Mortification of the Flesh and Spirituality

Note to my rationalists and materialists friends: This is an esoteric note on occultic spirituality in which you may not be interested, and it may even seem bizarre or insane.  You were warned!

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All religious traditions have mortification of the flesh.  Too much sensory stimulation for pleasure or otherwise drowns out the sensory acuity necessary for spiritual awakening.  Spiritual awakening is a sixth organ, or a sixth sense.  This is not figurative; it is literal.  Another sensory organ develops in spiritual awakening.

Think about if you have an itch on your foot.  Then, what happens if you smash your fingers with a hammer?  Then your foot itch would go away.  A similar phenomenon happens when you see spiritual awakening.  The sensory organs can drown out the small tingling of sensation developing when your spiritual organ awakens.

There are many ways to perform the mortification of the flesh.  It is not usually meant to be destructive, but I suppose some of the flogging that happen in places like the Philippines during Lent could be damaging if the people doing it were not smart.

What are some of my favorite mortifications of the flesh?  I prefer the ones that increase health, but include a large dose of discomfort - at least at the beginning.

A cold shower is perfect.  If you are more adventurous, you can take a hot bath, and follow it with a Cold Soak in the water until you begin shivering.  Shivering is a sure sign that you have achieved mortification of the flesh!  Some guys are crazy enough to take ice baths.  I have not yet achieved that advanced level of mortification!

Long bike rides are also mortification of the flesh.  Any bike ride longer than 10 miles may fall into this category.  Boredom, pain, heat, cold, muscle aches, etc, all contribute to the mortification of the flesh, without permanent damage since bike riding increases fitness up to a point.

Fasting is a traditional mortification of the flesh during Lent and Ramadan.  It is often beneficial for purging the body of toxins, but with no permanent damage if done properly.

We are attenuating the senses in most of these cases to make the spiritual organ more sensitive so we can sense the spiritual world, and develop the spiritual organ into a higher spiritual intelligence.  But, the organ must first awaken.

The Spirit is often referred to as a Wind, since the root meaning in the ancient languages is breath or air.  This is because there is no material cause and effect relationship with Spirituality and Spiritual practices.  Sometimes we see the white light and hear symphony of the spirit world, and sometimes we do not.  The Spirit goes where it wants.  It comes to you when it is ready.

Personally, I have had exactly Two major Spiritual experiences during meditation where the Spiritual Sense organ awakened and the sensory perception was so bright my entire body was vibrating from the energy.  The first of these experiences was scary beyond all belief since I was not prepared for the experience.  The second time I was prepared.  I felt like an unworthy animal in the presence of the Spirit world, unmerited favor, as the scripture says.  But, after these experiences, there was an attenuation effect in the background of my consciousness where I can perceive sensations in the Spirit world during conscious days occasionally, but on a lower level of intensity just barely above the perception of consciousness.

This is not exactly extraordinary.  You can Google meditation experiences, and many all over the world have had similar awakening experiences.  Throughout history, many Esoteric cults and religions were centered around mystical experiences that elevated the mind to a point where the rulers and priests were expected to be "enlightened" with these experiences, which, of course, were deeper than my own described above.

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Putin or Hillary?

These words came to me this morning after reading and listening to some messages of Faith:

We people of Faith have declared an Open Revolt against the world. This is why secularists and materialists hate traditional Christians, Russians, Orthodox, Traditional Muslims, and any well established system of Faith. This is the fight within the soul of our Donald Trump: On one side of his soul the Christian Putin character fights the other Secular Hillary character . He is caught in the middle of a spiritual warfare. What goes on in Trump's soul is a reflection of where We Americans are. We can choose redemption at this point or destruction. Shall we turn our American faces toward Putin or Hillary? That is the choice we will make.

On a spiritual level, We Americans, and those foreigners who come under the American Orbit, have a choice to make.  The soul of Donald Trump is the expression of our choice.  Trump's soul is torn between the symbols of Putin and Hillary: Traditional Faith versus Secular Materialism.

Traditional Faith will sustain us for a thousand more years, but the path will be hard as we struggle to wake up from our illusions.

Secular Materialism will give us knowledge and power over the very short term, but we will be destroyed within one generation or less.

Trump's struggle is our struggle.  We in the West are watching Trump, yes, but we are also watching our own souls, as Trump makes the choice on our behalf.  Spiritually, he will make the choice we decide upon.  He is our agent in that world and is bound to us, even though he is the incarnation of a Great Spiritual power such as an Archangel or something similar.  

Choose in your soul NOW.  And, Trump and his incarnate Archangel will choose accordingly.

The time has come.  You are called this very hour to make the choice.

And may the universe and all its agents watch over us as we make the choice!

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Sons of God - We are the “Jesus” people will ever know

Sons of God

We are the “Jesus” people will ever know

God once had no hands, feet, nor heart.  He was a cold spirit in the clouds who knew little about Man he created.  Then Job cried out to him in anguish and woke up this distant spirit that created the universe.  God then walked on Earth as a Man to understand the warmth, feeling and sufferings of Man.  He bestowed gifts upon normal earthy men - these are called Charisma.  God was the most charismatic man because he brought gifts from being a god to Men.  His name meant, “The Help of Yahweh, the Anointed One.”  The transfer of these gifts from God to Man happened with the laying on of hands and hearts in the transfer of Charisma and Light from God to Man.    

Now, God has hands, feet, and a heart.  He also has eyes to see and ears to hear.  Because, God is in and through us.  We are the eyes, hands, feet, and heart of God.  We are the only “Jesus” people ever come in to contact with.  A distant spirit in the sky cannot speak to men, hear their pains and struggles, and share in their victories of conquest and warm friendship.  Spirits are cold.  Spirits are blind.  Spirits are deaf.  They can only contact us through a Person.  We who have been given the gift - the Charisma - shine the light of the Gods for our fellow creatures.

The other Revelation that comes with Charisma is that this flow of energy toward Man also goes in the opposite direction - we give God a gift also.  Through our hands, hearts and feet, God has direct contact with Man, and he can see with our eyes and hear with our ears.  Without this Charisma, the Gods are blind and deaf to Man.  They see us darkly through a stained glass, and vice versa - we see the Gods through the same veil.  

For this reason, Salvation, Nirvana, or any related State of Being, never comes through Doctrine or Argument or Scripture, or anything related to a Law or a Commandment.  It comes from the human touch.  It is a transfer of Charisma from one Man to another.  It is a sharing of Light, or Music and sound.  The voice, the hands, the style of the Charismatic Son of God are the paths through which God transfers his Presence, Power and Warmth, and vice versa - we allow God to experience our condition through ourselves.  

Without the Son of God, both Man and God are blind, without heart, and without music.  With the Son of God - we are the Sons of God, if we have the Charisma - and then the energy flows both ways and God and Man grow closer to each other in Relationship.

This is the Good News.

Explaining the United States to the Ignorant

An Ignorant American Elite

Those who are shocked by the Trump victory truly do not understand the United States.  Anyone in this category, excluding first generation immigrants and foreigners, we can call ignorant.  

So, before moving on, you will have to admit that you are an ignorant person if you are shocked by the Trump victory.  I am here to school you, because I know the United States very well.  Nobody knows the United States like I do.  Nobody is as well-read in American history as I am.  

The book you must read to understand the United States:

Albion's Seed

You cannot understand the United States without understanding this book’s premise. I will give a rough outline and explanation below.

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Four Principles of the United States:

1. The United States is composed of Four British-Seeded cultures.
2. Anyone who wishes to participate in the American system must belong to one of these Four Groups. 
3. The Four Groups of British Seeded cultures of the United States are as follows: Puritans, Southern Cavaliers, Quakers, and Scots-Irish.
4. All American politics is an argument among these Four Groups, Without any Exceptions Whatsoever.

I am not proposing an opinion here with the Four Principles, I am stating a Law of the Universe - specifically a Four Core Principles of the United States that are non-controversial and non-debatable.  

Corollaries of the Four Principles of the United States:

1. Anyone, regardless of birth or race, can become a member of any of the Four Groups by accepting and integrating into its culture and values.  (This is why anyone from anywhere in the world can become an American, by joining one of the Four Groups.)
2. Those not a member of one of the Four Groups does not participate in the American System.
3. Those not in one of the Four Groups have Zero Real Power in the United States.   
4. Those not in one of the Four Groups are not Genuinely American.  
5. Anyone with Real Power in the United States necessarily belongs to one of these Four Groups - without any exceptions.

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Presidential Examples

Presidential examples will give you a flavor of the personality type.

Donald Trump - Scots-Irish

Hillary Clinton - Puritan

Barack Obama - Quaker

George W. Bush - Puritan

Bill Clinton - Scots-Irish

George H.W. Bush - Puritan

Ronald Reagan - Scots-Irish

Jimmy Carter - Southern Cavalier

Gerald Ford - Quaker

Richard Nixon - Quaker

Lyndon Johnson - Scots-Irish

John Kennedy - Puritan

Dwight Eisenhower - Quaker

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Explanation of the Trump Victory

Anyone who knows the above deeply and with reflection will immediately recognize how Trump won the election, and what Hillary lost.  It was a battle for the hearts and minds of Quakers - Middle America, described as the pragmatic, nice, Midwesterner.  Whoever won this guy over won the election.  Why?  The Scots-Irish and the Southern Cavaliers were naturally with Trump by temperament and style.  The Puritan Yankees will NEVER accept Trump’s temperament and style.  Thus, he said, “Screw the Puritans, and I will take the other three!”

There, my friends is the explanation for the election.  Trump rallied a coalition of Scots-Irish, Souther Cavaliers, and Quakers to win.  Hillary lost the Quakers, and only retained the Puritans.  But, since the Puritans are the Faux Elites of the United States, controlling the media and the government power base, we heard their insane fantasies of an easy Hillary win up and until the vote count.  The Puritans are the only ones that are stunned because they are the Faux Elites and Faux Leaders, and suddenly, they wake up and find they do not have as much power as they thought.  Now, they are freaking out.

(Personally, I say, screw them, but that is my opinion.)

Election 2016 Notes

My prediction two days out was not magic, contrary to popular belief. I just looked at the 2012 electoral map and looked at what Romney won. I saw Ohio and Florida, and just added up the electoral votes if it went the other way - which should have been easy for a slightly stronger candidate than Romney. And that is what happened. Boring election, and boring results if you know basic math. Not even calculus or statistics.

Couple more notes. I also note that he swept the Midwest and Rust belt, except Illinois, which confirms a lot of what we chatted about for over a year: Trump is the classic working class union Democrat candidate. This has changed American politics and put Union Democrats under the same big tent as traditional Republican voters, which is an omen for the Democratic Party, if they do not come up with a strategic response. So, Trump pulled a Reagan here: pulled another demographic into the Republican ranks, which we must admit in retrospect, is quite genius because he pulled it off against all conventional wisdom. A good side effect is that this new Union working class influence in the Republican Party will attenuate the craziness of the so-called Evangelicals with more earthy common sense. The Democrats will also be seen as traitors if they pursue their conventional strategy of importing new voters. So, they will have to change their game or keep losing. This is a realignment on the order of Ronald Reagan in 1980 with the South being brought permanently into the tent. The narrative changes from the boring "liberal versus conservative" to "Local and National Interest First versus International Interest First." More respect for national uniqueness like Russia, France, China, English, Scottish, etc. And more respect for States Rights inside America, if I can guess. State uniqueness and autonomy should improve. American bullying of locals should be reduced a lot - perhaps a slashing of the CIA budget, and less American fraud and corruption in overseas elections. Politics comes closer to home rather than looking thousands of miles away at people we do not know nor care about. Bernie Sanders voters should feel more at home - not totally satisfied, but should feel left alone, more or less.

Actually, if Trump won Pennsylvania, the Democrats have been crushed as a national party. This is probably the biggest news of the night. If Trump took a Northeastern State (PA), he has entered the territory of the Democrat core, and has completely realigned politics. So, he killed the Republican Party in the primaries, and killed off the National Democrats in the General election if he took PA. This would be like Clinton winning Alabama or something like that. So, this changes the power dynamic of the last 36 years. So, look for this: The Democrats will get insane and push illegal and legal immigration (or they are dead) but this will be seen as treason at this point, so, it is not a good night to be a leftist Democrat - for the next 10 years or so, too. I did not see this coming - winning of Pennsylvania. Wow.

In conclusion, you cannot say he is crazy any longer. The guy is a freaking genius. Which is why his enemies will continue to be defeated because he rewrote the play book and they are playing by the old rule book. The guy just refuses to lose...

Earth's Vibrations in Time Lapse Beach Clips

I like this time lapse here, showing the violence and beauty of the Beaches and the clouds on a typical day that we do not sense because our human time sense is on a different frequency.

You can see the potential violence of the creation of the clouds for a storm.  The sun burns off some of the clouds at the upper end, while the water pushes moisture up to a certain level.  You can also see various bands of clouds at different levels moving in sometimes opposite directions.  Circles, vibrations, and frequencies - it is one thing to know this intellectually, but it is another to see it.  Notice how violent the shaking of the trees looks at the faster time lapse.  I assert that this is real - we cannot sense this as easily at the frequencies of minutes and seconds.  

The universe vibrates at speeds that we can barely comprehend.  We are in the conscious moment of minutes and seconds.  The other pieces of the universe vibrate at other frequencies much slower to our consciousness, but no less real and no less consequential.  I like to look at time lapse images of beaches and clouds.  This gives is a sense of the vibrations of trees, water, waves, cloud formations, and the sun flying across the sky.  When we have a nice sunny  and cool day, we think of this as relaxing and awesome - but in the time sequence of the earth, this is the bottom of a vibration that will snap back to freezing cold, night, storms, heavy clouds, etc.  The universe and the Earth is violent, when seen from another time base of say weeks, months or years.  

We are told the Creation of the Universe happened at the Big Bang.  So, objects began flying out from some origin point.  As the rocks, fire and debris got farther apart, gravity began pushing them together in circles and circular orbits around each other, if they have not already collided and formed a large spherical object already.  So rocks went around stars, and were spinning - Extreme hot facing the star, and extreme cold facing away from the star.  All kinds of gases collected together and collided and formed a large planet called Jupiter.  This giant with a large gravitational field protects the inner planets of the Solar System from many flying objects outside and inside of the Solar System.   

Earth is a womb - Mother Earth.  We have a thick atmosphere and lots of water that provide heat or thermal capacitance against the extremes of the other rocks out there in space like Mars and Venus and Mercury.  Our temperature ranges are quote mild, and thus, it can support life, which exists at or around the temperature of running water.  Now, running water temperature is rare in the universe - most things out there are extremely hot or extremely cold.  Not Earth - it is mild and somewhere in the improbable middle!   

Round and round we go, but Jupiter, our oceans and our atmosphere protects us against the more extreme elements of our universe!

Dark Night of the Soul II

Dark Night of the Soul II

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Why would anyone want anything to do with the Dark Night of the Soul?

There are a few sayings.  Pressure is what makes the diamond.  Heat is what purifies steel.  

It seems that suffering is a part of the human condition for all people.  Even the privileged and elite go through pain and turmoil between their successful ventures.  We may never see this, though, in many cases where there is a well-crafted advertising image.  

Even if things are going well, it seems that the natural progression is the necessity of adversity before cashing in on any advantage or fortune.  Furthermore, the higher one ascends, it seems like each threshold to cross before the next breakthrough has an even stiffer price to pay.

The entire universe seems to rotate at extremes.  We live on a comfortable planet protected by Jupiter from objects flying at us from outer space.  Our atmosphere provides another layer of protection as that of a womb.  But for the most part, things in the universe are either extremely hot or extremely cold.  There is no room for average or the middle.  Even on Earth, it is strange that we complain of bad weather or climate change, if that is to be believed.  However, the strange thing is our expectation.  Why should we expect normal weather?  We live in Earth womb protection under extremely unlikely conditions.  Thus, when normal things happen in the universe - burning up, freezing up, destruction, explosions, collisions - why are we so shocked?  

Thus, if we want to rise high - to escape the atmosphere of the Earth - we must increase the risk of catastrophe.  Day and night go together.  

When the ruins are cleared after a catastrophe, what is left is really strong.  When the war is over, strong men remain and take over the next age.  Those who survive the deepest sorrow rise up like the phoenix stronger than ever.