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This is a story about a family who
are all devoutly religious but in different faiths. The mother is indifferent
but the dead father was a follower of Aleister Crowley, a wacky occultist from
the beginning of the 20th century. The oldest an atheistic scientist. The second
oldest boy is a Muslim, the younger brother a Christian, the fourth oldest,
the oldest girl, a Buddhist, the younger sister Jewish, and the youngest brother
a Hari Christina and the youngest sister a new-ager, the adopted son an insightful
but unattached drifter who brings them all together.
They are the Schleifenscheiders, and they live in Boulder, Colorado. The religious
enthusiasm of the family comes from the father Stephan, who is a Jewish immigrant
from Italy. He firmly believed in the fervent, even frantic pursuit of freedom
and the attainment of freedom of thought through sharing every thing that crossed
his mind. But in the fascist society he was brought up in, he took it too far
and kind of ostracized himself from his friends from making too many comments
about their personalities, giving them too many suggestions, and sharing too
many of his abstract philosophic thoughts to the point of making them think
he was mad. At times he would tell his friends of dreams he had, completely
analyzing them, then badgering his friends to share their dreams; but he always
unintentionally drove them up the wall by guessing the cause of every event
they described. He and his family eventually moved to Boulder after he was virtually
excommunicated from his small town on the southern tip of Cicily. He died a short
time afterwards of a Brain Tumor. His children thus learned from an early age
to not only speak their truth no matter what the consequences might be, but
unknowingly find themselves mulling over abstract concepts like, why certain
actors got paid more than others, or what caused the bank teller to cut their
hair.
After they got their share of a million dollar life insurance settlement, they
set off traveling the world were they all, being the intensely open minded, yet
not too well mentally well rounded or well read, became enamored with the theological
doctrines of the first countries they happened to go to. While they were there,
they became extremely excited about the historic stories they heard from the
locals, and being foreigners without the burden of a job, became somewhat of
a local celebrity, if not entertainer, flattering their new found friends with
their fervent recounting of the tales they had heard. After a few months they
became convinced of everything they were saying and heard, but making up their
own versions in order to incorporate the other local beliefs into the picture,
and tried to spread their beliefs to the passing tourists. the one who was in
Jerusalem even went so far as to try to convert the local Palestinians that
Mohamed was only the sixth best prophet, and Jesus was the fifth, but Moses was
the great one on the grounds that he was the one chosen to bring the ten commandments.
This self proclaimed mission from god was short lived after he got drunk one
night and stormed a mosque screaming the ten commandments, and was thrown in
jail for a month. After a couple of years, they all came home at about the same
time at the pleading of their lonely mother. But brought their faiths with them
to begin little 'churches' of their own. But when they came back they rekindled
their traditional sibling rivalry with a vengeful purpose, to bring their brothers
and sisters into their own new found truth. They all came back broke, and due
to a lack of a desire to work, they all moved into the 45,000 square foot house
they grew up in; which the mother didn't have a problem with.
The mother, Nancy, is a very centered woman ambivalent of anything beyond what
is going on with the neighbors. She loved her late husband because of his entertaining,
outgoing style, and just sat back and let him do all the talking most of the
time, just as she is with her children and friends. She makes a living running
a daycare center. After playing with her kids, she plays similar games, like
cards and pictionary, and music with her friends.
The oldest son Vernon, is a born again Muslim, he gets up at 5:00 every morning
and prays to Allah in the direction of Mecca, along with 4 other times throughout
the day. He walks around dressed in white all the time, and has a big beard.
He runs the prayer sessions at the local mosque and writes columns about Islam
in the newspaper, where he says all non Muslims are headed for hell after death,
but Muslims go to a perfect and timeless Paradise. Vernon originally got his
beliefs from when he was an English teacher in Saudi Arabia, then he traveled
through the other countries in the Arab world before going home.
The second oldest son Steven acquired his beliefs after a two year stint as a
soldier in south Korea. Then he dropped out of the army and traveled through
China, India, and to Europe overland before going home. He left home about six
months after Vernon and returned about six months after Vernon. He is just as
fanatical about Christianity as Vernon is about Islam, and because of this avoided
talking about religion to him altogether until he was beseeched to by their
brother Alexander. He was a preacher at the local Catholic church and wrote
Christian articles in the local newspaper.
The oldest girl Cecily, is a Buddhist, she became buddhist after going to Nepal
and then traveling around India before going back home to lead Vipasana meditations.
The second oldest daughter Zelda is a born again Jew. She founder her faith
after working as a peace corp volunteer in Jerusalem, she then traveled through
Africa, Europe and South America. She went back home to teach the old testament
in Boulder and ancient Jewish mystical practices. The Hari Krishna brother learned
his beliefs from when he was traveling through India, he then traveled around
south East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania converting people before
coming back home and hanging out on Pearl Street converting people. The youngest
sister traveled to Central and South America and became a spirit channeler after
a Hiawasca trip on Machu Pichu and then hiked around South America, and
Africa, the middle East, and India china and came here via Canada after crossing
the Bering Straight by herself on a dog sled she found in Siberia. She became
a professional massage therapist and spirit channeler after return home. She
was very wise but tended to belief too much and lacked a back bone of belief
to give her any vision to share, and didn't value sharing knowledge believing
it would cause unnecessary stress to the psyche. Alexander, the youngest and only
adopted child traveled on his bike through South America, then Antarctica and
Africa, Europe, India, China, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania,
and Canada and all over the us before returning hoe. He spent all his time reading
and writing when he wasn't riding. When he went hoe his goal was to bring
his family together, which is what he did. he believed there was no family on
Earth like his ad it was Gods way of showing how all the religions of the world
could come together.
The story begins with the return of the youngest adopted son from his world
travels. He came back a year after his siblings because of his intense desire
to see all the countries in the world.
This is a book I about a family who
are all devoutly religious but in different faiths. The mother is indifferent
but the dead father was a follower of Aleister Crowley. and the oldest boy is
Muslim, his younger brother Christian, their younger sister Buddhist, their
younger sister Jewish, and the youngest brother a Hari Christina and the youngest
sister a new ager and the adopted son a brilliant insightful wizard who brings
them all together. There is also a son who i an atheistic scientist.
The family are the Schleifenscheiders,
and they all live in Boulder Colorado. I will describe all the characters: The
fanaticism of the family comes from the father Stephan who is a Jewish immigrant
from Italy. He firmly believed in the fervent and at times frantic pursuit of
freedom and the attainment of freedom of thought through sharing every thing
that crosses your mind. But he took it too far and kind of ostracized himself
from his friends from making too many comments about them and giving them too
many suggestions and sharing too many of his thoughts to the point of making
them think he was mad. at times he would tell his friends of dreams he had where
he would then completely analyze it and then badger his friends to share their
dreams so he could unintentionally drive them up the wall analyzing every aspect
of them. He and his family eventually moved to Boulder after he was virtually
excommunicated from his small town in Cicily. He died a short time afterwards
of a Brain Tumor. So his children were taught from an early age to speak their
truth no matter what. After they all got their share of a million dollar life
insurance settlement, they set off traveling the world were they all found their
respective religions. Then they came home to run churches of their various denominations.
The mother is a very centered soul
and is indifferent of it all, but she loved her late husband because of his
outgoing energy and just sat back and let him do all the talking, as she does
for every one. She makes her money running a daycare place. After work she plays
music and games with her friends. The oldest son Vernon, is a born again Muslim,
he gets up at 5:00 every morning and prays to Allah in the direction of Mecca,
and 4 other times, walks around dressed in white all the time, and has a big
beard. He runs the local prayer sessions at the mosque and writes columns about
Islam in the newspaper. He thinks all non Muslims are headed for hell after
death, but Muslims go to Paradise. the story begins with the return of the youngest
adopted son from his world travels. His name is Alexander all of the characters,
got their beliefs from their worldly travels, vernon from when he was an English
teacher in Saudi Arabia, then he traveled through the other countries in the
Arab world before going home.
The second oldest son Steven acquired
his beliefs after his two year stint as a soldier in South Korea. Then he dropped
out of the army and traveled through China, India, and to Europe overland before
going home. He left home about six months after Vernon and returned about six
months after Vernon. He is just as fanatical about Christianity as Vernon is
about Islam, and because of this avoided talking about religion to him altogether
until he was beseeched to by their brother Alexander. He was a preacher at the
local Catholic church and wrote Christian articles in the local newspaper.
The oldest girl Cecily, is a Buddhist, she became buddhist after going to Nepal
and then traveling around India before going back home to lead 10 day Vipasana
meditations. The second oldest daughter Zelda is a born again Jew. She found
her faith after working as a peace corp volunteer in Jerusalem, she then traveled
through Africa, Europe, and south America. She went back home to teach the old
testament in Boulder and ancient Jewish mystical practices. Billy, the Hari
Krishna brother learned his beliefs from when he was traveling through India,
he then traveled around south East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
converting people before coming back home and hanging out on Pearl Street converting
people. The youngest sister, Jezebel, traveled to Central and South America
and became a spirit channeler after a Hiawasca trip on Machu Pichu and then
she hiked around South America, and Africa, the middle East, and India china
and came bach via Canada, After crossing the Bering Straight by herself on a
dog sled she found in Siberia. She became a professional massage therapist and
spirit channeler after returning home. She was very wise but tended to believe
too much and lacked a back bone of belief to give her any vision to share, she
had no convictions, and didn't value sharing knowledge, believing it
would cause unnecessary stress to the psyche. Alexander, the youngest and only
adopted child traveled on his bike through South America, then Antarctica and
Africa, Europe, India, China, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania,
Canada and all over the US before returning home. He spent all his time reading
and writing about the countries he was in when he wasn't riding. When
he went home his goal was to bring his family together, which is what he did.
He believed there was no family on Earth like his and it was one of Gods ways
of showing how all the religions of the world could come together.
Tonight is the night of the first family reunion since Pa done died three years
ago, Alexander is has just come back and everybody is having dinner together.
Everybody else came back about a year ago, and haven't really talked with each
other since a big squabble involving every body happened over the concept of
God and the history of the human race. Vernon was convinced giants ran over
the land and were all very similar in belief to the one god, and didn't like
no trinity, but Steven was angry and defending the trinity and the virgin Mary,
which eventually made Cecily feel like she had to defend herself and speak
about unneccessaryness of philosophizing about anything and that we should all
just attain enlightenment my crawling into our own caves and meditating. Cecily's
anti religious comments sparked a fire within Zelda's heart and caused her to
start talking about the importance of ceremonies and studying philosophies and
following rules, and just sitting around and meditating is for animals, But
Billy felt like he had to defend Cecily and started yelling to Zelda about how
Jews are too strict and that nobody likes Jews or Israelites. After a few minutes,
Jezebel couldn't take anymore and yelled out calling everyone crazy and ran
out. After Jezebel left, everybody just sort of didn't have anything to prove
or say, so they left also, and haven't gotten together as a group since, although
every member of the group has visited each other sporadically since then a few
times. They still kind of held grudges, and wanted to prove their point, but
only is a more diplomatic way this time.
Ding Dong. 'Oh, its Alexander and
Maggi!', exclaimed Jezebel. And the two walked in with the whole family standing
there watching as if expecting something great, like the beginning of a new
era.
'Welcome
home!' Exclaimed Vernon with arms open wide in his white robe. And they all
sat down to the spicy curry that Billy had prepared for everybody. Alexander
was surprised to see how everybody was dressed up in their full traditional garb,
Vernon with the white robe, Steven in his white colored black suit, and he
didn't even know he was a preacher, Billy with the shaved head except for the
hairy spot at the back of his head, Zelda with her perm as if she were a full
breed Hebrew, Cecily, with in her monk robes, and even Jezebel in her baggy tie
dyed cottons. He instantly had the feeling they didn't consciously notice how
beautiful of a sight it was for everybody to be dressed to flamboyantly, yet
differently. To them they were just being themselves. He also had the feeling
from correspondence with each of his siblings, who he had kept in touch with
a lot, that they weren't hanging out with each other very much after an argument
a year before, but they seemed to him to be very at peace with each other, which
he didn't really expect. They all had the intention of having a reconciliation,
but didn't verbally explain it to each other, but each knew it. But it was a
strange mix between this desire to get along and an intense desire to explain
their point of view to the rest of the family, because they still thought they
were the only one who was truly right, which is why they didn't reunite hang
out that much, because they didn't have the energy or time to go that
far out of their way to convince their hard headed singings of their doctrine.
'So
Alexander, what was your favorite country?' Asked Steven. 'America'. No body
expected that answer, they were secretly hoping to hear the country is that they
had been to. 'Yes, America is the greatest country in the world' Said momma Maggie.
'America is the most polluting country in the world, and everybody in dying
of stress syndrome, in India everybody is so relaxed it will blow your mind.
They just laugh all day long'. Billy said.
'Probably
cause they have got nothing better to do, they don't have the intelligence to
do anything', exclaimed Zak in an agitated blurt. And there was silence around
the table. 'All I'm saying is that without a country like America, we would
still all be killing each other like it was the middle ages'. He realized he
was being a little too forceful and opinionated in his approach, but it was
too late. 'America is the most godless country on earth'. exclaimed Vernon in
an authoritative tone of voice. 'We have the most aids, murder, pollution like
Billy said, and it is all the rich people who are the most degraded. The more
degraded and greedy you are, the greater you are in society' Steven, trying
to ally himself with Vernon, chimed in, 'Yea, here in America, the better you
are at lying, the farther you go in life, and its all because people don't study
the Bible, and don't believe in God like me and Vernon'. 'I believe in God',
said Jezebel. But Vernon and Steven just looked away, out of all the family
members, they disdained Jezebel the most, ever since they went to her house
and saw all the pictures of angels and aliens and artwork of animals everywhere.
They were sure she was praying to them to conjure up special powers for herself
to be able to convince her brothers to leave God and follow some pagan deity
who would some day cause them to fornicate with an aids infested maiden, or
become drug addicts or something like she was. They looked at her and just saw
someone completely infested with everything ungodly, when she said that she believed
in god they just look that as a vain attempt to bring them into her world of
idols, which is what they thought she meant when she said she believed in god.
But in truth, on a deeper heart level, they were intimidated by her abilities
to seemingly took right through them and see all the insecurities and fear of
their soul, and weaknesses of their minds. It wasn't like they were weak minded,
on the contrary, they were very passionate about what they did, and went about
convincing people of their way with more vigor that anybody she had ever meet.
But the weakness which they felt she saw in them was from their close mindedness
that caused them to only see what they wanted to see, and count almost everything
else beside the strict confines of their faith out, chalking it up to needless
mental masturbation in the vain effort to separate them from god, or out right
devil worship, and this is what gave them the air of weakness, it was really
ignorance, but it seemed like weakness to most of the intelligent Boulderites,
and especially to the clairvoyant Jezebel. Which actually made her sick when
we looked at her brothers, because, although the wasn't too bright when
it came to mentally analyzing things, and she was just about powerless when
it came to talking somebody into something or convincing them to have an open
minds, she was clairvoyant and could see all the blocks in their bodies that
just stopped up and made them the agitated people they were, like they were
infested with dark bile. She even saw a small tumor developing in Vernon's stomach,
but she felt like she could never tell them these things, especially since the
big fight last year, and it was this that made her sick when they were there.
Especially because they were her brothers and she loved them, and felt like
it was her duty to at least tell Vernon about his tumor, and was determined
to eventually tell him that before too long. When she saw Alex come in, she
felt a great warmth in her heart because he was her only sibling who seemed
to be completely free of emotional baggage, which she was very sensitive to.
She knew she was kind of the odd man out in the family, and thought maybe Alex
could bring her back into the fold once again.
'Oh,
lets not get political just yet', said Maggie as she cut the welcome home potato
cake for Alex. 'Alex', momma asked, 'What are you going to do now?' 'Well, I've
been just about everywhere, maybe I will stay here for six months and save up
and go to the countries that I haven't gone to yet, then I will have been everywhere'.
Alex replied. 'Then maybe you could write a book about all the countries in
the world, and how they compare to each other'. Suggested Zak. 'Yea, maybe'.
The family was beginning to get reacquainted with Alex, remembering how he always
acted sort of aloof, and could never really make up his mind about anything
or take an angle in any issue, which was very peculiar in this family. Even
Jezebel was passionate about her beliefs. But it was also very clear to everybody
that he didn't care what anybody thought about him, and that gave him a sort
of immunity, and took away any desire anybody might have to force their beliefs
on him or convince him on something, because he would just smile blankly, like
they were talking to a mannequin or something. The fact of the matter was that
Alex didn't really have a very active mind. Ever since he was a child, his mother
raised him especially to not take anything seriously, hoping he would turn out
to be a normal, if not well rounded person. But her pampering sort of made him
more of a free and empty personality that she ever anticipated, and this kind
of unnerved her, making her realize truly how much she love being around opinionated
people, even though she had no attention of being one herself. One would think
she would feel an affinity with her free wheeling son, but the person she had
the most compassion for was Zelda, because she was the only child who followed
in the traditional family footsteps, and she knew Zelda did this out of respect
for her parents, which really touched her mother.
'We
have just finished the human genome last week'. Zak continued. He was one of
the technicians in charge of organizing the sequencing to find out where they
go. He was paid well for his work, 60,000 dollars a year, not bad for a 28 year
old scientist. And he had the admiration of his family, but he had a sort of
cynical air about him, as if he wasn't proud of being part of this family,
wishing he was in a traditional academic group who did normal things like golfing
and hiking, but most importantly hanging out more. This cynical attitude made
his siblings, although respectful of his dedication and sharpness, a little
resentful, and snappy at times. Of all the siblings, Zak was the most intrigued
with Jezebel. How she never really talked about the things he talked about,
politics, world affairs, and the media and stuff like he did. But would just
open up to him about everything that was going on in her life. He was the only
one who was truly interested in her life and gave her the feeling like she
was on to something great. They talked about stuff that they would share with
nobody else. Jezebel would share her psychic readings with her brother, the
only person who she did that for, she felt it was a violation of peoples privacy
to do that, but her brother lived in another town, and was so interested. She
knew he didn't really know what to think about it, but in a weird unexplainable
way he believed it. And he would explain to her the structure of the DNA and
how genetics mutates through the generations, and the structure of the atom.
They were actually really close to coming up with a brilliant cohesion of knowledge
to formulate a beautiful philosophy, but didn't really have a solid enough foundation
in each others subjects to make the connection, or even seriously think about
making the connection.
Steven couldn't hold himself back,
he had to retort to Zak blasphemous revelation. 'Its the beginning of the end,
and my own brother is part of it, first it is the human genome mapping, then
it is genetically programmed robot people killing everybody. The mark of the
beast'. 'Isn't the mark of the beast from computer chips inside peoples head,
to keep track of all their information, like bank transactions and stuff?' Asked
Vernon in a surprisingly innocent way. 'yea, all of that, but it will start
with this genetic engendering, this is scary stuff'. Zak just rolled his eyes,
he didn't even know where to begin. But he didn't have to because Zelda was
quick to respond. 'What your brother is doing is going to help a lot of people
you guys, stop diseases, have extra organs for us when we get sick, it will
lead to technology that will cause us to live a hundred and fifty years easy,
or longer, just like Noah and Adam and Eve and all those guys, like 900 years'.
'What? 900 years?' Asked Maggie in surprise. 'It makes sense to me' Alex answered.
'Think about it this way, time speed up every day, every year goes by faster
and faster, not just for kids, for everybody, that is because more stuff is
going on, life isn't as boring, so naturally we would need to life longer lives
that just 75 years, after 75 years we are just getting started'. This was a
new way of looking at it. Alex wasn't particularly well read, but he definitely
had an interesting way of seeing things, and it made sense. Zelda said, 'When
I was in Egypt there is a watch in the Cairo museum that has cogs and gears
and all that, but guess how old if was carbon dated?' 'What?' Asked an intrigued
Zak. 'One million years, can you believe that?' 'Where did they find it?' Asked
Vernon. 'I think in Israel, there is a lot in the Israeli culture that is peculiar,
the Hebrew alphabet is composed of one shape just being looked at from different
angles, its magical'. 'Hebrews are time travelers,' chimed in Jezebel. Nobody
really had anything to say to that. 'Judaism is the father of the Christian
religion'. Steven said. 'And the Egyptian religion is the father to the Hebrew
religion'. Jezebel included. 'Just look at the name of the Israelites, Is from
Isis, Ra from Ra, and El, from the Mesopotamian god, they are actual people
who are left over from Atlantis'. Again silence fell over the table. Then Steven
continued. 'Well, the ten commandments, that is were the Israeli religion actually
started, thou shalt not have strange gods before me, thou shalt not take the
name of the lord thy god in vain, remember to keep thy the lords day nor thy
father and thy mother, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery,
thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not lie, thou shalt not covet thy neighbors
wife, thou shalt not covet thy neighbors goods'. He belted out in his typical
sermonistic way. But now Jezebel felt the spirit of the badger and felt like
telling her family all she knew from reading books and the deep seeded feelings
she had in her mind. 'I think those commandments came from aliens, not the one
god, center of the universe, think about it he went up with black hair and came
back with white hair, the radiation of the ship turned his hair white, and all
the clouds up on the mountain hid the ship and remember the bright lights coming
through the clouds? Just like the bright lights people see today.' 'Did you
see that is a vision?' Asked Alex. 'No, I read it in a book, but I do connect
with a spirit named Jezuk, he was my lover in a past life'. She couldn't believe
she just said that, but it felt like a big block was just removed from off her
chest permanently, and she felt a huge breath of fresh air that she had never
felt in the presence of her family before. Zak looked seriously at her and asked.
'Do you see this man when you close your eyes or something? Does he speak to
you like we speak to you?' 'No, in a much more subtler way, but just as clearly,
I could draw him for you if I could draw, he comes to my minds eye in instantaneous
flashes and his words comes in an instant also, but complete, I didn't realize
he was actually real until I went to Mexico and was meditating on top of one
of the Mayan pyramids, and then he came to me and said my name like he knew
me, and I thought, wow, this is real!' 'I'm sorry' retorted Vernon, but that
sounds just like the, 'thou shalt not have strange gods before me commandment'.
'Actually I think it has more to do with praying to golden calves and sacrificing
animals to imaginary people in the sky'. Answered Alex. Zelda had something
to say. 'I think you all are just talking about the same thing, doesn't Buddhism
have ten commandments also Cecily?' 'Actually, yea they do, don't kill, don't
steal, no bad sex, no lying, no drugs, no high and luxurious beds, no gold
or silver'. 'And wasn't the Buddha born from a virgin?' 'Actually he was, yea'
'Wasn't her name Mary?' 'I don't know about that!' 'Isn't that a weird coincidence
there are 10 commandments in Jewism and Buddhism?' Answered Alex. Suddenly Vernon
looked intrigued. 'There are ten commandments in Islam also, don't set up another
god with God, be good to your parents, give your relatives their due, don't
be too beggarly or wasteful, don't abandon your children out of fear of poverty,
don't go near fornication because it is immoral and evil way, don't kill except
in just cause, don't touch property of others except for bettering it, don't
follow that that you don't know, and don't be insolent'. 'They all sound pretty
similar to me' Maggi said. 'Yea', included Steven, 'Especially the part about
only worshiping one god, there are too many people getting side tracked by other
false gods and prophets, that will just lead you down the wrong path and into
Hell, you should study the parables, because Christ is about to return, the
end times are now, Mathew, 21:24-27, 'in time of confusion Christ will return'
and from all this confusion caused by lewd media and the resurgence of all these
heathen religions, the Wiccan religion is the fastest growing religion in America'.
This angered Cecily, 'Christians killed more people that anybody else, they
killed millions and millions of tribal earth people calling them witches, listen
to yourself, you guys spread like a disease'. 'But Cecily, you need to read the
Bible, let me ask you a question, do you put a lamp under a bushel, or on top
so every body can see?' Be are supposed to spread the word of God, you should
read the parables, there was a sower of seeds scattering them, some fell by
the side where fowls ate them, some on the rocks where the sun scorched them
and they couldn't take root, some fell among thorns and were choked, but some fell on good ground and multiplied a hundred fold'. 'Ah, I can't have a normal
conversation with you Steven, you always quote the Bible like your all knowing'.
'That's probably because in Buddhism you are taught to just keep stuff to yourself
and not share it, and that speaking your mind is bad or something'. 'That's not
true, we just don't invade people's space and take them over with our dogma'.
She was getting a little upset. 'OK, I'm sorry, tell me about Buddhism'. 'Its
pretty simple, life is caused by suffering because people don't get what they
want, and and get attached to earthly things like money and prestige, thinking
that is the only thing that is important, but we can free ourselves through meditation,
that is called the 4 noble truths, one, there is suffering, two because of attachments,
three you can free yourself, and four, through meditation. And we can attain
this by living the 8 fold path, right view, right intentions, right speech,
right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.
All the pain of the world comes from trying to balance the eight worldly winds,
Pleasure and pain, praise and blame, Gain and loss, and fame and shame. There
are two kinds of meditation, concentration and insight, and three stages to
these meditation, entering, focusing, and realizing. There are 4 great efforts
to try to live by, avoiding, overcoming, developing, and maintaining, and four
divine abodes, or qualities to live by, friendliness, compassion, joy, equanimity.
There are six stages of life that we pass through that we call bardo's, the living
Bardo, that we are in now, the dreaming, meditating, dying, reality, which is
when the white light comes and you see everything as it is, and becoming, when
we are in our mothers womb. There are different kinds of buddhism, the Theravada,
from south east asia, which is focused on mainly meditating by yourself, Mahayana,
from china, which is more social, Vajrayana, from China and Japan, which is
more philosophical, seeing it all as one, and Dzogchen, which is from Tibet,
and is mainly about meditating, seeing it all as one and being one. There are
different kinds of meditation techniques, like not thinking and just following
the breath, and there is contemplating, what is whole and of god in me and what
is an illusion, and sky gazing, and just saying ahh, and consciously enjoying
life'.
'Yea
that is fine and dandy', answered Vernon, 'But is seems like you are just avoiding
the issue, and that is that there is one god, and that is all you need to go
to heaven, you are just being analytical about it all and avoiding the whole
issue, like you are encouraging just going into a cave and minding your own
business, and you will get to heaven that way, what about all the people out
there who you would like to help? What about all the muslims you want to convert?'
'I am not trying to convert any Muslims or Christians, if people are interested
in meditating the the Buddhist philosophies they can study them'. Cecily answered,
now more calm and in control. 'Yea', replied Steven. 'But do you believe in
God?' 'No' answered Cecily. 'You don't believe in god?' Asked Zelda somewhat
startled. 'Well, I believe in a higher power'. 'What do you think will happen
when you die?' 'I think we come back until we eventually become enlightened
and then we melt into the universe'. 'What do you mean melt into the universe?'
Asked Steven. 'You just lose you individuality?' 'Yes' 'That doesn't make any
sense to me'. Answered Alex. 'Why don't you guys just find a common ground?
I think Buddhists should believe in God. I was in India, Buddha nerve said there
is no god, he just avoided answering the question because at the time people would
have claimed God as their and practiced too much idol worship. The Buddha stressed
meditation it was his successors that brought the various Gods into the picture.
Hinduism believed in Gods too much nd Buddha taught that all you need is you
self because you have God in you. But now we are ready to think about God and
how to integrate Buddhism with the other religions. Lets examine how it was
christianity and not Buddhism that brought us the present world. It is a Christian
concept that says we can make the world a better place and aught to fight for
what we believe, while in the Buddhist world you solve problems by going within
and encouraged blindly letting the head lama make all the decisions. Not pooling
together knowledge isn't good for creativity. They were leaving the greater
community out of the picture too much. This is evidenced by Tibet's refusal to
accept western technology they tore down the phone lines the British put up.
Only after their exile did they realize they needed to modernize, in this way
they are much less enlightened than christianity. Buddhism must not dismiss
vision of hereafter world of heaven and transcendence just like christianity
must believe in reincarnation'.
Then Steven said. 'Yea, but the Bible
is very clear in a lot of places that there is no reincarnation, just look at
the parable about the rich man and lazarus: A rich man had a poor man starve
to death at his gates, and when he died went to hell and asked Abraham to send
the poor man in heaven down to cool his tongue, but he couldn't because the disgrace
between the two worlds is too great so he asked to send him to his brothers because
they would listen to a witness, but Abe said if they don't listen to the teachers
they won't learn from the resurrected'. that is a pretty clear description of
the after life for me, and Jesus said that'. 'Do you believe in hell like that,
Cecily'? Asked Zak. 'Well, there are Hell realms where we can go when we die,
and get stuck that are very similar to the hell that christians describe, but
that is only a temporary thing until you have learned your lesson and then you
get another change, why do you think everything is permanent Steven'? Zelda
had something to say. 'Actually, I use to not believe in reincarnation, but
a lot of Jews are starting to say that reincarnation used to be common knowledge
in Israel until the roman church pretty much outlawed it in like 300 A.D., remember
when Jesus was beginning his ministry down by the river, and the people said,
'are you Elijah'? and he said, 'no, but that is John the Baptist,' he was saying
John the Baptist is a reincarnation of Elijah, and what about all those people
who remember their past lives in hypnotic regression, and say stuff that is absolutely
impossible for them to know, and how can you explain all the feelings of knowing
people from past live's, it just doesn't make any sense to me that our souls
were born yesterday, we are way too complex for that, and besides, wouldn't
that be unfair, if we just lived one single life, for some of us to be diseased,
and others to be healthy and rich, and for some of us to live our only life
as an animal, and never get to be a human, that is about as naive as thinking
the earth is the center of the solar system, or the earth is the only place
in the universe with life. I mean, where is heaven you guys'? She was asking
Vernon and Steven. She had obviously struck a cord with those two guys, partly
because they never heard it that way, and partly because they had always seen
Zelda as a sort of spiritual sister, that, because of her strict Jewish belief,
she would somehow make it into heaven with them. But they weren't phased for
long, after all, they couldn't show any weakness to their younger sister. Vernon
retorted. 'You are all philosophy too much, all you need is Allah, and the
Koran'. And Steven, feeling forced to side with Vernon, but holding his own,
chimed in, 'Yea, all you need is Jesus, we don't philosophize'. And he quickly
changed the subject. 'You all don't seen to understand all the wonderful things
our lord and savior did for us, he stopped all of the Jewish squabbling, his
truth infiltrated the Roman empire and spread throughout the world, the whole
reason Columbus got sponsored to go to the new world and discover america was
to spread christianity, and to practice gods word was the reason this great
country was invented, and the printing press was invented so people could have
their own bible, not to mention all of the miracles he performed, the bible
is gods word, you can't go against it'. Zak replied. 'But it was translated
so many times, how can you know for sure that Jesus' word was preserved perfectly'?
'Because god is watching over it, it is the perfect book, do you think god would
let it be tampered with'? But Alex chimed in. 'Do you think god would let people starve all over the world, and allow people to kill each other in his name'?
Cecily said. 'The world would be a lot better off if we never came here, and
killed all the Indians the destroyed the environment.' Zak: 'But then Buddhism
wouldn't be spreading around like wild fire like is is now Cecily'. Cecily
didn't really have anything to say to that, but it provoked Alex to go off on
his little soliloquies: '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 premarital sex, masturbation, drugs, divorce, and
faith. jesus' 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, labourers 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 Gomorra burn 't 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're 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'. Break the golden rules, let me give you an idea of how fearful, ignorant,
and quick to judge we are about our basic views on life. Lets explore the whole
problem we have with religion. people are pathetically quick to judge each other
when it comes to religion. If I start talking about god and the Bible to like
Zak, he thinks I am a fundamentalist Christian and start telling me how no matter
what I say, he isn't going to hell, as if I told him he was, or that he is and
there is nothing I can do about it. and if I start talking about Buddhism to
like Vernon or Steven, needless to say they get scared and think I am falling
into the grips of the Devil. and if Jezebel talks about aliens, a
lot of people just think she had too many hits of acid or was dropped on her
head as a baby. Why are we so quick to judge? Well, we were never asked to have
religious debates in school because it is such a sensitive subject. Facilitators
think they are being shrewd by avoiding the subject, why? So we can get at each
others throat's later in life? if we don't learn to speak our minds in high
school or college when will we? After college we are told to get 'real jobs'.
As if all the other jobs are 'fake jobs' for the weak minded. some times intelligent
people chose jobs with little responsibility so they can focus on themselves,
or start something of their own.
Here I am offering my take on religion,
which to me in another word for spirituality or reality. I arrive at answers
by following patterns, coming from deep in the past of our history and my imagination;
and allowing those patterns into the future to see where we are going. But in
order to see those patterns I need to step back and see all facets of the world
from a distance, like stepping back from the screen door and moving around in
order to get a clear picture of the back yard. Another word for this is education.
It is amazing how lacking in education we are in things that are timeless. Once
there was a black out in LA and thousands of people called the cops complaining
about the smoke fog in the sky, not realizing it was the milky way. or Holistic
medicine, sacred geometry, or any of the other tribal truths we have lived with
since the beginning. We just threw it all away as we came into the modern world.
Sorry if I sound like a bible thumping maniac, but if we would just educate
ourselves on the prophecies of the Bible and take into account of the world
religions, we would have a much clearer understanding of the world we live in
and the world we came from.
But we ain't seen nothing yet, until
now I have just been analyzing the everyday concerns of the common people. When
we really look at the big picture, and bypass the limited cultural paradigm
we were born with, we will undergo a bigger transmutation in the way we see
the world than men born with slaves and dying with black people running their
city ever dreamed of. yea you guys, disclosure is a reality, the government
will open the door to the presence of aliens. Only then will we see the true
depth of our cultural brain washing and reevaluate everything. When you listen
seriously to all the stories that people are afraid to tell in fear of ridicule,
read the books written by aliens, and contemplate the vast science and history
of Gods creation; it becomes clear that not only interstellar travel is possible
but extraterrestrial life is everywhere; and a natural progression of our divine,
eternal life. Only then will it be clear that all the superstitions and stories
from the past came from true stories of people called gods who come from other
planets, and those silver discs, red triangles, and shooting stars that make
90 degree turns seen by millions of people are actually vehicles driven by these
'gods' who are watching and trying to help us. These are people similar to us
from other star systems like Sirius, Arcturus, Zeta Reticulae, the Plaiades,
and even other galaxies. When we take this into account, all of our scientific
loopholes make sense, like the missing links, the sudden appearances of hominids
and dinosaurs, and all of the strange cultural similarities like all indigenous
cultures having the same story about the Plaeides; that seven sisters came down
and wanted to marry the prince of the Earth. The Pyramids that we can't even
construct today that are symmetrical to a quarter of an inch. Perfectly carved
stones, as if from giant machines, the 600 ton block on King David's temple in
Jerusalem 50 feet in the air, at the time of its construction 100 feet in the
air. A feat none of our present day cranes could hope to do, the stories about
Pluto, which we have only recently been discovered, the big planet we can only
as of now gravitationally detect, the Dogon tribe in Libya's accurate stories
about the orbit of the Sirius star that we didn't confirm until a hundred
and fifty years ago of the ancient Sumarians Cuneiform translations telling
accurate stories about all the planets in the solar system, from calling Pluto,
invisible to the naked eye, a water planet, that we didn't confirm until
the voyager spacecraft saw it and showed us it was blue, to the story of the
giant planet with an elliptical orbit that we only recently detected gravitationally
and are now searching for in the sky, among other things, is all explained.
We all probably have miraculous stories to tell but we bury them in fear of
ridicule.
As a personal example, I saw a saucer
five minutes after I prayed for one to come down, in the form of lights in the
distance of the desert blinking at me from left to right then right to left,
then inward in the red green yellow that I was so fond of then. Then a couple
months ago when my friends huge three foot long windshield crack suddenly disappeared,
and two days when I woke up with my gapped teeth suddenly together. These occurrences
reassured me of a supernatural presence that our modern society adamantly rejects,
why? People can give each other the screw faced evil eye to stories like this
until the stories seep into common knowledge and they remember things like this
that have happened to them but forgot, and then it becomes a reality, then we
all forget the great change we have made and live as if it has always been like
this. Just remember one thing, if you were to drop your great grand dad off
in Boulder now and show him around he just might have a heart attack or lock
himself in a closet or pass out.
From the beginning our biggest problem
has always been our inability to see eye to eye, to relate to one another and
realize we are all one. Freedom, the word that defines our country, our first
constitutional amendment, is the necessary step in our cultivation of creativity
It was suppression of knowledge by the English church, is what motivated our
ancestors to found this great county. The freedom to think what you want, say
what you want, be who you are, that is what made us great, and why people flocked
here. Most of the great innovators of the world were first generation immigrants
to America, brilliant people who knew they couldn't do it in the old world because
of feudalistic style over control.
To cultivate creativity, there needs to be an anything goes attitude. Something
we take for granted in this country and don't realize the value of until we
leave and see the close mindedness of European cultures and hear all the attitude
about how Americans are arrogant, loud, and self centered. But we aren't holier
than thou, it just seems that way to people who are stuck in the 'watch what
you say or else the king will behead you' attitude. We are a nation of rebels,
with every generation blaming the one before and earnestly trying to change,
following the pattern we have lived by since the first boat load of fed up freedom
fighters arrived.
But now more than ever we need to
reevaluate reality; find out what we really want. Because the iron hand of suppression,
the FDA, FBI, NSA, CIA, IRS, etc., is alive and working hard to control us as
if we are people not to be trusted. look at how all the figmentary societal
rules that we have made up and blindly follow. Rules who's primary motivator
is fear: Graduate from high school or you will be a failure in life, graduate
from college or you won't be successful, get married before you are thirty,
and god forbid, don't live with your parents. Keep up with the Jones's
new clothing styles that hurt the environment. If people do break out and express
themselves they are likely to be labeled with a mental illness: Having a healthy
imagination means attention deficit disorder and need Ridalin, and getting stressed
out calls for Prozac which almost half of us are on, and the cure for depression
is lithium. We don't realize we are given drugs made from specific parts of
plants, and chemicals formulated in a certain way so a Billionaire, Friend of
the FDA, company can call dibs on, and then illegalize natural time tested remedies
like marijuana. And people don't even know what aromatherapy is. It is
the natural healing juices boiled out of plants and used to airiate rooms, or
use in baths or on the skin to trigger the brain to calm down and heal the body.
We don't realize that even today in this country, people can't even sell these
natural undoctored essential oils from plants that anybody cold produce with
a $300 distiller, with a claim that it has a certain healing property; even
though it has been common knowledge for thousands of years throughout all cultures.
Naturopaths people have to change the spelling from 'Breath aid' to 'Breathe
aide,' until the FDA cracks down again and they have to change it to something
totally ambiguous and make it a hush word of mouth inoculation. Why? To protect
the public from harmful plants? No, to keep a strangle hold on the multi billion
dollar pharmaceutical industry of man made, carcinogenic, exorbitantly priced
pills. Our government is still controlled by greedy monopolists who think just
like the wealthy land owners of medieval times. Meanwhile we have $100 bottles
of pills giving people brain cancer and polluting the environment. Witch burning
is alive and well, but nobody knows or cares because we were never trained to
think for ourselves. After college we tell ourselves we are educated and start
the 9 to 5 grind, thinking everything is hunky dory. This is because we were
always told what to think, and never asked what we think. And if a kid in class
or any where else says something different, they are shot down by the teacher,
or the skeptic who prides himself on his objective reasoning skills, thinking
they are escaping the age old Christian or pagan brainwashing that we all hear
of, but never realizing that his skepticism, is actually a blind eye to the
truth, and not a freedom from craziness, This is because his skepticism is born
of fear of something new and thus no effort to study the facts is made. People
stand on two extremes of the yard with out walking around to see what the whole
landscape looks like.
Look where suppression got Russia,
now it is an impoverished country run by gangsters, they have to totally re-learn
what democracy is from scratch. That is why it is of imminent importance to
encourage kids to speak their minds, no matter what they say. but we must believe
one thing fist, and that is that having the freedom to speak your mind will
yield nothing but truth, and not lead to an escape of demons to reap havoc on
the world. and that is where religion the whole issue that our country was founded
on, comes into play.
The root causes of world dynamics
are ancient. We have been steadily more social as time passes. from monkeys
to humans. As we get more evolved our tribes get larger and our knowledge and
responsibilities greater. But if our responsibilities grow faster than our knowledge,
we will topple. This is what our lord and savior from the Devil Jesus Christ
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 the dude who builds it on sand'.
This is exactly what is happening to the world now. We have all this nuclear
technology, world trade, gizmos and gadgets, so many we don't know what to do
with. We buy computers and play games on them rather than use them to network
and educate ourselves to overthrow the rich kids in control of the military
industry complex that we spend billions upon billions of dollars on every year
and the zillionaire oil companies who are in bed with the automobile industry
who are in cahoots with the pharmaceutical and tobacco companies who control
the FDA who keep 50,000 people in jail for life from distributing the cannibus
plant. These wealthy people see the world as a play ground to do as they please,
and get a sick self satisfying pleasure out of milking people like cows. If this
sounds harsh think about all the child labor and exploitation of immigrants,
slaves, and native americans, or the Nazis and their concentration camps. Human
passion spurred from a feeling of separation will cause otherwise normal people
to do horrific things. Germans aren't bad people, but they killed 6 million
Jews. We are always reading about people flipping out and killing their families,
are they bad or just mad? I, for one, can indirectly remember going mad and
murdering people in my past lives out of sheer rage caused by people killing
my family. And I think I might be dangerous today if I had not grown up in a
peaceful Jewish family. Humans have the potential to be divine, but we are still
animals, and our biggest challenge is to transcend this passionate feeling of
separateness and see the spirit of the universe in a holistic way, that we are
all one.
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 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'.
'Yea', said Zak. '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 Oppenheimer 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 protons 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 a nuclear explosion. This was the ultimate proof that mass is just solidified
energy. Then we understood radio waves and billions of neutrinos, which are
neutral, massless 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'.
'Exactly,' included Alex, 'all of us working together create something much
more intricate and beautiful than the sum of all the parts. This family is probably
the only one in the world that has such devout beliefs in so many different
ways of thinking, if he could just find a way to all feel like our faiths are
upheld, yet giving equal credence to each others beliefs'.
Jezebel had something important to
say. 'You guys, just think about it this way, would God chose just one religion
to be the only right one? I mean, all of these religions come from somewhere,
they don't just come out of the blue, they all originated from an enlightened
person who had something very important and beautiful to say, in a way that
was especially powerful to the people of their particular countries, or groups
of people who have a certain knowledge that relates especially to their particular
groups of people, and it turned into the present day stories and beliefs and
philosophies, and as we have already seen they have some uncanny similarities.
So what sense does it make to discount each other, Jezebel, you should see where
your brothers are coming from, and then you will use the word god, and Steven
and Vernon, if you look at the facts you will believe in reincarnation because
it is obvious. But you know what else you guys? If you allow me to give you
the evidence I am sure I could convince you that we are already living in a
cosmically cosmopolitan world, the gods of yore are actually aliens, and the
god that vernon and Steven are talking about is actually the whole conglomerated
energy of everything in the universe, which when put together, has a distinct
personality that we can't deny and includes everybody, but in my humble opinion,
also has a center to it, has a personality. Just like every organism has a center
to it like the nucleus of solar systems, to cells, to atoms'. 'OK Jezebel',
said Vernon in a slightly contemptful way, but with love, and a new kind of
respect in his eyes. So she began. 'It is all hidden in the Bible' In the Bible,
and the Ramayana, and all of other ancient texts, there are so many connections
between them, you can't deny that they all come from the same source and therefore
all have an equal amount of truth before God. Look at the ancient Egyptian bible
and the Bible: Horus, the Egyptian teacher, was spoken of being from the two
Horizons and Jesus was of the two lands, both of them walked on water, Horus
referred to his people as his children, and so did Jesus, Horus and Jesus entered
the mount at sunset to hold conversation with their father, where they were
transfigured, Horus fed the people with seven loafs of bread in the fields of
Annu, and Jesus feed the people with seven loafs when he was reclining in the
grass, Horus had twelve disciples, and so did Jesus; The secret of mysteries
were shown by tat-an, the sextet of the mysteries made known by John; Anup and
Anan were the two witnesses for Horus= The two John witnesses for Jesus; Horus
the morning star, Jesus the morning star, Horus and Jesus, gave the morning
star to their followers. And how about Jesus ruling over the people with a rod
of iron? Look at what the Pharoe's had, a staff, plus all the people with wands.
Remember the quotes about Jesus ruling with a rod of iron, like in Revelation,
12:5, 'And a man child will rule all the nations with a rod of iron, or in 19:15,
'he will rule the nation with a rod of iron, or Psalm 23, 'The lord my shepherd,
thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me'. or how about the similarities with
the lord being the shepard and the people being the lamb, even the adversaries
were the same in the Egyptian religion, Horus verses Set, that sounds a lot
like Satan, Jesus was baptized by John, and Horus was baptized by Anup. And
look at all the parallels with the Buddhism and Hinduism, Buddha was born of
a virgin so was Jesus; they were both reported to have been born from the Holy
Ghost on the mount of the virgin Maya, in the stories both of their mothers
were reported to have wombs clear as crystal and they were born beautiful as
a flower, and when they were born the wise men came and gave their respects.
And both of their births were announced by a messianic star, and they were both
born on Christmas, and they both told their mothers they were great among men
when they were infants, and when they died and were buried, the lids of their
coffins opened and they ascended with light, and they both said they would return,
and as for Christianity and Hinduism, both Krishna and Jesus were born when
their fathers were gone paying tribute to the king, and when they were born
the caves in an abject and humiliating state, but were of royal descent, and
Jesus too, and the caves they were in were illuminated. Jesus and Krishna's fathers
were warned in a dream to flee across the river Jocubna as the reigning kind
sought their lives, and killed all the babies born in that area in that time
period, because they were reported to be born. And even one of the first miracles
they each performed were curing a leper, and they were both crucified and descended
into hell for three days, and then resurrected and ascended into heaven, seen
b many. And even their prophesied returning was reported in the same exact
way, that they will come again as an armed warrior riding a white horse and
the sun and moon will be darkened and the Earth will tremble and the stars will
fall from the firmament. And it is not just those three religions, there were
16 other spiritual teachers who were born of a virgin mother named Mary, were
in the temple training their elders when they were twelve, the ruler of the
land tried to kill all the babies their age, who were asked to move away, and
minister, and began ministering at the age of 30 years, and ended their ministry
at the age of 33 years and were killed on the cross'. 'Who was that?' Asked
Alex. 'Krishna from India who lived in 1200 BC, Hindu Sakia from India who
lived in 600 BC, Thamuz From Syria who lived in 1160 BC, Wittoba from the Teringonese
in 552 BC, Iao from Nepal in 622 BC, Hesus from the Celtic Druids in 834 BC,
Qeuexalcotel from Mexico in 587 BC, Quirinus from Rome in 506 BC, Prometheus
from Greece in 547 BC, Thlis fro Egypt in 1700 BC, Indra from Tibet in 725 BC,
Alcestos from Euripides in 600 BC, Atus from Frigia in 1170 BC, Crite from Caldea
in 1200 BC, Bali from Corsica in 725 BC, Mithra from Persia in 600 BC'.
'Where
did you hear that?' Asked Vernon. 'I saw a video from these guys who did all
the research' 'Well, how do you know its true?' 'How do you know anything you
read is true Vernon? Do the research yourself if your so sure in what you know'.
'I read the Koran and Torah, that is all I want to know'. 'Yea, lot of good
it did you', interjected Zelda. 'You Muslims shut everything out, you didn't
invent anything, yet you claim to know everything. The only reason those middle
eastern countries age out of the stone age is because Texaco came in and started
drilling there, I heard they didn't even think the world was round until about
50 years ago'.
And Vernon, with a very solemn face, replied: 'Islam is the most sincere, devout
way of life in the world, we pray 5 times everyday, and do ever try to put ourselves
above God, we never show anger, and we never hurt each other. Sure some people
go too far, but they are just trying to preserve their traditions in a world
that is filled with so many abominations, any movie made in America has sexual
immorality, and killing and cussing like it is perfectly fine with God, and the
problem is because they don't even believe in God, Jewish and Christians come
from the same roots and so are our brothers, but they aren't as devout as us,
they let too much slide, and before your know it a small slip will turn into
a giant avalanche of sin' 'Amen!' Exclaimed Steven. Vernon continued. 'The world
has a lot to learn from the peaceful ways of Islam, we have never gone on crusades
killing every body who comes into our path, we are just defending our faith,
I mean, don't you think praying and living a clean and humble life is good?"
"Yea", said Jezebel.
Zak had a scientific point to make,
'These similarities probably come from scholars copying off each other all the
time, the ancients copied their stories word for word all the time, and the
modern Indians do it today in their movie making, and as for the prophets dying
for three days, these people lived in societies where they lived very much at
one with the land, and as they followed the sun southward, it was like their
sun god who they live off of dying to them, and when it reaches its southern
most point on their sun dial, it stays in the same position for three days before
coming back north again, they were probably just bringing in their ancient stories
of their sun god with the story of Jesus, and I heard somewhere the reason so
many people preach from their 30-33 years is because when the earth enters a
constellation it is in the 30 degree in the sky, and when it leaves it is in
the 33rd degree'.
'That
astrology is all evil,' Proclaimed Steven with stereotypical Christian conviction.
'That is all about idol worship and polytheism'.
'Yea', pronounced Vernon, 'Polytheism is the root of all evil, people all having
their own gods, next thing you know every household will have their own god,
I heard there are 30 million gods in Hinduism, there is one God for everybody,
that is the only way we will truly get along, when we recognize we all came
from the same God, when you pray to your own god, you get possessed by evil spirits
and you go crazy and kill people and is spreads like wildfire, that is why there
is so much corruption in India'. But this kind of incensed Billy, 'What are
you talking about Vernon!? I am just as devout as yo are, I sing my praises
every weekend in the airport blessing people, and I am on the mall every day
teaching people of the wisdom of Krishna, these gods are representations of
real spirits who help us when we ask them to, they aren't evil, have you ever
even been to India? And we do believe in a primal force anyway, we just don't
call it god, Muslims and Christians are just too simple in their beliefs'.
'Simplicity is good, it keeps out the distractions', said Vernon. 'Have you
guys thought that maybe just whatever works for you is just the way you should
be, and that is is useless to just try to put each other down?' Asked Alex.
'We are just philosophizing,' answered Vernon. 'Well now that we are philosophizing,
lets philosophize about astrology a little bit,' Jezebel interjected in an uncharacteristically
smirky way. Astrology actually comes from the Bible, it was only reintroduced
as something separate in Greece later on as a separate entity because of the
tyrannical leaders of the time. Remember the Jews symbol in the Bull, how the
Jews blow on the bull horn, and the people worshiped the golden calf, that is
because their religion came into existence in the age Taurus. Look at all the
lines about the ages, these 'ages' were the 2000 year astrological time periods,
and Christianity began at the beginning of the age of Pisces, that is why the
symbol of Christianity is the fish, with the fishes on the back of peoples cars
and in churches and all that, and when the talk about the end of the 'age',
the 'age' of Pisces, and the beginning of the new age in 2000 years, the age
of Aquarius, what is the sign of the age of Aquarius? It is the man holding
the pitcher of water, just look at Luke 22:10, 'When you go in the new city
there will be a man with a pitcher of water, follow him and he will lead you
in'. And how about Matthew 28:20 'And surely I am with you till the end of the
age,' the age of Pisces. And Mathew 12:32, 'The Holy Spirit is not given in
this age but the age to come', What do you guys think Mathew means when he said
in 13:39, 'Harvest is in the end of the age and the harvesters are angels when
the angels will pull up the weeds and put them in fire', it is the moment of
reckoning now'. This idea of ages was clear to everybody, as shown in Mathew
23:3 'And what will be the sign of your coming at the end of the age,' or in
Mark 10:29-30 'And in the age to come, eternal life,' or in Luke 18:30, 'The
kingdom of God will fail in this age many times and in the age to come, eternal
life,' you guys see? He was talking about the coming new age, like in I Corinthians
3:6 'We speak a message of the mature, but not to the rulers of this age,' or
10:11, 'These things are warnings of the fulfillment of the ages to come,' or
how about Ephesians 1:21, 'above in power and dominion, not just in the present
age, but the one to come,' or Hebrews 6:1, 'Who have tasted the goodness of the
word of God and the coming age,' or 9:26, 'Christ will have suffered for all,
but will come once and for all at the end of the age,' or Revelation, 15:3, 'God
in the king of the ages'. There talking about the end of the age of Pisces and
the Beginning of the age of Aquarius. he is saying it will be given in the next
age to come in the age of Aquarius, and do you think it is a coincidence all
of this crazy stuff is happening right at the dawning of the age of Aquarius?
5-5-2000, exactly 2000 years after Christ, and we are smack dab in the middle
of a world wide revolution, with the technological revolution in full swing,
population growth, mass confusion and fundamental beliefs being toppled every
day.
'I
can agree with you on that', included Steven, 'This is the end times, and the
angels will come and reap what we have all sown, and throw the nonbelievers
in the pit of death'. 'What happens when non believers die?' Asked Alex, 'Do
they die, like ceasing to exist altogether, or do they burn in a stinking furnace
for eternity'? 'That is something you will have to see for yourself you non
believer'! Exclaimed Zelda in a joking way. 'I believe in God'. Answered Alex.
'But do you believe in Jesus'? Asked Steven. 'Sure, Jesus rocks'! 'But do you
really believe in Jesus'? 'What do you mean,' 'Do you pray to Jesus every day'?
'What do you think? I just came back from riding my bike around the world, do
you think I get up at five and say 'oh Jesus, oh my Jesus, please save my soul
from the Devil'. 'No, but you should,' said Vernon. 'Or else the Devil for me'?
But there was no response from Vernon or Steven, so Alex crunched and looked
at his brothers, 'Look me in the eye, and tell me I am going to the Devil'.
But they still didn't say it. 'You can't say it because you really don't believe
it, yet, you tell me 90 percent of us are off to the hurt locker after death,
I have one question for you guys, if God is all powerful, why the hell does
the Devil get almost everybody, that is a contradiction'. But there was still
no answer, Alex couldn't tell if he had struck a cord and made them think a
little bit, or if they were just ignoring him, he didn't really care at this
point, he was just proud of himself for asking them that question, and he was
baffled that it took him so long to ask them that. But he wasn't done there,
'Let me ask you guys one more thing, how in the hell did religion become responsible
for killing so many people? Like in all the crusades, the genocide of the Americas,
calling the natives heathens, or Hitler killing Jews? I heard the Catholic church
is fighting 300 sexual abuse cases right now'.
Steven had a reply. 'Religion isn't
responsible for that, Alex, it is people, you know? Guns don't kill people,
people do, people will always find an excuse to kill each other, weather its
color of skin, or political beliefs, or even religion, I admit the Catholic
church has made some mistakes in the past, but they have atoned for that, that
was only a by product of the ignorant time they were living in, even the pope
is a human you know'.
He is a human you know, I think you blame too much on Christianity, it is just
a structure we put up to try to spread the word of god with others, and live
by the word of God ourselves, it is especially needed in these times, I mean
look at all the drugs and sex violence that is going on'.
But Jezebel had another interesting thing to say. 'But Steven, it is this vary
religion of Christianity that gives people the reason to kill abortion doctors,or
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