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Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess
Skip to content Using Gmail with screen readers Message sent. Meet Start a meeting Join a meeting Hangouts 19 of 768,464 This weekend, October 3rd and 4th, Live and Let Die with Orpheus and the Argonauts at a Festival of Freedom Inbox Leland Lehrman 12:45 PM (1 hour ago) to mothersarms Live and Let Die? Are You Sure? Burning with the spirit of youth, I thought all we who suffer need is to remember the sacred. For each person there must be something that can fan the dying embers of their spirit back into flame. But I soon felt a different kind of flame, as a willfully insensitive world often roasted me for my efforts, or so it seemed to me. For a time I was confused on the quest, groping in the dark, wondering what was wrong with people, or was it just me? When I first heard the teaching that not all people seek life, I was resistant, but strangely relieved, the hardest part of the question answered. I was aware of my personal failings, but sometimes it seemed there was nothing that could be done at all for certain people. I was still concerned about the prospect of allowing such an understanding to be manipulated to justify abandonment, but I also recognized that the theory fit the facts. In Charlottesville with David Martin, I heard him confess with regret that he was starting to feel the same way. After carefully evaluating the evidence, he too considers this sober conclusion plausible. The COVERT-1984 Plandemic provides a case study in the observation of mass suicide. Is it not sometimes like watching lemmings rush together into the sea and drown? For all the work we do to inform people, we must be careful to avoid the temptation to try and force the suicidal to live against their will. For some, life and love may be as uncomfortable as are death and hate to others.* Of all the shocking things the members of The Beatles did, one of their less controversial was to a write a song called 'Live and Let Die.' And McCartney, who gave us those words, was the diplomat, Lennon rather more inclined to be controversial. But even Lennon's most shocking statements pale in comparison to earlier versions of the message. I am well aware that there are problems with these old stories, (and the new ones). But when evaluating next steps, and how to carry the torch for the free world...how to build the better future...does the insight in these words not still give some light? In a Galilean town called Capernaum, Jesus and close friends walk among the people after descending from the mountains of Palestine. People come ask for healing and benediction. In my mind's eye, I see pallbearers coming down the street carrying a dead man's casket in procession. A man in mourning sees Jesus and runs up, promising he will join him as soon as he is done burying his father. There are two versions of the response Jesus gives. In both there is agreement on the words: 'Let the dead bury the dead.' It still makes me cringe. Then, to paraphrase, 'If you would live, come with me and let's live the Word of God.' David and Kim Martin call it Fully Living. Whatever your understanding of reality, is there not ultimately a starkness, a finality to the decision to choose life or death, truth or falsehood...to be or not to be? I feel sad, exhausted, and hopeless when faced with the task of trying to warn those who clamor for a place in the artificially unintelligent matrix called the 'singularity?' How do we intervene with those who are begging for a bed in the medicalized concentration camps called hospitals, or a 'validated' number in the contact tracer's database, who embrace the chip in the arm, and the mask of the beast? Why do they not talk with us before they run off the cliff? Is this not why we are sometimes right to preach to the choir rather than throw pearls before whoever? Neither band nor bell will draw the prayer dancer until message and music are in tune. When the choir sings with enthusiasm, no robot media mandate will be able to compete with the Lyre of Orpheus for the soul of humanity. When we sing and dance in love and health, we sail right through the Sirens, 'flying mother nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun. We are leaving, you don't need us.' As we look around today, do we not see the dead burying the dead at their most modern extreme? People are hypnotized by secret police Sirens, sleepwalking into digital prisons, vaccinated like cattle with substances even NPR admits causes zombism. Zombism? That was the word I actually heard on the radio. And the hosts didn't flinch or contradict the panelist. Transverse myelitis is the scientific term. The result is central nervous system failure, population management if you are the Sirens. After a lifetime of study, of sheet music and street music, of college and canvassing, rainbow houses and gatherings, of ashrams and ecovillages, activism and election campaigns, of bills and lawsuits, impact investment funds and social entrepreneurs, agricultural and educational associations, spiritual societies, lifesharing communities, protests, rallies, sermons, books, websites, videos...and these golden conversations, I think maybe I understand. There is a compassionate truth in these shocking messages. Live, and let die; and let the dead bury the dead. It's OK. If they won't hear the message of life, perhaps its because they don't want to. They have chosen their destiny, refusing the outstretched hand. We, however have a responsibility to our selves - and to the life and love that sustain us - to create the world we want, the world that love wants. If we succeed - if we come together and build a beautiful new world that can make sleepwalkers awaken and change their mind - great. Perhaps that's their message to us, like the women I know who won't have children because they don't want to bring souls into this world. Sure, that's a condemnation of the status quo, but is it not also a gauntlet thrown down to us, we who have not yet created the more palpable, present, and undeniably loving home for the children of the future? Those who will not hear the bell toll have not been abandoned. We cannot make excuses for willful ignorance. Everywhere I go, from the streets of the city to the back woods, those who have sought truth and understanding have found it. The internet has made sure of that, and for all its faults, we can thank its spirit for helping us to reach certainty on this point. I am satisfied the truth can reach - and will soon reach - the point of maximum possible saturation because of an event that happened this past Spring. In a shack in a Saratoga back yard, watching the cold rain, I stood with an African street priest and a staff-carrying chief of Turtle Island. I listened as they explained the exact nature of the situation to me. Neither of them would find anything we have to say surprising or new. As I reflect on that day, I realize that anyone who wants to know the truth can know. My friend tells me her carpenters and firewood providers are fully informed. This is not the first time the woodcutter knows more than nobles and townspeople, and acting on that knowledge we will save the children in the 'Fairy Tales.' Join us this weekend, Saturday and Sunday October 3rd and 4th at Mettabee Farm, 551 Harlemville Road in Hillsdale, New York 12529 Saturday evening at 7PM with a screening of Plandemic Indoctornation hosted by David Martin and continuing Sunday afternoon with a Freedom Festival from 4-6 and an evening of discussion with David from 7 to 9. Activists interested in attending inner core workshops please be in touch with me at 518-672-4680 for availability and scheduling. He Va He! (call of the Orphic celebrants) Leland -- * See Right Use of Will, by Ceanne de Rohan. The Mother of Everything is in charge of mercy for those who change their mind. All are born from her womb, so we can be sure she will not be cruel, even if it appears that way sometimes. Matthew 8:22 and Luke 9:60 * Neil Young, After the Gold Rush. Crosby Stills and Nash, Wooden Ships..on the water, very free, and easy, easy you know the way it's supposed to be... -- Sent by Leland Lehrman to friends and allies. Reply with unsubscribe in the subject line to be removed. Peter Burgess 2:22 PM (0 minutes ago) to Leland Dear Leland Thank you for sending me this. I am not sure I have digested but a modest part of what you have sent ... but it has reminded of an important or at least interesting event in my own life's journey. There was a time when I did quite a lot of work in Madagascar. I went there probably 3 times a year for about 5 years in the 1980s ... and over time made friends with some of the local people that I came in contact with. One of these was the receptionist at the hotel who first got my attention because she used an abacus to calculate the bills. I did not know the immigration history of the country going back several hundred years, but her ethnic background going back many generations was actually Chinese. On one of my trips to Madagascar, she invited me to come to a local festival. It was the periodic 'Retourrement' ... a local celebration of those that had passed ... with music and dancing and drinking ... and the ceremonial reburying of those that had died in the past few months. This involved recovering the dead bodies from an above ground tomb ('tombeau') ... rewrapping the bodies ... and then parading them around in a dance ... before taking them off to a permanent burial place. As a visitor ... as a VIP ... I was invited to go into the 'tombeau' where the stacked bodies were being unstacked and brought out for the families to claim them. As a rather ordinary Westerner, all of this was quite macabre, but the joy that was around the whole of the event gave me a lot of food for thought. I was especially struck by how many of the bodies were small ... in other words ... children. While in some ways my visit to the 'Retourrement' in Madagascar was shocking ... it was also an inspiration. The human spirit has a level of resilience that we don't tend to see in the rich materialistic world that has been the goal of Western civilization for the last couple of hundred years. Again ... thanks PeterB _____________________________ Peter Burgess ... Founder and CEO TrueValueMetrics ... Meaningful Metrics for a Smart Society True Value Impact Accounting ... Multi Dimension for ALL the Capitals http://www.truevaluemetrics.org LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/peterburgess1/ Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/PeterBurgess2/ Twitter: @truevaluemetric @peterbnyc Telephone: 570 202 1739 Email: peterbnyc@gmail.com Skype: peterbinbushkill

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