The New Age religion is the new world religion that is taking over the world; kicking the candy ass of all those other pansy ass religions such as Christianity, Muslimism, Buddhism, Jewishism, Atheism, Agnosticism and all those other little religions. The way New Age kicks their ass is simply by taking the best aspects of each religion and throwing away the crud. It's a natural occurance that happens whenever you mix a bunch of different things together. America is the best country in the world because we have all of these different cultures coming together that we take the best from each. For example, where are you going to find the best food for the wide range of tastes for your family? Downtown comopolitan New York or Shanghai? What radio station has the best music between somewhere in Saudi Arabia or America? The answer is America! It's because the product that mixes the most amount of instruments is the one that will please the highest number of people. Biologically, if you see brother and sister doing the dance of love over and over again for generations, pretty soon you will see their offspring looking ugly and being stupid. Even mixing groups of extended family members won't provide as good of results as mating with people from outside the clan. It works that way with mixing plants and animals as well; and so there is no exception when it comes to religions. Every religion has a piece of the puzzle. When it comes to seeking truth it is just like in the story with the five blind men and the elephant. The first man has the tail and he thinks the elephant is a rope, the second has the trunk and he thinks it's a hose, the third has the leg and thinks it's a tree, the fourth has the ear and thinks it's a fan and the fifth has the back and thinks it's a rug. It's just plain stupid to think that your religion has all of the answers and all of the others are completely ignorant and in no touch with the truth, and it's far stupider to apalling to refuse to argue it with those people who you don't agree with; which still happens way too much. It is understandable that some Christians don't like the New Age religion because they see it as a threat and will usurp Jesus for the false Masaiah of ourselves as God. What Fundamentalists need to understand is that New Age won't replace Christianity in as much as it will add to it to the point that Christianity will be unreckonnizable to what it was before the global awakening to the eternal expansiveness of the universe. I'll talk about that in the Enemies of New Age section below. The shrinking of the large churches and the growth of various small New Age churches is a beautiful thing that is the blossoming of all of the new knowledge that is coming to us. If a large church wants to keep their adherants they should expand what they preach about. The definition of the New Age religion New Age is a smattering of groups of like minded people who agree that the Universe is a sentient home to an infinite amount of different humanoid and non humanoid intelligent races, and that many of whom are here on our planet now just waiting for us to awaked to the fact that they are here so we can hang out with them. New Agers believe everything in the Universe, from atoms to rocks to waterfalls to plants to animals to humans, is alive, and in the privacy of their own homes at least, would not hesitate to call that God. Due to the knowledge that the Universe is alive, that God is, New Agers see the importance of mimicing the universe in everything we do. New Agers recognize that the Universe is a fractal, a hologram, therefore we are opposed to creating a centralized figure head that controls everything else. This is why there will never be a centralized or organized New Age church. It is completely uncessarary. The whole universe is contained inside of you. Just go inside to reach the infinity that is outside there in the universe. This can be scientifically explained on my sacred geometry page. Because New Agers know about how everything is related we are very interested in bringing these things to the forefront of world mass consiousness: 1) Disclosure - This is far and away the most important issue with New Agers. We know they are here and we know they won't land until we are ready for them to land and ask them to land. We know that once they land we will have their free energy and anti gravity technology which will make it so we won't have to work and will be able to do whatever we want. Effectively bringing Heaven right down here on Earth. With all of this new technology we will be able to live for hundreds of years as well. 2) God - All New Agers believe in God. Not all New Agers would necesarily admit that though due to the stigma saying that word has on so many people who are angry with how Christians have been using it over the years. But I believe it's the best word to use when refering to the universe as a sentient being. 3) Tolerance - New Agers are better at Tolerance than anybody else and understand its principles to levels that would make any other religions shake in their boots. There are many different levels to tolerance that we must attain in order to bring the aliens down. We are doing a good job with tolerating different races and religions. Now it is time to tolerate different personalities. 4) Meditation - Due to the expansive nature of the minds of New Agers, we understand the importance of slowing down in order to not overhead our brains. There are many meditations to do in order to slow down and focus on a particular aspect of our minds and bodies. There are many kinds of meditation. Chakra balancing and activation, mind quieting, and concentration on specific ideas. 5) Vegetarianism - New Agers understand the importance of a Vegetarian diet in a utopian society. Everything is related. Therefore we are related to the animals who will reincarnate as us one day. Therefore an enlightened society will never kill other animals just to eat them when we could be far healthier living off of plants who willingly give their lives for us. The emotions of the animals are plugged into the same mind matrix that we are and therefore can disrupt that level of energy waves that we use to feel peace and love for one another. When the animals suffer, we suffer. 6) Ascention - There is an interesting natural phenomena that is related to our society raising up into utopia and it has to do with everything around us vibrating at a faster rate and organizing itself in a more cohesive way, and it has been scientifically measured and has been prophesized by many different people for a very long time. Harbinger religions - Spiritualism, Theosophy, New ThoughtTranscendentalism, Mesmerism, Swedenborgianism the hermetic arts of astrology, magic, alchemy, and Kabbalah, Christian liberalism, socialism mysticism, Theosophist, Anthroposophical, Neo-Theosophist Lifestyles - meditation, channeling, crystal healing, astral projection, psychic experience, holistic health, simple living, chiropractic and naturopathy, massage, Meditation, Yoga, Tantra, Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, martial arts, Tai chi chuan, Falun Gong, Qigong, Reflexology, Reiki. Milestones - 1968 Linda Goodman's best selling astrology book Sun Signs Authors - Jane Roberts, J. Z. Knight, Eckhart Tolle, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, John Holland, Gary Zukav, and Wayne Dyer Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks, J. Gordon Melton, Wouter Hanegraaff, and Paul Heelas have emphasised the mentioned personal aspects; Mark Satin, Theodore Roszak, Marilyn Ferguson, and Corinne McLaughlin have described New Age as a values-based sociopolitical movement, Madame Blavatsky, Edgar Cayce, Rudolf Steiner, Alice Bailey, Walter Russell, Carl Gustav Jung, Deepak Chopra, Fritjof Capra, Fred Alan Wolf, and Gary Zukav. Music - Oregon, Paul Winter, Brian Eno, Daniel Kobialka, Yanni, Deep Breakfast, Patrick O'hearn, Enya Ray Lynch.
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Fundamentalist Christians (and Muslims, Jews, etc...) My definition of a Fundamentalist Christian is a person who thinks the only spiritual book worthwhile reading is the Bible, the only way to reach God is through Jesus Christ, and anyone who doesn't agree with them is destined to burn in the fiery pit of Hell for all of eternity. These people believe that you live here on Earth once and then either go to heaven or Hell for eternity and there is no reincarnation. There are two kinds of Fundamentalist Christians. 1) People with weak minds and strong hearts, and 2) People with weak minds and cold hearts. Fundamentalists with weak minds and strong hearts are those who feel in their heart that there is a purpose to life and the universe is alive, but they still have limited beliefs such as thinking that you live here on Earth once and then you ei and none of these churches will grow to become the totalitarian regime of religions like the Catholic Church was for so many years. ; so it's entirely understandable when giant churches with leaders who tell their followers what to believe and how to vote lose their adherants to the wind. All it is is a breaking up of over centralization. The fractal/holographic nature of the universe is that the whole is contained in the smallest part. When I say fundamentalists are the enemy to New Age, I don't mean it in the same way as a fundamentalist does. I don't believe fundamentalists are bad people who are going to burn in Hell forever. All I mean is that Fundamentalists don't like New Agers, and New Agers disagree with what Fundamentalists believe. If you look at my religious statistics page here, you'll see that church membership is declining. The reason it's declining is because these fundamentalist Christian beliefs are not keeping up with the times, so their adherants have to move on. It's that simple. The funny thing to me is that Fundamentalist Christians believe that New Age is a creation of control freaks who are trying to take over the world and force people to believe as they, which couldn't be further from the truth. It's the Fundamentalist's who are the control freaks. They are the ones trying to illegalize abortion, effectively throwing someone in jail for purging their body of an unwanted parasite. They are the ones who want to illegalize plants that God made and throw anyone who grows and consumes them into jail. That's not freedom. Fundamentalists think the only way to God is through Jeus Christ - Fundamentalists
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Buddhism and Christianity should unite Why there needs to be harmony between Buddhism and Christianity - It could be said there is no need to bring Christianity and Buddhism together and agree on reincarnation and God and just let both coexist peacefully to accommodate both types of people. But the practitioners of both religions are missing the beneficence of the other. Buddhists and atheists think Christians, because of their overzealous enforcement of laws that should be left to God out of a fear of this life being the only chance and can be ruined by breaking minor laws like pre-marital sex, masturbation, drugs, divorce, and faith. jesus's parables were told to primitive people who still believed God as being a big white bearded man sitting on a throne with his angels sitting beside him. On Jesus' last day the Zebedee brothers asked Jesus if they could sit on either side of his throne. They were still afraid of the environment motivation out of fear more. The knowledge of right and wrong has developed heaps since then. People needed to hear things in more of a drill sergeant kind of way. But strict commands like: The sower, wicked tenants, house built on a rock, weeds among the wheat, dragnet, unmerciful servant, laborer's in the vineyard, foolish maidens three servants and their talents, sheep from goats, door keeper on watch, barren fig tree, guests who made excuses, Rich man and Lazarus. 15 Parables, nearly half. The only parable that mentions hell is only n Luke, and he never met Jesus. When Jesus said the iniquitous will be burned in hell fire, he was saying the iniquitous parts of us is not part of God which lasts forever ad therefore must perish and it is the fire that eradicates everything in this world, and things of this world are not part of God. He never said your soul can be doomed. Just as in the od testament Sodom and Gomara burnt not the people. They just died. This belief in the death of souls caused the inquisition, murder of five million earth women, and genocide of tribal people. Because of the belief that if after you ear the word of God and don't accept it your soul is doomed, the church justified killing people. So naturally good people who know in their hearts that we all have a right to live will be turned off to Christianity and turn to something not so morbid, or not care. The reason Christians are turned off to Buddhists is because Buddhists don't believe in God, and accept Jesus Christ as the son of God. Buddhists don't believe in God, and accept Jesus Christ as the son of God. Buddhists sometimes proudly say 'We don't believe in God' and say 'Jesus was just a man', and turn their backs on the teachings. Not realizing that the backbone of their doctrine that gives that Jesus proved he is speaking the truth with undeniably sure documentation performed miracles. And all of the idle worship in Buddhism is seen as one of the biggest hindrances to Christianity. Buddhism is great with philosophy, meditation chants and prostrations to righteousness when they are done when the primary focus is on dedicating yourself to give as much help and love to others as possible, and try to Separate your self from others the least, but when you start making chants in Tibetan and introduce others to chant then without knowing what they are saying or any philosophical prepping, and think the vibration of the words will bring you to God, you re merely refusing your responsibility and putting yourself in the hands of unseen spirits. The vibration of words to make a holy chant is just an Asian version of making rhymes with the king James Bible. We don't read the Bible in Latin. Or singing Om Mani Padmi Hum' in the hopes to get rich. And offerings to various Gods merely takes god out of the picture by confusing people into thinking they are practicing a special right and there fore more in tune than others gives them excuses to break the golden rules. The philosophy of Buddhism is good n that. All Religions are One all religions came from the same thing, so shut the fuck up if you think your the only one who knows what it means, its the 21st century you fundamentalist christian, its Armageddon, the seas are blood red, we are fucking our mama, we don't give a fuck, you love money, or your love power, you can't see eye to eye cause you think you are the only one whose right, you can't see all religions come from the same thing, you fucking fundamentalist christian, your fucking it up for all the other christians, I'm a christian but I bet you think I'm the devil cause I said fuck, I'm gonna burn in hell, brilliant philosophy please tell me more, how many parts will I have seeping sores, fucking shut up about the devil already, I thought you loved your jesus, but all you can talk about is the devil, but just maybe God separates the wheat from the chaff, so who the fuck you think you are telling me I got the wrath, just cause I like to chant, OM MANI PADME HUM, your the anti christ cause you don't believe in god, thinking the devil rules the world with an iron rod, but you can only believe in god if you think everyone is god, the antichrist is one thing and one thing only, he who is against god, so if you think I am the devil just cause I said fuck, guess whose anti god now, when you die good luck, but don't worry cause you'll get a second chance, its called reincarnation, gods way of forgiving you 77 times 7 times, so cut the shit and expand your mind, preach jesus is an alien and you just might find, people will like what you say and go your way, leaving the close minded atheists in their box until the day, Jesus comes with the clouds, and says hey, you guys can believe in god now, those fundamentalists just got confused, they didn't mean all that shit about hell, but that's another story give a fuck, you love money that its not you but who truly little revelation 8:9 'and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died.' reach jesus is an alien and you'll be quiet its the end of the environment and we don't seem to care we we we must screwing take marijuana be quiet speak of the wheat from the chaff, so who only if stuff ut hell, they just don't want us to burn in fire and brimstone like we did on mars New Testament Bible astrology book, astro theology Old Testament Isis is a female goddess wisdom Alien Bible quotes of Nazareth son of Joseph and Mary was talking about when he said: 'A man who builds his house on a rock is better off than Historic reason's and stories of our oneness The Buddhists of yore have always said we are all one. and that it is useless to pay too much attention to this world that is only temporary, the world of eternity is what we should focus on, our souls and our relationships with each other. It is a truly mind boggling exercise when I think that the people in this class will meet each other again and again for eternity throughout the vast expanse of the universe. There by meaning that time itself doesn't even exist, but is merely an illusion in this world of life and death, as we are children changing so much every year and forgetting life time after life time, just as the 3 year old doesn't remember what he did the day before. Time is merely a measurement of growth. The perfect spirit free from growth is timeless, but the spirit of passion who sees everything as separate and not spiritual, or of one spirit, is very clever (bible) and tricks us into falling back into our animal instincts of separateness, and uses the mind to convince the heart that there is no point in life but to watch out for your self. Our western culture is the culture of the mind, separating and classifying which is perfectly natural for humans to do, but has been taken too far. In our journey of learning the world we classified and separated, thus seeing things as separate and unrelated. When we see things as unrelated we see them as competing, which yields only war. We see ourselves as the center of existence, and then socialize with others accordingly, imposing our beliefs on others and not regarding what they have to offer. But this classifying and separating mind set has yielded an earnest effort to objectively discover the truth, and has brought us full circle with the original idea that we are all one. Galileo changed the paradigm tremendously when he proved the earth wasn't the center of the universe. Then Newton came along and introduced the equal but opposite force theory. This revolution in the way we see reality was caused by quantum physics, when Einstein's E=MC(2) equation we still saw matter as being purely solid and separate, suggesting mass and light, which is energy, are the same thing. When Einstein imagined himself going the speed of light time would stop, as I understand it because movement determines time. Objects in space effecting each others movements according to their mass, among other things, it suggested that ? I admit I don't fully understand it, but by the way objects effect each other in space it convinced the physicists of the day that there is an unseen relationship between the matter of the universe. And this inspired other scientists like Neils Bohr and Robert Openheimer to imagine the structure of the atom as being units of opposing charges of energy, which led them to performing experiments with positively charged light particles which confirmed the existence of a small nucleus in an atom. this inspired the theories of large nucleuses of plutonium that are unstable because there are so many proton s bunched together almost overcoming the nuclear force. Meaning if you split the nucleuses you can use the positive charges of the protons to separate out in great force and split the nucleuses of all the other atoms, causing an nuclear explosion. This was the ultimate proof that mass is just solidified energy. Then we understood radio waves and billions of neutrinos (neutral, mass less particles). This vastly proved to the logical mind that the whole universe is connected and hence, one, just as the Hindus and Buddhists have said for eons. The point of the matter is that we all would have not come to this conclusion had it not been for the symbiotic relationship between theory verses experiment, and dreaming verses logic. Why psychic powers and Mysticism is weaker now than before I am just guessing here but I am thinking that psychic powers and mysticism is weaker now than before the technological. Because peoples contentment and ability to relax was much greater then. Now, if you sit around the house you are labeled a looser, so people all have this frantic need to be 'worthy' and work and string up accomplishments. The other side of the coin is all the distractions in today's world like TV, radio, traffic, noise, people, vibrations that interfere with humans electrical system which hinders our ability to pick up on mystical vibrations. Preacher Jesus loves you, just like his father God. But the Devil hates you! Satan ol get you less you take refuge i me. Its a war out there. you only have one chance and most will perish, just come do as I say no sex, do drugs, or death or DEATH! Ever lasting God! Paradise, love for you from God. But he's jealous, don't make him mad, his son died for you naked! oh he agony of the lord with birds pecking his eyes out, and for nothing? No! Many people come to me every day, come, no sh! Don't read the Bible without me, satan's every where you need me to give you the fear of the almighty. Don't but and gnash your teeth. You'll do me a favor my younger brother too the more I save from the perils the greater I am in heaven and I promise I'll be good to you, I'll guide you and lead you and give you good jobs to do. For Jesus loves you just like me, but he pity's you now! So lost you are. What science psychology, logic, oh don't study my sheep. I no its not logical, have faith, don't be so afraid to come to God, you don't understand. Philosophy Show Mission Statement The internet is so cool!!! You can monitor the news, see cool videos of all kinds, and keep in contact with all kinds of people all over the world. The coolest thing about the internet though, is that we can now use it to figure out what truth is. Once we know the truth, we will have the ability to make the best decisions as a society to become self sustainable and move gracefully forward in our development. My belief is the best way to arrive at the truth is for everybody to have their very own philosophy show. If we all shared what we believe in all the philosophical and political issues, we would would eventually arrive at the truth. It doesn't matter what you beleive as long as you express what you beleive Everybody should share what they believe, regardless of what they believe. Everybody deserves to be heard and have their beliefs seriously commented on. My favorite thing to do is discuss an idea with someone who disagrees with me, because it stimulates my mind the most. When I have to think hard to convince someone who doesn't believe the same as I do, I feel like I am excersizing my humanness the most and living life to the fullest. The things we can do with our bodies are amazing, but it is our minds that truly set us apart from the animal world and will set us free. It is in this vain that I would be more interested in watching a video of a person selling an idea that I disagree with than seeing someone rehash an idea that I already believe. I wouldn't be interested in watching their video just so I could argue with them. I would try to imagine for a moment that what they are saying is the truth, and then I would come up with questions for them. They could answer my questions and in so doing they could explore and develop what they believe, and I could understand them more. Then I could explain why I believe in riencarnation and they could ask me some specific questions to clarify what I said to them. Then we could try to point out the weaknesses in each others logic and perhaps even arrive at some kind of cohesive agreement that is somewhere in between. As time goes on and people watch more videos of people expressing what they believe about the issues, the debates will become more and more intelligent until we inevitibally arrive at the truth! I imagine people of all walks of life sharing their ideas on youtube and then receiving responses from people who mostly agree with them with some added comments along with people who completely disagree with them. One persons video could create a big youtube battle between two or more people that could go on and on until one person gives up, and in doing so concedes defeat. Or the winner in the debate could be decided upon by the people who make comments on the statements of the debators. When enough people participate in the debates in all issues both political and philosophical, the truth will eventually be arrived at. Gone are the days when people merely preach to their choirs and only manage to reafirm what they already believe. This is the way of the past when people were perfectly satisfied to agree to disagree and keep themselves stuck in conflicting paradigms. Saying we should agree to disagree sounds to me like saying that we shouldn't bother to debating the issues, because the very definition of debating an issue is trying to convince the other person to beleive as you do. I don't like the culture of non-discussion just because you know you disagree. It just perpetuates the confusion when people avoid expressing their beleifs. People even refuse to discuss issues with their own family members and this is wrong. There is only one way for the citizens of our world to arrive at one cohesive truth, and that is to discuss all of the issues, especially the controversial ones. The truth must be revealed We are taught is schools too much that we have arrived at all the answers in the universe, when in reality we are far from figuring the world out. Even the most common views on relatively simple sciences like geology and astronomy are still hotly debated, yet in school we are just told the currently popular idea and not encouraged to second guess it, when we should be encouraged to second guess just as much as the top scientists do. I beleive that we could fix all the problems in the world by searching for the truth. How to find truth We have always been told by our great sages that the truth shall be revealed. My theory on how truth shall be revealed is to identify what exactly are the enemies of truth and what are the friends of truth. Then we kill the enemies of truth and bolster the friends of truth, and bada bing! We have truth! We must identify the Enemies and Friends of truth For now I say the enemies and friends of truth are: Lies and honesty, fear and bravery, and laziness and strength. The enemies of truth and how youtube philosophy videos kill them Lies vs Honesty - Lying is selfish and is a big waste of time for the people who are being lied to and makes everybody more and more pessimistic. I believe that deep down everybody knows that lying is bad and honesty is good, so I think that it is much easier to be honest when you are making a video for the internet than to be dishonest. Hiding the truth is also a form a lying. One form of hiding the truth is hiding trade secrets. When people try to guard their trade secrets it may help them in their job but it stiffles the progress of our society. We should try to make each other as self sufficient as possible so we could live as efficiently as possible. People need to understand that there will always be jobs, the jobs just evolve. We need to understand that the more we evolve the more we can move forward towards utopia. The more people who have youtube videos of themselves philosophyzing, the less likely we would be to lie and hide the truth from one another because we all know deep down that lying is bad and would never do it just for fun on the internet to the whole world. Fear vs bravery - Fear is an enemy to truth because it discourages us to seek the truth. The best way to seek the truth is to ask someone, but we feel stupid for asking the question so we don't ask and don't get the answer. I think the main reason people don't have personal websites or ask questions or share their ideas on youtube is because they are afraid of someone giving them a nasty comment telling them they are stupid, crazy, freaky, or some other insult. That fear isn't real though because they are just words and have to power other than the power you give them. You could use a nasty insult as fuel to further your point and explain to the person something you may think they don't understand, and you can feel beneficial to them, like a teacher. Laziness vr strength - Sloth is one of the seven sins for a reason. We need to strive if we are going to proceed. You get out of life what you put into it. The beautiful thing is to put up a video expressing yourself on youtube you don't have to try very hard, you just do it. The more videos you make the easier it becomes. That's my theory anyway. Quotes Too many people judge
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about them-- New age strengths and weaknesses Although most of the things the religious new age has brought us is good, like a new found faith in God because of alternative plus intonations, a reason to be lighthearted because of the optimistic view of the future and the showing of our kinship in new ways. But there are also backward practices and beliefs that are having a resurgence; literal beliefs in Astrology, Taro cards and I Ching, and too literal of interpretations of psychic channelers. Astrology doesn't make sense to me because for one, I don't know where it came from, from mystics in the dark ages, it is a remainder from that old superstitious world of voodoo dolls, magic spells and potions, and other nonsensical things. It makes sense to me to believe that planets have the energy relationships, but their so subtle and difficult to pinpoint it in to astrological predictions and explanations. Astrology has an amazing placebo affect on people, teaching them to pick out characteristics in people that they want to. The same thing applies to Tarot cards and I-Ching. They shouldn't be disregarded if people that they want to. The same thing applies to Tarot cards and I-Ching. They shouldn't be disregarded if people like to play with them, but they shouldn't take control over anything as they are just toys. And they shouldn't cause people to lose sight of what is important in life by causing people to place their lives completely in them and forget in the golden rule that we are all part of the same thing and have nothing to worry about and need nothig else. The new resurgence of psychic channeler's in a wonderful thing because it is a sign that we are opening up our abilities to see things as they are and communicating at new and deeper ways and trusting ourselves and others. But there are spirits still out there stuck in the Bardo who tell lies to psychics who don't know much about important truths and trick them into thinking tall tales like past life stories, future apocalypses, and strange reasons for natural phenomenon. This is why there needs to be a firm background for all these various cults, something that ties them together that they can all agree about. The belief in God and each other as part of God and the world as our vehicle to attain God. Why it's better to believe
Jesus is an alien, what else, he ain't no earthling, not if he can bring dead man back from the netherly land. Jesus in an alien, why not? he said some things that I take to mean, he's been there, he preach more stars in the sky than sand on the beach, and what about the war in heaven, the galactic commander, all those little aliens heard of Jesus ain't the only alien, I heard that from the bible preaching, teaching me bout the nefilim, genesis 6:4 'There were giants in the earth in those day, and also after that, while the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown'. half alien men, just like me. jesus, the king of aliens, but a third hath falleth from the sky, you know why, half alien men, DNA tampering, ain't ok with the galactic federation, america's the melting pot of the world, the worlds the melting pot of the galaxy, were fucked up, satan fucking gone nuts and mated jaba the hut with who knows what, now we got diseases up the but were of old, men of renown'. were part alien,the with the done, jesus is an alien, get it in your head, look in the sky and feel where you are in space, then we can move ahead, and interrelate and realize our fate. you say it ain't no use talking about aliens, huh, then I guess it ain't no use talking about the russians, yea, were just here to fuck up the earth and die. thinking big don't mean shit, I learned that in school, were supposed to learn trades to contribute to the machine, yea that's cool, thats the meaning of life, cut the flying saucers out of your sight, whatever you do donÕt talk about the aliens, talk about jesus, but jesus is an aliena 'but that ,out jesus, but jesus is an alien. remember when everyone spoke the same language and we built the tower of babel to reach to god, that was us with space ships trying to fly up to other planets but we weren't ready, jesus is an alien, the last in a line of alien teachers, remember moses and the jews following the silver cloud by day and pillar of fire by night for 40 years, and parting the sea, and the lights coming through the clouds on the top of the mount giving the ten commandments, those are aliens. How about the 600 ton rock 100 feet up on tops of king David's temple, aliens put that there, the pyramids, its aliens, jesus is an alien, j e s u s i s a n a l i e n, jesus is an alien, everybody, jesus is an alien, jesus is an alien. were not the only planet in the sky, and this ain't the first time we been here either, look at the choppers and tanks on the egyptian hieroglyphics, that was atlantis, but the great flood, took it all out just like the war on mars, the first earth, revelation 21:1, '...for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea'. , two thessalonians 2:11, 'Because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved, and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.' but don't believe in disbelief, 100 ton rock 100 feet up on top of king Look at the pictures of saucers, cities, and pipes on mars, jesus wasn't there when they needed him was he, but we got jesus cause we have aliens, we know that for sure with roswell, area 51, and sightings galore jesus is back. It's all in the mind The secret to success is all in the mind. The difference between doing it tough and not doing it at all is a mere line to cross, the flip of a coin, the decision whether to do it or not. Except not necessarily always. This morning I went to the gym by myself because Mike wussed out. I didn't feel totally motivated, so when I went into the gym, I only lifted a couple of things and then didn't even swim because I couldn't bust the groove and there was nothing I could do about it. I don't feel bad because I know I busted the cap good to go there in the first place, and it is my situation that made me wuss out, knowing how exceptionally sensitive to situations I am. That means I pay attention to the situation I am in, and most importantly I care. When I am jacked I am super strong. If I can stay jacked I can be the strongest person in the world. I feel like my life is starting. I know my life is starting. So, the moral of the story is that the key to being rocked is to put yourself in a rocking situation in the first place, then rock it out from there. And most importantly, don't get down on yourself if you aren't rocking when your situation isn't, because the stress isn't worth it. When you rock you rock, and when you don't you don't. To the Atheists The Bible was written to control. Yes, to provide a guiding light to humanity. A guiding light to humanity. Do you mean it was written so few people could control the masses? Yes. The New testament is about Jesus teaching people they don't need the Pharisees and Sadducees special knowledge, for all we nee to get to heaven is righteousness, that is why they crucified him. Well, religion is control. Notes- Christ is imperialistic ad buddhism keeps to itself, both wish for better days. Taoism teaches against vision of future? and Confucianism? Beleive in God Beleive in God, just beleive in God, you athiest, those fundamentalist christians didn't mean it when they said you either believe in god or you go to hell, there just stupid, all they mean't was, beleive in God, you don't even have to call it god, just believe in god, believe we are all one under the same sun, you athiest, stop calling yourself an athiest and educate yourself a little bit, study physics unified feild, meditate and feel the oneness, but for the love of god believe in god, are you trying to egg the fundamentalists on, all they want you to do is beleive in god, beleive in god, they didn't mean it when they mentioned the devil, there just stupid and didn't do their homework, doesn't mean you have to go and not beleive in god, thats as stupid as beleiving in the devil like they do, just beleive in god, in god we trust, stop maken a fuss and beleive we have a purpose, this ain't no accident, truth is stranger than fiction, only if you beleive will your mind retreive the other 90 percent we lost when we stopped beleiving in god, if you don't believe in God, what do you beleive in, money, you probably think this is the only life you life, so you gots to make the most of it, and climb all over your brother, and seize the day, its cause you don't beleive in god, beleive in god, call it eternity if you want, but believe in it, cause if you don't, you won't have a vision, no long term goals for your soul, you won't know if you fuck me over now, your gonna have to pay me back in the next life, its logic, believe in god, were supposed to believe in god, if we don't beleive in god, we'll beleive in something other than god, like money, and we'll cut all the treas down, cause we don't know their god, I'm not telling you to call god god, don't put words in my mouth, just believe in god you athiest believe in god TO THE ATHIESTS The Bible was written to control. Yes, to provide a guiding light to humanity. A guidig light to humanity. Do you mean it was written so few people could contgrol the masses? Yes. The New testament is about Jesus teaching people they don't need the Pharisees and Sadducees special knowledge, for all we nee to get to heavan is righteaousness, that is why they crucified him. Wel, religion is control. Notes- Christ is imperialistic ad buddhismkeeps to itself, both wish for better days. Taoism teaches against vision of future? and confuciasism? Armageddon Hath Cometh
Ignore the Devil To teach God, teach only God, to bring God into presence, bring God only into presence, for God doesn't need the Devil, the environments in Peril? Be an environmentalist. The races are in peril? Preach to the racists. This world isn't in tethers its coming to together, a beautiful sight, races together without a fight people learning English and everything else from their dishes. About the common goal, Serbs can't kill without everyone to know, and UN keeping tyrants in control. and ideas spreading through movies and music, now America but soon the Soviets will spread Gods culture for everyone to see. The worlds culture steadily refined into equality use this to teach God, Christ's vision of success and love conquers all, teach the bible only positively and you won't fall God doesn't know hell so why should you dwell in something Godless, I see for in your eyes, unless you forget the Devil and show that Gods love is willing and able to clear this world of Greed and trouble. The prodigal son teach's you should teach people with problems, focus on them, those people with problems, focus on them, those of us who are happy, believe in The evil tenants- The 15th century Catholic church was the evil tenants fundamentalists who are condemning all others to Hell are the evil tenants, using the name of Christianity to spread fear and driving Gods children away from the house of love Is there a God? I believe in God as defined as a single sentient being out in space somewhere who created this universe and is watching over it. After all, everything in this world had a central creator, overlord, or central point. A painting has a the painter as it's creator. A country has it's president as the overlord, and a hub acts as the central point of a wheel. God is a combination of these three just about the same way as the parent is the creator, overlord, and central point in terms of keeping the family running. So what would this central being be like to be in the presence of? I think he is a large everexploding black hole, an estatic fountain of life constantly spewing out raw matter into the universe to eventually coesesce into what we are today. The matter comes from God's desire to keep creating for eternity. The central creator, this black hole fountain in the center of the universe is God the father. God the son is all of us people and animals who were created all those years ago, and the Holy Ghost is the matter, or electromagnetic waves that connect us all together. ALL RELIGIONS ARE ONE all religions came from the same thing, so shut the fuck up if you think your the only one who knows what it means, its the 21st century you fundamentalist christian, its armagedan, the seas are blood red, we are fucken our mama, we don't give a fuck, you love money, or your love power, you can't see eye to eye cause you think you are the only one whos right, you can't see all religions come from the same thing, you fucken fundamentalist christian, your fucken it up for all the other christians, I'm a christian but I bet you think I'm the devil cause I said fuck, I'm gonna burn in hell, brilliant philosophy please tell me more, how many parts will I have seeping sores, fucken shut up about the devil already, I thought you loved your jesus, but all you can talk about is the devil, but just maybe God separates the wheat from the chaff, so who the fuck you think you are telling me I got the wrath, just cause I like to chant, OM MANI PADME HUM, your the anti christ cause you don't believe in god, thinken the devil rules the world with an iron rod, but you can only beleive in god if you think everyone is god, the antichrist is one thing and one thing only, he who is against god, so if you think I am the devil just cause I said fuck, guess whos antigod now, when you die good luck, but don't worry cause you'll get a second chance, its called reincarnation, gods way of forgiving you 77 times 7 times, so cut the shit and expand your mind, preach jesus is an alien and you just might find, people will like what you say and go your way, leaving the close minded athiests in their box until the day, Jesus comes with the clouds, and says hey, you guys can believe in god now, those fundamentalists just got confused, they didn't mean all that shit about hell, but thats another story u n't give a fuck, you love moneythat its not you but who truly little revalation 8:9 'and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died.' reach jesus is an alien and you'll be quiet its the end of the environment and we don't seem to carewe we we we must screwin take marijuana be quietspeak ofhe wheat from the chaff, so whoonly if stuff ut hell, they just don't want us to burn in fire and brimstone like we did on mars Good and Evil "Independence Verses Separation" Good and evil represent a viewpoint of souls being in connection or dis-connection from God. So this article will be a discourse on how we are connected to God and how exactly the checks and balances work and what drives us to continue to evolve. Because the very point of God's existence is to create and share in the experience of continuously evolving, we are also indowed by that quality in us. we are here to experience what it is to be alive. We are here to experience as many of the other souls and share in their diffent experiences. We feel good when we are in the presence of each other because we help each other. When we break that symbiotic relationship and one person just takes from the other out of a sheer desire to grow in experience for themselves, they then expect others to take from them and they guard everything close to them and close off from the world into a dark place that doesn't offer any growth. We get stuck in those dark places because we forget that we are connected. when we do things that are destructive to the souls around us there is a part of us that knows. There are two parts of us that dictates our inner drive. 1) The part that motivates our bodies. 2) That part that motivates our souls. As the evolution of the universe is the evolution of the three dimensional field, it has its own part in you. These two parts of us have to evolve together, but the spiritual part of us has a limited power to influence the physical plane and has to find out how to grow independant but not separated. they evolve differently, the physical part of us evolves from a survival of the fittest type of situation whereas the spiritual part of us evolves as a desire to grow and do new things. the spiritual side is the guide and the physical side in the part that experiences the the joy of taking part on the ride. The physical side sometimes takes over from and brings its form of evolution into the mix and influences the desicions of the spiritual side. So we start making desicions based on survival of the fittest. Of taking from the other just because you can. And the spiritual side gets confused and forgets that we all evolve together and are equal. Just on different paths and different levels of evolvement. Read my article on Reincarnation for the explanation on how paths of evolvement are different and the different levels of evolvement. fall in morality Why there is confusion today. people
thinking we are falling moraly -materialism - the man -education - why grades Evolution ancient history told bold quite interesting thing to bring to the ring in sequential order remembering all growth patterns of thought brought from fish to tot yea we fought a lot remember grog ancient cave man afraid of the dark traveling in packs like wolves eating you if you don't have a certain tattoo fried into your head through beautiful virgin girls down wells thinking it will ward off evil spells, letting your dead family members rot in the sun, fitting this ain't fun to you but its new and rad to caveman grog this tells you something about evolution its not judgmental or dualistic just part of the fundamental truth behind the patterns of growth of all sentient beings of Gods great universe don't rehearse just rock it day after day in a new way finding what's real and what's an illusion my friend all the great adages add up the clear picture if you take all parts and look at them while they are moving together like getting the clear picture from through a door or TV screen, picket fence,, from a distance all resistance from dualized emotional clinging to everything being an animal by lineage as shown by grog who came from a frog who became a monkey and then grogs mama who made grog, It happens like this genetically as well as socially we be growing like a monkey to a man like a monkey to a man like a monkey to a man. One day grog friend Zog done found a way to make big bright man what make you feel good on days when pain come unless put on many grass eater outside on and water get hard. Yes you bang rock together and through grass eater killer on top and big bright man get big. but grand father think he bring back great grandfather to hurt grand father again he had another fearful dark time as big toothed grass eater came to eat grandmother and father could not help so grandfather mad from other land inside smoking mound". and they had fire and could cook their food, a million years later grogs kids kid grog caught a horse and rode it good and guess what, then everybody could, and they traveled so much their tribe got larger with a king and they traded things from different parts of the grand land like a hand of a bear for a dear skin without a tear to where when it gets cold out there. and they learn how to make an earn to carry water on the journey to mountain top to get the fern that you can smoke and make up new words for things all over your worlds and ways to easing your days by planting the fern and corn and apple right in front of your castle of sticks and bricks. and now we've got tricks to get all the things we likes, and getting better at hunting and stuff and haven stories of gruff grandfathers who killed cave bear single-handedly oh were cruising, too bad its for a bruising cause big man from or TV screen, picket fence, got tricks to get all the thing other land Dualism How to define the difference between the non dualistic mind and the discerning mind? Keep emotion out of it. don't let it through you. and what is the difference between the empty mind the seeking mind? Just when which one is appropriate. They feed off of each other. It is better to have a balance between the two than struggle with a constantly fidgeting mind that thinks up useless schemes and worries and wears itself out at the same time. Addressing how certain lessons are appropriate for some and not others. Of course this is true because lessons come in stages because of peoples inherent skepticism and fear of things, they wouldn't know where advanced information would connect, and how it is different from something that is truly cooky. Basic laws must first be in place for all. The most important being 1) Freedom of speech, the first amendment. If this was cherished the way it should, then people would be much more used to brushing nutty theory aside and accepting the plethora of what they want, and be more educated, because new information wouldn't seem so avant guard. New styles wouldn't belong to the brave, but the truly inventive. Christianity and Buddhism
Buddhism's weakness is its non recognition of God, and Christianity's weakness
is non recognition of reincarnation, if these two religions would just concede
to the realities they would coexist in perfect harmony. If Buddhism believed
in God all of the Buddhists would not lose sight of the fundamental law of God:
We are all Gods children and progressing to a land of perfection so naturally
the number one rule of thumb is that we should give as much of our love to our
brothers for the families sake. Buddhists get too side tracked with saying abstract
prayers to imaginary deities that make the practitioner feel more separated from
the rest of the world because 1) The rest of the world doesn't practice them,
and 2) The prayer isn't directed to the rest of the world, but an imaginary
character. I have seen people go to ceremonies and practices and leave and get
angry with someone and know it wouldn't be like that if the practice was more
directly related to loving our brothers, which is the primary focus. Buddhism, being scientifically based, needs to incorporated itself with the
rest of the scientific world, and in so doing acknowledge God, which is just
as scientifically sound. Christianity needs to widen its views and to acknowledge reincarnation. If
you ignore the greater reality of the other sciences development of souls and
the Earth, and just focus on the here after, you are bound to suffer from ethnocentrism
and phobia. Thinking that all of your souls journey is in one life on earth,
sets a morbid sense of urgency, fear of failure, and excuses to kill. It is
merely another cause of separation ; the saved and the unsaved. And if the goal
is unity, this idea must be abandoned. If the two religions would band together
by relinquishing these two ignorance's, all of the people with other faiths
would notice their shortcomings, and build their customs into the new widely
accepted truth of unity. Causing the beginning of a new epoch of peace and love. *Jesus sets the example Buddhism and Christianity should unite Why there needs to be harmony between Buddhism and Christianity- It could be said there is no need to bring Christianity and Buddhism together and agree on reincarnation and God and just let both coexist peacefully to accommodate both types of people. But the practitioners of both religions are missing the beneficence of the other. Buddhists and atheists think Christians, because of their overzealous enforcement of laws that should be left to God out of a fear of this life being the only chance and can be ruined by breaking minor laws like pre-marital sex, masturbation, drugs, divorce, and faith. jesus's parables were told to primitive people who still believed God as being a big white bearded man sitting on a throne with his angels sitting beside him. On Jesus' last day the Zebedee brothers asked Jesus if they could sit on either side of his throne. They were still afraid of the environment motivation out of fear more. The knowledge of right and wrong has developed heaps since then. People needed to hear things in more of a drill sergeant kind of way. But strict commands like: The sower, wicked tenants, house built on a rock, weeds among the wheat, dragnet, unmerciful servant, laborer's in the vineyard, foolish maidens three servants and their talents, sheep from goats, door keeper on watch, barren fig tree, guests who made excuses, Rich man and Lazarus. 15 Parables, nearly half. The only parable that mentions hell is only n Luke, and he never met Jesus. When Jesus said the iniquitous will be burned in hell fire, he was saying the iniquitous parts of us is not part of God which lasts forever ad therefore must perish and it is the fire that eradicates everything in this world, and things of this world are not part of God. He never said your soul can be doomed. Just as in the od testament Sodom and Gomara burnt not the people. They just died. This belief in the death of souls caused the inquisition, murder of five million earth women, and genocide of tribal people. Because of the belief that if after you ear the word of God and don't accept it your soul is doomed, the church justified killing people. So naturally good people who know in their hearts that we all have a right to live will be turned off to Christianity and turn to something not so morbid, or not care. The reason Christians are turned off to Buddhists is because Buddhists don't believe in God, and accept Jesus Christ as the son of God. Buddhists don't believe in God, and accept Jesus Christ as the son of God. Buddhists sometimes proudly say 'We don't believe in God' and say 'Jesus was just a man', and turn their backs on the teachings. Not realizing that the backbone of their doctrine that gives that Jesus proved he is speaking the truth with undeniably sure documentation performed miracles. And all of the idle worship in Buddhism is seen as one of the biggest hindrances to Christianity. Buddhism is great with philosophy, meditation chants and prostrations to righteousness when they are done when the primary focus is on dedicating yourself to give as much help and love to others as possible, and try to Separate your self from others the least, but when you start making chants in Tibetan and introduce others to chant then without knowing what they are saying or any philosophical prepping, and think the vibration of the words will bring you to God, you re merely refusing your responsibility and putting yourself in the hands of unseen spirits. The vibration of words to make a holy chant is just an Asian version of making rhymes with the king James Bible. We don't read the Bible in Latin. Or singing Om Mani Padmi Hum' in the hopes to get rich. And offerings to various Gods merely takes god out of the picture by confusing people into thinking they are practicing a special right and there fore more in tune than others gives them excuses to break the golden rules. The philosophy of Buddhism is good n that. All Religions are One all religions came from the same thing, so shut the fuck up if you think your the only one who knows what it means, its the 21st century you fundamentalist christian, its Armageddon, the seas are blood red, we are fucking our mama, we don't give a fuck, you love money, or your love power, you can't see eye to eye cause you think you are the only one whose right, you can't see all religions come from the same thing, you fucking fundamentalist christian, your fucking it up for all the other christians, I'm a christian but I bet you think I'm the devil cause I said fuck, I'm gonna burn in hell, brilliant philosophy please tell me more, how many parts will I have seeping sores, fucking shut up about the devil already, I thought you loved your jesus, but all you can talk about is the devil, but just maybe God separates the wheat from the chaff, so who the fuck you think you are telling me I got the wrath, just cause I like to chant, OM MANI PADME HUM, your the anti christ cause you don't believe in god, thinking the devil rules the world with an iron rod, but you can only believe in god if you think everyone is god, the antichrist is one thing and one thing only, he who is against god, so if you think I am the devil just cause I said fuck, guess whose anti god now, when you die good luck, but don't worry cause you'll get a second chance, its called reincarnation, gods way of forgiving you 77 times 7 times, so cut the shit and expand your mind, preach jesus is an alien and you just might find, people will like what you say and go your way, leaving the close minded atheists in their box until the day, Jesus comes with the clouds, and says hey, you guys can believe in god now, those fundamentalists just got confused, they didn't mean all that shit about hell, but that's another story give a fuck, you love money that its not you but who truly little revelation 8:9 'and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died.' reach jesus is an alien and you'll be quiet its the end of the environment and we don't seem to care we we we must screwing take marijuana be quiet speak of the wheat from the chaff, so who only if stuff ut hell, they just don't want us to burn in fire and brimstone like we did on mars Confusion of today Why there is confusion today. people thinking we are falling moraly -materialism - the man -education -why grades don't mean anything -the difficulty in relating the urantia book with christians christ died for us attitude' concepts verses non concept in teaching Dharma, marijuana, when and when not to use it, why religionists should support it even though you don't need it, how to have a religious conversation without making it confrontational. People thing we are falling morally because of the sexual liberation and awakening backlash to all the control the church had in the past. Then people were simple minded enough and susceptible enough to the temptation of murder, and the very to need strict control. But now we are aware of the benefits of respecting every body else, and the destructiveness of paranoia, fear, and separateness. The bringing together of the world brought us this. People think we are sexually morally segregated, because of bikinis, promiscuity, diseases, and pornography, yet they fail to regard that the relationships between the sexes are better now than they have ever been. Men and women are friends with the opposite sex more frequently, and women have greater equality. The sexual revolution became possible because of the lifting of these barriers. Now with more sexual freedom, people are freer to release their sexual tensions on things other than other peoples wives. These rules were made to prevent adultery in a land that everybody got married and had children at young pages. Adultery will always be gad because it dilutes too much attention that love relationships need. In the present day premarital sex is fine because people can afford it, this is the age when it is up to the individual to decide when enough is enough, as there is a boiling point with every person. Another reason some people think we are in an age of moral degradation is because of the 'Anti-christ', the disbelief in the church. However much these people disregard organized religion they still have a gift that christianity bought which is all that really matters, and that is the belief that they are free to live, not owing anything to a non existent god. They know they will survive after death and go to something greater forever, no matter how much they loath saying 'God'. and they know that everybody on Earth is equal. Another reason some people think we are in an age of moral degradation is because of the frivolous wasteful way we live, which is a mere side effect of our new age, a side affect of something that will bring far more good than bad. These are people who only see the bad and not the good. Mainly because they were taught that their outdated way is the only way. All they need to do is open their minds and listen to the numerous people who are continuously beseeching them in all ways. There is another side to people thinking we are in an age of degradation, people who re fed up with over control. Control in education freedom of speech, drugs, activities, and clothing styles to name a few. These people are justified in being against censorship for the most part, but they frequently fail to recognize the value i the complex organization of our society. The way to have certain justified freedoms like skateboarding in the road and smoking marijuana isn't to blankly say 'anarchy', you are obviously not commanding respect or intelligent dialogue from the people you need it from. In certain situations it is not appropriate to play your music loud or what have you. What it takes is tolerance and people to stand up for what they believe in instead of give up and bicker. For example someone having a house party and the cops trying to break it up because the music is too loud. Logically all they should have to do is turn the music down, but if the officers still want to break the party up, the people have a right to stand up for themselves ad refuse to leave and take the issue to the courts. But if they don't stand up for themselves they shouldn't waste their energy complaining. Change the Paradigm! We need to save the forests! Untouched
forests, thousands of years in the making, are the only thing in the world that
can support the beautiful biodiversity that we still have. We only have five
percent of them left in America, yet the logging is increasing. It is expected
to increase 16 percent next year in Colorado alone because of the 'Rescissions
Bill'. There have been more extinction's in the last few generations than ever
before, including the great dinosaur extinction's. Biologists say if we keep
up the logging at this rate, in 10-15 years the forests of Colorado will PERMENANTLY
lose their ability to support the life presently living here. Why are only a
vast minority of people fighting against this destruction? Maybe it has something
to do with the old paradigm of looking at the world: Since we first came here,
we have killed millions upon millions of indigenous-thinking people. On top
of that, we recruited the rich African tradition to slave for us for a couple
hundred years. When slavery was finally abolished, people felt so strongly against
it that an additional 600,000 people had to die. Change can happen. Think about
how slavery is viewed now. If you think about it, it is clear we are products of this old paradigm of looking at the world in an explorative way. If the whole world lived as Americans do, it would take about 30 Earths to sustain us. Is that morally just? In a poll taken, 79% of us agreed 'that the long term health of public forests should not be compromised by the short-term need for natural resources'. Why do we keep subsidizing the timber industry's one billion dollar a year budget?! We should put that money to all the alternatives out there. Things need to change, and we aren't helpless, a majority instead of a minority of us need to spend our spare time being active, there is only one way to bring about this needed change, it is for more of us to join the cause. Register with the Green party and be ultimately active. Do your part to change the paradigm! Christianity LIGHT AND DARK STUDY One issue that would be clarified with the Christian acceptance of reincarnation. Christians think that because this is the only chance, we are headed for either heaven or hell forever, with nothing between. But in reality the two opposites are only distinguished by whether it is from God or not. Meaning some thing you think or do is either good or bad, bring life or death HOW SCIENCE CHANGED CHRISTIANITY
8 BEATITUDES PROMISED BY CHRISTS 1) Blessed are poor in spirit, for theirs is kingdom in
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The disclosure of aliens, extraterrestrial presence here on Earth is the most important aspect of my New Age religion. |
God of wonders by Chris Tomlin |
New Agers believe in God, and I believe they should call it God as oppossed to the Universe, all that is, or whatever else. Most New Agers don't want to refer to God as God though which I don't like. In my opinion seeing the Universe as an alive being that is all of us and all of the astronomical objects tied together like a vibrating spider web of eternally growing existence is perfectly appropiratly reffered to as God. There are two reasons a New Ager doesn't want to call God God. 1) Because they know the negative conotation that word has on people and they don't want to confuse anybody, and 2) because they don't give proper respect for the age old Christian idea of what God actually is. I believe that Christians always had the right idea about what God is. Control freaks shouldn't be confused with religion. Control freaks hijack religion. The New Age religion unifies the best qualities of all religions and the belief in God is the contribution the Christianity has had. So here is my concept of God... |
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Vegetarianism is the practice of following a plant-based diet including fruits, vegetables, cereal grains, nuts, and seeds, with or without dairy products and eggs. A vegetarian does not eat meat, game, poultry, fish, crustacea, shellfish, or products of animal slaughter such as animal-derived gelatin and rennet. There are a number of vegetarian diets. A lacto-vegetarian diet includes dairy products but excludes eggs, an ovo-vegetarian diet includes eggs but not dairy products, and a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet includes both eggs and dairy products. A vegan diet excludes all animal products, including dairy products, eggs, and honey. Vegetarianism may be adopted for ethical, health, environmental, religious, political, cultural, aesthetic, economic, or other reasons. Semi-vegetarian diets consist largely of vegetarian foods, but may include fish and sometimes poultry, as well as dairy products and eggs. With these diets, the word "meat" is often defined as only mammalian flesh. A pescetarian diet, for example, includes "fish but no meat". The colloquial application of the word "vegetarian" to such diets has led vegetarian groups, such as the Vegetarian Society, to clarify that such fish or poultry-based diets are not vegetarian, due to the fact that fish and birds are animals. Terminology and varieties of vegetarianismVarieties of vegetarianismThe following diets are subsets of vegetarianism.
Strict vegetarians also avoid products that may use animal ingredients not included in their labels or which use animal products in their manufacturing e.g. cheeses that use animal rennet (enzymes from animal stomach lining), gelatin (from animal skin, bones, and connective tissue), some sugars that are whitened with bone char (e.g. cane sugar, but not beet sugar) and alcohol clarified with gelatin or crushed shellfish and sturgeon. Semi-vegetarian dietsSemi-vegetarian diets primarily consist of vegetarian foods, though occasional exceptions are made for some non-vegetarian foods, including fish, poultry and red meat. These diets may be followed by those who choose to reduce the amount of animal flesh consumed as a way of transitioning to a vegetarian diet or for health, environmental, or other reasons. The term "semi-vegetarian" is contested by most vegetarian groups, who believe that vegetarianism must exclude all animal flesh. Many individuals describe themselves as "vegetarian" while practicing a semi-vegetarian diet. Semi-vegetarian diets include:
EtymologyThe Vegetarian Society, founded in 1847, claims to have "created the word vegetarian from the Latin 'vegetus' meaning 'lively' (which is how these early vegetarians claimed their diet made them feel) ..." However, the Oxford English Dictionary and other standard dictionaries state that the word was formed from the term "vegetable" and the suffix "-arian". The Oxford English Dictionary also gives evidence that the word was already in use before the foundation of the Vegetarian Society:
but notes that "The general use of the word appears to have been largely due to the formation of the Vegetarian Society at Ramsgate in 1847." HistoryThe earliest records of (lacto) vegetarianism as a concept and practice amongst a significant number of people come from ancient India. Vegetarianism was also practiced by the ancient Greek civilisation in Southern Italy and in Greece in the 6th century BCE. In both instances the diet was closely connected with the idea of nonviolence towards animals (called ahimsa in India) and was promoted by religious groups and philosophers. Following the Christianisation of the Roman Empire in late antiquity, vegetarianism practically disappeared from Europe. Several orders of monks in medieval Europe restricted or banned the consumption of meat for ascetic reasons, but none of them eschewed fish. Saint Genevieve, the Patron Saint of Paris, is mentioned as having observed a vegetarian diet — but as an act of physical austerity, rather than out of concern for animals. Vegetarianism re-emerged somewhat in Europe during the Renaissance. It became a more widespread practice in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1847, the first Vegetarian Society was founded in England; Germany, the Netherlands and other countries followed. The International Vegetarian Union, a union of the national societies, was founded in 1908. In the Western world, the popularity of vegetarianism grew during the 20th century as a result of nutritional, ethical, and more recently, environmental and economic concerns. Health benefits and concernsVegetarianism is considered a healthy, viable diet. The American Dietetic Association and the Dietitians of Canada have found a properly planned vegetarian diet to satisfy the nutritional needs for all stages of life, and large-scale studies have shown that "Mortality from ischemic heart disease was 24% lower in vegetarians than in nonvegetarians" Necessary nutrients, proteins, and amino acids for the body's sustenance can be found in vegetables, grains, nuts, soymilk, eggs and dairy. Vegetarian diets can aid in keeping body weight under control and substantially reduce risks of heart disease and osteoporosis. Non-lean red meat, in particular, has been found to be directly associated with dramatically increased risk of cancers of the esophagus, liver, colon, and the lungs. Other studies, in contrast, have shown no significant differences between vegetarians and nonvegetarians in mortality from cerebrovascular disease, stomach cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, or prostate cancer, although the sample of vegetarians was small and included ex-smokers who had switched their diet within the last five years. The American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada have stated: "Vegetarian diets offer a number of nutritional benefits, including lower levels of saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal protein as well as higher levels of carbohydrates, fibre, magnesium, potassium, folate, and antioxidants such as vitamins C and E and phytochemicals." Vegetarians tend to have lower body mass index, lower levels of cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and less incidence of heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, renal disease, osteoporosis, dementias such as Alzheimer’s Disease and other disorders NutritionWestern vegetarian diets are typically high in carotenoids, but relatively low in long-chain n-3 fatty acids and vitamin B12. Vegans can have particularly low intake of vitamin B and calcium if they do not eat enough items such as collard greens, leafy greens, tempeh and tofu (soy). High levels of dietary fibre, folic acid, vitamins C and E, and magnesium, and low consumption of saturated fat are all considered to be beneficial aspects of a vegetarian diet. ProteinProtein intake in vegetarian diets is only slightly lower than in meat diets and can meet daily requirements for any person, including athletes and bodybuilders. Studies at Harvard University as well as other studies conducted in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and various European countries, have confirmed that vegetarian diets provide sufficient protein intake as long as a variety of plant sources are available and consumed. Proteins are composed of amino acids, and a common concern with protein acquired from vegetable sources is an adequate intake of the essential amino acids, which cannot be synthesised by the human body. While dairy and egg products provide complete sources for lacto-ovo vegetarians, the only vegetable sources with significant amounts of all eight types of essential amino acids are lupin, soy, hempseed, chia seed, amaranth, buckwheat, and quinoa. It is not necessary, however, to obtain protein from these sources—the essential amino acids can also be obtained by eating a variety of complementary plant sources that, in combination, provide all eight essential amino acids (e.g. brown rice and beans, or hummus and whole wheat pita, though protein combining in the same meal is not necessary). A varied intake of such sources can be adequate, a 1994 study found. IronVegetarian diets typically contain similar levels of iron to non-vegetarian diets, but this has lower bioavailability than iron from meat sources, and its absorption can sometimes be inhibited by other dietary constituents. Vegetarian foods rich in iron include black beans, cashews, hempseed, kidney beans, lentils, oatmeal, raisins, black-eyed peas, soybeans, many breakfast cereals, sunflower seeds, chickpeas, tomato juice, tempeh, molasses, thyme, and whole-wheat bread. The related vegan diets can often be higher in iron than vegetarian diets, because dairy products are low in iron. Iron stores often tend to be lower in vegetarians than non-vegetarians and iron deficiency is thus more common in vegetarian and vegan women and children (adult males are rarely iron deficient), however, iron deficiency anaemia is rare no matter the diet. Vitamin B12Plants are not generally significant sources of Vitamin B12. However, lacto-ovo vegetarians can obtain B12 from dairy products and eggs, and vegans can obtain it from fortified foods and dietary supplements. Since the human body preserves B12 and reuses it without destroying the substance, clinical evidence of B12 deficiency is uncommon. The body can preserve stores of the vitamin for up to 30 years without needing its supplies to be replenished. The only reliable vegan sources of B12 are foods fortified with B12 (including some soy products and some breakfast cereals) and B12 supplements. The research on vitamin B12 sources has increased in the latest years. Fatty acidsFish is a non-vegetarian source of Omega 3 fatty acids. Plant-based, or vegetarian, sources exist such as soy, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, canola oil and especially hempseed, chia seed, flaxseed, and purslane. Purslane contains more Omega 3 than any other known leafy green. Plant foods can provide alpha-linolenic acid but not the long-chain n-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA, which are found in low levels in eggs and dairy products. Vegetarians, and particularly vegans, have lower levels of EPA and DHA than meat-eaters. While the health effects of low levels of EPA and DHA are unknown, it is unlikely that supplementation with alpha-linolenic acid will significantly increase levels. Recently, some companies have begun to market vegetarian DHA supplements containing seaweed extracts. Similar supplements providing both DHA and EPA have also begun to appear. Whole seaweeds are not suitable for supplementation because their high iodine content limits the amount that may be safely consumed. However, certain algae such as spirulina are good sources of gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), linoleic acid (LA), stearidonic acid (SDA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), and arachidonic acid (AA). CalciumCalcium intake in vegetarians is similar to non-vegetarians. Some impaired bone mineralisation has been found among vegans who do not consume enough leafy greens, which are sources of abundant calcium. However, this is not found in lacto-ovo vegetarians. Some sources of calcium include broccoli, cauliflower, beet greens, bok choy, collard greens, kale, watercress, and soy beans. Watercress, and kale are especially high in calcium. Collard greens are high in calcium, but the calcium is bound to oxalate and therefore it is poorly absorbed. Vitamin DVitamin D levels do not appear to be lower in vegetarians (although studies have shown that much of the general population is deficient). Vitamin D needs can be met via the human body's own generation upon sufficient and sensible UV sun exposure. Products including milk, soy milk and cereal grains may be fortified to provide a good source of Vitamin D and mushrooms provide over 2700 IU per serving (approx. 3 oz or 1/2 cup) of vitamin D2, if exposed to just 5 minutes of UV light after being harvested; for those who do not get adequate sun exposure and/or food sources, Vitamin D supplementation may be necessary. LongevityA 1999 metastudy combined data from five studies from western countries. The metastudy reported mortality ratios, where lower numbers indicated fewer deaths, for fish eaters to be .82, vegetarians to be .84, occasional meat eaters to be .84. Regular meat eaters and vegans shared the highest mortality ratio of 1.00. The study reported the numbers of deaths in each category, and expected error ranges for each ratio, and adjustments made to the data. However, the "lower mortality was due largely to the relatively low prevalence of smoking in these [vegetarian] cohorts". Out of the major causes of death studied, only one difference in mortality rate was attributed to the difference in diet, as the conclusion states: "vegetarians had a 24% lower mortality from ischemic heart disease than nonvegetarians, but no associations of a vegetarian diet with other major causes of death were established." In "Mortality in British vegetarians", a similar conclusion is drawn: "British vegetarians have low mortality compared with the general population. Their death rates are similar to those of comparable non-vegetarians, suggesting that much of this benefit may be attributed to non-dietary lifestyle factors such as a low prevalence of smoking and a generally high socio-economic status, or to aspects of the diet other than the avoidance of meat and fish." The Adventist Health Study is an ongoing study of life expectancy in Seventh-day Adventists. This is the only study among others with similar methodology which had favourable indication for vegetarianism. The researchers found that a combination of different lifestyle choices could influence life expectancy by as much as 10 years. Among the lifestyle choices investigated, a vegetarian diet was estimated to confer an extra 1–1/2 to 2 years of life. The researchers concluded that "the life expectancies of California Adventist men and women are higher than those of any other well-described natural population" at 78.5 years for men and 82.3 years for women. The life expectancy of California Adventists surviving to age 30 was 83.3 years for men and 85.7 years for women. The Adventist health study is again incorporated into a metastudy titled "Does low meat consumption increase life expectancy in humans?" published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, which concluded that low meat eating (less than once per week) and other lifestyle choices significantly increase life expectancy, relative to a group with high meat intake. The study concluded that "The findings from one cohort of healthy adults raises the possibility that long-term (≥ 2 decades) adherence to a vegetarian diet can further produce a significant 3.6-y increase in life expectancy." However, the study also concluded that "Some of the variation in the survival advantage in vegetarians may have been due to marked differences between studies in adjustment for confounders, the definition of vegetarian, measurement error, age distribution, the healthy volunteer effect, and intake of specific plant foods by the vegetarians." It further states that "This raises the possibility that a low-meat, high plant-food dietary pattern may be the true causal protective factor rather than simply elimination of meat from the diet." In a recent review of studies relating low-meat diet patterns to all-cause mortality, Singh noted that "5 out of 5 studies indicated that adults who followed a low meat, high plant-food diet pattern experienced significant or marginally significant decreases in mortality risk relative to other patterns of intake." Statistical studies, such as comparing life expectancy with regional areas and local diets in Europe also have found life expectancy considerably greater in southern France, where a low meat, high plant Mediterranean diet is common, than northern France, where a diet with high meat content is more common. A study by the Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine, and Institute of Physiological Chemistry looked at a group of 19 vegetarians (lacto-ovo) and used as a comparison a group of 19 omnivorous subjects recruited from the same region. The study found that this group of vegetarians (lacto-ovo) have a significantly higher amount of plasma carboxymethyllysine and advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) compared to this group of omnivores.[69] Carboxymethyllysine is a glycation product which represents "a general marker of oxidative stress and long-term damage of proteins in aging, atherosclerosis and diabetes." "Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) may play an important adverse role in process of atherosclerosis, diabetes, aging and chronic renal failure." Food safetyLibby Sande argued in a blog for USA Today that Vegetarianism reduces E. coli infections, and in a piece for The New York Times linked E. coli contamination in food to industrial scale meat and dairy farms. E. coli infections in the US during 2006 were traced to spinach and onions. Transmission of pathogenic E. coli often occurs via fecal-oral transmission. Common routes of transmission include unhygienic food preparation and farm contamination. Dairy and beef cattle are primary reservoirs of the E. coli strain O157:H7, and they can carry it asymptomatically and shed it in their feces. Food products associated with E. coli outbreaks include raw ground beef, raw seed sprouts or spinach, raw milk, unpasteurized juice, and foods contaminated by infected food workers via fecal-oral route. In 2005, some people who had consumed triple-washed, pre-packaged lettuce were infected with E. coli. In 2007, packaged lettuce salads were recalled after they were found to be contaminated with E. coli. E. coli outbreaks have been traced to unpasteurised apples, orange juice, milk, alfalfa sprouts, and water. Salmonella outbreaks have been traced to peanut butter, frozen pot pies & puffed vegetable snacks. BSE, also known as mad cow disease, is linked by the World Health Organization to Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans. There have been reports of fears of foot-and-mouth disease in sheep, PCBs in farmed salmon, mercury in fish, dioxin concentrations in animal products, artificial growth hormones, antibiotics, lead and mercury, pesticide contamination of vegetables and fruits, banned chemicals being used to ripen fruits. In 2005, fears that "bird flu" could be caused by eating chicken were featured in a PETA call for vegetarian diets. Medical useIn Western medicine, patients are sometimes advised to adhere to a vegetarian diet. Certain alternative medicines, such as Ayurveda and Siddha, prescribe a vegetarian diet as a normal procedure. PhysiologyThe Vegetarian Resource Group, among others, has concluded that humans are naturally omnivores based on the human ability to digest meat, as well as plant foods, with the correspondent metabolic tendency to an adaptation that makes them need both animal and vegetable nourishment. Other arguments hold that humans are more anatomically similar to herbivores, with long intestinal tracts and blunt teeth, unlike omnivores and carnivores. Nutritional experts believe that early hominids evolved into eating meat as a result of huge climatic changes that took place three to four million years ago, when forests and jungles dried up and became open grasslands and opened hunting and scavenging opportunities. Animal-to-human disease transmissionsThe consumption of meat can cause a transmission of a number of diseases from animals to humans. The connection between infected animal and human illness is well established in the case of salmonella; an estimated one-third to one-half of all chicken meat marketed in the United States is contaminated with salmonella. Only recently, however, have scientists begun to suspect that there is a similar connection between animal meat and human cancer, birth defects, mutations, and many other diseases in humans. In 1975, one study found 75 percent of supermarket samples of cow's milk, and 75 percent of egg samples to contain the leukemia (cancer) virus. By 1985, nearly 100 percent of the eggs tested, or the hens they came from, had the cancer virus. The rate of disease among chickens is so high that the Department of Labor has ranked the poultry industry as one of the most hazardous occupations. 20 percent of all cows are afflicted with a variety of cancer known as bovine leukemia virus (BLV). Studies have increasingly linked BLV with HTLV-1, the first human retrovirus discovered to cause cancer. Scientists have found that a bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV), the equivalent of the AIDS virus in cows, can also infect human cells. It is supposed that BIV may have a role in the development of a number of malignant or slow viruses in humans. The proximity of animals in industrial-scale animal farming leads to an increased rate of disease transmission. Transmission of animal influenza viruses to humans has been documented, but illness from such cases is rare compared to that caused by the now common human-adapted older influenza viruses, transferred from animals to humans in the more distant past. The first documented case was in 1959, and in 1998, 18 new human cases of H5N1 influenza were diagnosed, in which six people died. In 1997 more cases of H5N1 avian influenza were found in chickens in Hong Kong. Whether tuberculosis originated in cattle and was then transferred to humans, or diverged from a common ancestor infecting a different species, is currently unclear. The strongest evidence for a domestic-animal origin exists for measles and pertussis, although the data do not exclude a non-domestic origin. According to the 'Hunter Theory', the "simplest and most plausible explanation for the cross-species transmission" the AIDS virus was transmitted from a chimpanzee to a human when a bushmeat hunter was bitten or cut while hunting or butchering an animal. Historian Norman Cantor suggests the Black Death might have been a combination of pandemics including a form of anthrax, a cattle murrain. He cites many forms of evidence including the fact that meat from infected cattle was known to have been sold in many rural English areas prior to the onset of the plague. Eating disordersThe American Dietetic Association indicates that vegetarian diets may be more common among adolescents with eating disorders but that the evidence suggests that the adoption of a vegetarian diet does not lead to eating disorders, rather that "vegetarian diets may be selected to camouflage an existing eating disorder." Other studies and statements by dietitians and counselors support this conclusion. Additional reasons for a vegetarian dietChildhood IQ and diet choiceA study published in the British Medical Journal in 2007 compared children's IQ at age 10 with their having a vegetarian diet at age 30. The report did not provide information on whether or not the children were already vegetarian at the time when their IQ measurement was taken. It also noted that there was no difference in IQ among vegetarians who ate only plants, and people who ate chicken and fish. The BBC summarised part of the results of the study, stating "Men who were vegetarian had an IQ score of 106, compared with 101 for non-vegetarians; while female vegetarians averaged 104, compared with 99 for non-vegetarians." The report concluded that “Higher scores for IQ in childhood are associated with an increased likelihood of being a vegetarian as an adult.” Lead researcher Catharine Gale noted that this link may not be causal, but “may be merely an example of many other lifestyle preferences that might be expected to vary with intelligence.” ReligionIndian cuisine offers a wide range of vegetarian delicacies because Hinduism, practiced by majority of India's populace, encourages vegetarian diet. Shown here is a vegetarian thali.
Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism teach vegetarianism as moral conduct. Buddhism in general does not prohibit meat eating, while Mahayana Buddhism encourages vegetarianism as beneficial for developing compassion. Other denominations that advocate a fully vegetarian diet include the Seventh-day Adventists, the Rastafari movement and the Hare Krishnas. Sikhism does not equate spirituality with diet and does not specify a vegetarian or meat diet. HinduismMost major paths of Hinduism hold vegetarianism as an ideal. There are three main reasons for this: the principle of nonviolence (ahimsa) applied to animals; the intention to offer only "pure" (vegetarian) food to a deity and then to receive it back as prasad; and the conviction that non-vegetarian food is detrimental for the mind and for spiritual development. Hindu vegetarians usually eschew eggs but consume milk and dairy products, so they are lacto-vegetarians. However, the food habits of Hindus vary according to their community and according to regional traditions. Historically and currently, those Hindus who eat meat prescribe Jhatka meat. JainismFollowers of Jainism believe that everything from animals to inanimate objects have life in different degree and they go to great lengths to minimise any harm to it. Most Jains are lacto-vegetarians but more devote Jains do not eat root vegetables because this would involve the killing of plants. Instead they focus on eating beans and fruits, whose cultivation do not involve killing of plants. No products obtained from dead animals are allowed. Jains hold self termination from starvation as the ideal state and some dedicated monks do perform this act of self annihilation. This is for them an indispensable condition for spiritual progress. Some particularly dedicated individuals are fruitarians. Honey is forbidden, because its collection is seen as violence against the bees. Some Jains do not consume plant parts that grow underground such as roots and bulbs, because tiny animals may be killed when the plants are pulled up. BuddhismTheravadins in general eat meat. If Buddhist monks "see, hear or know" a living animal was killed specifically for them to eat, they must refuse it or else incur an offense. However, this does not include eating meat which was given in alm or commercially purchased. In Theravada cannon, Buddha did not make any comment discouraging them to eat meat (except specific types, such as human, elephant, horse, dog, snake, lion, tiger, leopard, bear, and hyena flesh) but he specifically refuse to institute vegetarianism in his monastic code when a suggestion has been made. In Mahayana Buddhism, there are several Sanskrit texts where the Buddha instructs his followers to avoid meat. However, each branch of Mahayana Buddhism selects which sutra to follow and some branches of Mahayana Buddhists including majority of Tibetan and Japanese Buddhists do eat meat while most of Chinese Buddhists do not eat meat. SikhismThe tenets of Sikhism do not advocate a particular stance on either vegetarianism or the consumption of meat, but rather leave the decision of diet to the individual. The tenth guru, Guru Gobind Singh, however, prohibited "Amritdhari" Sikhs, or those that follow the Sikh Rehat Maryada (the Official Sikh Code of Conduct) from eating Kutha meat, or meat which has been obtained from animals which have been killed in a ritualistic way. This is understood to have been for the political reason of maintaining independence from the then-new Muslim hegemony, as Muslims largely adhere to the ritualistic halal diet. "Amritdharis" that belong to some Sikh sects (eg Akhand Kirtani Jatha, Damdami Taksal, Namdhari, Rarionwalay, etc.) are vehemently against the consumption of meat and eggs (though they do consume and encourage the consumption of milk, butter, and cheese). This vegetarian stance has been traced back to the times of the British Raj, with the advent of many new Vaishnava converts. In response, to the varying views on diet throughout the Sikh population, Sikh Gurus have sought to clarify the Sikh view on diet, stressing their preference only for simplicity of diet. Guru Nanak said that over-consumption of food (Lobh, Greed) involves a drain on the Earth's resources and thus on life. Passages from the Guru Granth Sahib (the holy book of Sikhs, also known as the Adi Granth) say that it is "foolish" to argue for the superiority of animal life, because though all life is related, only human life carries more importance.
The Sikh langar, or free temple meal, is largely lacto-vegetarian, though this is understood to be a result of efforts to present a meal that is respectful of the diets of any person who would wish to dine, rather than out of dogma. JudaismA number of medieval scholars of Jewish religion (e.g. Joseph Albo) regard vegetarianism as a moral ideal, not just because of a concern for the welfare of animals, but because the slaughter of animals might cause the individual who performs such acts to develop negative character traits. Therefore, their concern was with regard to possible harmful effects upon human character rather than with animal welfare. Indeed, Rabbi Joseph Albo maintains that renunciation of the consumption of meat for reasons of concern for animal welfare is not only morally erroneous but even repugnant. One modern-day scholar who is often cited as in favour of vegetarianism is the late Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the Chief Rabbi of Pre-State Israel. It is indeed the case that in his writings, Rabbi Kook speaks of vegetarianism as an ideal, and points to the fact that Adam did not partake of the flesh of animals. In context, however, Rabbi Kook makes those comments in his portrayal of the eschatological (messianic) era. According to some Kabbalists, only a mystic, who is able to sense and elevate the reincarnated human souls and "divine sparks", is permitted to consume meat, though eating the flesh of an animal might still cause spiritual damage to the soul. A number of Orthodox Jewish vegetarian groups and activists promote such ideas and believe that the halakhic permission to eat meat is a temporary leniency for those who are not ready yet to accept the vegetarian diet. Having ties with both ancient Judaism and Christianity, members of the ancient Essene religious group practiced strict vegetarianism sharing a similar belief with the Hindus'/Jains' idea of Ahimsa or "harmlessness". Translation of the Torah's Ten Commandments state "thou shalt not murder." Some people argue that this can also be taken as meaning not to kill at all, animals nor humans, or at least "that one shall not kill unnecessarily," in the same manner that onerous restrictions on slavery in the Bible have been interpreted by modern theologians as to suggest banning the practice. Although it should be noted that the very same Torah also commands people to ritually slaughter animals when killing them, and goes into precise detail on the rituals of animal sacrifices. While it is neither required nor prohibited for Jews to eat meat, the choice must be made in regard to the ethics and ideals of Judaism"The Vegetarian Mitzvah". http://www.brook.com/jveg. Classical Greek and Roman ThoughtAncient Greek philosophy has a long tradition of vegetarianism. Pythagoras was reportedly vegetarian (and studied at Mt. Carmel, where some historians say there was a vegetarian community), as his followers were expected to be. Socrates was reportedly vegetarian, and in his dialogue of what people, or at least Philosopher-rulers, in an ideal republic should eat, he described only vegetarian food. He specified that if meat-eating was allowed, then society would require more doctors. Roman writer Ovid concluded his magnum opus Metamorphoses, in part, with the impassioned argument (uttered by the character of Pythagoras) that in order for humanity to change, or metamorphose, into a better, more harmonious species, it must strive towards more humane tendencies. He cited vegetarianism as the crucial decision in this metamorphosis, explaining his belief that human life and animal life are so entwined that to kill an animal is virtually the same as killing a fellow human.
ChristianityJesus ordered his apostles to catch and prepare meals with fish and he famously fed 5000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish. Since no other kind of meat is mentioned, and since some of the apostles (and possibly Jesus) may have taken the Nazarite vow, it is surmised that Jesus was a pescetarian. While vegetarianism is not a common practice in current Christian culture, except by traditional monastics and by other Orthodox at least during 'fast' times, the concept and practice have scriptural and historical support. According to the Bible, in the beginning, humans and animals were vegetarian.(Genesis 1:29–30) Immediately after the Flood, God permitted the eating of meat. (Genesis 9:3) There is also a strong association between the Quaker tradition within Christianity and vegetarianism dating back at least to the 18th century. The association grew in prominence during the 19th century, coupled with growing Quaker concerns in connection with alcohol consumption, vivisection and social purity. The association between the Quaker tradition and vegetarianism, however, becomes most significant with the founding of the Friends' Vegetarian Society in 1902 "to spread a kindlier way of living amongst the Society of Friends." IslamFollowers of Islam, or Muslims, have the freedom of choice to be vegetarian for medical reasons or if they do not personally like the taste of meat. However, the choice to become vegetarian for non-medical reasons can sometimes be controversial. Though some more traditional Muslims may keep quiet about their vegetarian diet, the number of vegetarian Muslims is increasing. Vegetarianism has been practiced by some influential Muslims including the Iraqi theologian, female mystic and poet Râbi‘ah al-‘Adawîyah of Basrah, who died in the year 801, and the Sri Lankan sufi master Bawa Muhaiyaddeen who established The Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship of North America in Philadelphia. In January 1996, The International Vegetarian Union announced the formation of the Muslim Vegetarian/Vegan Society. Many omnivore Muslims will select vegetarian (or seafood) options when dining in non-halal restaurants. However, this is a matter of not having the right kind of meat rather than preferring not to eat meat on the whole. RastafariWithin the Afro-Caribbean community, a minority are Rastafarian and follow the dietary regulations with varying degrees of strictness. The most orthodox eat only Ital or natural foods, in which the matching of herbs or spices with vegetables is the result of long and skillfully laid down tradition originating from the African ancestry and cultural heritage of Rastafari.[161] Most Rastafarians are vegetarian. Utensils made from natural material such as stone or earthenware are preferred. EnvironmentalEnvironmental vegetarianism is based on the concern that the production of meat and animal products for mass consumption, especially through factory farming, is environmentally unsustainable. According to a 2006 United Nations initiative, the livestock industry is one of the largest contributors to environmental degradation worldwide, and modern practices of raising animals for food contributes on a "massive scale" to air and water pollution, land degradation, climate change, and loss of biodiversity. The initiative concluded that "the livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global." In July 2009 Nike and Timberland stopped buying leather from deforested Amazon Rainforest a few weeks after Greenpeace report demonstrated the destruction caused by Amazon cattle ranchers. According to Arnold Newman every hamburger sold results in destruction of 6.25m2 of rain forest. In addition, animal agriculture is a large source of greenhouse gases and is responsible for 18 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalents. By comparison, all of the world's transportation (including all cars, trucks, buses, trains, ships, and planes) emits 13.5 percent of the CO2. Animal farming produces 65 percent of human-related nitrous oxide and 37 percent of all human-induced methane. Methane has about 21 times more Global Warming Potential (GWP) than carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide has 296 times the GWP of CO2. Animals fed on grain, and those that rely on grazing, need far more water than grain crops. According to the USDA, growing the crops necessary to feed farmed animals requires nearly half of the United States' water supply and 80 percent of its agricultural land. Additionally, animals raised for food in the U.S. consume 90 percent of the soy crop, 80 percent of the corn crop, and a total of 70 percent of its grain. When tracking food animal production from the feed trough to consumption, the inefficiencies of meat, milk and egg production range from 4:1 up to 54:1 energy input to protein output ratio. This firstly because the feed first needs to be grown before it is eaten by the cattle, and secondly because warm-blooded vertebrates need to use a lot of calories just to stay warm (unlike plants or insects). An index which can be used as a measure is the efficiency of conversion of ingested food to body substance, which indicates, for example, that only 10% is converted to body substance by beef cattle, versus 19–31% by silkworms and 44% by German cockroaches. Ecology professor David Pimentel has claimed, "If all the grain currently fed to livestock in the United States were consumed directly by people, the number of people who could be fed would be nearly 800 million." To produce animal based food seems to be, according to these studies, typically much less efficient than the harvesting of grains, vegetables, legumes, seeds and fruits. However, this would not apply to animals that are grazed rather than fed, especially those grazed on land that could not be used for other purposes. Nor would it apply to cultivation of insects for food, which may be more environmentally sustainable than eating food coming from cattle farming.[168] Meat produced in a laboratory (called in vitro meat) may be also more environmentally sustainable than regularly produced meat. According to the theory of trophic dynamics, it requires 10 times as many crops to feed animals being bred for meat production as it would to feed the same number of people on a vegetarian diet. Currently, 70 percent of all the wheat, corn, and other grain produced is fed to farmed animals. This has led many proponents of vegetarianism to believe that it is ecologically irresponsible to consume meat. Rearing a relatively small number grazing animals is often beneficial, as observed by the Food Climate Research Network at Surrey University, which reports, "A little bit of livestock production is probably a good thing for the environment".
In May 2009, Ghent was reported to be "the first [city] in the world to go vegetarian at least once a week" for environmental reasons, when local authorities decided to implement a "weekly meatless day". Civil servants would eat vegetarian meals one day per week, in recognition of the United Nations' report. Posters were put up by local authorities to encourage the population to take part on vegetarian days, and "veggie street maps" were printed to highlight vegetarian restaurants. In September 2009, schools in Ghent are due to have a weekly veggiedag ("vegetarian day") too. Labour conditionsSome groups, such as PETA, promote vegetarianism as a way to offset poor treatment and working conditions of workers in the contemporary meat industry. These groups cite studies showing the psychological damage caused by working in the meat industry, especially in factory and industrialised settings, and argue that the meat industry violates its labourers' human rights by assigning difficult and distressing tasks without adequate counselling, training and debriefing. However, the working conditions of agricultural workers as a whole, particularly non-permanent workers, remain poor and well below conditions prevailing in other economic sectors. Accidents, including pesticide poisoning, among farmers and plantation workers contribute to increased health risks, including increased mortality. In fact, according to the International Labour Organization, agriculture is one of the three most dangerous jobs in the world. EconomicalSimilar to environmental vegetarianism is the concept of economic vegetarianism. An economic vegetarian is someone who practices vegetarianism from either the philosophical viewpoint concerning issues such as public health and curbing world starvation, the belief that the consumption of meat is economically unsound, part of a conscious simple living strategy or just out of necessity. According to the WorldWatch Institute, "Massive reductions in meat consumption in industrial nations will ease their health care burden while improving public health; declining livestock herds will take pressure off rangelands and grainlands, allowing the agricultural resource base to rejuvenate. As populations grow, lowering meat consumption worldwide will allow more efficient use of declining per capita land and water resources, while at the same time making grain more affordable to the world's chronically hungry." PsychologicalThe "Appeal to nature" logical fallacy invites one to believe that something is good or right because it is natural. A metaphor has been presented by Douglas Dunn: that if one gives a young child an apple and a live chicken, the child would instinctively play with the chicken and eat the apple, whereas if a cat were presented with the same choices, its natural impulse would be the opposite. Omnivorous and comparatively human-like species such as chimpanzees' offspring may not instinctively kill a prey animal, such as a Senegal Bushbaby, when presented with one and a piece of fruit either. In a similar assertion, vegetarian Scott Adams wrote humorously: "...a live cow makes a lion salivate, whereas a human just wants to say 'moo' and see if the cow responds." This same non-predatory inter-species interaction can be seen in adult chimpanzees, which have been seen toying with other animals without regarding them as prey and even occasionally socialising with other species. CulturalPeople may choose vegetarianism because they were raised in a vegetarian household or because of a vegetarian partner, family member, or friend. Limited vegetarianism has appeal for some young people in Western societies. A 2007 University of Michigan Medical School experiment on the diffusion of memes included an attempt to encourage limited vegetarianism. DemographicsGenderA 1992 market research study conducted by the Yankelovich research organisation claimed that "of the 12.4 million people [in the US] who call themselves vegetarian, 68 percent are female while only 32 percent are male." At least one study indicates that vegetarian women are more likely to have female babies. A study of 6,000 pregnant women in 1998 "found that while the national average in Britain is 106 boys born to every 100 girls, for vegetarian mothers the ratio was just 85 boys to 100 girls." Catherine Collins of the British Dietetic Association has dismissed this as a "statistical fluke". There is speculation that diets high in soy, due to high isoflavone content, can have a feminising effect on human infants due to their action as phytoestrogens. Proponents of this theory claim that diets high in isoflavones promote earlier onset of female puberty and delayed male puberty. However, a 2001 study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania found no significant differences in the later onset of puberty between infants raised on soy-based formula and cow milk formula. Country-specific informationVegetarianism is viewed in different ways around the world. In some areas there is cultural and even legal support, but in others the diet is poorly understood or even frowned upon. In many countries food labelling is in place that makes it easier for vegetarians to identify foods compatible with their diets. In India, which has more vegetarians than the rest of the world combined (399 million as of 2006), not only is there food labelling, but many restaurants are marketed and signed as being either "Vegetarian" or "Non-Vegetarian". People who are vegetarian in India are usually Lacto-vegetarians, and therefore, to cater for this market, the majority of vegetarian restaurants in India do serve dairy products while eschewing egg products. Most Western vegetarian restaurants, in comparison, do serve eggs and egg-based products.
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New Agers are into meditation; most of which come from Buddhism. There are two different kinds of meditation. 1) Quieting the mind and, 2) Visualizing something. There are a whole bunch of different meditations involving visualization. The most common being visualizing energy coming into your various chakras in order to help activate your light body as it energizes itself into being in this New Age of higher vibration. If you type chakra meditation on youtube you will see a whole slew of good chakra meditations. Most of which probably involve visualizing the various colors representing each chakra so you can activate them one by one as you go up the line from the root all the way up to the crown. It could be beneficial to do a specific chakra meditation by visualizing it's color, shape, and everything else it is related to such as it's organ, emotion, and so on. The Tibetan Bon religion has some good chakra activation meditations involving taking deep breaths and holding them as you move your arms and hands around in certain configurations in order to help the energy swirl into each chakra. There are other kinds of visualization meditations that involve getting your mind into a certain mental place, a place where you can step out of the mass conciousness, the Zeitgeist, the hypnotism that we all live in, and into a peaceful more inlightened place where you can look at this world for what it really is. Meditations that can get you in tune with a certain other way of looking at the world. These are my favorite kinds of meditations. There are a whole bunch of different kinds of visualization meditations like this, and I have invented a few of my own, although I'm not saying there aren't other people out there with similar meditations: The "I must be an alien" Meditation - I call it the "I must be an alien" meditation because you have to be in that kind of mindset to do this meditation. It's a very powerful meditation to do for when you feel dragged down by the hustle and bustle and drama of every day life here on this crazy planet, and when done correctly it will actually make you very excited about living on the planet at this time no matter how screwed up the situation you live in is. It goes like this: Just think about how infinitely expansive the universe is. How everything is possible, every world exists someplace, and whatever you want to experience you will. Now think about where this world is now in it's evolution. Think about how rare this kind of experience is on the cosmic scale. We live on a planet that has lived for billions of years isolated, and within a little over a hundred years, the potential lifetime of an average person, the planet goes from horse and buggy, from no electricity, to being completely wired together, to BOOM connected in direct communication with the rest of the intelligent civilizations in the galaxy who look just like you. To a world of free energy where nobody has to work unless they want to and can do whatever they want to. Contemplate that for a while. Think about how rare it is and where we are in the process right now.This meditation is especially appropriate at the time of ritting, February 18th 2010, because the world is wired together but people still don't believe that we are intergalactically wired together. It's a very strange limbo state to be in. It's like that couple years beteen CD players and mp3 players when we were using mini disk players. It's like the 8 track tape player that I don't even remember. It's not just beneficial to contemplate the strange and exciting nature of when we are now at this point in evolution, but it offers a huge opportunity to actually make a difference in other peoples lives by playing a part in waking others up to the reality of intergalactic connectedness. Just contemplating where and when we are is enough to bring you out of any depression, as far as I'm concerned, but the prospect of mentioning aliens to normal people and seeing their reactions and the expression on their faces is classic and something that you will cherish for all of eternity. Meditating on how crazy it sounds to sleeping people to merely mention the existence of aliens even if it's only in the past, is exciting enough for me to make it that I don't have to do anything other than go around talking about aliens to complete strangers and amusing myself with their reactions. I remember just a couple of days ago I looked at some boards that were 11 feet tall and I told the girl that they were only three feet shorter than the Annunaki aliens who ruled over us for so many years, and she looked at me like there was something wrong with me and goes, Ooohh kaaayy as if our little conversation was over, so I walked on. That was enough for me though. I know that I forever made an impact on her journey towards conciousness, and all it took as a couple of seconds and a few words. I know the next person to mention something like that to her will get less of a surprised reaction from her. The next girl I talked to that day was far more interested and believing, but still seemed to have never heard most of the stuff I had to tell her. I meditate on that every day and night and that's exciting! |
New Agers understand the importance of tolerance. Toleration and tolerance are terms used in social, cultural and religious contexts to describe attitudes which are "tolerant" (or moderately respectful) of practices or group memberships that may be disapproved of by those in the majority. In practice, "tolerance" indicates support for practices that prohibit ethnic and religious discrimination. Conversely, 'intolerance' may be used to refer to the discriminatory practices sought to be prohibited. Though developed to refer to the religious toleration of minority religious sects following the Protestant Reformation, these terms are increasingly used to refer to a wider range of tolerated practices and groups, or of political parties or ideas widely considered objectionable. Historyallowance: a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits As a practical matter, governments have always had to consider the question of which groups and practices to tolerate and which to persecute. The Edicts of Ashoka issued by Ashoka the Great in the Maurya Empire declared ethnic and religious tolerance. The later expanding Roman Empire faced the question of whether or to what extent practices or beliefs could be tolerated or vigorously persecuted. Likewise, during the Middle Ages, the rulers of Christian Europe or the Muslim Middle East sometimes extended toleration to minority religious groups, and sometimes did not. Jews in particular suffered under anti-Semitic persecutions in medieval Europe. A notable exception was Poland, which served as a haven for European Jewry because of its relative tolerance - by the mid-sixteenth century, 80 percent of the world’s Jews lived in Poland. An early champion of toleration in Europe was Pawel Wlodkowic, who at the Council of Constance advocated the pagan nations' rights. However, the development of a body of theory on the subject of toleration didn't begin until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in response to the Protestant Reformation and the Wars of Religion and persecutions that followed the breaks with the Catholic Church instigated by Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli and others. In response to the theory of persecution that was used to justify wars of religion and the execution of persons convicted of heresy and witchcraft, writers such as Sebastian Castellio and Michel de Montaigne questioned the morality of religious persecution, and offered arguments for toleration. By contrast, Poland, which had been uniquely tolerant and ethnically as well as religiously diverse, officially confirmed its status as "a place of shelter for heretics" in the Confederation of Warsaw of 1573, the first toleration act in Europe. A detailed and influential body of writing on the question of toleration was produced in Britain in the seventeenth century, during and after the destructive English Civil Wars. John Milton and radical Parliamentarians such as Gerrard Winstanley argued that Christian and Jewish worship should be protected, and it was during the period that Oliver Cromwell allowed the return of Jews to England. These early theories of toleration were limited however, and did not extend toleration to Roman Catholics (who were perceived as disloyal to their country) or atheists (who were held to lack any moral basis for action). John Locke, in his Letter Concerning Toleration and Two Treatises of Government proposed a more detailed and systematic theory of toleration, which included a principle of Separation of Church and State that formed the basis for future constitutional democracies, but also did not extend toleration to Roman Catholics or atheists. The British Toleration Act of 1689 was the political result of seventeenth century theorists and political exigency, which despite the limited scope of the toleration it granted was nevertheless a key development in the history of toleration, which helped produce greater political stability in the British Isles. The philosophers and writers of the Enlightenment, especially Voltaire and Lessing, promoted and further developed the notion of religious tolerance, which however was not sufficient to prevent the atrocities of the Reign of Terror. The incorporation by Thomas Jefferson and others of Locke's theories of toleration into the Constitution of the United States of America was arguably more successful. Discussions of toleration therefore often divided between those who view the term as a minimal and perhaps even historical virtue (perhaps today to be replaced by a more positive and robust appreciation of pluralism or diversity), and those who view it as a concept with an important continuing vitality, and who are more likely to use the term in considering contemporary issues regarding discrimination on the basis of race, nationality, gender, sexuality, disability, and other reasons. There are also debates with regard to the historical factors that produced the principle of toleration, as well as to the proper reasons toleration should be exercised, with some arguing that the growth of skepticism was an important or necessary factor in the development of toleration, and others arguing that religious belief or an evolving notion of respect for individual persons was or is the basis on which toleration was or should be practiced. Tolerance and monotheismOne theory of the origins of religious intolerance, propounded by Sigmund Freud in Moses and Monotheism, links intolerance to monotheism. More recently, Bernard Lewis and Mark Cohen have argued that the modern understanding of tolerance, involving concepts of national identity and equal citizenship for persons of different religions, was not considered a value by pre-modern Muslims or Christians, due to the implications of monotheism.[8] The historian G.R. Elton explains that in pre-modern times, monotheists viewed such toleration as a sign of weakness or even wickedness towards God. The usual definition of tolerance in pre-modern times as Bernard Lewis puts it was that:
Mark Cohen states that it seems that all the monotheistic religions in power throughout the history have felt it proper, if not obligatory, to persecute nonconforming religions. Therefore, Cohen concludes, Medieval Islam and Medieval Christianity in power should have persecuted non-believers in their lands and "Judaism, briefly in power during the Hasmonean period (second century BCE) should have persecuted pagan Idumeans". Cohen continues: "When all is said and done, however, the historical evidence indicates that the Jews of Islam, especially during the formative and classical centuries (up to thirteenth century), experienced much less persecution than did the Jews of Christendom. This begs a more thorough and nuanced explanation than has hitherto been given." Tolerating the intolerantPhilosopher Karl Popper asserted, in The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol. 1, that we are warranted in refusing to tolerate intolerance; illustrating that there are limits to tolerance. Philosopher John Rawls devotes a section of his influential and controversial book A Theory of Justice to this problem; whether a just society should or should not tolerate the intolerant. He also addresses the related issue of whether or not the intolerant have any right to complain when they are not tolerated, within their society. Rawls concludes that a just society must be tolerant; therefore, the intolerant must be tolerated, for otherwise, the society would then itself be intolerant, and thus unjust. However, Rawls qualifies this conclusion by insisting, like Popper, that society and its social institutions have a reasonable right of self-preservation that supersedes the principle of tolerance. Hence, the intolerant must be tolerated but only insofar as they do not endanger the tolerant society and its institutions.[citation needed] Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi used tolerance to force the British out of India. He pioneered the use of tolerance which was used by many i.e. Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela. Tolerance as a spiritual virtueSwami Tripurari states that the practice of tolerance leads to the ability to distinguish the jiva (soul) from the mind and body. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says "... the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception ... and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed. the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation." |
Contactees are persons who claim to have experienced contact with extraterrestrials. Contactees have typically reported that they were given messages or profound wisdom by extraterrestrial beings, and that they were compelled to share these messages. These claimed encounters are often described as ongoing, but some contactees claim to have had as few as a single encounter.
As a cultural phenomenon, contactees perhaps had their greatest notoriety from the late 1940s to the late 1950s, but individuals continue to make similar claims in the present, such as Swiss cult leader Billy Meier. Some have shared their messages with small groups of followers, and many have issued newsletters or spoken at UFO conventions. The stories of contactees contain much material that has not stood the test of time, such as claims that there are unknown planets within this solar system, or that the planets of our solar system are inhabited by so-called "Space Brothers", beings physically similar to humans but more spiritually evolved. Certainly at least some of the claims were fraudulent.[1] The contactee movement has seen serious attention from academics and mainstream scholars. Among the earliest was the classic 1956 study, When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger, et al., which included information about, and analysis of, contactee groups. Additionally, there have been at least two university-level anthologies of scientific papers regarding the contactee movements (see sources below). Jenny Randles and Peter Houghe have written that "The contactee movement is a rich treat for anthropologists, sticky with sincere and sincerely deluded individuals. Were the contactees in touch with anything other than their own internal fantasies?"[2] Contactee accounts are generally different from those who allege alien abduction, in that while contactees usually describe beneficial experiences involving human-like aliens, abductees rarely describe their experiences positively. OverviewAstronomer J. Allen Hynek described Contactees as asserting "the visitation to the earth of generally benign beings whose ostensible purpose is to communicate (generally to a relatively few selected and favored persons — almost invariably without witnesses) messages of 'cosmic importance'. These chosen recipients generally have repeated contact experiences, involving additional messages. The transmission of such messages to willing and uncritical true believers frequently, in turn, leads to the formation of a flying saucer cult, with the 'communicator' or 'contactee' the willing and obvious cult leader. Although relatively few in number, such flying saucer advocates have by their irrational acts strongly influenced public opinion."[3] Contactees became a cultural phenomona in the 1940s and continued throughout the 1950s and 1960s, often giving lecture and writing books about their experience, and in some cases developing cult-like followings. Although the cultural impact of contactees has since declined, the phenomona still exists today. Skeptics hold that such 'contactees' are deluded or dishonest in their claims. Writer Susan Clancy[4], wrote that such claims are “false memories” concocted out of a “blend of fantasy-proneness, memory distortion, culturally available scripts, sleep hallucinations, and scientific illiteracy.” Contactees usually portrayed the "Space Brothers" as more or less identical in appearance and mannerisms to humans. The Brothers are also almost invariably reported as disturbed by the violence, crime and wars that infest the earth, and by the possession of various earth nations of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons. However, despite their global concerns, the "Space Brothers" never landed their flying saucers in front of the United Nations building, the White House or the Kremlin to spread their message. Instead, they invariably selected obscure people (dishwashers, road crew members, assembly-line workers, sign-painters and taxi-drivers), often having a long prior history of involvement with mystical sects. Almost every contactee asserts that the urgent message of the Space Brothers is religious rather than technical; extraterrestrial religions as reported by the contactees are generally difficult to distinguish from a blend of Christianity and Theosophy. Peebles[5] summarizes the common features of many contactee claims:
History of contacteesEarly contacteesThough the word contactee was not in common use until the 1950s, the authors of the anthologies noted in "sources" below use the term to describe persons whose claims occurred centuries before the UFO era, attempting to depict them as a part of the same tradition. Though not linked to flying saucers or odd aerial lights, it is perhaps worth noting that there is a long history of claims of contact with non-earthly intelligences. The founding revelations of many of the world's religions involve contact between the founder and a supernatural source of wisdom, such as a god in human form or an angel. In this context, it might be expected that most of the 1950s contactees would form their own religions, with the contactee as sole spiritual leader, and that is just what happened, almost invariably. As early as the 1700s, people like Emanuel Swedenborg were claiming to be in psychic contact with inhabitants of other planets. 1758 saw the publication of Concerning Earths in the Solar System, in which Swedenborg detailed his alleged journeys to the inhabited planets. J. Gordon Melton notes that Swedenborg's planetary tour stops at Saturn, the furthest planet known during Swedenborg's era — he did not visit Uranus, Neptune or Pluto.[6] Later, Helena Blavatsky would make claims similar to Swedenborg's. In 1891, Thomas Blott's book The Man From Mars was published. The author claimed to have met a Martian in Kentucky. Unusually for an early contactee, Blott reported that the Martian communicated not via telepathy, but in English.[7] Another early contactee book, of sorts, was From India To The Planet Mars by Theodore Flournoy (1900). Flournoy detailed the claims of Helene Smith, who, whilst in a trance, dictated information gleaned from her psychic visits to the planet Mars — including a Martian alphabet and language she could write and speak. Flournoy determined that Smith's claims were spurious, based on fantasy and imagination. Her "Martian" language was simply a garbled version of French. 1900sTwo of the earliest contactees in the modern sense were William Magoon and Guy Ballard (the latter a follower of Madame Blavatsky). Magoon's book William Magoon: Psychic and Healer was published in 1930. He claimed that, in the early 1900s, he had been unexpectedly and instantaneously transported to Mars. The planet was essentially earth-like, with cities and wilderness. The inhabitants had radio and automobiles. Though they were invisible, Magoon sensed their presences. Though Magoon was obscure, Ballard would have more impact via the I Am movement he established. In 1935, Ballard claimed that, several years earlier, he and over 100 others witnessed the appearance of 12 Venusians in a cavern beneath Mount Shasta. The Venusians played music for the audience, said Ballard, then showed the crowd a large mirror-like device that displayed images of life on Venus. The Venusians then allegedly reported that the earth would suffer through an era of tension and warfare, followed by worldwide peace and goodwill. George Adamski, who would later become probably the most prominent contactee of the UFO era, was one contactee with an earlier interest in the occult. Adamski founded the Royal Order of Tibet in the 1930s. Writes Michael Bakun, "His [later] messages from the Venusians sounded suspiciously like his own earlier occult teachings."[8] Christopher Partridge notes, importantly, that the pre-1947 contactees "do not involve UFOs."[9] Rather, he suggests that an existing tradition of extraterrestrial contact via seances and psychic means promptly incorporated the flying-saucer mythos when it arrived. Contactees in the UFO eraThe 1947 report of Kenneth Arnold sparked widespread interest in flying saucers, and before long, people were claiming to have been in contact with flying saucer inhabitants. There was a nearly-continuous series of contactees, beginning with George Adamski in 1952. Radio host John Nebel interviewed many contactees on his program during this era. The stereotypical contactee account in these days involved not just conversations with friendly, human-appearing spacemen but visits inside their flying saucers, and rides to large "Mother Ships" in Earth orbit, and even jaunts to the moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. By the late 1950s, many contactees were no longer claiming to have been physically visited by aliens; rather, they were more often in psychic contact with the spacemen, who passed their messages on to people in trances. However, alien contact via Ouija board, spirit mediums and channelling was fairly common even in the early 1950s. Eventually, there was a complicated crossover with the later "psychic channeling" movement, which found a degree of renewed popularity beginning in the late 1960s. In support of their claims, early 1950s contactees often produced photographs of the alleged flying saucers or their occupants. A number of photos of a "Venusian scout ship" by George Adamski and identified by him as a typical extraterrestrial flying saucer were noted to bear a suspicious resemblance to a type of once commonly available chicken egg incubator, complete with three light bulbs which Adamski said were "landing gear."[10] For over two decades, contactee George Van Tassel hosted the annual "Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention" in the Mojave Desert.[11] Another 1950s contactee, Buck Nelson, held a similar convention in the Ozarks of Missouri up until 1965. Though contactees faded from mainstream consciousness, people continued making claims of extraterrestrial contact. Swiss cult leader Billy Meier has managed to include every one of the classic 1950s contactees within his own religious framework, and has made room for tens of thousands more, as this reported exchange between Meier and one of his extraterrestrial contacts indicates: "Meier: ... If you allow, I want to ask you about some matters respecting contacts. How many contactees exist in the world today...?" "Ptaah: The exact number of real contactees on Earth is presently 17,422 (1975). They are scattered over all your states and lands. Of that number only a few percent come to public attention. Many of them are working according to our advice at different labors and tasks.... In different cases such persons are also having contacts with us without being informed that we do not belong to Earth.... Of all these 17,422 contactees (the number increases continuously) only a few hundred are known publicly...." Examples since the 1990s include the Heaven's Gate group (whose members committed mass suicide) and the Raelian Movement, which earned international attention with their claims of successful human cloning. Response to contactee claimsThough contactees earned a degree of mainstream attention, most mainstream observers seem to have concluded that the claimants were either hoaxers or mentally ill. Even in ufology — itself subject to at best very limited and sporadic mainstream scientific or academic interest — contactees were generally seen as the lunatic fringe, and "serious" ufologists subsequently avoided the subject, for fear it would harm their attempts at "serious" study of the UFO phenomenon (Sheaffer 1986:17; 1998:34-35). Jacques Vallée notes that "No serious investigator has ever been very worried by the claims of 'contactees.'"[12] Some time after the phenomenon had waned, Temple University historian David Michael Jacobs noted a few interesting facts: the accounts of the prominent contactees grew ever more elaborate, and as new claimants gained notoriety, they typically backdated their first encounter, claiming it occurred earlier than anyone else's. Jacobs speculates that this was an attempt to gain a degree of "authenticity" to trump other contactees. List of Contactees
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Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He was one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity, and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems, including the polyphase system of electrical distribution and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution. In 1943, the Supreme Court of the United States credited him as being the inventor of the radio. A few of his achievements have been used, with some controversy, to support various pseudosciences, UFO theories, and early New Age occultism.
Electromechanical devices and principles developed by Nikola Tesla:
A "world system" for "the transmission of electrical energy without wires" that depends upon the electrical conductivity of the earth was proposed, in which transmission in various natural media with current that passes between the two points are used to power devices. In a practical wireless energy transmission system using this principle, a high-power ultraviolet beam might be used to form a vertical ionized channel in the air directly above the transmitter-receiver stations. The same concept is used in virtual lightning rods, the electrolaser electroshock weapon, and has been proposed for disabling vehicles. Tesla demonstrated "the transmission of electrical energy without wires" that depends upon electrical conductivity as early as 1891. The Tesla effect (named in honor of Tesla) is a term for an application of this type of electrical conduction (that is, the movement of energy through space and matter, not just the production of voltage across a conductor). At one point while conducting mechanical resonance experiments with electro-mechanical oscillators, he generated a resonance of several surrounding buildings but, because of the frequencies involved, not his own building, causing complaints to the police. As the speed grew, he hit the resonant frequency of his own building and, belatedly realizing the danger, was forced to apply a sledgehammer to terminate the experiment, just as the astonished police arrived. He also lit electric lamps wirelessly at both of the New York locations, providing evidence for the potential of wireless power transmission. From 1893 to 1895, he investigated high frequency alternating currents. He generated AC of one million volts using a conical Tesla coil and investigated the skin effect in conductors, designed tuned circuits, invented a machine for inducing sleep, cordless gas discharge lamps, and transmitted electromagnetic energy without wires, building the first radio transmitter. In St. Louis, Missouri, Tesla made a demonstration related to radio communication in 1893. Addressing the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the National Electric Light Association, he described and demonstrated in detail its principles. Tesla's demonstrations were written about widely through various media outlets. Tesla also investigated harvesting energy that is present throughout space. He believed that it was just merely a question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature, stating:
At the 1893 World's Fair, the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, an international exposition was held which, for the first time, devoted a building to electrical exhibits. It was a historic event as Tesla and George Westinghouse introduced visitors to AC power by using it to illuminate the Exposition. On display were Tesla's fluorescent lamps and single node bulbs. An observer noted:
Tesla also explained the principles of the rotating magnetic field and induction motor by demonstrating how to make an egg made of copper stand on end in his demonstration of the device he constructed known as the "Egg of Columbus". When Tesla was 41 years old, he filed the first basic radio patent/ A year later, he demonstrated a radio-controlled boat to the US military, believing that the military would want things such as radio-controlled torpedoes. Tesla claimed to have developed the "Art of Telautomatics", a form of robotics, as well as the technology of remote control.[62] In 1898, he demonstrated a radio-controlled boat to the public during an electrical exhibition at Madison Square Garden. Tesla called his boat a "teleautomaton". Radio remote control remained a novelty until the 1960s. In the same year, Tesla devised an "electric igniter" or spark plug for Internal combustion gasoline engines. He gained U.S. Patent 609,250, "Electrical Igniter for Gas Engines", on this mechanical ignition system. Tesla lived in the former Gerlach Hotel, renamed The Radio Wave building, at 49 W 27th St. (between Broadway and Sixth Avenue), Lower Manhattan, before the end of the century where he conducted the radio wave experiments. Colorado SpringsIn 1899, Tesla decided to move and began research in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he would have room for his high-voltage, high-frequency experiments. Upon his arrival he told reporters that he was conducting wireless telegraphy experiments transmitting signals from Pikes Peak to Paris. Tesla's diary contains explanations of his experiments concerning the ionosphere and the ground's telluric currents via transverse waves and longitudinal waves.[64] At his lab, Tesla proved that the earth was a conductor, and he produced artificial lightning (with discharges consisting of millions of volts, and up to 135 feet long).[65] Tesla also investigated atmospheric electricity, observing lightning signals via his receivers. Reproductions of Tesla's receivers and coherer circuits show an unpredicted level of complexity (e.g., distributed high-Q helical resonators, radio frequency feedback, crude heterodyne effects, and regeneration techniques).[66] Tesla stated that he observed stationary waves during this time.[67] Tesla researched ways to transmit power and energy wirelessly over long distances (via transverse waves, to a lesser extent, and, more readily, longitudinal waves). He transmitted extremely low frequencies through the ground as well as between the Earth's surface and the Kennelly–Heaviside layer. He received patents on wireless transceivers that developed standing waves by this method. In his experiments, he made mathematical calculations and computations based on his experiments and discovered that the resonant frequency of the Earth was approximately 8 hertz (Hz). In the 1950s, researchers confirmed that the resonant frequency of the Earth's ionospheric cavity was in this range (later named the Schumann resonance). In Colorado, Tesla carried out various long distance power transmission experiments. Tesla effect is the application of a type of electrical conduction (that is, the movement of energy through space and matter; not just the production of voltage across a conductor). Through longitudinal waves, Tesla transferred energy to receiving devices. He sent electrostatic forces through natural media across a conductor situated in the changing magnetic flux and transferred power to a conducting receiving device (such as Tesla's wireless bulbs). In the Colorado Springs lab, Tesla observed unusual signals that he later thought may have been evidence of extraterrestrial radio communications coming from Venus or Mars.[68] He noticed repetitive signals from his receiver which were substantially different from the signals he had noted from storms and earth noise. Specifically, he later recalled that the signals appeared in groups of one, two, three, and four clicks together. Tesla had mentioned before this event and many times after that he thought his inventions could be used to talk with other planets. There have even been claims that he invented a "Teslascope" for just such a purpose. It is debatable what type of signals Tesla received or whether he picked up anything at all. Research has suggested that Tesla may have had a misunderstanding of the new technology he was working with,[69] or that the signals Tesla observed may have simply been an observation of a non-terrestrial natural radio source such as the Jovian plasma torus signals.[70] Tesla left Colorado Springs on 7 January 1900. The lab was torn down and its contents sold to pay debts. The Colorado experiments prepared Tesla for his next project, the establishment of a wireless power transmission facility that would be known as Wardenclyffe. Tesla was granted U.S. Patent 685,012 for the means of increasing the intensity of electrical oscillations. The United States Patent Office classification system currently assigns this patent to the primary Class 178/43 ("telegraphy/space induction"), although the other applicable classes include 505/825 ("low temperature superconductivity-related apparatus"). Later yearsIn 1900, with US$150,000 (51 % from J. Pierpont Morgan), Tesla began planning the Wardenclyffe Tower facility. In June 1902, Tesla's lab operations were moved to Wardenclyffe from Houston Street. The tower was finally dismantled for scrap during World War I.[71] Newspapers of the time labeled Wardenclyffe "Tesla's million-dollar folly". In 1904, the US Patent Office reversed its decision and awarded Guglielmo Marconi the patent for radio, and Tesla began his fight to re-acquire the radio patent. On his 50th birthday in 1906, Tesla demonstrated his 200 hp (150 kW) 16,000 rpm bladeless turbine. During 1910–1911 at the Waterside Power Station in New York, several of his bladeless turbine engines were tested at 100–5000 hp. Since the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Marconi for radio in 1909, Thomas Edison and Tesla were mentioned as potential laureates to share the Nobel Prize of 1915 in a press dispatch, leading to one of several Nobel Prize controversies. Some sources have claimed that because of their animosity toward each other neither was given the award, despite their enormous scientific contributions, and that each sought to minimize the other one's achievements and right to win the award, that both refused to ever accept the award if the other received it first, and that both rejected any possibility of sharing it.[72] In the following events after the rumors, neither Tesla nor Edison won the prize (although Edison did receive one of 38 possible bids in 1915, and Tesla did receive one bid out of 38 in 1937).[73] Earlier, Tesla alone was rumored to have been nominated for the Nobel Prize of 1912. The rumored nomination was primarily for his experiments with tuned circuits using high-voltage high-frequency resonant transformers. In 1915, Tesla filed a lawsuit against Marconi attempting, unsuccessfully, to obtain a court injunction against Marconi's claims. After Wardenclyffe, Tesla built the Telefunken Wireless Station in Sayville, Long Island. Some of what he wanted to achieve at Wardenclyffe was accomplished with the Telefunken Wireless. In 1917, the facility was seized and torn down by the Marines, because it was suspected that it could be used by German spies. Before World War I, Tesla looked overseas for investors to fund his research. When the war started, Tesla lost the funding he was receiving from his patents in European countries. After the war ended, Tesla made predictions regarding the relevant issues of the post-World War I environment, in a printed article (20 December 1914). Tesla believed that the League of Nations was not a remedy for the times and issues. Tesla started to exhibit pronounced symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the years following. He became obsessed with the number three; he often felt compelled to walk around a block three times before entering a building, demanded a stack of three folded cloth napkins beside his plate at every meal, etc. The nature of OCD was little understood at the time and no treatments were available, so his symptoms were considered by some to be evidence of partial insanity, and this undoubtedly hurt what was left of his reputation. At this time, he was staying at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, renting in an arrangement for deferred payments. Eventually, the Wardenclyffe deed was turned over to George Boldt, proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria, to pay a US$20,000 debt. In 1917, around the time that the Wardenclyffe Tower was demolished by Boldt to make the land a more viable real estate asset, Tesla received AIEE's highest honor, the Edison Medal. Tesla, in August 1917, first established principles regarding frequency and power level for the first primitive radar units.[74] In 1934, Émile Girardeau, working with the first French radar systems, stated he was building said systems "conceived according to the principles stated by Tesla". By the 1920s, Tesla was reportedly negotiating with the United Kingdom government about a ray system. Tesla had also stated that efforts had been made to steal the so called "death ray". It is suggested that the removal of the Chamberlain government ended negotiations. On Tesla's 75th birthday in 1931, Time magazine put him on its cover. The cover caption noted his contribution to electrical power generation. Tesla received his last patent in 1928 for an apparatus for aerial transportation which was the first instance of VTOL aircraft. By the end of 1931, Tesla released "On Future Motive Power" which covered an ocean thermal energy conversion system. In 1934, Tesla wrote to consul Janković of his homeland. The letter contained a message of gratitude to Mihajlo Pupin who had initiated a donation scheme by which American companies could support Tesla. Tesla refused the assistance, choosing instead to live on a modest pension received from Yugoslavia, and to continue his research. In 1936, Tesla wrote in a telegram to Vladko Maček: "I'm equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian homeland. Long live all Yugoslavs."[75] Field theoriesWhen he was 81, Tesla stated he had completed a "dynamic theory of gravity". He stated that it was "worked out in all details" and that he hoped to soon give it to the world.[76] The theory was never published. The bulk of the theory was developed between 1892 and 1894, during the period that he was conducting experiments with high frequency and high potential electromagnetism and patenting devices for their use. Reminiscent of Mach's principle, Tesla stated in 1925 that: Nikola Tesla, with Ruđer Bošković's book Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis, sits in front of the spiral coil of his high-frequency transformer at East Houston Street, New York.
Tesla was critical of Einstein's relativity work, calling it:
Tesla also argued:
Tesla also believed that much of Albert Einstein's relativity theory had already been proposed by Ruđer Bošković, stating in an unpublished interview:
Directed-energy weaponLater in life, Tesla made remarkable claims concerning a "teleforce" weapon. The press called it a "peace ray" or death ray. In total, the components and methods included:
Tesla worked on plans for a directed-energy weapon from the early 1900s until his death. In 1937, Tesla composed a treatise entitled "The Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-dispersive Energy through the Natural Media" concerning charged particle beams. Tesla published the document in an attempt to expound on the technical description of a "superweapon that would put an end to all war". This treatise of the particle beam is currently in the Nikola Tesla Museum archive in Belgrade. It described an open ended vacuum tube with a gas jet seal that allowed particles to exit, a method of charging particles to millions of volts, and a method of creating and directing nondispersive particle streams (through electrostatic repulsion). His records indicate that it was based on a narrow stream of atomic clusters of liquid mercury or tungsten accelerated via high voltage (by means akin to his magnifying transformer). Tesla gave the following description concerning the particle gun's operation:
The weapon could be used against ground based infantry or for antiaircraft purposes. Tesla tried to interest the US War Department in the device. He also offered this invention to European countries. None of the governments purchased a contract to build the device. He was unable to act on his plans. Theoretical inventionsAnother of Tesla's theorized inventions is commonly referred to as Tesla's Flying Machine, which appears to resemble an ion-propelled aircraft. Tesla claimed that one of his life goals was to create a flying machine that would run without the use of an airplane engine, wings, ailerons, propellers, or an onboard fuel source. Initially, Tesla pondered about the idea of a flying craft that would fly using an electric motor powered by grounded base stations. As time progressed, Tesla suggested that perhaps such an aircraft could be run entirely electro-mechanically. The theorized appearance would typically take the form of a cigar or saucer. |
![]() Eternally living over and over again. |
Reincarnation Because I grew up in a Buddhist family I always believed in reincarnation, so obviously I believe in Reincarnation now. I would love to meet someone who believed in Reincarnation when they were younger and then decided to believe in the idea that when you die you either completely disappear or go to one place for eternity. It doesn't make sense to believe that your soul is invented out of nothing only to live here one time before graduating on to another place forever. There are a lot of ways to scientifically disprove this idea. The best way is with my own Fractal Pattern Theory, by showing that the Heaven/Hell, and the evaporate into nothingness paradigms aren't consistent with all of the laws of the Universe. The Law of Evolution Lets start with the universal law of evolution. Everything takes billions of years of evolution to become what it is today. Even the simplest grain of sand took billions of years for the star to create the metals in it and then disperse them out into the Universe until it conglomerated into a planet which melted and froze countless times until it created a simple grain of sand. Naturally things more complex than sand, like a computer, took billions of more years on top of that to evolve. So it just doesn´t make sense that the most complex of all Gods creatures, us, just popped out of the ether. 1) We must have been in existence before we entered this world in our present bodies. 2) We must have been in a situation very similar to the situation we are in now, seeing that the laws of the Universe show that evolution is a gradual steady thing and not a leaps and bounds thing. Sure, things suddenly happen like supernovas, but they are a result of Billions of years of buildup; and it doesn't take billions of years for God to build us up until it spits us into this world. That concept would suggest that God created us out of nothing, and we didn't come from nothing. I contest we grew gradually over a great many years. We Remember The next obvious reason to believe in Reincarnation is the simple fact that we remember our past lives. The best way to describe the fact that we remember our past lives is the simple fact that we feel so natural here as if we have been through all this before. We all have preconceived ideas about things that we experience, and that comes from our soul experience, not the hard wiring of our brains. We all have preconceived notions about countries we haven´t been to, for example. When we go to a new country it is exactly how we expected it to be, because we have already been there. Another way we remember is from our dreams. We dream of being in situations we have never been in before. For example when we have a dream about walking through the dessert. One could argue that our mind is creating everything, but what would be the biological purpose of dreaming of a situation that you have never been in, that you have only imagined. The physical mind is only the hardware that you could say the software of our souls is controlling. And the purpose of dreaming that situation is because we are actually living in our non physical mind. We need to realize that our non physical spirits, our souls, are in control of our brains, not the other way around. Everything is related Once we realize that everything is indeed related, than we realize that the non belief in Reincarnation makes no sense. Lets try to imagine everything related under the Heaven-Hell doctrine. According to the live on Earth one time belief, our souls spring up out of nowhere to live such complex and meaningful lives as to make all other forms of life seem like they are only here to support us. Then we graduate to a non physical place far away for eternity. When one thinks about this idea one quickly sees that it separates us from everything else, which makes it false. If you believe that your soul pops up out of the ether to live as a human and then to go to Heaven or Hell forever, what about the animals? Do they go to animal Heaven or Hell then? Does that Animal Heaven and Hell exist for all eternity for them? I have never heard the Christian explanation for that which is another suggestion that the Heaven-Hell paradigm could be a faulty argument. Any strong theory needs to have all of the bases covered. The Heaven-Hell paradigm suggests that God made some souls better than, or separate from others. Another way to escape this incongruency of logic is by just saying that animals don't have souls, which is what a lot of the proponents of the Heaven Hell paradigm contest. Once you realize that everything is related and eternal it becomes abundantly clear that all life forms must therefore be ultimately equal. God is a network of self conscious beings sharing the experience of life with one another. Because the various life forms are all on a different stage in their paths people believe that some life forms are superior to others, but only in one life to live paradigm. Humans live the same kinds of lives as animals and evolve in the same way. Animals and humans have families and emotions and grow and learn and live and die, so in the eyes of God we humans are siblings to the animal world, and so we both naturally evolve for eternity. That means that animals must reincarnate too. Animals surely reincarnate into more intelligent animals and finally into humans. In a universe where animals live once like us and then go to animal heaven suggests that animal souls are inferior to ours as an animal heaven would be a whole lot less interesting that ours due to the fact that they live much simpler and less interesting lives in this world. It seems too confusing for God to have to catalogue different heavens and hells for all of the different animal species. You could say that animal heaven is the same place as human heaven, but I would imagine that after an eternity the animals would start getting bored being just animals and would want to be humans. Consensus says Perhaps the best reason to believe in Reincarnation is the fact that the vast majority of people in the world today and throughout history believe in Reincarnation. From looking at polls and Religious adherent statistics I estimate that most people in the world believe in reincarnation. There are 1.7 Billion who belong to Hinduism, Chinese Traditional, Jainism and Buddhism, religions that beleive in reincarnation. Then in countries that are primarily Christian like the US, in '86 37% beleived in Reincarnation. In England it was %30 in 1980. Those numbers have been on the rise. In 1969 it was only 18% in England and in 1980 it was 24%. I think the only people in the world who don't believe in Reincarnation are the Christians and Muslims, and unfortunately for the belief in Reincarnation those two religions comprise about half of the worlds population, although I am sure that a good percentage of the populations of those two religions believe in Reincarnation. Even Christianity and Judaism believed in Reincarnation in the past. The only reason it doesn't now is because of a political move by the Romans in the year 325 at the council of Nicea when they decided that they were going to take control of the Christian religion. The reason the Romans annexed Christianity was because Christianity believed in one God for everybody. Monotheism is a good religion for an empire to have so people don't have unnecessary wars about who's god is better. The problem is that the Romans didn't stop there, they wanted to have control over the constituents of the religion so they could keep control over them. Realize that by the year 325 Christianity was a very big religion and the Romans still had power, although their power was waning and they desperately needed a way to keep control over their constituents in order to preserve their empire's survival. At the council of Nicea they gathered up all of the Christian documents they could get their hands on and put together the Bible. The ideas of God and Heaven were great, but they needed a way to secure control of this Heaven and Hell. They must have genuinely thought they had a monopoly on heaven. Throughout the ancient world there have been societies who have been more advanced that the others surrounding them and rightly took it upon themselves to teach the surrounding societies about their ways. And Rome was definitely a light in the ancient world, and taught those who they concurred a lot of useful information and opened trade. But by the year 325 the Roman Empire was just a large army controlled by Germans who had never been to Rome. And as all military entities do, they designed a blueprint for control. But they had to rule by fear the same way as they did when they threatened people with crucifiction. They invented a hot torturous place called Hell that you will go for eternity if you're bad. It is easier to subdue people who are afraid of death because of the fact that they will go to Hell. The Romans had a lot harder time subduing the Barbarian tribes who weren't afraid of death because they knew they would live to fight in their next life as a member of the same tribe. The Church even made money from selling admittance to heaven; enough to make Saint Peters Basilica. I calculate the belief in Reincarnation constitutes more than half of the population today, and is higher among younger people than older people so it is increasing. However the belief in the Heaven-Hell paradigm is constituted primarily by uneducated people who have never been exposed to the belief in Reincarnation. Polls show that Conservative Christians such as Baptists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventists, and Christian Scientists, those who are most likely to not believe in Reincarnation make nearly half as much money as the more liberal Christians such as the Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, and Unitarians. People who make less money are generally also less educated, and those who are less educated tend to believe in the more traditional belief in Hell. People who are less educated are also more likely to not question the Heaven-Hell dogma. They have no reason to because nobody has ever actually explained the concept of Reincarnation to them. I will give you an example. My wife Paola is a Chilean Catholic, and because she is a Catholic she has always just believed in the Heaven-Hell concept. But after three years of being around me, just because of the fact that I believe in Reincarnation she has changed her mind and now she believes. I never explained the concept to her the way I am explaining the concept now, she merely changed her mind through osmosis. That is how the human psyche works, a lot of the time people believe stuff just because the people around them do. But belief in Heaven and Hell is what got us here in the first place, places that believe in Reincarnation are third world, so who is right? If the belief in Reincarnation is so important why did the societies that believe in Heaven and Hell succeed in becoming the bringers of Civilization and not the societies that embraced Reincarnation? My answer to that is that the rules are different in the days of Barbarianism and the days of Civilization. Unfortunately as it is, it is sometimes beneficial to a world that is totally divided to have one large superpower bring order so there can be trade and thus, progress. And sometimes these armies use fear to keep order in line. The difference between Europe and India does not have so much to do with their religious viewpoints anyway. It has more to do with the fact that people in the North have to think more to survive and thus created a society that relied a lot on hard work and planning for the upcoming winter. The belief in God and having to work hard in order to achieve heaven worked well for them. The fact of the matter is that the western civilization and the Eastern Civilization have different strengths and different weaknesses. The western tradition of one central power enforcing their desire to open up large trade routes with fear and war is beneficial to create an environment where people can communicate well enough to exchange useful ideas. Whereas the Eastern tradition of trying to go inward to fix your own inner demons is not as conductive to motivating one to go out in the world and make a difference. However I contest that this is a cause of race also. This is the perfect example of the beautiful poetry of the mind of God. Different segments of the whole working together to create something new that is the mixture of the best of the two parts. The Western war machine brought us to the age of information, now the eastern view of Reincarnation and Indigenous traditions of enjoying the finer things in life can bring us back to the mystical experience of the misti volcano hike. Intelligent people have always believed in Reincarnation Aristotle who talked about the transmigration of souls, David Hume, Plato, Socrates, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Emanuel Kant, Nietsche, Shakespeare, Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Faulkner, Whittier, Lowell, Mark Twain, Longfellow, Jack London, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Burns, Charles Dickens, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Paracelsus, John Lindberg, Thomas Edison, George Patton, Frederick the Great, Henry Ford, Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon Bonaparte, Saint Augustine, Saint Justin, Saint Gregory, Saint Synesius, and Saint Origen. My Personal Reincarnation philosophy Now I will do my duties as one of the blessed chosen ones who is intellectually capable of coming up with my own theory about the subject. It really doesn't involve very complex reasoning, but due to the fact that common Christian folk are not encouraged to question their Heaven/Hell concept, or even sadly never seriously imagine the living conditions of their own cultures theories of what will happen when they die; it is completely new turf for them and seems complicated. I always say that the simplest explanation is the correct one, and my theory on Reincarnation is a perfect example of that. I will answer all the obvious questions in sequence: 1) When were our souls born? I think there is a birthday for our souls, and I think it was a very long time ago. I am perfectly happy looking at the evolution of my soul acting in conjunction with the evolution of my planet. I think my soul was originally born along with a great number of other souls, in a gigantic explosion, like the big bang or possibly a supernova. After a long time of hibernating in the caverns of space and meditating on what I wanted to become, I found myself on this planet Earth as one of its first pieces of bacteria. I think I evolved as a soul along with the evolution of life on the planet. I was a fish, then a dinosaur, then a mammal, then a monkey, and then a human. I read on Wikipedia that common Hindus say that we usually have about 80,000 lives on this earth before we graduate on to the next level beyond that of Human existence. That would mean that if we live an average of 70 years per life with ten years inbetween we would have to live on the planet for about six and a half million years before the next step. That makes perfect sense to me, if we're talking about 80,000 human life's. I think we lived much more lives than that when we include our animal lives. Perhaps putting such a large number of lives may sound depressing to people who haven't thought seriously about the issue of reincarnation, but to me thinking of my souls life in terms of such a large scale makes life exciting. It means there is always a second change at life. Also, for those who get depressed thinking of themselves as living over and over again as an animal, I must stress that animals actually enjoy their lives. Animals don't think about how they wish they were humans, they just enjoy being animals. Death comes naturally to animals the same as it comes naturally to humans. We die, we sleep and dream, and then we are reborn to live again. The only unpleasant experience is the fear of death or the pain and terror you fear as you are dying, but then again that is just another exciting part about being alive isn't it? We would get pretty bored if we were to just sit in the shade for eternity with nothing exiting happening like running from predators. How many lives do we live and were do we go when we graduate? As far as the idea of graduating from the Earthly Human realm is concerned, I stick to the ''We evolve along with the Earth" principle. I believe we have many lives here on Earth, gradually improving our lives until we evolve to the next level and so on and so forth. The interesting part about this subject is the contemplation of: 1) Are there levels of human evolution on Earth, and if so are they consistent throughout the Universe? and I belief the levels of soul evolution on the Earth go along the same lines as the evolution of the bodies that the souls inhabit. Pretty simple, I know. Simple is always the best. For example, we lived as Dinosaurs for millions of years, steadily growing larger and more brains until it came time that we just hit a wall as dinosaurs. We were ready to be a species that was capable of having more cerebral activity. So with the help of the Earth by way of mechanisms far too complex to write about in this subject, we died as dinosaurs and began living in more sociable packs as various types of mammals, which are more intelligent than dinosaurs. I wish to stress now that when the dinosaurs died out on this world, the live form that dinosaurs represent didn't disappear from existence. I think dinosaurs still exist on other planets, and the souls who weren't ready to leave their dinosaur bodies here on Earth just went over to those planets to continue their dinosaur existences. So the evolution of the dinosaur represents the trend of slow and continuous evolution, and the extinction of the dinosaur represents a cosmic changing of gears. In terms of Human reincarnation al evolution I think we live a rather predictable series of various steps characterized by a steadily increasing reliability of....do you want to guess?.....that's right, sociability. As we evolve and get more intelligent and complex, we become more sociable. After all that is the whole meaning of live isn't it? That was the whole reason the God put us here in the first place, to share life with others. To not be alone in the everlasting Cosmic experience. To put it simply I believe there are two major factors that give joy to being alive in the physical form. 1) To experience doing things that are relatively new to oneself in the world, and.. To translate the idea of a steadily increasing sociability of the Human being I will narrate the evolution of the Human race. In the beginning we were the Caveman; the most sociable species on Earth. A creature that for the first time in the story of the Earth is really looking at the world and contemplating how he can use it to make his like easier, rather than just letting nature passively mutate its body to make it more adapted to the environment. The Caveman began to carve stones to make hunting easier, and hunted in ever more complex groups. With the development of the Caveman we entered in a new era of conscious communication with ourselves and the rest of our world. Too many people look at the life of the Caveman and see it in an unrealistically subjective point of view. There are two schools of thought concerning Caveman that I believe miss the reality which is a middle ground between the two.: 1) He lived a hard miserable life. Some people look at Caveman's life as being a tough life riddled with death and cold and pain, and surely it was compared to ours. But I think we must remember that back then when we were Cavemen we were much younger as souls and everything was new and fresh to us, and actually thoroughly enjoyed being Cavemen the same way a cat enjoys sitting on the couch all day. Obviously you would be bored being a cat sitting around all day, but you aren't a cat, are you? The best analogy of the happy caveman that I can give is my experience biking through Australia and getting to know our modern day cave man, the Aborigine. I spent a couple months getting stoned off my ass and riding my bike across the desert of Australia. It was a beautiful and very peaceful place. I thoroughly enjoyed life as I just cruised across the land feeling the breeze and the sun on my skin. Drinking water and feeling it seep out of my skin. Doing nothing but eating, sleeping, and riding. It was great, but it wasn't only a chapter in my life. I would have become bored if I had have done that trip for too long. More me I stopped the trip because I ran out of money, and we stopped being cavemen for other various reasons, but there is always the underlying reason that, ''It just became time to make the transition to the next step''. The Australian Aborigine is the perfect example of a type of person who can be perfectly happy just walking about all their live's They don't gain satisfaction from driving around the neighborhood in a flashy car, or living in a large house with nice appliances, or traveling to other countries. All the Aborigine needs to be happy is a nice warm sun on their back, clean water, and enough Kangaroos to eat. I think the Aborigine represents the Caveman perfectly. Not our imagination of the suffering caveman, but of a happy life loving mystical caveman. However I think there are people who take this too far and go straight into saying that our modern world only negative. I believe along the lines of planetary evolution our modern society is more advanced than the Aboriginal culture. In fact I think our society is a few steps ahead of the Aborigines. And needless to say when we put two different levels of the same thing together, you get friction, explosions, pain, suffering. We get planetary growing pains. Putting the English empire in the same melting pot as the Aborigine is much like putting large amounts of hot air with cold air, you get a storm. I think the belief in Reincarnation can be useful in understanding the differences and similarities between the Aborigines and modern civilization. It can help them understand that our present would is just as natural of an occurrence as their time tested lifestyle, and it can help us understand that we came from them and are thus related. If we study the fact that there are different ways that souls travel though existence, we will realize that the evolution of the white race is different than that of the Aboriginal. We brought this civilization upon ourselves over the course of thousands of years, while the Aboriginals are having it imposed on them in just a few years. When we understand that the natural course of physical and soul evolution is very slow, we will understand that it is more beneficial to the Aboriginals to bring their transition about slowly at a pace they are comfortable to them. To the people who insist that this modern world is just an ugly, unnatural, violent and destructive place that is not in our best interests, I must stress that this world actually is a more a more beautiful, natural, less violent and less destructive place than it has every been. When people start talking about how awful the modern world is they compare it to the simple and beautiful tribal life. But people who argue this point make claims that tribal life was more peaceful. This is not true. A perfect example of the violence of tribal societies is the constant ethnic violence in Africa today. People may argue that the various African tribes are constantly at war with each other because of the colonial ills that we have imposed on them, but I say that although that is related, as everything is, the real reason is because they are at the tail end of an epoch of their legacy that is characterized by miscommunication and ignorance. And along with miscommunication and ignorance comes ideas that they are separate from one another and have no reason to co-exist with one another. Cavemen throughout time have always had violent intertribal warfare. And for millions of years dying violently was just a natural part of life, but there always comes a time when we get sick of always dying violently and want to get to the next step of evolution where we can enjoy the finer things in life; so we create societies. Ancient civilizations such as the Roman civilization did many wonderful things for the warring European tribes. It created life easier by reducing wars in order to allow the various cultures to trade among themselves in order to have easier and more enjoyable lives. The people of France could import grain from Egypt, and the Egyptians could import various farming tools from Europe that were made out of materials that can't be found in Egypt, and so on and so forth. The Roman Civilization and others like it promoted a sense of peace of mind amongst the citizens living within its boarders to not have to constantly worry about a surprising raid from a neighboring tribe coming and killing everybody. The concept of a civilization as improving the world as apposed to hurting the world is a very complex and thus controversial one, and must be dealt with great description. People may say that the Romans just looted those who they conquered, but that was just how the economy of Empires works. After the initial looting the trading begins. People may say that they were perfectly peaceful tribes before the Romans came, and many tribes probably were. But the fact of the matter is that the European continent had lived as peaceful tribes for millions of years and were getting ready to arrive at the next step in human evolution and needed a catalyst to bring them to that next step. On a very esoteric note, the citizens of the European tribes surely started to become quiet ancy and bored with their repetitive lives, reincarnating so live the same type of life over and over again. They surely gained less satisfaction from doing the same thing life after life after life and started to seek some sort of excitement, and thus began waging war. With the tribes beginning to wage war came the necessity of a civilization to control the various tribes and bring them together. It is just a natural and necessary occurrence in the evolution of the human race. The best analogy I can make to prove my point of the human soul experiencing the bliss of living and how it changes is naturally by comparing it to the life of a child. While the soul lives various lives, the child lives in the microcosm of the same thing, with various days. With each day the child gains joy partaking in different activities. At first it is turing on and off the lights in the room. When he gets bored with that he graduates to playing with a spinning top, then with video games, until he gains satisfaction going out into the world and riding his bike through the woods. The child enjoys playing ever more complex and games until he becomes an adult and takes joy in giving back what he has been receiving his whole life by having his own child and teaching and helping him. For people who still need proof of the fact the the Roman Civilization was in fact beneficial to mankind I bring up the fact that it lasted for a thousand years, and for the last few hundred years of the Empire it was practically nothing more than a gigantic military machine having less and less to do with Rome, and being self perpetuated by people from both inside and outside the boarders of the Empire for the sole purposes of maintaining order in the ancient world. The citizens of Europe had realized that they actually did benefit from a grand army maintaining rogue tribes in check so people can live peaceful and predictable lives. Now that I have clarified the place the Roman Empire had on bringing Europe together so people can exchange their products and ideas with each other, I will no doubt have little trouble explaining the natural growth of a continuation of a unified European society throughout the whole world. The benefits and ills of Reincarnation verses Heaven/Hell I know I got a little sidetracked but it just goes to show that the concept of Reincarnation ties into pattern and law in the physical, and spiritual Universe. One cannot use the Heaven/Hell paradigm to explain the world the way it is. Why would the world be created in such near infinite complexity just to be the home of Trillions upon Trillions of completely disconnected life forms to live but one life time and then go off to a place that is not even explained with the slightest bit of imagination. One who believes in the Heaven/Hell paradigm has no choice but to believe that people who live their one and only life in a rich family in a rich nation is quite simply higher in the eyes of God than someone who has to live their life in a poor family in a poor country. One must therefore ask why did God chose this soul over the other when neither of them had a previous life? Is it just sheer luck? When we think like that we will naturally start to believe that we are better than those who are less fortunate than us, that it is Gods will that it is like that, and thus it is Gods will that we do whatever we can to maintain ourselves above and the less fortunate below. Even The Bible and Koran support Reincarnation Koran “And Allah hath caused you to spring forth from the Earth like a plant; Hereafter will He turn you back into it again, and will bring you forth anew” (Sura 71:17-18) The Bible Judaism’s The Zohar, a Kabalistic classic believed to date from the first century AD, states: “The souls must re-enter the absolute, whence they have emerged. But to accomplish this end they must develop all the perfections, the germ of which is planted in them; and if they have not fulfilled this condition during one life, they must commence another, a third and so forth; until they have acquired the condition which fits them for reunion with God. ”Christianity’s Bible includes: “Him that over cometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out.” (Revelation 3:12) When did the church and, ultimately, modern day Christianity turn away from reincarnation? Most historians see the crucial turning point in the Second Council of Constantinople (the Fifth Ecumenical Council of the Church) in 553 CE, during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian 1. It was one of the council’s 14 anathemas, or denunciations, which stated, that if anyone asserted the fabulous pre existence of souls, and asserted the monstrous restoration which followed it, that person would be anathema. A few such biblical references include: “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.” (Malachi 4:5) “Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist; notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. And for all the prophets and the law which was prophesied until John. And if ye will receive it, this is Elijah, which was for to come.” (Matthew 11:11‑14)U “But I say unto you, That Elijah is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of Man suffer of them. Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.” (Matthew 17:12‑13)U “Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am.” (John 8:58)U “And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way, he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am? And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elijah; and others, One of the Prophets. And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ. And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.” (Mark 8: 27-30)U “And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.” (John 9:1‑3) Religious Organization Many people say religions and churches, because the leaders always abuse their power, using their position and religion to hurt people. But there is no reason to abolish religious leadership just because of that, just the leaders. It is human nature to lead and be lead. With people of different talents doing and leading in different things, and organizing, so religious organization is no exception, Also, people need a group to be motivated and inspired for an thing , and hat is a religious group with out a backbone. Christianity and Buddhism Here I wish to clarify Buddhism's and Christianity to the practitioner's of the two
religions. They are the two thoughts guiders of the world one for the East one
for the west. First I will explain Buddhism and its relationship to eastern
ideology. Values in the east that are of importance are peace, and obedience.
Buddhism teaches the piece of mind. The positive aspects of Buddhism are the
importance of quieting you mind to let peace enter and the importance of love
and has many practices to train the mind to become comfortable living in peace,
and divides the personality up into many different categories to be improved
in an individual basis... Bullshit, I need to study buddhism more. Buddhism's weakness is its non recognition of God, and Christianity's weakness
is non recognition of reincarnation, if these two religions would just concede
to the realities they would coexist in perfect harmony. If Buddhism believed
in God all of the Buddhists would not lose sight of the fundamental law of God:
We are all Gods children and progressing to a land of perfection so naturally
the number one rule of thumb is that we should give as much of our love to our
brothers for the families sake. Buddhists get too side tracked with saying abstract
prayers to imaginary deities that make the practitioner feel more separated from
the rest of the world because 1) The rest of the world doesn't practice them,
and 2) The prayer isn't directed to the rest of the world, but an imaginary
character. I have seen people go to ceremonies and practices and leave and get
angry with someone and know it wouldn't be like that if the practice was more
directly related to loving our brothers, which is the primary focus. Buddhism, being scientifically based, needs to incorporated itself with the
rest of the scientific world, and in so doing acknowledge God, which is just
as scientifically sound. Christianity needs to widen its views and to acknowledge reincarnation. If
you ignore the greater reality of the other sciences development of souls and
the Earth, and just focus on the here after, you are bound to suffer from ethnocentrism
and phobia. Thinking that all of your souls journey is in one life on earth,
sets a morbid sense of urgency, fear of failure, and excuses to kill. It is
merely another cause of separation ; the saved and the unsaved. And if the goal
is unity, this idea must be abandoned. If the two religions would band together
by relinquishing these two ignorance's, all of the people with other faiths
would notice their shortcomings, and build their customs into the new widely
accepted truth of unity. Causing the beginning of a new epoch of peace and love. *Jesus sets the example |
![]() Same person, many bodies ![]() Same guy living many times over |