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A Vision . . . Redux

7/24/2015

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I wrote this piece, "A Vision" . . . 8 years ago. The world I described was considered at the time "too bleak" and also extremely "unlikely"

this was before the housing crisis, before the bank bailouts, back when the economy was still humming although just on the verge of starting to stall

one point to note is my description of the police . . . again, back then, this caused a certain amount of commotion and had people calling me all sorts of names . . . and none of them included unicorns or happy thoughts

anyway, my vision of the future, reposted one more time

(Originally Posted: September 19, 2007)

Rather than give a high-level picture of my "vision" of the future, I want to first give my "opinions" as to some current issues impacting what I believe is likely to happen going forward. Be forewarned, though, my picture of the future--at least the American future--is not all Mom and Apple Pie and Manifest Destiny. I think things here are going to be just a little bit "stressful".

So, first things first: 9/11.

I think this is the dividing line, the Rorschach for the inner state of America and Americans--did the planes knock down the towers or was there something more sinister at work?

That is THE question and how one answers it says a lot about what they are likely to do and think going forward.

Here is my "likely 9/11 scenario".

1) I believe the towers were brought down by internal explosives. I could MAYBE be persuaded Towers One and Two fell down because of the fires from the planes but there is NO WAY building Seven was anything BUT a controlled demolition.

The Pentagon raises some interesting questions--the main one being: "where is the fucking plane?" We can go on from there, too; why is the lawn still perfectly green, why hide the videos from around the area, how could ANY pilot, much less a hack trained on a prop plane and video games at Chuck E. Cheese's, make those maneuvers in a plane so big, how come the hole doesn't show evidence of the wings hitting the building (hey I watched "Who Framed Roger Rabbit") and on and on and ON.

Norad--how come the Air Force didn't intercept these planes? I guarantee you if you get in a plane tomorrow and fly it over the Pentagon you will have company pretty damn fast.

And all the weird comings and goings in the Towers in the weeks leading up to 9/11 PLUS all the insurance money PLUS the fact that the Towers were old and in need of a very EXPENSIVE make-over . . . well, you get the point.

I am a Truther. The official story is ridiculous but hey if you must believe it, you simply must and not much is likely to change your mind.

But . . . even with all the evidence, literal or conjectural, both current and sure to come forth in the future, I don't think any of that matters because I think the powers that be are already firmly in place and nothing any of us can do will change it. Bush is not going to get impeached, no one is going to let the flaming cat out of the bag, the lies and distortions will continue. Period. It is too late to do anything about THAT.

2) The Patriot Act and all subsequent legislation was drafted and ready to roll. All that was needed was a "Pearl Harbor" like event to help do the bait and switch and push it through. I called the bill almost the day I learned of it "The Gestapo Bill" and that, pretty much in a nutshell, is what I think of it.

To enforce the Gestapo Bill one really needs . . . the Gestapo . . . and so I would expect two things to happen more and more in the days ahead. Police Officers will have a distinct military, Special Forces "kick your ass" attitude (and probably the pedigree to support it) and the use of force will kick in like never before.

Intimidation, brutality, arrests for trivial shit--welcome to the U S of A. As more and more thugs and psychotics get jobs (since the standards are likely to change as to who gets hired to be a policeman) then the chances of violence and harassment will go up. Just watch an old movie about Germans attacking Jews or Gypsies or Communists on the streets of Berlin in 1937 and you'll see what I think is going to happen.

And that IS what I think, too.

3) Every time a new "enemy" needs to be subjugated then expect a new, smaller more compact (i.e. less expensive) 9/11 to precede it. This is a very dark time and likely to get much much worse.

As the need to bomb Iran and start a whole new wave of murky Blackwater dealings revs up I think it very likely that an internal "split" begins to appear in both the fabric of American life as well as the internal psyche of many Americans. In a time of madness it is perfectly legitimate to expect many of us to, literally, go mad.

Fear is a terrible thing, especially when you're not quite sure what EXACTLY to be afraid of.

****

Prophecies for the future: Nostradamus, The Mayan Calendar, the Hopis, et al consistently point to a cleansing period leading up to a rebirth—the end of the ego, the end of history. I think the next five years are going to be just that—a big ass colonic to the world.

Rivers rise, the earth shakes, the winds blow and blow and blow, cold today an oven tomorrow weather that is just plain STRANGE. Creatures that were everywhere a few years back will vanish, the eco-system will attempt to restore balance, and that "balancing act" will make for some interesting times for all of us trying to "control" nature in order that we might continue to live comfortable, predictable lives.

Mother Nature is bigger than you and me and if she sees some of us as fleas on her back then she is more than capable of shaking us off.

*****

Neither a borrower nor a lender be—especially if the one holding your marker happens to be China. I think the US is likely to start getting a lot of collection calls from all over the world pretty soon and it is almost certain that those calls are going to be placed on speed dial to the "average" American who will be asked to step up and foot the bill for the excesses of the super-rich who caused this mess in the first place.

It will be harder and harder to buy homes and therefore people on the bubble, expecting rising equity to save them, may have some hard times ahead. Even the token lowering of the interest rates is (to me anyway) a biscuit given to the dog after the evil master kicks him. Oh thank you thank you for this scrap—a designed game, like a crap game, with odds favoring the house, a game you might win but odds are greater that at the end of the day the house will end up holding the pot—the one you would like to piss in but can no longer afford.

*****

The wars will continue, killing innocents will continue, half truths and flat out lies will continue and the world will fall further and further down the rabbit hole to hell. I believe the primary issue for all of us going forward is how do we react to all the killing and destruction that is being driven by leaders of our own country—the country that was once the light of the world.

This is a spiritual crisis, more than anything and the only thing (I believe) that matters is how we deal with the spiritual side of our lives.

A respect for the earth, a respect for all people no matter where they come from or what color they are or what language they speak, and a respect for one's self. It is too easy to hate one's self when staring at so much violence and bigotry and falsehood.

In a time of madness it is OK to be slightly mad but the trick, I think, is to try to find the spiritual core to balance that out. Love is the answer and right now we live in a time of hate and that hatred will only get worse as more and more things TO HATE appear before us.

I joked last night about my new invention: "The Armageddon Alarm Clock", set to go off six hours before the end of the world—so that we can all repent and pray for forgiveness. Some of us may have a longer list than others but I think six hours should HOPEFULLY be plenty.

But honestly the best course of action for all of us going forward is respect and love for one another. Tolerance and forgiveness and love, that is what is most important. The world is spinning out of control—fast. All we can do is right our own ship the best we can and showing a respect for the earth, for God, and for one another is (I think) a good place to start.
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Crazy leaves a mark

7/22/2015

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overheard two young very loud very animated young women yesterday (and yes I know I said "young" twice) in the thrift store tallking about their "relationships"

I wanted to say "hey, you can't love away crazy"

which is true not only in a general sense but specific and highly targeted wisdom

for the two of them

but I am not the Long Island Medium so I kept quiet

but again, Dating Advice 101 (#307) -- "crazy leaves a mark"

it also doesn't always "wash off" if it rubs up against you

too many times

either

. . . just saying :)
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Transiting Jupiter . . . Say Hello to Mr. Pluto

7/22/2015

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sooooo Pluto -- Lord of the Underworld crossing of souls across the River Styx etc etc

and in Astrology, something of a trickster, and a big ole "karma pointer" in the chart

last night, Jupiter (by transit) conjuncted my natal Pluto at 25 degrees 46 minutes of Leo, where it is parked at the very bottom of my natal chart (my 4th house cusp is 24 degrees 45 minutes of Leo, so Pluto is 1 degree and 1 minute of arc away from exact)

anyway . . . last night, Jupiter transited Pluto and it was (as you might theorize) sort of "interesting"

over the past two days, I have had not one, not two but (literally) four separate instances in which items on shelves in the thrift store JUMPED off the shelves

right in front of me and crashed to the floor . . . 1, 2, 3, 4 TIMES

in 2 days . . . all 4-5 feet in front of me, all on my right side, all with not a soul (ok, not a LIVING soul) anywhere near them

last night, I was here "talking" about my shopping experience when who but the Psychic Chef, Peter Cheffie Anthony, shows up and "describes" the girl knocking things to the floor

she was an old girl friend and a true soul mate who tragically hung herself when she was only 35 years old

sooooooo, Calin "shows up" just as Jupiter hits Pluto

and to add to the woo-woo, Calin and I met when we worked for a 900 Psychic Line back in 1992; we couldn't use our real names so we had to pick names

mine was "Obsidian", as in big black rock

but Calin's was Eluesis, as in the Eleusinian Mysteries

so Pete was telling me about this "red-haired girl" who knew me "when I had hair" and "did a TV show"

and well there you go

wow meets woo !!
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Calin

7/22/2015

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Death isn't the end

Sometimes you have "connections" -- they're fast, they're intense . . and they mean "something"

. . . profound

not all "soul mates" are romantic and some that are off the chain sparks flying wallpaper steaming hott

don't last . . . but true soul connections are "rare" and you sort of know right off

for the past days, I have literally been walking in the aisles of Valley Thrift and seen items right in front of me

JUMP off the shelves

and crash . . . not once, but 4 separate occasions, over two days . . . each time no around and the item was about 4-5 feet ahead of me, also always on my right side

a good friend from our radio talk show days is Peter Cheffie Anthony, the "Psychic Chef"

and he showed up last night and started describing the red-haired girl who looked like Rita Hayworth

who was breaking the stuff in Aisle 5

he also said she "knew me when I had hair" and she was connected to me when I did my TV show gig 25 years ago

my first thought was of Jenilee Harrison, Suzanne Somers' replacement in "Three's Company", who was a co-host of the show and with whom I had a rather interesting, brief but intense, "connection" while we were filming

but Jenilee is still alive and well and then -- poof, it hit me who it was

I am including the text of a blog I wrote about this "soul mate" of mine, someone who loved me a lot as I did her

but my life situation was "complicated" and so I chose not to run off with this beautiful young girl -- although God knows I thought about it a lot

we would occasionally cross paths over the years . . . and that chemistry spark love thing never once left . . . tragically, Calin hung herself when she was only 35 years old frown emoticon

. . . here is the text of a my blog a few years back "Suicide Girl"

plus a link to Calin's virtual memorial

. . . A name from the past, literally, sort of out of nowhere, just "popped" in my head a few minutes ago -- someone I hadn't thought of in years. It turns out this Friday is the fifth anniversary of her death. A beautiful, but tragic, girl, Calin hung herself October 28, 2006. She was only 35 years old. I tracked down Calin's "virtual memorial" and found something I'd written online just a few days after her death frown emoticon

. . . I saw Calin for the last time 3 years ago and she was still the ultimate ultimate beauty that I remembered.

I had been thinking about her a lot over the past few days before she died--which I normally didn't do. When my friend Vanessa called me I told her I had been thinking about Calin for the past three or four days and that I saw a picture of a girl who looked just like Calin. Vanessa said something to the effect of "well that is Calin's way of saying goodbye to you, to make you remember".

I met Calin when we both worked for a 900 psychic line in 1992. We quickly became friends and then just as quickly much more than friends.

Calin was a beautiful girl who, literally, stopped traffic--I saw it happen more than once--and who back then was often mistaken for the actress Tawny Kitaen.

I wrote some words about her right after I heard Calin was gone. It is like a mini-eulogy, I guess, and I want to share it with you. I think all of us who knew her and loved her will be happy that we did have her for whatever period we did as part of our lives.

Here is my brief little list of Calin's "good things":

Calin was a nice person She liked animals She was friendly to people She didn't look down on people in need She was very loving She was a good runner She was empathic She was beautiful She was good with horses She loved me I loved her.

Calin was a beautiful spiritual wild child who used her very obvious physical beauty and sweet spirit to win over the hearts and minds of those around her. Calin was funny--sometimes really funny--with a great laugh and that sultry Sally Kellerman voice and so as a boy trying to get her attention I did everything I knew to make her laugh and find me entertaining.

I think you would have liked her. She was a good person and was kind to strangers and animals and any "stray" that came along. She had a lot of sadness and "issues" with her childhood and I think that sadness colored everything she ever did.

I will miss her--even though I never ever see her anymore and would not really expect to. Still I miss the fact that somewhere such a beautiful soul, with such incredible sparkle and energy, is not lighting up some room and making some other boy catch his quickening breath somewhere else on our same earth. Life was better with Calin. Not everyone shared that opinion but incredible people tend to elicit incredible responses from others. I loved her and I know she loved me. I will truly truly miss her.


http://www.virtual-memorials.com/main.php?action=view&mem_id=6869


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I don't believe in the Devil

7/21/2015

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I don't believe in the Devil, I don't believe in dark spirits, fallen angels, or Hell

I do believe people, all people, are inherently good

and most of the issues in the world that are "negative" come about from too many people spending too much time listening to others talk about . . . the Devil, dark spirits, fallen angels and going to Hell

my unicorn is half full !!

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What is Behind Door Number Two

7/21/2015

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I can support you . . . Or be a diva and pout and hold my breath until I see you are supporting me

No guarantees with Option One but an absolute guarantee what happens with Option Two

Relationships are about choices; choose wisely

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In the Driver's Seat

7/20/2015

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relationships with friends OR lovers are best served when you (a) know what you want and (b) have enough confidence in yourself to believe you are worthy to receive it

but the caveat / entry fee for receiving is to know yourself well enough

to know that "what you want"

comes from within you

. . . and wasn't planted as an idea by someone else

until you know what you want -- and go about consciously making it happen

relationships will be wishy-washy far more often than not

as you are then looking for the relationship to define your "reaction" rather than having your intention (grounded in actual "self-awareness")

drive the dynamics of how you interact and get along

that "letting the relationship drive" mentality is the mind-set of the "co-dependent"

always a bad place to be

. . . you have to be "in the moment" and not lost in space

ultimately, strong relationships are built on strong partners

who know themselves
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Tell Me True

7/19/2015

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people will tell you who they are

you can believe them -- or pretend they're lying

either option is available

. . . however, one works better than the other

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Channel Clicker

7/19/2015

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those who are "echoes" of your "limitations"

. . . need the volumes turned down on their "particular dials"

there is no quicker path to making positive things happen

than simply saying "get out of my head"

and if the voices keep blaring . . . you have two choices

listen

. . . or change channels

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Reunion

7/17/2015

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it is possible, if not (to me) quite likely . . . that we go though certain "romantic trials" in order to better understand the nature of LOVE and also better understand the specific factors underlying why a person is

. . . as "they is"

so that we can embrace their "stuff" and love them when they need to be loved . . . the most

if such concepts as "soul groups", "soul pods", "soul contracts" and -- a term for which my definitions veer sharply from the norm: "soul mates" and . . . "twin flames"

are true . . . it is quite possible that the trains of each can run wild through the forest for years and years only to be brought into alignment through the "help" of their soul "buddies"

who bump into them when they most need to be "bumped"

I am a firm believer in the universe's unicorn being (at least) "half full" not half empty

and I believe the situation I describe above is not only possible . . . but something which happens quite often

and for just the reasons I've outlined
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