Deriding today’s idols

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I am right there with John Anthony West in deriding what he calls the Church of Progress. I am really tired of people pretending they are profound when in fact they are merely sheep following trends. The trend of the past tiresome century, and this one to date, is to regard religion as superstition, as if  blind faith in “progress” or in “science” were anything but superstition.

This piece, via my brother who called it to my attention, from The New York Times http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/god-talk/?emc=eta1 .

God Talk

 Stanley Fish

In the opening sentence of the last chapter of his new book, “Reason, Faith and Revolution,” the British critic Terry Eagleton asks, “Why are the most unlikely people, including myself, suddenly talking about God?” His answer, elaborated in prose that is alternately witty, scabrous and angry, is that the other candidates for guidance – science, reason, liberalism, capitalism – just don’t deliver what is ultimately needed. “What other symbolic form,” he queries, “has managed to forge such direct links between the most universal and absolute of truths and the everyday practices of countless millions of men and women?”

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The Sphere and the Hologram

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The Sphere And The Hologram – Here at Last

   It has been a long time coming.

   Rita Warren and I began our series of sessions with the guys upstairs in August, 2001. Twenty-two sessions later, we knew we had something of importance.

   I took a month off, in the summer of 2002, specifically to turn these sessions into a book. For one reason and another, that didn’t happen. In March, 2008, Rita made her transition at the age of 88. Perhaps that finally spurred me into action. Four edits later, here are the transcripts. The books arrived at my door this afternoon.

   You will notice that The Sphere And The Hologram is subtitled “Explanations From The Other Side.” There’s a reason for that. For two decades, Rita had asked channelers and others in altered states questions about the nature of the universe and the afterlife. She had never been able to get satisfactory answers. But for some reason she and I, working together, got answers that were not only plausible, but life-changing.

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Since you’re affirming your life anyway …

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In this month’s column in The Meta Arts online magazine, which may be found at http://www.themetaarts.com/pages/frankdemarco.html, I wrote the following, which i think may be of value to many.

by Frank DeMarco

It’s funny. The workshop was about using energy work, but the most valuable thing I got out of it was a sudden realization of what I have been doing all my life, and shouldn’t be doing, and am not going to do any more. You might find yourself making the same resolution.

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The coming evangelical collapse

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Something of this sort has to happen. Christianity is old wine in a new container. That is, it is a way of understanding the spiritual world that does not fit the civilization that is shaping itself around us. That doesn’t mean that much that is precious may not be lost along with the irrelevant and the misunderstood.

This thoughtful essay is from a man who describes himself as “a postevangelical reformation Christian in search of a Jesus-shaped spirituality.” (I found it via the Schwartzreport. It appeared in the online Christian Science Monitor, and may be found at  http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html.)  

ONEIDA, KY. – We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West.

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The Garden of Eden, sure

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I came across this story (from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1157784/Do-mysterious-stones-mark-site-Garden-Eden.html) via Stephan Schwartz’ remarkable Schwartzreport (www.SchwartzReport.com). It is a hilarious situation. The established “scientific” chronology allows only a few thousand years for human existence in civilized societies,but it  keeps meeting all this evidence that we have been here a million years, with evidence of societies hundreds of thousands of years old. To preserve the orthodox view, they have to keep twisting the facts into an ever weirder set of suppositions:

* Cave men somehow built this collection of megaliths even though they weren’t supposed to be capable of doing any such thing. 

* Primitive man must have built this gold chain that was found – embedded in a lump of coal! 

* This battery that was found in ancient Iraq (I’m not making this up) doesn’t have any explanation, so we’ll think about something else, instead.

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Mr. Lincoln on our elections

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

9:30 AM.

Mr. Lincoln, a proud day. We owe it as much to you as to anyone.

You owe it to yourselves. The angels of your better nature — as I said in my first inaugural address.

It is America becoming ever more the symbol of the world, isn’t it? That’s how I see it, anyway.

A symbol, yes — but perhaps more than a symbol. Perhaps you might say in truth and not in metaphor that is a magical miniature, still, as it was to a lesser extent in my time and as it may become to an even larger extent in times beyond yours. It is the form into which energies may be concentrated and hardened into reality.

Hemingway on life

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In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway near the end has this dialogue between Brett and Jake:
“You know it makes me feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.”
“Yes.”
“It’s sort of what we have instead of God.”
“Some people have God,” I said. “Quite a lot.”
“He never worked out very well with me.”
In that dialogue – particularly in Brett’s first two sentences – is the key to everything that went smash in Western civilization.

I talked about it with what I take to be Ernest Hemingway as he exists on the other side in an altered-state communication on Sunday, June 10, 2007, which follows.

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