As We Get Closer To The Truth, We Need To Look Out For This One Important Thing

‘Half-truths’ are the most trapping. These words come from Tobias Lars Jonsson, a well-known spiritual teacher residing in Sedona, Arizona. For the past 25 years he has been on a journey of spiritual study, spending time with master teachers in India, shamans in Southern America, as well as studying holistic concepts such as heart centered Tantra, ego confrontation, and the path of divine romantic love. During his journey, Lars experienced a series of ‘wake-up calls’ through business ‘failure,’ divorce and bankruptcy. These events were the catalyst for his societal emancipation which spanned over 5 years following the collapse of his career and marriage. It was during this withdrawal from day-to-day life that he experienced a new level of soul awakening, one that completely shifted his conscious perspective.

Today there is a collective interest being shown for Lars’ work, perhaps in part due to his “no BS” approach to spiritual awakening, an approach which sets Lars apart from the commonality of most spiritual educators.  His workshops and Youtube channel offer seekers practical knowledge about the shifting paradigm we are currently experiencing.

In one of his Youtube videos, Lars explains the dangers of half-truths, something that we all are prone to. “The closer you get to the truth,

Tobias Lars Jonsson; a spiritual teacher who offers practical tips in assisting with the global shift in consciousness.

the most trapping the half-truths can be”, Lars states. What is the half-truth Lars is referring to? It is the oldest trick in the book, still being used because it still works. Our soul, which is unlimited in its etheric energy (accessed through the 7 Chakra points), is being drained through the use of bait. The trap is anger and blame, an ego reaction. They (puppet masters) create a war in which we feed our energy against something, i.e. cancer, politics, health. We become a crusader against something rather than just being and enjoying our natural state.

We are light, and are full of light, but only potentially. Our etheric energy is being harvested for the most part, and in this case the puppet masters always win. Thus, a mechanism to bypass this harvesting is often followed by many spiritualists, a common trait Lars notices within the spiritual community. People will respond to the negativity of the world by saying ‘Well I’ll just ignore that and stay in peace.’  The problem with this, Lars goes on to explain, is similar to a problem one would have if they painted over toxic lead paint. The poison is still there. The problem and trauma is still there and needs to be released. He uses the analogy of swallowing a fish hook, “the hook needs to be removed in order to heal.”

All of us need to do the work of clearing karmic/egoic baggage, but in order to do this we need to face it first. Lars explains that through various methods we can truly face this baggage allowing us to release it for good. His personal account with the Amazonian brew ayahuasca has helped him to do this, he says.

“If you don’t pull out the hooks, you’re still hooked. You are still avoiding it.”

Lars explains that many spiritual teachings seem to avoid the cleansing aspect of soul work, teaching students to ‘rise above’ density. Instead, Lars promotes a simple concept to help people truly ‘win’.

“Let the evil trigger you. FEEL IT, FACE IT, and FREE IT. We cannot keep denying fear to truly be free and ascend.”

By using the power of alchemy, we can absorb these denser energies (anger, frustration, blame) and transform them into something beneficial for the whole. By understanding the trap that we pit ourselves in, we have the ability to free ourselves in ways we’ve never realized before. Much love <3

References:

http://www.sedonasoulcounseling.com/biography.php

http://www.youtube.com/user/tobiaslarsgunnar?feature=watch

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Washington State Edges Closer to Taxing Drivers by the Mile

Washington State Edges Closer to Taxing Drivers by the Mile
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Lawmakers ludicrously claim tax-per-mile needed to offset prevalence of fuel-efficient cars

Adan Salazar
Prison Planet.com
January 31, 2014

Lawmakers in Washington state are edging closer to implementing a new system that would monitor and tax drivers based on miles driven, under a new highway funding proposal.

Lawmakers claim tax-per-mile needed due to prevalence of fuel-efficient cars. / Image: Flickr

The Washington State Transportation Commission says the motor fuel tax, which currently pays for 76% of transportation investments, is unsustainable “over the long term.”

In a dizzying twist of logic, the Transportation Commission blames the prevalence of fuel-efficient cars as the reason the state now needs a per-mile tax, arguing that “the move to cleaner, smarter vehicles must be accompanied by a change in the way we pay for our roads.”

“According to the study, drivers could be charged three ways; either with a flat-fee, by having odometers checked, or with an electronic device installed in cars to measure how many miles are driven,” a King 5 News report states.

Last week, a committee set up by the Transportation Commission, after conducting a $ 1.4 million study, reported the fee could generate upwards of $ 3 billion. By 2015, Wasington lawmakers hope to roll out a pilot program in order to gauge the amount of public resistance to the new tax.

As expected, however, not everyone is happy with the idea of having to pitch in to help the state. “I choose to drive a car that takes less gas,” Portland resident Hayley Ramerman says, “so I think I shouldn’t have to be charged more because I’m choosing to drive a car that is more fuel efficient.”

Others are concerned the technology used by the state to monitor driving habits poses broad privacy rights violations. “[I]t’s the “black box” system in particular that’s untenable: It would force us to surrender our privacy,” Mark Perry, a scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, said last year. “Each day more and more of us are required to tell government agencies more and more about ourselves. Do we really want the government collecting data about driving habits?”

Last year, Oregon launched its own tax-per-mile scheme and began charging drivers a 1.5 cent fee. And it’s going to get worse before it gets any better.

“The incentive for states to pursue this kind of program could build as cars become more fuel efficient, especially considering President Obama wants new vehicles to get 54.5 mpg by 2025, up from the average now of 23.5 mpg’s,” according to a report filed by Fox News.

Boiling frog anecdote used to convince Washingtonians that tax-per-mile is needed.

In an informational produced by the Transportation Commission, the anecdote of the boiling frog is used to relate how the rise of fuel-efficient vehicles will spell certain disaster for highway funding efforts. It also lists other states considering implementation of a similar tax, states like Nevada, Minnesota, Colorado and California and a stretch of Highway I-95 which runs from Maine to Florida.

As Infowars and others have exposed, these measures have been long in coming. Since as early as 1997, radio host Alex Jones has been warning of a plan to put GPS tracking devices in all vehicles. Now people, like the executive director of the Southern California Assn. of Governments, are claiming “This really is a must for our nation.”

Since 2004, state legislators have waged an uphill battle attempting to convince citizens to sign on to similar taxes. According to one non-scientific poll, conducted by a local TV station in California, however, 95 percent of viewers, out of 339 people who voted, were against the tax.

In the grander scheme, the plan to tax per mile ultimately follows goals set forth in the United Nation’s notorious Agenda 21 action plan, which among other things purportedly seeks to “Encourage economic policies conducive to sustainable development.”

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US forces move closer to Syria as options weighed

FILE – In this Aug. 22, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Syracuse, N.Y. President Barack Obama says a possible chemical weapons attack in Syria this week is a “big event of grave concern” that has hastened the timeframe for determining a U.S. response. He said it is going to “require America’s attention.” While he appeared to signal some greater urgency in responding, his comments were largely in line with his previous statements throughout the two-year conflict.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

FILE – In this Aug. 22, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Syracuse, N.Y. President Barack Obama says a possible chemical weapons attack in Syria this week is a “big event of grave concern” that has hastened the timeframe for determining a U.S. response. He said it is going to “require America’s attention.” While he appeared to signal some greater urgency in responding, his comments were largely in line with his previous statements throughout the two-year conflict.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. naval forces are moving closer to Syria as President Barack Obama considers military options for responding to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Assad government. The president emphasized that a quick intervention in the Syrian civil war was problematic, given the international considerations that should precede a military strike.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel declined to discuss any specific force movements while saying that Obama had asked the Pentagon to prepare military options for Syria. U.S. defense officials told The Associated Press that the Navy had sent a fourth warship armed with ballistic missiles into the eastern Mediterranean Sea but without immediate orders for any missile launch into Syria.

U.S. Navy ships are capable of a variety of military action, including launching Tomahawk cruise missiles, as they did against Libya in 2011 as part of an international action that led to the overthrow of the Libyan government.

“The Defense Department has a responsibility to provide the president with options for contingencies, and that requires positioning our forces, positioning our assets, to be able to carry out different options — whatever options the president might choose,” Hagel told reporters traveling with him to Asia.

Hagel said the U.S. is coordinating with the international community to determine “what exactly did happen” near Damascus earlier this week. According to reports, a chemical attack in a suburb of the capital killed at least 100 people. It would be the most heinous use of chemical weapons since Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein gassed thousands of Kurds in the town of Halabja in 1988.

Hagel left little doubt that he thinks the attack in Syria involved chemical weapons, although he stressed there is not yet a final answer. In discussing the matter, he said, “it appears to be what happened — use of chemical weapons.”

The United Nations disarmament chief, Angela Kane, arrived in Damascus on Saturday to press the Syrian government to allow U.N. experts to investigate the alleged chemical attacks.

Obama remained cautious about getting involved in a war that has killed more than 100,000 people and now includes Hezbollah and al-Qaida. He made no mention of the “red line” of chemical weapons use that he marked out for Syrian President Bashar Assad a year ago and that U.S. intelligence says has been breached at least on a small scale several times since.

“If the U.S. goes in and attacks another country without a U.N. mandate and without clear evidence that can be presented, then there are questions in terms of whether international law supports it — do we have the coalition to make it work?” Obama said Friday. “Those are considerations that we have to take into account.”

Obama conceded in an interview on CNN’s “New Day” program that the episode is a “big event of grave concern” that requires American attention. He said any large-scale chemical weapons usage would affect “core national interests” of the United States and its allies. But nothing he said signaled a shift toward U.S. action.

U.S. defense officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss ship movements publicly. But if the U.S. wants to send a message to Assad, the most likely military action would be a Tomahawk missile strike, launched from a ship in the Mediterranean.

For a year now, Obama has threatened to punish Assad’s regime if it resorted to its chemical weapons arsenal, among the world’s vastest, saying use or even deployment of such weapons of mass destruction constituted a “red line” for him. A U.S. intelligence assessment concluded in June chemical weapons have been used in Syria’s civil war, but Washington has taken no military action against Assad’s forces.

U.S. officials have instead focused on trying to organize a peace conference between the government and opposition. Obama has authorized weapons deliveries to rebel groups, but none are believed to have been sent so far.

In his first comments on Syria since the alleged chemical attack, Obama said the U.S. is still trying to find out what happened. Hagel said Friday that a determination on the chemical attack should be made swiftly because “there may be another attack coming,” although he added that “we don’t know” whether that will happen.

After rebels similarly reported chemical attacks in February, U.S. confirmation took more than four months. In this instance, a U.N. chemical weapons team is already on the ground in Syria. Assad’s government, then as now, has rejected the claims as baseless.

Obama also cited the need for the U.S. to be part of a coalition in dealing with Syria. America’s ability by itself to solve the Arab country’s sectarian fighting is “overstated,” he said.

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AP National Security Writer Robert Burns was traveling with Hagel. AP writers Josh Lederman and Lolita C. Baldor in Washington contributed to this report.

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Biden Meets India’s Leaders to Promote Closer Ties

NEW DELHI — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. held a parade of meetings Tuesday with India’s top political leaders, but the most important part of his trip to India will begin Wednesday when he is expected to discuss with India’s business elite in Mumbai the growing concerns about India’s economy.

Mr. Biden started his trip Monday afternoon with a visit to the memorial to Mohandas K. Gandhi, who is considered India’s founding father. Mr. Biden wrote a tribute to Mr. Gandhi in the visitor’s book, calling Mr. Gandhi “one man who changed the world.”

On Tuesday, Mr. Biden held meetings with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari and Sushma Swaraj, a leader of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. A banquet in Mr. Biden’s honor was scheduled for Tuesday night, after which he was scheduled to fly to India’s financial capital, Mumbai.

Mr. Biden’s trip is part of a long-term effort to convince India’s officials and people that the days when Pakistan, India’s longtime rival, was the United States’ favorite friend in South Asia are over. Mr. Biden’s trip is the first by an American vice president in nearly 30 years, and it comes one month after Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to New Delhi, the capital, to discuss climate change and diplomacy.

But Mr. Biden is expected to deliver more than just happy talk about the growing strategic and cultural ties between the United States and India. While in Mumbai, he is expected to voice growing concerns about India’s economy and its openness to foreign investment before leaving for Singapore Thursday night.

Investors from the United States and around the globe once flocked to India, drawn by its rapid economic growth, gradual economic liberalization and huge population. But in the last decade, many American companies have found the going far tougher than expected, and their complaints are beginning to resonate in Washington.

The problems that companies confront here — endemic corruption, shifting government rules and poor infrastructure, among others — seemed less dire when the Indian economy was growing at a blistering rate. But growth has slowed to 5 percent over the past year, and those issues have become far greater irritants.

Mr. Biden’s complaints about India’s investment climate are likely to be greeted with some sympathy in Mumbai, since even Indian companies have begun looking for growth outside their country’s borders. Investments by both foreign and domestic companies have fallen over the last five years to 31 percent of the country’s gross domestic product from nearly 38 percent, said Subir Gokarn, director of research at Brookings India, with crucial sectors like manufacturing and mining doing especially poorly.

The prime minister, Mr. Singh, acknowledged in a speech to a prominent business group here on Friday that the nation’s economy was under stress.

“We, like most other countries, are going through a difficult period,” Mr. Singh said in his barely audible whisper. “I know that business is deeply concerned about the slowdown in our economy.”

The Indian rupee has lost about 9 percent of its value against the dollar in recent months, a decline exceeded only by the Brazilian real among major emerging market currencies. India has substantial budget and current account deficits, and inflation is running at nearly 10 percent annually.

The country’s central bank has been faced with the difficult task of defending the currency by trying to raise short-term interest rates without pushing up long-term rates, which would further slow growth. But the Reserve Bank of India took the unusual step last week of withdrawing a bond sale after investors insisted on interest rates that were higher than the government’s bankers wanted to pay.

Ajay Shah, a professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy in New Delhi, said these problems guaranteed that India’s era of rapid economic growth would not return for many years.

“There’s been a tremendous collapse in confidence,” Mr. Shah said.

India’s government has taken steps to put its fiscal house in order by reducing fuel subsidies, a hugely expensive program that largely benefits the rich. Last week, the government announced a loosening of restrictions on certain foreign investments.

But national elections scheduled for next year are likely to mean that the government will be loath to make additional cuts to popular welfare projects, said Sreeram Chaulia, a professor and dean at the Jindal School of International Affairs. A new food security bill could even expand such social spending significantly.

“Right now, this government is concerned about winning the next election,” Mr. Chaulia said.

Mr. Biden also intends to push India for further defense cooperation and more arms purchases from the United States, according to a senior Obama administration official.

India has long resisted becoming too close to the American military. But recent border tensions between India and China have jangled nerves in New Delhi and made officials here strive to improve India’s defense manufacturing abilities, something the United States has said it could help achieve.

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Fed suggests it"s closer to slowing bond purchases

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, before a Joint Economic Committee hearing on “The Economic Outlook”. Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to end its extraordinary stimulus programs. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, before a Joint Economic Committee hearing on “The Economic Outlook”. Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to end its extraordinary stimulus programs. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it’s moving closer to slowing its bond-buying program, which is intended to keep long-term interest rates at record lows.

Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed could start scaling back its $ 85 billion in monthly bond purchases later this year if the economy continues to improve. He said the reductions would occur in “measured steps” and that the purchases could end by the middle of next year.

He spoke at a news conference after the Fed ended a two-day policy meeting.

After a two-day meeting, the Fed voted to continue the pace of its bond-buying program for now. But it offered a more optimistic outlook for the U.S. economy and job market.

Investors reacted by selling both stocks and bonds. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 90 points shortly after Bernanke’s news conference began. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note shot up to 2.27 percent from 2.21 percent just before the statement came out.

In the statement, the Fed says the economy is growing moderately. And for the first time it said the “downside risks to the outlook” had diminished since fall.

Timothy Duy, a University of Oregon economist who tracks the Fed, calls the statement “an open door for scaling back asset purchases as early as September.”

The fact that the Fed foresees less downside risk to the job market “gives them a reason to pull back” on its bond purchases, Duy says.

The Fed says it will keep buying $ 85 billion a month in bonds until the outlook for the job market improves substantially. The goal is to lower long-term interest rates to encourage borrowing, spending and investing. It hasn’t defined substantially.

The central bank also said that it would maintain its plan to keep short-term rates at record lows at least until unemployment reaches 6.5 percent.

The Fed also said that inflation was running below its 2 percent long-run objective, but noted that temporary factors were partly the reason.

The Fed also released its latest economic projections on Wednesday, which predicted that unemployment will fall a little faster this year, to 7.2 percent or 7.3 percent at the end of 2013 from 7.6 percent now. It thinks the rate will be between 6.5 percent and 6.8 percent by the end of 2014, better than its previous projection of 6.7 percent to 7 percent.

“The more upbeat tone and the change in the unemployment forecast will only encourage expectations for action soon,” Jim O’Sullivan, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, wrote in a research note. “We continue to believe that tapering could start at the Sept. 17-18 meeting.”

The Fed said inflation could run as low as 0.8 percent this year. But the Fed predicts it will pick up next year to between 1.4 percent and 2 percent.

The statement was approved on a 10-2 vote. James Bullard, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, objected for the first time this year, saying he wanted a stronger commitment from the Fed to keep inflation from falling too low.

Esther George objected for the fourth time this year, again voicing concerns about inflation rising too quickly.

The ultra-low rates engineered by the Fed have helped fuel a housing comeback, support economic growth, drive stocks to record highs and restore the wealth America lost to the recession.

Financial markets have been gyrating in the four weeks since Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress the Fed might scale back its effort to keep long-term rates at record lows within “the next few meetings”— earlier than many had assumed.

Bernanke cautioned that the Fed would slow its support only if it felt confident the job market would show sustained improvement. And he also told lawmakers that the Fed must take care not to prematurely reduce its stimulus for the still-subpar economy.

The Fed announced after its September meeting that it would purchase $ 40 billion a month in mortgage bonds for as long as it deems necessary. And in December, the Fed expanded the program to $ 85 billion a month, adding $ 45 billion a month in Treasury bond purchases. The Treasury purchases replaced an expiring bond-purchase program.

Job growth picked up after the Fed announced the latest round of bond purchases. Since October, the economy has added an average of 196,500 jobs a month, up from 157,000 a month in the previous eight months.

Last month, the U.S. economy added a solid 175,000 jobs. But the unemployment rate is still high at 7.6 percent. Economists tend to regard the job market as healthy when unemployment is between 5 percent and 6 percent.

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