"Everything happens for a reason." This platitude comes up frequently in our society, but it is used more as a casual, verbal sigh, utilized to shrug off an otherwise inconvenient event that doesn’t make sense in its occurrence, and which is usually attributed to Murphy’s Law. It is most often not submitted as a serious reminder of universal fate, as it is just something to say at a time when no other ready-made explanation fits some stroke of ill-fortune. Many people don’t believe that everything happens for a reason, at all. That, to me, is absurd, for everything certainly happens for a reason, because our existence is very much established by cause and effect. However, there is more to it than mere mechanics, but not too much more.
It is false that “good things happen to bad people,” and that “bad things happen to good people,” in the sense that the universe has some ulterior motive. The truth is that things happen. Further, things happen to people. That is fact. Our interpretation is subjective, regarding whether these things that happen are good or bad. Good and bad, however, do not exist in the natural world. There are light and dark, positive and negative, productive and destructive; these things are natural and real. One extreme cannot exist without the other. However, good and bad are human perceptions based upon our beliefs and preferences, not based upon universal truth. One person’s good is another person’s bad. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Things just happen. Assigning personal projections to the universe is selfish and outright absurd, but people do it all the time, and it causes tons and tons of trouble.
Things happen because of direct influences. Things also happen because of indirect and even roundabout influences. This is what the Butterfly Effect is all about. Regardless, a direct action would be represented by dropping a ball into a bucket. An indirect action would be represented by a Rube Goldberg machine that drops the same ball into the same bucket, but only after the ball travels through an extensive network of physical mechanisms, such as levers and springs. Life is a mixture of both types of influences. The confusing part arises when we don’t see the direct connection between things we do and the outcome. Things that happen to us for seemingly no reason are effects of random influences that, once put into motion, must resolve somewhere in the world, or even out in the universe. Life is a series of chaotic and ordered events, one always feeding the other, always working together. Everything happens for a reason. That’s just the way it works, whether we can see the reasons or not, and whether we like the reasons or not. But this is the one side of the issue.
Things happen as the causes of events, yes, but from the other side, we could say that there are other, non-physical influences that cause things to happen in order for us to take advantage of opportunities. Most often, these opportunities are lessons we can utilize to acknowledge something we previously ignored or something we didn’t see at all. These are opportunities to confront something we need to learn so that we may gain wisdom. It is entirely possible that our actions, being based upon personal fears and insecurities, and whatnot, are influencing our surroundings. This is fair since we do as we believe; action follows thought. This is a form of self-fulfilling prophecy, as well. In this motion, there will be repercussions of our actions, whether our actions are conscious, subconscious, or unconscious is hardly relevant, as we are still driven by our beliefs, desires, fears, and emotions. Logically, the ramifications of our actions can create circumstances that affect us in a way that we must confront these shortcomings that drive the entire process in the first place. Further, other beings can, and often will, be affected by our actions. They may be affected because their own actions put them in that place for a reason, or because they were randomly affected by the course of chaos. However, just because something happens to someone for seemingly no reason at all, certainly does not mean that it actually had no reason. Sometimes, as beings that share a common existence on a common, planetary organism, things happen to us because we are integral elements for the process of someone else’s lesson to be accomplished. This is another reason that global unification of spirit and truth need to be embraced. As a consistently functioning union of beings across the globe, and as part of the natural world once again, we will be able to make the most of these situations, helping one another and gaining the most wisdom from these lessons universally. The wrong thing to do is take it personally, or be selfish and think that the universe has ulterior, biased motives. Do not project, do not assume. Things happen. Things happen for reasons. Things happen to all beings. Seek the opportunities. Gain the wisdom.
Sunday, February 08, 2009
The Constitution vs. Reality, et al.
Several days ago I got a visit from a couple of nice young men who were on a “mission.” They were interested in offering any assistance that we may need at our household regarding any physically laborious tasks, which I found to be an awfully nice gesture. They also wanted to make sure that my family was aware that the aforementioned mission was to offer this kindness in the name of their belief system. This was not presented in a way that suggested that should we accept their offer of help with raking leaves, for example, we would become obligated to sign-up for attendance of their church services.
Although their presentation was nothing close to being pushy—as some door-to-door zealots might be considered—these poor gentlemen were obviously not aware that I have been teaching philosophy of Universal Truth for two and a half decades in this very region, and that as one of a handful of people in the modern world who have lived primitively in the wilderness for a year, I’ve been the subject of numerous articles on Tracking, martial arts, and wildlife. They did not know, as of our introduction, that I am one of the most outspoken advocates for nature and natural rights who has contributed oodles of editorials regarding nature, natural philosophy, and other topics for at least ten of that twenty-five year duration.
I don’t know how long the average visit and dissemination takes for the missionaries, but they were not leaving my door until nearly two hours after succumbing to their very own, private sermon from yours truly. As I said, to the apparently befuddled boys, “You’re not preaching to the choir; you’re preaching to the preacher.” And it turns out that within my lecture, speaking on behalf of nature, they were able to draw many similarities and recognitions to their own belief system.
Because nature is the common thread of all beings, it is easy to find parallels in all belief systems based upon this baseline of reality being truth. In other words, since nature is the only universal truth upon which no being can realistically disagree without being a walking contradiction, then it follows that there will be common core elements, even if fuzzy, between interpretations of that reality. Unfortunately, however, most, if not all, religions are moving drastically far away from the core truths and morphing into self-serving doctrine that humans utilize to mitigate fears and guilt, as well as to create subjective forms of ethics and justice. Ethics and justice, when based upon natural law, are universal. No one religion can corner the proverbial market on what is inherently fair or just for any being, culture, nation, or species. It has to work for all beings—and not strictly human beings—in order for it to be just.
The problem stems from a grave disconnection from the natural world. I’ve already written about and illustrated that “Sustainable Living,” which is supposedly the new fad available to make us feel “more connected” by “preserving natural resources” and getting the most out of them with the least waste. The idea that this form of sustainable living is further a form of “connection” is a farce. It is a wholly subjective, self-centered, idealistic concept of having one’s cake and eating it, too, which is little more than prolonged, environmental rape. (I’ve tried being nice and p.c. about these issues for around twenty of my twenty-five years, now, and nice and p.c. don’t really seem to get the message through. If it’s not in the form of an action movie or a rock-song, then society seems to overlook it because we have evolved into an infantile culture that embraces ignorance of things we do not wish to hear, no matter how true. We go through great lengths to avoid uncomfortable issues that are not directly facing us down in a tangible way. We lie to others and ourselves; we censor, delete, throw away, turn the channel or the page, and also turn deaf-ears to topics that disturb or challenge our beliefs and comforts. This is unhealthy for everyone.) So, yes; it is rape. It is what it is, whether you like it or not.
So I’m not going to re-write the volumes of information I’ve published at other times. I’m going to stick to the point of the thought that started this article: listening to “God.” (God is quoted because with so many religions come so many names, and “God” is the accepted, generic form.)
While speaking with these young men at my door--a relatively captive audience for not wanting to be rude by cutting me off and turning on their heels to bolt--one of them said that he knew that God spoke to him because he could feel the presence of a late family member in his life, and he knew that God was showing him that he was still loved and considered by this deceased person. He told me that he knew that God spoke to him regularly and that he knew how to listen because he could feel it in his heart. Here’s the thing, though: If we are to believe that God speaks to us based upon our emotions and suppositions, then that must imply that all belief systems are correct, because that’s simply how EVERYONE believes they hear the thoughts and beliefs, from their God, which drive them. That every religion is right, of course, is impossible, because any system of God’s truth, which is universal truth, must work for all beings, not for only humans, not for only one culture, not for only one person. We are all related, and we cannot have separate realities. We can interpret realities differently—which is what causes so much conflict and hatred in the first place—but that does not change reality.
Nature is real. Nature is the manifestation of God. Even if you don’t believe in a “God”, you have to know that you are created by and sustained by nature. It is a universal truth. Without nature, you do not exist. Therefore, the only truth that we can use as a baseline is reality, which is nature, which consists of mind, body, and spirit. All truths are derived from this reality. That means that subjective interpretations are not viable. If it doesn’t follow natural law, then it must be abandoned. Justice and ethics should be based upon natural law, not by biased, self-serving interpretations of natural laws. Now our laws and ethics are corrupt and selfish, catering to power, money, and emotion. In order to understand reality, one must be unbiased, which means being tempered, which means understanding the true place and purpose of self. This can only be accomplished by living in reality, in God’s world, directly connected with nature. It cannot be accomplished by living in an artificial world, because the artificial world disconnects us from our true place and purpose according to natural law. Again, I’ve already proven this in extensive writing that can be found elsewhere. Regardless, your job is to prove me right or prove me wrong. This isn’t my information. It’s not my “belief system.” It simply is truth. This comes from eons of wisdom gained by primitive cultures that lived by natural laws as everyday life. We have moved away from our natural place and purpose. When cells in a body do this, what do we call it? We are similar to cells in a body, as the Earth is our host, a holistic organism that sustains us, from which we breathe, feed, and exist.
Living in the natural world doesn’t mean camping out once in a while. It requires a commitment and an investment of time and energy into learning the skills that our ancestors utilized in order to live in a relative balance with their environment in order to survive, also in order to ensure the survival of their progeny for generations. It means having respect and reverence for life at all levels—much further than saying grace before supper and going to church--and it means not worshipping money or cheapening life by putting a financial value upon it. God cannot be heard in the fabricated world by anyone who contributes to the destruction of God’s creation by participating in a system of materialism, hungry for power and immortality. God doesn’t want us to live forever. God doesn’t want us to have money, fancy cars, big houses, televisions, cell phones, and property lines. That’s what WE want. God doesn’t actually advocate wiping out forests—even if we plant idealistic monocultures after eliminating pristine old-growth tracts—and God doesn’t really like us to dump oil, heavy metals, and other toxins into the waters, nor into the air. If you have been raised by any belief system that advocates these things, even indirectly (which most do), or if you’ve participated in any of these “self-help” courses that teach you how to assimilate to a sick society, then you might want to reconsider where it all pans out in the big picture. Natural law will always prevail over any manmade law, whether we survive it or not.
Although their presentation was nothing close to being pushy—as some door-to-door zealots might be considered—these poor gentlemen were obviously not aware that I have been teaching philosophy of Universal Truth for two and a half decades in this very region, and that as one of a handful of people in the modern world who have lived primitively in the wilderness for a year, I’ve been the subject of numerous articles on Tracking, martial arts, and wildlife. They did not know, as of our introduction, that I am one of the most outspoken advocates for nature and natural rights who has contributed oodles of editorials regarding nature, natural philosophy, and other topics for at least ten of that twenty-five year duration.
I don’t know how long the average visit and dissemination takes for the missionaries, but they were not leaving my door until nearly two hours after succumbing to their very own, private sermon from yours truly. As I said, to the apparently befuddled boys, “You’re not preaching to the choir; you’re preaching to the preacher.” And it turns out that within my lecture, speaking on behalf of nature, they were able to draw many similarities and recognitions to their own belief system.
Because nature is the common thread of all beings, it is easy to find parallels in all belief systems based upon this baseline of reality being truth. In other words, since nature is the only universal truth upon which no being can realistically disagree without being a walking contradiction, then it follows that there will be common core elements, even if fuzzy, between interpretations of that reality. Unfortunately, however, most, if not all, religions are moving drastically far away from the core truths and morphing into self-serving doctrine that humans utilize to mitigate fears and guilt, as well as to create subjective forms of ethics and justice. Ethics and justice, when based upon natural law, are universal. No one religion can corner the proverbial market on what is inherently fair or just for any being, culture, nation, or species. It has to work for all beings—and not strictly human beings—in order for it to be just.
The problem stems from a grave disconnection from the natural world. I’ve already written about and illustrated that “Sustainable Living,” which is supposedly the new fad available to make us feel “more connected” by “preserving natural resources” and getting the most out of them with the least waste. The idea that this form of sustainable living is further a form of “connection” is a farce. It is a wholly subjective, self-centered, idealistic concept of having one’s cake and eating it, too, which is little more than prolonged, environmental rape. (I’ve tried being nice and p.c. about these issues for around twenty of my twenty-five years, now, and nice and p.c. don’t really seem to get the message through. If it’s not in the form of an action movie or a rock-song, then society seems to overlook it because we have evolved into an infantile culture that embraces ignorance of things we do not wish to hear, no matter how true. We go through great lengths to avoid uncomfortable issues that are not directly facing us down in a tangible way. We lie to others and ourselves; we censor, delete, throw away, turn the channel or the page, and also turn deaf-ears to topics that disturb or challenge our beliefs and comforts. This is unhealthy for everyone.) So, yes; it is rape. It is what it is, whether you like it or not.
So I’m not going to re-write the volumes of information I’ve published at other times. I’m going to stick to the point of the thought that started this article: listening to “God.” (God is quoted because with so many religions come so many names, and “God” is the accepted, generic form.)
While speaking with these young men at my door--a relatively captive audience for not wanting to be rude by cutting me off and turning on their heels to bolt--one of them said that he knew that God spoke to him because he could feel the presence of a late family member in his life, and he knew that God was showing him that he was still loved and considered by this deceased person. He told me that he knew that God spoke to him regularly and that he knew how to listen because he could feel it in his heart. Here’s the thing, though: If we are to believe that God speaks to us based upon our emotions and suppositions, then that must imply that all belief systems are correct, because that’s simply how EVERYONE believes they hear the thoughts and beliefs, from their God, which drive them. That every religion is right, of course, is impossible, because any system of God’s truth, which is universal truth, must work for all beings, not for only humans, not for only one culture, not for only one person. We are all related, and we cannot have separate realities. We can interpret realities differently—which is what causes so much conflict and hatred in the first place—but that does not change reality.
Nature is real. Nature is the manifestation of God. Even if you don’t believe in a “God”, you have to know that you are created by and sustained by nature. It is a universal truth. Without nature, you do not exist. Therefore, the only truth that we can use as a baseline is reality, which is nature, which consists of mind, body, and spirit. All truths are derived from this reality. That means that subjective interpretations are not viable. If it doesn’t follow natural law, then it must be abandoned. Justice and ethics should be based upon natural law, not by biased, self-serving interpretations of natural laws. Now our laws and ethics are corrupt and selfish, catering to power, money, and emotion. In order to understand reality, one must be unbiased, which means being tempered, which means understanding the true place and purpose of self. This can only be accomplished by living in reality, in God’s world, directly connected with nature. It cannot be accomplished by living in an artificial world, because the artificial world disconnects us from our true place and purpose according to natural law. Again, I’ve already proven this in extensive writing that can be found elsewhere. Regardless, your job is to prove me right or prove me wrong. This isn’t my information. It’s not my “belief system.” It simply is truth. This comes from eons of wisdom gained by primitive cultures that lived by natural laws as everyday life. We have moved away from our natural place and purpose. When cells in a body do this, what do we call it? We are similar to cells in a body, as the Earth is our host, a holistic organism that sustains us, from which we breathe, feed, and exist.
Living in the natural world doesn’t mean camping out once in a while. It requires a commitment and an investment of time and energy into learning the skills that our ancestors utilized in order to live in a relative balance with their environment in order to survive, also in order to ensure the survival of their progeny for generations. It means having respect and reverence for life at all levels—much further than saying grace before supper and going to church--and it means not worshipping money or cheapening life by putting a financial value upon it. God cannot be heard in the fabricated world by anyone who contributes to the destruction of God’s creation by participating in a system of materialism, hungry for power and immortality. God doesn’t want us to live forever. God doesn’t want us to have money, fancy cars, big houses, televisions, cell phones, and property lines. That’s what WE want. God doesn’t actually advocate wiping out forests—even if we plant idealistic monocultures after eliminating pristine old-growth tracts—and God doesn’t really like us to dump oil, heavy metals, and other toxins into the waters, nor into the air. If you have been raised by any belief system that advocates these things, even indirectly (which most do), or if you’ve participated in any of these “self-help” courses that teach you how to assimilate to a sick society, then you might want to reconsider where it all pans out in the big picture. Natural law will always prevail over any manmade law, whether we survive it or not.
Listening to God
Several days ago I got a visit from a couple of nice young men who were on a “mission.” They were interested in offering any assistance that we may need at our household regarding any physically laborious tasks, which I found to be an awfully nice gesture. They also wanted to make sure that my family was aware that the aforementioned mission was to offer this kindness in the name of their belief system. This was not presented in a way that suggested that should we accept their offer of help with raking leaves, for example, we would become obligated to sign-up for attendance of their church services.
Although their presentation was nothing close to being pushy—as some door-to-door zealots might be considered—these poor gentlemen were obviously not aware that I have been teaching philosophy of Universal Truth for two and a half decades in this very region, and that as one of a handful of people in the modern world who have lived primitively in the wilderness for a year, I’ve been the subject of numerous articles on Tracking, martial arts, and wildlife. They did not know, as of our introduction, that I am one of the most outspoken advocates for nature and natural rights who has contributed oodles of editorials regarding nature, natural philosophy, and other topics for at least ten of that twenty-five year duration.
I don’t know how long the average visit and dissemination takes for the missionaries, but they were not leaving my door until nearly two hours after succumbing to their very own, private sermon from yours truly. As I said, to the apparently befuddled boys, “You’re not preaching to the choir; you’re preaching to the preacher.” And it turns out that within my lecture, speaking on behalf of nature, they were able to draw many similarities and recognitions to their own belief system.
Because nature is the common thread of all beings, it is easy to find parallels in all belief systems based upon this baseline of reality being truth. In other words, since nature is the only universal truth upon which no being can realistically disagree without being a walking contradiction, then it follows that there will be common core elements, even if fuzzy, between interpretations of that reality. Unfortunately, however, most, if not all, religions are moving drastically far away from the core truths and morphing into self-serving doctrine that humans utilize to mitigate fears and guilt, as well as to create subjective forms of ethics and justice. Ethics and justice, when based upon natural law, are universal. No one religion can corner the proverbial market on what is inherently fair or just for any being, culture, nation, or species. It has to work for all beings—and not strictly human beings—in order for it to be just.
The problem stems from a grave disconnection from the natural world. I’ve already written about and illustrated that “Sustainable Living,” which is supposedly the new fad available to make us feel “more connected” by “preserving natural resources” and getting the most out of them with the least waste. The idea that this form of sustainable living is further a form of “connection” is a farce. It is a wholly subjective, self-centered, idealistic concept of having one’s cake and eating it, too, which is little more than prolonged, environmental rape. (I’ve tried being nice and p.c. about these issues for around twenty of my twenty-five years, now, and nice and p.c. don’t really seem to get the message through. If it’s not in the form of an action movie or a rock-song, then society seems to overlook it because we have evolved into an infantile culture that embraces ignorance of things we do not wish to hear, no matter how true. We go through great lengths to avoid uncomfortable issues that are not directly facing us down in a tangible way. We lie to others and ourselves; we censor, delete, throw away, turn the channel or the page, and also turn deaf-ears to topics that disturb or challenge our beliefs and comforts. This is unhealthy for everyone.) So, yes; it is rape. It is what it is, whether you like it or not.
So I’m not going to re-write the volumes of information I’ve published at other times. I’m going to stick to the point of the thought that started this article: listening to “God.” (God is quoted because with so many religions come so many names, and “God” is the accepted, generic form.)
While speaking with these young men at my door--a relatively captive audience for not wanting to be rude by cutting me off and turning on their heels to bolt--one of them said that he knew that God spoke to him because he could feel the presence of a late family member in his life, and he knew that God was showing him that he was still loved and considered by this deceased person. He told me that he knew that God spoke to him regularly and that he knew how to listen because he could feel it in his heart. Here’s the thing, though: If we are to believe that God speaks to us based upon our emotions and suppositions, then that must imply that all belief systems are correct, because that’s simply how EVERYONE believes they hear the thoughts and beliefs, from their God, which drive them. That every religion is right, of course, is impossible, because any system of God’s truth, which is universal truth, must work for all beings, not for only humans, not for only one culture, not for only one person. We are all related, and we cannot have separate realities. We can interpret realities differently—which is what causes so much conflict and hatred in the first place—but that does not change reality.
Nature is real. Nature is the manifestation of God. Even if you don’t believe in a “God”, you have to know that you are created by and sustained by nature. It is a universal truth. Without nature, you do not exist. Therefore, the only truth that we can use as a baseline is reality, which is nature, which consists of mind, body, and spirit. All truths are derived from this reality. That means that subjective interpretations are not viable. If it doesn’t follow natural law, then it must be abandoned. Justice and ethics should be based upon natural law, not by biased, self-serving interpretations of natural laws. Now our laws and ethics are corrupt and selfish, catering to power, money, and emotion. In order to understand reality, one must be unbiased, which means being tempered, which means understanding the true place and purpose of self. This can only be accomplished by living in reality, in God’s world, directly connected with nature. It cannot be accomplished by living in an artificial world, because the artificial world disconnects us from our true place and purpose according to natural law. Again, I’ve already proven this in extensive writing that can be found elsewhere. Regardless, your job is to prove me right or prove me wrong. This isn’t my information. It’s not my “belief system.” It simply is truth. This comes from eons of wisdom gained by primitive cultures that lived by natural laws as everyday life. We have moved away from our natural place and purpose. When cells in a body do this, what do we call it? We are similar to cells in a body, as the Earth is our host, a holistic organism that sustains us, from which we breathe, feed, and exist.
Living in the natural world doesn’t mean camping out once in a while. It requires a commitment and an investment of time and energy into learning the skills that our ancestors utilized in order to live in a relative balance with their environment in order to survive, also in order to ensure the survival of their progeny for generations. It means having respect and reverence for life at all levels—much further than saying grace before supper and going to church--and it means not worshipping money or cheapening life by putting a financial value upon it. God cannot be heard in the fabricated world by anyone who contributes to the destruction of God’s creation by participating in a system of materialism, hungry for power and immortality. God doesn’t want us to live forever. God doesn’t want us to have money, fancy cars, big houses, televisions, cell phones, and property lines. That’s what WE want. God doesn’t actually advocate wiping out forests—even if we plant idealistic monocultures after eliminating pristine old-growth tracts—and God doesn’t really like us to dump oil, heavy metals, and other toxins into the waters, nor into the air. If you have been raised by any belief system that advocates these things, even indirectly (which most do), or if you’ve participated in any of these “self-help” courses that teach you how to assimilate to a sick society, then you might want to reconsider where it all pans out in the big picture. Natural law will always prevail over any manmade law, whether we survive it or not.
Although their presentation was nothing close to being pushy—as some door-to-door zealots might be considered—these poor gentlemen were obviously not aware that I have been teaching philosophy of Universal Truth for two and a half decades in this very region, and that as one of a handful of people in the modern world who have lived primitively in the wilderness for a year, I’ve been the subject of numerous articles on Tracking, martial arts, and wildlife. They did not know, as of our introduction, that I am one of the most outspoken advocates for nature and natural rights who has contributed oodles of editorials regarding nature, natural philosophy, and other topics for at least ten of that twenty-five year duration.
I don’t know how long the average visit and dissemination takes for the missionaries, but they were not leaving my door until nearly two hours after succumbing to their very own, private sermon from yours truly. As I said, to the apparently befuddled boys, “You’re not preaching to the choir; you’re preaching to the preacher.” And it turns out that within my lecture, speaking on behalf of nature, they were able to draw many similarities and recognitions to their own belief system.
Because nature is the common thread of all beings, it is easy to find parallels in all belief systems based upon this baseline of reality being truth. In other words, since nature is the only universal truth upon which no being can realistically disagree without being a walking contradiction, then it follows that there will be common core elements, even if fuzzy, between interpretations of that reality. Unfortunately, however, most, if not all, religions are moving drastically far away from the core truths and morphing into self-serving doctrine that humans utilize to mitigate fears and guilt, as well as to create subjective forms of ethics and justice. Ethics and justice, when based upon natural law, are universal. No one religion can corner the proverbial market on what is inherently fair or just for any being, culture, nation, or species. It has to work for all beings—and not strictly human beings—in order for it to be just.
The problem stems from a grave disconnection from the natural world. I’ve already written about and illustrated that “Sustainable Living,” which is supposedly the new fad available to make us feel “more connected” by “preserving natural resources” and getting the most out of them with the least waste. The idea that this form of sustainable living is further a form of “connection” is a farce. It is a wholly subjective, self-centered, idealistic concept of having one’s cake and eating it, too, which is little more than prolonged, environmental rape. (I’ve tried being nice and p.c. about these issues for around twenty of my twenty-five years, now, and nice and p.c. don’t really seem to get the message through. If it’s not in the form of an action movie or a rock-song, then society seems to overlook it because we have evolved into an infantile culture that embraces ignorance of things we do not wish to hear, no matter how true. We go through great lengths to avoid uncomfortable issues that are not directly facing us down in a tangible way. We lie to others and ourselves; we censor, delete, throw away, turn the channel or the page, and also turn deaf-ears to topics that disturb or challenge our beliefs and comforts. This is unhealthy for everyone.) So, yes; it is rape. It is what it is, whether you like it or not.
So I’m not going to re-write the volumes of information I’ve published at other times. I’m going to stick to the point of the thought that started this article: listening to “God.” (God is quoted because with so many religions come so many names, and “God” is the accepted, generic form.)
While speaking with these young men at my door--a relatively captive audience for not wanting to be rude by cutting me off and turning on their heels to bolt--one of them said that he knew that God spoke to him because he could feel the presence of a late family member in his life, and he knew that God was showing him that he was still loved and considered by this deceased person. He told me that he knew that God spoke to him regularly and that he knew how to listen because he could feel it in his heart. Here’s the thing, though: If we are to believe that God speaks to us based upon our emotions and suppositions, then that must imply that all belief systems are correct, because that’s simply how EVERYONE believes they hear the thoughts and beliefs, from their God, which drive them. That every religion is right, of course, is impossible, because any system of God’s truth, which is universal truth, must work for all beings, not for only humans, not for only one culture, not for only one person. We are all related, and we cannot have separate realities. We can interpret realities differently—which is what causes so much conflict and hatred in the first place—but that does not change reality.
Nature is real. Nature is the manifestation of God. Even if you don’t believe in a “God”, you have to know that you are created by and sustained by nature. It is a universal truth. Without nature, you do not exist. Therefore, the only truth that we can use as a baseline is reality, which is nature, which consists of mind, body, and spirit. All truths are derived from this reality. That means that subjective interpretations are not viable. If it doesn’t follow natural law, then it must be abandoned. Justice and ethics should be based upon natural law, not by biased, self-serving interpretations of natural laws. Now our laws and ethics are corrupt and selfish, catering to power, money, and emotion. In order to understand reality, one must be unbiased, which means being tempered, which means understanding the true place and purpose of self. This can only be accomplished by living in reality, in God’s world, directly connected with nature. It cannot be accomplished by living in an artificial world, because the artificial world disconnects us from our true place and purpose according to natural law. Again, I’ve already proven this in extensive writing that can be found elsewhere. Regardless, your job is to prove me right or prove me wrong. This isn’t my information. It’s not my “belief system.” It simply is truth. This comes from eons of wisdom gained by primitive cultures that lived by natural laws as everyday life. We have moved away from our natural place and purpose. When cells in a body do this, what do we call it? We are similar to cells in a body, as the Earth is our host, a holistic organism that sustains us, from which we breathe, feed, and exist.
Living in the natural world doesn’t mean camping out once in a while. It requires a commitment and an investment of time and energy into learning the skills that our ancestors utilized in order to live in a relative balance with their environment in order to survive, also in order to ensure the survival of their progeny for generations. It means having respect and reverence for life at all levels—much further than saying grace before supper and going to church--and it means not worshipping money or cheapening life by putting a financial value upon it. God cannot be heard in the fabricated world by anyone who contributes to the destruction of God’s creation by participating in a system of materialism, hungry for power and immortality. God doesn’t want us to live forever. God doesn’t want us to have money, fancy cars, big houses, televisions, cell phones, and property lines. That’s what WE want. God doesn’t actually advocate wiping out forests—even if we plant idealistic monocultures after eliminating pristine old-growth tracts—and God doesn’t really like us to dump oil, heavy metals, and other toxins into the waters, nor into the air. If you have been raised by any belief system that advocates these things, even indirectly (which most do), or if you’ve participated in any of these “self-help” courses that teach you how to assimilate to a sick society, then you might want to reconsider where it all pans out in the big picture. Natural law will always prevail over any manmade law, whether we survive it or not.
Breath
Most humans believe that although plants and insects and fish are alive, that they are devoid of souls, do not feel physical pain or emotion the way that we do, and are, therefore, inferior to us. A tree does not breathe the way that we do; it does not speak in our language; it does not eat in the same way that we do, so it must be a lesser being. It mustn't have a soul, and it doesn´t feel pain. It becomes expendable. We allow ourselves to believe that since this lifeform does not fall within the parameters of what religions teach us about souls, then we do not need to feel guilt, reverence, or remorse when killing these soul-less creatures.
Garbage.
I´m not even going to get into sentience right now, because sentience is obviously something we humans are not able to temper with reality and spirit. Sentience is what has gotten us into so much trouble, makes us arrogant killers, makes us greedy and depraved. Only creatures that do not possess our way of thinking have not strayed from their Original Instructions and become cancers upon nature. That´s us.
It was believed in primitive cultures, and has been taught for eons in Asian, Indian, and other "older" cultures, that breath is the key to spirit. It is through breathing that we establish a bridge to the spirit from our physical forms. Breath is the key to life, and it is the fuel of the blood and the energy that run though our bodies. Breath is healing, cleansing, and settling. It aids in bringing us to open states of awareness in order that we synchronize our senses and move beyond their physical restrictions to tap into the Whole. It has been said that in moving from the vastness of the Whole, that the breath of the body allows the spirit to inhabit the vessel.
The thing is, the shallow, conceited humans believe that breath must imply the very act of inhalation and exhalation that we perform involuntarily on a regular basis. Since many humans can barely see past the end of their nose, they assume that reality is whatever they project from their personal perspectives.
Garbage.
Breathing is accomplished in trees through leaves and roots. In fish, through gills. In insects, through knees. But it´s all breathing. It is all still a process of taking in gases via our prevailing atmosphere and replenishing our bodies so that we continue to function.
A fetus breathes. It does not breathe in the conventional way that we do postpartum, but oxygen is still taken in and carbon-dioxide still released within mom´s body, and with her assistance. But the fetus is still autonomous to the point that it still inspires and expires via the lungs. The fetus has a heartbeat, it has muscle function, and it can feel pain. If breath is the key to the soul, then a fetus has a soul. Someone moved into that vessel. It is the same for all other creatures on this planet, made by the Great Spirit.
Humans really need to get out of the box and start seeing the truth.
Garbage.
I´m not even going to get into sentience right now, because sentience is obviously something we humans are not able to temper with reality and spirit. Sentience is what has gotten us into so much trouble, makes us arrogant killers, makes us greedy and depraved. Only creatures that do not possess our way of thinking have not strayed from their Original Instructions and become cancers upon nature. That´s us.
It was believed in primitive cultures, and has been taught for eons in Asian, Indian, and other "older" cultures, that breath is the key to spirit. It is through breathing that we establish a bridge to the spirit from our physical forms. Breath is the key to life, and it is the fuel of the blood and the energy that run though our bodies. Breath is healing, cleansing, and settling. It aids in bringing us to open states of awareness in order that we synchronize our senses and move beyond their physical restrictions to tap into the Whole. It has been said that in moving from the vastness of the Whole, that the breath of the body allows the spirit to inhabit the vessel.
The thing is, the shallow, conceited humans believe that breath must imply the very act of inhalation and exhalation that we perform involuntarily on a regular basis. Since many humans can barely see past the end of their nose, they assume that reality is whatever they project from their personal perspectives.
Garbage.
Breathing is accomplished in trees through leaves and roots. In fish, through gills. In insects, through knees. But it´s all breathing. It is all still a process of taking in gases via our prevailing atmosphere and replenishing our bodies so that we continue to function.
A fetus breathes. It does not breathe in the conventional way that we do postpartum, but oxygen is still taken in and carbon-dioxide still released within mom´s body, and with her assistance. But the fetus is still autonomous to the point that it still inspires and expires via the lungs. The fetus has a heartbeat, it has muscle function, and it can feel pain. If breath is the key to the soul, then a fetus has a soul. Someone moved into that vessel. It is the same for all other creatures on this planet, made by the Great Spirit.
Humans really need to get out of the box and start seeing the truth.
Masculine and Feminine Energies (stream of thought)
In the natural world the feminine is the life-bringer--not the life-maker, as that is the duty of the Great Spirit. The female gives form to life, gives it a place to "cook" with the ingredients supplied by the male. But it would make more sense, especially following the feminine role of Earth as the life-bearing, life-sustaining "mother", that the female of the species, at the very beginning, would have been created before the male. It's as if the female was meant to be the foundation, the perpetuator of life, while the male was almost an afterthought, little more than a necessary tool in order to facilitate the female's accomplishing her purpose.
The male is the protector. The role of the male is to defend the female, protect the life-bearer, preserve her safety and place, and to fight for position against other males in order to perpetuate the strongest bloodline. The male supplies the necessary ingredients, but then his role is to stand guard while the female builds his children.
I don't see how a male can rule a female. It is absurd. She is possessed as long as she wishes to be possessed by him, and he is possessed by her as long as he wishes to be possessed, but neither rules the other. They are equals with different, vital roles. The average human male thinks about or imagines erotic situations or sensations frequently (some say every six seconds, but that does not account for the duration of the actual thought, fantasy, or sensation that falls around the six-second intermissions). Men are motivated, primarily, by their genitals. Seriously. Our testosterone is created there, and we are hormonally driven to do "manly" things by that influence. We are driven to be combative, to establish territory, dominance, and to even to gather food. But we are wholly broad-sided by the female. The female is our goal, our ambition. The female makes us lose mental function, to sweat, drool, palpitate, and to follow the unyielding, otherwise insatiable drive of our genitals. In the natural world, the woman has unbelievable power. In the natural world, the man has extraordinary strength and senses, but he is no match for his own hormones when a woman catches his fancy. Men are suckers for girls.
It makes sense that the Earth is a feminine entity as a mother, as a provider of comfort and sustenance to all of the children. Women have a crucial role that is unlike anything a man can do. The role of the female is to bring forth life. What does it say about a society, in which females are pushed and nurtured into taking over otherwise masculine roles? How can a society ruled by left-brained testosterone expect to be anything but violent, destructive, and wholly unproductive? When females forfeit their natural roles to be life-bearers, then how can it not be obvious that we are very very wrong?
The male is the protector. The role of the male is to defend the female, protect the life-bearer, preserve her safety and place, and to fight for position against other males in order to perpetuate the strongest bloodline. The male supplies the necessary ingredients, but then his role is to stand guard while the female builds his children.
I don't see how a male can rule a female. It is absurd. She is possessed as long as she wishes to be possessed by him, and he is possessed by her as long as he wishes to be possessed, but neither rules the other. They are equals with different, vital roles. The average human male thinks about or imagines erotic situations or sensations frequently (some say every six seconds, but that does not account for the duration of the actual thought, fantasy, or sensation that falls around the six-second intermissions). Men are motivated, primarily, by their genitals. Seriously. Our testosterone is created there, and we are hormonally driven to do "manly" things by that influence. We are driven to be combative, to establish territory, dominance, and to even to gather food. But we are wholly broad-sided by the female. The female is our goal, our ambition. The female makes us lose mental function, to sweat, drool, palpitate, and to follow the unyielding, otherwise insatiable drive of our genitals. In the natural world, the woman has unbelievable power. In the natural world, the man has extraordinary strength and senses, but he is no match for his own hormones when a woman catches his fancy. Men are suckers for girls.
It makes sense that the Earth is a feminine entity as a mother, as a provider of comfort and sustenance to all of the children. Women have a crucial role that is unlike anything a man can do. The role of the female is to bring forth life. What does it say about a society, in which females are pushed and nurtured into taking over otherwise masculine roles? How can a society ruled by left-brained testosterone expect to be anything but violent, destructive, and wholly unproductive? When females forfeit their natural roles to be life-bearers, then how can it not be obvious that we are very very wrong?
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