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lawrence r. spencer
2013
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The entire history of humans on Earth is an unending cycle of birth within a biological body, a short lifetime of pain, intermittent pleasure, chaos, death and rebirth. So far as I know there has been few, if any, how have escaped this cycle. Many spiritual teachers and pretenders have claimed to have discovered “the way” to spiritual emancipation from this cycle. Religion organizations uniformly claim that their “group” are the “only ones” who know “the way”.
However, every Is-Be is completely unique. (Is-Be = Immortal Spiritual Being, or Sentient Being) No two are the same. Each one has a 1,000 small variables which identify them uniquely, like a thumbprint.
The “Golden Rule” is a philosophy and practice of kindness toward others and toward ourselves. It is empathy…. being able and willing to “be” another being, to see through their eyes, to feel the feelings they experience. This is understanding. Every great guru describes a similar idea.
There is not enough pleasure or kindness on Earth to counter-balance all of the psychotic beings in this universe who play “duality games” of good / evil. Such beings do not experience ANY empathy. They cannot perceive the energy frequency of another Is-Be, except to control it or destroy it!
Empathy is the opposite of duality. Empathy is Oneness. It is Being and experiencing AS All. Empathy is a state of being in which there is no duality games, because there is no opponent, no enemy. Only Being. Everyone plays together and accomplish a common goal or purpose that is mutually beneficial to all. Everyone “wins”.
I do not think there is any group of Is-Bes in the physical universe that can play a game and also be truly empathetic. There is no benevolent leader or ruler or army or organization in this universe. This universe is made of opposites: positive / negative energy. If you remove one side or the other the entire universe will collapse and there is no longer a game to play or a universe to play it in!
Apparently, there is not proven “therapy” or “technique” that can be applied to a group of Is-Bes to trap them, or to free them of mental or spiritual enslavement. However, there may be a way “out” of imprisonment for an individual from the chaos and psychotic duality of the “Game of Earth”. Empathy. Be all, and every, and each, as yourself.
— Lawrence R. Spencer. November 2015.
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ONE DOES NOT DISCUSS ETHICS
WITH A SNAKE WHEN IT STRIKES.
ONE DOES NOT SEEK JUSTICE
IN THE JAWS OF A SHARK.
BANKERS, SOLDIERS, POLITICIANS,
AND PRIESTS WORK TOGETHER AS A TEAM.
POWER, CONTROL AND POSSESSION
ARE THEIR NATURAL SCHEME.
BEINGS OF GOOD WILL TREAT EACH OTHER
AS THEY WOULD BE TREATED THEMSELVES.
EVERY CREATURE SURVIVES
ACCORDING TO ITS KIND.
GOOD AND EVIL ARE SEEN THROUGH
THE EYES OF PREDATORS AND PREY.
SURVIVAL IS AVOIDING PAIN.
PLEASURE IS LOVE ETERNALLY.
ONE KNOWS THAT SURVIVAL IS A GAME
THAT IMMORTAL SPIRITS CANNOT PLAY
UNLESS THEY FORGET THAT THEY ARE THEY.
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Lawrence R. Spencer. 2013.
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Crucifixion was often performed to terrorize and dissuade its witnesses from perpetrating particularly heinous crimes. Victims were left on display after death as warnings to others who might attempt dissent. Crucifixion was usually intended to provide a death that was particularly slow, painful (hence the term excruciating, literally “out of crucifying”), gruesome, humiliating, and public, using whatever means were most expedient for that goal. Crucifixion methods varied considerably with location and time period.
The Greek and Latin words corresponding to “crucifixion” applied to many different forms of painful execution, from impaling on a stake to affixing to a tree, to an upright pole (a crux simplex) or to a combination of an upright (in Latin, stipes) and a crossbeam (in Latin,patibulum).
In some cases, the condemned was forced to carry the crossbeam on his shoulders to the place of execution. A whole cross would weigh well over 300 pounds (135 kg), but the crossbeam would not be quite as burdensome, weighing around 100 pounds. The Roman historian Tacitus records that the city of Rome had a specific place for carrying out executions, situated outside the Esquiline Gate, and had a specific area reserved for the execution of slaves by crucifixion. Upright posts would presumably be fixed permanently in that place, and the crossbeam, with the condemned person perhaps already nailed to it, would then be attached to the post.
While a crucifixion was an execution, it was also a humiliation, by making the condemned as vulnerable as possible. Although artists have depicted the figure on a cross with a loin cloth or a covering of the genitals, writings by Seneca the Younger suggest that victims were crucified completely naked. When the victim had to urinate or defecate, they had to do so in the open, in view of passers-by, resulting in discomfort and the attraction of insects. Despite its frequent use by the Romans, the horrors of crucifixion did not escape mention by some of their eminent orators. Cicero for example, described crucifixion as “a most cruel and disgusting punishment”, and suggested that “the very mention of the cross should be far removed not only from a Roman citizen’s body, but from his mind, his eyes, his ears.”
Frequently, the legs of the person executed were broken or shattered with an iron club, an act called crurifragium, which was also frequently applied without crucifixion to slaves. This act hastened the death of the person but was also meant to deter those who observed the crucifixion from committing offenses. — REFERENCE SOURCE: Wikipedia.org
There are only two games to play when you’re in prison: 1) doing time 2) getting out. Where did you come from? Where are you now? Remember who you really are: Fly.