I had occasion recently to reflect on the differences between the academic world as I knew it when I left it in 1987, after my vision of the purpose of life, (1) and my own perspective, as it had been informed up to that time by experiences, reading, travel, etc. Most of us alive […]
I’m not a Dreamer. I’m a Realist
Woo-woo I wrote an article intended for “global” consumption and quoted Matthew Ward in it. I immediately felt a cold chill go through my body. Matthew Ward? Isn’t he a spook? You talking to spooks? I’d just opened myself to the charge of being woo-woo. Remember that one? I’ve allowed myself to be led around […]
The Human Process
I once suggested that the human process was “I needa to bea; I gotta but it’s notta.” (1) I still hold to that formula. The longing for liberation, which I’ve discussed elsewhere, (2) leaves us wanting, hankering at a low level of vibration: I needa to bea. We try to fill it with houses and […]
Welcoming the Divine Back into Our Lives
There are a lot of people out there who are going to be facing a need to change their minds on matters that go right to the core of identity. Let me focus on one example here. Most people adhere, without knowing it, to a paradigm called “empirical materialism.” In a nutshell, what that philosophy […]
A Pitch for the Center
It somehow feels right to make a heartfelt pitch for the political center round about now. To do that, I have to combine spirituality with politics. Politics has gotten a bad rap. Originally, say, in Greek city states, politics (1) grew up to organize and give expression to popular opinion by voting on the leaders […]
Life on the Frontiers of Knowledge: There will be Time – Part 1
Readers of (credible) channeled material are operating on the frontiers of knowledge. SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) may listen for beeps and clicks. But you and I can read Matthew Ward, Ashtar, Ashira, etc. as well as Archangel Michael and the Divine Mother. Do you want to know if there is extraterrestrial life? The […]
Not Shouting from the Rooftops
How do we use the information we’re privy to? Do I just shout out that, according to Matthew Ward, Vladmir Putin was assassinated by the Deep State a year or so ago? (1) How will that forward the action? Could it destabilize things even further and greatly increase the chances of war? We know neither […]
Global Truth and Spiritual Anthropology
Ever since early adulthood, I’ve always had an interest in matters at what social scientists call the evolutionary or developmental level. So not the personal, the selfie. Not even the photo album. But the nation, the religion, the global level. And not as individuals on the global level, but truly the whole community. The human […]
Madness … Spiritually Speaking
I want to continue with a contemplation I began earlier. (1) You know, I really think that we have … well, what am I saying? Our sources have been telling us this … a mixed-up view of things. Like about what’s important in life? I found myself looking outward for validation when suddenly I felt […]
Out With Predatory Capitalism, In With a “Life Economy”
Out With Predatory Capitalism, In With a “Life Economy” John Perkins, Yes! Magazine, Sept. 16, 2020 (https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2020/09/16/pandemic-capitalism-life-economy/) The long march of hierarchical and colonial history has led us to this moment of awareness. We are learning that the melting glaciers, coronavirus pandemic, species extinctions, racial and income inequality, political turmoil, and other heart-wrenching events are […]
Adding Empirical Materialism to Social Darwinism (Repost)
Social Darwinism and empirical materialism come paired together. Restricting our vision to only what we can see, hear, touch, etc., rules out such things as the existence of God, the celestials, the invisible galactics, the Divine Plan, the universal laws, etc. I found the paradigm confining when I was in university and finally left to […]
Looking at Values for a New World
Rather than follow a lead that seems to be taking our reportage, prior to the election, into more and more extremes, I’d like to explore a different direction. That direction is into laying the foundations for Nova Earth. I’ve never done such a thing so every mile will be in uncharted waters. Somehow we have […]
Adding Empirical Materialism to Social Darwinism
Yesterday, we looked at social Darwinism as a philosophy that justified racial supremacy and elitism. Today I’d like to look at a second philosophy that keeps the sources of help and comfort hidden from people at large. That philosophy is called empirical materialism. Webster’s defines “empirical” as “originating in or based on observation or experience.” […]
Human Rights and Spiritual Realities
Ever since the Scientific Revolution wrested the public’s attention from flawed religious doctrines, the world has seen life through a paradigm called “empirical materialism.” That paradigm holds that only what can be seen, heard, touched, and felt is real. Anything invisible, insensible, untouchable is dismissed as unreal. It closes the door to such things as […]