The Emperors New Clothes

What if everything in reality was naturally see thru? What if you could look at the surface layer of anything instead of see thru it? What if like in the fable The Emperors new clothes no one told those looking at surfaces that in fact everything they see is really transparent, see thru? 

Imagine a see thru reality. A cosmos where every last piece of it was completely transparent. Clothes, walls, mountains, even one's body all see thru! Nothing hidden from sight. Only those looking at surfaces not seeing thru anything they gaze upon. What if looking at surfaces an apparently opaque world appeared to exist superimposed on the see thru reality? 

What if no one spoke of the see-thru nature of everything but kept quiet about it? What if around those looking at surfaces only, everyone acted like they too could only see the surface of anything? What if reality being see-thru naturally was the best-kept secret of life? What if those seeing surfaces only, were not told about all that can be seen viewing the see thru reality? What if one could see everywhere and everything all at once in the see-thru reality if one wanted to?

 Of course that could never happen. Or could it? 

Money

 

Money. That is the subject of this week's discussion. Money is an area (be it market or state) accepted check for the exchange of goods and services between buyers and sellers. Money's value can be based on the value of the medium used be it gold, silver, diamonds, or checks redeemable for these valuable commodities. Money can be based on the value of labor where the checks are worth so much time be it at the cost of a living wage or cheap labor where a day of work does not buy a day's necessities. Money as well can be based on the value of the issuer, be it a mint, bank, or government entity.

Money that is commodity-based is usually a coin or jewel in form. The coin or jewel gets its value based on the difficulty there is in obtaining the commodity from the world around the buyer and sellers. This is a system of barter between buyers and sellers. The more difficult it is to obtain the commodity the greater its monetary value. Everything purchased is assigned a value relative to its difficulty in producing compared to the difficulty of obtaining the commodity. 

Money that is based on the value of a day or week's labor is worth the purchasing power given to the workers. Where the worker is given a cost of living wage, or paid enough to afford the necessities of life, the checks are worth their percentage of a day's needs. Where labor is treated cheaply because there are more workers than jobs, then the money is worth the percent of the market basket of necessities it provides. The market basket costs more than a daily minimum wage because many are willing to work for whatever they can buy. 

Money that is based on the credit of the issuer is a true checking account monetary system. The better credit the issuer of the checks has the more the money is worth. This is whether the credit is based on commodity reserves or a gross national product basis. The more "goods" of value the issuer possesses the greater the value of its checks.  

Money is used to speed up the barter process by making it easier to buy milk, eggs, and bread than having to exchange three different things with the seller of the eggs, the milk, and the baker of the bread. With money, an agreed-upon check in the marketplace will be enough to make all three purchases. Money simplifies the exchange of goods and services.                              

No Rule Of Thumb!

 

This week governments are our topic. Especially the laws they enact and enforce. Without any guide rule, whatever the people will bear doing without, can become against the law to possess or do. Any penalty can be imposed too that the people will allow those convicted to suffer. Entire businesses can become criminalized if the population ruled will condone it. 

Without a rule of thumb, what can a ruler decree as outlawed? What can become criminalized? What can be required by the people by penalty of law? Anything! A lawgiver has carte blanche when it comes to making rules where there is no guide rule. Even eating eggs can be criminalized. Selling eggs could be a major crime with a task force to look into it. Isn't that what happened during the prohibition of alcohol. An entire industry was outlawed to protect the people from the horrors of alcohol consumption. Public nudity, gambling, drugs, and sexual services are all likewise prohibited to protect the people, granting crime very profitable businesses to indulge in. 

What is the penalty for eating eggs in our hypothetical example? Anything the ruler thinks people will allow. If the king decrees execution shall be the penalty for selling eggs and 25 to life the sentence for eating eggs that would be similar to current thinking about the drug laws. People get locked up every day for choosing to get high instead of getting drunk. Drug dealers are treated like public enemies! In the name of God obey the king...

Is this too hard to see? Is it beyond understanding that the religions outlawed sex outside marriage, and nudity, and taught obedience to local rulers who then outlawed things as vice that they did not want the people free to indulge in? What is even harder to remember is the people were illiterate peasants when this was done. When will the people say enough is enough. Get the golden rule to be harmless as the guide in lawmaking. No more edicts, decrees, or simple majority rules!

Happy New Year!

 

Happy New Year! Today we shall contemplate in the name of god being played the ultimate Simon Says game. What has history bourne us in the name of god? What do the sacred texts say? A mating game forbidding carnal knowledge with family, friends, or even several acts with one's spouse. A legal game pronouncing the penalty of hell for several identified offenses. A lifestyle of labor if you want to be worthy to eat in community. Simon Says to stick to breeding with your spouse, obey or go to hell, and work until you are dead. In the name of God of course.

So mate with your spouse no more, no less. No knowledge. No family sex. Definitely no sex with friends. Family members should not even see each other naked! Why not? God says. That is what history reports. No exploring postures or sex acts with your spouse. Just breeding acts. No contraception either. Make babies. The goal of sex or marriage is to mate and make children. Why listen to this sex guide? The legal game.

The legal game in the name of god says violaters of god's law will be sent to hell. Disobey Simon in Simon Says and you are out of the game. Disobey god and you go to hell! No other purging of offenders will do. No wholesome penalty was presented. God created us so can do as he pleases with us. He can even send us to hell for not playing his game by his rules. Tyrant. Mean bastard. Self-appointed judge and jury. Call it what you would.

Work, work, work. That is our instruction for life besides mate and obey or else. No creating and enjoying sharing creations. No abundance of conjuring from one's mind's eye all one wants or needs. No miracle multiplying of loaves and fish to fill the world with food. Just go to work or you are unworthy to eat. Not working as long as you live means you are a no-good lazy bum. It is the curse of god on us for the first disobedient couple we are descendants of. The good book says so. 

That is the sacred texts report. Mating games, legal codes, and descriptions of hell may vary by the specific sacred text but that is the Simon Says games in the name of god played with gullible humanity. Whether played by god or priests serving themselves a religion to promote in god's name who knows? God of course is the creator who can do as he pleases with his creations all these religions teach. 

 

Imagine!

 

Imagine. Imagine we live in an infinite mind. Imagine God came into his creation some two thousand years ago. Imagine when we appear to die we are only beginning our eternal lives. I will help you imagine these in the following discussion. I will be your guide to imagine a world of creation and beginnings. A world with a living god.

Imagine a mind as huge as all outer space. Infinite. Filling everywhere inside it and everything existing inside it. A mind that creates universes by visualization with its all-seeing eye. A mind where we are as thoughts that are formed into ideas. In this mind, there exists no secrets, no hidden places, but everything is in plain sight. A mind where we form a vision body given free will so we can interact with our host. 

Imagine God walked among his created beings and entered his creation. Came preaching forgiveness and bearing gifts. Came to reconcile us to him. Died to show us out of his love that he lives forever and that there is life after death. Entered into his vision in an avatar both human and divine, worked wonders and made a lasting impact on our way of life.

Imagine a mortal life only leads to a doorway called death that really is the beginning of eternal life. Imagine death is only a rebirth to an immortal. Imagine in creation all lives are sacred sharing a divine potential and everything is recycled for new family society members. No stone, twig, or grain of sand is omitted from the harvest of eternal life potentials. Everything and everyone is welcome into the land of plenty. No sin unpurgeable for. Nothing disqualifies anyone from the family life membership in eternal Heaven.

Imagine. Now it is your turn. Follow this train of thought. Imagine a living god that creates scenes by visualization. Imagine everything God creates sharing divine life potentials. Imagine living forever in Heaven. 

House of Knowledge

 

I am sorry I missed Sunday. This time, we will discuss religions and magic versus houses of knowledge. Religions, at their best, take us back to creation and a living god creator and teach us to give thanks and supplications of for our needs. Magic, on the other hand teaches us how to do for ourselves things we may consider beyond our abilities as people. Houses of knowledge teach us about creation, God, and our spiritual gifts.

When one joins a religion, belief may be an important part of the introduction to the traditions and teachings of the faith. The belief there is a God. The belief God created the world you live in. The belief that God cares about you. You may also be asked to believe that the religion you are joining is the correct religion among the competing faiths. You may even be asked to believe in a divine book of revelations about God and his relationship with creation.

Magic schools do not ask for so much belief. They teach rituals, charms, and practices passed along to aid the magician in getting things done supernaturally. Such as healing illnesses, getting visions, and walking about in a spiritual body. You may have to suspend the disbelief you have learned that magic is not real and any results you get from magic acts are merely coincidences or worse imaginary. Yet some magic schools teach results are what matters.

Houses of knowledge do not find belief as relevant as getting a grip on the facts that infinity is alive, and a naturally formed mind and God that creates scenes by visualization with its all-seeing eye. That is the basic lesson to be learned. Everything in infinity except infinite space is creation and we are living in a specific creation are further lessons. Getting in touch with God and receiving our gifts is another lesson. No belief is required when the lessons are presented with their supporting information.

You have choices between religions and magic schools but there is only one house of infinite knowledge possible throughout reality. There is one infinity. Everything, and everywhere, and everyone is inside of it. Learn about infinity and its natural mind behind the appearances of daily life which is a vision scene in the all-seeing eye of God.

Old Testament Guidance

 

In the Old Testament of the Bible, in the books of Proverbs, Jeremiah, and Micah, you will find a trustworthy guide through scripture, religion, and life. The book of Proverbs teaches us not to believe everything! Instead, we are told to seek the wise to learn from. The book of Jeremiah is a book of prophecy, but it does ring out a warning to all who carefully read it that God will lay stumbling blocks and snares. In Micah, we find the best guide for our relationship with God. What does he want from us but mercy, justice, and humility.

Proverbs repeatedly teach differences between fools and the wise. It is worth reading just for these quotes alone. It also is a milestone of faith that teaches us not to believe everything! We are to think and judge what is true and find our guide for belief therein. If you believe everything you are taught, you have not read Proverbs. 

Amid Jeremiah's prophecies, there is one that stands out as a milestone of faith. A warning from God. I will lay stumbling blocks and snares so father and son, friend and neighbor shall perish, the prophet reports. With this warning and Proverbs saying not to believe everything you know I will not just follow the leader but will seek to see and know and hear and know what I experience. I will try to understand the Bible and traditions and dogma but I will not blindly follow or have blind belief. I will know what I can and pray about the rest.

In Micah, another Old Testament book of prophecy, it is asked what does God want from us? Then, the question is answered all too easily to believe that God wants us to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with him in our lives. Of course, pray about it. Do not blindly believe it just because it is in the Bible. God is a living being and can make clear what he wants from us if we are willing to seek him. Do not give up! It may be a trial of faith to continue in prayer when all you get is silence for a reply, but remember Job went through for worse for his faith. 

So Proverbs, Jeremiah, and Micah are all milestones of faith containing books of the Old Testament in my eyes. I hope I have made clear to you why in this composition. Yet do not take my word about it, pray. I worship a living, invisible, infinite God that can do wonders when he is moved. Pray and do not cease praying. Martyrs have kept their faith even to the trial of death for it.