Here's a quirky story: Recently, I was talking with someone in the midst of a fragmentation crisis and one of the things they said that gave me cause for pause was that the CIA owned facebook.

My initial response was to reject the statement but when I thought about it, what I thought was, "Yes, but wouldn't that be damned clever of the CIA?"

I'm reminded too of a different story I read several years ago. I can't recall all the exact details but the basic gist was that a woman had agreed to appear on one of those tell-all talk shows. The subject of that particular talk show was family members who are mentally ill. The woman's complaint was that her mother was schizophrenic and in preparation for the show, her mother's home had been fitted with a number of hidden cameras and microphones. What that equipment captured was the frequent complaint of the mother that she could not trust her daughter and felt that she was being continually watched and monitored by her.

Sometimes, schizophrenic folk can be remarkably intuitive even if it what they have to say "sounds" way out there. I try to remember that.

As for the government... if they are listening, let's hope they're listening in a manner that would allow them to actually hear what "We, the People..." are saying.

~ Namaste

See also: The Relevance of Visionary Experience to Culture