The Melchizedek Chronicles - The Seven Deadly Sins of the Digital Revolution that Doom it to Failure!

1.   The vast majority of participants employed by digital companies or the consumers addicted to the digital products, from games to apps, lack the knowledge of experience and are clueless on the history of failures of the pre-digital and scientific ages.

2.  People do not want endless choices of lousy content as proffered by the Digital Revolution through video, movie, television, audio, games and other digital techniques.  Millions of choices of music, videos, movies or games are insane and would take multiple lifetimes to experience.

3.  Security breaches, identity theft, invasion of privacy, spam and hacking are unacceptable collateral damage of digital evolution.  Billions and billions of dollars in losses are being absorbed and passed on to consumers as if it is no big deal.

4.  The Digital Revolution is applying long-rejected profit demands on entertainment companies which have gutted the once high quality of most movies, television shows and music, the various arts disciplines, news and consumer choices by ignoring the inferior quality of content now being offered.

5.  No one is telling the truth about the long-term mental and physical dangers of constant exposure to human-generated electromagnetic waves, increased radiation, and the many  psychological addiction consequences on humans.  In addition, the impact of million of megatons of radioactive waste within the earth and testing of new weapons technology have consistently missed "unintended consequences" of deadly magnitude.  Finally, the impact of natural and climatic changes or anomalies is disrupting the natural balance of the science of nature.

6.  The unregulated digital world ignores collateral damage to human evolution through genetic manipulation of plants, animals and humans by encouraging profit-driven activity to prolong life through eugenics-driven research which makes the harvesting of human parts through abortion profitable and necessary for the purification of the human genetic code.

7.  There is no morality or ethics foundation (right or wrong) to the Digital Revolution and Artificial Intelligence which undermines our relationship to God, the Creator, the creations of God and God’s plan for the Soul of all humans.  The Soul is essential to human life but cannot be created by humans thus human genetically engineered clones will be soulless with no protection from the Dark Forces which are attempting to destroy the world.

The Melchizedek Chronicles – Are you prepared for a devastating event in the near future? What will you do if the lights went out?

We all need to know how we will react to a natural disaster, maybe an economic collapse, perhaps a secret scientific experiment gone array, something of that magnitude that disrupts your life plans and instantly whisks your world into chaos.

Melchizedek, nearly four years ago, warned of the coming weather anomalies reaching record shattering dimensions.  Each year weather patterns have deviated farther and farther from normal, with much stronger and more dangerous fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, blizzards, wind shear, you get the idea.

It seems the new weather mutations are now the new normal.  One-hundred-year-old flood records fall almost daily, and the unheard of 500-year flood levels are now being breached.

Coast-to-coast annual rainfall totals shatter previous records while snowfall records have tumbled in a wide swath of Northern states from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, with some snow packs reaching 25 feet deep.

Highly unusual “Cyclone Bombs” have cause massive freak wind storms, major blizzards, and breathtaking floods two years in a row.  Denver International Airport recorded winds of 96 miles per hour, and no tornado or hurricane conditions were present.

Speaking of hurricanes, they are not only on steroids but doing rather bizarre things like rotating in a 360-degree circle, stalling over major Texas cities, and leaving a tragic path of destruction much farther inland than previous storms, even after they become tropical depressions after hitting land.

Tornadoes are now much stronger than before.  Blizzards strike more frequently with greater intensity, and hurricanes spawn more destruction over wider areas than normal times.

Yet, in spite of the weather anomalies and upheavals we have experienced, three of the greatest, most dangerous, unpredictable of all disasters are yet to occur.  Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and solar storms on the Sun, a trio of destroyers who wield so much power the people of the world have no defense against them.

Melchizedek says our science is yet to determine the age of our cosmos and when it does, through mathematics and physics breakthroughs, we will discover creation took place thirty-billion years ago, not the 13.82 billion years old currently speculated.

During our thirty-billion years of existence there were times when the Human Life Cycle evolved, but it was not always in synchronization with the will of the Creator.  In six previous eras of the Human Life Cycle, when mankind became too infatuated with greed and power and lost their way, it had to be stopped and reset, leaving only enough human survivors to repopulate the new Human Life Cycle era.

We are now in the seventh Human Life Cycle on Earth, and most likely, the last.  Are you prepared for the disruptions we will most likely face in the imminent days ahead?  Are you prepared for the real Earth warming and climate change?

While the environmental threats trigger fearful reactions and responses in victims, and just plain fear in those anticipating the storms, perhaps we place too much attention and significance on them and not enough attention on the other possibilities.

According to science and archaeology at least four times in our history the earth has experienced global warming before the existence of a new Ice Age on Earth.  It is the natural progression of the evolution of planet earth, with or without the humans.

Earth's elliptical orbit around the Sun and the degree of tilt of Earth's axis in its path around the Sun, are factors to consider when discussing climate change. In the cycle of Earth’s Great Year, the line off the North Pole axis (extending toward Polaris) scribes a complete circle in the heavens about every 25,800 years.

A complete cycle takes between 25,000 and 28,000 years, depending on the amount of Earth's wobble. One cycle is “Earth’s Great Year” (also called a "Platonic Year.") Climate and atmospheric changes appear to become more acute toward the end and beginning of a new year.

Earth’s Purification and Regeneration Processes

Earth has a built-in, naturally-occurring “force field” around it that creates and helps maintain viable living conditions for its plant and animal inhabitants. The atmosphere contains greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide to keep the Earth warm, and an ozone layer to protect the Earth from harmful and incinerating (burning) radiation.

The Earth also has other means that help it absorb and retain the sun’s heat and energy (such as the oceans) as well as reflect its energy back into space (such as the polar ice caps). Wind and ocean currents also help distribute this heat around the globe, all within the Earth’s protective atmosphere.

The point is that Earth is unique in its ability to create and maintain sustainable living conditions, because all of its systems and influences are connected to each other, from its atmosphere, oceans and land, to its seasons, its living inhabitants, and the sun.

Imagine the impact when a massive meteor crashed into the earth and created the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in so much debris from the explosion being tossed up in the atmosphere of the earth it blocked out the healing rays of the Sun for not days, weeks, or years, but hundreds of years bringing most life forms to a screeching halt.

Another time the Yellowstone Super-volcano exploded out west and the debris field again blocked out the life-saving natural rays of the Sun.  In the process it annihilated the most powerful species to walk the earth, the dinosaurs.

Certainly, humans can speed up the process of global warming and climate change, but just as certainly it took a massive number of natural disasters to disrupt our climate to the point of reaching the highest limits of the global warm up, which then triggered a new Ice Age.

So, what does all this mean to you?

First, it means the Earth has survived nearly thirty billion years without the help of mankind.

Second, it means whoever created the earth, Sun and cosmos [The Unknowable One] must have been one powerful entity to create such miracles.

Third, the Earth itself is a miraculous creation since it can continually regenerate over billions of years.

Fourth, it not only regenerates but it also heals and repairs itself from even catastrophic natural disasters, like meteor strikes or super-volcano eruptions that contaminate our atmosphere while blocking the life-giving rays of the Sun.

Fifth and finally, the Creator, God, Lord or whatever you choose to call God, seems to take a special interest in what happens here on Earth because the Earth, Sun and humans are all creations of the Creator and survived the catastrophic events in our known and unknown history.

The multitude of miracles it took for The Unknowable One to create humans, earth, the cosmos, and everything in it, reflect the ultimate mystical, magical, and spiritual power of a deity beyond our knowing.  

There is no other valid explanation for how things were created and exist.

Melchizedek says humans should worry a little less about the future of the Earth, and a lot more about our continued existence in that future.

We are not the Masters of Creation, we are a creation of the Creator just like everything else in our world and cosmos.  It only makes sense to say all of creation share the responsibility to work in harmony, to protect our world from the contamination of evil and fear, and preserve all that was created in the world we were given.

You do not need a miracle to awaken you to the Divine Creator, just look in the mirror, then look at the landscape outside the window, the Earth you inherited and inhabit.  The reality you see is a miraculous creation.  You are living and experiencing the miracle of creation.

If only we took time to catch our collective breath, to meditate, to find that elusive peace, block out the physical world from your senses, and open yourself to the unlimited potential of the Kingdom of Heaven, located just beyond the physical world in the spiritual dimensions beyond.

You would probably be in awe if you peeked into a dimension beyond time and space, a world of imagination beyond our comprehension.  Perhaps you might begin to understand the power and love of our Creator.

What we have available to us are the miraculous gifts God gave us.  What we do with those gifts is our acknowledgement of the Creator and enlightenment of basking in the Creator’s love.

Have you searched for your God-given purpose or mission in life?  Identified the special gifts and attributes God gave you?  Are you using those gifts for the benefit of all God’s creations?

Are you really prepared for the coming day when the lights go out, and from that void of darkness a new world must emerge?

There is hope for we are creations of the Creator.  Our mind, spirit and soul are capable of fantastic feats.  We must challenge the limits of our imaginations and work in harmony with the Creator to protect, honor, and nurture all aspects of God’s Creation.

Seek out and acknowledge the God who gave you your life, by using the gifts God gave you to help bring peace and harmony to our world.  Ask the Holy Spirit for enlightenment to find the path of Jesus, the Son of God, who is ready to help you find your way home.

A spiritual army of protectors and defenders led by Michael are poised in the spiritual world and stand ready to come to your aid, if you just ask.

We are all Creations of the Creator.

The Creator never gives up on his Creations.

That means you!

Do not give up on yourself!

From Palm Sunday, April 5 to Easter Sunday, April 11, we honor the five stages of human spiritual evolution. 

Birth

Transfiguration (state of Grace)

Death

Resurrection

and Ascension

of Jesus as he lived among us and showed us the path of redemption and eternal salvation.  You should pay attention to the coming Holy Week and Easter activities if you want to seek enlightenment in your life.

The Roots of Country Music in America - Appalachia to Nashville - The Heart and Soul of American Music!

Most people probably have little understanding of the roots of country music in America because it has always been taken for granted that country is one of the core genres we have always had around. It is known as the heartbeat and soul of America and been around about as long as the Europeans have been here.

John Denver's Country Roads played around the world!


Over the years we may have heard country music we liked, some even crossed over to pop and rock charts, and many stars in other genres either started as country music singers or became famous and then cut a country song or album. But do we really know from whence it came?

When English speaking America was first being colonized in the 1600's the coastal areas were settled first, Virginia, Massachusetts and Maryland, all by 1634 and it did not take long for the European immigrants to make their way to the Appalachian Mountains, the Southern Appalachians that is, which included the Blue Ridge Mountain range and Cumberland Plateau. Western Virginia and Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee territories along with pieces of the Carolinas and Georgia made up the region which served as a barrier to westward expansion.

Immigrants came to the area because the coastal regions were already populated and with them came the Old World musical instruments were brought together in barn dances and celebrations by these hardy people settling the region. This was in the days before electricity, before electric guitars and synthesizers

The Irish fiddle, German dulcimer, Italian mandolin, Spanish guitar and African banjo were brought to these celebrations and played together in hillbilly jam sessions far from the operas and symphonies of the cities on the east coast. This came to be known as "Old Time" music.

In the 19th century some immigrant groups moved to the Texas area to settle and further integrated the hillbilly sound with Spanish, Mexican and Native American music and large dance halls were built where the locals could gather and dance to the sounds. This was the final step in the evolution of the roots of Country Music.

Then came the 20th century with cars and roads and radio which brought down the barriers of communication and people from throughout the nation could hear this unique American creation. The first country recording was in 1921 and throughout the 1920's as radio expanded so did the country music.


Country musicians were great innovators ever since mixing the instruments from five counties up in the Appalachians and electricity, recording and touring gave them more and more opportunities to do this. Hillbilly music grew in popularity driven by the Carter Family and Jimmy Rodgers and in 1925 WSM-AM radio in Nashville started the first country music broadcast, on November 28, 1925, when the WSM Barn Dance was first broadcast. In time it would become the Grand Ole Opry under the guidance of people like Roy Acuff.

By the 1930's and Great Depression people were poor and the radio became the primary source of news and entertainment. Soon a fledgling movie industry introduced the Singing cowboys while radio was expanding the barn dances with legendary country shows being broadcast from Chicago to Texas to California. In the 1940's these shows introduced singers like Roy Acuff, Bill Haley, Eddie Arnold and singing cowboys like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.


Bob Wills and his legendary Texas Playboys was among the innovators of country music when in 1935 he introduced drums to the band, a first, then became the first group with the electric guitar in 1938. Yet it was not until the early 1960's that the steel guitar and drums were fixtures in country bands.

Hillbilly music spawned Hillbilly Boogie by 1939 and a new country genre called Bluegrass emerged with the sound of Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs at the end World War II. By this time country music included Hillbilly, Boogie, Blues, Honky Tonk, Gospel and Rockabilly.


To the rest of the world country music was called Hillbilly until 1944 when the name was changed to Folk and Blues music. By 1949 it was labeled Country or Country Western, the latter referring to the singing cowboys of movies and then television. Honky Tonk saw the rise of Ernest Tubb, Floyd Tillman, the Maddox Brothers and Rose, Lefty Frizell and Hank Williams.


Along came the 1950's and country music changed again as Rockabilly dominated with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins leading the way. From 1955-1960 ABC-TV became the first network with a nationwide country show called the Ozark Jubilee that showcased country stars to the nation. Elvis helped drive the cross-over between Rockabilly and Rock 'n Roll.

Late in the '50's came the Lubbock Sound of Buddy Holly and then there was a country backlash as the industry felt rock 'n roll was to dominate. Ray Price, Marty Robbins and Johnny Horton began to shift the music back to traditional country.

In the early 1960's the Nashville sound became dominant with producers like Chet Atkins, Owen Bradley and Billy Sherrill reviving the genre with legendary singers Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves and Eddy Arnold.

Patsy Cline – Crazy - (Written by Willie Nelson)

Ray Charles introduced Country Soul in 1962 with his release of I Can't Stop Loving You. A new sound in Nashville called Countrypolitan was created featuring the sounds of Tammy Wynette and Charlie Rich. But soon the Nashville sound became stale.

Out west Honky Tonk and Western Swing were merged by Bob Wills and Lefty Frizell to form the Bakersfield Sound. It would encompass the diversity of different styles from Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Tommy Collins and Wynn Stewart.



In other places like Lubbock, Tulsa and Austin the disappointment with the Nashville Sound and control of the record labels was causing an Outlaw movement. Inspired by the success of The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Rolling Stones in demanding creative control of their music and control of their songs, the Outlaws gravitated to Austin where Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson became the leaders.

Not only did their music change but their image as well. Gone were the clean cut, clean shaven cowboys of old and in were the long haired radical Outlaws of the future. Jessie Colter, wife of Waylon, was one of the female pioneers while Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard soon joined forces.

With The Beatles astounding success blending rock and pop music Nashville was hungry to tap into the crossover sound needed to reach the mainstream markets. Others, seeking a return to the "old values" of rock 'n roll, created a new genre called Country Rock.

The Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker Band, Poco, Buffalo Springfield and Eagles exploded onto the music scene as Southern Rock and Heartland became new subgenre spin offs. Ever since there has been a tug of war between traditional country and country rock or country pop as stars like Dolly Parton, Rosanne Cash, Linda Ronstadt, Juice Newton, Alabama, Hank Williams, Jr., Brooks and Dunn, Garth Brooks, Dwight Yoakum, Shania Twain, Faith Hill, and Keith Urban helped move country towards rock over the years.

By the mid 1970's Olivia Newton John and John Denver captured the Country Pop crossover market and powered their way to CMA and Grammy Awards with multi million selling hits. Soon a whole new group of country performers would take up the mantle.

George Straight, Alan Jackson, Clint Black, Toby Keith, Reba McEntire, Kenny Chesney, Alison Krauss, Vince Gill and Tim McGraw among others perform the Classic Country style today while the pop crossover comes from new artists like Carrie Underwood from American Idol fame and newest sensation Taylor Swift who have breathed new life into the country music industry.

What is next? Who knows. Still, those who understand that country music is an ever-changing genre that morphs into a variety of styles depending on the needs of the people and the innovation of the artists, must feel good as a broad range of artists currently dominate the radio airwaves and rule the concert circuit.

Alan Jackson - Remember When (Official Music Video)

As the major record labels collapse, the radio stations strangle on their own automated programming and the formula music once again becomes stale we know it is the time when country music always rediscovers itself. Nashville will be a lot better as a result, all country artists will benefit, the public will reap the rewards of new and innovative country music and history will once again record that the American country sound once again became relevant in a time of need and a time of truth.
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