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his Week: Darshan with Louix Dor Dempriey, Mary and George Bugatti, The Up Close Magic Experience with Steve Darci, My Cursed List, Multiverses, Regarding Tiger Woods, Androgyny of the Human Soul, The Search for Captian America, The Crazies, and more…
Darshan with Louix Dor Dempriey. My Saturday Darshan with Enlightened Master Louix Dor Dempriey was electrifying. Held at the Sun City MacDonald Ranch in Henderson, over 70 people (maybe even more) were there as well as a small group of disciples from Louix’s California ashram.
I received a strong, personal blessing from Louix and experienced the transformational power of his unconditional love. He also honored me by bestowing on me a new name, a rose petal, and a blessed bead I am wearing. Everyone who went up to Louix for Darshan received a bead.
For California readers there will be Darshan with Louix Dor Dempriey (by donation), on Saturday, March 13 and Satsang (Study Group) on Wednesday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Prema Drala Ashram, 25742 La Serra, Laguna Hills, CA 92653.
The inaugural satsang for Southern California is a monthly interactive forum exploring Louix’s teachings and learning his many practical tools for spiritual growth and self mastery. For Louix’s events’ schedule please go to: www.louix.org/.
Darshan with Louix in Las Vegas on Wednesday, May 19th at 6:00 p.m. The venue is yet to be determined, but if anyone has a Summerlin venue in mind, that would be terrific. Let’s bring Louix to our part of town. Please contact Samantha Farber, Public Relations: samantha@Louix.org.
Singer George Bugatti. We had dinner with our dear friends Mary and George Bugatti last Friday evening. George was opening for Don “Mr. Warmth” Rickles at The Orleans for 2 shows on Saturday and Sunday, February 20 and 21st at 8 p.m. Tickets were $74.95 plus tax.
Rickles, 83, has been married 44 years (to the same sainted woman!) and still performs 75 to 80 nights annually, returning every year to Las Vegas.
Since the pairing of Rickles with Bugatti was a great success, we might have an opportunity to see them together again in Las Vegas or at other venues across the U.S.
In addition to singing standards, charismatic George is a unique stylist who also performs songs from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. George is currently starring in “WIZARD,” the musical story of Oz composer Harold Arlen, which is touring Performing Arts Centers across America. His business partner Sam Arlen, the composer’s son, also stars in this Broadway-bound show.
Harold Arlen is most noted for composing the songs for the film “The Wizard of Oz,” particularly Over the Rainbow, which was recently named the Number One Song of the Century. He has written over 400 songs including favorites like: It’s Only A Paper Moon, Stormy Weather, I’ve Got the World on A String, and Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive. www.wizardthemusical.com.
George and Mary have been residents of Las Vegas since 1998. George is founder and Vice President of the Harold Arlen Foundation. The beautiful, vivacious Mary Shriver-Bugatti, who is also a terrific singer, is the Executive Director of the Harold Arlen Foundation. www.haroldarlenfoundation.org.
Steve Dacri, The Up Close Magic Experience. On 
Wednesday we went to the Las Vegas Hilton to experience the top up-close magician in the world, Steve Dacri. There was a VIP reception after the show at Tempo.
Dacri is a magician known around the world among the inner circle of magicians for his extraordinary sleight of hand skills. Along with unique in-your-face magic, he blends his own brand of clever, comedic influence into the show.
No tigers, no helicopters, no semi-clad showgirls. Steve didn’t even dance! Just Steve and his close-up magic. We tried, but couldn’t figure out how he did what he did.
Named the 2008 and 2009 International Close-Up Magician of the year, Dacri twice received the Merlin Award from the International Magicians’ Society, the world’s largest magic organization.
The world’s greatest close-up magician brings his awesome talent to the intimate Las Vegas Hilton’s Shimmer Showroom live every Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. Price: From $49 to $79 (plus tax and service charge). Location: Shimmer Showroom. Please call the Hilton Box Office at 800-222-5361 for tickets.
My Cursed List. Some family members worry about my need to have a “Cursed List.” I must light incense, burn Hell Money, and donate my blood in rituals to entice demon gods to deal with my “enemies”—because they richly deserve it! My rationale? “God is busy!” He’s too busy to bother settling petty disagreements between humans.
I’m doing the Lord’s work for Him.
However, BBC Knowledge magazine (Dec. 2009) has an article called “10 Ways To Live Forever” that vindicates me. Research from Harvard University has deemed the No. 1 Way To Live Forever: GET ANGRY. The study shows that males who outwardly express anger may decrease their risk of premature death. bit.ly/d8qit.
Multiverses. BBC Knowledge magazine also had an article of The Theory of 
Everything. I like the multiverse theory that postulates there may be 10500 universes. From New Scientist I found this article. “Multiplying universes: How many is the multiverse?”
Cosmologists Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin at Stanford University in California calculate that the number dwarfs the 10500 universes postulated in string theory, and raise the provocative notion that the answer may depend on the human brain.
The idea that there is more than one universe, each with its own laws of physics, arises out of several different theories, including string theory and cosmic inflation. This concept of a “multiverse” could explain a puzzling mystery—why dark energy appears improbably fine-tuned for life. With a large number of universes, there is bound to be one that has a dark energy value like ours.
Calculating the probability of observing this value—and other features of the cosmos—depends on how many universes of various kinds populate the multiverse. String theory describes 10500 universes, but that just counts different vacuum states, which are like the blank canvases upon which universes are painted. www.newscientist.com/.
Regarding Tiger Woods and Politicans. I’m reading Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World
by Richard Pinn Op and came across this quote from The Use of Pleasure
by Michel Foucault:
‘...the more one was in the public eye, the more authority one had or wanted to have over others, and the more one sought to make one’s life into a brilliant work whose reputation would spread far and last long—the more necessary it was to adopt and maintain, freely and deliberately, rigorous standards of sexual conduct.”
Foucault knew what he was talking about. I understand that Foucault had worldwide fame, product endorsements, a billion dollars and waitresses and porn actresses were constantly texting him.
The Androgyny of the Human Soul. Sir Anthony Hopkins has coined a new term! Tony had this to say when he walked a red carpet event recently:
‘We’re living in a pretty strange time. I went into a shop to buy my wife some clothes and I wanted them gift-wrapped. And they had this big plasma screen on with these women on the catwalk. I thought, ‘God almighty, what have we become?’ These girls—anorexic, walking like machines, no soul.
You look at fashion magazines and you think, ‘What are we living in?’ You look at the red carpet, Paris Hilton, you know, these people and you think, ‘Is there anything going on up there?’ It’s a mass enslavement and it’s kind of fascism. And it’s the androgyny of it; the androgyny of the human soul. I don’t think people think any more. But maybe I’m just old.’
The Crazies. Mindless fun. Why are all survivors of horror movies stupid? I didn’t learn a thing about how to survive zombie-crazies but by dumb luck. When is someone going to organize zombies and give them a purpose?
A remake of George A. Romero’s 1973 THE CRAZIES—which none of us saw. When a new director takes on a horror movie, you never know what you will get. Hopefully, a new angle on an old theme. Director Breck Eisner does plenty with the stark, empty landscape of a small Midwestern town, Ogden Marsh, giving it a horror-like atmosphere. It’s vast, gloomy, and unfriendly.
Once again though, we have stupid people trying to survive.
The town’s sheriff, David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant, whose body looks strange and he walks funny!), has a pregnant, anorexic physician wife, Judy (Radha Mitchell) who must have gotten her medical license through an Internet Caribbean school, and a clearly weird deputy (intentionally, he looks like a meth-head), Russell Clank (Joe Anderson), who also happens to be the only clear-thinking, non-infected person of the bunch.
When you are on the run from crazies, the last thing you do is stop and try to rescue someone you know casually from town.
The number one person who should not make it out alive is Sheriff Dutton’s wife. Every time Sheriff Dutton tells her to stay put, she wanders off and gets in deep trouble. How many times should you save someone’s life before saying, “The hell with you! Survive on your own.”
I have warned my husband that if we are ever in a horror movie scenario, I will not stop running to kiss him.
At least no one in THE CRAZIES threw away a high-powered rifle when running from a bunch of crazies-without-an-agenda.
The town is under high-tech surveillance since a plane crashed in the town’s river with some biological virus onboard. It’s seeping into the town’s water.
Ha! I never drink water! Not even bottled water!
For the townspeople of Ogden Marsh it’s a slow process of infection with the onset making people crazy. Main objective? To kill for no damn good reason!
And once Sheriff Dutton figures it out, what does he do? Does he go to a supermarket and stock up on canned drinks? Does he go to a car dealership?
The military wisely quarantines the town and, de rigueur for every apocalyptic horror movie, all of the cars are set on fire. Why? Doesn’t anyone keep their cars in garages?
When the military descends on the town, they set up a Treblinka-style camp. People are herded in. Just like the SS doctors, people are quickly evaluated and promptly eliminated. What will happen if the virus goes airborne?
While the gore is subdued and the intelligence factor is nil, THE CRAZIES is fun and, as always, the zombie-crazies have nothing to say.
The Search for Captain America. Nikki Finke of Deadline: Hollywood had an item about the casting of “The First Avenger: Captain America” movie. Nikki has scooped Marvels wish list of young actors that are testing for the role.
What is more important are the contractual obligations for the prospective Captain America actor. Nikki writes: “It’s not surprising that the roster [of candidates] contains so many little known actors: Marvel after all cast a complete unknown as Thor, Chris Hemsworth. The role is enticing, but Marvel is known for driving hard bargains on its superhero deals. There’s a salary scale, but if you’re not a known quantity like Chace Crawford (CW’s Gossip Girl), or John Krasinski (NBC’s The Office), the offer is around $300,000 for the first film. And whoever gets the role will have to sign for another nine options for future films that include sequels, Avengers movies, or anything else Marvel decides.” www.deadline.com/.
