S. I. Hayakawa was a psychologist, semanticist, teacher and writer; however, he was for me in my college days one who left an impression about how powerful WORDS are and the fact that we are people on this planet are limited by OUR WORDS! And yet as a baby Christian I was instructed and I heeded the warning to not go beyond the words of old King James. Continue reading ‘Unmanifested Consciousness’
Monthly Archive for July, 2009
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The last time I was in Orlando at a Disney store, I found the same thing that I’ve noticed in all the Wal-Mart stores. Everything is made somewhere else. Made in China is the most popular garment tag. Made in Taiwan is the most popular electronic toy or gadget. And, then there are those made in Mexico for handbags and flip-flops. Ah, but we do have something made not just in America, but the Bible Belt! Continue reading ‘Made In The Bible Belt!’
The threat of hell never was very efficient. Looking at the last 2,000 years, one can see that the encouragement of a heaven if one were good and the threat of hell if one was bad didn’t keep people from being bad or evil. But, in today’s increased consciousness, the “hell threat” is pretty much lost whatever power it might have had: even confession(s) is a waning principle among Catholics. Continue reading ‘Evolutionary Ethics’
I AM, Jesus IS, and of course God is the original and pure LIGHT. Eastern religions go even deeper than the brief mentions of the Bible that we are ALL children of LIGHT. Most Eastern religions (which coincidently Judaism is) grant that “living light” (our LRC theme for 2009) is encoded in our form. In essence, the greater light (of God) is reflected in the human body. Continue reading ‘The Divine Blueprint’
Friedrich Nietzsche is notable for having declared that God is dead and for having written several of his works in the presumption that man must find a new mode of being given the demise of God. We seldom hear of that last preoccupation that drove Nietzsche. This brilliant German philosopher was a man ahead of his time. Why do I say that? We are now witnessing that new understanding of the God that primarily RELIGION killed. Continue reading ‘God Is Dead!’
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation….(July 4, 1776). Continue reading ‘Declaration Of Independence!’
Where did we get the concept of a “straw man“? One folk story says that it originated with men who stood outside of courthouses with a straw in their shoe in order to indicate their willingness to be a false witness. Another is that a man made of straw, such as those used in military training, is easy to attack. I’m going to use the latter account. Continue reading ‘Popular Religions “Straw God”’
The FEAR of something being TRUE that’s not found in a sacred book, be it the Bible, Koran, or Torah, is seemingly out of character for their founders. Jesus as an example was a SUBVERSIVE TEACHER. He was a cutting edge person, one who went against the customs and the religious leaders, encouraging the seeking of the esoteric Kingdom of God. Continue reading ‘Ignorance Of Religion’
Sadly, Judaism has God throwing Adam and Eve out of th allegorical garden, and Christianity continued the illusion of separation, while keeping the original sin curse for mankind to deal with in some perverse fashion. We are on an ever increasing journey to re-connecting to that which I AM and that we ARE. Continue reading ‘Awakened To The Connection!’
A Baseball Metaphor
Hard core or “fundamentalist religionists” simply don’t want to buy in to anything resembling a “co-creational” paradigm. However, I am of the community of people that believe that the earth was created for we humans and we humans have created the earth in return. Sound a bit confusing? Let’s try a baseball metaphor on for size since metaphors are about as close to defining God as we can get. Continue reading ‘A Baseball Metaphor’