More coming attractions…

 

 

My Story1 – Muddy Tracks: Exploring an Unsuspected Reality

 

 Is there an afterlife? Do God and spirits exist? If so, do they concern themselves with human lives? Of these things, our societyteaches nothing because it knows nothing, and thinks that we can know nothing. So it dismisses the idea of telepathy, out-of-body experiences, ghosts, spirit possession, and any form of afterlife experience, including heaven and hell. It disregards the power of prayer and disbelieves the ability to heal by touch and at a distance.

But from work at The Monroe Institute and elsewhere, I learned how to obtain first-hand knowledge of life beyond what our society considers normal. I learned how to extend my abilities in ways that our society considers to be impossible. My experience shed new light on the reality underlying this world that has been described repeatedly in the world’s scriptures.

From my own experience, I have become convinced that we are immortal spirits temporarily inhabiting bodies. This life is not our only life. And although we see ourselves as separate from each other, we are all connected to one another by way of our intimate connection with a larger being that cares about us and can be trusted. This larger being is a source of foresight and wisdom, made available to us at times of its own choosing and/or upon our request. Nonetheless, we may often lose communication with it, by failing to remember that we are more than we appear to be.

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Plants aren’t as simple as you think they are

This article from The New York Times should be required reading.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/science/10plant.html?_r=2&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

It’s titled “Loyal to its Roots” and probably it’s going to come as a big surprise — one you shouldn’t miss.

At some point this will be recognized as one more blow to the “mechanistic universe” theory that has done so much harm to our civilization. What’s in this story is entirely congruent with what the guys upstairs have been saying for more than seven years.

Lying — and its consequences

When I was a junior or senior in college, I wrote a paper on the American reaction to the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, and in discussing one of the Luce magazines I said something like “they published things they must have known were not true,” to which my professor remarked in a side note, “what a shocker!”

I always have been very naïve. Despite what I saw around me, my own internal reading of reality was always realer to me than reality itself, and so I didn’t see what I was seeing. (As I told my daughter recently, I’m an intuitive, and intuitives aren’t necessarily known for having common sense.)

But the point was, and is, that something within me couldn’t and still can’t accept that we should be surrounded by newspapers, magazines, radio and television shows, internet sites, etc. that lie to us.

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Taking on Atheists and Fundamentalists

I find it very interesting to watch John Whitehead, head of the Rutherford Institute. He is a conservative in the old sense of the word, and, remarkably, apparently an honest man who does not allow a sense of partisanship or ideological loyalty to blind him to the truth.

Best-Selling Author Chris Hedges Takes Aim at Political Convergence of New Atheists & Radical Christian Fundamentalists in OldSpeak Interview

“The failure of the secular left in this country is that they forgot their Bible. They forgot that there are moral imperatives to which they must remain steadfast, regardless of what happens around them.”-Chris Hedges

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – OldSpeak, an online publication of The Rutherford Institute, hosts a provocative interview with Chris Hedges, author of I Don’t Believe in Atheists (Free Press, 2008). Speaking with John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, Hedges takes aim at so-called “New Atheists” such as Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins for peddling a malformed theology of blind religion and science and attacking religion in order to advance the worst of global capitalism, intolerance and imperialist projects. The interview, “I Don’t Believe in Atheists” is available here (http://www.rutherford.org/Oldspeak/articles/interviews/oldspeak-Hedges_2008.html)

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A question of God and the problem of evil

I woke up thinking about God and the problem of evil and suffering 

(Now, first off, I know that lots of people don’t use the word God for fear they will back themselves into superstition. But these same people will say “the universe” or “all that is” as a back-door way of saying the same thing.  “God” is just a word; what’s the sense in being scared of a word? We know you’re not talking about an image of an old man with a beard sitting on a cloud.)

People ask, why does God permit evil? Why does God permit suffering? Why does God permit this, that and the other?

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“Those questions are metaphysical”!

When I read this Letters at 3 a.m. column by Michael Ventura, my reaction was, roughly, “YES! YES! YES! He gets it!”

Not that the fact that he gets it is a surprise, but the way he uses his mind as a precision tool is always such a delight.

Science is based in metaphysics. There is nothing else for it to be based in! But members of what John Anthony West calls The Church of Progress refuse to see it. Too bad. It’s true regardless.

MICHAEL VENTURA

LETTERS AT 3AM –

GREATER AND LESSER UNCONFORMITIES

Austin Chronicle – May 23, 2008

Ever hear of the Great Unconformity? It has much to teach, but it teaches by absence – or by the absence it signifies. There are only two places in North America where the Great Unconformity is visible: Frenchman’s Mountain, overlooking Las Vegas, and the Grand Canyon. At Frenchman’s Mountain, it’s just a seam on a rock face. Hold your thumb sideways and place it on that seam and you touch something that represents 1.2 billion years of unrecorded time. According to Wikipedia, “the rock jumps from 500 million years old to 1.7 billion years old… missing… about 25% of the earth’s history.” The Lunar and Planetary Institute (www.lpi.usra.edu) notes that the Great Unconformity is found “nearly everywhere across the globe”; “it divides rocks with familiar fossils from those with no fossils or only fossil bacteria” – that is, there is little or no fossil record of the early development and evolution of complex organisms. The record stops 1.7 billion years ago and resumes 500 million years ago, by which time life on earth had gotten pretty complex, with all sorts of flora and critters.

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Lord Clark on our civilization

I well remember the series. Back in the early 1970s, I was living in Florida, working as an assistant audio-visual librarian for the Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library system. Somehow — can’t remember, now, it’s been so long — I found time to watch the ten-part television series “Civilization” by Kenneth Clark, later Lord Clark. The shows were fascinating, a visual treat, an intellectual feast, an emotional turmoil. Some years later, as some second-hand book store or other, I found the transcripts of the series in book form. An old journal recorded these concluding sections of Lord Clark’s disturbingly prescient talks.

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