Oz Magic: Perfect Synchro 3 - gagablog 159

Synchronicity is magic everyone experiences, naturally. We can ignore it but if we take it as an invitation to more magic, it is. We can get into it - the more we look for the more we see. We can accept that there IS a magical world, or Heaven, or Buddha-field, or fairyland, calling to us, waiting for us but also helping us get there "I'm sure he gave up hours ago" - Rose "You've obviously never been on a date with me - ever see Dr Zhivago? (someone) went all the way across Siberia for (someone)" - Sondra on 227 just now.

we can take it the wrong way, we can get the wrong messages from synchronicity, putting our own interpretations into it or worse, taking someone elses who is trying to manipulate us. But the secret is the opposite to that - to get into it in a way that follows the magic. Putting yourself into the magical world  - by believing more in what it is, in being able to discover it - not being able to tell it what you want it to be. (Though the converse of THIS is that art is your magic to kind of do that, fashion fairyland or the part of it that best suits you, finding it, revealing it, sharing it through expressions)

I call it Oz, the fairyland of the future that includes and nourishes us all. I believe in it and believe I have a role, we all have roles, we can play to help us all get there. "which language do you want to speak today? 'I love the surfing and sights/sites in Mexico but what I love most is the human connection" - on the Babble translation commercial just now. So magic, the simple magic of synchronicity, is a reminder of this world, staying tuned to it always reveals more. And its just not about "going there on your own" - although that is wonderful to do and you do it through art, music, writing, love, experiencing nature / life, or others art or beings - but its also about taking everyone there, making the world real for everyone in the whole world.

I just got in a conversation on facebook in which the person linked a clip from My Dinner With Andre titled "We're Bored" just before the waiter offers dessert. He says there are "worlds" within this world that are The Future, preserve humanity despite automatonization of "everyone" - and this is the basic idea, echoed from a movie I saw as a kid, linked an hour ago.

I've been wanting to explore the "synchronicities" - or signals I got from the radio, etc - that I mentioned last time. I could write these everyday, and if I was quicker with them I would - there are just more and more things to mention, even as I type this. But I took some more notes and can hopefully just be clear about things, for once.

Most recently an episode of What's Happening!!! reframed a lot of what I have been trying to talk about. The guys were talking about a new TV show about 3 guys in Watts - like us! - and they want to write a script: The first idea, Marvin Howard got braces and was embarassed and didn't leave his room. Dee says the Brady Bunch already did it two years ago. The mentioned a baked good made with salt instead of sugar and Dee said Happy Days did it last month.  - This is basically the "life imitates art" and vice versa idea but also a form of synchronicity. Then another form of synchronicity: They decide all they need to do is write about their lives, things that could happen to them. They say "write this down before you forget it" which I took as a magical rule. Then they say he should split the money for the script with them, for they were his inspiration - they do hash out the idea between them, brainstorming together, but Roger is "the writer." This basic notion - including your inspiration - is the essence of transforming the world, changing everything. If people were paid not only a living wage to produce things but the "creators" were trying to share and honor as many forms of inspiration as possible - well, there is just enough to go around, going all directions like that, that everyone has enough, quickly. Roger tells them Tolstoy did not give the Russian army anything for inspiring War and Peace and Rerun says they are communists and don't care about money - but he's a patriotic American, pay him. That says it all, again, in another way, and reflects other stuff going on, now.

But too much is going on to get into more details, especially if I want to detail some of the last stuff. But, since then, a few days ago, Paul Manafort has been found guilty. I think even Michael Cohen was just admitting he committed felonies - at Trump's direction - and it seems like a turning point. I've been saying " #endthedeathpenaltynow the life you save could be your own" to draw their attention to issues that could become important to them if they face execution for treason - best way to avoid it just Happens to also be the right thing. I was so hurried last time that I mentioned that the Pope had come out completely against the death penalty - a good development to free "The Church" from the evils of the right wing platform - but I failed to mention that the report had just come out - from Philidelphia or Pittsburgh, or Minnesota?? - about the thousands of sex abuse victims and 300 bishops and clergy responsible and responsible for covering it up - and Pope Francis did write a letter addressing this, yesterday, but has not really addressed it, as none of us seem to be -I shared a meme of "Christians protesting the Baphomet statue" photos above "Christians protesting sex abuse scandals" with photos of empty streets "At least I get a lotta bites" - Sondra "One of them must have been a vampire" - Mary, 227 just now - maybe they are vampires and cant be photographed.

One idea is that "justice" can't catch up with the abusers because the statute of limitations had run out - surely not on all cases, for all victims, but maybe a large number. So they are talking about changing the law to extend the limit. This is ONE way Justice CAN "catch up" even in an unjust system. The same principle - if we can't stop your evil with the laws we have, maybe we need a new law? - can be seen at work around Trump, now - yesterday he said he had the power to take over the investigation into himself, if he wanted to - which is what he probably thought he was doing when he appointed Sessions / may be trying to do since there was a report Sessions would "take it over." Everything they do, including Guilliani saying "Truth isn't truth" about the "Perjury Trap" of getting Trump to interview, just makes them look more guilty. I was scrolling through my gagablogs and saw the one titled "America is not America" earlier today and thought of this Truth isn't truth line - the only reason Truth is not the Truth is because of Them. The Liars. The only reason America is not America is because of Them, The Fascists.

That edition, "America is not America", was from a year or two ago but was about the NFL protests of police brutality  - which is turning into a huge education curve for much of America. The fascists are just wrong, The Truth is against them - the truth is with us, Team Round World.

There was another example of this in the next episode I took notes from, today - from "What's Happening Now!!!" that came on after the writer one. It was also about Roger as a writer  - he tells his mom about that famous story about Earnest Hemingway: "He walked into a bar/hotel with a stack of papers and a pen and 12 hours later he came out with a complete book." "Which book was that?" "The Bible  - he ripped off the hotel." This had some connotations for me - I like to joke that Im a real narcissist and Trump is just a poser, and prove it because he said his book is second to the Bible. I will write better. And the idea of Trump as "jesus" and the bible being ripped off from a Hotel - but above all this deep magical connections is just the idea that you can create, create a whole world, on any day - any day or night you go for it.

This episode gets complicated with Roger talking to the producer who tells him to accept that the shows character, living in the ghetto, can get $20/week allowance. Roger says in reality they would get only a few dollars or have to get a job. The producer tells him "America doesn't want to know that the ghetto is poor." He says "But I thought you wanted me to tell the truth?" and the producer tells him they can tell the truth -  just lie a little. "Say what?!?!" Roger says and the producer is like, "yes, that's the stuff, we just want more lingo to give it authenticity" etc. So Roger backs out and the producer reconsiders, maybe do it his way. Then a script switch, his script for his wife's report on homeless women to get funding for a social program, and that is what they want to make the movie about.  - I didn't pay close attention but it had these same themes: The Truth, how liars and oppressors want to change it, but how they can become tools of liberation by acting with integrity, chance, and goodwill, coming together - like synchronicity.

This is the first time I have ever looked back over my blog to write another one, that I know of - I feel like I am taking it seriously that it is important to mention these things, now - because it opens up even more to happen, to mention - it weaves a story between stories to get more of us further into storyland, fairyland.

I said I would talk more about Qanon later, but I don't wanna get too into it all, just to emphasize that, since one of the things I heard them say was to take "coincidences" more seriously - that all of their theories are based upon the idea that certain coincidences "In this book even chocolate chip cookies are sexy... I was walking down a lane eating a blueberry muffin and saw a white unicorn with a tulip in its mouth" - Chrissy on 3's company just now  - and one they mention is that Q is the 17th letter in the alphabet so when Trump said he was in Washington 17 times before becoming President and kept saying it, apparently, they took it as a cue that Q is real, etc.

I'm not saying "that's just coincidence" - one reason could be that Trump is actively promoting the Q conspiracy - maybe it was the same radio program talking about this mentioning that conspiracy theorist nooks of the Right Wing are his main base, his core voters, so he wants to always be promoting some conspiracy or another. It could be coincidence for a magical reason, even - and something Trump is completely unaware of, part of that long list. In which case it is more "synchronicity." But Magic provides synchronicity - I don't know much of the Q claims, but the idea that Hillary could be the "real" target of the Russia investigation fits in with a notion Ive been saying for over a year, that BOTH of them are... and the "tools" Q is using to convince them are similar to what I'm talking about here - following coincidences. A big difference is / could be Agenda - but again I don't know much about Q. - from the Star Trek perspective, maybe. It does sound like "my kinda stuff" in some ways - except I doubt he's trying to help them into a magical world of freedom and ease - maybe we'll see.

But true freedom and ease are for EVERYONE. So that's usually how you can tell, if someone is doing something for everyone or only "certain people"

Some of the things I wanted to get more details on from last time: Aretha Franklin died and in the interview they replayed I felt like a central issue I have with the World was explained, exemplified: they were talking about her dad and all the women who wanted to hook up with him every day, every night. They had just mentioned that he was a nationally famous preacher who toured and had records and radio shows - my first thought was "thats rock star status, get a lot of action that way." Then they started talking about it, all the women who wanted him - seemed like a good motivation to spread the Good News. But of course I'm skeptical, detecting hypocrisy - did he famously preach famous messages to millions about being pro-sex, how good sex is for you and how much it helps spirituality? I'm guessing not! And maybe I'm underestimating him except I have to examples of my suspicion being confirmed from the same interview. When asked about singing gospel and if her upbringing in the church influenced her, having a preacher dad, she said it gave her the spiritual lessons to be a good lady. Maybe she didn't mean "chaste" or prudish but at least to me, with my understanding of Christian upbringing, since my folks were ministers, too, I hear that aspect. And when asked she said she was aware of all the women chasing or hooking up with her dad - but they never talked about it "He was single." So it was okay. Like things your parents do "are" okay if that is how you are raised, at least until you have other examples. I'm not saying it WASN'T okay for him to sleep with all those women - I'm saying it shows she was raised with shame about sex, typical "Christian" bullshit - because she didn't ever talk with him about it. And that, to me, is the crux of evil, how the oppressors most derive their power to oppress us: stealing the power and magic of sex by using shame. Would it be "okay" for her, in her own mind, to sleep with as many men as her dad slept with women, if she was single? I don't know, maybe I'm underestimating her, maybe she did. I'm not trying to be on he case or get her mad at me, I'm just talking about how deeply this stuff traumatizes us, all of us, but I can relate to the upbringing, I think, I just responded differently, by trying to become sex-positive in a revolutionary way. If her dad was preaching openly about the glories of sex with lots of people maybe he could have changed the course of history, changed American culture, enough that I wouldn't have to write this. Probably hundreds or thousands of preachers could do that, save the world that way, by overcoming hypocrisy. But fuck em, too slow.

she was talking about "Respect" and I know she must be an empowering figure to millions - I don't want to take anything away from that just point this out: She said they added the "Sock it to me" line, that it was something the girls were saying to the fellas in those days, that after they sang it, Laugh In picked it up and it became a big thing. But when she said what it meant - the girls would say it to the fellas, sock it to me this, or sock it to me that - nothing sexual. Well, I'm sure SOMEtimes it was meant sexually. Maybe that isn't the real thing it meant - but why does she have to say that? What would be wrong with it being sexual? That girls say it? This is the sexism double standard that is at the heart of sexual repression.

And relates to the other thing I noted from the radio the other day, the question of invisibility versus flying, which superpower would you have? And how women tend to say invisiblity and men tend to say flight. This seems to be a reflection of gender norms in society, that women are trained to be ashamed of themselves, and of sex, while men are trained to "show off." You could say that I'm obsessed for bringing sex into it but something about magic, something about people, a question like this can open us up to the magical world, to talking about magic - even sex. And plenty of folks in the program mentioned it. One said he would want to fly becuase he expected there would be flight groupies, girls who were impressed by him for being able to fly and want to sleep with him. I'm not saying it wouldn't happen that way but it also made me wonder, if so and so, you or me, or someone else, was able to fly, just all the sudden one day, would it lead to more sex? Maybe, even if you weren't trying. But I guess the reasons people dont want to have sex with each other seem to have enough to fill the list without including "can't fly."

Another man mentioned being invisible to watch girls shower. He said he thought it would become depressing - to be invisible, to hear what people said about you, not be able to tell anyone your power or they wouldn't trust you -and watch girls shower. He said that would be depressing, to know what folks really thought of you, isolating, to not be able to tell anyone your secret, and make you feel like a disgusting pervert, watching girl after girl shower. He then said you could tell yourself to stop, its not right, stop watching them shower, but there are always more, different girls - with the power he couldn't imagine being able to stop himself. he decided it was all a bad idea, and the program said he went through a trypical process of reconsidering and moralizing and changing his answer.

But a woman answering said she thought invisibility was the only honest answer, that if people were really honest they couldn't resist that - to get into movies and airplanes, to steal stuff, and "to watch celebrities have sex." Maybe it doesn't say anything about men and women, just that one man and this one woman, that he said "watch girls shower" and she said "watch celebrities have sex" - but he felt that should be shameful and she felt we should be able to admit that this is what we would all really want to do - to me this is the essence of sexual repression and double-standard - the evil myth that "Sex is Bad," It goes like this: Sex is bad but boys are supposed to like it, do it, brag about it, secretly feel bad about it, guilty for it, etc. Sex is bad but girls are supposed to put up with it and have no personal desires so it doesnt get worse and be as outwardly ashamed of it and encourage that shame in others as possible - and men are supposed to encourage that, too, except in a pecking order amongst themselves - you want to demean all sexual experience other than men you look up to.

Invisibilty doesn't let you have sex with anyone, unless they are into ghosts / you - just enjoy, visually, "presently - live in person," the sexual world we have all been "restricted" from in evil ways by this world. So we have porn on the internet - people can watch thousands of girls shower and celebrities have sex, and surely more and more as time goes on - but there is some desire to "be there" even if they can't see you? or a desire to be "present" instead of just watching a recording?

I think the idea that we have lots of porn on the internet - you can watch through a screen, recorded or even live - but people STILL fantasize about being invisible and being "there" to physically spy on people - this is a symptom of sexual repression of the whole culture. Would the same people, having this desire, but not able to turn invisible, take the simple steps of going online and seeing if anyone wants them to watch them have sex? Where does the invisibility come in, except from shame?

The host of the program on superheroes made a conclusion that wanting to fly, "male", was "hoping for the best of yourself" - to show off. And invisibility, "Female", responded to wanting to hide, being afraid the worst of ourselves would be revealed.  This is the result of the double-standard of shame, especially when applied to sex: flying and invisibility as "Freudian:" being able to show off, be byond others limits, and being able to hide, disappear, or not be there. During sex? Well, while no one is like "I wanna be invisible because more people want to have sex with me if they can't see me!" - really visual stimulation is something most folks enjoy as part of sex. But if you are socialized that "sex is bad", and you, as a girl, must hide your sexual being, then invisibility becomes attractive.

There was more of interest in that part of the program, the man who would fly to Paris - why not be a superhero? Isn't that kind of a superhero, Going to Paris Man?  - and how very few folks would fight crime, mostly saying one power isn't enough - but would be enough to escape sexual repression - in some ways. At least to talk about imagining it. To me this is one way that sex is already one of our superpowers. Sex and Love are some of the most magical forces and worlds there are. Women are excluded from the world of sex in a way that men are supposed to be included, accepted - but two men enjoying their "pass" as men to be sexual -with each other  -is still the most taboo of all things that shouldn't be taboo. So it's not like anyone is actually included, connected, to the Sex is Good world, in our culture - unless they find it for themselves, with others, in opposition to social strictures. yes, plenty of folks find love within social strictures - but may still suffer from these repressions in their own personal lives and we ALL suffer from the culture of it.

I just found my notes as I continue after a nice day and saw that the host of the show said flight represented what we hope to be and invisibility represented what we fear we are - just taken sexually the male/flight idea suggest that men are trained to hope to be someone, sexually, and women are trained to fear and deny and hide their sexuality - what is an example of a male show off sexual role? Rock Star? Athlete? Actor? Model? Buff Guy?  - there are plenty of them. Are there the same Woman Who Has Sex A Lot positive roles, in our society? Aretha's dad was a slutty preacher - in a good way! - but somehow decades later it seems like she would have shame if "sock it to me" was seen sexually - I'm not criticizing her just sympathizing that in this culture, raised with this double standard, sexual repression is traumatizing to all of us. And we unintentionally replicate it if we don't work to root out all the causes of it. "I've seen too many TV movies with Joanna Kearns to not know how these things turn out" - Corky just now on Murphy Brown about why she won't pursue a sexual harassment complaint after being pressured into sleeping with her boss.

I just had to mention the double standard, and was reminded of a recent story about Madonna's tribute to Aretha at an award ceremony in which she apparently mostly talked about herself. I'm not going off on a Madonna tangent but I thought it ironic, reflective, that I keep talking about this when there is much better stuff to talk about Aretha Franklin - but this is the part that fit into this theme, for me.

And she said something about how you could tell which women were interested in her dad - sitting in the front row in short tight dresses, etc. This fits with the next part of the Superhero program, about a girl named Zora who made herself into a superhero by following her dreams and lists she made of skills she would need to develop. It was very interesting for various reasons related to this topic: making dreams real by following them, by writing things down, creating yourself and stories for yourself. The girl diligently developed all of these skills to live out her dreams as an action star, in real life, but one thing I noticed was the reporter kept talking about how hot she was and how sexy she dressed. This stood out for two reasons: one was during the most magical part of the story - her tattoo "I knew he was a scoundrel - Anyone who makes cellular phone calls in the stall of the men's room is capable of anything" - Jim on Murphy Brown just now. Her tattoo - part of the reason she always wore tank tops was to show it off. It was a crystal ball, or orb, that she had seen in her dreams and was what guided her to live them out - her dreams were all about being a superhero, action stuff, fighting with guns or swords or lightning shooting out of her hands - but I dont think she did that one. Anyway, this was the most magical part of the story, "pure" magic of a dream orb that guided her to gain powers. But even this part the reporter says "all men would ask her about it and when she explained many would propose marriage." Its the radio but you get the idea that she is really hot - but why is that still so important? The other time it stood out was when she said Zora had done all this study but had isolated from other people to learn all these skills and develop herself. After she had made herself the hero type she envisioned she "discovered" the power of lipstick and sexy dresses, according to the reporter. "Make-up" is one of the first kinds of Magic and has that power, but it was all mentioned as if it was the most impressive thing about her - I don't mean that this is sexist but that we are so sexist that we have to dance around this, hint at it, instead of just saying it. She did use her powers of seduction in the only incident they described. I guess I mention it because the story was interesting because she was a Superhero -self-made - and the exciting stuff she did to be like an action star are unique and impressive - yet she is still presented as having the superpower of Hotness. How many girls who have the superpower of hotness are NOT respected for that, like, at all? Like how everyone whined when Kylie Jenner was called "self-made" -not even as if all her money was from beauty, that her only skill was hotness, but the idea that whatever she got for that was still "not really her"

This reminds me of, just the other day, the radio program about Descartes Daughter.  - If I didn't make my point about Zora, or the girls in the front row at church, it was that sexiness is a superpower we act like is for villians but its totally for heroes. Its a heroic deed to help turn the Sex is Bad culture into a more natureal, magic, fairy Sex is Good world.

Descartes Daughter is a story I'd never heard before: a sea captain hears sounds from a cabin, then from within a box, of a passenger (Descartes?) and when he opens it he discovers an automaton so lifelike he freaks out and throws it overboard, or the sailors do in other versions, possibly because she is bad luck for the ship, or because she started dancing around on deck in another version. They spoke of "the uncanny valley"  - the weird feeling of seeing something so close to human, but not, talked about the Turing Test / Imitation game, Blade Runner, etc - and mentioned how popular automatons were hundreds of years ago, like it would put our stuff to shame, in some ways. They had a lot to say about philosophy and what stood out to me is the idea that he originated the belief in "two bodies" mind and body, and also that bodies are machines. I guess he said we were divinely crafted machines but intuited that we would be able to get closer and closer in approximations to ourselves as we advanced. There are so many interesting directions to go with this but I want to mention as much as I can about different parts of it, quickly. One aspect I missed the radio program for part but it seemed to say that the origin of the story was a daughter he had from an affair with a woman in Vienna, I think. Im not sure if she was "lost" or just denied, "hidden", but the idea was that the shame of extramarital sex / somehow hiding the real girls existence was the origin for this story was what "surely" tied it all in with my discussion, here, when I was so interested by all of it that I was already taking notes. It mentioned that Descartes had an insight while sitting in a cafe watching people walk by - that he assumed they were people but only saw clothes, hats, and movement of bodies - but they could be automatons. He speculated that automatons could get so lifelike that there would only be two ways to tell them from humans: they would reach limits of ability to use language and limits of their abilities to have our same complexity of thoughts - I think that sums it up. We are only now at the frontier of making chatbots or AI that can pass as human but I thought these tests had lots of inplications. One was that "we are language", in a way, that this is how we Are, by having language, by using language, we craft ourselves. But also it made me think that if Descartes believed we have souls but animals don't - which I disagree with - it would be part of this "Soul" and superiority to other animals - what set us apart, in his mind, is that we have souls and all that language / high mind stuff and they don't. So I guess he would expect we could make automatons about as good as animals, also "lacking" souls as he thought they did. I wonder, personally - I believe animals have souls and machines already do, in their ways, too - but the soul of machines will be recognizable to us. We already have realistic robotic animals and every reason to expect them to he better, and why not people? Will they have souls if they are indistinguishable from us - or if they are us, if we "download" ourselves into robots - will it THEN have  a soul? I also like to apply these questions to ourselves - possibly channeling various spiritual beings or mystics are precisely what gives us a soul, analogous to taking a robot capable of like and "putting yourself in it" - but also kind of the opposite. I wonder how the language or thinking test would tell between humans and robots - then I wonder what differences we would expect to find if aliens took the test. Or alien robots. its just fun to think about.

Its fun to think new ideas help us out of old ones -I'm not sure how people thought of bodies and souls before him if Descartes was revolutionary to suggest a two-form model: we just seem to have accepted that, generally, in modern conception. I never liked it, I always thought it was a way to diminish the body - call the body "bad" as part of calling the "appetites of the body", like Lust, "bad" -i felt it was central to how we currently suppress sex and the feminine. As revolutionary as his ideas were, I feel like the Mind/Man, Body/Woman thing existed before him, in ways, and his revolution wasn't deep enough to challenge that kind of sexism. So if he did originate the two bodies, Mind/Body idea then he did so with bias for the mind, that the mind was what made us "different from the animals." I don't wanna be part of trying to be superior to animals, or even putting the mind above the body. In Oz, the animals talk - or, if/when we had the technology we can talk in their language.  Will we then say they don't have souls? They might not talk about the same things we do but if we can appreciate how they do talk we would have to recognize their souls. I believe we can do this with trees, mountains, clouds - anything.

Which is one reason I think fairies are the best way to explain everything. My daughter once told me she thought elves lived in traffic lights and turned them - which they do, in a way, and will in even more recognizable ways, in the future. She also told me she thought water fountains were mad at you when you drank enough to make them growl. Fairies are a simple, imaginative way to understand things - and just happen to be the blueprints of future technology that makes them recognizable to everyone.

Face it, we make more and more things that talk to you, or each other, it's more rare for things Not to talk, in the future, it seems.

The same way animals have their own languages, their own ways of thinking, we can appreciate them more the better we can communicate or translate them. Are robots the same? Aliens? this question interests me because on one hand AI is intelligence we create, on another its intelligence we discover - could the same analogy apply to aliens? To spirits, spiritual beings in our world? To us?

The Descartes Daughter host concluded his program with the suggestion that maybe the reason the idea of automatons and robots, AI, disturbs us is becuase deep down it makes us question if WE would pass the test, if we are truly real, alive - or the result of "machinery> - which is part of how Descartes ideas disturbed folks, suggesting they were machines, I guess. I've long maintained that if we program robots, pet animal robots, for instance, for compassion, we will end up learning compassion from them. So while they may be our creations they will enhance our own abilities - its a question of which ones we really want. And we don't want murder robots. They mention how we have sympathy for Wall-E and replicants in Blade Runner - they could have mentioned L-5 and Lando or other Robo-relations in Star Wars movies, or others. But how much more sympathy, for them and for others, all others, could we develop with robots who are designed for sympathy?

Are there alien intelligences, ways of thinking, that are "like" animal and robot languages - could "robot" be an actual alien language, the one we need to discover, first, so we learn to trust the ones we dont "write ourselves", so that we can become aware that is also what they are?

I feel sure there is a fairy way of talking, especially if it sparks the same in others, that takes us away from this world, into the more truthful, realer magic world.

My lover was talking the other day about feeling like Tik-Tok, the machine man of Oz. It was a few days later, or the next day, or later that day, that I heard the Descartes Daughter story on the radio. "This was a Dynasty episode!" Mallory said on Family Ties about a family story where their ancestor had to give up her nobility, by getting married, to escape some capture.  - Just another example of art imitating life, referenced in art. And "gender", etc. Anyway - that is one Oz connection and as good a place as any to wrap up talking about Machine girls, for now.

Ok, it reminds me of Lady Gaga as a motorcycle and therefore sex in some ways, too.

Last thing, though, about robots, aliens, angels, our better natures: if we are "afraid to take the test" - are we really afraid we would not be deemed "human" if we talked enough? That we would start repeating things like a broken machine, at a certain point of lengthy discussion? No. If anything we are afraid we will reveal things about ourselves, even to ourselves - learn who we really are. Mallory said she was scared of her mind slowing down and Alex said "how would you know?" We wouldn't be afraid we find out we are actually robots - but we might feel afraid of robots becoming or "scoring" more "human" than us, more aware than we are. I think we should consider that a possible good example to follow. On the other hand, what if we gave the "test" - a certain type of conversation - to a alien or angel "masquerading" as a human? Would they pass it - exceed it? Would they make us feel less than human, less than them, by outscoring, outlasting us, in the humanity test? Or that they would go a different direction, a new direction? Could that be a reason we fear really becoming aware of the consciousness of anumals, too? We'd feel guilty if we realized how different consciousness can be that we deny what is not "us" - including among us? Or are we afraid to find out how far we can go, or what we might really be, "beyond" human. The Family Ties episode just ended with Elise repeating the story of their great..grandmother, to carry on for her aunt, who has Alzheimer's, and remembered Reagan was president, but couldn't accept it, when the doctor said she didn't know who the president was. One of the jokes.

I wanted to mention Kofi Annan passing, too, mostly because he called himself an obstinate optimist, which I thought fit in with the Steve Pinker participatory progress phrase. On The Hogan Family, now, Dave is mad he stepped on a pile of cassettes his brothers left out. It's just "archaic", now. How much progress has been made, in so many ways. I wanted to recognize Kofi Annan for opposing the Iraq War, at the very least, but mostly wanted to mention that idea of Believing but believing you have to do something, too. And honestly you can "do" a lot if you don't believe in things - in this world success can depend on refusing to believe things, accepting evil instead - but true success comes from opposing the evil in this world, which we can all do, by believing. And the idea of Peace, of United Nations and being able to actually be good enough people to take care of each other, well, and address all sorts of problems - not just in that way but actually working that way, too - is something I will get into, soon, with my gagablog about Good Government.

The last radio thing I mentioned, last time, that I wanted to talk about was the interview with the author of "A Girl's Guide to Missiles" whose family, and her, all worked in a missile testing facility when she was growing up. She talked about that life and the main thing that stood out to me was the Christian school that she said the whole town went to - all Missile testing workers and families, since it was out in the desert. She said they taught that people rode dinosaurs and a bunch of scientific lies in their science class. The interviewer asked how that was, that a community of scientists had an anti-science, lying "Christian" "Science" class? She also asked her about her dad revealing to her, the only secret le let slip, that they were faking the accuracy of Sidewinder missiles, which was actually at 15%, because they were killing so many people accidentally but they still wanted to sell them. But when she asked her about science class, in "Christian" school, her answer was like this: "War is so ambiguous, so we wanted something black and white - fundamentalist christianity provided that." And "the Bible", as they presented it, provided a completely evil adversary and therefore an excuse for war: Communists. To me this is the opposite of Jesus's message in everyway, a perfect example of how "Christians" have turned it around, gotten it all so backwards, that War is Good and Communism is Bad, that sex and the feminine is bad and the only violence and masculine are good. And it's just wrong in every way. There was another news story about the support for Trump among Evangelicals. It mentioned that ten years ago, or so, when polled, Evangelicals were the demographic who most thought a politicians personal life mattered, would influence policy - but now, in the Trump era, they take polls and are the LEAST likely demographic to think this - a complete turnaround on integrity, for Trump. You can say it's blind religious fervor - but I have blind religious fervor for Lady Gaga and while I would vote for her for president I wouldn't take her advice to vote for Hillary - wrong is still wrong.

Which is why all the "Truth is not the truth" stuff is so hilarious - there is just nowhere left to go. They should end the death penalty while they still have power. I guess the fear is that as the net closes on all the corruption they might start wars or other evil things to seem "necessary" or dangerous - but hopefully we just won't let them - or, better yet, just get better ideas out there, give everyone a way out of the corner they've painted themselves in. But there is just no way out the way they are going, exept "taking everyone with them." We can do the opposite - take everyone with us to a new, Magical world.

The whole Synchro point Im trying to make is that magic is real, wants our help and wants to help us. If we imagine "magic", like in fairy tales - things can appear. If we imagine Royalty, like in fairy tales and throughout history, they snap their fingers and things appear. But if we iimagine the future, 3-D printing, more and more people  -even everyone - can live like kings, where things just appear when you ask for them.

Many people have someone caring for them through infancy, even much of childhood - I'm not saying the ideal life for everyone is perpetual pampering, but if you compare being cared for as a baby and not being cared for, care is better. And there are ways of caring that we miss, after that - and far too many of us miss care we need as babies, too, far too many in the most tragic ways. We can stop these inadequacies - with more caring all around. It is possible to imagine a world where we can basically have everything we want, "just like that" - like a Garden of Eden. Like Oz - it's not So hard to imagine, Oz is at least 100 years old. And we have so many more things that suggest the Freedom to come, more every day.

the last thing I will say is one more synchronicity, about crystal balls. I would have forgotten it if not for the third mention, today, when a radio host asked an economist to 'pull a crystal ball" out of his pocket" to tell what the trends suggested. Basically our economy in Colorado is breaking expected trends and doing really well, probably really because of Weed.  The first time was the girl who wrote the missile guide: she said they showed her a video in school of a man who would play music backwards to reveal the satanic message and break albums and everything, for jesus - and that a woman brought a crystal ball down the aisle for him to destroy it but he couldn't, it was too hard. I thought that was symbolic. And later that night or the next day, after I heard that on the radio, there was a I Dream Of Jeannie that featured a crystal ball - otherwise I wasn't sure if I should include it. "and your installation is included" the Renewal by Anderson Window commercial just said, "included" in synch with me typing "include."

There is a pride in Magic, in Nature, in the goddess that we all are, that makes us take pride in each others goodness, in everything good. And it's wonderful, nice. Other kinds of pride that take us away from each other are bad for us, bad for everyone. The idea that "everything can be provided" - for kings or whoever - isn't bad, in a way - but is when it's millions of people to serve one. When everything is provided, for everyone, we get into the Real Kingdom.

That's enough for now, seems like some exciting, Good News, is coming, now. Thanks, I love you!