a foreign country. Oh, I had a distant cousin who became the "Governor" of the Island of Sumatra where he managed the Goodyear Rubber Plantation.

He was the last white man who left that island, just as the Japanese invaded. The image below is actually a small boat in Sumatra.

It was both the spirit of adventure and the exotic nature of his work that inspired me, later, to get my first foreign employment in Ethiopia, then Ghana, then the Philippines.

I pursued my adventure with two years in the Army, including the Ranger School. I always worked harder than everyone else and that showed when I got the position of Aide de Camp to the Deputy Commanding General at Fort Benning.

Just as I had taken a typing class as a young boy, I felt that some fancy credentials behind my name would help me in business. I got my Masters Degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School. When, later, I had the opportunity to get a political appointment (GS13) to the US Department of Commerce, I grabbed at the chance. There too, working many extra hours (which hardly no one else did) I was noticed and the Kennedy White House asked for my service.

I didn't "SEE" myself in the White House, but I DID see the skills I needed to learn and the places I wanted to be -- so that it was then "natural" to get chosen to work in the White House.

My last salaried jobs were in the Philippines where, first, I was the Executive Vice President of a Company with many thousands of employees, then I became the Chief Financial Officer of a Company (headquartered in the Philippines) with more than 15,000 employees, spread out over a dozen Asian countries. After those salaried jobs I changed dramatically in many ways and have been an entrepreneur -- founding my own business operations including Vibrant Life. My accomplishments with Vibrant Life are mostly presented on the MAIN PAGE of this newsletter.

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While I was all this time traveling the world, I was comfortable with being an Agnostic, attending Church as a "Sunday Christian" and always curious whether or not I could find a religion that was "logical" and, even so, offered insights into God and Life.

This was not a full time search, but became more so when I was living in the Philippines, started to cheat on my wife and also started to look for some sort of "spiritual salvation" that could set me straight with God. If there were no God, and no afterlife, then it didn't seem to matter how moral you might be -- I had not found my immorality seeming to harm me. I did not want to go to jail, but I also felt that the "situational ethics" I had learned in College, particularly at the Harvard Business School -- those seemed to allow a wide range of moral behavior that included having an affair "because my wife had ...."

Fill in the dots with any complaints about my wife -- complaints, I learned later, were often a window to the same "immoral" acts by oneself, but I had not yet found the religion that would show me that morality led to more happiness and that there was more than just one life to live....

In all logic, I could not picture God the way I found him portrayed in every religion I looked at. Nor could I believe that Man lived one brief span of years and that there was nothing more.

I was looking for God and a "a true SCIENCE of spirituality." My studies included exotic and strange religions.

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Since I was also an Agnostic, I also studied psychologists who had concepts usually not including need for God. One of those (Abraham Maslow) penned the question:

"The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg."

Later in life I would discover that you cannot have a moral code without a deep and thorough understanding of spirituality which must include God. Before giving up on the "humanistic" theories of people like Maslow, I spent thousands of hours studying those concepts. Such as:

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Sowing Abraham's Seed

Humanist psychologist, Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) was very optimistic about human nature, writing in his Toward a Psychology of Being: "This inner nature, as much as we know of it so far, seems not to be intrinsically or primarily evil." On the contrary, human nature is "good or neutral rather than bad." In the introduction to the same volume, Maslow wrote: Destructiveness, sadism, cruelty, malice, etc., seem so far to be not intrinsic but rather they seem to be violent reactions against frustration of our intrinsic needs, emotions, and capacities." In response to the question of the origin of neuroses, Maslow wrote:

My answer...was, in brief, that neurosis seemed at its core, and in its beginning, to be a deficiency disease: that it was born out of being deprived of certain satisfactions which I called needs in the same sense that water and amino acids and calcium are needs, namely that their absence produces illness. Most neuroses involved, along with other complex determinants, ungratified wishes for safety, for belongingness and identification, for close love relationships and for respect and prestige.

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Maslow fit in with my Harvard Business School education -- Maslow was being hailed as the "Father of Modern Management." While I was searching, his stuff seemed very acceptable. He "hinted" that there might be a spiritual component to his psychology, but I finally came to understand that his complex theories of "motivation" and, in fact all his theories, were "Godless" and clueless.

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Here is the type of junk I spent hundreds of hours trying to understand before I finally decided it was all trash:

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) was a psychologist. He developed a theory called the 'Hierarchy of Needs'. This hierarchy referred to the various needs that he believed characterized humans. He identified five main human needs. These are:

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While there was no real "teaching" at the Harvard Business School, there was widespread use of the Maslow stuff and I felt the need to understand it.

People who try to follow Maslow's concepts cannot understand them because he violates the basic rule of communication -- he uses words for which he has no definition.

That failure in public and private education, this nation and others, is so pervasive that our students get dumber and dumber the further they go through school.

In fact, there is ONE "medical specialty" which specializes, indeed, in "psychobabble," the deliberate use of a word that has no useful definition within the context where it is used. Here is a good example of "psychobabble:

Szasz Tromps The Latest Psychiatric Idiocy

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The heroic Tom Szasz has an excellent piece today on the Foundation for Economic Education website trouncing the mass “lock ‘em up” reflex to the Virginia Tech shootings.

It is a helluva thing when the “experts” respond to a government’s prohibition of self-defense (Va. Tech was a proud gun-free zone, except for cops & mass killers) to sanctify giving government far more power.

Szasz was vilified in a Wall Street Journal piece yesterday that  derided him for being part of a commission that “purports to investigate human rights violations perpetrated by mental health professionals.”

This is from the same newspaper editorial page that sneers about how the ACLU purports to investigate “torture” at Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, and other US bases.

Szasz has a new book coming out entitled Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry.   Much of the folly in contemporary political thought is the result of the refusal to recognize the pervasive role of government coercion in modern life.   Instead, good intentions - in presidential decrees and psychiatric detention orders - supposedly make the coercion irrelevant.

Click here for an article (below) which describes a new Book

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It took me some years to realize that I had wandered down a dead end -- that Maslow had no logic, basically because he never could define his "core" words with definitions that related to the simple realities of my own experience.

I finally found the religion that has satisfied me for the past 35 years. It is mentioned and described in my Book, but not here.

It was certainly a life-changing event to discover this body of philosophy that had been around me, but not seen until I had traveled this far in life, looking and finally finding.

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Life Was VERY Different From This Time On

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I met and married my new wife in Church. Later, when we had founded Vibrant Life, she took on the title of "Friend of Goodwill," and the professional name "Jean Ross."

I had, also, taken on the professional name "Karl Loren." Both of our "real" "driver's license names" are scattered in many places on my 50+ web sites and more than 100,000 web pages, published by me.

Both of us increased our ability "to observe" == that being the highest ability there is for a spiritual being occupying a body made of bones and meat.

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Both of us developed the skill of leaving our bodies while "looking" elsewhere.

Both of us developed the skills of visiting our previous life times -- both of us knew with certainty that we were immortal spiritual beings, occupying a body and that, if we wished, we could "come back," pick up another body and live another life time.

But, both of us also realized that our abilities to "heal" our own bodies, or the bodies of others was not as well developed as it could be -- both of us had some of the typical health problems of our ages as we moved along.

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I'll skip all those fascinating adventures, both those involving our religion and our exciting lives together. We travelled the world together, were very successful in our business and were very happily married.

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There WAS ONE MORE Triggering Event that was so sudden it then-loamed as as the largest disruption of my whole life:

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My Mother Died Suddenly!

Top Mothers NEVER die other than suddenly. Despite that, whenever it happens to YOU, it is sudden and horrible.

By time of my mother's death I had learned the truth about death and life after death. I was far better prepared for her death than I would have been otherwise.

But, it was still a huge shock.

My mother was living in a small home in a "community of shared grass and roads" in Cleveland, Ohio. It was right next to an amusement park I had visited many times in my youth.

Her home was adjacent to the Amusement Park and fronted on the Lake Erie she loved so much. From that home she often travelled to far off places where I happened to be living -- she visited me in Africa and Asia in between times she visited HER mothers birth area -- Latvia. Russia was still restricting travel in Latvia when she went there, but she did visit places her mother had visited. I had visited her in her Cleveland Home often.

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I was living in Burbank, California. One night, about 10 PM, California time, I got a call -- the man identified himself as a doctor, calling about my mother.

I'm sure the first few seconds I heard the words but did not understand what was happening.

Soon I learned that, as he called, my mother was in surgery in a Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.

I wanted to know anything I could, but simply asked, "how is she?"

The answer was that it was very serious -- I didn't know if that meant she was probably going to die, or that it was OK.

The best I could get an answer to that was to the related question I asked, "Do you think I should come?"

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He said "Yes," and I made the decision immediately, even without knowing what all was going on. I told him I would check airline reservations and get a plane as soon as possible to fly to Cleveland.

I then talked it over with Jean and we agreed that I would go immediately and that she would follow in a couple days.

We rather expected, from the phone conversation, that my mother might well not live through this experience.

We started immediately with a "spiritual preparation" whereby my wife, Jean, prepared to help my mother get into a new life/body when and if she died.

I flew to Cleveland -- this story is told in detail on other web pages, but in terms of a life-changing event, the sudden death of your mother is near the top of the list.

By the time Jean started to fly to Cleveland, in a couple days, my mother had died in her sleep while I was at the Hospital.

Jean was flying at just that moment and had no trouble communicating with my mother -- they had always been close.

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Jean guided my mother, spiritually, around on a tour, and eventually into a new baby about to be born to someone we knew, pregnant, quite well. We got that new mother's agreement that MY mother could occupy that body -- she did and we saw her over some next few years -- always recognizing her character and behavior.

I, being an ordained minister, performed the memorial service in a Church my mother usually went to.

We were BOTH in communication with my mother while we spread the ashes from her cremation out on the Lake Erie she loved so much.

When I asked her doctor, "What causes heart disease?" he answered with a familiar phrase I heard often: "No one knows the actual reasons for heart disease.'

I could to do no more than accept those sad words about my mother, but I vowed that I would find out, myself.

This life-changing event guided me into a whole new career -- the research and publishing that, ultimately, became Vibrant Life and my personally created vitamin formulas -- and eventually well over 100,000 web pages with more than 300,000 unique visitors looking at least at one page -- every month..

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When I finally got back to Los Angeles, I found, indeed, that most of the books I could find about heart disease, then, in 1981, said the same thing as my mother's doctor had said, "No one knows the causes of heart disease."

The breakthrough for me, another life-changing event, was my finding "Bypassing Bypass" by Dr. Elmer Cranton.

He had the full and scientific explanation for heart disease in his Book, and the remedy of "intravenous chelation therapy." I had heard of chelation, and his Book was enough to launch my entire research and career.

This "triggering event" was, of course a sad one, but I knew, spiritually, that my mother was far better off, that she was out of pain. I knew she would be growing up in with a fine set of parents -- both of whom I knew well. They had no doubt that "my mother" had become "their little girl."

Jean had a great deal more "spirituality" than I did -- it was easy for her to help my mother find a new body.

Jean, later, helped her own mother find a new life when she passed out of life during this period...

Jean has done this for a few others also -- it is not difficult when you come to understand the religion we had both chosen for ourselves.

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The death of my mother was bad? Yes, but I turned that bad experience into the need to learn more about what killed her and to turn that new knowledge into the business which is Vibrant Life today.

Dr. M. S.R. Ayyangar

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As that business grew and prospered, I "accidentally" met a man on the internet -- that is, he sent me a promotional eMail, I could have simply ignored it or tossed it aside to read later, but I answered.

Like MANY things in my life, some "small" thing, done with no obvious purpose at the time, turned out to be a life changing event for me. Meeting him was certainly one of those events.

That answer turned into an exchange that numbered many thousands of messages, back and forth, that quickly concentrated on his great knowledge of the Veda, the ancient Books of India, and completely unknown to me.

He, on the other hand, found me to be a font of eagerness to describe to him MY new religion and philosophy.

This exchange blossomed, prospered and we became and are each other's

best friend. He visited my home twice, coming from India. We do business between us, and that business continues, now, without our personal involvement.

The image on the right is his brilliant and lovely daughter, Anu, a Graduate Student in the US, already with two advanced degrees in subjects of great value to her father's business. She was visiting my home along with her parents who came from India.

He has been and is a large part of my life.

He and my Company, Vibrant Life, are intimately intertwined in life.

This page would be 100 times longer if I could take the time to describe all that we have done together, but I'll satisfy myself with one brief link to a speech he gave in India, in July 2009, and which shows his great genius in philosophy.

When he visited in 2008, he shared with me my great love for Kung Fu, attended a special class at my school and did some forms with me.

I have many other of my web pages referencing him, but at least this small part of our exchange belongs on THIS page.

I'm very proud of his calling me his Guru, and see my teachings to him in this speech, you can read here.

He lived through, from his home in India, my wife's experience with cancer, next section, and provided his love and help.

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But, one day....

Top A problem with eating came up for Jean.

After this up-chucking period, in 2003, we finally decided to have a doctor look at her esophagus. The second visit, we allowed the needle biopsy that he had recommended for the first inspection and we refused. The second visit? Cancer verified by needle biopsy. It was in February, 2004. Bonnie (Jean Ross) felt fine -- except that she more and more had "up-chucking events." There was no pain and she felt "normal.

The day after talking to an MD we had used for 20 years as our family physician, and trusted completely (note that betrayal after trust is a condition found all too often amongst us humans). He said that the tumor (diagnosed the day before as cancer) was too big to handle with the alternative therapy we both wanted to use.

He said she would have to have chemo and radiation to get the cancer shrunk and that despite what an oncologist would order us to do -- that she should continue to take the alternative remedies she was, by now, taking daily. Eventually there were many, but the primary causes of her cure of this deadly malady were "Germanium" and "Taheebo Life Tea."

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The next day we drove the 90 miles from the Los Angeles area to Santa Barbara -- to a restaurant on the ocean we both loved. There I took her picture -- a beautiful smiling girl I had married, with no outward trace of the terrible cancer that was growing inside.

Less than five months later, in July 2004, she was being harmed so much by the chemo therapy and radiation that she could no longer swallow and had lost most of her hair. She felt like death and, indeed, in a fateful evening conversation she told me that she would rather die than continue with the medical treatment she was getting.

We had a "usual 4th of July Picnic" at our home in Burbank, but announced it to our friends as a "goodbye event" for people to say their last "goodbyes'" to her.

Our usual 4th of July Picnic was 60 or more friends and family -- probably that many came to say goodbye to her. She was in "good spirits" despite the sad nature of those many meetings she had with old friends.

By this time she had been admitted into a Hospice to die and I had planned, with her, the Memorial Service for her expected-soon death.

But, some strange things had happened after she got into the Hospice: She no longer got the deadly chemo therapy and no more radiation.

She started to feel better, and I watched with baited breath -- then, she DID IT. She told me one of those days, even before the 4th of July Picnic, that "perhaps" she would change her mind and NOT die!!!!

Can you imagine what a life-changing event it is to have your wife die -- slowly, in front of your eyes???

Then, another life-changing event for her to "maybe" continue living?

We didn't tell our 4th of July guests, but a few days after that "celebration" we went for a few more medical tests (suggested by her Hospice Doctor -- who told her that she was better looking, had better health, than any of his other Hospice Patients).

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The story is published in considerable detail elsewhere, but the rest of this story was still a very slow climb back from the depths of death to the 11 hour surgery that was the final action that confirmed that she was NOW cured of the deadly esophagus cancer that had taken her to death's door.

Again, the whole story is already published on some thousands of web pages, so enough for here.

I had this "re-birth" of my almost dead wife as a "new hope" for my own life -- a triggering event that allowed me to understand, even better, how I could see the future and not be afraid of it and then, with this change, rejoice over the new view.

The new view includes that BOTH of us, both past the age of 70, started Kung Fu School and BOTH of us earned our Orange Belts. We are BOTH mighty warriors, ready to take on the newly-seen dangers in our Nation.

The image on the right is ME, at the age of 74, in my first White Belt Kung Fu uniform, taken at out home in Burbank, California.

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The image on the left is ME, at the age of 78, in my Honorary Black Belt, taken at my Kung Fu School in Korea-town, Los Angeles, California.

The images of Jean, my wife, are available on many web pages, including this on the lower right.

My very good friend and business Partner, Dr. MSR Ayyangar, from Mumbai, India, visited us in late 2008, with his wife. All four of us went to the Kung Fu School for some exercise. The image on the right shows all four of us at the School, picture taken by my Grand Master Ari Yong, one of only 6 female Grand Master Kung Fu Students in the world and our very dear friend. I have been the web master for their extensive web site and the school photographer. CLICK HERE to visit that web.

Cliff Woods is now the Executive Director of Vibrant Life and in full charge of operations there. The image on the left is Cliff in October 2009, when he attended a gala event in the UK, and was establishing new distributors for the VL products for the UK, Europe and beyond.

I have come to the glorious point in my life where, in semi-retirement, I can "work" just as many hours as ever before, but I have changed my game from one of research and writing on heart disease and cancer. Now I spend my time on the research and writing about the national and international scene, concentrating mostly on the world economy and the evil that has been done, still planned, but less than a dozen men whose purpose has been and is to "take down the US economy" and remove the US Dollar as the Global Currency. Those deeds are mostly all done -- cannot be undone, but I, Karl, see, optimistically, the clear way ahead IF IF IF IF my also clear view of the correct path is followed.

Cliff Woods has taken over the regular publication of The Wednesday Letter, and others, for Vibrant Life. Here is another image of him, on the left.

He also handles the publication of his Dark Times Digest, but I am solely responsible for the writing and web publishing. He is now dramatically sending out millions of eMail newsletter to both the Vibrant Life news and the Dark Times Digest.

I write about that path in my Book and in these Newsletters.

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There have been many more life-changing events in MY LIFE, and in Jean's but those have now become changes in our spiritual awareness and complete banishment of any fear of death -- accompanied by certainty on what will happen to us at that very final "life-changing event."

If you visit me personally, I might well tell you the rest of this story. Years ago I published the description of my new religion as follows:

 

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Karl's New Religion

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Spiritual Telepathy   -- An Original Article By Karl Loren

I published this first, many years ago, HERE. When I placed this article on THIS web page I did some slight revisions.

I have some considerable philosophical interest in "communication" that can and does take place independent of a body. The most basic and easily explained part of my religion is a total understanding of "communication."

I have long believed in the motto I often use: "When the student is ready the teacher will appear."

That motto puts a considerable responsibility on the STUDENT to make himself READY for my type of teaching. So that applies particularly here. I have chosen to NOT promote my religion overtly, but to give you plenty of clues for your own follow-up. For instance, it would be appropriate to say about MY religion, that: "I think that any religion, to be useful to you, must include the concept of the value of "confession" to a spiritual being, but I would also say that the well-known Catholic tradition of "confession" is completely inadequate, and leaves the person who has confessed to his priest, completely lacking in the actual benefit of confession." Too many Catholics "confess" and continue to sin -- for the lack of proper "confessional technology." It is this type of hint I have placed in hundreds of places in my writings -- hints that may strike a chord of interest in this person or that. If that interest is "struck," perhaps the person will then LOOK FOR and find alternative philosophies of "confession" and thus come to be READY for further teaching.

If you read that hint and it does not strike that chord of interest, at least it also did NOT concern you as a possible attempt to dissuade you from your own religious beliefs -- that type of dissuasion being one of the most difficult to perform.

You COULD call those "spiritual" communications -- I would rather just call them "non-material" communications -- that is, not depending on the physical universe for origination, receipt and understanding.

Here are some of my thoughts on that subject. They are presented in contrast to the usual interpretation of the story in Genesis, the Bible, about the Tower of Babel.

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The Tower of Babel is depicted, most famously, as an actual structure to be built by people of the country of Babylon, some thousands of years ago.  These were people who, apparently, believed they could get to heaven using materialistic approaches.  They, presumably, had lost their spiritual path toward God, and thought that if they all spoke the same language, they could understand one another easily, cooperate on large projects and become very successful in their efforts.

They also felt that they could "reach" heaven by simply climbing high enough into the sky.  No matter what we may think about "heaven" there is hardly anyone, or any religion, that now suggests that you can reach heaven by going up in the sky -- far enough up! 

Today we don't think of space rockets as physically reaching heaven -- perhaps only because we have already reached billions of mile "further up" and found only things that we recognize as stars, etc., and certainly not "heaven."

But, the Babylonians felt that they had great skills in communicating, because everyone spoke the same language.   These skills in communicating would allow them to work on and complete the building project of the Tower Of Babylon.

According to Genesis, God didn't like this idea and scattered the people over the earth, and made them speak in many different tongues. Thus, they could not understand one another, then could not work together on a project, and the Tower failed, as God intended it would fail.

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On the surface this God seems pretty vengeful.  Even when you understand that the Old Testament shows God as a God of Vengeance, you wonder about this one.

Here is the story, right out of the Bible, as criticized by Thomas Paine. His words, below, are published in BLUE.

THE TOWER OF BABEL

The story of the tower of Babel is told in Genesis xi. It begins thus: "And the whole earth [it was but a very little part of it they knew] was of one language and of one speech.

"And it came to pass as they journeyed from the East, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly, and they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

"And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

"And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded.

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"And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

"So [that is, by that means] the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off building the city."

This is the story, and a very foolish, inconsistent story it is. In the first place, the familiar and irreverent manner in which the Almighty is spoken of in this chapter is offensive to a serious mind.

Karl Note: Remember, these words in BLUE are from Thomas Paine, signer on our Declaration of Independence. The words, above, in red, are standard Bible text.

As to the project of building a tower whose top should reach to heaven, there never could be a people so foolish as to have such a notion; but to represent the Almighty as jealous of the attempt, as the writer of the story has done, is adding profanation to folly. "Go to," say the builders, "let us build us a tower whose top shall reach to heaven." "Go to," says God, "let us go down and confound their language."

This quaintness is indecent, and the reason given for is worse, for, "now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do." This is representing the Almighty as jealous of their getting into heaven. The story is too ridiculous, even as a fable, to account for the diversity of languages in the world, for which it seems to have been intended.

As to the project of confounding their language for the purpose of making them separate, it is altogether inconsistent; because instead of producing this effect, it would, by increasing their difficulties, render them more necessary to each other, and cause them to keep together. Where could they go to better themselves?

[Karl Note: In this I certainly disagree with Thomas Paine -- as man loses these simple mechanics of communication he becomes MORE isolated from others, and less likely to work harder to keep together!  There IS a path toward better communication, without language, described below.

Thomas Paine in Blue, continues:]

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Another observation upon this story is, the inconsistency of it with respect to the opinion that the Bible is the Word of God given for the information of mankind; for nothing could so effectually prevent such a word from being known by mankind as confounding their language.

The people, who after this spoke different languages, could no more understand such a Word generally, than the builders of Babel could understand one another.

It would have been necessary, therefore, had such Word ever been given or intended to be given, that the whole earth should be, as they say it was at first, of one language and of one speech, and that it should never have been confounded.

The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it was the Word of God. Those who most believe it are those who know least about it, and priests always take care to keep the inconsistent and contradictory parts out of sight.

-Thomas Paine

I do not apologize for the cynicism of Thomas Paine. He was the person, you may recall, who published "Common Sense" -- the English of those years was so different from the crude speech of today.  Here is what Thomas had to say in his introduction to "Common  Sense:"

 

Introduction to Common Sense

Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question (and in matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the Sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry) and as the King of England had undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he calls Theirs, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpation of either.

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In the following sheets, the author hath studiously avoided every thing which is personal among ourselves. Compliments as well as censure to individuals make no part thereof. The wise, and the worthy, need not the triumph of a pamphlet; and those whose sentiments are injudicious, or unfriendly, will cease of themselves unless too much pains are bestowed upon their conversion.

The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested.

The laying of a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censures, is the

THE AUTHOR.
Philadelphia, Feb. 14, 1776.

P.S. The Publication of this new Edition hath been delayed, with a View of taking notice (had it been necessary) of any Attempt to refute the Doctrine of Independence: As no Answer hath yet appeared, it is now presumed that none will, the Time needful for getting such a Performance ready for the Public being considerably past.

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Who the Author of this Production is, is wholly unnecessary to the Public, as the Object for Attention is the Doctrine itself, not the Man. Yet it may not be unnecessary to say, That he is unconnected with any Party, and under no sort of Influence public or private, but the influence of reason and principle.

You can see that Thomas Paine was particularly a man who would favor a common language, [by standards of that day] so that man could more easily communicate with man -- and arrive at honest and logical conclusions -- based on common definitions for words.

Above you read the scathing criticism by Paine of the story in the Bible -- the story of the Tower of  Babel.  You might well think Paine to be an atheist.  I don't think so.  My evidence simply goes to an excellent article that you can read by clicking here.  In that article there is a quote by Paine:

"The word of God is the creation we behold ... It is only in the creation that all our ideals and conceptions of a word of God can unite.

The creation speaketh an universal language, independently of human speech, or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read.

It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other.

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It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God.   Source

This quote not only shows Paine's religious viewpoint, but speaks in a much broader sense to my theme of "spiritual telepathy."The basic on any form of communication must be that which exists.  While "harmony" may well exist, there can and is disagreement on what that might be.  But, once you have observed a "tree" and another has observed the same "tree" -- there can only be one common communicative concept for THAT tree. 

Whether that concept is pronounced "treeee" or any other utterance of speech, when it is uttered meaning THAT tree, people can come to agree on a common utterance, if they wish.

When man utters the word "harmony" and tries to define it, he runs into all sorts of difficulties, and you realize that man is, thereby, trying to communicate about something which is not objective -- which is non-physical == in other words which betakes itself of spiritual characteristics, including "good" and "bad,"  "right" and "wrong."Definitions of words are often tricky things. 

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Pronunciations of words is harder to see as harmful, but it is even more basic:

Santosh points out that in the English language the letters "ough" can be pronounced in no less than nine different ways. "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."  [Source]

If I say the phrase to you, "John is a good person," you know obviously that I have used the word "good" in some sense that would be very hard for you to understand in exactly the same way I do.

If I say the phrase to you, "That person there is a MAN," you know with some certainty what I mean.  You don't know if I speak the truth, but you understand the apparent meaning to differentiate between the male and female sex of a person.

So, Thomas Paine preached that all that God had created (the physical universe, at least) was there to be observed by anyone, and within that observation lay the path to valuable communication -- that communication whereby one man understands what was communicated by another.  As Thomas Paine would say, "There is a tree," and you would look and understand that the utterance "tree" was related to the physical object being indicated -- a tree.

Again, in this context, Thomas Paine could be a very religious man, believing in God, but definitely NOT agreeing with the story in Genesis that God would deliberately DECREASE the ability of man to communicate with one another.

I think there is a deeper meaning to the story, the Tower of Babel, as well as a much deeper understanding of the concept of communication than what  Thomas Paine saw.

I personally believe that there is a path toward spiritual enlightenment, and that this path ultimately cannot depend on mere material steps. 

There must be an early recognition, when you are following this path, that concepts that are not much material, such as "good" and "bad," or "right" and "wrong," must ultimately have some way of being understood with just as much precision as two "men" can understand the utterance of "tree" as meaning the physical object -- tree.

It has been the job of philosophers to define such words -- as did Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, for instance: Here is a bit of Aristotle to chew on:

[1214a][1] The man1 who at Delos set forth in the precinct of the god his own opinion composed an inscription for the forecourt of the temple of Leto in which he distinguished goodness, beauty and pleasantness as not all being properties of the same thing. His verses are:

Justice2 is fairest, and Health is best,
But to win one's desire is the pleasantest.3

But for our part let us not allow that he is right; for Happiness4 is at once the pleasantest and the fairest and best of all things whatever. About every thing and every natural species there are many views that involve difficulty and require examination; of these some relate only to our knowledge of the thing, others deal also with modes of acquiring it and of acting in relation to it.

As to all those views therefore that involve only speculative philosophy, we must say whatever may be proper to the inquiry when the suitable occasion occurs. But we must consider first what the good life consists in and how it is to be obtained--whether all of those who receive the designation 'happy' acquire happiness by nature, as is the case with tallness and shortness of stature and differences of complexion, or by study, which would imply that there is a science of happiness, or by some form of training,

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 for there are many human attributes that are not bestowed by nature nor acquired by study but gained by habituation--bad attributes by those trained in bad habits and good attributes by those trained in good ones.

Or does happiness come in none of these ways, but either by a sort of elevation of mind inspired by some divine power, as in the case of persons possessed by a nymph or a god, or, alternatively, by fortune? for many people identify happiness with good fortune. Now it is pretty clear that the presence of happiness is bestowed upon men by all of these things, or by some or one of them; for almost all the modes in which it is produced fall under these principles, inasmuch as all the acts that spring from thought may be included with those that spring from knowledge.

But to be happy and to live blissfully and finely may consist chiefly in three things deemed to be most desirable: some people say that Wisdom5 is the greatest good, others Goodness6 and others Pleasure. And certain persons debate about their importance in relation to happiness,   [Source]

 

I won't continue to quote Aristotle, nor try to explain the above, but you see here one of the most famous men of history explaining his concept of "right" and "wrong."

Now, with all of this background, see if you can follow me down MY path of explanation.

Man, occupying a body made of meat, mostly "communicates" by uttering sounds from his body, and more advancedly, writing symbols (letters, etc.) on paper to convey what might otherwise be uttered.The obvious problem here is that man certainly includes some characters who are evil, or who intend hidden harm.

They say to you, "This green drink is very good for you," and you watch their eyes and mouth closely -- the words are simple and you understand them. 

That understanding of what the words might convey is certainly NOT communication when and as they say this phrase to you with a strong hidden intention to deceive you.

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Man's utterances are easy to hear (in a physical sense), even if not easy to understand.  But, man's intentions and true feelings are very hard to fathom! If EVERY time someone spoke to you, you could "look" into him and tell, with certainty and consistency, whether HE believed what he was saying was or was not true -- what an advance in communication that would bring.

It would be pretty difficult to establish, or agree on some "absolute universal truth" that you could judge any utterance by.  But, if you could only know whether the person speaking, himself, believed in the honesty of what he spoke -- what a boon that would be to understanding and progress in our society."Love" is often judged by such communications.

I personally believe that anyone can greatly increase his ability to judge such matters in the communications of others, and that ultimately, man, with or without a body, can communicate to other individuals (located in bodies or not located in bodies) in such a way that every communication is capable of being judged, instantly, as to whether the originator, indeed, believes what he communicates to be the truth.

In such a society one could, indeed, lie if he chose to, but with "spiritual telepathy" anyone would immediately perceive that the communication was somehow "dishonest."  In such a society dishonesty would die out very, very quickly. 

Else, those who continue to try to communicate that which they do not believe, -- those people -- would be never listened to.

They would be banished from the common group.  There would be no need of punishment -- other than marking such a person as not to be communicated with, one way or the other.At first there might be many people who are "cast out" of the honest group, but they would soon find that they are constantly communicating to others, none of whom they can trust, and that group would dwindle and succumb to the rigors of survival.

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There will come a point in our history when civilization is on the way UP rather than down.  We will mark the point of the change, from down to up, when more and more of us recognize the hidden evil intentions of others.

Would you like a clue? Well, find a person who, when he talks to you, cannot possibly look you in the eye.  This is not a 100% accurate test, and I know the exceptions, but it is a generally useful test. 

Many of us know, instinctively, that the man who cannot meet your eye has something "going on."  You may not know what it is, but you know there is something. 

You might not much consider that a "spiritual" insight, since it is dependent on the simple physical observation of where they guy's eyeballs are pointed. But, behind that observation, and the conclusions you draw from it, there is a world of non-material explanation.  As you advance spiritually, you will greatly increase your ability to "see" the honesty in someone's communication. 

At some point you will realize that you have left material explanations for this ability far behind. While it may be very difficult to arrive at a common definition for the word "drug," with this advanced spiritual ability you can immediately discern whether the person communicating with you about some substance (whether it be Prozac, or Life Glow) is being honest in his communications.  "Does he, himself, believe what he says is true?"

I, personally, believe that no person can describe the "good benefits" of Prozac with honest intentions.  Somewhere there must be an awareness in anyone that a substance is, in fact, harmful.

I succeed in my business to a large degree because I am 100% honest in my communications to you!  I believe what I say to you to be true.  You cannot ask for more from any being! I may not always be "right" but I am always honest and true to my own beliefs.

You might ask why I don't spend my time proclaiming all the truths which I have discovered philosophically about my new religion?

Some 35 years ago, I already knew the basic core of this new religion, but in knowing that I also knew that there were too few people on earth who would listen to me about it, so within that newly discovered technology, I also selected a small part that showed me how to promote a trickle of truth along with a message of "trivial truth" that would be, nonetheless, accepted and allow me to turn my understanding into a viable enterprise that would allow me and my family to prosper while working toward a larger goal.

I "gave away" my grand purposes writing my purposes HERE. The Google search for VL purposes shows this:

What Are The Vibrant Life Purposes?

May 20, 2008 ... I, Karl Loren, expect to be alive and productive for many, many more years. But the truth also is that I am 72 and want to arrange my ... www.oralchelation.com/faq/answers71.htm

With those purposes firmly in mind, some 35 years ago, I used another tiny part of the new religion I found to select a subject area for my career. You could say that I stood on a crossroad of life and decided which path to take. I do the same today.

I looked at society with my "special eyes" and observed that almost everyone shared the same subject that ruined their life -- death.

In other words, everyone will die and that end is the most prevalent worry almost everyone has at some point or another in life. Healthy people don't dwell on death but only a fool would ignore that inevitability. Few of you will face a guy with a gun -- pointing it at you, but all of you will face SOME sort of death -- most often heart disease.

I then looked, again, and saw, plainly, that heart disease was the most common cause of death, so for my career, wanting to "fix" what ever I could that was wrong with society, and make a viable living at the same time, I deliberately choose to research and write about "death from heart disease." It also helped that I already saw that most of the "facts" I saw about heart disese were, in fact, lies.

That deliberate choice by me, some 35 years ago, led to a career that produced more than 100,000 web pages and the establishment of Vibrant Life, and its products (oral chelation and more). I found an abundance of riches in good information as well as thousands of lies to write about. Those 35 years of an exciting journey got slowed and stopped when I realized that, at my age, it was time to ensure the continuation of Vibrant Life, found Clifford Woods and retired into semi-retirement.

He, Clifford Woods, continues the legacy I have left with Vibrant Life. HIS is the hand that brings you the sprout of life, the tale or truth.

I have continued with my number one Purpose in Life, as shown in that link above.

Thus, I now research and write on more DIRECT links to the philosophical truth which I have known for 35 years, and which you may have not yet heard of.

I started only a few years ago, writing the Dark Times Digest -- they covering a subject -- Deliberate Destruction by Obama of our Economy.

I've now decided, here in April 2010, that it is time to be even more direct in speaking to you. My new energies are turned to writing much more directly about what I think is needed to change the world toward its needed salvation. I continue to study the financial turmoil, consider it a deliberate design by Obama, and offer a (slow-loading) link HERE to hear a very well known international atorney being interviewed on the coming capital controls for the US. I consider this so likely that I am making plans now for that certainty.

The solution to the imposition of these capital controls is "honesty" whereby both our politicans and the citizens change drastically to ask for the help I know exists for riddance from them of their evil purposes and behavior as "moral beings."

For more than 35 years I have studied the philosophy and technology that is now world-wide and accomplishes those miracles, one at a time, on millions of people.

It seems a slow job, but the dismal condition of the coming dark times cannot help but catapult people into finding and using this philosohy and technology.

I've written hundreds of clues, so if you read my material well, you'll find this stuff.

If you do not find it, then, perhaps, you are not yet ready. "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear."

You will be on the edge of "spiritual telepathy" where your "thoughts" are conveyed, in a narrow beam for the one other being you intend to get the message, and that being (not at all dependent upon a body) will perceive not only the "meaning" in your message, but the honesty of the sender who is sending the message.

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Wouldn't that be a grand position to be in? So, with this in view, perhaps God, in the Tower of Babel story, saw that man was going to a greater and greater reliance on "utterances" and getting away from the original state of innocence and honesty, where communications, whether by utterance or telepathy, were honest and never included hidden harmful intentions.

Surely the morality of man has dwindled since Eden!

I think so!

I have published a much more descriptive but also more phrased in "code words" reference to my religion HERE. (This may be one of the most important links you ever clicked and the material there some of the most important you've ever read -- don't miss it -- despite the obscure corner into which I've tucked it.)

Karl Loren spent many dozens of hours researching and writing this page. He is not a "student of the bible" but approached this subject with his usual research and use of logic.

He is anxious to hear from you if you have read this far and have any comment to offer on this article.

George, if you got my message, roll your mouse over the image, click and then enter your password for access to your private message. Your userid is your first name and your password is the one sent to you:

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April 25, 2010 25 Minute Verbal Advice

with Jean Ross and Karl Loren #1

If you missed it, you can go to either a SHORT explanation of the whole story, or a detailed explanation on ONE PAGE.  On this page you are getting more detail on one part of the story, but on either of those pages you can get the broad picture.  Don't miss reading one of them.  You can actually spend many hours on this web site, depending on the depth of research and reading you want to do.  There are an amazing 4,000 pages here -- more information on these general subjects than almost all other web sites combined!  At some point along the way you will probably say, "Karl's crazy," and leave never to return to this site, or you will say "I want to try some of that oral chelation formula he writes about!"

Originally published years ago by Karl Loren at this LINK.

 

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Love, Karl Loren

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Karl Loren and his wife Bonnie's Plan For the Funeral Memorial for Bonnie

The Gazebo at the Castaway Restaurant on the Hill In Burbank

Memorial Service Was Planned By Both Karl and Bonnie (Jean Ross), As Below, But Then Cancelled -- Bonnie Continues To Do Well -- But went Into a Hospice -- July 2004

 

This is a sunset looking out from our home in the hills of Burbank.  Bonnie has many fond memories of gorgeous sunsets at and around our home, and particularly including the Gazebo on the hilltop of The Castaway Restaurant.

Another favorite visual memory at our home at 1831 N. Cambridge Drive, Burbank, CA, has been those special days when the fog rolled in and turned an ordinary yard into a place of intrigue and mystery.

One of our favorite restaurants, and the home of many other fond memories is the Castaway on the hilltop in Burbank.  Particularly we hold great images of the Gazebo overlooking the mountains and sunsets --- where many weddings and other special events are held.

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The Memorial Service by Rev. Karl Loren will be held here, in an outside setting, at the Gazebo, easy to find and plenty of parking, date to be determined by the actual date of Bonnie's death -- sometime in July 2004, probably.

Dinner will be available by special invitation.

Memorial Service from 6:30 PM to Sunset, at about 8:30 PM, day to be selected.  Buffet dinner for special guests at about 8:30 PM.

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Located Here

Castaway Restaurant, Burbank, California == Gazebo

Date Not Yet Selected

Time:  Probably 6:30 PM

You are cordially invited to the Bonnie Memorial Service, Rev. Loren C. Troescher

 

This web site is a breath of fresh air in a world of pollution.

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April 25, 2009—Psychiatry: The Science of Lies

By Thomas Szasz

Syracuse University Press, 148 pages

Reviewed by Moira Terese Dolan, M.D.

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Karl has dedicated much of his life to the exposure of the myth of "mental illness" and was honored to be in the small group where then-governor Jerry Brown and the Top Psychiatrist of the State of California met with Dr. Thomas Szasz and the then-head of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. Karl Had been the ED of the LA Chapter of that Organization for some years.

“Being an expert about mental illness is like being an expert about ghosts or unicorns.” - Thomas Szasz

It is a genuine pleasure to read the latest book by Dr. Thomas Szasz. Psychiatry: The Science of Lies chronicles the authoritarian study of unwanted behaviors and how they developed into the scientifically bankrupt field called “psychiatry.” It documents the outright lies, intentional misrepresentations, knowingly false assertions and linguistic chicanery that contributed to the imitation of science now known variously as psychiatry, psychology, psychopathology and mental illness.

It may come as a surprise to readers in the 21st century that bizarre behaviors were once commonly, legally and medically identified as outright fakery, at least in the period between the Inquisition and the mid to late 19th century. Szasz describes the social and cultural milieu that predated the naming, financing and widespread state use of psychiatry. He outlines how, at one time, it was well recognized that people acting weirdly were simply malingering - a term that means pretending to have an illness when one is not physically sick.

Karl Insertion: Dr. Szasz background is: from Source

Thomas Stephen Szasz, M.D. (b. 1920).
Painted by Jerome Paul Witkin (b. 1939) in 1992.

Internationally famous psychiatrist, libertarian activist, and philosopher of medicine; Professor of Psychiatry at Upstate from 1956 to 1990; and author of such controversial books as The Myth of Mental Illness (1961).Born in Budapest, Hungary, Szasz immigrated to the United States in 1938 and received his A.B. with honors in physics in 1941 and his M.D. in 1944, both from the University of Cincinnati. He trained in medicine at Boston City and Cincinnati General Hospitals, in psychiatry at the University of Chicago, and in psychoanalysis at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. From 1954 to 1956 he served in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Szasz claims that mental "illness" does not exist because the medical criterion for illness is the physical lesion. Psychiatric "treatment," because it deals with unwanted behavior rather than "disease," is not "medical" treatment, but a personal service if voluntary and a method of social control if involuntary. Some people may be just plain "nutty" or even "mad," but that does not mean that they are diseased or that anything is wrong with them. What we call "mental illness" is really a contrivance of the medical community, government, and organized religion to control, oppress, and manipulate people. "Psychiatry," Szasz frequently reminds us, "does not deal with diseases, but with conflicts between people."Szasz has published hundreds of articles, letters, comments, interviews, debates, prefaces, and rejoinders, as well as twenty-five books, including Pain and Pleasure (1957), The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (1965), The Manufacture of Madness (1970), The Myth of Psychotherapy (1978), Insanity: The Idea and its Consequences (1987), Fatal Freedom (1999), and Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America (2001).

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He also provides evidence for the prevailing medical attitude toward objectionable behaviors prior to Sigmund Freud, when such were not considered the province of medicine.

This book is rich in fascinating facts and sources to back them up. Many of these are from the 19th century, the era when psychiatry established itself as an imitation of science.

Szasz exposes Freud’s knowing deceit in presenting behaviors as if they were actual illnesses. Here he quotes Freud describing what was then called hysteria (a term that encompassed some of the same behaviors now labeled as schizophrenia, bipolar and mental illness):

“Hysteria is a neurosis in the strict sense of the word - that is to say, not only have no perceptible changes in the nervous system been found in this illness, but it is not to be expected that any refinement of anatomical techniques would reveal any such changes.”

Obviously this statement defies the very definition of disease, which is something that has an actual anatomic basis. In another revealing example, Szasz quotes Freud freely admitting that he’s wandered far afield from science:

“… it still strikes me as strange that the case histories I write should read like short stories and that, as one might say, they lack the serious stamp of science.”

Yet Freud promoted himself as the discoverer of a new “science.” Another excerpt illustrates the impossible situation Freud had created — of claiming a science of the very things that he regularly admitted were actually lies. The following is a portion of the defense Freud offered for the “treatment” of malingerers, wherein he attempts to justify the use of electric shocks on a soldier who had faked mental derangement to get out of being assigned to active duty:

“It seemed expedient to treat the neurotic as a malingerer and to disregard the psychological distinction between conscious and unconscious intentions, although he was not known to be a malingerer.”

Szasz helps us to interpret Freud’s twisted reasoning. Apparently Freud thought it was justified for the faker to be punished with electric shocks for being a faker, even though, for his psychiatric theory to hold, Freud had to deny that the subject really was a faker.

The grand explanation that solved it all (for Freud) was exactly what he spent his professional life defending: a part of the subject’s permanently hidden and never-knowable mental anatomy was making him misbehave, therefore, although he was knowingly faking, he could not be responsible for his acts.

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Charcot as Showman

If you’ve ever wondered where Freud found the audacity to spout such outrageously unsupportable ideas, Szasz directs us to Freud’s mentor, Jean-Martin Charcot of Paris’ Salpetriere hospital. Charcot was a neurologist who identified many actual physical and anatomic conditions that are still used in physical medicine today. Then he veered off into an incredibly nonscientific promotion of behaviors as if they were real illnesses.

Szasz describes the strange and embarrassing chapter in medical history wherein Charcot regularly held open exhibitions at the hospital showcasing the bizarre theatrics of his captive “mental patients.” Charcot accompanied the stage show by medical-sounding explanations and deductions, which apparently enthralled the ambitious young Freud.

What would cause a man of such obvious capability, as evidenced by Charcot’s genuine contributions to real physical medicine, to drop off the deep end into making a farce of human irresponsibility and promoting its lies? Taking note of the obvious, Szasz explains:

“From the start, diseases called ‘mental’ were characterized by the failure of physicians to find somatic [bodily] signs or markers for their putative maladies.”

Lest you be fooled into thinking that Charcot’s false medicalization of behaviors was simply the work of a desperate neurologist who wanted to help his patients, Szasz cites Charcot admitting that he knew his patients were making things up. Here’s Charcot talking about the so-called neuroses as:

“… intentional malingering, in which the patient voluntarily exaggerates real symptoms or even creates in every detail an imaginary symptomatology. Indeed, everyone is aware of the human need to lie … and this is particularly true in hysteria.”

Charcot maintains that lying is a human need. It certainly is needed in psychiatry, where the psychiatrist misrepresents himself as a real medical doctor treating a real disease.

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Szasz informs us that Freud believed in his own lies simply because his well-regarded, famous and charismatic mentor Charcot said so. Thus the stage was set for psychiatry’s uninterrupted reliance on authority, without regard for actual observation.

The necessary companion of this total dependence on authority was a self-serving, invented vocabulary we recognize today as psychobabble, also referred to by Szasz as “bull.”

Lacking any objective criteria for either diagnosis or treatment, the field of psychiatry has been forced to rely entirely on its own descriptions of and opinions of unwanted behaviors. It all comes down to words, foremost of which is the almighty diagnosis. In psychiatry, the naming of the thing is equated to a real thing, no matter that it cannot be found in fact. Szasz observes the liability in inherent in the advancement of this fundamental misconception:

“Attributing a medical diagnosis to a healthy person does not transform him into a bodily-medically ill person, whereas attributing a psychiatric diagnosis to him does indeed transform him into a mentally-psychiatrically ill person.”

A doctor can falsely diagnose diabetes, but that does not make “a diabetic” any more than it causes blood sugar to be abnormal. Yet a psychiatrist can name a person “bipolar” and every shift of his emotions and behavior is then assigned to the made-up disease thus named; abracadabra, we have “a mental patient.”

One of the pleasures of reading a book by Thomas Szasz is the remarkable exploration of words, particularly as they reveal true motives. He reminds the reader of a common definition of “doctor”:

Doctor, v., to alter, falsify … to alter deceptively (accused of doctoring the election returns) (a doctored photo). - Webster’s Third New International Dictionary

The Keystone of State-Sponsored Coercion

One of the more enlightening chapters draws parallels between Freud’s promotion of disease where none existed and pursuits by other physicians of his era who wandered from physical medicine into the field of fakery.

Szasz explores how Arthur Conan Doyle and the detector of art forgery, Giovanni Morelli, each successfully used the twin devices of deception and lying; these he calls “the everyday tools” of the psychiatrist.

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This chapter on trickery is aptly titled “Inculpation,” which means to incriminate, blame or find guilty. The guilt lies with the pseudo-illness itself, with no responsibility being assigned other than nature. The labeling of persons as mental patients was facilitated by untruthfully claiming that their behaviors were “evidence” of a pretended faulty mind. Thus, being determined less than competent, a person’s rights could be denied.

Szasz describes how the adaption of the medical model is the keystone of psychiatry as a tool of state-sponsored coercion. Through this premise, psychiatry ensures its sole usefulness: to restrict the liberty of its so-named patients. Szasz recounts the 1887 investigative journey of news reporter Nellie Bly into the asylum on New York’s Blackwell Island, where she observed that the inmates were no more crazy than she was. Szasz explains:

“Although each time experience was consulted, it showed that the experts were unable to distinguish the sane from the insane, each failure only confirmed the premise-as-conclusion. The reason is obvious: individuals become categorized as insane when they become troublesome to, and unwanted by, the people around them, and lack the power to resist being incarcerated in a madhouse.”

This would all be of only historical interest were it not for the bona fide threats to freedom that have developed from such beginnings. Szasz observes that the non-comprehension and fear of bizarre and unpredictable behaviors promotes the unexamined acceptance of such theories as “bad brains, bad genes, bad chemicals, bad societies, bad parents.”

These unproven theories are embraced as justification for support of state-mandated behavioral adjudication and control. The tradeoff is the constant threat of arbitrary revocation of everyday liberties. The understanding is that persons labeled as mental patients are not responsible for their conduct, and therefore, to a greater or lesser degree, are incompetent. This opens the door for confinement, restraint and forced manipulations in the guise of “treatment.”

Szasz asserts that the disposition of persons deemed incompetent is not a medical matter, but lies elsewhere, e.g., with the family and the legal system.

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Regardless of the never-ending search for the causes of behaviors that can only be described but not actually identified, there is a pervasive and fierce endorsement of behaviors as illnesses. This is what provides psychiatry with its fundamental component of control. If behavior is a disease, similar to cancer, psychiatry argues, how can the patient be responsible for it? It is some “thing” that just happened to him.

This is a prevalent opinion, even though people who identify themselves as mentally ill often freely confess to creating their maladies and their doctors admit to having no objective criteria for either diagnosis or treatment. The documentation in this book soundly confirms Szasz’s observation of psychiatrists as neither knowing nor practicing real medicine despite holding legitimate credentials.

It is the insistence on the utter absence of the individual’s responsibility for his actions and resultant condition that generates the greatest threat to individual liberties. For the self-assigned patient and the doctor who grants the spurious diagnosis also agree on the implicit lack of responsibility. This permits the whole charade to take on a most un-human aspect, resulting in inhumane consequences.

The foundation of this “no-responsibility” is, after all, the assignment of the behaviors as something vaguely medical, somehow physical, yet unspecified. By agreement, the consequences are “happening” to the “patient.” Charcot, Freud and many psychiatric historians have admitted as much.

In a chilling quote that exposes that these mad doctors knew exactly what they were up to, Freud admits psychiatry’s utter denial of persons as human beings:

“[S]ince the intellect and the mind are objects for scientific research in exactly the same way as any other non-human thing … [psychoanalysis’s] contribution to science lies precisely in having extended research to the mental field….”

As always, Szasz’s precise historical references stimulate the urge to read broader and understand deeper the origins of this whole cloth deception, so that we may be better armed to address the very real present-day threats to our liberties. Szasz concludes that the resolution of the menace of psychiatry lies in increased personal responsibility. This is underscored by a quote from Lord Acton, a late 19th century Catholic intellectual:

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“I have never found that people go wrong from ignorance, but from want of consciousness.”

The viewpoint of personal responsibility is something that we can all live up to by having the courage to say what we observe. Personal responsibility is epitomized by the body of work compiled by Dr. Szasz and is exemplified by this book. Once again, he has the intelligence to observe and the integrity to tell it as he sees it.

Dr. Dolan, who specializes in internal medicine, is a consultant to the Texas Office of Inspector General, investigating fraud. She is also executive director of the Medical Accountability Network.

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(Source of image on the right, Szasz and Tom Cruise)

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Day Of Reckoning -- California's Coming Bond Default -- Bankruptcy -- July 5, 2009

Day of Reckoning

by Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D.   07-05-09

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Will our nation’s largest debtors meet their massive financial obligations? Or will many ultimately default?

In California, the answer given by the state Treasurer’s office was a commitment never to default, seeking to directly refute my forecast issued here 13 days ago under the headline “California Collapsing.”

According to the BusinessJournal:

“The California’s state Treasurer’s office on Monday refuted an analyst’s recommendation last week that investors dump California municipal bonds and that the state is likely to default.

“Analyst Martin Weiss of Weiss Research said in a June 22 report that California’s financial woes create ‘a very high probability’ that California will eventually miss debt service payments.

“Mr. Weiss’ analysis and recommendation, to put it kindly, is misinformed,” responded Tom Dresslar, a spokesman for state Treasurer Bill Lockyer. “Even the credit rating agencies said, in announcing possible downgrades, that the likelihood of default is low.”

The California newspaper linked above, carries this further "news" about California's fiscal condition when responding to Dr. Weiss:

California holds the lowest rating of all states.

Moody’s this month said that it could further downgrade California’s bond ratings. Standard & Poor’s said that a downgrade is possible, noting “insufficient or untimely adoption of budget reforms serve to increase the risk of missed [debt] payments.” Earlier, Fitch Ratings warned that it might also cut its California bond ratings.

Moody’s’ decision could lower the “A2” rating it has on California’s general obligation bonds as well as the “Aa3” rating assigned to the state’s federally taxable general-obligation bonds and stem-cell-research bonds. The move could also affect the ratings on other California paper.

Worse yet, Moody’s said the state may face a “multi-notch downgrade” on $60 billion of general-obligation bonds.

“Once downgraded, California’s rating is likely to fall below the minimal level legally required for most money market funds, forcing them to dump California paper posthaste,” Weiss said.

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Ironically, just two days later …

California Defaulted on Its Short-Term Debt Obligations

In lieu of cash, California issued i.o.u.’s to meet obligations to vendors and citizens, postponing payments on its current liabilities.

But current liabilities are short-term debts. Ergo, based on this standard definition, California is already defaulting.

It’s not the same as defaulting on its bonds. But for reasons I’ll explain in a moment, I’m now more convinced than ever that a bond default is also coming.

Consider the importance of this week’s events …

If California’s creditors had a say in the issuance of i.o.u.’s, Sacramento officials might be able to deny they’re in default by implying mutual consent. But that’s far from the facts. The creditors had nothing to do with this decision. It was unilateral, a telltale aspect of debt defaults.

If the i.o.u.’s were as good as cash, Sacramento might also deny the D-word. But the sad reality is that, if you’re among those stuck with California i.o.u.’s, you have only two choices: You have to either hold them while you sweat and cross your fingers or you have to sell them at a steep discount — exactly the same choices facing bond investors after a default.

If all major financial institutions accepted California i.o.u.’s, that might also help Sacramento justify a continued denial of default. But the reality is that most banks are not accepting the i.o.u.’s, and no one could argue their reasoning is financially unsound.

Why accept a piece of paper at face value when it’s worth significantly less than face value on the open market? The nation’s largest banks already have enough troubles with toxic mortgages, toxic credit cards and toxic loans on commercial real estate. They’re not exactly anxious to pile on toxic California paper.

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If, as in past episodes, California’s budget mess were mostly due to a political snafu, it could be argued that the i.o.u.’s are merely a temporary stop-gap. But that’s clearly not the case either.

To the contrary, California’s budget crisis is rooted in an unprecedented economic depression with 11.5 percent unemployment and the greatest concentration of mortgage delinquencies in the nation. Even if the i.o.u.’s are ultimately paid in full, California’s debt troubles are not going away.

Why I Expect a Default on California’s Bonds
 
Short of an 11th-hour rescue from Washington — where political resistance to bailouts has grown dramatically in the wake of recent federal rescues — it will be extremely difficult for California to avoid a default on its bonds.

The fundamental reason: A vicious cycle of budget tightening and falling state revenues.

The state cannot balance its books without inadvertently making the California economy — and its deficit — even worse.

When it cuts spending, it merely creates more unemployment and forces consumers to slash their own spending or default on their own obligations, driving the economy into a still deeper depression. And when it raises taxes, it has a similar impact.

Either way, the end result is lower revenues flowing into the state’s coffers.

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But now California has over $28 billion in bonds coming due between now and October. How will it come up with the cash is a great mystery to me. Bond holders are certainly not going to be among those accepting i.o.u.’s.

Wall Street Rating
Agencies Also in Denial

The business model of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch is to sell their ratings to bond issuers; the ratings are bought and paid for by the very institutions being rated, including the state of California.

After multiple investigations of the Wall Street ratings agencies, Congress and the Obama Administration are proposing radical changes. But right now, it’s business as usual, and the egregiously conflicted business model of the Wall Street rating agencies still stands.

I believe that’s a key reason the rating agencies have not yet fully recognized the obviously dire state of California’s finances. And that’s why California’s state Treasurer can still claim Wall Street “doesn’t agree” with more realistic analysis like ours.

In effect, the state virtually pays them to hold their punches.

But despite these blatant conflicts of interest, the truth cannot be bottled up forever. Here’s what I see coming next:

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1. Downgrade massacre: A series of multi-notch downgrades by Fitch, Moody’s and S&P, making it extremely difficult — if not impossible — for California to roll over maturing debts at any cost.

2. Worsening deficit: Surging interest costs and greater than expected declines in cash inflows, bloating California’s deficit even further.

3. Washington snub: A last-ditch effort to persuade Treasury Secretary Geithner and President Obama to reverse their earlier decision not to bail out California.

But Washington’s arguments against a California bailout are relatively firm: They’re already giving California billions through the stimulus package. If they bail out California, what will they say to the dozens of other states that line up on the White House lawn asking for theirs?

In contrast, arguments supporting a federal bailout of California sound like a hollow rerun of last year’s “bailout-or-meltdown” ultimatum by former Treasury Secretary Paulson to Congress. It’s a long-ago discredited approach to financial emergencies.

4. Default on California bonds: Despite Sacramento’s official mantra that a default is impossible and unthinkable, it happens.

5. Cascade of defaults: If giant California can default, the new assumption is bound to be that almost any issuer of tax-exempt securities can do the same. A cascade of downgrades and defaults by other states and municipalities ensues.

What to Do …

If you’re a U.S. citizen or resident — whether in California or not — don’t count on borrowing money. Prepare yourself for a return of last fall’s environment in which consumer credit was either too expensive or unavailable.

Pinch pennies. Sell off unneeded assets and possessions. And raise as much cash as you can — for emergencies and for your family’s future.

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If you’re a bond investor, better to be safe than sorry. Unload your tax-exempt bonds and tax-exempt mutual funds. With few exceptions, the benefits do not justify the rapidly growing risk.

And if you’re a more aggressive investor, seriously consider transforming the inevitable market volatility of this crisis into a series of substantial profit opportunities.

The key: Timing the market!

Karl Note: The image below is for a video but that link does not work on this page.

That’s what our online video series — SOLVING THE TIMING MYSTERY — was all about: The missing piece of the timing puzzle that can help you to profit in volatile times like these.

And that’s why Larry Edelson and Richard Mogey have just updated their report on this missing piece of the timing puzzle … and how you can use it to profit in volatile times like these. Just click this link to read it now.

Good luck and God bless!

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Martin

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