We need to f****** be really really clear about virtually all prior attempts at communities that were highly moral, sustainable, and created really joyful moral Souls. Many have tried and virtually all have failed. You and I {Dave?} discussed several weeks ago I believe my understanding that denial of self worked for Gandhi but it is massively suboptimal. Maybe I had that conversation with someone else. We are not designed to be primarily creatures of avoidance. It becomes a fetish. This is the problem with religion. It tells us what not to do as we practice it. We don't work like that. We have to fill ourselves. When we don't fill ourselves with the right stuff we try to fill ourselves with the wrong stuff. We are essentially creatures of greed but in this culture unenlightened agreed, ignorant greed, mistaken greed. All hope depends upon being creatures of enlightened agreed, learning the Exquisite superiority of the experience of Joy, which comes only from selfless devotion to creation, and the comprable grotesque inferiority of pleasure, intoxication. Forever people have sought to set up intentional communities, to be moral, and they have all failed for the reason I have just vaguely outlined. I'm certain of this. I'm not trying to gain your agreement but I definitely hope you hear what I'm saying. The great athlete in any sport does not become so by avoiding television, by avoiding being lazy, by avoiding time spent away from training. With few if any exceptions they learn to love the sport, to love the pursuit, to Greeley have that Pursuit take over their lives. And the work you and I are talking about must be understood as the work of trying to save the few individual souls in the world that can be saved, in the same way the few seeds that fall in this desert might be cultivated to Life. By whatever words. Communities, practices, associations, must all every single breath be devoted to that end and yet always groups that set out in this direction lose sight of that, their own growth becomes the purpose, and it becomes one big circle jerk. Always. A fetish. A club. Spiritual masturbation. We don't have time to do this again. The work of the soul, the DNA given soul, of a plant, a mouse, and elephant, or human, the soul is devoted to the well-being of the collective. Not so the head and flesh. Everything depends upon rediscovering the taste for joy and thereby developing our skill to keep the soul in charge for the joy that it generates and keeping, for the greed of it, the head and the flesh under the control of soul. This has been my fuel, my rock, for 15 years now, and with different words it is the same with all of the few individuals throughout history that I Revere.
1.03.2018
Important note. Start loving is tattooed on my forehead and wage love on my cheeks. 2007. This was correct, in the correct direction, and I'm glad of it every breath, but it needs Improvement, the direction, the idea. And the Improvement is along the lines.....
Important note. Start loving is tattooed on my forehead and wage love on my cheeks. 2007. This was correct, in the correct direction, and I'm glad of it every breath, but it needs Improvement, the direction, the idea. And the Improvement is along the lines...... of soul and more particularly I think Pitirim Sorokin's concept of a Supra consciousness. The 80% of the nervous system that Einstein said we don't use but we can learn to tune into, conscience, innate morality, empathy, compassion, wisdom, vision.... if by heart or loving that is what is understood than the words on my face are adequate. All joy for the individual and hope for the world depends upon each individual placing their heart, Supra Consciousness, in charge each breath, with the mind and flesh instruments thereof. By the way, each breath that any individual does this they experience what it would be like to be United with the Divine, the ultimate Human Experience, creators rain, unconditional loving. Each breath therefore is heaven, the ultimate Human Experience. This is what Jesus knew.
Were I 25 years old, and had the choice I might devote myself to the study that Tolstoy undertook, the original Greek gospels and the ethics they're in.. But I'm 66 and there's no time. I've read......
Were I 25 years old, and had the choice I might devote myself to the study that Tolstoy undertook, the original Greek gospels and the ethics they're in.. But I'm 66 and there's no time. I've read his important works on the subject, the kingdom of God is within you that created Gandhi, the law of love and the law of violence that largely created King, the root work of it all the gospel in brief which I've read many times and I'm rereading again and again. Also his confession, what I believe, I hope to find his analysis of the Gospels. I'm interested in Jesus, and now I discover the original Christian ethicists as well, for the same reason that if I were interested in physics I would want to understand everything that Einstein had understood about physics. I think the Tolstoy given the little time we all have, Tolstoy is probably our best window. As I've said often, and I think to you, adulthood taught me early on that in critical situations I needed to look first at those that were showing promising results and when I found such individuals only then be interested in what they had to say. We typically do the reverse and waste our lives doing so. Tolstoy's writings created King and Gandhi. That's pretty good indication for me that I need to understand what he understood.
I'm pretty sure that those who have come to the most full sustainable Humanity the majority were inspired by Jesus and early Christian moral thinking. My study.....
I'm pretty sure that those who have come to the most full sustainable Humanity the majority were inspired by Jesus and early Christian moral thinking. My study..... these recent days have been to get to the original words of Jesus which are actually much more spare than I thought. And the words that have inspired Tolstoy Gandhi King Schweitzer and others many are from early Christian followers to my surprise, but that's okay. It would have been easier if all of that came from Jesus as a way of communicating to a larger group. But it is not so. One of the greatest intellect's of all time, Leo Tolstoy, spent the last 40 Years of his life entirely understanding, studying, embracing, and putting in his life what he learned from the original ethics of Christianity. He detested the church by the way. He had zero interest in Miracles Etc. To my surprise but gratitude I expect now to be diving in deep again into Tolstoy's writings. When internet access is strong I expect to be putting up an archive in a Google drive folder that I will make accessible to some people including the materials I'm studying.
Pope Francis. Forget life's useless baggage. Work for peace.
Pope Francis. Forget life's useless baggage.
You are a soul, that has a body. Moral, spiritual, emotional, mental health can be achieved by deeply living this. All of the preventable problems in the world including the destruction of everything decent now, are a consequence of not doing this.
You are a soul, that has a body. Moral, spiritual, emotional, mental health can be achieved by deeply living this. All of the preventable problems in the world including the destruction of everything decent now, are a consequence of not doing this.
1.01.2018
Joshua Tree. Near Zero Internet. Broken motor. Friends assisting. deep in study of the ethics of Jesus, informed by Jesus seminar, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy. Honest, serious, important question for us: If instead of feverishly building stuff these last two thousand years, we had been feverishly building our human capacity for extreme morality, would we be in a different place right now? Now that everything is imploding, isn't it time to redirect our Energies? Everything material is lost now, But there are certain spiritual opportunities.
Joshua Tree. Near Zero Internet. Broken motor. Friends assisting. deep in study of the ethics of Jesus, informed by Jesus seminar, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy. Honest, serious, important question for us: If instead of feverishly building stuff these last two thousand years, we had been feverishly building our human capacity for extreme morality, would we be in a different place right now? Now that everything is imploding, isn't it time to redirect our Energies? Everything material is lost now, But there are certain spiritual opportunities.
12.30.2017
Very important exchange with a beloved brother who is also a Jehovah's Witness, met many years ago at my vigil at the White House. He wrote: Good morning my friend. You are likely aware of all of this but I thought of you when I watched.....
Very important exchange where they beloved brother who is also a Jehovah's Witness, met many years ago at my vigil at the White House. He wrote:
Good morning my friend.
You are likely aware of all of this but I thought of you when I watched this video from Aljazeer.
Ironically JWs in Russia are officially banned again, this time as "extremist." For decades under the KGB days, they were banned because they were considered "pacifists." Even the New World Translation of the Bible now has been officially banned as "extremist literature." As well as the child's story book, "My book of Bible stories." The world is completely upside down.
http://www.aljazeera.com/progr ammes/peopleandpower/2017/10/ russia-orthodox-connection- 171017140019859.html
You recently asked in one of your posts, "Creator, what have I done wrong?" The answer that I would give to you if I was the Creator is, "You have done nothing wrong with the information that you have. You just have not considered all the options." But what do I know?
If you start with the wrong premise, you will never come to the right conclusions. That is just simple mathematics.
Your heart/consciousness/love/humanity is still driving you after all these years. Your battle is against something bigger than you and I but the answer to your question is there. You are just missing the same piece of the puzzle that you were missing years ago, when we first met.
No matter what my friend, I am at your side.
I reply:
LOL, and I am at your side. What I'm about to say is not Tit for Tat. Last night you were on my mind and only this morning did I see your email.
You were on my mind as Creator gave me a great gift of clarity. I have been in the desert many days now doing my best to get closer to the teachings and example of the historical Jesus. My heart, that of Creator in me, is my primary guide but I am also informed by the scholarly work of the Jesus seminar and of that extraordinary creation of crater, Leo Tolstoy in his writings on what he found in his translation of the Greek gospel.
Sometime probably today I will provide a update, maybe a video, of the clarity that is being given me.
Your sadness for me and what I am not seeing all these years, is reciprocal of the sadness I feel out of love for you in the truth that you are not seeing.
But before I go on let me say, I do find it a substantial validation by creator that you and your religious group are being discriminated against by the Russian Empire. Respect. And probably gratitude.
you may not be glad to know that the revelations of the last few days, the sharpening of my many years understanding now on which I have lived, was very much in the opposite direction of what you would want. It is that his life an example, and even that of some of his followers that wrote much of the ethics of the Gospels, their entire religion, 100% of their religion, was the Imperial rule of the heart within man, the Creator, the piece of the spirit of Creator, placed in all of us at our birth. The rule of heart over Flash and head. That's it. Jesus religion, and mine, was loving creator and our fellow creatures with our whole heart mind and soul. That's it. And what else could we possibly need?
Out of respect, that last is a rhetorical question.
More later. Hugs to you both. James
PS. There was much tongue-in-cheek when I asked Creator, what am I doing wrong? And great humility I think the Creator is quite pleased With my walk. I think the Jesus is quite pleased with my walk. I also expect to be writing unless surprised at my deep affection for the occasional tree or bush that I see growing out of a rock or out of a huge mountain of Boulders here in the desert. Popular meme from typically fairly affluent westerners, certainly in business, of the flower growing through concrete, makes my blood boil. The concrete is a consequence of the apathy of those with resources, the selfishness and hoarding of those with resources. Makes my blood boil.
But as my acceptance that material Armageddon unstoppably is on a folding becomes more acute, seemingly final Within Me, I now with much greater Clarity Sees at what I'm called to try and do, and that what Jesus felt he was called to try and do, was to find that seed in the midst of the desert but he might help have life.
Again, hugs
PPS. If there is much of love, creator, in and through your religious organization, and I think there is, as evidenced by Russia's Crackdown on you all, if there is that love, Jesus religion, then I will acknowledge that for some set of the population, your fellow religionists, having the edifice as you see it through the lens of JW, helps you, that set of the population do that. If that's what's going on I have no objection. It is not my way. It was not Jesus way. But loving, Imperial rule of the heart over / Flash and head, is the way, and if your conception helps you and your fellows do that, I am only glad.
12.27.2017
Bible. Luke 12:18-24 [18]And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. [19]And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. [20]But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? [21]So is he.....
Bible. Luke 12:18-24 [18]And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. [19]And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. [20]But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? [21]So is he.... that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. [22]And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. [23]The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. [24]Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Video log. a horrible, important, and enlightening nightmare. My lifelong travels with sociopaths.
12.26.2017
My fellow liberal-minded friends. Where is it written that Superior education, even Superior contribution objectively, entitles one to more resources than our neediest sisters and brothers in creation? Which cell in the healthy body, be it brain, eye, skin, hair, is entitled to more than just the resources needed for its work? What work? Serving the well-being of the whole.
My fellow liberal-minded friends. Where is it written that Superior education, even Superior contribution objectively, entitles one to more resources than our neediest sisters and brothers in creation? Which cell in the healthy body, be it brain, eye, skin, hair, is entitled to more than just the resources needed for its work? What work? Serving the well-being of the whole.
Inerrancy of the Bible? 1. explain to me once again how not one of the thousands and thousands of hands controlling tens of thousands of words not one operated except under the total control of your God. 2. Remind me how you know this to be absolutely 100% completely true? Thank you. James
Inerrancy of the Bible? 1. explain to me once again how not one of the thousands and thousands of hands controlling tens of thousands of words not one operated except under the total control of your God. 2. Remind me how you know this to be absolutely 100% completely true? Thank you. James
Take your ridicule of the right and shove it I say to my fellow liberal minded friends. Many of them are drowning, most of you are not. Yet you deride them for not taking on more when you take on almost nothing of significant personal cost. Stop your ugly destructive hypocrisy.
Take your ridicule of the right and shove it I say to my fellow liberal minded friends. Many of them are drowning, most of you are not. Yet you deride them for not taking on more when you take on almost nothing of significant personal cost. Stop your ugly destructive hypocrisy.
12.25.2017
Creators Christmas gift to me. It is shared with you. Christmas number 66. 9 years ago receiving the makings for this gift. But just this morning, freezing in....
Creators Christmas gift to me. It is shared with you. Christmas number 66. 9 years ago receiving the makings for this gift. But just this morning, freezing in..... sweat climbing up to Joshua Tree, creator put it together for me and put a bow on it. How hateful, how sickening, how cruel and sad, if Jesus came to taunt us. What? On the one hand to tell us that we are Spirit, on the other hand to participate in worshipping, enslaving ourselves to intoxications, Comfort, flesh. That Creator, and creators number one son, are cruel in this way has been rejected by my soul forever. Will be rejected by my soul forever. But what of the miracle healings the the Miracles even Jesus seminar say are true of the man Jesus? Just psycho somatic? Hard for me to understand based on my life experience. The makings given to me not many years ago as to why was the loading of torturous deadly social diseasesheaped on people of the day by their version of today's Abomination, the church, organized religion. People completely cut off from society for having flaking skin. completely cut off from society, the ultimate psychological torture, for behaving in unattractive ways. The person at the pool waiting for someone to carry him in is waiting for some hideous Church ritual to be fulfilling so he could rejoin Society, I finally see this morning. Jesus said, f*** that man. You were born a child of kreator stand up and receive your inheritance.
12.24.2017
Update, plan. Sol, The vehicle, electrical system seems to have been stabilized. It is wounded but........
Update, plan. Sol, The vehicle, electrical system seems to have been stabilized. It is wounded but I think stable enough to commence a 12 mile, 1700 foot climb back into Joshua Tree Park, Hidden Valley Campground being the target. It is $7 a night and reasonably quiet. The plan is to spend much of the week there attempting to more deeply master the historical Jesus, his teaching, ethics, and actions. This guided and informed by the work of the Jesus seminar which points to his actual words, a relatively small subset, of the four popular Gospels. And also deep study of Leo Tolstoy translation of the original Greek Gospels. This in anticipation of a journey my body dreads through the hate drenched southern states of this country to commence the following week. Much or all of the following week is likely to be offline.
Jesus lived fighting Empire. Christmas is a central element thereof. Hence I don't celebrate it.
Jesus lived fighting Empire.
Christmas
is a central element thereof.
Hence I don't celebrate it.
At the moment I can think of nothing nicer that has ever been spoken to me. This from a high school friend......
At the moment I can think of nothing nicer that has ever been spoken to me. This from a high school friend that I barely remember but we have been closed through Facebook in recent years. "IF your health or whatever! is not working for your journey...during your journey..I will always be available to come get you. No matter where you are. You have a safe place forever on this stupid planet-depend on it."
Houston, Santa, what the hell is the deal here? Is there such a thing as negative Christmas present? Coal on steroids? I'm back out in the middle of nowhere planning to head further into nowhere tomorrow morning and The Marvelous electrical system in this vehicle, the control mechanism, is rapidly disintegrating in its performance. Like a cell phone or laptop going through death throes. That could involve a crushing or killing expense. Creator, what have I done wrong?
Houston, Santa, what the hell is the deal here? Is there such a thing as negative Christmas present? Coal on steroids? I'm back out in the middle of nowhere planning to head further into nowhere tomorrow morning and The Marvelous electrical system in this vehicle, the control mechanism, is rapidly disintegrating in its performance. Like a cell phone or laptop going through death throes. That could involve a crushing or killing expense. Creator, what have I done wrong?
12.22.2017
Am I anti-semitic to observe that the most godly people on Earth are those like Gideon Levy, Norman Finkelstein, Amira Hass, Ilan pappe, Noam Chomsky? And the most satanic those like Netanyahu, Weinstein, Wasserman Schultz, Sheldon Adelson...?
Am I anti-semitic to observe that the most godly people on Earth are those like Gideon Levy, Norman Finkelstein, Amira Hass, Ilan pappe, Noam Chomsky? And the most satanic those like Netanyahu, Weinstein, Wasserman Schultz, Sheldon Adelson...?
Being good in the world has come to me in recent weeks as North on the compass.
Being good in the world has come to me in recent weeks as North on the compass.
Every Penny you spend on other than absolute need is accurate measure of how little you value the life of others.
Every Penny you spend on other than absolute need is accurate measure of how little you value the life of others.
Video update. Health greatly improved, for the moment at least. Returning to the desert.
12.21.2017
More time in the desert. I am quite certain that more deeply and effectively channeling the goodness that the man Jesus channeled is how I'm called to serve. No, I......
More time in the desert. I'm quite certain that more deeply and effectively channeling the goodness that the man Jesus channeled is how I'm called to serve. No, I...... don't know just what that means and certainly not just what form it will take. Traveling, being, teaching, I suspect are a big part of it. Being good in the world. Not good when it's convenient. Not good when it's safe. Not good when it's comfortable. Not good when it's popular. Good because that's what's needed and that's the ultimate rewarding existence. Much study of the man Jesus and the scholarship pertinent to has been undertaken by me in the last 15 years. What I'm called to do requires doing this more deeply and extensively now. I suspect that this calls me into the cold chilly Wendy desert for much of the next week. Back to Joshua Tree I suspect. My body is not particularly happy about this. Cold, windy, inhospitable, Barron. But my soul finds some gladness in it. I expect the journey will take place early tomorrow morning with arrival late tomorrow. Much or all of the next week is likely to be offline in study.
Electrolyte deficit maybe central to the debilitating symptoms of fatigue Headache nausea fatigue fatigue recent weeks. Electrolyte supplements had fallen out of my routine.
Electrolyte deficit maybe central to the debilitating symptoms of fatigue Headache nausea fatigue fatigue recent weeks. Electrolyte supplements had fallen out of my routine.
The left citizens are oblivious that this train is headed toward fascist death camps for them unless they stop it, now.
The left citizens are oblivious that this train is headed toward fascist death camps for them unless they stop it, now.
The church is an instrument of rich people to replace Jesus teaching with justification of their selfishness. Almost no exceptions. Since day one. Malice, intentionality, forethought, is not a requirement in any of this.
The church is an instrument of rich people to replace Jesus teaching with justification of their selfishness. Almost no exceptions. Since day one. Malice, intentionality, forethought, is not a requirement in any of this.
Gospel in brief, hapgood translation. Tolstoy desperately wanted to know the ethics of Jesus the man. It was clear to him he was getting nothing but corruption from the church teachings. So he went to the original Greek Gospels. In this darkest of times who can afford not to know what he found?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HHM3AOW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
The Gospel of Jesus: According to the Jesus Seminar https://www.amazon.com/dp/0944344747/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_gvapAbZXF2GJ3. Liars, Hippocrates, deceivers, delusional, those that claim to love Jesus yet care not to know the actual man. In this darkest of times at the end of everything I am seeking light in this man as did Schweitzer, Gandhi, King, Tolstoy, Einstein. How can anyone not? This is one of the sources I am studying again. How can you not if you care about anything?
The Gospel of Jesus: According to the Jesus Seminar https://www.amazon.com/dp/0944344747/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_gvapAbZXF2GJ3