BELIEF #4: We reincarnate.

Yes, that's right. Reincarnation is real. Some of us have been reincarnating for millions of years and some of us have been reincarnating for a much shorter time than that. This is why some feel that they are "old souls" and seem to be quite mature for their age when they're only 6-7 years old. This is a topic that is newer to me, but in the time that I have spent with it, has convinced me of its absolute authenticity.

One of the most fascinating and eye-opening people I have ever read about is Edgar Cayce. Cayce grew up in Kentucky in the late 1800s and had found work as a photographer when he became convinced that he had special abilities. He had inclinations of these abilities earlier in his life, but like many of those who are similarly capable, he went through a decent amount of denial before realizing his potential.

You can research Edgar Cayce on your own (and I encourage you to do so) but the long and short of it is that he was able to put himself in a deep trance-like state and channel. Yes, channel as a verb. During this trance, words came through his mouth that were not his own. He displayed an amazing knowledge of medicine, among other things. He could hear someone's name who lived thousands of miles away and, at their request, perfectly diagnose and treat/cure their condition without any prior medical training.  Sometimes Cayce would prescribe things that sounded as if they would poison a person, but when they were administered, would uncannily cure them of their ailments. He also could sleep while resting his head on a book and memorize all of the book's contents during his nap.

Cayce brought on some trusted assistants to help him with what he called "the work" and did everything he could to avoid charging for his help. He would enter this trance-like state multiple times per day, which, over time, was physically taxing on his body; "the work" ended up killing him. Cayce's notoriety grew tremendously and he even held court with President Woodrow Wilson, who sought his advice on governmental matters. While the contents of that conversation have been kept confidential, it is quite a testimony to the high regard in which he was held during his lifetime, even if most people today have never heard of this American legend. And there is a reason for that, which I'll explain later.

His diagnoses and personal readings continued for decades until his death in 1945. Over that span of time, his readings, diagnoses, and prophecies were meticulously recorded and were eventually filed in volumes that were sorted and categorized. Today, one can get any number of books (sometimes written by his descendants) about various topics that Cayce detailed in his channelings.

The reason why I spend so much time on this gifted man is that he is, in my mind, proof positive of the human ability to channel otherworldly beings. I have learned since I began my research into Cayce that each human possesses the innate ability to do the same. Some of us are more naturally able to understand that and 'connect' so to speak, which is why it seems like only some people can perform feats of this nature and others can't. But apparently we all can do it.

Many of Edgar Cayce's channelings involved telling people who they were in previous lifetimes. Some of their unresolved issues that perhaps had beleaguered them in a previous incarnation were still there in this lifetime, in their subconscious, ready to be worked out. Many times, until that person understood these issues and met them head on in this lifetime, they found themselves making inexplicable decisions that ended up consistently hurting them in the long run. This is the same phenomenon that many psychologists believe occur with traumatic experiences that occurred in a person's childhood.  Perhaps observing domestic abuse as a child would manifest itself later for a woman by picking an abusive man for a husband or by a man beating his wife as a result of his childhood trauma. The idea is that these situations stick with us across lifetimes until we find a way to cope with them or, ultimately, to release them.

The reason you've probably never heard of Edgar Cayce is because of the things he revealed about the history of the planet (i.e. the supposedly mythical lands of Atlantis and Lemuria, among many other insights), his ability to channel entities that were clearly not him, and his prophecies for the future that were and are dangerous to the establishment. As I mentioned before, Cayce is proof positive that reincarnation is an indisputable fact, which flies counter to interests who are vested in making us believe the paradigm of "Hey, you only live once!" In addition, if only a small fraction of the people on this planet truly believed they could channel, and could then hone their ability so that no evil spirits could interfere, think about what kind of positive, paradigm-shifting impact that could have.

If 'the powers that were' can keep us believing that our current situation is the end-all-be-all of our existence, then we would be more willing to give up on our own positive, soul-strengthening and community-edifying experiences that serve to release old karma and help our souls develop. One of the discoveries I've made is that whatever situation we're in: we probably chose that before reincarnating. We knew what the general blueprints for our lives were going to be before we incarnated and chose them because of any number of priorities that we had in our true soul forms.

If you don't pay attention to anything else on this blog, please remember this next paragraph:

Yes, our soul is actually who we truly are. Our current incarnation is a manifestation of our soul, but also our experiences in this particular lifetime. Think of it like being an actor: for a time, Harrison Ford plays Indiana Jones, but that's not who he is. Another time, he plays Han Solo, but again -- that's not who Harrison Ford is. Perhaps it's better to describe these lives we live as improv acting roles: we generally know what we're supposed to do but our lives change based on the decisions we choose to make with our free will. I will explain in a later post just how important that concept of free will actually is to the universe.

So, we may incarnate knowing that we're going to end up short, or skinny, or beautiful, or slow, or a genius, but we choose these traits because there are certain things that our souls want to gain insight on in this third-dimensional experience that are not necessarily available in the higher fourth- and fifth-dimensional experiences that exist elsewhere. (I'll explain dimensions some other time.) So, while free will plays a huge role in our experiences in this or any lifetime, much of what we end up living often was known to us before we decided to incarnate in our mothers' wombs.

Think about that for a second.

What that means is that the challenges that we feel we need to blame other people for because they did us wrong are actually challenges that we may have put before ourselves on purpose because we needed to make some kind of decision, or develop some sort of character trait, or do something else that we knew about before we incarnated. Sure, maybe we didn't know what the precise challenge would be but we had an outline of 'categories,' if you will, of challenges that would present themselves to us. For example, incarnating into poverty in a remote, undeveloped nation, means that one would (before they incarnated) choose a lifetime of financial & security struggles because perhaps they had it too easy living the high life in their previous incarnation and wanted some perspective of a markedly different kind of life.

The power (and eventually, when we process it -- peace) that this one concept alone gives us is astounding. How much easier is it to forgive others when we potentially chose these challenges ourselves? How much nicer would we be to each other if we knew that our soul was counting on us to perform the highest task of devotion -- service -- as often as possible? Think of the great heroes of history -- Jesus, for example. What made Him great was his emphasis on service to others. It comes up countless times in the New Testament. How much would we care about pursuing the almighty dollar if we really believed that it really doesn't matter as much as the media and out peers convinced us it did?

Imagine 7+ billion people living like Jesus. Christians throughout the world would love that, but there are many in positions of power that would not.

• If we refused to go to war (as Jesus would have), war would no longer exist.
• If we refused to pursue money  (as Jesus would have)  and idolize that house on the hill or the sports car in the driveway, the economy would crash.
• If we pursued service to others  (as Jesus did) -- which can't be taxed or centrally controlled -- instead of service to ourselves, mankind would no longer be easily manipulated.

Many non-Western cultures believe very strongly in reincarnation, but it is a concept that is largely rejected by the 'masters of reality' here in the West. There are so many other insights about the positive possibilities for humanity if only we all knew for a fact that there was much more on the line during this lifetime than what we thought.

We can choose to incarnate for good or, if we have malevolent motives, for less pure reasons. Oftentimes, as I understand it, many of us often choose to incarnate in the same family, over generations -- though we certainly are not required to do so. We also often choose to incarnate at the same time as other souls that we have a bond with. Souls are gender-less, so we can incarnate into either male or female forms, and we all most likely have lived many lives as both genders.

So, Soul A can ask Soul B (who may have been Soul A's wife in a previous incarnation) to incarnate as Soul A's brother so that they can work out some communication issues that plagued their marriage in their previous incarnations. Or, maybe they just want to be together again and experience life in the third dimension as good friends. I like to believe that a lot of the time we end up reuniting with our soul friends in our Earthly incarnations if we trust our guts and try to genuinely connect with other people. I imagine that the people you feel closest to right now are your soul friends. You might call them 'soul mates,' but that term tends to have a certain connotation in our society that I don't necessarily feel applies to all 'soul friends.'

The following is just my theory; I don't have any proof of this, but it makes sense to me based on what I've learned regarding incarnation and the actions of those who have sought to control the world.

On a darker note, those who have controlled humanity under the false paradigm that has been in place for so long, have probably done so through selective incarnation. So, for example, a person who was part of this manipulation dies and eventually reincarnates as his own grandson (who hadn't been born yet -- that's how it works) because he knows he had indoctrinated his son (who is now his father) into this dark agenda -- and maybe even left himself some 'notes,' if you will, of things he desired to achieve in this new incarnation. Imagine the kind of power that could be maintained over hundreds (and really thousands) of years! The average person discovering something as dark as this would be a problem for this group, which is yet another reason why reincarnation and its many facets have been marginalized in Western society for so long.

But before we rush to judgment too much, let us also note that based on this same theory of reincarnation, we may very well have done some awful things in previous lives. Maybe one of us was a serial killer or was part of this group that I keep referring to with this dark agenda. But then we chose to live a life that was more worthy of our existence, and so here we are -- either in the very next lifetime or one that is 50 lifetimes removed from the questionable character we once were. If this makes you feel guilty at all, just remember -- there's nothing about your former life that you can change, as is my current understanding. It happened, for better or worse. All we can do now is live to serve others and follow the Golden Rule -- which, by the way, transcends religions and cultures. I encourage you to look that up.

And these are only some of the reasons why we don't know about reincarnation.

BELIEF #3: Extra-terrestrials exist, and they've always been with us.

I'm going to make a lot of claims in this post that I simply don't have the time to back up. But the research is out there. My purpose here is to frame history in what I truly believe to be an accurate way and give you some things to look into on your own.

When it comes to proof regarding extra-terrestrials:

• Mathematicians: look up the Drake Equation, which proves why extraterrestrial life in the universe is a certainty.
• 'Those people are all kooks' types: UFOs are sighted all the time, and increasingly so in the last few years. Look up the scores of credible sources such as airline pilots, or Air Force personnel, or high-ranking members of the military who were assigned by the government to keep a lid on this info, who have come forward in the last decade or so because they're willing to risk their careers and even their lives to show us the truth.
• 'Seeing is believing' types: look up AnonymousFO or the video from the opening ceremonies of the recent London Olympic Games (during the fireworks). You can try to explain things away and remain a skeptic as much as you want, but let's be real for one second: even if just one of the UFOs captured as a picture or on video in the last 60 years is real, then so are extra-terrestrials.

For an in-depth look into this phenomenon and how influential ETs have been for all of our history, watch the History Channel program 'Ancient Aliens' or read Erich von Daeniken or Graham Hancock. The research shows that there's no way that our forefathers built the pyramids (especially with such precision) or almost any of the other megalithic monuments without help from a civilization that was much more advanced than them. So it hasn't just been flying saucers and 'little green men' since the 1940s. The story goes a LOT further back than that, and has everything to do with the real history of this planet and the entire universe.

So, again, I state this as a belief because I don't doubt it for one second. I'm not here to prove that they exist -- I'll leave that up to others. I'm here to talk about why their existence matters and how the denial of that existence is so important to our history.

I often wondered as I grew up and considered the idea of aliens (which, outside of the movie E.T., scared the crap out of me) why the government wouldn't talk about them. I had seen pictures and the mainstream media always had an explanation that was 'good enough' for me. And since I never saw one myself and the people who claimed they had been abducted were always portrayed as lunatics, I didn't really look into the matter all that much.

But then I started thinking (as I mentioned above), what if even ONE of these pictures or ONE of these claims is true...wouldn't the entire idea of extra-terrestrials be true? It would. And so I stopped denying it. Then I started wondering why the government would be so hush-hush about it. It seemed like so much about other secret governmental matters had been (over)exposed by the media (i.e. Watergate, Iran-Contra, Clarence Thomas, Monica Lewinski), so why wasn't something that could potentially be so important be totally absent from history books, news reports, and everyday conversation? And then I started to realize: there must be a reason.

Over the years, I've been slowly uncovering what the reasons are. And there are many. What I predict will be proven in the very near future, once the veil is lowered, is that extra-terrestrials have been visiting Earth for millions and millions of years. Maybe even billions. The point is: LONG before we (as currently constituted) ever were. What that one idea alone will end up doing to history, religion, institutions of power, and overall ways of life will be shocking to those who are unprepared.

Why it affects religion

Many religious doctrines and dogmas throughout the world rely upon the fact that man is the center of reality. If Jesus, for example, is part of the Holy Trinity, as is believed by hundreds of millions of Christians worldwide, then why did He only come here? Why did He ignore the potentially millions of other inhabited worlds throughout the cosmos that could contain sentient life? Did He visit them too in some other way?

No matter how these questions are answered, it's clear that Christianity would have a fundamentally different meaning if extra-terrestrials were openly acknowledged. The same would be true for many other religions as well. Many of these religions are based on a homo-centric belief system, which would be shattered with a revelation regarding the existence of extra-terrestrials. There go the followers, and there go the tithes and funds that have kept these institutions running for as long as they have.

We the people would want to know how much or how little our religious leaders knew about this topic, and how long they've known it for. What we will find, I am quite confident, is that much of our history has been deliberately hidden from us by the Roman Catholic Church and other religious institutions. A thorough sweep of the basement of the Vatican will reveal MUCH that has been purposefully hidden.

Again, this is not just about Roman Catholicism. But I'd be an ignorant student of history if I denied that this very institution of power had not played an enormous role in the shaping of our developing (and modern) world over the past 1700 years. What I really believe is that Jesus' teachings were beautiful and pure, but they were co-opted by Rome for their own purposes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, what was left became the Holy Roman Empire, and later, simply the Roman Catholic Church. I'm not denying that Jesus was special; if I did then why would I call myself Christian Lightworker? I just believe that His call to those who might follow in His path (Christians) was drowned out by a force that was losing power rapidly in Europe and was desperate to find a new way to remain dominant over the lands they still controlled.

Scared religious texts that portrayed Jesus in a much more human way, and were likely more accurate from what I understand (see the Book of Enoch), were intentionally left out of the New Testament. Would it have been possible to build a dogmatic religion around someone who studied in the Far East during His teen years, got married, and potentially had children? Who were these children and what happened to them? Was He possibly more man than God? Is it possible that Mary immaculately conceived based on artificial means via some sort of extraterrestrial intervention?

Just asking these questions has been considered sinful and sacreligious over the years -- yet another form of mind control, which I will be covering in great detail in the days ahead. Even now, as I write this, I don't always feel comfortable raising these questions, but I believe they need to be asked if we are to open our hearts and minds enough to look at these issues as objectively as possible. And by the way, Noah (from the Flood) was also immaculately conceived, and then, according to the Bible, became the patriarch of modern man after the Deluge.

So, we ended up with a pretty good understanding of Jesus Christ (from what I understand thus far), but we probably don't have a complete one. And from that point forward, the Catholic Church remained the dominant force throughout Europe, and later, during the Age of Discovery, throughout much of the New World as well as Europe. By maintaining the monopoly over the peoples' souls, they could continue to exert control over their beliefs and their allegiances to the princes and kings that were willing to 'play ball' with the Church for the following centuries. And they became the wealthiest, and largest landholding institution in what we understand to be the history of mankind.

Until the advent of that pesky little invention called the printing press. This one invention, for the first time, allowed for ideas counter to the Church to be disseminated cheaply and efficiently, which vastly undermined the Church's power.  Notice: when the people finally had the ability to express themselves freely, the dogmatic approach that had controlled the population of Europe for so long was dealt a huge blow. Once the Age of Discovery was in full swing, the Catholic countries of Spain and Portugal tried to spread the Church's influence to the New World, while vying with the largely Protestant nations of Northern Europe.

And how about one more, very controversial idea, which I feel is extremely probable: that extra-terrestrials were the missing link in human evolution? What's interesting about this idea is what we've never been able to find a link between more primitive primates and homo sapiens sapiens, yet we seem to have been okay with that for some time. According to mainstream anthropologists, there was a huge evolutionary jump that they can't explain -- where mankind's brain capacity vastly multiplied.

So, did evolution happen on planet Earth, as far as I'm concerned? Yes.

But does it account for all of the story as to how mankind came to be what it is today? Absolutely not.

I believe there was some sort of genetic manipulation that advanced intelligence(s) performed here on Earth whose net result, over time, was homo sapiens sapiens. I'll go more into that at a later time. Whether I'm right or not, the introduction of extra-terrestrials into the discussion of how history has played out in the last few million years brings up this possibility and further serves to call many more of our religious and historical ideas into question.

Why it affects history

As I've mentioned, the Church was one institution of power that developed a certain depiction of history that was central to its maintenance of power since the 300s, when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. (Gotta love how, with the stroke of a pen, one person could feel justified in forcing all of the people in his realm to fundamentally and instantaneously change their religious beliefs!) Gone were the many gods of Ancient Rome...now it was time for one God -- one whose appearance, personality, and conditions for vengeance and forgiveness were dictated by a select few who controlled the narrative.

And if this were just about Western Civilization, then I would keep talking just about the Vatican. But it's not. It's about how dynasties (East and West) were made, and how princes, kings, and queens, were chosen, deposed, and assassinated. But it's also about how their rising and falling fortunes affected the average people, which was, again, the other 98-99% of people throughout the world.

It's also about Native peoples worldwide or other cultures who came into contact with the warriors who conquered on behalf of these kings and queens (and the Church) and were forced to deal with the realities of the doctrine of 'might makes right.' Think for one second how dominant the Roman Catholic Church was in making and breaking royalty throughout history. Then think about how those kings and queens affected the spread of Christianity and Western cultural norms throughout the Western Hemisphere and the Far East over the years since 1492.

Native, indigenous people were killed by the millions worldwide, and their records (which were oftentimes very clear about genuine extra-terrestrial influence in the advancement of their civilizations) were purposefully destroyed by the conquerors who were bankrolled by the Church or by the kings and queens who were subservient to the Papacy.

If you're noticing that one common theme here is the intertwined nature of religious and political power, then you're getting it. Scores of religious wars and even wars that appeared more secular but had strong religious undercurrents have been peppered throughout the history of the last two thousand years.

As much as separation of church and state seems to have become the norm in more (relatively) modern forms of Western governments, the truth is that they are very much linked. Think about it: if anything that I'm saying is true, then that means that major players in religion, government, and business have everything to do with why the cover-up has persisted this long. Any one of these institutions could have spoken up and tried to end the charade, but they haven't. As we've already seen, organized religions that are homo-centric have everything to lose if extra-terrestrials are openly acknowledged.

Equally true is that once the enormity of this deception is exposed, the truth regarding millions of historical facts that have been hidden from us will come out. One of those truths is that our government and others (including the Nazis) have had direct contact with extra-terrestrial races over the years. I will cover Nazi extra-terrestrial contact in a future post (they obviously had contact with negative ones) but the US government has also had meetings with both positive and negative races of ETs, which I will also detail in the days to come. These governments have kept this all from us for their own reasons. The governments (every one that I can think of) who have purposefully hidden this from us will be called to the carpet and held accountable for their deception. But the government(s) couldn't have done this without the complicity of the media, which is where business comes in.

Why it affects business

If there are actually extra-terrestrial races who have visited (and are currently visiting) the Earth, then some of the myriad questions that arise are: What kind of technology do they have? They're obviously not burning fossil fuels, so how can we get some of that? What else do they have that they might be willing to share?

As soon as the public starts asking these questions, the fossil fuel industry (that accounts for trillions of dollars of business every year) will be gone in short order.  There are a lot of very wealthy, powerful people who do not want that to happen.

If they can travel here from other planets at ridiculously high speeds, what other technologies do they have? Can they cure cancer? Do they even have cancer, or get sick at all? From what I have found in my research, the answers to these questions involve health-related technologies (which cure all diseases) that positive extra-terrestrials have in abundance and want to share with us, but I will get into those techs at a later date. The point is: there goes the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry -- ones which also collectively bring in trillions of dollars -- dollars that are unnecessarily siphoned away from an unknowing population. And by the way, there are massive ties between big oil and big pharma -- you can look that one up too.

And that's just two ways in which our economy (and abundance) would be fundamentally changed after the official disclosure of the presence of extra-terrestrials. Big business (which, if you haven't been paying attention) has been buying up small business for some time now. During that time, they have gotten in way too close with government and have helped to keep secret the presence of extra-terrestrials because it is (and this is a huge understatement) in their collective best interest to do so.

The new Political Science 101: big business lobbies government to pass laws that help them at the expense of the many and they fund the campaigns of those Congressmen and Presidents who are willing to play ball. Government then relies on the media (controlled by big business) to keep the lid on the big secret and all those who have enjoyed power under this false paradigm for so long are able to maintain the status quo.

That is, of course, until the public loses their allegiance to government, organized religion, and the media -- all of which are well underway. Some of these transitions are harder to notice and some are more overt, but they are all happening.

• Politically, the youth is moving away from the traditional Republican/Democrat false choice here in the US. People are beginning to notice truths that can't be denied, such as the fact that every President's budget since FDR had gone up from the previous year. So, no matter how much squawking the politicians do regarding shrinking government, they simply don't do it. People are fed up and are embracing 'occupy' movements around the world, and using social media to grow these movements and spread libertarian beliefs, such as those espoused by one of the few good politicians left like Ron Paul. People worldwide are turning out for elections for the first time because they feel like their vote actually matters. They are voting in better leaders and are protesting (i.e. Mexico) when they feel that 'the powers that were' tried to rig the election. Japanese citizens organized by the hundreds of thousands to protest their government reversing its decision to rid itself of nuclear power. Of course, you won't see that kind of massive social unrest in the American media. They don't want you to get any ideas.
• Religiously, the Catholic Church has come under massive fire with allegations of money laundering (in the billions) for organized crime syndicates and the child molestation cases that have been swept under the rug for so long. Individual Catholic church parishes are closing all over the US due to declining attendance and people are less devoted than they have been in a long time to any one dogmatic faith -- especially one that continues to oppress homosexuals. More people, such as myself, are learning about spirituality, and finding that this one pursuit of knowledge answers all of the questions we could ask about the afterlife or about how devoted people of varying religious faiths could all be 'saved' when these dogmas emphatically preach otherwise.
• Business-wise, consumers are getting back to shopping more locally within their communities at places like farmer's markets. They are moving away from big companies and protesting the entrance of corporations like Wal-Mart into their communities. They are vocally opposing ObamaCare, and putting pressure on companies and government to embrace greener technologies. There are two sides to the Green Movement, which I will detail more in the future, but the social side of this paradigm shift does have its positive attributes. People are taking the time to learn about how much wool was pulled over our eyes by the bailouts that have happened in the US during this present recession. Networks like CNN are having their worst ratings in decades, likely due to the fact that people are slowly waking up and moving away from the sensationalism and the attempted passing off of celebrity gossip as "news" when our economy is in the toilet and freedoms continue to be taken away in record numbers.

These are just some examples, but it's hard to deny that the old paradigm is changing. All three of these institutions are losing ground and they know it. They will very soon lose the massive power that they've had for so long...and it will be primarily because of the fact that they won't be able to much longer deny the presence of extra-terrestrials. And then it's game over.

BELIEF #2: We are purposely misled.

If history were markedly different than what we have been taught, how could that have been pulled off? We're going to have to ask some questions. Every (or almost every) TV station must be in on it. Our newspapers and corporations must be controlled by people who are trying to deceive us. The information in our textbooks (and most other books) must be controlled somehow. See, now you're thinking.

That could have never been pulled off. People talk. That's right: people do talk but what happens when they do?  They are not given a voice in the mainstream media, or they are discredited by that same media, or they mysteriously disappear or die under strange circumstances.

• Look up Gary Webb, a whistle-blowing journalist who wrote an expose on how the CIA knowingly allowed millions of dollars of cocaine to come into Southern California in the early 1980s (which eventually was turned into crack and ushered in a new era of primarily urban drug addiction). The money was used to fund the contras in Nicaragua and the War on Drugs ramped up in earnest to deal with this growing problem (that the same government helped develop). Later, he was found with two gunshot wounds to the head in what was officially ruled a suicide. Apparently he didn't like the way the first bullet went through his brain, so he decided to get a better angle.
• Or, look up James Forrestal, the former Secretary of Defense, who urged President Truman to disclose the truth about Roswell and our government's knowledge of/interaction with extraterrestrials because he was confident that we could handle it. He was committed as a mental patient at Bethesda Naval Hospital, was drugged up, and was allowed few visitors because of his 'condition' (read: until he decided to sing the tune that the government wanted him to sing). When he refused to comply, he was found on the sidewalk of the hospital after supposedly deciding to hang himself with the belt on his robe, and then thought that wasn't good enough, so he jumped out of his 16th floor window.

There are so many others who have encountered a similar fate and perhaps I will get into them in a future post. But wait. I'm smart; I would've heard about this sort of thing before. Maybe, but did you give the friend who presented you with this information any credibility? Did you spend more than 5 seconds on that website where you happened to see something? Did you actually think about whether or not the idea could be true? Or did you just revert back to automatic pilot? Because that's what we're taught to do and that's what I did for many years.

Many people who like to see themselves as open-minded just simply are not. They might ostensibly be accepting of people's race, religion, or sexual preference, but in truth they have no time for things that challenge the status quo that they have allowed to be constructed in their minds over the years. Would they still be open-minded to less socially-acceptable races, religions, or sexual identities? How about extra-terrestrials for a race? How about satanists for a religion?  How about pedophiles for a sexual identity? I'm not saying that I condone satanism or pedophilia, because I don't (as you'll definitely see in this blog). But I also don't get up on a high horse and pretend that I accept everything about everyone when I don't -- these two issues are good examples of things I don't accept. And I'm pretty open-minded, as you'll see in this blog.

So even those people who consider themselves open-minded still have shortcomings when it comes to accepting certain ideas. And that truly speaks to how powerful the programming is that the 'masters of reality' (ha!) have given us throughout our history. Certain things are just too scary to comprehend. I can relate. It took me a long time to accept those things I've now come to believe -- which compelled me to write this blog. I'm sick of the deceit. I want honesty, integrity, and transparency to rule this planet from this day forward.

As for closed-minded people, their awakening is going be much more difficult. I can tell you from years of my own personal denial of the things I claim in this blog: being more open-minded regarding them is the short cut. At least be willing to look them up and think about them a little.  It won't benefit me at all, but you might find that it will benefit you a great deal. Rejecting them and keeping our minds closed is going to make our ability to understand the truth later on a truly Herculean task.

I could sit here and rail for hours about how the consolidation of the media in all of its forms has combined with censorship laws to prevent the widespread dissemination of the truth over the years, but you can just as easily research it yourself. Please do. What you'll find is that, for hundreds of years, certain powerful people have done whatever it took to find a way to control what we know by dominating the message that we hear. Why would they do it? Well, as you'll see in my next article, there's a LOT of money to be made by controlling the narrative in this manner. So, refuse to allow that anymore and start looking into some of the powerful corporations who end up controlling what we know.

A good example of this corporate ownership is Coca-Cola. In the company's own words they distribute over 3,500 brands of beverages, but notice that few of them are labeled as 'Coke' (i.e. Coca-Cola Classic, Diet Coke, etc.).

• Coca-Cola Product List

The semblance of competition is given when in fact almost all commercially available drinks are made by Coke or Pepsi (who does largely the same kind of thing). At an even higher level of corporate ownership, even those companies don't really compete...more on that some other time.

The same thing is done with most of what we experience. The newspapers are almost all owned by a few dominant companies. The same is true of cable companies. And textbook and book publishers. And computer companies. And food companies. And restaurant companies. And banks. And the list goes on and on.

Folks, this isn't accidental, and it isn't just capitalism run amok. It's a purposeful dominance by a select few. If they control what we eat, what we drink, what we buy, what we read, what we watch, how well we live, what we think, what we believe, and what choices we have, is it any wonder that we don't see the forest for the trees?

BELIEF #1: Our history is very different than what we thought.

In most 'Westernized' (read: sanitized) nations, we believe what we see on TV, what we learn in school, and what our parents and friends tell us. These institutions are trusted because the people who represent them have credibility with us. For instance, "Mommy would never lie to me" or "Mr. Smith would never teach us something that wasn't true. He's the smartest guy I know."

I am sad to say that I have been studying history for over two decades and I fell for the trap too.

So many of us end up buying into the paradigms that are presented to us because we begin life with a curious, inquisitive nature that eventually is mentally beaten out of us. Our parents are under a lot of stress at work because of the mountains of paperwork that they're expected to turn out in addition to the regular work that is required of them. So when we ask them, "Hey Mom -- why did this or that happen?" their answers tend to be brief & uninterested at best and grossly uninformed & standard at worst.  This is not a condemnation of parents as a whole, because it is one of the most difficult jobs in the world to do well.  But, for our purposes, we're going to have to be okay with making some generalizations from time to time.

Then we grow up a little and go to school. We ask the same questions, but we have teachers who are generally taught to help us to master certain material but don't always necessarily teach us how to think. (And believe me: I have GREAT respect for teachers, but we know this is largely true.) There's only one way that something happened...everybody knows that...so stop thinking otherwise. At this point, most of us would give up. I know I did for much of my life.

But as we get older, we find that there's just so many things that don't add up. So, in between earning that next paycheck, taking care of our children and pets, or playing softball with our buddies from high school, we might Google something and find some 'conspiracy theory' (more on this idea in a future posting) regarding the question. Yet we never see anything on TV that supports that theory and when we run it by our friends, they look at us like we're crazy.

We're taught all throughout our lives to avoid that at all costs. We are taught uniformity from a very early age. Thinking outside the box is either outright not allowed or is just rarely genuinely supported. Don't you dare color outside of those lines.  So we tend to swallow hard and stop looking into ideas that will make us social outcasts. That would be the worst thing ever. And besides, there's no way that's true.  It goes against everything I have ever learned, so it must be wrong. I wonder if the baseball game's still on...

And that's why most of us don't know most of what's really going on.

So what if history were actually remarkably different from what we have been taught? How would we ever know? If 98% of people are wrong, 1% of people aren't talking because they're in on it, and the other 1% who are talking about it end up being discredited or silenced by the institutions of power that we allow to determine our reality...how are we ever supposed to find out what the truth is?

Would we even believe it if we did learn it? How would we know if we were right or not?

Welcome to the blog.

Namaste. Welcome, everyone, to my new blog. The purpose of this blog is to make the average person aware of how a select few have dominated the majority throughout the course of history. When the times comes, I will be posting the official version of various historical events and then, based on new paradigms of dominance that I have learned throughout the years, present alternative takes on how and why I believe those same events occurred. I look forward to reaching out to as many people as possible to help them expand their consciousness and try to process some new ideas.

The first few articles I will post will cover certain beliefs that I have developed after years of sometimes very intense research. This may sound obvious or redundant, but these are things that I view as FACTS that all of my other ideas and theories flow from. They are the 'givens' if you will from which the rest of my logic originates.

I'm not expecting that everyone who reads this blog will agree with my findings. That's okay with me. But what I highly encourage any reader of this blog to do (especially those who don't believe what I am claiming) is to perform some sort of research on the topic(s) on their own.

What I have found after years of reading information on some very interesting websites is that very few of them really put their information together in a cohesive, comprehensive, and easily understandable format. So, the sites that deal with extra-terrestrials don't always deal with who the Bilderbergers are and the sites that deal with the idea that 9/11 was an inside job don't talk much about spirituality. I hope to change that for the purposes of this blog.

But beware: there are very wealthy and powerful people whose power depends largely on their ability to keep you from attaining true knowledge regarding these subjects. Suffice it to say that looking only at the first page you find after a .002 second Google search on the topic will probably not yield you the results that you're going to need to research the topic thoroughly.

What my purpose is: getting the average person to think on a deeper level about the things we tend to have just accepted over the years. This blog is meant to be a springboard for further research. Just linking these things together will be enough of a task without properly sourcing (all of the time) each and every claim I make.

What my purpose is NOT: getting people to simply accept that my theories (when presented as such) are fact. One of the humbling revelations that I've come to adopt as a core belief is that, even after years of open-minded research, I know so little.

The history of the planet (and even more so when it comes to the universe) is so vast. Our true history requires a great deal of research and (because it is kept so secret from us) it required that we draw some conclusions based on evidence and deductive reasoning. THAT is what I will be attempting to do with this blog.

I promise also to never ask you for a dime.  I will keep this blog (and the information contained in it) free of charge forever.  I hold my light until the day when money no longer exists and we can all pursue our passions for the purest of reasons.

Bear in mind that I never intend to make a dime off of this blog (in whatever way that might be).  My sole (soul?) purpose is to inform people and get them to think.

I just want to posit some ideas that will likely contradict the accepted norms so that we will not be as blindsided by the truth that will eventually (and in fact very soon) be forthcoming. So...let the games begin.