My today's title is Glenn Beck's thought, only my thought is quite different than Glenn’s. Whatever works. Glenn is informative, but behind the curve.
I've been retired and government entitled 23 years. I was productive 38 years. The ratio of work to retirement, tells us why America is going bankrupt. The system is whacko, a political nightmare. We are living in the past and nobody can do a thing about it. Unbelievable! The least I can do is to let taxpayers know what years of retirement contemplation have done. Better that we look within for our answers. I'm repeating what Jesus advised, at least the way I read the scriptures. The choice is yours. Listen to your own heart, or the recognized authorities and face the grim consequences.
America's Constitution was written by men who professed a belief in natural law and nature's god, which Glenn interprets as the judo-Christian belief. I don’t think so. Yesterday, Glenn spoke of an authoritarian past that would make Hitler look like a rookie. He told his vast audience that two days before Columbus set sail, Spain purged itself of Jews. I wondered why he didn't mention the Holy Catholic Church’s Inquisition, which was in full swing, the authoritarian idea that out of fear of the consequences you will do as ordered. Christians believe we are born in sin and until we confess and ask for God’s grace we are assured of eternal damnation. It’s a money maker. The authorities sell indulgences. Glenn informed us about Genghis Kahn. He killed a whole town to let the next town know what to expect. It worked so well that people many generations later still remembered, no matter what, to let authority have its way. When Christ was crucified everyone at least tacitly agreed it was the right thing to do. Jesus said before the cock crowed his disciples would deny him three times.
My transition began when I was age 49, when I was at rock bottom. My Christian belief had held me captive. When Glenn was at rock bottom he reunited with his Mormon faith. When I was at rock bottom I studied America’s Constitution and felt that voices of the past were speaking to me. I had a bigger than life calling. I don’t confine my belief in God to religious doctrines or dogmas. I believe like the author of The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, in natural law and nature’s god, without reference to supernatural revelation. I believe that God is in everyone at birth; we are not born in sin. There is no need to confess. God loves us all. We should not fear eternal damnation. My way of thinking allowed me to depart my old life and enter an unknown fate without fear. I was free to rediscover myself, my real self. Enter “natural man, the enemy of god.” At one point, I was locked out of my home, thanks to the IRS. Faith in myself stopped me from caving in. In the end, I won big. Did Glenn look to his Mormon faith when he pulled himself up from the depths of despair, or did he believe in himself and God? Let Glenn believe what he wants. Let me believe what I want. Both of us succeeded.
Glenn is highly concerned over the fate of Israel. Toward the end of the Old Testament, Habakkuk cried out to the Lord. “Oh Lord, how long shall I cry and thou will not hear! even cry out to thee of violence, and thou will not save!” Habakkuk’s cry was the story of the Jewish religion, the story even to this very day. That story ended with the coming of Jesus with his idea of a God of love—by no means authoritarian. Jesus gave us the kingdom of God, an empowering internal God. One can look within, find his own answers. That’s exactly what I did. I listened to voices of the past, those who had experienced the suffering of the authoritarian world Glenn talked about. They were my spiritual guides.
Glenn’s reward has been great. My reward has been great. What I believe saved me was the “Higher Law,” the background of American constitutional law. Glenn is a Mormon. I’m a secular humanist, without reference to supernatural revelation. I’m for human values that place the individual in the driver’s seat, the bane of authorities of all stripes.
Glenn has his list of books to read, I have mine. With respect to Jesus’ statement in the Lord’s Prayer, in earth as it is in heaven, I offer Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas. On the back cover we read, “Richard Tarnas demonstrates the existence of an astonishingly consistent correspondence between the planetary alignments and the archetypal patterns of human history and biography.” He’s talking about those voices from the past I’ve above mentioned. “Based on 30 years of meticulous research, this brilliant book points to a radical change in our understanding of the cosmos, shining new light and on our own critical age. It opens a new cosmic horizon that reunites science and religion, intellect and soul, modern reason and ancient wisdom.”
With respect to the reunification of science and religion, In The Physics of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life by Evan Harris Walker, we read, under “A God for Tomorrow,” “it has only been with the advent of quantum theory that we have discovered proof that we exist as something more than pieces of matter.” Glenn never offers or supports the books I read. Scientific proof of God and the reuniting of science and religion is not in Glenn’s scope of knowledge. He’s not up to speed.
“In the development of quantum theory, the observer emerges as a co-equal in the foundry of creation. . . The tests of Bell’s theorem have shown us that objective reality as it has been conceived is not the true fabric of reality. The observer interacts with matter. Consciousness, the substance of this newfound reality that defines the observer, has fundamental existence. It is the quantum mind that is the basic reality.”
For the first time, science has used its instruments to fit existence into the overall tapestry of reality, and to understand mind as including conscious experience and will. Faith is not blind faith. “In my father’s house there are many mansions.” The progressive order of the universe leaves us with increasing purpose. The religious are reactive, as are liberals with their senseless ideas of progressive government. For the past century, believing she is invincible, America has been living in progressive La La Land. Time to grow up.
I invite you to read the comments in http://www.mymiraclemessage.com/?p=75. In four months, mymiraclemessage.com, as of today, has received 9,743 comments from all over the world, in fact more comments from foreigners than from my own American people. Is that not a change? Hellfire and damnation is out. Jesus said we are our brother’s keeper. It applies to all of us, including Muslims, Jews, Christians, and even atheists. The comments I’m receiving wonder why they didn’t see that. I’m saying no more and no less than what Jesus said. I can see authority taking a back seat to one on one love for our fellow human beings. We will not have enemies. Authorities will become functionaries. We will all live in peace and prosperity.
Welcome to the Age of Aquarius, an age when we spill out to our fellow humans the life force and spiritual energy. We Aquarians do not tolerate hypocrisy. We operate as equals among equals. We are independent because our security comes from being innovative—knowing where the fruit grows and where the spotlight can hit. Jesus advised not to hide your light under a bushel. When you know what I know, you will be receiving comments like I’m receiving at mymiraclemessage.com.
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