#911Wells Fargo is Enron Legacy contd…

Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Vitruvian Man, a drawing created circa 1487, with the 7 chakras or energy centers indicated. Image via Wikimedia Commons

Wells Fargo brings to light the reality behind the war on terror.  Questionable accounting methods have been an underlying terror in the “war on terror” since the fraudulent Enron accounting methods were revealed in 2001. The SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) began investigating just how far the Arthur Anderson fraudulent accounting methods used by Enron  reached into other Wall Street firm’s financial reports but the investigation went down with the SEC offices in building number seven when the terror went 911.  Wiki. list of tenants in the building number 7   But, as it does, truth will win out and here we are again.

Interest in just how wide-spread the fraud goes is always the first question when it is revealed, this is happening with Wells Fargo today.  http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/22/investing/wells-fargo-fake-accounts-banks/   At the same time,  our political representatives go through the actions of demanding accountability. Senator Elizabeth Warren has reached internet hero status for her grilling of Wells Fargo executives regarding their accountability. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJhkX74D10M  Yet, as wonderful as this woman is, the reality is “same, same, but different.”   No change. Our banks are criminal enterprises. http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/09/the-debate-is-over-banking-has-become-a-criminal-enterprise-in-the-u-s/

Terror, war and social confusion in the face of economic failure has obscured the corruption in the heart of our economy.  Terror on all fronts has allowed for capital issuance to shore up money flow needed to keep the false front/false flag waving. This claim may oversimplify the complexity of what is involved and at stake in the global economy and the terror, but at the root remains this fraudulent accounting game. Note the continued pentagon money corruption as case in point.  9/10/2001: Rumsfeld says $2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon  Trillions have continued to be “lost” out of the Pentagon budget year after year. In 2016 the loss has been reported as $6.5 trillion. The war on terror is bleeding money to win a losing corrupt battle.

The current Wells Fargo debacle tells us that the global money power game has reached a place in which all the major players are bankrupt, overextended and unable to keep playing, they can only continue to falsify accounting to keep afloat.  When this happens to players of  the popular Monopoly Game by Hasbro the board has to be wiped clean and the game has to start over. In real life, throughout history, wiping the board clean means going to war.  I have family members who think this is just fine, the mental disconnect from the death and suffering this thinking encompasses is astounding.  Soldier glory is a mental state, a warrior state of mind, that blacks out moral subtext and social/economic reality. It is a mental state that appeals to the fight in us when faced with terror, yet it is a fight that inevitably leads us to the wrong enemy and hundreds of thousands wrongfully dead.

The true enemy is the mind game that turns the 1%’s terror of losing their control into a terrorizing bogey man for the 99% to fight. The true fight before the people is the fight to see the mind game, the bogey man, for what it is.  This is not easy, the loss of financial liquidity involved in the terror puts the squeeze on the lowest income earners in the 99% and the resulting terror promotes  blind rage and violent uproar in the face of powerlessness. Headlines about protests and blood on the streets begin to rule our news. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/21/protests-after-charlotte-police-officers-kill-man-outside-apartment-complex.html  The squeeze and “sucking” of all the resources available to shore up an overextended system encroaches on all that there is no matter how sacred, as our Native Americans have witnessed for hundreds of years and to this day. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/04/492625850/dakota-access-pipeline-protests-in-north-dakota-turn-violent    The 1% will not face the terror of their making and  we the people need to face down and reject the bogey man terror they are pawning off on us in order to cover up their corruption and to remain in the 1% position of power.

The people’s 911 is to turn the 1%’s 911 upside down, to do this is to realize the energy of new consciousness: 2000 plus years new. I’m talking about mindfulness, harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust, consciousness brought to us by Christ, Buddha, Mohammad and Pythagoras. I’m mystical/magical/mathematical enough to believe in the quantum leap of prophesy attributed to our current time in the space continuum of these great teachers’ existence.  http://earthsky.org/human-world/when-will-the-age-of-aquarius-begin  Terror is something we must fight, but not in the way the corrupt masters of our economies are directing us to fight.  The real fight before the 99% is to recover our ability to survive in spite of the money power’s false paradigm of existence crashing down upon us.

The  front line of the 99%’s fight against the 1%’s terror is  in the fight for the ordinary.  I’m talking about the basics of true existence. The right to grow our own food.  http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/right-to-grow-food-zl0z1211zrob.aspx   The fight to access clean water. http://water.org/water-crisis/water-sanitation-facts/   To clear the board of the corrupt money power game  is to realize that the game has us harnessed to a survival based on the issuers/bank’s false paradigm of existence. To win requires that we stop being dependent on their monetary paradigm. This is what the Native American’s way of life does, this is what the Amish way of life does.  If the people are going to win this round of historical corruption and denigration of all we say we hold sacred then the people need to be the ones that are brave enough to face the terror of  monetary value disintegrating.

America’s new test of bravery is one in which we embrace reality and fight for the ordinary in the face of terror.  We need to shore up our resources in our communities.  Each individual needs to do their part in securing their source for local food and clean water, and fight for the same rights of others where they can. Individual financial survival and personal sovereignty also calls for  moving money out of the big corrupt banks and into local credit unions and community banks. Promoting community survival is the best way for the 99% to diffuse terror as the big banks and military corrupt fail.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yoga of the West – A Mindfulness Practice That Uses the Tarot to Reflect the Workings of the Light

Tarot is a book written to maintain an underground mystery school for free thinking believers in the power of the Light. These freethinkers are often called the Illuminati. The Illuminati are just one of many schools, cabals, of thought based on the workings of the Light. The school that uses Tarot cards is called Yoga of the West.

The secret doctrine of the Light, because of its heretical nature, has been reserved and shared with only those deemed worthy. Those who have the “eyes to see.” This teaching that reveals the Light is Gnostic (pre-Roman Christian), Pythagorean, and Pagan, but predominantly it’s Judaic. The root teaching focuses on our power as individuals to realize the power of creation, to become one with the Light, create miracles and attain eternal life. These are Messianic teachings.

Kabbalah has been subjected to centuries of hearsay. Evidenced by the many different spellings used by the different schools of interpretation: Cabala, Kabbala, Qabala, Qabalah, Practical Kabbalah, Christian Kabbalah, Hermetic Qabalah, English Qabalah. All these different cabals are working to interpret a diagram known as the Tree of Life. This diagram is a four dimensional diagram of paths. Paths that reflect the workings of the “Light.” The Light is the life force; it is the energy of creation. There are no words to define the Light. So scholars of this work assign symbols, numbers and archetype beings in different combinations to each path in their effort to define the power.

The creator of this diagram is shrouded in mystery. Many researchers say the diagram was created in the middle ages, others say it goes all the way back to the time of the Biblical Genesis, and still others say it was given to Moses along with the Ten Commandments. The mystery becomes even more intriguing with the work of modern Kabalist mathematicians who have created four dimensional computer generated diagrams of the Tree that reveal DNA.

Famed psychologist Carl Jung named the archetype paths on the Tree of Life our Collective Unconscious. The four dimensions of the Tree, reflected in the four suits of the Tarot deck, reveal the Jungian four personality types. Jung hypothesized that when and or if we are able to bring all of the workings of the paths into our conscious awareness then we become whole human beings. This is also when we balance all aspects of the four personality types within our self. A whole human being is a master of the paths, a Messiah. A Messiah is able to wield the full powers of creation. A master of the paths realizes eternal life.

Every Tarot card symbolizes an aspect of the Light at work on the paths on the Tree of Life. The symbolism on each card reflects how the Light works on the path it represents. The Tarot’s face cards represent personality types in relation to the entire Tree.

Studying and meditating on different Tarot cards everyday is practicing Yoga of the West. A practice designed to build fluency in the workings of the paths. The lowest paths reflect the lowest consciousness, and they transcend to the highest paths, which reflect the highest consciousness. Mastering awareness of all the paths is, in the Yoga of the West tradition, how you become a whole human being, a Magician, a Messiah, creator of miracles, master of your reality.

An interesting footnote to always keep in mind regarding Messianic consciousness and the power to create miracles is the fact that, in the Tarot, you find this highest consciousness is reflected in both the Magician and the Fool archetype cards. The Magician and the Fool are equals. The Magician sits at the “right hand of the father,” and the Fool sits at the “left hand of the father.” The Magician consciously works the Light to create miracles. The Fool trusts in the Light, “that from which all things come,” to create miracles. Both forms of consciousness create miracles. The power is in the Light, not in our consciousness. Our consciousness is only a reflector of the Light.

Mary T. Ficalora, is the author of the award winning book, Choosing Honor: a philosophical treatise that applies the symbolism found on the Tree of Life to reveal an unpredictable tonic for what ails America. http://www.availpress.com/

Induced Reflection for March 16, 2014

Illustrations from the Albano Waite Tarot@deck reproduced by permission of US Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT 06902. Copyright c 1990 by US Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT. Further reproduction prohibited.

I asked the question, “How do you tell a people that most everything they believe in is a lie?”

With this in mind, the cards I pulled to contemplate today bring me comfort and trust in the winds of joy that come with change.  The Tower is never easy but when matched with Temperance you can be assured of wings to transcend the crossroads of change. Creation requires creativity in the face of the only constant in creation, change. Temperance helps us rise to new heights when faced with change outside of our control.

The path of Temperance is one of holding balance in the face of overwhelming events outside of your control. This path is the Crossroads of music legend that has to be crossed in order to create with the muses. The angel depicted on this card is said to be a hermaphrodite (child of Aphrodite and Hermes). In India this dual being, two sexes united in one personality, is the primal force, the Light from which life emanates. This symbolism is repeated on the hermaphrodite’s forehead in the symbol for the center of infinity: emanation or first cause. Human creativity soars to rainbow heights at this crossroad. The figure has one foot rooted in the water, feelings, and one foot planted on green earth, living form. This path balances sexuality (creativity) and love (creation). Art, creation, brings feelings into living form. The water flowing between cups in the angel’s hands is actually flowing from the lower cup to the higher cup symbolizing rising to a higher consciousness. Higher conscious also symbolized by the golden road that leads out of the water and to the  “crowned” mountain peaks in the background, Temperance is a path of direct transcendence to whole consciousness.

The Tower, also known as the Lightening Struck Tower, is the path of sudden change of consciousness, completely out of our control. As the picture on this Tarot card depicts, the energy on this path can strike us with overwhelming devastation. This path balances mental will and victorious life mastery. Where there is a will, there is a way, but this Tower symbolizes the reality that the way is never what we expect it to be. There are two figures falling from the tower. A monarch is falling; he is resistant to change, without hope. While the other figure is diving with the flames, cloak flapping like a super hero’s. This figure is afraid, but going with the flow, diving into the change, surrounded by flames in the shape of the Hebrew letter Yod. Yod is the symbol for that from which everything is created. The energy on this path is painful to live with either way we fall. But how we deal with the fall dictates the power we have to master life when we land. Change is the only thing we know for certain will happen. Wholeness requires us to stay out of the way of right change happening; even dive into the flow of right change happening.

Please note

This reading is meant for the practice of Tarot meditation designed to build fluency in the symbolism to aid in personal transcendence. People also consult the cards as an oracle. Caution is advised. An oracle opens the door to spiritual deception as easily as spiritual truth. To read more about Tarot application to the Tree of Life go to http://bit.ly/9BiovO

Mary T. Ficalora, is the author of the award winning book, Choosing Honor: a philosophical treatise that applies the symbolism found on the Tree of Life to reveal an unpredictable tonic for what ails America.

If People Only Knew

This chart graphing real wealth distribution in the United States versus what people perceive and want wealth distribution to be is within the people’s power to change.

We have the power to reverse this reality with two acts in Congress. One, null and void every derivative contract in existence. Derivatives are bets, usury, there are no real financial assets attached. The trillions of dollars wiped off the “game board” would not hurt the real economy. Two, every mortgage currently owned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that can not show clear chain of ownership of the note should be vaporized. Holders of the homes, good standing in payments or not, would immediately hold full ownership of the properties. This would indeed be government by the people for the people. Versus what we currently have…government by the banks for the banks.

The idea for wiping derivatives off the economy’s table comes from Paul Craig Roberts, http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/06/05/collapse-at-hand/   As he says this call to null and void the $230 trillion in derivatives is a matter of national security.

The idea for wiping out the mortgages comes from a long line or revelations about mortgage fraud and unjust foreclosures. The best source for this information is Ellen H. Brown, http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/foreclosuregate.php  She has named the entire debacle “Foreclosuregate.”

Full Authority Charging Forward for Right! – A Reading from the Book of Tarot for April 4, 2012

Illustrations from the Albano Waite Tarot@deck reproduced by permission of US Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT 06902. Copyright c 1990 by US Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT. Further reproduction prohibited.

Two Tarot cards are profiled. These cards have been pulled to induce synchronicity. The intention is for you to watch for the consciousness they represent to be reflected in the events of your day. This practice known as Yoga of the West, is designed to build a bridge of intuition between the reader’s unconscious and conscious mind; a bridge to wholeness.

HEH

The first card is an archetype card chosen according to the numerology of the day. Each archetype card in the Tarot represents a path on the Tree of Life (Kabbalah). Today is 04, 4, 2012, or number 13: Death. It is also number 4: The Emperor.   The path the Emperor represents is shaded on the diagram provided. The consciousness on this path, HEH, is one of ruling with solid authority.

The Emperor is the Animus, the ideal male in psychologist, Carl Jung’s collective unconscious theory. Here we have the masculine authoritarian rule. The Emperor’s feet are encased in armor, firmly placed on rock, a position rooted in strength. In his right hand, that which brings reality into form, there is a scepter that brings to mind the Egyptian Ankh, symbol of life, but the upper circle is round…wholeness is depicted rather than a womb. Mastery of masculine rule requires full balance of all four aspects of personality, wholeness. The figure’s left hand, that which directs all forces from which we become, holds a pomegranate, the fruit that symbolizes the seeds of abundant life. This fruit is protected by the Ram’s head shield on the figure’s shoulder. Ram’s heads are also on all four corners of his throne, fire, and in the background we see red mountains, fire again. Wholeness on this path of being a ruler requires you to be a sure-footed master of intellectual heights.

The second card is a face card. Each face card in the Tarot represents an aspect of personality. There are four personality types: feeling (cups), thinking (swords), intuitive (wands) and sensate (pentacles). Each personality type has four levels of consciousness: page, knight, queen and king. All of us, male and female, have the capacity to realize all of these aspects of personality. We are all both male and female. The paths of the Tree are four-dimensional. Each level of personality travels its own dimension on each path simultaneously.

Today’s face card, The Knight of Swords, is a random selection seeking the ideal aspect of personality to pay attention to in relation to today’s archetype. Watch for the personality aspects of the Knight of Swords; seek out righteous truth either within yourself or in someone else.  Swords (Fire) are the formation level: the thinking level on the paths. The Knight of Swords is someone who knows just what decisive action is needed to bring right creation and or events to form. This is the knight we all want to be around if we are in trouble, more important this is the knight we need inside ourselves making sure NO ONE takes advantage of us. This is the warrior energy at work, energy that every man, woman and child needs in order to be free. This is the aspect of our personality that refuses to be taken advantage of, refuses to be victimized. In card image, this knight’s energy is in full thrust against the wind, and he is pushing his horse to its’ limit. Nothing gets in this knight’s way.  The Knight of Swords knows and does what needs to be done to realize wholeness.

Please note:

People also consult the Tarot as an oracle. Caution is advised. An oracle opens the door to spiritual deception as easily as spiritual truth. To read more about Yoga of the West go to http://bit.ly/9BiovO

Freethinking Rule In Time – A Reading from the Book of Tarot for March 31, 2012

from the Albano Waite Tarot@deck reproduced by permission of US Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT 06902. Copyright c 1990 by US Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT. Further reproduction prohibited.

Two Tarot cards are profiled. These cards have been pulled to induce synchronicity. The intention is for you to watch for the consciousness they represent to be reflected in the events of your day. This practice known as Yoga of the West, is designed to build a bridge of intuition between the reader’s unconscious and conscious mind; a bridge to wholeness.

MEN

The first card is an archetype card chosen according to the numerology of the day. Each archetype card in the Tarot represents a path on the Tree of Life (Kabbalah). Today is 03, 31, 2012, or number 12: The Hanged Man. The path this card represents is shaded on the diagram included. The consciousness on this path is known as , MEN, a powerless state.

MEN

The Hanged Man does not have the power to change all that needs to be changed. That power is completely left to the Light. The color yellow, knowing, glows on this card, both on the figure’s feet and around his head. This “hanged” figure is perfectly content upside down because he/she knows that it is only a matter of time before what needs to be right side up will come to be eventually.  Note that the man’s legs cross in an odd formation, one leg straight and the other crossed at a right angle. This is a symbol of a crossroad, in this case a crossroad we are powerless to do anything about right now. Wholeness requires us to willingly accept our powerlessness. To know, in fact, that our not acting is exactly the right thing to do to achieve wholeness.

The second card is a face card. Each face card in the Tarot represents an aspect of personality. There are four personality types: feeling (cups), thinking (swords), intuitive (wands) and sensate (pentacles). Each personality type has four levels of consciousness: page, knight, queen and king. All of us, male and female, have the capacity to realize all of these aspects of personality. We are all both male and female. The paths of the Tree are four-dimensional. Each level of personality travels its own dimension on each path simultaneously.

Today’s face card, The Queen of Swords, is a random selection seeking the ideal aspect of personality to pay attention to in relation to today’s archetype. Watch for the personality aspects of the Queen of Swords either within yourself or in someone else.

The Queen of each suit applies ideal female personality strengths and weaknesses at work on all the paths on the Tree of Life (kabbalah). The Queen of Swords is a freethinker as symbolized by the single bird in the sky, and the butterflies on her crown and throne.  She is also a single minded, focused, and powerful person. Her head is above the clouds, she enjoys clarity and objectivity; she wants truth.  The Queen’s left hand is up and welcoming, she is willing to listen. Her sword is straight up; you will get a fair hearing.  But, note the frayed, or tasseled rope on her wrist. In a number of earlier Sword cards you see figures with their arms bound, powerless. This figure has been bound, she has been there, and done that, she has survived, do not mess with her, do not attempt to feed her any lies. The cross to wholeness for this figure is seen in the child on her throne, it is just a head, pure intellect. This queen can be a harsh critic; she doesn’t give herself or anyone else any slack. The path to wholeness for this person requires realistic tolerance that finds value in what is, without the need to look for what isn’t.

 

 

Please note:

People also consult the Tarot as an oracle. Caution is advised. An oracle opens the door to spiritual deception as easily as spiritual truth. To read more about Yoga of the West go to http://bit.ly/9BiovO

Can You Hear Me Now?!

 I woke up this morning laughing in full heart bloom about this picture on Facebook. Laughing with full heart bloom: “Can you Hear me Now.”  Sigh.  Laughter is as powerful a discharge of pain as crying is.

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW, ba ha ha ha ha. As if what I have to say can be any more powerful than what Jefferson warned would happen if we ever let central bankers control our nation’s currency issuance, “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.”  Can you hear him now?!

What a long strange trip it’s been since I sat at a table in Willy’s BBQ in 2004 looking at fear dominate the features of my mate as I outlined my plan to sell my house and write a book. What I planned to write in Choosing Honor scared the hell out of him. The United States was in the thick of rabid Christianity and truth blocking patriotism. Here I was talking about putting myself out on the front line against the thick.

It had already been a long strange trip that brought me to the place that inspired me to write Choosing Honor. I was driven to reveal what I knew. My motivation was not just,” JESUS, PROTECT US FROM YOUR FOLLOWERS,” as another Facebook post so poignantly pleads. Though ultimately, I am driven by the spiritual realization of the Messianic teaching that we are all supposed to become Messiahs. The teaching about realizing the Kingdom is not about waiting for Jesus to come back and bring the Kingdom to us, it’s about standing up and being a Messiah, being King for ourselves in order to create and be the Kingdom. This is the ultimate common sense spirit that drove the birth of the United States.

Messiah Mints "Save Your Breath"

The Unemployed Philosopher’s Guild gift selections this year include “Messiah mints.” The subtitle on the case is “Save Your Breath.”  I gave them out to all my Christian friends this past Christmas.  The joke was on me. I’m the little dog barking up the ass of the big dog. My Jewish friends got the joke better than my Christian friends. The Jewish people have been dealing with philistines far longer than any other people on earth. Of course in the light of indigenous people’s knowledge, defining a philistine becomes nebulous. All the more reason to fight long and hard to restore the decentralized power structure embedded in the United States’ founding documents. We may not enlighten others, but we can ensure they have the freedom and tools to enlighten themselves.

Since Choosing Honor came out in 2008 the economic meltdown I foresaw has been fully realized and shored up with bailouts, and quantitative easing. The printing press at the Federal Reserve has been spewing out trillions of dollars night and day in the effort to save the world’s central bank owners and their global corporate/military complex.  Interest rates are being kept artificially low as worthless derivatives are shuffled around in efforts to pretend value when there isn’t any.

In many ways the people of the world have been realizing Messianic power. The Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movements are working to “throw the moneychangers” out of the “Temple.” People are becoming aware like never before. Exactly what kind of “Temple” what shape the “Kingdom” should take is not clear. This is the cross we bear, or ride, considering how fast change is taking form.

Letting go, getting off the cross and realizing the Kingdom is not easy.  First we have to recognize the false value mind game that keeps us holding onto the cross. This false value is rooted in a spiritual mandate long preached to all, that we must honor our debts.  The money matrix that holds our society together would not be able to function if we failed to honor our debts. Honor in the debt matrix is key to this paradigm of thought.  Ron Paul recently introduced legislation calling for the US to rescind America’s fictitious trillion-dollar debt to the Federal Reserve. This is one way to right the imbalance of honor currently at work. The debt was created out of nothing by a Central Bank who has acted without honor in allowing the creation of derivatives and false value real estate investments that are taking the entire matrix down with their collapse.  Unhooking ourselves from that cross makes sense. More on Ron Paul’s move can be found here. http://www.ronpaul.com/2011-07-11/ron-paul-rescind-americas-ficticious-1-6-trillion-debt-to-the-federal-reserve/ 

Another way of letting go of the cross is to accept your neighbor’s gain. Currently the government owned agencies Fannie May and Freddie Mac have millions of homes on their books that do not have clear chains of payment transactions and transfers of ownership. http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/homeowners.phpThe mortgage financial contract is supposed to be “sacrosanct,” it requires escrow to establish the good faith of the parties entering into the contract. The paperwork is sacred; the holder must maintain perfect records of the note and all payments undertaken in the contract. If the mortgagee fails to pay as contracted, the bank takes the home, and all monies invested. If the bank or note/paperwork holder fails to keep perfect record of all transactions pertaining to the note/paperwork and proves unable to account for full good faith transactions the paperwork is involved in, then the mortgagee gains outright ownership of the property regardless of how much money has or has not been paid down on the property. The government keeps talking about finding ways to re-finance these homes in ways that the people will be able to afford to stay in them. Reality check, these people should be given outright ownership of the homes. The banks failed to uphold their side of the contract. This is karmic opportunity. The opportunity to right the wrong prophesized by Thomas Jefferson should central banks gain control of the issuance of our nation’s currency. This is about our right to property in the US!

Outright ownership of property combined with the Gold Rush giving the people the power of monetary issuance in the United States were the key factors that led Karl Marx to believe the United States was the one nation on earth with the potential to evolve into an ideal State. Evolve, no additional revolution required. Karl Marx had a dream for the United States and it was for an ideal state, a Kingdom in which the people are King.

For people to be King they have to own property outright and have the power to create money. These are the powers of the King.  Our original monetary policy based on gold gave individuals who had gold the right to issue notes of credit. The Federal Reserve Act took this power out of the hands of the people and put it into the hands of a cartel of bankers who then began to issue notes to our government at interest. It is time to end this travesty and restore our nation’s potential to evolve into an ideal state. Only Ron Paul stands prepared to take on this monumental task.  He can only do this if the People choose to be Kings. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?