Here is the place where Theseus will reveal the cartography of the Labyrinth and the true nature and deeds of the Minotaur.
I am sure you think all of this is a mere myth, but what if I tell you that you have been in the Labyrinth with the Minotaur your whole life where the Labyrinth has confused you and the Minotaur has been having his way with you?
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
How do I see you?- Like This!
For all of you out there across the globe who have fought so hard to tackle the hideous enemy of our planet, namely carbon emissions, that bogus god you worship named “Climate Change” or “Global Warming”, there is some really bad news that will be very painful for you to process.
The current volcanic eruption going on in Iceland, since it first started spewing volcanic ash, has, to this point, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet. Not only that, this single act of God has added emissions to the earth estimated to be 42 times more than can be corrected by the extreme human regulations proposed for annual reductions.
It’s very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up til midnight to finish your kid’s “The Green Revolution” science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your Landcruiser and speedboat, going on vacation to a city park instead of overseas, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your $1 light bulbs with $10 light bulbs …well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just the past week.
The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth’s atmosphere in the past weeks has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast carbon. And, those thousands of jobs you helped move to Asia with expensive emissions demands on businesses…you know, the ones that are creating even more emissions than when they were creating our jobs, well that must seem really worthwhile now. And I do wish that there was some kind of silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire season across the western U.S.A. will start in about 2 months and those fires will negate your efforts to reduce carbon emissions in our world for the next 2 years
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So, grab a nice cold healthy drink, give the world a hug, and have a nice day!
An email making the rounds: hat tip to Ghost Of A Flea
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This man is so close to Spiritual Realism.
We are all familiar with the devastating effects of the disease of Alcoholism and what it does to its victims. We are less familiar with the devastation it wreaks on those close to the suffering Alcoholic.
Lois Wilson wife of the founder of AA started Al-Anon to help the co-dependents of Alcoholics deal with their involvement with Alcoholism.
This was sent to me by a friend who had been married to an alcoholic and spent many years in Al-Anon:
“I felt left behind, left out as if I wasn’t important. I felt unsupported as a person. I felt unloved. I felt needed. I felt weighted with responsibility. I felt coerced, controlled and manipulated. I felt used for pleasure. I felt abused, not cherished, uncared for. I felt lonely. I felt sorry for the alcoholic. I felt a separation from the alcoholic, I became a watcher. I felt deep pain and sorrow, I felt a death. I felt critical. I felt loyal and became a saviour, I felt better than them. I felt separate from society, I felt disconnected. I felt unable to love. I felt uncaring. I felt void. I felt no trust in my world. I felt I can survive anything by myself. I felt no trust in people. I felt relationships were temporary. I felt vulnerable. I felt the brunt of anger and resentment. I became vengeful, self righteous, angry, resentful, untrusting, uncaring, superior, disconnected, alone, misunderstood and unloving.”
Acclaimed author and screenwriter William G. Borchert explores the life and times of Lois Burnham Wilson, the spirited creator of Al-Anon and wife of Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson. From her privileged childhood in turn-of-the-century New York City to her socialite status as the ‘Wall Street Wife’ of the charismatic Bill in the roaring ’20s to the couple’s audacious crosscountry motorcycle excursions in the 1930s, Lois was every bit the adventure-seeker. But nothing could have prepared her for the chaos, anguish, and loss caused by Bill’s seventeen-year descent into the depths of alcoholism.
ISBN-10: 1592859801
ISBN-13: 9781592859801
Publisher: Hazelden
Published Year: 2005
Outside its large and dedicated fan-base the Twilight Series is universally hated. It is a badge of honour amongst men in particular to denounce Twilight as a “stupid chick flick”. Vampire movies and TV Series have been around long enough for a lot of people to either outgrow an interest in Vampires or just simply get bored from overexposure. The vehement hatred of the Twilight Series is on a whole other level and fired by something quite other than ‘maturity’ or Vampire boredom.
There is a super-naturalism to Vampires that annoys the growing legions of shallow yet vehement Atheists who have become an annoying internet forum troll infestation. These Troll Atheists show up to denounce every and any allusion to spirituality, religion or supernatural-ism as stupid and superstitious escapism. As if Movies and TV shows aren’t escapism pure and simple to begin with.
The Troll Atheists are certain that they are on solid ground when attacking the Twilight Series. They point to the sexual abstinence between Edward and Bella and her unconditional commitment to whatever fate she may be handed, just so long as she can go on being with Edward, as proof positive that she is in a stereotypical abusive relationship. Werewolves too who also appear in the Twilight Movies share this relationship with their women. Apparently this is all part of a neoconservative evangelical agenda and proselytizing for a return to the subservience of women and the restoration of evil patriarchy. Try asking any Christian Evangelical this question: “Would you advocate using the Anti-Christ to spread the message of Conservative Christian values?”
The Twilight Saga haters are of course in deep denial about their own implication in the Twilight narrative and the deeper layers of its meaning as a psycho-spiritual revelation. In the first Twilight book/movie we discover that Edward a unique species of Vampire who subsist on animal blood and foreswear the murder of humans as wrong, is addicted to the smell of Bella’s blood. So overwhelmed is he by the this, that he describes it as: “ It’s like my own unique brand of Heroin”. Still Bella is unafraid of Edward because she “gets him” where he really exists as a century old seventeen year old.
Bella is so in love with Edward that she wants him to “turn her” into a Vampire so she can be with him ‘undead’ and in love ‘forever’. Edward is so in love with Bella that he point blank refuses to do it, because beyond the intoxication of her blood smell, he is in love with her living human soul. Cheesy I know, but still interesting as supernatural romances go. Edward loves Bella and will never harm her; compelling as her intoxicating blood smell is, he is never going to abandon his restraint and bite savagely into her jugular. This abstinence metaphor, is what gets the Twilight haters apoplectic and frothing at the mouth.
Troll Atheists are a hypocritical brigade of intellectually dishonest drones and lemmings, who thoughtlessly obey the ‘hive mind’ while telling themselves how cool they are. That Atheist ‘hive mind’, is totally committed with what can only be described as a religious fervour to the Legalization of Drugs. No abstinence for them while they get high and hang out with their ‘fuck buddies’.
Whatever else may be said about the self defeating stupidity of the “war on drugs”; the fact remains that drug users are escaping from reality in a much more decisive way than anyone attending Sunday Services at their local Church.
What the drug addicted and alcoholic haters, hate, is the unconditional love and total absence of drug and alcohol use in the Twilight Saga. What they really want is drug induced Vampire Pron. The spiritual malaise of contemporary people only gets worse. As Nietzsche so aptly put it “The wasteland grows; woe unto him who preserves wastelands within”
Just for the record, I am a white anglosaxon heterosexual protestant born male and I really like the Twilight Saga. I’m looking forward to the next movie which is coming out this June.
Black Box reveals that Pilot Error caused the crash.
The Tragic Sorrow Of Poland:
For Polish Friends Old and New.
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT DMITRY MEDVEDEV
“These past days we together have been conducting commemorative events in Katyn, together have been mourning the victims of totalitarian times”.
“Lech Kaczynski was coming to Russia to personally pay tribute to the killed Polish officers, both as a president and a citizen of his country”.
“All Russians are sharing in your grief and mourning. I promise that all the circumstances of this tragedy will be investigated most thoroughly, in closest cooperation with the Polish side. I have given exhaustive instructions to the law-enforcement agencies”.
“On behalf of the Russian people, I am expressing my deepest, most sincere condolences to the people of Poland, sympathy and support for the victims’ families and friends”.
Monday, 12 April, will be declared a day of national mourning in Russia.
The long talked about prequel to the amazingly successful Battle Star Galactica, began last year with the pilot simply called Caprica. I thought it worked very well and looked forward to this Springs new episodes of which there have been Nine so far. Sadly Caprica is on hiatus until the Fall Season.
Caprica is definitely superior TV SciFi even though it lacks the thrilling space battles of Battle Star Galactica. We find ourselves on Caprica surrounded by the other Colony Planets, about Seventy years before the first Cylon War in a world that mirrors our own, in its wealth and fascination with the development of new technology.
Caprica, for all its wealth and technology carries on a religious life that depends on a polytheistic worship of several different Gods and Goddesses. There is no clear moral or ethical guidance to be found in that old polytheism. An underground group of Monotheists called Soldiers of The One want to change all that.
Daniel and Amanda Greystone are a highly successful couple with a gifted and secretive daughter Zoe. [that's her picture; a kind of AI Eve with the apple] Daniel Greystone has generated massive wealth through the creation of HoloWorld; a cyberspace technology that allows people to scan their bodies and then project them as virtual Avatars into HoloWorld.
The experience brings about total immersion in an alternative reality where people can act out their wildest and most perverse fantasies with no repercussions in their real lives. It is obvious that HoloWorld was originally intended as a kind of Facebook or Linkedin where people could meet as themselves but as life size virtual Avatars.
It doesn’t take long for the decadent and bored youth of Caprica to create a Pirate HoloWorld where anything goes. Soldiers of The One inspired by the technological genius of Zoe Greystone are determined to offer their converts immortal life as living Avatars in a HoloWorld paradise.
This is an important part of how Cylons get started.
SEPTEMBER 2010
Friday, September 17
Caprica – Autumn Premiere Season One
Christianity is the Oldest Spiritual Tradition and Religion on Earth. The famous Sphinx of Egypt has been identified as being more than 15,000 years old. This means that the source spiritual culture, for what we now call Christianity is also over Fifteen Thousand Years Old.
Christianity predates by thousands of years: Hinduism,Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, etc. In fact no religion comes even close to Christianity in spiritual vitality and longevity. The handful of actual resemblances between Judaism and Christianity are due entirely to Judaism’s copying of some elements of Primeval Christianity.
For thousands of years in Egypt the mysteries of Ausar [Osiris] Auset [Isis] and Horus endured as the religion of the people. We need take care when we use the term “religion” in reference to the Ancient Egyptians because they had no concept whatsoever of the “secular” and would be puzzled by our fractured cultural reality.
We see clearly already the archetypal Triune God: Ausar = Father: Auset = Holy Spirit and Horus = Jesus. The resemblance to modern Christianity is much more than an archetypal one; whole sections of Christianity have been lifted virtually unmodified and carried over out of Egypt into the post Classical world. Indeed it states in the New Testament: “Out of Egypt have I called my Son”.
Written in undecipherable Medu Neter know as Hieroglyphs lay the truth for thousands of years until the brilliant Champollion of France deciphered the Rosetta Stone.
[...”It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799 at Rosetta and contributed greatly to the deciphering of the principles of hieroglyph writing in 1822 by the British scientist Thomas Young and the French scholar Jean-François Champollion. ...]
Since the very earliest times Kemit Egypt has acknowledged the One True God beyond all Gods. They called this God ATUM which existed as a pure Spirit for all eternity within the Cosmic Ocean called NUN, and had created the entire Universe and everything in it. When AUTUM arose out of the abyss, NUN and created the Universe he was called ATUM-RA. RA being the Radiant Spiritual Sun.
The human and divine expression of Atum-Ra was the triad: Osiris-Isis-Horus. Osiris was deceived by darkness worshipping foes and killed. His body was dismembered into 14 Pieces and scattered throughout Egypt. His faithful wife Isis reassembled his body she became pregnant with Horus by the spiritual and non physical regenerative power Osiris. In other words Horus was conceived by a miraculous and divine conception.
We need to understand that Judaism and the Old Testament have nothing whatever to do with authentic Christianity. The real Old Testament of the Christian Gospels is the spiritual history of Egypt.
All Catholics are Protestants now. I don’t say this to start a flame war or rile up centuries old Protestant V Catholic conflicts. No, this is about the fact that the events of the last few weeks have robbed the Holy Roman Catholic Church and its Pope of all credibility.
This Easter and the events that will spring from it will be far reaching; the relationship of the Catholic Church to the larger culture and society will be changed forever.
Either the Pope continues to avoid dealing with the heinous crime of pedophilia and the Church loses its credibility forever, with the additional probability that secular law enforcement will intervene. Or the Pope cracks down hard and relentlessly on child rapists within the Church; defrocks them himself and hands them over to the secular powers and law enforcement.
What is required here is the revival of a Catholic tradition; namely the Inquisition. This time not against Witchcraft but against pedophile child rapist Priests within the Church.
Of course none of this can actually happen. The Vatican is a Sovereign City State, and the presiding Pope is the head of that State, thus immune from all censure apart from God’s.
Under these abominable conditions of Church corruption;what is any sincere Catholic to do but remind themselves that the really important thing is that Jesus Christ: “was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell. On the third day he rose again; He ascended into heaven and is seated on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead.”
This is the true Christian Faith outside and beyond the corrupt Catholic Church and its Pedophile consenting Pope. Catholics must question if membership in the Church right now is actually bringing them closer to Christ or are they ignoring a crucial admonition from Jesus Christ himself?
1: Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe [unto him], through whom they come!
2: It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
13: And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and [his] disciples rebuked those that brought [them].
14: But when Jesus saw [it], he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
15: Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
Luke Chapter 17
You should know that I do not belong to any denominated religion. I am a Spiritual Realist. That said you should also know that I can see eternal truths shining through most world mythologies and religions, however distorted these eternal truths may be, by the culture bound imagery they appear in. Perhaps you can see this too.
This being Christian holy week it is a good time to reflect upon the meaning of death and resurrection. Holy week is about presence and absence at many levels. It is about love, human and divine. Where there is love even absence is presence. Where there is love the eternal shines, even through the pain of existence even through the agony of betrayal and crucifixion. The presence and absence of love eternal combined with the presence and absence of mortal despair.
If we want, holy week can bring us face to face with the enigma of mortality and the meaning of a possible life beyond death. The paradox according to Christianity is that we are already dead spiritually and if we do not awaken to the Christ within us we will remain so and when the body dies so will we.
Mel Gibson and his Opus Dei supporters are completely misguided about the meaning of crucifixion. The death of the body as such, no matter how agonizing, can only be of minor significance from the perspective of the spiritual man. Crucifixion must occur within the soul mind and spirit of the crucified if it is to have the profound transforming and immortalizing result that we associate with it.
The crucifixion begins at the moment when Judas betrays Jesus. The betrayal is not the betrayal of a body but the spiritual betrayal of a being. Last year some silly people tried to claim that Jesus put Judas up to it. That is absurd because then it would not be a spiritual betrayal but a staged event to trick the simple minded.
Actually Judas betrays Jesus twice, first by giving him up for thirty pieces of silver and then by rejecting the pretty well certain forgiveness by Jesus and committing suicide instead.
In the scripture we learn too that Christ descended into hell. What this means and its phenomenological experiential significance, is without doubt hazy in the minds of most people. The crucifixion must of necessity involve a terrible spiritual struggle within the innermost being of the crucified. By definition hell is the power of death over the spiritual life in the individual. Overcoming hell would be the hallmark of the resurrected.
A spiritual process that in all probability takes many years or lifetimes is symbolically compressed into a series of single events in the New Testament narrative. Every Christian and indeed every living human being is at some stage of this trans-formative struggle between the power of death over life and awakening into consummate spiritual self-hood and immortality. It is the integration of love wisdom and freedom that overcomes spiritual death.
Nevertheless at this stage of the narrative the dying man crucified on a cross which symbolizes the intersection of spirit and matter is made to cry out in despair: “My God my God why hast thou forsaken me?”
[Mark 15: 34:]
This written on ‘Good’ Friday April 06 2007:
