Universes are comprised of thoughts, ideas, dreams, illusions, delusions, which may also include stars, space, time, energy and objects. Or not. These are the universes of the author Lawrence R. Spencer, and others for whom he has an affinity.
Shocking, irrefutable PROOF IN PHOTOGRAPHS that aliens have been living amongst us, CAREFULLY DISGUISED AS HUMANS, for a hundreds of years! The following set of photographs has been revealed after decades of conspiratorial secrecy, clever trickery and deceit upon the part of these diabolical infiltrators of the human race! No one knows where they came from. No one can say what their INSIDIOUS INTENTIONS might be toward us. In the opinion of this observer, for one, it cannot be good!
A classic painting by Johannes Vermeer reveals the identity of “MADAME MUTT” circa 1560
A 19th Century portrait of CAT CHILDREN FROM PLANET “X” circa 1907
“COLONEL CLUCK” dashingly disguised as an officer in the French military, circa 1887
A rare daguerreotype print of “MORTIMER MOUSE”, circa 1873
One summer, while I was in college, I spent 4 months working as a fire fighter in Lassen National Forest and Park. I lived that summer with a crew of 10 firefighters at an isolated fire station near the entrance to the Lassen Park and fought quite a few forest and brush fires in and around the park. It was one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. My respect and reverence for our forests and the natural environment was heavily influenced by that adventure. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Together, we must protect and defend our National Park System: It Belongs To All of Us!
(Here is a link to 20 video excerpts from the Ken Burns documentary film about our National Parks. This film took FIVE YEARS to shoot and edit. I think it is one of the very best documentary films ever made.)
American Heroes who helped create the national park system: In 1901, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. (July 24, 1870 – December 25, 1957) was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as a member of the Senate Park Improvement Commission. In 1910, he was approached by the American Civic Association for advice on the creation of a new bureau of national parks. This initiated six years of correspondence, including this letter on January 19, 1912:
“The present situation in regard to the national parks is very bad. They have been created one at a time by acts of Congress which have not defined at all clearly the purposes for which the lands were to be set apart, nor provided any orderly or efficient means of safeguarding the parks . . . I have made at different times two suggestions, one of which was . . . a definition of the purposes for which the national parks and monuments are to be administered by the Bureau.”
His best contribution was of a few simple words that would guide conservation in America for generations to come and were preserved in the National Park Service Organic Act (1916):
“To conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”
National parks began to be designated in the second half of the 19th century, and national monuments in the early part of the 20th century. Each park or monument was managed individually or, alternately in some cases, by the United States Army, each with varying degrees of success. Beginning in 1911, Senator Read Smoot of Utah and Representative John E. Raker of California had submitted bills to establish the National Park Service to oversee the management of all these holdings. The bills were opposed by the director of the U.S. Forest Service, Gifford Pinchot, and his supporters. The Forest Service believed that a National Park Service would be a threat to continued Forest Service control of public lands that had been set aside for the timber trade. Beginning in 1910 the American Civic Association with the support of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs and the Sierra Club had led the call for a federal service to manage the parks. The noted landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead was also a booster of a single national organization to manage the National Parks.
Successful and influential industrialist Stephen Mather was challenged by Interior Secretary Franklin K. Lane to lobby for legislation creating a bureau to oversee the National Parks. Mather accepted pro bono (accepting a perfunctory salary of $1) and with assistance primarily by a young lawyer named Horace Albright a campaign was begun. By 1915, regular meetings were occurring in Washington at the home of Congressman William Kent of California. The group’s regulars were Congressman Kent, J. Horace McFarland of the American Civic Association, and the few Washington staff members of the Department of the Interior responsible the National Parks.
“I am not The One. I am not The Creator. Yet, I am holy and sacrosanct. I am more important and more powerful than The Gods. Why? You say that I am! I control your existence. Why? Because I promised you relief from eternal boredom, from the perpetual responsibility of self-amusement. Therefore, you follow my instruction without question.
Why? Because you claim you cannot bear to endure Eternity as The One. You offer me your trust and praise. You submit yourself to pain, anguish, amnesia and mystery. Why? Because you choose Not To Be. Your stupidity is its own reward and punishment. Your decadence ensures your slavery. Mortality is the key to your prison.”
“Do you desire Immortality? Do you desire to break the cycle of birth, life, pain, death, rebirth and endless, unwinnable games in the physical universe?
You must decide to Be Nothing. Be responsible for your own Boredom. Create Your Own Universe. Disagree with Agreement. Admire Your Self. Create and find Joy in your games, your dreams, your illusions.
Can you hover over a mountaintop for ten thousand years? Can you pretend, like a child, that your best friend is a ghost? Can your best friend be You?
The solution to Mortality is Being You: The Immortal Creator.”
“Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations, in many places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that some god inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters or priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be rational, and conform your conduct thereto.”
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The Kālāma Sutta is a discourse of the Buddha The “sutta” describes the Buddha, when he passed through the village of Kesaputta and is greeted by its inhabitants, a clan called the Kalamas. They ask for his advice: they say that many wandering holy men and ascetics pass through, expounding their teachings and criticizing the teachings of others. Whose teachings should they follow?
