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LAND OF THE DEAD
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In the fanciful world of the Pirates of The Caribbean films, the living and the dead sail the same seas together — one above, one below. The dead share the same thirst, hunger and lust as the living, but cannot slake them unless they inhabit a body. Yet, how much different are the adventures of the living and dead? Those beings with bodies are called the “living”. Yet, are not those without bodies also alive in eternity as spiritual beings? Physical sensation is pale, fragile and temporary and nearly always far less satisfying than imagined in the mind! Inevitably every “living” person will sail The Sea of Life to the same destination: The Land of The Dead. Who accept the “living” claim that “gettin’ back” is the problem?
It’s easy to die. Everyone does it inevitably. But, how easy is it to “live” in a body? The real problem for a spiritual being is Living in The Land of The Dead eternally. And, perhaps, it may be wise to avoid “gettin’ back” all together to save repeating the same folly that caused the pain, sorry and disappointments we suffered because we were encumbered by a body!
~ Lawrence R. Spencer. 2016
WESTERN SCIENCE
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Western Science is the religion of Matter. The “god” of Western Science is Force: financial, military, industrial, corporate, political and psychological force.
Western Science is the ally and defender of oppressive governments. Self-anointed practitioners of science deny any and all personal responsibility for their “products”, which will inevitably cause devastation on Earth and the eventual extinction of All Life Forms, including themselves.
Like the bankers, military madmen, and political puppets who employ them, scientists seek to conquer and control all creatures, and the physical universe itself, through material means.
The Dogma of Western Science is that “All is matter, energy, and space” can be measured by physical means: therefor any Spirit is superstitious mythology as it is not physical, and must be ignored — regardless of any observable phenomena, subjective or objective.
The Superstition of Western Science is that the material universe is a self-generated, accident of “nature”, for which there is no discernible definition or source. The universe appeared by “magic” in an theoretical explosion of energy, for which no origin existed.
The Doctrine of Western Science is “The Law of Nature”, which, like all religious doctrine, is written by their own priests, or “authorities”. No one may question this doctrine, their theories, data or conclusions.
Like any religion, Western Science creates power through lies, secrecy, intimidation, and unintelligible language of numbers and symbols. Western Science is empowered by force of arms, and immense financial wealth granted by tyrants, without which it could not exist.
“…do not look to scientists to save Earth or the future of humanity. Any so-called “science” that is solely based on the paradigm that existence is composed only of energy and objects moving through space is not a science. Such beings utterly ignore the creative spark originated by an individual IS-BE and collective work of the IS-BEs who continually create the physical universe and all universes. Every science will remain relatively ineffective or destructive to the degree that it omits or devaluates the relative importance of the spiritual spark that ignites all of creation and life.” — excerpt from ALIEN INTERVIEW, edited by Lawrence R. Spencer
CREATION
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Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and “gallows humor”. Beckett is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. His work became increasingly minimalist in his later career.
HAPPINESS
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The Pulitzer Prize winning American writer Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) said “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know”. At the end of his life Hemingway was being chased by the FBI and IRS because he lived in Cuba and was a friend of Fidel Castro, a communist, who opposed the Rothschild international bankers ambition control of the world. Understandably, Hemingway, also a long time alcoholic, became depressed and suicidal. His wife sent him to a mental hospital where they gave him dozens of electric shock treatments and heavy drugs to “cure” his depression. Two days after being released from the hospital his shot himself in the head with his double-barreled shotgun! Hemingway was super-intelligent, but unhappy.
Hemingway is an example that Intelligence, alone, is not the “key to happiness”. I remembered what Krishnamurti said:
“…you have the idea that only certain people hold the key to the Kingdom of Happiness. No one holds it. No one has the authority to hold that key. That key is your own self, and in the development and the purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom of Eternity….You have been accustomed to being told how far you have advanced, what is your spiritual status. How childish! Who but yourself can tell you if you are incorruptible? I am not concerned, nor with creating new cages, nor new decorations for those cages. My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.”
It is interesting that Krishnamurti uses the words “development, purification and incorruptibility” to describe the “key” to happiness. Perhaps this describes the path we have can follow to discover the truth and happiness.
Perhaps it is not as important to be “happy” as it is to see the truth and not become corrupted or depressed by it. Maybe our “development” and “incorruptibility” demand and require that we become “depressed” sometimes as part of our “development”. And, as part of our progress toward Freedom, which is an essential part of Happiness.