Relax with Wuh Lax

Give yourself and your children a chance to escape with a good book. As the author of the Wuh Lax series, I can think of no better way to relax than to read the Wuh Lax story and learn what the Cosmic Lantern is all about. You will be able to sit quiety in your arm chair in the evening with a soft light over your left shoulder sipping a mug of coffee or cup of tea transported back to another period of history.

As you read, you will be challenged to piece together the mysteries that the Wuh Lax series present. Wuh is a human being, but you will learn that he has been invited to join the world of the night as a ghost or an apprentice ghost, but no ordinary circle of ghosts, but the highest circle possible, a circle that we all eventually must join, the circle of the waves of light.

The Wuh Lax series is no light read, but challenges us to think with each chapter. You and your children will begin to appreciate many of the challenges that have faced peoples in earlier times when there were no easy answers to the invisible veil separating our world from the hidden world of the ethereal that all sense, but cannot adequately define.

Weathering the Financial Storms Yet to Come

There are storms of many kinds: snow storms such as covered the Eastern portions of North America and financial storms that cover the globe. You might ask why the US economy when it is producing so much in the way of armaments has such a slow growth relative to other countries. The means that armaments could be taking a largish share of the productive capacity. Is military spending government spending, and who pays for it? When? And, obviously, who dies for it?

Let no one underestimate the present costs of the 'war' on terror. They are very high, and produce little in the way of actual commodities, unless one thinks of security as a commodity. Well, one way to think of it is that security assists in retain what we have.

In the next decade, our costs for energy have to rise to make it attractive to invest in alternatives without a CO2 creating effect. Companies that have not already invested in such technologies do not see them as business opportunities, but as unwanted business costs.

When we grow plants to create fuel that is one thing, but if we grew plants to sweeten our environment that would be another. It is important that we learn from our mistakes and redirect people towards using the soil in their neighbourhood more effectively as they invest in planting around their homes and in creating areas near homes that will attract clouds and rainfall, then use the water more effectively and cleanly without run off to pollution. Don't let your home be a source of pollutant. Capture your water and use it for your plants. Grow gardens and trees. Reduce your grassland and replace them with forest and long term slow growing trees like oak. If we do that we can have our cake and eat it too.

The Law of Three Forces

Rev. William Reed Lake

of Lowville, Ontario

Gurdjieff, the thinker and teacher of philosophy, refers to the Law of Three Forces. His work is discussed in the various issues of the Gurdjieff Review. Other books can be bought at Fields Bookstore, or if you wish, a visit to Foyles in London, England. Foyles, was once the world's largest bookstore, but is now the world most famous bookstore.

The Law of Three Forces is a very ancient belief tradition. The Holy Trinity is the Christian expression of the law of three.

The law of three is but one aspect of the teaching of some very ancient schools, which Gurdjieff summarized as 'the work.'

My father, the Reverend William Reed Lake was a devout Christian, who lived to be 94 years of age and served as a missionary in Chapelton, Jamaica. His predessor was Rev. S.A Selby. Dad worked along side Rev. Lawrence Squires, of Lymington, England. He would say how important it was to begin your day properly, that the thoughts of one's waking hours defined the way you lived your life. He believed in the work, as did his father, and his grandfather.

What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate

So often, we say things that others hear and interpret in entirely different ways from what we intended. So it is with artists that seek to be creative. When artists speak, they often do it through their paintings or pictures. Each viewer interprets the image seen in a different way. Speakers say something, but by the time it reaches the region of understanding, the content has been adjusted by uncious parts of our mind that do things at speeds that would make us shudder. And, they do things behind our back, literally, quickly, and quietly. Such is the processing that goes on in our brains that we are really lucky if we understand anything properly. Ever take classes at university and try to reconstruct a lecture?

I don't think that many of my readers understand what I am actually saying, or as my brother told me they form a view of me that says to themselves that I am a bit of a buffoon and that they know better. That is not what my writing is all about. And, when I say that I want you to think about things and what you read, I am probably saying something that you do not understand in the same way that I do. So let me explain.

I do not have the answers that you seek. You have the answers. The challenge is that although you have the answers, you may not realize that many of them are more directional, than technical. You may be heading in the wrong direction and can not find what you are seeking because you are aiming at the wrong things. In order to gain the best direction for you, it is important to allow your brain to form new thought patterns and awareness's that did not formerly exist.

This is almost impossible without some technique. As a wonderful thinker and the author of the Tertium Organum: A Key to the Enigmas of the World, P. D. Ouspenski would say, a key to creativity and discovery of the miraculous is the process of remembering yourself. If you forget yourself, you become yourself and forget that you are being driven by the many chemicals churning around inside your head that try to deliberately make you forget yourself, namely the habit chemicals, the addictive chemicals, the old ways that are automatic and do not let you understand who you really are and what you are really capable of being.

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C'est tout ce que vous devrez probablement faire. Que Wooh espère pouvoir faire au cours de la prochaine année est de fournir une mine d'informations unique en son genre, un éclairage sur les royaumes cachés de la conscience et des réalités qu'on ne voit pas normalement, les interprétations de l'environnement des paysages, des impressions d'artiste verbes, images, sons, et du mouvement. Ce que je dis dans mon blog sera original, raisonnablement bien informé et plein d'opinion personnelle basée sur une lecture et d'une eclectical esprit.
Utiliser mon blog endroit pour commencer vos recherches, trouver des informations économiques, et faites une pause café à penser de façon créative. Il ya beaucoup plus sur le chemin, et je suis heureux d'être au service de vous. Si vous avez des suggestions sane s’il vous plaît à les transmettre à mon égard.

Arthur

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What Wooh hopes to do over the next year is provide a wealth of unique information, insights into hidden realms of consciousness and normally unseen realities, interpretations of environmental landscapes, artist impressions of verbs, images, sounds, and motion. What I say in my blogs will be original, reasonably well informed and full of personal opinion based on widespread reading and of an eclectical mind.

Use my blog spot to begin your searches, find economic information, and have a coffee break to think creatively. There is much more on the way, and I am happy to be of service to you. If you have any sane suggestions please forward them to me.

Arthur

How much will the US Fed Lower Interest Rates?

I can remember a time when the SDR value of the US dollar was above 1.00! What we have is desperate measures for desperate times. But, don't despair. What the Fed may do is responding to an opportunity provided by the Bank of Canada which lowered interest rates so as to slow down the rise in the Canadian dollar. Its one thing to have your currency appreciate by almost 30 percent, but think what that does to your competitiveness.

I am not sure whether this amounts to a series of competitive devaluations, but isn't that what the IMF was set up to limit in the post war period? Or, just maybe this is the opportunity for American investors abroad and all those international investor abroad to bring their money back to the US dollar. We used to think of it as speculation. But, what if the dollar is expected to rise with the election of Hilary Clinton or Barack Obama in a coming election. Maybe, I am reading behind the lines here, but is this a policy that is supposed to help the economy or worsen it.

Will this policy of lowering interest rates lead to a more even distribution of incomes or will it create an opportunity for speculators? I wonder what you think. What I do think is that whoever wins the US election in the fall, it does not matter that much because it represents a sea change from the oil interests dominating the US economic scenery. Sure the oil interests will be making money, but, perhaps, the policies that need to be put in place to protect our environment will finally have an opportunity.

Read About it - Your country is a member of the IMF

Reading about economics and economy is both interesting and may be critical to your comfort and survival. Get the Economist magazine (for an expert view), the Christian Science Monitor (for a balanced view), or the Wall Street Journal and read about what is going on in the messy economic environment that our world leaders have under the Bush administration managed to drag up. Now is not the time to have your head in the sand like an ostrich waiting to be a lion's next meal. The time is now to become well informed about those critical economic statistics that get published each month and that mean something to the well informed in energy and economy.

The IMF is an organization that brings together the government financial leaders of the countries making up the globe. It is important to be informed about what goes on in the world's energy and financial worlds as these drive all other segments and sectors of the world economy for better or worse.

Investing Wisely as Exchange Rates Move Using the IMF's SDR Index

You might have guessed that we have entered a period of financial and economic adjustment. Central banks have lowered interest rates and will lower them further as they seek to minimize the impact of unwise investments by the public and by banks. These unwise investments are imploding in value as people react suddenly to bad news.

Indices

There are a number of things that you can do to help yourself avoid the worst of the financial storm occurring around you. You know that when a mathematician advises investors to do something specific with their money, this can form a feedback loop and the process can be self defeating. More than ever, it is important to work with the financial mathematics and let them help you. My approach is that there are two mathematical averages that you need to master.

These mathematical tools depend on you having access to price information of the investment opportunies that you wish to invest in. You need to gather price information and analyse it for clues. Price data is historical data so you need to think that it relates to a series of events and flows of information, sometimes the impact of which is moving in different directions and individual prices may not be following the general flow. Watch out for such prices and analyse them separately. Almost everything has a price and with the internet it is easier than ever to find that price, construct a comparative index and make a wise decision based on what you know.

Gather as much information about the forces driving the prices that you are researching. Economists use sophisticated econometric models to do this. Because of non-linearities in world financial events, you may need to re-estimate your models every day! We are very far from understanding all the forces affecting economic data! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

The average
The first tool needed is the ordinary weighted average for which you construct an index.

The logarithmic average

The second tool is the logarithm of that average by which you construct another index.

The first index tells you the weighted average of value, while the second index tells you the weighted average of change in value.

Use these indices to guide your actions. Either create them yourself or buy them from someone who has the mathematical know how of creating them. Stock market indices are weighted indices and are useful for investing in the stock market. You can create your own stock market index and use it. You logarithmic average index you can use by set each data entry to its absolute value. From the resulting index values you can devise a further index of individual or group volatility.

Relative position of indices and of volatility indices help you decide whether you wish to move into or out of a specific sector or economy or your own chosen group of investment opportunities based on the mathematics alone.

Use Microsoft excel or a similar spreadsheet to organize your information initially. You may be an expert in data organization or have a familiarity with php some other programming language. If so you can create your own web pages of financial information based on averages and logarithmic averages for the prices that you have to deal with.

The SDR

The SDR is a weighted average of exchange rates. The IMF, International Monetary Fund, publishes the value of the US dollar in SDR term each day. The reason it does this is so that people around the world can see a 'real' value of the US dollar and not just its nominal value. The real value or the SDR value of a currency is just one index that you can use to assess where to invest your money wisely.

The importance of the 'real' SDR value of a currency is that it compares a currency value against the performing and largest contributors to the world financial scene. The SDR is an index comprised of the US dollar, the Euro, the Yen, and the UK pound. There is also an index for the interest rates of the four major currencies called the SDR interest rate. These indices are weighted indices calculated on business days and published through the IMF website.

Thinking behind the SDR

The IMF is probably the most critical organization in the world on a day to day basis if we are to avoid a world economic crisis. Some leaders don't believe in long term investments and just manage investments for the short term swinging with public opinion and their own budgets that they have managed to screw up. The IMF is a long term investment having the expertise that the world needs to avoid major economic slumps. The IMF research people like those people who are researching key energy projects are under threat from short sightedness an opportunism of today's leaders. What about tomorrow? Will you know what investments to make tomorrow?

The SDR is a well constructed index that gives one a way of foreseeing the future of the world economy and of national economies. That I will discuss at a later date.