Month: March 2026

The White House under Pres. Donald Trump has registered the domains Alien.gov and Aliens.gov for the purpose of posting information regarding non-humans “anomalous phenomena”, on or about March 24, 2026.

Thought you might want to know that.

As of right now, March 31, 2026 at 3 PM, there’s no website up on either domain address. Something to keep an eye on.

Just wondering how many others besides me are paying attention to the expanding attacks on the global economy by all sides. Not just the Iran war but everywhere. While Trump tells us that the price of oil is under control, that the USA is oil-independent, the truth is that we export much of it and then have to import it to have enough, and the price at the pump is still increasing, for us the same as everyone else.

A massive fire at the US’s second largest refinery, the Valero refinery at Port Arthur, Texas has finally been put out and people are going back to work, but not a word about the cause of this mysterious explosion that has shut down most of the refinery and helped raise fuel prices globally.

Ukraine said it hit a key Russian oil terminal at Primorsk and a refinery in Ufa on Monday. Oil production in Iran is at a halt and almost no oil is coming through the Hormuz Strait now. The world runs on oil and the refineries of it are being shut down along with the movement of it into the global economy.

The last time we had a massive global economy attack was the blocking of the Suez Canal, disrupting almost all the shipping between the West and East, causing worldwide goods shortages and when the block was cleared, there were many hundreds of cargo ships filled with goods, with cargo ships massing outside of all the major ports, unable to get in and unload because the ports were all overloaded. Then, of course, there was also the sudden truck shortage.

All deliberately planned as experiments in how people will respond when the actual, total shutdown starts, and now it looks like another major economic global shortage of goods is being set up. My obvious question is, is this the Big One?

If this war goes on for months, the shortages and economic damage will be a lot worse than when the Ever Given cargo ship blocked the Suez Canal. That was one goods transit shortcut that was cut off, now it’s the world’s fuel supply. Big difference.

A severe global fuel shortage that does not abate will result in mass starvation on a global level. Trump started in Iran telling us that it would be a matter of days, now it’s a month at least but “maybe not”, it’s “deja vu all over again” hearing him repeat the same story he gave us about Hamas surrendering and being disarmed “In two days”, then “In a week”, then “In ten days”, then “we’re negotiating”, and then we heard no more, while Hamas continues to hold Gaza.

If all this isn’t a conspiracy to teach us that the global economy is very fragile and we could all suddenly be plunged into chaotic food shortages, as we already have been, then good, it was all just amazing coincidence after amazing coincidence. Not deliberate, not planned. Yes, it’s true, I do have chickens for sale that shit gold, by the way.

So keep your eyes open and your larder filled, Be Prepared. This may be just a long-term pattern of jerking us off over oil and the economy for their benefit, or it may be the move to reduce the human population they told us was coming.

Enlightenment and How To Gain It

Enlightenment is seeing reality for the first time. The truth is that we all see things from slanted and incomplete points of view that make our decisions difficult and our lives a lot harder than they should be. Once you have enlightenment, everything becomes simple and clear.

One of the many great benefits of enlightenment is being able to see through people and their motives. If you’re a person who is often fooled, used, tricked or cheated, that will change with enlightenment. Enlightenment brings freedom.
You were born enlightened, but that vision faded as you became more self-aware and learned how to think the way your parents did and see things the way they did. When you become re-awakened, it will almost be deja vu. You’ll say “I knew this all the time”. It’s just that you forgot to look at it.

Now let’s get started because there’s some things you should learn and understand that will help you greatly to re-awaken. Or unlearn. First let’s look at Opposites. Duality. We all know that many things are opposite each other, like black and white, and up and down. They’re opposites, right? Well, yes, in dealing with references to different things and places, they are. But opposites are actually just a convenience, a way of describing. They have no actual reality. Duality is an illusion. That’s not to say that animals don’t come in pairs or that twins aren’t born once in awhile, but that’s not what what Duality is. Duality is literally the belief that things can be opposites to each other. So let’s look at a few.

Black is the absence of light, and is actually not a color at all, while white is all colors of light. If you add the tiniest amount of white to black, to most of us it will still look black, but keep adding more white and eventually it becomes grey. Add more and more until finally it becomes white. In other words, black is the perception of a lack of light, and nothing more. Black is less light to us than what white is, it’s not the opposite of white. It’s all just different amounts of light.

High and low. They don’t exist. That’s an easier one to see than black and white, because it’s more personal. When you stand on the roof of your house, you’re higher than someone on the lawn, who is above the worms in the ground while you’re below the sky. On the moon, you’re either above Earth or below Earth but actually neither. Are you getting this? It’s pretty simple, isn’t it? Opposites are really nothing more than references we created to help us communicate with each other. There’s nothing wrong with them and we shouldn’t try to discard them from our thinking, because as references they’re very useful. They’re just not real, is all.
Left and right, more and less, south or north, big and small, they’re all just points of reference to something or somewhere else. They’re opinions. They’re not real things.
Last one on this subject, salt and pepper. People think of them as opposites simply because of their color. One is sodium chloride, a chemical, and the other is ground seeds.
The point of using opposites as an example is that we all have lots of learned ideas and concepts that are based on a system of dual natures for everything. Opinions and points of view vary widely with individuals, cultures, politics, religions and even science, and the reality is that, once again, opposites only exist as points of reference. Even good and bad are merely points of reference and are different depending on what society you live in. Opposites are an idea, an opinion, a concept. They aren’t real.

We’re taught right and wrong as soon as we’re able to learn, how to act and how not to act, and even though human behavior varies widely in different cultures and societies, we’re all born knowing the basics of what we should and shouldn’t do because it’s instinctual. Sometimes our societies teachings go against those instincts and sometimes they take advantage of them, patriotism is a good example of that. All societies teach us how to act within them and life teaches us countless lessons as well. The “event” of enlightenment doesn’t change what we’ve learned, it gives us the perspective of seeing it all without passing judgment on it, of seeing it as it really is, not as we might have believed it to be.

Once you’ve gained enlightenment your life will change, and you may want to try teaching others about it. But more likely you’ll do as almost everyone does when they awaken to reality, and make your new awareness part of your everyday life.
What happens when you gain enlightenment is that you momentarily mentally step aside of all your thoughts and beliefs and simply look at things without comparing them to yourself. We all have a sense of self, we call it our ego, and some of us have huge egos and great self-importance while other people are self-effacing and humble, and most of us have never thought much about what our egos really are. Just that they’re there.

Our egos are the part of our brain that governs self-protection. When sudden danger arises, it’s that part of our brains, our ego part, that galvanizes us into action to escape the danger. After it’s done that a time or two, in our very young lives, our conscious minds find themselves trusting that ego part to protect us more than it’s built to do. For instance, when someone insults us, that’s an attack, and what do we do? Most of us hand that off to the ego to deal with and very likely the ego responds with an insult or a punch to the offender’s nose.
This is because the ego can’t think. It’s not connected to the thinking part of our brains, which is why, when we let our egos deal with all our threats, we keep getting into trouble. The ego is only good for reacting appropriately to actual, real, physical danger. It has no clue how to act in social situations, that’s what our ability to think is for and the more we hand over our personal sense of security to the ego, the more it directs our behavior.

You see what’s happening here. We all have self-awareness, but that’s not the same as our sense of self, our ego. Being aware of being a separate person from Joe or Sue is one thing, it’s when we think of ourselves as being better or worse than Joe or Sue that our egos have been given too much authority over our thinking minds.

FINDING THE CENTER

You may have heard the expression, “Being centered”, or “Finding your center”. What that means can be described like this: Imagine a circle, and everything that exists is all parked around the outside edge of that circle while you sit in the exact center of it. From that point of view, everything is exactly equally distant or close, and nothing is better or worse. Let’s say you’ve been asked to be the arbiter of an argument between two people, and you listen to both sides. If you’re really centered, and you have no dog in the fight, you can hear their arguments, see things from both points of view, and you might just see that neither side is valid. One-sided arguments usually aren’t.
You get the drift, being centered is being outside of, and free of seeing things in terms of opposites. Being centered means making good decisions and good choices, it means being free of a lot of the strife and hassle that’s normally a big part of living. If you want to get there, and be centered, then start by simply picturing yourself there. Put yourself in the center of a circle, in your mind. You don’t have to be working on anything or trying to decide anything. Just picture yourself in the center of a circle. Do it often, if you can and it will start working for you.

Now let’s move on to Time. First off, time is motion. Same thing. That’s why time stops if you travel at the speed of light, a scientific fact that pretty much everyone knows now. Time moves at 186,000 miles per second, which is the speed of light. Time is motion.
Okay, now imagine that you’re standing in a river. A stream, really, not real wide, the water moving along gently, trees lining the banks on either side. The stream curves and bends as it winds through the forest, and way up ahead, around several bends, is a tree that just shed a leaf. You’re looking upstream but you don’t see the leaf, it’s beyond your view.
The leaf lands on the water and begins traveling toward you. The leaf exists now, but for you, it’s in your future. Then finally the leaf comes close to you and you see it, and now it’s in your now, your present, and then it moves past you and is in your past, and recedes farther into your past, yet it still exists now. That is the nature of time, and that’s also a description of how we humans perceive it, in relation to ourselves instead of as it is. The point of this is that it’s our sense of self that gets in the way of our seeing reality. If you want to have enlightenment you have to ignore your sense of self for a moment.

You didn’t have a sense of self as an infant. When you gained one was about the same time that you began learning that you could manipulate your parents by crying and screaming, to feed you and change you and give you attention. But now that you don’t need to do that anymore, it’s okay to let go of your sense of self just for a bit using your now adult brain to gain the great advantage in life called enlightenment.

You’ll find that there’s lots of books around that are “spiritual guides to enlightenment” more or less. This isn’t one of them. Most of them talk a lot about Buddhism, and there’s lots of different Buddhist religious sects, so lets get that dealt with and out of the way. The Buddha was a man, a prince supposedly, born in ancient India around 600 BC and named Siddhartha Gautama, who grew up in a very protected environment and was unexpectedly exposed to the terrible conditions at that time in India. He left the royal estate to go out among the people in order to understand why there was so much suffering in the world, and the result of long hours of deep thought was that instead of trying to understand it all, he simply looked and saw.

Siddhartha was only a man, he wasn’t a deity. Most of his teachings were written down and survive today, and one of them was when he was asked about an afterlife and he responded that he didn’t teach about some other life, he taught about this one. Since his passing, many different Buddhist religions have arisen that present him as some sort of god, one even claiming that “He held out his hand and the golden rays of the Sun shone forth from his palm”. That isn’t Buddhism, that’s just ignorance from someone who just didn’t get it. Siddhartha taught enlightenment. That’s all. The people revered him for it at least as much, if not more, for the fact that he gave up the life of a prince for them as for his efforts to enlighten them.

There’s only one Buddhist “religion” still going today that isn’t a religion, it just teaches enlightenment, and that’s Japanese Zen Buddhism. No deities are involved. So if you still don’t get it after reading this little book and making the effort (yes, you do have to make the effort) then try Zen.

Oneness. You’ll read about Oneness in most, if not all of those spiritual guides as well as here, and I’m not knocking them or spirituality. I have my own spiritual side, it’s just that concepts of God and spirituality are invariably personal, and enlightenment is a whole other thing.
Oneness is the awareness that everything is equal to everything else when not seen from a personal point of view. When you experience enlightenment you simultaneously experience Oneness. They’re essentially the same, it’s just that enlightenment is awakening to Oneness. Don’t let that scare you. Oneness is just reality and a reality that you’ll recognize as having seen before, the instant it happens. Oneness is when you’re in the center of that circle.

A lot of people have been frightened away from seeking enlightenment by the scary phrase “ego-death”. Since the ego is our protector, of course those are scary words, we don’t want our egos to die. Well, they don’t. There is no such thing as ego-death. The ego doesn’t go anywhere during enlightenment, it stays right there. What we do is just ignore it for a little bit so we can do something else besides listen to it demanding attention all the time. Once enlightened, we still have our ego, our sense of self, only we’re suddenly far more in control of who we are than we were before, our thinking selves are running things instead of our lives being run and often screwed up by our overburdened egos.

To look at reality for even just a few seconds, all you have to do is let go and look. First come to understand that opposites have no reality, that thinking so is just an illusion. Come to understand that no matter how wonderful you might think that you are, how much better and finer and way more groovy you are than anyone else you know, that you’re not. All that is just an illusion, a lie you talked yourself into believing, for personal protection against insults or because you’re very jealous of that person who you know is really better looking, smarter, stronger, whatever, than you are, because all that comparing is just an illusion. It’s not real, it’s just stuff you were talked into or talked yourself into or somehow came to believe.

Understand that your beliefs are all illusion. Beliefs are not reality. Only reality is reality. Opinions are not reality, especially yours. Time is not reality, it’s just motion as things keep happening. Thoughts have no reality, they can’t be grasped. If you doubt that, then think something and hold your mind absolutely still while holding on to that one thought. You can’t. Thoughts are just electrical impulses. If you want to be enlightened, still your mind for just a few seconds. That’s all it takes to see reality. Turn off all the comparisons, discrimination and naming of things, let your mind be still so it can see.
That’s how it’s done. In the center, your mind is still, you’re listening and seeing instead of choosing and forming opinions.

There’s lots of disciplines for stilling the mind and gaining enlightenment, and many are good ones. I came by it after reading about half of Herman Hesse’s book “Siddhartha”. It was a friend’s book, I had to leave it behind because we were going somewhere, but the story stuck with me. I saw him as being on the same path in life as myself, and after work each day, I went home and sat and thought about it. The third day of doing this, I stopped trying to see where it was going and just looked. That’s all it took. You might try that, who knows?

Enlightenment comes when you’re ready. Some people never try for it, it just happens. They see a bird fly up off a tree stump and it happens, or a child throws a toy and laughs, and it happens. I wasn’t trying for it, and it didn’t happen as fast as those examples, but it happened when I was ready. If you’re trying for it you have an advantage, because you know it’s there and you’re working on making it happen, and it will when you’re ready.

Gaining enlightenment is like learning to ride a bicycle. It takes some practice for most of us. Some people just get on that bicycle and ride, but most of us have to learn the trick of it. If you have good concentration it will come easier to you than if you have a hard time focusing on problems. One good way to learn concentration is to go fishing where there’s very few fish. Get a comfortable seat and watch the end of that pole for hours and don’t take your eyes off it while thinking about all the unreal, illusionary things you grew up believing in. You might even catch your dinner while doing this.
An easier way is to just keep your mind focused on dispelling the concept of opposites. Keep looking at the center, where the illusion of opposites merges into the whole truth, the oneness of reality.

Zen Buddhists study little poems called koans to gain enlightenment. Like
In my new clothes
I feel so different
I must look like someone else.
Or
Coming, going,
The waterfowl leaves not a trace
Nor does it need a guide.
Or
The moon’s the same old moon,
The flowers exactly as they were,
Yet I’ve become the thingness
Of all the things I see.
I’m not going to critique the first two and of the last one I’ll only point out that it’s an awakening poem, written after gaining enlightenment. The writer saw the world anew, from a perspective beyond self.

THE PROBLEM WITH WORDS
The experience of enlightenment can’t be expressed in words. Neither can the state of enlightenment. The best and only thing that can be done is to point at it as directly as possible. Enlightenment is an experience that has no equal and so is the awareness gained from it. There’s a lot of books describing that awareness, including this one, but a description is not the same, not even close to it. The purpose in descriptions is to give the reader an idea of what may be gained.

Every language has its own built-in slants, prejudices and taboos. Words that are fine to say in one place may cause one a lot of trouble when said in another place, and many words have more than one meaning. The English language is loaded with them, and some English words have different connotations in different English-speaking countries. In England the word bloody is a curse word, for instance, but not here in the USA. In writing this I’ve tried, and will continue to try, to use words that are as explanatory as I can muster without running into the tangle of Political Correctness or other currently stylish verbal taboos.

The same with opinions. Opinions, including yours, are based on hopefully at least one fact joined together with one or more beliefs. Opinions are not facts, they’re what we come up with when we don’t have all the facts. Back to the Buddha, he once said that we should beware the thicket of opinions, because some may be right and some may be wrong, and everyone will have a different one than someone else. The only opinions that matter at all are the ones we pay for, from people like doctors and plumbers and that’s because they have command of more facts than we do.

Words are tied closely to emotions and emotions and opinions are also joined at the hip, which is why people get into shooting matches over opinions. Since our opinions dominate so much of our thinking, let’s take a look at where they come from.
John, Mike and Sue are walking along together and John finds a dollar laying on the ground. He puts it in his pocket and Mike and Sue say, “Wait, we’re all together, we should share the wealth”. John, who doesn’t want to share, says “I found it, it’s mine”. Mike and Sue, who would both like to buy some candy, get angry, beat up John and take the dollar and each buys 50 cents worth of candy. John’s opinion of Mike and Sue is that they’re thieves. Mike and Sue’s opinion of John is that he’s selfish. John thought only of himself, Mike and Sue did the same, their opinions of each other were the result of greed, not reality.
Or this: Fred is thinking of getting a cat for a pet, then visits someone’s home where there’s 5 cats peeing all over the floor and making the house stink horribly. Fred decides to get a dog instead because he now thinks that all cats stink.

We form our opinions based on our experiences, and we do so quickly after one experience, and then carry that opinion the rest of our lives. You’ve met these people, rock solid in their mistaken opinions. We even have names for them, blockheaded, bullheaded, bigoted.

There’s another aspect of opinion forming that’s good to be aware of, which is that all day, every day, we’re faced with having to make decisions without having enough factual information to competently do so, and bad decisions can adversely affect our lives, as we well know. Therefor we try to make the best decisions we can, if we care about our well being. Not all decisions work out well but the ones that do become opinions, and strong opinions. Sometimes the decision was only correct for that certain event and won’t work again, but once it becomes an opinion it gets set in cement. This information may have no bearing on your gaining enlightenment, but the more you know how your own mind works, the more well-ordered it will become, and that’s going to help.
Examine your opinions and put less faith in them. They may be in the way of your enlightenment.

CLOSETS OF THE MIND
Bad experiences create bad memories. It’s what we do with these memories that matters, more than the bad experiences themselves. Our brains are amazing things, as unless they suffer injury of some sort, they never forget anything that happens in our lives, and what they do with bad memories is store them away to be dealt with later. There’s lots of things that happen in most people’s lives that they prefer not to think about, and our brains readily comply with this wish. It’s a form of self defense, to hide away the bad things. But our brains do this with a purpose, because shameful or embarrassing memories are only kept closeted away until we have the knowledge to deal with them and dispel them.

As the years go by in our lives, we accumulate a lot of little closets that increasingly impede our self-respect, mental freedom and creativeness, and a thorough housecleaning can do wonders for our self-esteem and peace of mind.
There’s a little trick to doing this, and it’s this: All those parked memories are tied to an emotion, so whenever you feel an emotion, any emotion, instead of going along with it, stop and look back at where that feeling comes from. You may have to keep reminding yourself to do this, to stop and look back, but eventually you’ll catch yourself and do it. The next time will be easier, and it gets easier after that to stop going with the emotion, even if you’re not successful at following it back to it’s source.

Eventually you will be, and the first time you come to the particular mental closet that memory is in, you may find the door locked. You may feel repelled by what you feel is inside. Don’t let that stop you, it’s only a memory, and once that door is opened and you look straight at it, you’ll find yourself able to deal with it because time has passed. Your perspective will be different and more mature, stronger, and chances are that when you really look at it you’ll laugh at how unimportant and meaningless it is now.

That’s the trick, simply stop and look both ways and set your mind free. Many years ago a singer named Biff Rose sang a song that goes “Things that happened in the past only happened in your mind”. He was a wise fellow.
Again, you don’t have to do this to gain enlightenment. The more you know yourself and are at peace with yourself, the easier enlightenment will come to you and I’m trying to provide you with all the means possible to that end.
We’re all accustomed to having to grasp concepts and ideas, we learn to picture things in our heads and understand how things are built and function. Grasping concepts and ideas is a big part of functioning as a human being, which is why people try very hard to grasp enlightenment. And fail.

That’s because enlightenment isn’t a concept or idea, and can’t be grasped. It can be seen, though. Everyone has had moments when realization suddenly dawned, regardless of what the subject matter was. Assume you just realized why something happened or what someone really meant after trying for hours or days to figure it out. When that happened it wasn’t because you suddenly grasped some secret of life, it was because the answer came to you in a flash of insight. That’s what happens in enlightenment and it happens not because you grasped some thought, but because you let go of thought. Our greatest insights usually come to us when we stop and let go of a problem we’re trying to solve.
That’s why people will sleep on something and get back to it the next day, because we can often do our best problem solving in our sleep when our minds aren’t distracted by all the things going on around us.

This doesn’t mean that you don’t need to seek enlightenment. It means that you should make all effort to attain it, look for it from every angle, press your mind to see it, because that prepares your mind to see it. Press on, strive to attain enlightenment, and when your brain has accumulated enough insight, you will let go and look.

Practice the Art of Letting Go. If someone treated you badly, let go of the grudge against them. You already know not to deal with them again. Remember that they’re making life worse for themselves without any help from you anyway. Let them go. If there’s something you want but don’t need, let it go. That doesn’t mean to start depriving yourself of some pleasures in life, it’s just for practice. If someone you know could really use something you really don’t need, give it to them if you can afford to do that. Just for practice. Being able to let go can be a lot harder for us sometimes than we realize, and practicing it will bring you closer to the enlightenment that you seek.

MEDITATION
Meditation is a valuable tool in life regardless of whether you’re after enlightenment or not. Most people have no idea of what that really is, though, or how to go about it. Meditation is deep thinking, looking at something for the purpose of understanding it. Timothy Leary, the famous LSD guru, was actually a brilliant college professor before he became enthralled with psychoactive drugs, and he made a statement about meditation that’s really very profound, which is “How do we fathom muddy water? Muddy water clears through stillness. How do we become still? By moving with the stream.”
When you’re thinking about something that you’re trying to understand, you likely start looking at it from all angles, trying to get the whole picture so that it makes sense. That’s the beginning of meditation. That’s all it is. The secret of deep meditation is to learn to just look at that picture or the various parts of it without becoming impatient. Just keep looking at it, and soon you’ll be seeing deeper into it, and the seeing becomes easier and easier as you relax with it and just allow yourself to look. Muddy water clears through stillness. Meditation is learning to let go of grasping and just look. Moving with the stream.

The reason meditation is popular is because it’s a wonderful problem-solving tool. Most of us have never been taught how to think. We all do think, but look at all the messes we make by doing so. Most of our thinking is based on opinions, lies and mistaken ideas. Not to cause a problem with some of you, but seriously, look at religions. They’re all different and some of them are in violent conflict with others, resulting in wars, death and destruction. Or politics, same problem and often the same results. This is what the Buddha meant by the thicket of opinions. Step outside of your opinions, set them aside for just a moment, that’s all it takes, one look at the world as it really is.

If you learn and practice meditation you aren’t guaranteed a mistake-free life, but you should have a lot more fulfilling and successful one by making a lot less mistakes than you might otherwise, and more good decisions instead of bad ones.
Meditation relieves stress. If you feel pressed to make a decision, meditate on it. Sometimes the true answer turns out that no decision is the best one. Or you may realize that none of the “only” options are the right option or that the best option is to leave the decision to others.
The thing is, we are all born knowing everything we need to know to survive. Just like a fox or a deer, we’re creatures of Nature and we have instincts. A big part of meditation is trusting our minds to find the way. The ability to see into ourselves is part of our nature. We may be out of practice, but not for long once we start in.

If you see things without placing any value on them and without naming them, without having any attachment to anything in any way, just simply looking through undiscriminating eyes, then you see the world as it actually is without you in it, distorting reality with your values and opinions.
Our discrimination between things, concepts and ideas develop over time as a result of our experiences as well as all that we’re taught by others, and it’s this discrimination that interferes with our gaining true insight. How many times have you found yourself opening your mind to someone else’s point of view that conflicted with your own? Most of us do this grudgingly, if at all, but when we do, it’s always a revelation, and that revelation came about because you let go instead of clinging.

Enlightenment is total revelation of reality. What you believe is not reality. No beliefs are reality, which is why you have to let go of them to see reality.
Something that needs to be clarified at this point is an apparent contradiction, which arises out of the nature of words. Words can never describe reality, all they can do is point to it. Words are never the object, event, idea or act, they’re nothing more than attempts to describe them. The same is true when I say that Enlightenment is this or that. Enlightenment is never this or that because it can’t even be described with words, it can only be pointed at. So when I say that “Enlightenment is…”, remember that I’m only pointing at it using inadequate words. You have to do the looking. No book can give it to you simply by reading the words. You can learn a trade by reading how to do something and then practicing what you learned in the book until the skill comes to you. This is the same, if you practice looking at where I point, and do it earnestly, Enlightenment should come to you.

Not everyone who seeks Enlightenment finds it. Zen monasteries in Japan have rich histories going back hundreds of years that document various persons efforts at attaining Enlightenment, and some people, no matter how hard they try, never see. There’s a number of reasons for this. Fear is one of them. Some people are just afraid of letting go of their sense of self, as if it were a form of dying. It’s not, it’s truly an increase in living, an amazing expansion of ones ability to enjoy being alive.
Others just are too in love with their false sense of duality to let themselves see, or too filled with with their own love of self and sense of superiority to let go of that sense of self. Make no mistake, a big ego isn’t just an obnoxious affront to most others, it’s a big block to seeing reality. The more we set ourselves above others, the less in touch with the truth we are.

copyright Newsbleat.com and Sunarupu Enterprises, 3/24/2026. Anyone wishing to publish this is welcome to contact me at dennis (at) sunarupu.com.

The number of home buyers is currently about half that of home sellers and about 82% less for condos. I call this good news because in spite of all the economic reasons given for this huge downturn in home sales, I think it’s mostly because illegal aliens are leaving the country.

Many are being deported while others are getting the hell out before they’re arrested and imprisoned for their crimes committed here. Hispanic gang members are heading for home while they can, as the wars grow against their gangs in their home countries, because they’re safer from imprisonment there than here. When our government deports them, it’s into the hands of the police.

The massive influx of illegals into our country encouraged and allowed by the last administration had of course inspired a massive housing construction response. Houses and apartment buildings were built and sold to illegals, or rented to them, and with illegals leaving the country now by the hundreds of thousands, they’re a glut on the market and housing prices have dropped way down again.

Since I don’t plan to sell my home, I care less what the market value is. What matters to me is less Mexicans, Bolivians, Somalians, Nigerians, Haitians, resulting in less crime, less assholes to deal with, less assholes on the road, less assholes who don’t speak English worth a shit that I have to deal with at service counters.

So yeah, you bet. Tell me that no one is buying a home any more. Make my day.

The weather continues very warm and sunny and the nights are warming up, as the seeds spring up in their little pots, soon to be moved into the garden soil. There’s nothing like home-grown food, it tastes better, it is better and you don’t have to travel to a market to get it fresh, fresher than any market could ever offer. Tomatoes, big ones and cherry, lettuce, radishes, beets, yellow summer squash, green scallop squash, butternut and acorn squashes for winter, cucumbers and cilantro. Not everything I’d like will grow in this high desert with its high summer temperatures, but I found what will and it’s enough to provide most of my veggies.

As the garden grows, so does the war in Iran. Trump keeps saying one thing and then contradicting himself and everyone else the next day, which is a great help in making the Fog of War far more dense than seems necessary, but he’s a sly old dog and it all has a purpose. His latest unfounded and unverified blurt that there’s positive talks now with Iran has caused the price of oil to drop suddenly even though no one knows of any such talks.

I think the real purpose of this war isn’t just to stop Iran from nuking people. It’s to effect a realignment of global commerce and governmental cooperation. The UN has proven itself to be worse than useless while NATO teeters on being totally ineffective, as the UK plunges deeper into its socialist Big Brother dictatorship. The goal appears to be to drag all of Western Europe in with them and the result so far is a disintegrating EU.

With all these alliances falling apart, an alliance between Russia and the USA is beginning to look possible. If this happens, Eastern Europe will join it along with the Middle East and much of the East. This will force Western Europe to, one by one, also join. China will then be left out of the largest economic bloc ever created on Earth and have no choice except to merge with it. Thus we will have the formation of a global government based on economic cooperation.

My hope is that all nations will become part of a unified economic corporation and like all corporations, the leaders of these nations will find themselves to be officers and members of it’s board and their positions of national leaders with dictatorial powers will fade, because no nation will be able to dictate to the whole.

Humanity is evolving. We must, to keep up with the evolution of our technology. This is the great goal of AI, to guide us, to predict what must be done to keep us on course.

A couple I knew when living in Washington state stopped by on their return trip home and stayed over for a few days. It was great to see them again, it’s been 14 years since I moved away for the sake of my health. The cold, wet winters and all the molds and bacterial that come with them were overwhelming my immune system.

We were good friends then and are good friends still because they’re good, outspoken people who survived hard lives with more integrity than they were ever taught to have by those who raised them, which is exactly how I also see myself.

Having them here, sharing memories of good times past and renewing the feelings of closeness and caring that were there before, reminded me of the value to me of others whom I hold dear. It’s easy to take old friends for granted. We shouldn’t.

Good friends are the true shining gems in our lives. Family often fails us while true friends are there for life, at least, this is my experience. My family never valued me, having friends that do and do so consistently over the many years validates us. We validate each other and support each other in our feelings of self-worth.

I have found that the truest, most supportive, the very best of friends are those who have suffered some of the worst life can offer and survived it, risen above it, regained the self-respect that is everyone’s birthright and made good, honest, productive lives for themselves. They understand the value of truth and how important it is for happiness and self-respect.

There is no decorum anymore. The Internet’s destroyed it. Back when Hollywood ruled the screens, there were lots of censors in full battle mode, ready to pounce on the hint of a nipple or anyone daring to say “Damn”. Clark Gable was a real ground-breaker when he said “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” in Gone With The Wind.

Today our Presidents say Fuck. I keep waiting for the first one to say “Motherfucker”, it’s coming, sooner or later. It’s like our highest echelon leaders are trying to reach the commonest of the Common Man, they keep pushing the acceptable limits, “Fuck, fuckers, fuck them, sons of bitches, assholes.” It’s like listening to a George Carlin rant, only it’s President Trump and most of the newscasters, women included, of course. They might even be leading the way.

I detest it. I use profanity when I feel like it in this blog, but I’m not a national leader, a respected person that we should all have a right to look up to. I hate hearing any elected person use coarse language, it doesn’t just demean them, it demeans our whole society, it lowers us to the gutter.

I know, I’m being a hypocrite here, I should never use profanity in public, but you know, THAT’S WHY I DON’T. This blog is open to the public, anyone can read it, but only two people do that I know of and neither one is offended by curse words. This is more of a diary than anything else, it’s where I express my offensive feelings in an inoffensive way. I don’t swear in public and I wish everyone else would stop doing it. Wish me luck?

That’s the headline at General Dispatch this morning, announcing this latest Ronda Rousey debacle-to-be.

Ronda got the snot beat out of her in two successive bouts and quit Mixed Martial Arts in 2016 to switch over to pro wrestling, where they’re not allowed to punch each other in the face and the bouts are all rigged in advance anyway. Her reason for quitting MMA was that she’d had too many concussions which were affecting her eyesight.

Ronda was a better fighter than most of the women who got into MMA in the beginning days of women in mixed martial arts fighting, but that’s not saying much. She was a poor sportsman, she never had a kind word for any of the contenders who got the ring with her before their fights and never had a kind word afterward, either, after she’d won. She obviously enjoyed being a bully and no one was sad to see her get the hell beat out of her, in fact everyone cheered.

So now Rasty Ronda is going to fight in the MMA ring again? She’s 39 and worth about $14 million, and is going to fight Gina Carano, who is 43. Carano’s last professional MMA fight was a first-round TKO loss on August 5, 2009. She is set to make a comeback after a 17-year hiatus to fight Ronda Rousey on May 16, 2026, in a matchup promoted on Netflix. Gina’s net worth is $4 million, a lot less than Ronda, but she comes from a very wealthy family involved in Las Vegas casinos. She’s never going to be poor or broke.

So we have to ask: What the hell are they doing? Neither one needs the money and Gina hasn’t done this since she was a young and vigorous 26 years old. Reminder, she’s now 43. If Ronda has permanent concussion damage, why is she doing this? No doubt they’ll both be paid a lot of money for the fight, but as I said, they don’t need it.

I was one of those hoping to see Ronda get hammered in a fight and cheered when she finally did, which is why I’m so interested in this. She really didn’t turn out to be that great of a fighter, not when matched up against a few really good ones. Is this for charity? Nothing else makes any sense.

Yes, this is exactly how I feel.

Canada’s Eugenics program is racing ahead, steadily adding more reasons why people can be accepted into the Kill You Now program. Such as poverty, depression, mental illness, and they’ve almost reached a 100,000 deaths milestone.

Canada started this as a way out for the terminally ill who are in severe pain, and kept expanding it so now, the generally unhappy are qualified to be put to death by the state. All they have to do is sign on the line and the article linked to above says that 45 people a day are now being killed off, which is 5% of the total Canadian death rate. That’s very impressive.

What I want to know is what they’re doing with all the bodies. Are they burning them in Nazi-style Death Camp ovens? I hope not, a far better use would be to make biscuits out of them or can them for pet food. I mean, 45 corpses a day, come on, burning them is just a criminal waste.

In 1973 a Sci-Fi movie came out that gained a lot of fame, Soylent Green, set in 2022 New York City. The population had grown so large that traffic could no longer move, and a lot of people were living in the abandoned vehicles that packed the streets. To feed them the government initiated a program where those who wanted to die, and the reason didn’t matter, could get an injection and pass away. Like in Canada now.

Their bodies were then shipped to a processing plant where they were turned into biscuits that were then handed out to feed the populace, a different color and flavor for each day of the week. Tuesday was Soylent Green day. They were told it was processed plankton but it was actually processed people.

Canada, are you paying attention? Waste not, want not.