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This (OWS movement) is a call to (political and spiritual) consciousness. As a Spiritually oriented person, I feel impelled to pray, meditate and do other activities that raise my Consciousness, thereby developing my internal world. “Prayer and action” said a wise Sufi sheik. We cannot leave this world to the devices of those who only know the mundane (materialistic) life. This is why OWS is very timely and relevant. To be spiritually and politically active simultaneously is a healthy way of being, and provides a positive force in the world, which impacts one’s own life as well as that of others.

Regarding the ‘mundane life’, the point is that most of us who live in modern cities (like New York City) have quite active lives, socially and professionally.  We have our hobbies, educational pursuits, family lives and career ambitions to occupy our time.  Occupy Wall Street is about creating space for political, social and spiritual Consciousness.  Separation of church and state may have worked to induce a more seamless capitalist system of markets, but it has in the process (BY DESIGN) stripped away the essential moral fibers that keep any system in check, holding them to the light of ethical scrutiny.  We (in the West, and the US especially) have been induced and enticed by these dark forces of disintegration, which have fragmented people and systems, piece by piece.  Every man, woman and child for themselves.  It is a devious (and brilliant) plan that has worked for many years, working its black magic by infiltrating our institutions of government, media, religion, education and when necessary, military (brute force) to carry out the program.

The fact that we all have these busy, engaging lives is PART OF THE PLAN.  Keep us all distracted and part of the Paid, Upper end of the Pyramid scheme, so that we won’t say anything about the abuses happening ‘under the table’, at the bottom of the food chain.  We, the 99%, are conspirators in this Ponzi Scheme, as we all aspire to “move up” the ranks, even if that means stepping on someone else’s throat to do so.  ”Nice guys finish last”, remember how we’ve been taught those precious, Machiavellian lessons?  Have you checked into your hard drive (unconscious memory) recently, to see what kind of cultural messaging is still deeply embedded?

Would re-integration of church and state solve our problems? No. Modern day religious institutions, for the most part, are complicit in the big scheme. They do not carry the Essence of true Spirituality, in the vision of the Prophets, peace be upon all 124,000 of them, who appeared during equally troubling times in human history to bring light to human fallacy. In our lifetimes, we don’t have those beams of light to guide us away from error – if we did, we would be too busy to take notice anyway!  Even for those of us who have partially ‘woken up’ from our unconscious slumber, as did Neo in the Matrix, and harbor serious doubts in our hearts about how our society is being run, the question remains – will we stand up for real change?  Well, thank God, a movement has started, which is inspiring people to WAKE UP, not go back to sleep and take up real, transformative action.  The ideas being discussed at OWS are as practical and humanistic as what those messengers brought to humanity years ago.  Read the words of any Prophet, and you will find the seeds of democratic, ethical human affairs in them.  From land and wealth distribution, to systems of governance, to how we should spend our time, to human relations, it was all laid out, from the Highest Source.  And we, on a collective level, have not been following it recently (for at least the past 50 years of humanity).

This brings to mind the importance of the 1%, at the top of the food chain.  Leaders of nations and major organizations are the key holders and most influential stakeholders of that group.  Their decisions carry the most weight for the direction of humanity, which is why we cannot sit back neutrally (ref. Zinn) and just mind our own business.  YES, we need to develop or own internal worlds, in the midst of whatever chaos is going on outside – that is the #1 priority in my opinion, and what I hold to in my own life.  But once we have attained a relatively high level of awareness, the next priority, as Plato urged in The Republic, is to take it to the streets, our own communities, and become active citizens and helpers of mankind.  We have to either throw out the 1% or transform them, as we transform ourselves not to be passive sheep, in a herd that is currently en route to nowhere.  Ruthless, profit (only) seeking, corporations and laws that enable them to continue pillaging Mother Earth, have to be stopped.  How long can we put profits (of the 1%) over people (99%)?  Seeing the reality of what is happening and letting it sink in – really hit the heart – can bring about all kinds of emotions, from sadness to rage.  Anger, as Deepak Chopra said recently about the Occupy Wall Street movement, is being channeled into Awareness, which is why these protests are peaceful.  OWS is a thoughtful, creative and powerful response to years of abuse and manipulation.  As Naomi Klein said recently on OWS, “this is the most important thing in the world right now”.  The 1% is having trouble with this, trying hard to find some targets (“who is the leader?”) and vulnerabilities, so that the other 90% who are not aware of the charade yet, or at least not mad enough to speak up about it, don’t catch wind of what is going on.  That is why we’re seeing some belligerent responses, and intimidation tactics [ie. think of bullying, mace-spraying police forces].  Let’s keep it peaceful, but no less energetic and emotionally charged.  Being angry is justified.  Channeling that emotion into thoughtful action and service of humanity is the greatest challenge of our time.  And the time to embrace that challenge is upon us.

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• Deepak Chopra: Only Spirituality can Solve the Problems of the World (aquariuschannelings.com)

Many people consider this movement a fad or some misguided waste of time. Well, frankly, those folks couldn’t be further off. There is a reason why the entirety of Wall Street has been barricaded since Occupy Wall Street started on September 17, 2011. Mark that day down as one of the most significant in American and World History. It’s the day the tides started turning, and the sadistic, manipulative power players of the world finally met their match – THE PEOPLE of the world, finally putting the pieces of the puzzle together and standing up against them en masse. The group may have started out as a few thousand, but in just three weeks, they have millions of supporters around the world, in spite of an intentional and equally deceptive media blackout, ordered by the big shots from their ivory towers.

Look, I am all for making money – after all, I am an entrepreneur that works 15 hours a day. I believe in a great work ethic and incentive to succeed big for working hard, gaining expertise and taking calculated risks. Capitalistic, competitive forces have a place at the table, and can make us all better. But raw, unbridled greed is devastatingly cancerous – and that is what we have right now in the world, led by the U.S., and powered by Wall Street. That’s why the protest started here – and must end here – with the complete reformation of the United States and global economic systems.

This – what is going on – is what real Democracy looks like.

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After all those years of reading glorified (and mostly skewed) history books, and learning about America’s Founding Fathers, I developed an idealism of what this country was based on and the revolutionaries that brought it into existence.  As I came into maturity, never in my 20 years of adult life, have I felt that inspiration from the system that we have now.  There is a disconnect.  Instead, like most everyone else, I have been disenfranchised and turned off by the corruption, hypocrisy and overall ineptitude of leadership in the U.S., across government, media and business sectors.  Most politicians just don’t seem credible; and once you peek under the hood, even just a little bit, it all becomes clear.  We are being fooled.

Everything changed on September 17, 2011.  The Occupy Wall Street movement started.  As an American, I have something to be proud of, for the first time in a long time.  While I have a lot to say on the topic, here are some quick hits, to get started.  Over the coming weeks and months, as the movement spreads, I will expound upon these topics further.

* Political Parties are just a distraction. The current two party system is completely broken, as they are simply two sides of the same, self-sustaining coin. Don’t fall into this trap. We need something new altogether, that has not been seen yet in American politics.  We need another revolution.

* “This is what democracy looks like” chanted the crowd of protestors as they circled Wall Street on their twice a day march yesterday (Day 20).  I really like that.  This IS what democracy (should) look like, feel like and act like - an assembly of vastly diverse personality types, races and classes – with varying opinions and non-uniform views on social topics; but all united under the general premise of equality, ethics and fairness in our society. They/we ALL realize that this has not been the case, by any means.  Simply put, America, and many of our people, have become corrupted by greed and power.  We have been duped, by the “Powers that Be”. We are currently being manipulated, although people, through various channels, including this movement, are starting to wake up.  Some people, in reality, have always been awake, and have spoken up about it in the past.  Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Sachs, Cornel West, and more.  But this leaderless movement has more momentum than anything we have seen in the past.  It is truly our country’s Matrix moment – red pill or blue pill? For those movie buffs out there, this is also akin to The Truman Show movie, when Truman finally realizes that the whole thing is a scam that is designed to make him think it’s real.  Once you discover the true nature of affairs, it is impossible to ignore the fraud or pretend it’s OK anymore.  It is not OK – it never has been; we just didn’t have critical mass of Conscious people before.  It’s time to break free.

* The movement can be misconstrued to be “anti-business”, which in reality, it is not.  It is against big business bullying and manipulation.  I would like to explore how Entrepreneurs can get involved.  I hope to speak to the protestors, and encourage them to engage Small Businesses, and promote entrepreneurship amidst its ranks.  Well, they already seem quite enterprising, given what has been achieved in organizing groups, posting great videos and pictures, and utilizing digital media.  As CEO of a digital media company, I’m proud of this group’s work!  I want to tell the story about why this is good FOR US, SMB America.

* How YOU/Anyone can get involved. You don’t need to camp out at night, be homeless or jobless to participate! Just stop by, spend a couple of hours at your local #Occupy hotspot. Talk to people, learn about the issues. Take pictures and post them to your Facebook. Go home and tweet, blog or email people about it. Discuss with your families, co-workers and local communities. It is very important to our country’s future that this movement does not die down or get warped into something else by the tricky media and corporate manipulators.

The People’s Media

Read THE REAL Occupy Wall Street Journal, not the corrupt corporate-backed fantasy version.

• Here is the first edition of The Occupy Wall Street Journal - http://www.breakingcopy.com/occupied-wall-street-journal-pdf - which has already raised over $60,000 via Kickstarter to fund its ambitious but attainable 50,000+ print run.  Let’s support true, non-corporatized People’s Media!
• Turn off CNN, tune into livestream.com/globalrevolution instead.
• Unbookmark nytimes.com. It is a completely bought, corporate agenda-driven, excuse for media.  Visit occupywallstreet.org to see what is REALLY going on instead.