"What's Going on in the World"

The Practical Solution
When asked, Maharaji said, "What is the practical solution? Well I think happiness is the practical solution. When everybody is happy, that's it!"
He also said, "I am the source of happiness in this world."
So here you go, go and get some happiness: http://thekeys.maharaji.net

I FORGOT TO PUT EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANI IN THE 2004 FORETELLING

Lo'ward, I tried to put the following text into the web page, but had technical prevention of a temporary nature; will add it later, time permitting:

Planet X (see preceding section) causes also earthquakings, tsunamis, and erupting of volcani, which I forgot to mention before. If you go to any of the tracking websites for these phenomena, you will see that the number and intensity of them have increased recently. Here is a copying of an email that I got today, about the Sumatran earthquaking:

To: <planetx2003@smartgroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 2:05 PMSubject: [planetx2003]
Entire Planet Vibrating from Quake --Seismographs all black around the world

The largest quake before this was a 9.5 by the old Richterscale.
This new quake by the old scale, even after the smoothedover numbers, was a 9.9 (8.9 new scale) and probably higher,which would make it the largest quake ever recorded withmodern instruments using the Richter scale (new or old) andprobably just the first of its kind.>> 9500+ and rising fast is the new death toll and it hasn'teven been 24 hours. The chance that over a hundred thousandwere killed increases based on these first reports.

Mark H[azelwood]
"All the planet is vibrating" from the quake, said EnzoBoschi, the head of Italy's National Geophysics Institute.Speaking on SKY TG24 TV, Boschi said the quake evendisturbed the Earth's rotation.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL177214.htm>> ----> Seismographs all black around the world

http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Data/heli2.shtm Asian Quake, Tsunami Death Toll Approaches 9,500

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7179822

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=360703>> S.Lanka tsunami kills 3,538, strands 750,000 more

SHOULD I TELL PEOPLE ABOUT PREM RAWAT?
Somebody emailed me and said I shouldn't put Maharaji's (Prem Rawat's) info beside the prophecies of calamities. I responded by asking what is the matter with including the solution along with the problem?

ART SHOW WITH LIVE MUSIC, LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC, AND GOSPEL SHOW
The second Sound and Symbol Symposium will be in Frostburg, MD, USA October 22, 23 2004. Here is a lincque: http://erikthevermilion.com/mandala.htm#shows

ERIK's PUBLIC APPEARANCE

2004
October 22, 23, Second Sound and Symbol Symposium, City Place, Water & Mechanic Streets, Frostburg, MD. Erik will sing bluegrass Saturday afternoon the 23rd, time not yet set. The schedule for rest of the program has not yet been set. Erik will probably sing more than once during the program, possibly with electronic accompaniment, or with other musicians. Look again here soon for updates on the schedule. Prints of his mandalas and paintings will be for sale there and then.

MANDALA ART SHOWS

2004

August 20, 21, City Place, Water & Mechanic Streets, Frostburg MD.  The Sound and Symbol Symposium will display all kinds of art, with live music and lectures about mandalas and about shape note singing.  4-12 pm Friday and 12-12 pm Saturday, Erik's art will be on display among the art of a host of other people.  There will be a potluck supper Saturday 7-9 pm.  Erik will sing Friday 9-10 pm and Saturday 5-6 pm.  Many attractions will be there.  See you there.

Here is what will be in the show:

Drawings, paintings, stained glass, collages, and/or other two dimensional static art.

Sculptures.

Many kinds of live music.

Potluck supper Saturday evening.

Shape note singing.  Email to me if you want to sing with us erik230@hotmail.com .

Card game of "spades".

Animation on computers.

Introductory talk about mandalas.

Talk - "Horoscopes as Mandalas".

Talk - "The Magic Circle of Osiris as a Medicine Wheel Mandala".

If you wish to participate in the show in any way, or to help to plan it, please email to me erik230@hotmail.com. 

SOLUTIONS

When the servants of God attain 100% response to our inner connection to the universal mainframe computer then we can use the planet Earth, and the network of those who consciously surrender their will to Christ 2 hours each day, as a base, from which we can forever fortify our experience of Divine bliss.

WHY SOME GET ABDUCTED AND SOME DON'T

Chief Researcher Branton has observed that those, who have given their hearts to Christ, never seem to be harassed by e.t.'s. I was abducted several times about the age of 5, and it was right after I took a grudge against God. Later, when I unthinkingly surrendered my will to Christ in church, my period of "everything going right" began. Later, when I was convinced, by a New York City "beatnik", to declare myself to be an atheist, my life began to fall apart until I became homeless, and was afterward "turned around" by a man who wasn't shy about referring to God in public speaking, and I owned once again God.

Now, whenever you hear about folks being abducted and implanted, and otherwise harassed, or folks working in underground bases, and later being killed, or victims of government/e.t. mutilation experiments or mind-control experiments, then you can infer that these are those who refused to accept the protection of Christ, and who, therefore, are left to their own powers.

I would advise against praying for protection for those who don't ask for it themselves. Then you take their karma, and their sufferings and their sins, and can you handle them?