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Powerful people don't get together and actually plan anything!

James Corbett is a man of vision. He is thorough, brilliant, honest, and best of all, unincorporated!

The title of today's blog comes from George Carlin's definition of Conspiracy Theorist...a term invented by the establishment to discourage the idea that powerful people actually get together and actually plan anything.  

Beautiful.  

Of course, if you think for a minute about what powerful people do and have always done thoughout human history, you'll see why this is one of Carlin's more evocative and, frankly, dangerous jokes.  It could plant a seed in collective unconscious that there's more to this existence than meets the eye.

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They eye has historically been used by symbolists to represent what we know as the five senses.  The eye is what magicians rely on to fool their audience.  It's what powerful people rely on, by and large, to hold onto and magnify their power.  I might add, the most powerful people on the planet are NOT stupid...and they stay OUT of the public eye for very good reasons.

In the Esoteric Tarot (not the one people use to do "readings"), based on the Hebrew Alphebet, the 16th letter, AYIN, means EYE.  This is depicted by Key (card) #15, as The Devil.

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(It would be of help to understand that the 1st letter of the 22 letter Hebrew alphabet is ALEPH, but its corresponding number related to its placement in the Major Arcana of the Tarot is 0, even though Aleph's NUMERAL value is 1.  All Hebrew letters and words have numerical values, and it's quite fascinating to study this, as there are many things hidden within this profound and elegant pictoral text-book.)

The picture on Key #15, The Devil card, is of a towering, ghastly goat with the torso and arms of a man.  One hand holds a torch shedding little light.  The other hand displays the open palm, as if to say "what your senses report is all there is to it."  

This devilish goatman is perched on a half cube.  

It is interesting to note, the symbol of the (whole) cube represents eternal cosmic laws which manifest in all kingdoms, from mineral to etheric.  Thus, a half cube could be taken to represent half truth, where little light is shed, and untruth hides easily in the shadows.

This half cube displays a metal ring attached to two chains, one tethering a man...the other, a woman.  The horns, hoofs and tail on these human figures intimates that human consciousness becomes bestialized when reason is based on surface appearances.

It is also interesting to note, that the 5th card of the Tarot, key #4, The Emperor, displays an elderly man....a commanding ruler seated on a perfect stone (whole) cube.  Heh, the Hebrew letter on this card, means WINDOW, and the function Qabalists attribute to this letter is SIGHT...as in vision.

Now, on studying key #15, The Devil, one is reminded of the dangers of relying solely on what one "sees" through the five senses.  (Remember, the eye, the king of the five senses, represents all five.)  

So what one sees, hears, touches and so on...is not the same as having "Vision."  It is only half the story.

Vision, after all relates to something much deeper than the kind of seeing related to the eye.  Vision and sight, based on the solid cube (cosmic law), take us into the realm of inspection, watchfulness, care, vigilence, examination, analysis, inquiry and peering deeply into the matter at hand.  Having true vision renders us rulers of our lives, as depicted by the Emperor in key #4.

James Corbett is a man of vision. You won't see him on the corporate owned mainstream news channels, though I have a feeling people like James will eventually be embraced by a much wider public, as we go through this transition.

You may ask me what transition am I talking about?  Well, there is a transition going on.  People, more every day, are turning within and finding that they no longer trust what they are being told.  

People on this planet are evolving past the childish mindset wherein they trust "the authorities,"  though time again they find themselves betrayed, and their best interests trampled while they watch the power of "experts" in world, national, financial, educational, and economic policy become ever more centralized and concentrated.  But what cannot last, will not last.

In growing numbers, we are no longer trusting of the flimsy half truths being spoon fed to us by the agenda-driven corporate media, the corporate governments, the corporate banking institutions, the state funded educational institutions, the corporate sanctioned or funded religious institutions, or the over-all, psyche destroying commericial, entertainment-based and deranged culture some refer to as the rat race, social quagmire, or, as Joni Mitchell calls it, "this massive mess we're in."

James Corbett employs deep analysis, a knowledge of history, and true vigilence. He reports to us weekly. There are many others out there.  Someday, soon, I think, you will know about them.  For now, those with an open mind may find checking in with people like James Corbett helps them to understand what is becoming an increasingly bewildering world.

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