Racial Equality, Justice, and Respect

1. Respect is earned. It is not a Right.
2. Racial equality is born from Respect. When we Respect each individual, there is, by default, Racial Equality.
3. Racial Equality is not achieved from handouts “given” by politicians. We, as a society, don’t give athletes extra points or any advantage because of his/her race because we recognize that it would be unfair to all involved. The same should apply in the working environment and in the Justice System. Unfair laws only serve to create more separation and division.
4. Laws cannot legislate RESPECT. RESPECT must be earned. Laws cannot legislate LOVE. LOVE must be freely given
5. Solution: Support strong families. Children need parents. Fathers need to support & protect their families. They cannot do so if they are unjustly incarcerated.
6. Solution: Stop incarcerating people for non-violent crimes. Stop the for-profit prison system. This amounts to legalized slavery.
7. Solution: Eliminate corruption & indoctrination in public schools. Teach reading, writing, math, science. Journalism. THE BASICS. Teach about our Constitution. Teach Systems analysis & Debate. Get back to the scientific method.
8. Solution: Do not reward laziness. Do not accept excuses. Empower our children with tools that will help them cope with challenges. Teach our children to take responsibility for their actions. Teach them to speak truth.
9. Solution: Provide access to REAL FOOD in every community.
10. Solution: Teach our children how to nourish, exercise, hydrate, and protect their bodies. Allow them to play. Allow them to spend time outdoors. Help them build a strong immune system. Do not force adulthood on them too quickly. Let them be children. Keep our children safe.
11. Solution: There is NO excuse for homelessness. There are so many economical structures available for communities to create safe transitional housing for the poor or homeless. Why are structurally sound structures (e.g. – monolithic domes, tiny houses) not ALLOWED in many communities?
12. We must end the practice of LOBBYING. Big business/unions are affecting how we ALL live by “FUNDING” politicians to do their bidding. END corruption. END conflict of Interest
13. Solution: bring G0D back into our lives and into our communities. Ask G0D for support & strength. We/G0D alone are responsible for our position. We must learn to compete w/o excuses and be proud of who we are and what we accomplished and get back to God in the process if we want racial equality and to save this country before we are pushed into a Civil War.
14. Solution: Freedom to earn a living. Teach our children skills & trades. Teach our children how to build, grow, & repair. Government hand-outs breed dependence, not independence. Strive for freedom. Strive for liberty.
15. Solution: EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW. Racial equality means EQUAL TREATMENT UNDER THE LAW. We are witnessing the protection of certain privileged individuals in the courts of law while poor and minority individuals are incarcerated, often without just cause, for crimes they did not commit.
16. Solution: Stop idolizing athletes & Hollywood stars. Start treating everyday heroes with respect.

The Gift of the Crown

Do you believe that miracles can be brought to you through challenges and difficulties? I believe so. Now more than ever.

Almost everyone that I know is, or has been, affected by the Novel Coronavirus in one way or another. Our lives have changed drastically, almost overnight.

During our last Cafecito Break podcast (you can listen to it here), which was recorded on April 13th, 2020, Rosangel Perez & I traveled thru some dark terrifying ideas and theories around the Novel Corona Virus – COVID-19 pandemic that is currently affecting our world. We discussed things such as:

• Chaos
• The CDC
• The World Health Organization
• Big Tech
• Politicians
• Trust

Since then, I’ve received many messages about the topic that have nothing to do with the technicalities of this pandemic (number of deaths, politics, demographic data, logistics, etc…). These messages made me realize that there’s a lot more to this pandemic than meets the eye.

I have been researching a lot of behind-the-scene theories during the past couple of years. Due to my research, I do believe that there is a lot happening which is NOT discussed on mainstream media. I have also been quite calm since this whole craziness with COVID-19 began to make itself known to us. In the meantime, I have:

• trusted that there is a Plan that will ultimately result in a better world for us all.
• been very skeptical of the “news” that we are being given.
• worked diligently at staying connected to my spiritual practice
• done everything possible to stay healthy, safe, and calm.
• stayed quite busy with my immediate family and have actually enjoyed being at home

From the beginning of this crisis, I have believed that we are in the midst of a major RESET: our families are spending time together and we are SLOWING down. We are having meals at home with our families again. We have time at home. We are being given an opportunity to reflect and reconnect with G-D.

I am blessed to have many human angels in my path. One of these angels is Dr. Gary Berman. He hosts regular Prayer & Meditation sessions and he teaches his students how to connect with their individual Spirit Center in order to discern the truth in any given situation. He recently shared a message he received from G0D about the Coronavirus with us, which included the following important suggestions:

• Create an active prayer life (no specification).
• Get back to daily gratitude that I (God) have given you another day of life.
• Appreciate the people in your life as a gift from me (God).
• Use your time on earth to find/follow your purpose and destiny and stop wasting time in worry and in pursuit of things that do not matter to your spirit nature (does not develop or feed it). Unless it is part of your purpose.
• Know that I am the Alpha (beginning) and the Omega (end). That I am the Lord God of hosts and to follow my teachings before I am forced to send the second judgment. (Note: No specifics about the nature of the second judgment).

I then received a text message from a longtime friend that was very disturbing to me. The text read something like this: That’s It! Our Country is Finished. We are now in the hands of FEMA. (Not the exact wording). I gave him a call, and after a long conversation, he mentioned the name of a Rabbi that he thought I might find interesting. I looked him up on YouTube and found one of his lectures, where he discussed the ongoing plague.

I totally resonated with what Rabbi Kessin said. Here is a summary of his discussion:

There is an obvious difference between this pandemic and previous pandemics such as the Bubonic Plague or the Spanish Flu. In previous pandemics, there was a HUGE loss of life (as a percentage of the worldwide population) as follows:

• Bubonic plague in 1348 killed half of Europe. Central feature was death.
• Spanish Flu in 1918 – 50 million died. Central feature was death.

Although we have tragically experienced sickness and a tremendous amount of suffering, along with a significant loss of life during the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of those that have died or have been stricken in the US is 683,786 illnesses and at least 34,575 deaths (as of (4/17/20). There are approximately 330 million people in US. —> the objective of this plague is NOT death. This plague is not meant to wipe out tens of millions of people.

I share his opinion that:

• this is not an accident. It’s an ACT OF G0D (the entire planet is affected).
• G0D loves mankind and He never gives us a challenge without giving us a solution.
• This is a necessary path to the Messianic Redemption

Three Major Features

Rabbi Kessin describes three major features of the corona virus pandemic:

• 1st Major Feature – FEAR OF DEATH is global. There is tremendous anxiety. Everybody is frightened.
• 2nd Major global feature – A global QUARANTINE that is painful to many people. We, as a society, cannot interact with each other.
• 3rd Major Global feature – The global pandemic has caused an ECONOMIC COLLAPSE that has, in effect, STOPPED civilization. G0D has called forth a tiny virus that measures about 40 nanometers (you can’t see it with the naked eye or even a microscope. You need an electron microscope to see it to HALT CIVILIZATION in its tracks. This alone demonstrates the ABSOLUTE POWER OF G0D.

Divine Agenda

According to ancient scriptures, there will be a plague throughout the world prior to the Messianic Redemption, in a manner that is similar to the Exodus from Egypt and this plague is a necessary prerequisite to the Redemption. Coincidentally, we are experiencing this pandemic during a period of time that spans the Holiday of Purim, Passover, and Holy Week. For the first time EVER, we have not been able to worship together during these holy days.

There is tremendous fear and anxiety, as well as loss of many personal freedoms throughout the world. Rabbi Kessin explains that mankind has been destroying itself, that justice must be fulfilled before the redemption, and that G0D will only bring REDEMPTION after justice has been satisfied. In the meantime, Satan is acting as the prosecuting attorney against mankind and Satan has three major complaints against humanity:

1. IMMORALITY: There exists an enormous amount of immorality, depravity, corruption, degeneration. Mankind is corrupting his own nature.
2. TREMENDOUS HATRED – Destruction of civilization by mankind. Sinat Chinam (Baseless hatred). There is a tremendous amount of hatred present in the world. There is baseless slander and a total lack of unity among people within families, communities, countries, and especially towards our duly elected President.
3. TREMENDOUS PURSUIT OF MATERIALISM & PHYSICALITY. A large majority of the world’s population is completely immersed in materialism, pleasure, physicality, and a very few, relatively speaking, is immersed in spirituality.

Rabbi Kessin beautifully describes the virus as a “Designer Drug” – a tailor-made tool that G0D is using to wake man up! He explains that it works with a three-pong approach:

1. Fear of Death – provides an atonement for sins, especially immorality
2. Quarantine – stops and prevents baseless hatred and slander from being spoken, and thus helps provide unity
3. Reawakens mankind – transitory nature of materialism

This plague is providing all of us an opportunity to assist with the process of TIKKUN (Rectification of Nature) and RESTORATION (to bring G0D back into His Creation).

He describes several tools that G0d has given us for this purpose:

• Doing Mitzvoth (commandments)
• Teshuva (repentance)
• Yissurim (suffering, if we don’t repent)

The Gift of the Crown

The word CORONA means CROWN. The purpose of the virus is to restore the Crown of THE KING. This pandemic is not merely an epidemic. It was given to us as a gift to satisfy the judgement of death and to stop the slander and create unity to allow the Messianic process to continue. It is a WAKE-UP call to stop with materialism and to focus on Spirit.

Here are some of Rabbi Kessin’s suggestions:

• Do not speak, listen to, or believe gossip (slander).
• Take time to study the Biblical texts.
• Wake Up!
• Focus on Spirituality.
• Repent for your sins.

If we do that, we will be delivered into a beautiful world of Total Prosperity!

Blessings!

Please note that I plan to expand on each one of the following in upcoming blogposts. Here’s a link to Rabbi Kessin’s video.

WASH YOUR HANDS

According to an article on everydayhealth.com, there is a surprising cause of blood sugar swings.

Forgetting to wash your hands before checking your blood sugar could result in false readings. If you test after handling food, the sugar residue remaining on your hands could affect the test result by contaminating the blood sample.

Researchers in the Netherlands asked participants in a study group to peel a banana or slice an apple before testing and 88 percent of those that handled the fruit had a blood sugar readings at least 10 percent higher than a reading taken after they washed their hands.

Blood glucose meters are extremely sensitive and the blood sample used is tiny, so any food residue on the finger that is pricked can result in an inaccurate reading.

Inaccurate readings could also result due to lotions or creams. If you can’t get to a sink to wash your hands prior to testing your blood glucose level, wipe away the first drop of blood and use the second drop to increase accuracy of the results.

Rethink Your Drink

Some time ago, I was invited to host a booth at a local Health Fair. At the table, I displayed a variety of drinks, along with the corresponding amount of sugar contained in each drink.

The responses I received were amazing!!!!! It’s your turn now. I challenge you to READ THE LABELS!!!!

Here are the drinks that were displayed:

• Vitamin D Milk
• Hersheys Strawberry Flavored Milkshake
• Donald Duck Orange Juice
• Dasani Purified Water
• Minute Maid Lemonade
• Coca Cola
• Snapple Peach Tea
• Gatorade Frost
• Hershey’s Chocolate Milk (2% reduced fat)
• rain Fresh H2O

I tabulated the following (information obtained from nutrition label on each product):

• Ingredients
• No. of servings per container
• Amount of sugar per serving (grams)
• Number of carbohydrates per serving
• Total amount of sugar per container (grams)
• Total number of carbohydrates per container

INGREDIENTS LISTED:

How Intuitive are You?

Are you an intuitive person? Have you ever received a phone call from someone that recently came to your mind?

I happen to believe that we all have the ability to communicate with our loved ones by simply sending  our focused thoughts and intention. Thi skill can be practiced. Here’s an example:

Recently I attended a class where I was challenged to pick a person that I do not know well (also in the class) and to run an experiment. We were asked to coordinate via text and to schedule a 5 minute period of time where we would connect with Spirit (via meditation) and then simply focus on each other. We were told to write down our impressions and after the 5 minutes, to call each other and discuss our observations.

My new “friend” and I conducted our experiment and our results were pretty astounding.

Many years ago, I attended a workshop where we practiced “sending and receiving” information to a partner while we were sitting back to back. The results were almost  astounding for me….I kept picking up the images transmitted by another person sitting nearby.

As in everything in life, in order to perfect a skill, we must practice, practice, practice.

I challenge you to pick a partner (anywhere in the world) and to test this experiment.

The results might just surprise you!

What’s In My Pocket – July 30, 2015

Last month’s feature of What’s In My Pocket was extremely well received. Thank You!!! Here’s this month’s feature:
Avoid False Blood Glucose Readings
If you’ve ever tested your blood sugar after handling food or after you have applied cream or lotion, you may be obtaining inaccurate blood sugar results. Research participants in a research study in the Netherlands had surprising results. Read more… 

Prescription Sleeping Pills Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
A case-control study was conducted to determine if longer-term use of benzodiazepines could be linked to increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease was conducted by researchers from the University of Bordeaux and other research centers in France and Canada. Benzodiazepines, which are a group of drugs used mainly to treat anxiety and insomnia, are generally only used for short periods  (usually no more than four weeks).

According to an analysis on PubMed Health; “This case control study has suggested that long-term use of benzodiazepines (over six months) may be linked with an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease in older people. These findings are reported to be similar to other previous studies, but add weight to these by showing that risk increases with increasing length of exposure to the drugs, and with those benzodiazepines that remain in the body for longer.” The study was published in the peer-reviewed British Medical Journal on an open access basis, so it is free to read online.

1. Keep it oiled – rub the cutting board with mineral oil about once a month.
2. If you don’t like scratches on it, sand them out with 220-grit sandpaper. Gently follow the grain.
3. Keep it dry between use. Don’t soak it in the sink. Dry it well after cleaning since excess moisture can warp the wood.
4. Elevate it off the counter when in use (either with legs, or a damp paper towel or towel). The moisture that can build up under the board can damage it.
5. Freshen the surface by sprinkling coarse sand on it and rubbing it with a lemon.

The Link Between Hypertension and Plastic Food Storage Containers – Scientists from New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center have found the chemicals used in plastics which were supposed to be safe alternatives for DEHP (di-2-ethylhexylphlatate ) have been found to cause similar effects.

The compounds in question – di-isononyl phthalate (DINP) and di-isodecyl phthalate (DIDP) – have now also been linked to small rises in blood pressure.

Two separate studies were published in the journals Hypertension and The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. According to an article published in The Guardian, “In the Hypertension study, for every 10-fold increase in the amount of phthalates consumed, there was a 1.1 millimeters of mercury (mmHg) increase in blood pressure….In the other study, one in three adolescents with the highest DINP levels had the highest insulin resistance, while for those with the lowest concentrations of the chemicals, only one in four had insulin resistance.”

Storing food in plastic is risky. It can lead to hypertension, heart problems, insulin resistance, diabetes, metabolic disorders, etc…  (I’m famous for using mason jars).

If you still wish to store food in plastic food storage containers, here are some tips:

1. Wait until the food is cool before filling the container or covering it in plastic wrap.
2. Never heat food in plastic containers or wrapped in plastic wrap.
3. Don’t wash plastic food storage containers in the dishwasher (plasticizers can leak out).
4. Avoid plastic food storage containers with the numbers 3, 6, or 7 on the recycle emblem.