Patrick's Notebook

“I must be measured by my soul; the mind is the standard of the man.”

Martin Luther King, 7 December 1964, London

Quantum Physicists such as Erwin Schrödinger, Neil’s Bohr, David Bohm, Max Planck, Thomas Young, Amit Goswami, Fred Alan Wolf, and many others, have, through their experiments and interpretations, come to the conclusion that the Newtonian view of reality in which there is a world “out there” existing independent of any conscious observer is simply untrue, and that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all being.

Matter does not create consciousness, consciousness creates matter. This fascinating discovery is validating what ancient Mystics have said for centuries, that everything is connected, and that it is the spirit (consciousness) which has created this apparently objective world, and that the world which appears to be outside of us is really a creation of our own consciousness. There can be no matter without a conscious observer. » Read the rest of this entry «

In our time the definite cause of war is Washington’s determination to maintain the ability of Western global corporations to rampage across the globe unimpeded, to enable Wall Street to suck up the world’s surplus capital, and to continue the supremacy of the US dollar, backed up by a gargantuan military which stands as a monument not to democracy but imperialism.

The pressing problem a world interested in the rule of law and stability has to contend with is not alleged Russian interference in the internal affairs of Western democracies; the problem has and continues to be Western interference in the internal affairs of Russia, Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, etc. This is the true source of the ills with which the world is grappling.

Kids in Utah will no longer have to worry about the police shutting down their lemonade stands. Under a new state law (SB 81) that passed with overwhelming, bipartisan support, cities and counties cannot require a license or permit for any occasional business operated by a minor. » Read the rest of this entry «