I'd like to start by recognizing the obviously big news that South Park, in whatever way, has chosen to give exposure to the truth movement. It is a fascinating development no matter how big or small their audience, no matter which truth site they advertised, no matter their treatment, fair or unfair of the subject. It is a blip on the radar and that is all that matters. These blips are currently being picked up by more and more people in more and more walks of life. One of those walks of life with which I am most acquainted is the walk of students and other members of the Harvard community through their daily routine. Last night I pulled of a hat-trick--three DVDs handed out to three passing students--the tendency for people to follow an example is evident in this and other cases--when people see others doing something, they are curious, and want to add to their knowledge of the world around them by participating in whatever it is, or at least taking an interest as an informed spectator. The more people look like them and talk like them, the more likely they are to be receptive to the new thing they see the people doing. Right now, one thing a lot of people around Harvard are doing is becoming familiar with the issue of 9/11. More and more people are posting links to message boards, sharing DVDs, emailing their friends, talking in the dining halls, and personally waking up to an unfamiliar but gripping reality. We need not make matrix references at this point--what is happening is not a movie and drawing the parallel is an exercise in redundancy. We live in a manufactured reality, and until now the creation of meaning and truth has been confined to the few while the many have trusted--very important that word--that they were getting the whole story. Sadly they have been deceived. Fortunately they are realizing it at a breathtaking pace.

It matters little that the president of Harvard continues to either feign ignorance or wallow in it. His own reality is changing around him whether he realizes it or not. It's not for us to figure out if he is being deceived, and by whom, or if he is the one doing the deceiving (or thinking that he is anyway.) There are those who we know are actively spreading deception and discouraging others from finding out the truth. These are our adversaries and they are hanging on in some numbers (fewer each day) to the hope that their campaign of deception has legs to carry them to the next batch of reinforcements, if they indeed are forthcoming. One can at once admire their perseverance and be repelled by their arrogance and evil intentions. It matters little how we feel about these pawns in a much greater game that has been afoot for some time now. They have no more power than a pawn on the side of the chessboard silently and helplessly watching his comrades fall one by one. Watching the once-thought brilliant plan unravel into threads of flailing desperation, doomed to be contained and removed from the board. Popular Mechanics is perhaps the bishop in all of this, securing the diagonals of one color, limited as it is to these, having no better chance than the late pawns to stave off defeat.

Remember though that life is not a game, though it encompasses many. Life is what happens, as the saying goes, while you're busy making other plans. Life has recently surprised a growing number of people, and we can rest assured that this is just the beginning. When great power is wielded by those not worthy of it, havoc does tend to ensue. That havoc is of their doing and if properly tempered by those with the strength and courage to do it, has the potential to be turned around 180 degrees in such a manner as to set things right, to strike the balance that none can ultimately dislodge, for it is what is, nothing more and nothing less. Far from nothing, this balance represents harmony, of which justice is one of many kinds. While we bring the many discordant chords around us into tune, let us not fail to do the deed completely. At this moment something unfathomably great is beginning and each of us has the potential to contribute or detract from that effort.

What is to be the role of each? Only time can tell. We have already made more than once the mistake of trusting in the leadership of men and of women. We have also made the mistake of trusting unseen hands to ensure our fate. The question is asked and the answer not offered. It is a simple thing then--seek it. Seek it within yourself and seek it amongst your fellows. Seek it song and seek it in science. I screened 9/11 mysteries for a group of friends yesterday and if you haven't watched it, or watched it through to the very end, you should. The messages that appear on the screen at the end are profoundly meaningful, and it gave me goosebumps to think that those might be read by the 3 folks at Harvard who took the DVDs yesterday. Will those messages resonate with them? I can't see how they could not. Conversion is of course often a religious experience regardless of the context, and we would be wrong to believe that religion is purely the realm of God. God would seem in most cultures to be the personification (as if that made sense) of a human experience (the religious one) exemplified by clarity, awareness, and the peace that comes from it. I don't draw these parallels to encourage any kind of cult of the truth or of personality. Quite the opposite--I write to warn against such perversions of something as special as what is currently awakening--it is not something to be controlled, exploited, manipulated, or profited from. It is the new way of things, and we are all priveleged to explore it and share our wonder before it as it transforms our realities in unison and harmony free of the tethers of the corruption of men.

Onward truthers, in good cheer! We are free, and we have many yet to be emancipated from the shackles of the lie.

Each freed soul becomes one more strengthening the tune--it's time to sing and dance.