My mind is busy, busy, with the problems of getting into our new home. Our home site is great, the only really good site in Big Valley Woods at this time. An abandoned manufactured home was wrecked and moved off. I'm lucky to have taken it before someone else grabbed it.

We had no problem connecting the power. Along with the power, the telephone service is buried. The line had been cut and the end could not be found. The telephone company refused to look for it until I was ready for the service. Everyone passes the buck. I finally subscribed to new service to be installed at once. ( I plan on keeping our present line until we move in.) The telephone company found the line and installed the telephone box.

We turned on the water. No water. The park had to find the problem. Now we've got water.

These sidetracks came after being forced to fire my contractor and find another, requiring that I take out a new manufactured home permit at a cost of $405, and take care of an electric and structural inspection, and a water inspection.

Next came the hassle on the loan. We have excellent credit and paid down far more down than the minimum requirement for a manufactured home. There was absolutely no reason for the delay. Nobody expected it. Thinking it would surely be placed in a day or so, the home was delivered without a mortgage having been placed. The dealer, Santiam Homes, had paid Fleetwood, the manufacturer in full. The home had been set in place. Santiam shut down their agreed to work. Day after day I was told the closing on the loan would be in a day or two. We finally found another lender for Santiam's mortgage broker. After a week's delay, the loan was closed two days ago with another lender, and the work is now being done. (The other lender called us yesterday asking questions. They didn't know we'd changed lenders.)

I've agreed with the new contractor to help with such as painting the skirts. I'm also going to paint the interior before the carpeting is laid. This is to let you know where my mind is at the moment.

Everyone keeps telling me to take a keep breath. I've been retired 20 years. It was bad enough when I had to work for a living. What it must be like to work these days with so few on the ball!

My building contractor is going to give me the Book of Mormon to read. I told him I'd read it if he would read my theory of the universe and God. Indeed, what makes my theory any less true than the Mormon's ideas?

You, my friends, must realize that I was born only six years after World War I.. Twelve days after I was 18 I was inducted into the military during World War II. It was my first lesson in reality creation, in the same world, actually, that sponsored the Christian Crusades; that is, the Holy Catholic Church allied with European Royalty wanting to conquer the world. Actually it is the same world now that sponsored Alexander, the Great's conquests.

Truly, at age 18, I was another victim of world conquest attempts over the course of recorded history, that sorry record of human behavior. As I write, I'm reminded of the Hollywood extravaganza, Gone With the Wind, of the part when the announcement to the Old South's gentlemen slave owners that war had been declared on the North's slave emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. They were overwhelmed with passion and gleefully took up the sword for their cause. The unspeakable human suffering was vividly portrayed.

Actually, I volunteered for WWII. I was thinking about becoming a fighter pilot sitting behind a powerful Rolls Royce engine gunning it into the wild blue yonder. I couldn't wait till I was 18. It wasn't to be. In spite of their glowing promises, the powers that be, after they had me in their control, decided to make me a combat infantryman, along with the draftees-the same born-again conquering heros down through the ages who have led us through one war after war.

Interestingly, I was born in 1925, the year that public inspection of federal income tax was made legal, allowing, little by little, those conquering heros to take control of the American people. Realize that along with superior intelligence man has his super ego. Egomaniacs have taken control of America, giving us a government that exploits the individual in the name of caring. Some of us are rewarded, some made tax slaves. (The money for my new home is taxpayer money.) I'm now in my golden years. I was formally a tax slave.

In the year and month that I was born, September 1925, physics student Werner Heisenberg published his uncertainty principle; that is, the uncertainty of particles, the aspects of matter. We learn that we exist in a dimension of infinite possibility, which, upon observation, becomes our reality-with such things as atomic bombs. It was the atomic bomb that ended World War II. Our conquering heros ended the human suffering of World War II. Since then, there has been the Korean War, the Viet Nam War, Desert Storm, and the War in Iraq. America's conquering heros know how to make war. I believe in peace. I believe it to be a individual thing.

My friends, you can't pray for peace and expect peace. God helps those who help themselves. We live in a do-it-yourself universe. You must look within for answers. When you look to the pope, the president and Congress, when you look to authority for your answers-whomever-you are looking to an individual's answer for himself, not for you. The authorities get together and form iron fists. The only way to peace, speaking for myself, is to know one's inner self. When I cut loose from the establishment and went to sea on a sailboat I named Bold Venture, I learned the power that lies within. My crew called it a miracle. The only miracles we know about are those the authorities publish. Unpublished miracles, like mine, occur uncounted times every day.

Without help from anyone, I discovered my inner self while at sea. I was born again to know the individual I am. I listen to the authorities and form my own truths. To thine own self be true.

I've been so busy with our new home I've not given much thought to the Gaia Community. We are finally in our new manufactured home in Big Valley Woods. I suppose I should thank the United States for giving me this fine home. But, frankly, I'd rather have been allowed to keep my pay check in full during my productive years. I hate to tell you but there is a realm of your authentic self you know little about.

Unfortunately, no matter who wins the election in 2008, in the next four years the American people are going to see a drastic turn for the worse. Based on my theory, I AM THAT I AM-more than a man depending on government for my survival-let us look back to the presidential election of 1933, during America's Hard Times, when a third of the United States was jobless and facing starvation. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president. Quoting Roosevelt, "While it isn't written in the Constitution, nevertheless, it is the inherent duty of the Federal Government to keep its citizens from starvation." Are we going to do the same again?

The issue became the inherent duty of government opposing fundamental individual rights and personal responsibilities; in other words, wether or not a right is of the very essence of a scheme of ordered liberty by reason that neither liberty nor justice would exist if such a right were sacrificed. The Old Supreme Court ruled that a tax to promote the general welfare cannot be wrested out of its setting and legalized by ignoring its purpose as the more instrumentality for bringing about a desired end, in my view and Cooley's, in Constitutional Limitations, identified with due process in the doctrine of vested rights drawn from natural law.

In Roosevelt's view in opposition with my view, and now the activist Supreme Court, "The balance of power between the three great branches of the Federal Government has been tipped out of balance by the courts in direct contradiction of the high purposes of the framers of the Constitution. We have reached the point where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court."

And action is surely what we've been about since Roosevelt. It was at this point-hard times-in America's history that America's politicians assigned to themselves the inherent duty to keep the American people. Please note that they failed to mention at the time: at all costs to individual freedom. At the time, it seemed the only thing to do. Unfortunately, it didn't solve the problem. It never does. World War II, not Roosevelt's New Deal, put America back to work.

After the war, I came back to a booming economy. The horse was out of the gate. Roosevelt's legacy, his New Deal Law, persisted and grew to astronomical proportions in the guise of government's inherent duty to the individual, an idea that grew in proportion to the amount taxed away from some and handed out to others---according to political whim, robbing Peter to pay Paul.

In 1975, I went through my personal hard times. I took a temporary job at near minimum pay. Twenty-two percent of my meager pay was withheld for the United States. I couldn't pay my rent on a one-room apartment. I was locked out-left on the street in favor of government's inherent duty to the American people. I was left to fight for my life. My enemy, the Internal Revenue Service, is above the law. The IRS illegally froze my rightful tax refund when I took my cause to court. The courts, in favor of government's inherent duty to the American people, one after another, threw out my right to exist on my own labor cause, up to and including the U.S. Supreme Court. That's where we stand today-the individual with no constitutional rights at all.

I happened to have hit a winning number on America's current wheel of fortune. Good fortune seems to favor the prepared mind. The taxpayers are paying for my new home. In the end, who is going to pay the taxpayers? The nation is fast going bankrupt. It is always darkest before the dawn. The American people are learning a lesson of history the hard way. We're entering a new age, when everything we think we know will be proven wrong.

Oh ye of little faith! Because you've been depending on Roosevelt's inherent duty of government, you have no idea of the power that lies within.

The formerly all-taking, now all-giving IRS brings me wonderful news in a letter. I'm being handed a federal gift-to stimulate the economy, that is. Starting in May 2008, the gift is going to 130 million American voters. The only thing necessary to receive this money gift is to file an income tax return for 2007. I don't file an income tax return because my income, more lately, is from non-taxable government entitlement money. I'm eligible for this gift because my government entitlement money is over $3,000 per year. Since I have no hidden income, I'll file an income tax return and receive my money gift of $300.

I do have some questions on the integrity of this generous offer of other people's money. The first that comes to mind is: where does the money come from that is being handed to 130 million voters? How does it help the economy to take the money from the person who earns it and hand it to this government dependent? It simply means, rather than the taxpayer who earns it,  that I get to spend the $300.  If I were to hand my neighbor $300 and tell him to go spend it to help the economy and thereby deprived myself, would it actually help the economy? Why, pray tell me, would it be any different than the government handing 130 million voters the taxpayers' money?  Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the Economic Stimulus Act appears to be a means of giving government more control over the individual's life.

The next question: Why is it better to have government in control of the economy? After all, government is people, authorities given control over the individual. Why are authorities more qualified to determine what is best for the individual and the economy? At another's expense, I depend on government for my existence. No question about it. It is great for me. I'm empowered at the expense of another's independence. Soon enough we will all depend on government. We'll sacrifice personal freedom-vote in government dependence.

My next question: What does external authority have that the individual does not have? The obvious answer is the power of control. One can never know the power that lies within if he or she looks only to external control for his or her answers. Nietzsche asked this logical question: Did God make a mistake in man or did man make a mistake in God? Throughout the ages, man has had a penchant for placing external authority in control. The Christian Church, for instance, calls itself the body of Christ. I've never read the Church's message in the actual thoughts of Christ. That's because I listen to my inner God-Self. I don't listen to the doctrines and dogmas of the Church. In favor of the authorities, mine and millions of other personal stories on the power within the individual go unpublished.

The universe is uncontrolled energy. The planet Earth is here on a chance that runs billions to one. The only sense that can be made from it is that there is conscious control. We are conscious of as much as we personally allow. What does the Nobel Prize winning Al Gore know about the environment? Quantum physics has now allowed consciousness in the mix of matter, motion, energy and force.

When you want to know how something works, you take it apart and examine it. When I was a physics student, the atom was an entity composed of a nucleus of protons and neutrons and electrons whirling about the nucleus. Now it is hard to tell what an atom is. Every time you examine it, it is different. It is composed of many parts. The determination has been made by quantum physics that the aspects of reality exist in a state that is not quite real. Our observance is what makes our reality. What does that tell us about our planet's existence? It is either goodby to man's invention of a supernatural universe; it is either goodby to today's controlling egomaniacs, either that or goodby to the planet Earth.

By knowing how it is, and by telling it like it is, I'm helped. Therefore, my final question: Is it so scary to take personal control of your life that you feel compelled leave it to authorities that would dare to take your sweat and give it to others for the vote? Thanks for the gift, folks. I hope you don't miss the money. I assure you that I'll enjoy spending your money as long as you are willing to give it to me.

We are finally in our new home in the tall timber near Mt. Hood---gone from full time RVing for nearly 9 years back to conventional life. What a job it has been! We are not as young as we were. Hopefully, this is our last move.

Basking in my new home, I'm reminded that in Early America at least white folks were independent. (Out of convenience, blacks were not.) Convention is always based on convenience, convenience for some, hell to pay for others. In today's America, the federal government has a duty to the individual, implemented by federal income tax. Conveniently, I'm a ward of the federal government, the American dream gone awry, taxpayers v. government entitled.  In today's America, the individual must prove he or she does not owe income tax. The right to exist on one's own labor is not accepted in U.S. federal courts as reason not to pay income tax.

Years back, I started over with nothing, with a minimum paying, entry-level job. My after tax pay would not pay for my basic existence. I was locked out of my one-room apartment for failure to pay my rent. A mile down the road from my pad there was a mile long food stamp line. I took the issue to federal court. No judge would hear the case of the right to exist on the fruits of my own labor. At the time, the IRS was demanding taxes I did not owe. The IRS is allowed limitless mistakes-free to take everything a taxpayer has, down to his toothbrush. However, in America, the land of the free and the brave, if one is government entitled the government must prove its case in court before it takes any of one's government entitlement.

Over the course of history, there has never been a society that remained personally responsible and free. In every single instance in history, the powerful have taken over and made slaves of the meek. Having been given the authority, American politicians have replaced rights that cannot be taken without the consent of the individual. They have replaced those with government entitlements. As a taxpayer, I was relegated to the street. As one of the government entitled, my fine new home and everything in it was purchased with taxpayer money.

Something you need to think about: Take particular note that in every totalitarian dictatorship, as in Iraq's, there are those favored and those persecuted. America is the pot calling the kettle black. American politicians have turned America into an imperialist fraud.

What do we know about the law? In quantum mechanics, we have the uncertainty principle. The atom, as a matter of fact, never looks the same upon repeated examination. From quantum mechanics, I learn that there is a dimension of infinite possibility, if you will, a higher law of nature. Our reality comes from observation. What I observe is my reality. In quantum mechanics, there is no such thing as objective reality. We have minds that think in quantum terms. ("And God said, Let us make man in our image." Gen. 1:26) What is the objective of the powerful? Well, of course, it is to serve themselves at everyone's expense. While universal law is one seamless mold, we've allowed ourselves to be compartmentalized-to continue to be man's great mistake.

It has been said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. A cardinal rule of life: Given the authority, no one is ever going to favor you above his or her own desires. When I was a working taxpayer, I did what I could to save my independence. It was a long, hard fight. Now I'm retired, a favored ward of the federal government. The future is your's to do with what you will.

This prophet, Joseph Whitworth Smith, was born in September 1925, probably the most significant month of modern times. I was born in the month and year that Hitler's atomic bomb builder, physicist Werner Heisenberg, published his uncertainty principle, which became the birth of quantum physics, a study of the smallest excitation of a quantized wave or field, as a photon or phonon. The uncertainty that begins with the smallest of excitations, including our lives, leaves change the only thing certain.

I was four years old when the stock market crashed and the authorities took it upon themselves to become our keepers. I was on the high seas heading for the invasion of Japan when the United States dropped two atom bombs on Japan and ended World War II.

The Bible is a record of man's place in the order of things. It begins with the creation of the heavens and Earth. Man was put on Earth in the image of his maker and given control of all other life. The Bible, the story of man's truth seeking wanderings, and never finding it, ends with the battle of Armageddon.

The prophets in the Bible tell us of authorities and their wars. The authorities are still making war. The simple truth remains buried within us. Instead of heeding our own truth, we've listened to authorities. A great change in thinking must come. Authorities now have the means of total annihilation of life on this planet.

Made in the image of our creator means made in a state of being. Ancient prophets perceived of our state of being. Modern science gives us facts and figures to prove our state of being; that is, indirect or in legal terms, circumstantial evidence-rather than personal knowledge or observation of the facts, evidence showing indirectly the facts sought to be proven. We are blessed with that gift of understanding. Hating change, however, we prefer to live in ignorance.

A state of being, rather than the status quo, brings us closer to the truth. Admittedly, materialism has served to bring us closer to the truth, but we must admit also that materialism leaves out conscious awareness. The cutting edge of science is aware of this. It admits consciousness into the mix of things. Conscious awareness is the beginning of all beginnings. Conscious awareness is the unifier, the order of happenings. Space, time, matter, and energy depend on perceptual participation of an observer, as it were, one made in the image of the Creator of all; no authority can better direct me.

Authority robs us all of our God-given rights and responsibilities. Until we turn to our own truths, we live under authority's manmade wheel of fortune, waiting for that lucky number to come up. Good luck on your choice of earthly authorities. This prophet takes note that most folks live in hope and die in despair.