Decide the Fate of Our Country. Vote.

I’m just going to preface this article with the admonition that I am not a political person. I am a person who likes to dwell in the realm of ideas and the political arena always seemed like the Bermuda Triangle where good ideas get lost in the dead zone of bureaucracy. So I avoided it, preferring to leave the running of this country in the hands of people whom I assumed were more experienced and knowledgeable about the dynamics of governing a country.

But then two things happened that snapped me out of that fantasy world that I had been living in for the past four elections; Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was added to the Republican Party ticket and the economy took a nosedive. That’s when I realized that our political leaders are anything but leaders and that the political process had deteriorated beyond all recognition.
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Male Pregnancy: Has Science Gone Too Far?

There is currently an experiment going on where, through the miracle of IVF a man, Mr. Lee Mingwei, is pregnant.

I wish I could say that I was open enough to accept this and intellectually I am. I understand that this is just another step in human development. I predict a time when pregnant men will become a fact of life. It will be another thing for couples to decide on. Volvo or Volkswagen? Ranch house or Colonial? I have the babies or you?

I also understand that there is a lot that we do not know about our beginnings. The physical evidence of our existence goes back only so far. Who knows what information has been destroyed by time, natural disasters, human ignorance and greed. Maybe at one point men were able to have babies but for some reason, lost the ability to do so and this experiment is simply closing the circle.

Emotional acceptance, on the other, is another matter. It is hard to describe how I feel about this. It’s like this experiment is a direct attack on my womanhood. Women have always had the babies. It’s sort of our thing. Being the child bearers of the human race is one of the things that defined us. We have breasts, a vagina, a menstrual cycle and babies.

Enabling a man’s ability to have babies brings up the feeling that this is just one more thing that “they” are trying to take away from “us”. I suppose this feeling comes from centuries of oppression and sexism that continues to exist even in today’s “modern” world. Seriously, in parts of the world women are beaten for not covering their bodies, are being bought and sold like chattel and have no say about their destinies on this Earth.

Who knows, perhaps I’m looking at this from the wrong angle and in the end this will be turn out to be the thing that finally liberates us from our cultural shackles. What do you think?

Meeting My Higher Self

My dreams come in three different flavors; Regular, Precognitive and Enlightening. Regular dreams are the by-products of my mind organizing itself and assimilating the information accumulated that day. Precognitive dreams are glimpses into the future. I’ve had several of these throughout my life and I recognize them by an acute sense of Déjà vu coupled with memories of the dream when they come true. Enlightening dreams are lessons that I need to learn. Since I began my pursuit into Lucid Dreaming, I’ve had three of this kind including last night’s dream.

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