by Jon Rappoport
May 7, 2019
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This is a brief collection of notes I made on one of the central realities of planet Earth:
Religion.
Down through history, organized religion has tried to take over the Paranormal as its own property. Allowing this and going along with it, humanity, even in all its goodness, has made a grievous mistake. It has paid a terrible price. Transferring the Paranormal from the individual to an organization brings on a negative result, a blanketing tragedy.
As far as I can tell, the first commandment of every religion is aimed at all other religions: OUR GOD IS REAL. YOURS IS FALSE.
The corollary, in some cases, is: IN ORDER TO PROVE THIS, WE WILL WIPE YOU OUT IF NECESSARY.
George Carlin: “But He [God] loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money!”
The second commandment of religions—directed toward their own flocks—THINK WHAT WE TELL YOU TO THINK, BELIEVE WHAT WE TELL YOU TO BELIEVE. You, an immortal soul, are incapable of determining these matters on your own. You must refer to religious leaders. You must quote them.
The large majority of eight billion souls on planet Earth believe they have two choices. Accept what a religion tells them, or conclude there is nothing spiritual about life; it is merely physical substance. They can’t conceive of other possibilities. This points to an astonishing lack of imagination.
Many scientists believe scientific lies are better than lies based on religious superstition.
Most religion is based on the premise: CONTROL OF POPULATIONS IS NECESSARY. THEREFORE, IMPOSED DOCTRINE IS NECESSARY. Control is better than no control.
If you investigated an organized religion, the more its behaviors resembled those of a mafia, the closer you would be getting to the top of the leadership.
“What’s the outlook for the next quarter” is not in any Bible, but you will hear it if you’re a fly on the wall at high-level private meetings.
Reaching back into history, you find wars between religions. Perhaps in one of these disasters, the less insane religion won. That doesn’t mean any part of that religion’s doctrine is true.
Why do some pro football players make the sign of the cross on the field or point toward the heavens after scoring a touchdown? God doesn’t watch the pros. He watches college football.
The degree of self-induced hypnotism and amnesia is apparent, when you consider the importance of ORGANIZED religion. There are few, if any, DISORGANIZED religions, whereby people meet on Sundays and freely discuss what they individually and differently believe. Giant churches are not filled with such people.
“My hair is purple. I see yours is, too. That’s good. In fact, looking around us at the ten thousand attendee at this service—they all have purple hair. It’s dawning on me that PURPLE is our collective strength. If we push it far enough, and if our preacher speaks about it, we can win. We can win the war of competing belief.”
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The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.
George Carlin, We saw him live 2 times. I have his book brain droppings.
Nevertheless, it’s unwise to judge something out of its time… Perhaps religions were necessary then, considering the level of consciousness at the time. We don’t have an excuse now not to question everything.
The inherent power of life had to be destroyed in our hearts and minds before capitalism could even exist, and life could be commodified. The power of women to represent this life energy had to be limited to giving birth. This had to happen in the mind first, the Great mother religions of nature, had to be erased from humanity. In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey tells the little-known – and deeply shocking – story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in unquestioning adherence to the ‘one true faith’.
The Roman Empire had been generous in embracing and absorbing new creeds. But with the coming of Christianity, everything changed. This new faith, despite preaching peace, was violent, ruthless and intolerant. And once it became the religion of empire, its zealous adherents set about the destruction of the old gods. Their altars were upturned, their temples demolished and their statues hacked to pieces. Books, including great works of philosophy and science, were consigned to the pyre. It was an annihilation. 97% of all wisdom was stolen from us. How do you judge this atrocity?
It was Rome that corrupted Christianity. Constantine favored any bishop with privileged and powers if they would bring the flocks under control and tell them to join the military and mix pagan ceremonies with christian ones. So don’t blame Christianity when it was Rome that gave a corrupted Christianity to the world. Rome did not care about religion. It just wanted obedience and support from all people. It has nothing to do with religion. Its about tyrants and enslavement and nothing more. You can take that to the Bank.
Why no mention of Pastafarianism, Jon?
Why no mention of Bertrand’s Celestial Teapot, Jon?
Our hope is in Cheeses!
Jon, in all cases you mentioned, I see it as more of a power or authority using whatever tool will work, to keep power and control over a people. Its not religion. To me, religion is something personal. Also for me, The Bible dictates beliefs, and not men doing so. religion should be the pursuit of freedom to interpret what you read or hear, for your self. no collectivism!
So this is not really about religion, it is about dominance and slavery.
On your previous blog, I find some things of interest there. I saw a Star Trek episode a month or 2 back maybe, and before that as well. These God like entities wanted to “borrow” a few bodies from the Enterprise to make some artificial bodies to inhabit. But while in the human bodies, the gods found the bodies very intoxicating and consuming. I found that interesting, considering the tales of gods taking human form. In the Bible, God would send a spirit in human form to deliver a message. They would not linger or discuss anything. Deliver and then get out and back to spirit form.
What I see as a possibility is that spirits are knowledge and reason entities. When they convert into a human form, they evidently also take on all the desires/impulses/drives that we have.
In other words, what make hot women so overpowering to men would be felt by visiting spirits. The Genesis 6 account mentions the rebellious spirits/angels who came down to earth and took lots of beautiful women. so obedient spirits don’t stay around long, in the flesh. Of course I could be wrong, but spirits of a not so good nature often share info with Hollywood and TV “nobility,” telling them things about the spirit world and lying about stuff, too.
I would differ on humans having spirits or souls,other than as living flesh. But that’s no big deal.
My passing comment to all is avoid spirits because God’s spirit sons will not answer you. That has been turned over to the head psychopath in the God-Opposing side. They are very dangerous!
Truth1 out!
I was raised by an atheist and an ex-Catholic, “born again” as a Baptist. I know atheists who are just as pompous as some other religious cultists (Atheism being their religion), but my father wasn’t. He was quietly and humbly a non-believer, while my mother used religion as another one of her many ways to control others.
However, in having this strange dichotomy to observe, I questioned the conviction each of them had in their opposite beliefs, neither of them armed with any proof; only what they’d been taught.
So, one day, I asked, with a sincere desire to know, “God, if you are there, please let me know.” And although the answer didn’t come right away (it was a few months), when I received the answer, it was in the form of a mind-blowing, spectacular, supernatural miracle. And, I’ve had a few amazing psychic experiences since then.
Still, I’ve had no urge to join any religion. Personal agendas and the limitations of mortal understanding tend to mess it up.
” […] it was in the form of a mind-blowing, spectacular, supernatural miracle.
That’s very interesting Sue. Care to expand on that thought..mind-blowing, spectacular, supernatural, and miracle all in the same sentence. Is like ice cream, with fruit and nuts and cherry on top to someone like me.
I have had a few people in the last few days speak to me in this way, it seems more than a coincidence — I realize you were addressing Jon’s post. But it peaked my interest.
So, I say…”Spill the beans baby, tell it all, don’t make it godam cliff hanger I hate that!”
I’m still considering how I’ll do that. The details of how it unfolded would require that I start my own blog, as a comment bubble is not sufficient to convey all that occurred.
In addition, although people said that what I told them was not possible (and yet, it ultimately happened, and right on time), some of the supernatural components (like hearing a sound that was not of this world – 3 times within 3 minutes or less before the miracle manifested) obviously can’t be shared, except to say that I experienced them.
How many people suddenly decided to speak to you this way in the last few days? Did you put out an article for people to address this issue? Or were you suddenly, coincidentally, approached by others who wanted to share their experiences with you?
I offered a reply to my query, or should I see demand to see the end of the movie, and started to answer your questions of me, well Buddha on a city bus, it turned into a epic tale…you can find it here if you like.
https://michaelburns1.ca/2019/05/09/sue/
I believe there is a God, because this great universe did not come out of nothing. nothing does
As far as religions, the only one who seams credible is Christianity.
Here is my favorite Bible verse:
Matthew 17:20
Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.
As far as George Carlin quote, I would say, is it not what everybody does in this world ? People fall in love and get married, and then, one of them cheat on the other and they divorce/. Women often ruins their husband and all hell gets loose
“Women often ruins their husband […]”
Can we get a big ‘Amen’ on that..
I AGREE WITH YOU TO THE FACT THAT RELIGION IS THE MEANS BY WHICH HUMANITY IS BROUGHT TO A STATE OF SLAVERY, BY THE WAY GOD’S WORD IS PRESENTED, HOWEVER I KNOW THAT YOU ARE ALSO A GODLESS PERSON WHO PUSHES YOUR OWN RELIGION IN DISGISE OF SELF HELP TO THE INDIVIDUAL, PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF HAVE DONE A LOT OF DAMAGE TO THE INOCENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL THAT TRULY LIKES TO LEARN IF GOD REALY DOES EXIST, WITHOUT BOTHERING TO GO TO THE SOURCE, WHICH IS THE CREATOR ITSELF. ALL MEN AND WOMEN WITHOUT GOD WILL BE THE ONES THAT ALWAYS CRATE RELIGIONS, BY DEVIDING THE INDIVIDUALS THROUGH DENOMINATIONAL LABLES. THE REAL FOLLOWERS OF THE TRUE CREATOR ARE NOT RELIGIOUS PEOPLE BUT WE ARE CALLED BELIEVERS, OF THE TRUE GOD LABLES TO US DO NOT MEAN ANY THING OTHER THAT A TRAP FOR THE IGNORANT WHO STILL SEARCHING FOR THEIR CREATOR. NOT KNOWING THAT THEY ARE SEARCHING FOR THE CREATOR IN THE WRON PLACES, GOD CAN BE FOUND AT ANY PLACE, AND ANY TIME, THE INDIVIDUAL IS TRULY WILLING TO KNOW IF GOD IS REAL SINCE HE CAN READ THE CREATIONS ALL INTENTIONS WITHIN THEMSELVES EVEN AS THE CREATION DON’T UNDERSTAND THEMSELVES AT ALL. GOD KNOW WHO WE ARE FROM THE MOMENT HE CREATE US TO THE MOMENT HE TAKES US OUT OF HIS CREATION. TO WHERE HE IS. NO LONGER IN THE FLESH ( NATURAL ) BUT IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM OR (SUPER NATURAL), SATAN IS THE GOD OF THIS PLANET AND HIS METOD OF DECEPTION IS TO MAKE HUMANITY BELIEVE THAT HE DOES NOT EXIST, BUT HAS THE POWER TO TEMPT YOU THROUGH THE NATURAL DESIRES OF YOUR HEART TO GET YOU OUT OF GOD’S WAY, GOD GAVE US SELF AUTHONOMY TO DESIDE ON OWR OWN WHERE WE WANT TO GO AND CHOSE WITH WHOM GOD COULD PUSH YOU TO LOVE HIM AND LEARN ABOUT HIM BUT WOULD ANY MAN OR WOMAN WOULD BE WILLING TO MANIPULATE A FUTURE PARTNER FOR LIFE THROUGH DECEPTION AND WOULD THAT LAST A LIFE TIME AND BE HAPPY? I DON’T THINK SO RELIGION CAN BE MADE OUT OF ANY THING THAT ANY MAN WANTS SO BAD THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO DIE FOR IT, LIKE SOCIALISM COMMUNISM FASCISM HUMANISM SO WHY IS IT THAT INTELECTUAL NEVER CONSIDER THAT AS RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHIES? REASON IS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT AS SMART AS THEY THINK THEY ARE WITH OUT GOD MEN IS NOTHING MORE THAN A BEAST THAT NEEDS A SAVIOUR. AND THAT SAVIOUR IS THE ONE THAT ALREADY DIED FOR ALL OF HIS CREATION BUT HIS CREATION ARE NOT WILLING TO BELIEVE HIS SACRIFICE.
Why do you use all caps?
It is difficult visually to read your comment…all capital letters usually denotes yelling or a loud voice. Maybe might I suggest you could speak a little softer and I will listen to you.
There is nothing to fear. Exactly, we all fear nothingness, a big, vacant lot – we want a house to move into, nice sturdy walls to keep out the not-nice people. Structure, dependability. Churches have always been dominant, expensive structures, that remain empty most of the week. But seeing the same walls once a week, year after year, is in itself a comfort. The words coming from the pulpit have to be consistent as well. If they change radically, then you might be concerned that you were wrong once in your beliefs, or are wrong now.
I discovered that once you pull out certain threads of Christian orthodoxy that don’t make much sense, you end up with more loose threads than you started with. So that’s what orthodoxy is – carefully woven together concepts that support each other. If this is true, then that must be true, and also the other thing can’t be denied, because, well then nothing would make sense. Nothing is to be feared. People need a voice repeating in their head, like hearing mom and dad talking in the living room as you drift off to sleep.
And the thing is, if you don’t have a doctrine, you have no basis to criticize someone else’s beliefs, other than your own thoughts and feelings.
For all I know, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the status quo of religion – it could be absolutely necessary. Nietzsche thought so – when he declared that God was dead, it was like saying the pilot just had a heart attack. Who’s gonna fly this plane now?
But, here I am flying my own plane, not because I wanted to, but all because I had to pull out that little thread from the sleeve of the pilot!
Interesting comment Greg, I like it. Good comment. It got me thinking back on to something I have been thinking about for a while now.
The idea of the Big expensive Church; expensive structure that remains empty most of the week is a strong symbol in the mind. It is a good metaphor for what ails us. Never so much as the recent fire in France, that has burned an age old piece of Christian art. Notre Dame.
When I think about it, I think about all those poor, and unfortunates that live in squalor and poverty. Who would never see anything of quality, anything of real beauty, anything of great art that would open the mind and the heart.
And so their Sunday visit to the ‘House of God’ was open for them, whereas the great houses of the rich were closed.
They could go in and imagine a greater existence within the faith that saw them as equal. And spirit is nurtured and comforted in its yearning, I remember now that going to mass was what put me on this path to find god. Within or outside of me.
Your loose threads analogy is perfect here, too many are throwing the baby out with the bath water. Is the government of the Vatican corrupt? Who cares, individual catholics for me are kind people. Caring people who go about their lives understanding that god exists. And fear of a final state is not a bad thing, in the context of what we are now living. Ritualized forgiveness, and celebration life on the way, allows the meek to endure great adversity and evil.
Your thoughts on Nietzsche I agree with fully. A nihilist existential universe is such a void to contemplate, it opens such a large hole inside one.
I spoke to an old catholic I know in town here, he is dedicated — he and his wife take care with a few other of the great church in town. The empty place is now becoming more vacant on sunday as more threads to pull out are being performed by those that abandon faith and refuse their children a starting point to the enquiry of the nature their souls.
He spoke to me about the loss of goodness in people, and how the church taught through the parables of Christ, forgiveness and understanding. And real charity. He spoke to me about fear and real sense of evil, which is getting larger and all encompassing. He spoke about empty words falling from the pulpit. And like many of our honored institutions the church lacks real and valid leadership.
My thoughts are changing from what was to what is..
There are a lot of adults running around Greg, with a childs understanding of the real world. Parents fail to parent as they were failed themselves, and nihilistic confusion is becoming the norm. Confused even in sexual identity and the break down of what was the greatest of institutions: the marriage of a man and a woman and the family they created.
We are not ready yet for what Jon speaks about, people have give up for the search for god. With nothing to replace that hole, but what is evide
Existentialism is not the same thing as nihilism, Michael. But again, they are merely two doctrines, and doctrines do not tell us as much as the motivation of the people who hold them. Nietzsche understood this, that philosophy was a game, that the philosopher was “up to something” and was trying to justify himself. He thought of himself more as a psychologist, trying to peel away the layers of self-justification we all adopt to explain our action or inaction. Nietzsche saw the answer in something he called “the will to power” where the person stops the game playing and embraces the raw, unfiltered experience of life and inner potential. By its nature, it defies analysis – poetry is better suited to describe it. I see parallels with the charismatic experiences in the New Testament, and the first Christians in the book of Acts, who were enjoined to tolerate all kinds of variations in their beliefs. The revival movements in America were all trying to reach that spiritual state, and I admire them for it. The transcendentalists such as Emerson and Thoreau were on to it.
“Existentialism is not the same thing as nihilism […]”
Or yes I agree, but I was looking for that cognitively dissonant expression of what I see in the young who are not bad or good in that polarity but because they are caught in it’s extremes — missing a western Christian upbring basis or having been convinced that all priests are pedophiles and religion is a scam. And that religion is another layer of rule — that depends on what you’re asking, depends on how you come at it.
“the will to power”
Which has been misunderstood as well, I would say by most as directly referential to the “Übermensch”, a newly minted idea of a heartlessly cold, and self-centered, and exploitive superman, hyperman who who incinerates his caring in a sacrificial rite and seeks immortality. When Nietzsche was meaning what you say, that the clear pure life of a quality individual, a quality human is the end, in ones search of true meaning.
Emerson and Thoreau: definitely misunderstood individuals, as the left seems to have picked them up as demigods of their warped faith. Thoreau has been labeled a socialist. I think they missed the target, as it’s as big as the barn door — and that specifically addresses what I think, because the poetic mind is lost in youth, picked up by rap as the verse of the day. Not there is not some good poetry in rap. But, it’s a genre amongst a kaleidoscope of other poetic genres. And it is not the words as much as the poetic mind that invents it.
“The will to power” is the polar opposite of being chronically bored, which is endemic to our times. To be bored is to be boring. Very few can sense the trillions of possible ways to grow new neural pathways, and delight in cultivating them , seeing how far they can branch out. I quit teaching music because it was a dead end – no matter how inventive my approach, it depended on students who had a sense of adventure, and who could sustain more than 10 or 20 minutes of self-directed mental effort. They hardly exist. I put myself in their shoes, and decided that I need to challenge myself more. Returned to writing software at age 59, and got busy regrowing all those unused circuits – daily disciplined practice for 10 hours. Mastered the emotional balance that repeated failure requires. What an experience, to learn to exist on the edge of being the thinker and the one directing the thinking, going back and forth throughout the day. Observing myself and others I work with, learning the best ways to deal with the high demands of the job.
The philosopher and the dogmatist are usually trying to to solidify and macadamize their neural pathways. But the standouts I mentioned earlier, lived in a time and place where one could take 100 different routes when walking from home to visit someone a mile away. I was fortunate, too, to grow up next to many empty acres of desert trails, sandy washes, a creek, an abandoned well – every play day would be completely different and unexpected. And now I know, there is never, ever, an excuse to stop exploring.
Started anew thread at the bottom.
A Well thought out article. Pre Abrahamic religions were more Individual in nature i believe…Books of suggestions and the wisdom stories, not lists of ORDERS…..to obey. you went on the journey guided by the archetypes of your people….My ancestral archetypes Do appear to me in dreams, and i did not even know my heritage until recently (adopted family members) But Once i looked into the symbols, the archetypes…that had been with me all my life, The names of the energies was finally revealed to me. Like an old friend of the family who stood by you, when you did not know how long they had waited for you….
Jon
I rarely also fault anything George Carlin had to say and your “timing” with this is particularly special given I will release a new article within three weeks of writing this.
“A Crisis of Social Grooming: Fear and Manipulation at the Root” will illustrate religion thus:
“Miscasting of historic myths is a classical manoeuvre of those committed to perverting truth in order to impress upon social grooming. In more ancient times religions were a vehicle sometimes used to ridicule truth and deny sovereign faith. Circumcision is an undeniable direct attack on God (supporting that which is natural), but I find no reference to the fact in the Torah. Because religion began to lose its potence (the authorities drafted a new Bible in 1884 in an attempt to jump start Christianity once more) with so much global upheaval, since the French Revolution, the task of bending truth has been handed to “science”. That is why today learned professions are “split” for and against vaccines, marking mainstream and anti-mainstream territories.
How can there be any debate on this though? The truth is plain and out in the open, but far from simple. Aluminium, supplied to vaccines via Eli Lily’s branded product Thimerosal, causes brain damage. The symptom autism is a configurable consequence. There are other plausible associated conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease. Here’s where complexity is noted. Often combinations of factors will impress varied disease symptoms, but in the specific cases of autism and Alzheimer’s, the underlying (or root) cause is aluminium poisoning. When there are multiple factors determining potential outcomes of any political argument, it becomes easy to subvert the path away from honest realisation. Oil is blamed for Iraq, but the war had little to do with the petroleum industry. That was the cover story. Indeed, the “powers” know that if they do not move away from fossil fuels soon, humanity is done for. In fact, as I illustrate in this article (to be cited), all cancers are caused by carbon pollution.
Politics is all about consensus view (or, rather, the manufacture of it), Science and religion are the same, with two distinct exceptions. Religion is anchored to Scripture which, fanatics assert, is Word of God. This is easily disproven, of course. We only need to open our Bibles to discover numerous contradictions on offer when evidence that summarises prophets’ revelations is scrutinised carefully. God apparently allows and disallows certain practices; verdicts depending on timely cultural persuasions. Yet, jesting aside, a calculating, divisive God is a duplicitous one. Science, almost identically, regularly serves up contradictory “proof” as justification for dogma.
These wibbly-wobbly proofs are regularly and sensationally disproven, in some instances, many times over. Neither Scripture nor proof, it seems, are very reliable. That is perhaps why they have combined in unison today. Both sciences and religions’ output asserts what amounts to principled belief in doctrines “supposedly” backed by evidential proof. Though it logically belonged to Jacques De Molay (attesting his mock crucifixion by Catholicism), the so-called Turin Shroud is “officially” evidence of Jesus’ (who didn’t exist, by the way) life and death. This is because, the once Hitler’s IG Farben cyanide gas salesman, Pope John Paul II was all too quick to upgrade the dubious (according to prior editions of the Catholic encyclopaedia) “fact” in spite of the facts (couched in known origins of the item).”
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I would still say, Ozzie, as I did to Jon, that religion is not the problem. it is tyrants appropriating religion to get obedience. in this case, religion being your peer group. anyone can abuse any law or principle. A perfect example are number of savage rapes committed against the Bill of Rights. Religion is a scape goat that despots hide behind. people are too concerned about other people and what they might think. this dynamic is our real problem and our main problem. Low IQ helps to create more people who only want to fit in and go along with the crowd.
In any thing, balance is the key. Getting along has good points and bad points. balancing those is the task we fail most often. The independent mind is the most feared weapon, as despots would see it. in a crowd of sheep who feel in no particular way, a brilliant mind could accomplish a lot. But once that mind had won over a crowd, its very hard for a despot to come along and change all those minds. Communism’s answer is to kill all those minds. But in doing so, what is left over for people, is what quickly brings an end to communism in just a few decades, say 30 years, 40 tops.
Depots are our real problem. We are not allowed to think or openly share our idea. that is hell on earth. Bad religions and cults are easily defeated if free speech/ideas are allowed.
Incorrect. The individual who has an internal slave/master mindset will not ever be free. Being fully responsible for your life is overwhelming to such persons, that is why people who ARE religions have less stress and seem happier. It is all up to god, if you are part of an organized religion, god willing…..
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I belong to no religion. But what you say about people not begin followers, is the problem. They are almost all followers who want to fit in and be accepted, no matter the price. Strong independent individuals are more rare than Unicorns. We might as well be talking about the Easter bunny and mother goose.
Very good! Clear thinking.
“Circumcision is an undeniable direct attack on God […]”
Might it be the symbol of pain, of suffering for their sins.
Reblogged this on Awaken Lifeform and commented:
Religion is to nurture the ego level, once you experience the level above you won’t need religion at all. You become the ‘I Am’.
Organized religion vs paranormal:
[https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=define+paranormal]
[https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=define+religion]
You cannot argue nor explain religion, politics, medicine or even paranormal with people who believe in what they believe, even with scientific explanations of nature, culture, logic, opinion or education. You will not win (if that is your goal).
So if you WANT to argue or attempt to explain, it will not work.
Our individual task is not to judge the beliefs of others, but to grow on our own journeys and find a path that works in our very own life. A path (belief and action) that will take you ever closer to the voices that you hear in your own heart.
Greg C:
I agree fully, and find no argument with what you say here Greg.
I hope you haven’t given up on music personally — I presume you are a player.
“Macadamize their neural pathways”, interesting use of that word, strange as it seems I have been thinking a lot about road building. It has been a metaphor for what we speak. Your use of it reminded me of my days as a landscape carpenter when I used this, crushed grey limestone as a base to the sculpted slate I laid down for the many patios of the nouveau riche. When put down in a thick layer tamped hard with water, it dried like cement.
It sounds like you are a little ahead of me in your new life. New explorations, discipline is the key.
I had a fierce dream last night that woke me many times, and I returned to sleep only to pick up where I had left off. Interesting how this conversation relates to it for me.
I have had a dream for many decades about a grand house with many rooms, it was a precursor, to my move to this little town in 2006, and the purchasing of a well-built and old convent, which I tried to reinvent into a B&B and art center, it all fell to pieces, wrong place, wrong time, wrong dream, and it couldn’t help hemorrhaging money so… that wa a couple of years ago and It seems I was left in limbo.
This archetype as always acting I think as the shadow side of myself, the being that lives in that other reality, that was neglected and feared sometimes. Would rise and run amuck in my life.
Anyway, it’s an important symbol at the center of me and has been so for a long while, kinda like a monolith at the center of my psyche. Jon turned me on to potency in his work. Along with my studies in Jung, Peterson, Campbell.
So… the dream that lasted ends — which is very much an answer to what you say here, and probably a less confrontational way, to agree and my relating to ” […] there is never, ever, an excuse to stop exploring.”
And ripping up roads and creating new ones with a little less expenditure of energy, on the manufacture and more into the adventure itself.
And so I awake early and wrote a poem about it…if you like, you might find it below in the link to my neglected website.
https://michaelburns1.ca/