Miracle on Main Street: Exodus

 

 

Miracle on Main Street: Exodus

 

 

 

THE MIRACLE

ON

MAIN STREET

 

 

 

 

 

Eom 80 to 90% of the population can be hypnotized to

varying degrees... . At least 5 % (10,000,000) of the U.S. popu-

lation is extraordinarily hypnotizable, so easily hypnotizable that

they are in a constant state of exaggerated suggestibility, even

when awake and going about their normal daily routine. They are

at the TOTAL MERCY of all forms of influences and can easily be

persuaded to do things and afterward have no idea why they did

them . . . They go in and out of a trance-like state without even

knowing what is happening to them. As a result, they suffer all

kinds of problems without realizing the real cause.”

 

—Dr. Tobias H. Brocher,

Director, Center for

Applied Behavioral Sciences,

Menninger Foundation,

Topeka, Kansas in

National Enquirer, January 2,

1979

 

 

The destruction of a mighty nation may well be approaching

because of the activities of one person. He has encouraged leaders

to tranquillize the populace with halftruths. He has lured the

press into inattention and has assisted the people in duping them-

selves. He has persuaded his fellow citizens to concentrate on life’s

comic strips and mindless entertainments and to avoid the bruises

of reality. .

 

“The culprit is the person whose eyes scan these words, and

whose hands—at this moment—hold this book.’

 

— William J. Lederer,

A Nation of Sheep, 1961

 

 

Dreams are for those who sleep.”’

—David Gates

 

 

PROLOGUE

 

 

EXODUS FROM THE IDEASPHERE

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W. put a lot of faith in ideas. So much faith that we’re

moved by them. Our motor nerves are tuned to the ideas-

phere. We think life consists of choosing the best idea from

the selection offered and then living by it.

 

We forget that the ideasphere exists only in the mind.

The mind is just a part of the whole individual, meaning

that living by ideas deprives the rest of one’s self of many

pleasures it was born capable of feeling. Recently, a news

story appeared in the world press about 14 Chinese chil-

‘dren who could read with their skin. They could tell color

blindfolded, by touching. Doctors were amazed and puz-

zled. And then there’s all the documentation of ESP,

clairvoyance, astral projection, telekenesis, and so on. The

scientists who have sunk their lives into studying them

maintain these phenomena are not weird but quite natural.

Ordinary. They are merely abilities we all are born with in

order to sense this world fully and live comfortably in it as

participating organisms.

 

But beginning in our earliest years and continuing

through our lifetime, these wonderful abilities are chased

off into disuse by swarms of ideas. Ideas that we are some-

 

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how “bad,” or “good,” or “Mouseketeers,” or “Peppers,”

or “cereal lovers,” or “kids,” or “mentally ill,” or ““Demo-

crats,” or “Republicans,” or “Senior Citizens.” Where do

these ideas come from? From those who profit by people's. not

using their natural abilities, where else? From those who stake

claims of authority over helpless people. From those who

are in the business of guiding and governing others.

 

It’s easy to see that if you can hook someone on an idea,

on a dream, you can fleece his pockets. Reality overrules

an idea every time. To keep control over people, you must

keep the ideasphere charged with images, hopes, sugges- |

tions, debates and alternatives the same way radio fills the

atmosphere with music and pulse. While the victim’s lost

in his dream, you can march stealthily into his fortunes

and take what you want. With ideas, you can make him

happy or afraid, make him dance or prefer one product to

another. You can make him kill or build bomb shelters.

 

But for all ideas can make us do, they are only ideas.

Dreams. I spent two terrified years in grammar school fear-

ing graduation to Junior High School because of the hazing

I would undergo. The ideasphere resounded with tales of

7th graders getting heads shaved and faces painted with

red lipstick stripes, being forced to push B-B’s down the

highway with their noses, having to eat rotten eggs, hav-

ing to walk home naked from some lonely spot in the

woods. I suffered countless nightmares in apprehension of

the coming of My Day. But when my day came, nobody

did anything to me. I went through hazing without so

much as a lovetap from an upperclassman. After hazing

week was over, I almost felt . . . unwanted.

 

What had happened? I know now that I had withdrawn

from the ideasphere at hazing time. When a hazer would

come near me, there would be no transmission of look or

feeling between us. No connection. Because hazing was an

idea, he could only pick up from subscribers to the idea.

Believers. He could attack only those whose eyes said

“Please don’t haze me.” Eyes that asked “What's hazing?”

 

 

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were ignored. They were not part of the ideasphere. They

were of another frequency completely. Another world.

 

This was one of my earliest lessons in the utter fraudu-

lence of ideas and has often been the manner in which I

have approached problems.

 

is little book is not about ideas, except to encourage

you to shun them. I hope it will wean you away from the

ideasphere. This book is about a genuine, real thing you

can touch. The difference between an idea and a thing you

can touch was illustrated tragically to me years ago when a

friend of mine, on LSD, thought he was pulling the trigger

of a water pistol aimed at his temple but it was a loaded

Colt .45. Ideas have their validity, but they’re no match for

reality. Reality overrules every time. (That’s why these

days | find it so hard to appreciate fiction. So much of what

passes for reality is fiction enough!)

 

The reality of this book is: IF YOU DON’T LIKE WHAT’S

HAPPENING IN YOUR LIFE, YOU CAN FIX IT. You can

fix it without cheating anyone, without counselling with

experts, without subscribing to any newsletter that keeps

you posted on inside info, without writing Washington or

getting involved in politics, without organizing, and with-

out spending a penny unless you choose to.

 

And a miracle will happen: as you fix what’s wrong in

your OWN life, you'll automatically be fixing what’s wrong

with America’s well-being. Instantly, you'll begin claiming

your little-known and completely legal economic rights

good for hundreds even thousands of extra dollars in your

family treasury, and not applying to government for it,

either! Couldn’t you use some extra cash in these raw

times? The law provides benefits for you, regardless of

your age, condition, financial status, sex, or whatever.

Benefits to help you survive the ups and downs and starts

and jolts of this fluctuating economy. But if you continue

swirling about in the weightlessness of ideas you'll never

know how to claim these benefits. No, to experience THIS

miracle, you must be down to earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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V've shown this manuscript to people who can be

counted on for merciless feedback. Any one of them could

have halted publication simply by responding with faint

praise. But the unanimous verdict seems to be “At last, a

book that describes the problem and then gives a DIRECT,

QUICK, NATURAL SOLUTION.” I believe in direct,

quick, natural solutions. I believe that when you have a

mosquito bite, you should scratch it, not take Milk of

Magnesia. Trying to solve one’s own personal financial di-

lemma by appealing to the ideasphere—government, fed-

erations, organizations, advisors, financial planners,

experts—is submitting to surgery for that mosquito bite. A

sad, tragic waste of time, resources, and happiness.

 

I hope judges and mayors and court clerks and all levels

of government employees will read this little book, because

it was written as much for them as for people out of gov-

ernment. I hope bankers and reporters and small busi-

nessmen and schoolteachers will read it. And attorneys,

who call themselves our guardians of the law. And

housewives. Especially housewives and mothers. I hope

church folks will read it, too, because after all God is the

foundation of all miracles, including the restoration of a

happy America. I cannot describe how vividly God pro-

gressed in me from an idea to a touchable reality as this

book developed. Perhaps you will sense it as you read on.

 

Dream worlds are hard to leave. Even painful dream

worlds are hard to leave. They’re especially hard to leave

when the dream makers tell us that leaving the dream

world will be catastrophic. Many people actually prefer the

ideasphere to reality, not caring that they are denying their

whole selves pleasures of incredible intensity, pleasures

and abilities truly “undreamed of.” These people, and they

are among our most respected citizens, are fully trained to

believe in the life broadcast in the ideasphere, and they

believe it can’t get much better than it is. They’ll never

come around to reality until they must.

 

This little book can only switch on the lights for people

 

 

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who are already tossing and turning under a terrifying yet

fascinating nightmare. Suddenly, you bolt awake and there

are your walls, the pictures, the lamps, the quilt, the soft

breathing of your family. What had been twisting your

body and mind was nothing but ideas, and they scamper

away as soon as you open your eyes to the glowing

warmth of the real world.

 

We don’t need to restore the American Dream; we need

to wake up from it. |

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a

small. Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a

great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a

perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be

lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”

 

—Deuteronomy 25: 13-15

 

 

The world has always been betrayed not by scoundrels but by

decent men with bad ideas.”

—Sydney J. Harris

 

 

By a continuing process of inflation, governments can con-

fiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth

of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturn-

ing the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The

process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of

destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a

 

 

million is able to diagnose.”

~—John Maynard Keynes,

The Economic

Consequences of The Peace, 1920

 

 

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