tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78472875207929933842024-02-08T05:15:18.658-08:00Hermetica Health, Inc.No One Knows Health And Wellness Like We DoJulia29http://www.blogger.com/profile/09959432249593123988noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847287520792993384.post-58697184575031597862018-08-06T11:43:00.001-07:002018-08-06T11:43:04.568-07:00No One Can Be Victorious Over Life, Life Is Forever The Victor<p>Strong governments usually result in weak people. The more completely a central administration takes over the powers of a people, the more rapidly people become dependent not only upon the strength of the government, but upon its endurance.<img data-attachment-id="6596" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/08/06/no-one-can-be-victorious-over-life-life-is-forever-the-victor/egypt-pyramid-the-great-sphinx-of-giza-with-the-pyramid-of-khafra-in-the-background-desktop-wallapepr-for-mobile-phones-tablet-and-pc-2560x1440/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/egypt-pyramid-the-great-sphinx-of-giza-with-the-pyramid-of-khafra-in-the-background-desktop-wallapepr-for-mobile-phones-tablet-and-pc-2560x1440.jpg?w=640" data-orig-size="2560,1440" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Egypt-Pyramid-The-Great-Sphinx-of-Giza-with-the-Pyramid-of-Khafra-in-the-background-Desktop-Wallapepr-for-Mobile-phones-Tablet-and-PC-2560×1440" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/egypt-pyramid-the-great-sphinx-of-giza-with-the-pyramid-of-khafra-in-the-background-desktop-wallapepr-for-mobile-phones-tablet-and-pc-2560x1440.jpg?w=640?w=300" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/egypt-pyramid-the-great-sphinx-of-giza-with-the-pyramid-of-khafra-in-the-background-desktop-wallapepr-for-mobile-phones-tablet-and-pc-2560x1440.jpg?w=640?w=640" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6596" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/egypt-pyramid-the-great-sphinx-of-giza-with-the-pyramid-of-khafra-in-the-background-desktop-wallapepr-for-mobile-phones-tablet-and-pc-2560x1440.jpg?w=640" alt="Egypt-Pyramid-The-Great-Sphinx-of-Giza-with-the-Pyramid-of-Khafra-in-the-background-Desktop-Wallapepr-for-Mobile-phones-Tablet-and-PC-2560x1440.jpg" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/egypt-pyramid-the-great-sphinx-of-giza-with-the-pyramid-of-khafra-in-the-background-desktop-wallapepr-for-mobile-phones-tablet-and-pc-2560x1440.jpg?w=640 640w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/egypt-pyramid-the-great-sphinx-of-giza-with-the-pyramid-of-khafra-in-the-background-desktop-wallapepr-for-mobile-phones-tablet-and-pc-2560x1440.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/egypt-pyramid-the-great-sphinx-of-giza-with-the-pyramid-of-khafra-in-the-background-desktop-wallapepr-for-mobile-phones-tablet-and-pc-2560x1440.jpg?w=150 150w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/egypt-pyramid-the-great-sphinx-of-giza-with-the-pyramid-of-khafra-in-the-background-desktop-wallapepr-for-mobile-phones-tablet-and-pc-2560x1440.jpg?w=300 300w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/egypt-pyramid-the-great-sphinx-of-giza-with-the-pyramid-of-khafra-in-the-background-desktop-wallapepr-for-mobile-phones-tablet-and-pc-2560x1440.jpg?w=768 768w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/egypt-pyramid-the-great-sphinx-of-giza-with-the-pyramid-of-khafra-in-the-background-desktop-wallapepr-for-mobile-phones-tablet-and-pc-2560x1440.jpg?w=1024 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
<p>The more we fortify ourselves, the more we struggle for permanence. We struggle to create a situation that we can depend upon. As individuals, in our weakness, we wish for strong defenses around ourselves, they make us feel secure, but these defenses always crumble.</p>
<p>When we are able to build strong defenses, usually the result is that we created fortified cities and towns. But, these towns do not move. Perhaps they remain at the center of a great culture for a time but finally, they become only ruins on the outskirts of some forgotten way of life. Wherever we build a great fixed structure, we ultimately regret it, and the institution we fashion finally turns upon itself and is destroyed.</p>
<p>This happens because the moment we place our lives into the keeping of a fixed system our destiny rests with that system. Whatever agitates it, must agitate us; whatever invades it, must invade us; whatever seeks to over throw it, seeks to overthrow us. Thus we become bound into a system, and this, not being easily changeable and arriving finally at a state of crystallization, ultimately becomes a source of difficulty, not strength.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6598" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/08/06/no-one-can-be-victorious-over-life-life-is-forever-the-victor/quote-the-family-is-the-basic-cell-of-government-it-is-where-we-are-trained-to-believe-that-we-are-human-gloria-steinem-351813/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/quote-the-family-is-the-basic-cell-of-government-it-is-where-we-are-trained-to-believe-that-we-are-human-gloria-steinem-351813.jpg?w=640" data-orig-size="850,400" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="quote-the-family-is-the-basic-cell-of-government-it-is-where-we-are-trained-to-believe-that-we-are-human-gloria-steinem-351813" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/quote-the-family-is-the-basic-cell-of-government-it-is-where-we-are-trained-to-believe-that-we-are-human-gloria-steinem-351813.jpg?w=640?w=300" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/quote-the-family-is-the-basic-cell-of-government-it-is-where-we-are-trained-to-believe-that-we-are-human-gloria-steinem-351813.jpg?w=640?w=640" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6598" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/quote-the-family-is-the-basic-cell-of-government-it-is-where-we-are-trained-to-believe-that-we-are-human-gloria-steinem-351813.jpg?w=640" alt="quote-the-family-is-the-basic-cell-of-government-it-is-where-we-are-trained-to-believe-that-we-are-human-gloria-steinem-351813.jpg" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/quote-the-family-is-the-basic-cell-of-government-it-is-where-we-are-trained-to-believe-that-we-are-human-gloria-steinem-351813.jpg?w=640 640w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/quote-the-family-is-the-basic-cell-of-government-it-is-where-we-are-trained-to-believe-that-we-are-human-gloria-steinem-351813.jpg?w=150 150w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/quote-the-family-is-the-basic-cell-of-government-it-is-where-we-are-trained-to-believe-that-we-are-human-gloria-steinem-351813.jpg?w=300 300w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/quote-the-family-is-the-basic-cell-of-government-it-is-where-we-are-trained-to-believe-that-we-are-human-gloria-steinem-351813.jpg?w=768 768w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/quote-the-family-is-the-basic-cell-of-government-it-is-where-we-are-trained-to-believe-that-we-are-human-gloria-steinem-351813.jpg 850w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
<p>The ultimate unit of government is personified by the family, or even the individual, this means the family requires autonomy. It needs to be a unit composed of people working out their own salvation. A family can not be captured in mass psychology by which individual judgment is gradually destroyed.</p>
<p>We know that there are always countless people capable of living better than the groups to which they belong. An individual with a high code of morality, a high concept of ethics and a deep realization of human values, is really capable of a life superior to the general run of his own generation.</p>
<p>Yet by circumstances, this person commits themself to their generation. They find that their virtues come into conflict with popular vices. They discover that they are out of step with prevailing fashions. They suddenly realize that in order to be admired, respected, and successful in a certain generation, they must live according to the code of that generation, and not according to the inner code of their own convictions.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6599" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/08/06/no-one-can-be-victorious-over-life-life-is-forever-the-victor/shadow-sarah/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/shadow-sarah.png?w=640" data-orig-size="680,452" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="shadow-sarah" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/shadow-sarah.png?w=640?w=300" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/shadow-sarah.png?w=640?w=640" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6599" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/shadow-sarah.png?w=640" alt="shadow-sarah" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/shadow-sarah.png?w=640 640w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/shadow-sarah.png?w=150 150w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/shadow-sarah.png?w=300 300w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/shadow-sarah.png 680w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
<p>And as soon as we begin to compromise what we know to be right, we begin to destroy our own peace of mind. Our conscience does not approve of what we are doing, but we have put ourselves into a situation where we find it very difficult to escape the pressures, which cause us to do these things that we really do not want to do. Little by little, habit, association, and pressure, working upon us destroy our own individuality. Gradually, we become a creature of compromise.</p>
<p>We relax, we give up; we assume that it is not possible to battle against the pressures of circumstance. Thus, in time, we become one of the offending, although in the beginning we were among those of the offended. The only rewards for doing things badly are rewards of pain, misery and suffering.</p>
<p>There is only one way to counteract this kind of attitude, and that is for a person to come to know that regardless of circumstances, they are still an individual; that their own attitudes and convictions are important; that it is not necessary for any one to be forced into a condition unreasonable to them. They do not have to compromise.</p>
<p>If we take a look around today, we can observe a world that is confused and miserable. All over the world, human beings are suffering. They are suffering because they are following patterns, moving with mass emotions, and accepting as inevitable the negative forces operating in society.</p>
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<p>If we wish to be like other people, if we wish to reduce our integrities to match the patterns of our day, then we must be willing to face the inevitable results. If we live like other people, we will perhaps receive their approval for being stylish, but we will also be forced to accept their miseries. We will make the same mistakes that they make and suffer the same pain. So we can wither choose to live better than other people, and enjoy greater values, or to live like them, and suffer as they do.</p>
<p>Nature does not provide a series of exceptions for this rule!</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter how involved we work ourselves into the cultural patterns of our time, each individual is actually always a separate person. We are always alone as far as our own existence is concerned. Our contact with all other human beings is comparatively superficial no matter how intensely we attempt to strengthen these contacts.</p>
<p>Even our associations with those we love are essentially associations with a stranger. Each of us has our own purpose and our own values. Each of us is forever and individual – one against the many.</p>
<p>Therefore, we are each only capable of knowing ourselves. We can have intellectual concepts about others, but we must always interpret them in terms of our understanding of ourselves. We <strong>know </strong>our self; we <strong>think </strong>about other people. This thinking about others can, of course, be valuable, and highly commendable, but it can also lead to a series of desperate situations.</p>
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<p>To avoid this we need to accept ourselves for what we are – travelers in a distant land. We are not actually citizens of the state in which we live. Physically, we may be citizens; but morally and spiritually we are living beings – part of a living universe.</p>
<p>Our roots are in space and eternity, not in the earth and time. Our mind, the subtler parts of our own imaginations, break through the boundaries of physical things. We are in the physical world, but we are definitely not of it.</p>
<p>That means we are in this world for some reason. We are here for a purpose that rests in the consciousness of the Cause of things. We cannot dogmatize the reason for existence – we can only speculate; but we do however, have powerful intuitions about it.</p>
<p>The wisest and best of people, since the dawn of time, have assumed that we are here to learn something, to grow; that we are here to pass a test, or an examination, relating to universal citizenship.</p>
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<p>Yet, here we are, building businesses as though we are going to live forever. This is our problem. We build here as though we are going to stay here. We are fanatically addicted to our immediate situation – if our hearts, minds, and labors are all dedicated to today or the plan of tomorrow, our entire consciousness is invested in the development of some material enterprise – we simply lock ourselves into a situation for which we were not originally intended.</p>
<p>Unless we rebel against this, or clear ourselves of this influence, the situation will ultimately close in upon us and bring us to ruin.</p>
<p>If we settle down to a dull materialism our journey is meaningless; and we can’t assume that nature intended this. It is not right or reasonable for us to take the attitude that life is unimportant. Nature does not waste energy in this way. Nature does not go into the intrinsic process of creating things only so that these things can bore themselves to death. And if we are unable to grasp this important message, it is time we gave it serious consideration.</p>
<p>Everything in nature seems to fit into a kindly conspiracy of all things working together for some vast good that is difficult for us to comprehend. We need to accept the facts of our relationship with life. Only then can we build a certain internal value that is more important than receiving the applause of the masses. When we begin to admit there is in space something gracious and beautiful and wonderful we also begin to realize that this wonder is in everything that space fashions; that all great and noble works of men, women and nature are built upon these principles and upon these laws.</p>
<p>The great values never became less, but we have created great fronts, and foregrounds in which we seem to see the near as more important than the great. Little by little we have locked ourselves into districts and areas, locked ourselves in to the problems of real estate and mortgages, but we are still in a world in which values are eternal.</p>
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<p>We can buy and sell property till the end of time, but the land belongs only to One, and no one else will actually own it. We can certainly buy it and get a deed for it and sell it to someone else; but we are never going to own it.</p>
<p>Actually we cannot even own a painting, or a beautiful flower. We can share with its life, and we may be able to pay a little more for a more intimate association with that life; we may be able to buy that beautiful painting, and it may be a great joy to us – and as soon as we are dead, our children will sell it because they cannot tolerate it; but regardless of this, it will again be bought by someone who loves it, and so it will go on in the keeping of people who love it.</p>
<p>But what are they actually buying? They are buying something that can never be theirs. Something for which at best we can only serve as custodians. That beautiful painting has been bought a hundred times before. It has belonged to a hundred previous owners who have loved it and have passed it on. So we may be one of those owners, but the painting will never belong to us, except in the sense of steward ship. Our great responsibility is to pass it on in as good condition as it came to us.</p>
<p>It is the same thing with everything in life. We do not own anything; we cannot. Our checkbook can tell us that we seem to own things but actually, everything in the universe belongs to itself. The earth belongs to the earth; the start belong to the stars; and the human soul belongs to the human soul; and all these other values that we try to create are like slavery. We try to force our ownership upon other human beings, and it fails.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6604" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/08/06/no-one-can-be-victorious-over-life-life-is-forever-the-victor/bef72a549fe7ee618fec779c4691ba84/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/bef72a549fe7ee618fec779c4691ba84.png?w=640" data-orig-size="483,605" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="bef72a549fe7ee618fec779c4691ba84" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/bef72a549fe7ee618fec779c4691ba84.png?w=640?w=240" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/bef72a549fe7ee618fec779c4691ba84.png?w=640?w=483" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6604 aligncenter" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/bef72a549fe7ee618fec779c4691ba84.png?w=640" alt="bef72a549fe7ee618fec779c4691ba84.png" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/bef72a549fe7ee618fec779c4691ba84.png 483w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/bef72a549fe7ee618fec779c4691ba84.png?w=120 120w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/bef72a549fe7ee618fec779c4691ba84.png?w=240 240w" sizes="(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px" /></p>
<p>We can, if we wish, think of ourselves, as builders of destiny, as formers of empires, and then read history and see how our toys fell apart; or we can simply recognize this as a garden, a road, a pleasant place along the way of our journey, where we can pause to refresh ourselves and share in certain pleasures, and then go on. It is much like the caravan routes of ancient Asia – the roads that lead across the mountains and the valleys. These caravan roads existed to enable men to transport merchandise, but they also became the carriers of culture and the custodians of knowledge of the two great worlds separated by deserts and jungles.</p>
<p>We must realize that we are never really going to be one with this road, in the sense that we will never really understand it. We will never actually be one with anyone whom we meet along this road. We cannot ever own the flower that grows there. We can pause for a moment and admire it, and carry a memory of beauty as we go on, but we cannot stop. Everywhere this road leads on. A strange inevitable pressure forces us to this road, which leads not only to the horizon, but, upwards beyond the stars.</p>
<p>Where this road goes, we do not know, but we are all traveling this road together. In this journey, we have the companionship of an infinite multitude with this same essential and inevitable procedure as ourselves. We are united with everything that lives because it was born as we were, because it is living with the same forces and energies that we have. Therefore, we have many things in common.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6605" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/08/06/no-one-can-be-victorious-over-life-life-is-forever-the-victor/human/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/human.gif?w=640" data-orig-size="1201,601" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="human" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/human.gif?w=640?w=300" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/human.gif?w=640?w=640" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6605 aligncenter" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/human.gif?w=640" alt="human" /></p>
<p>Why do we continue to live this strange, tense, artificial, separated existence which began sometime long ago when we built cities and towns and moved away from the countryside; when we lost that contract with the earth that belonged to our remote agrarian forebears?</p>
<p>With this loss of naturalness, we have also lost health and peace of soul. We live a brittle existence, suffering from day to day, hurting and being hurt, in a universe where none of this is necessary.</p>
<p>Ancient medicine assumed that health was normal. Today, we assume that health is abnormal and sickness is normal. In the psychological literature of today, we find books that advance the idea that man needs to have a bad temper; it is important for him. If he does not get angry occasionally, he is going to be sick says the book. The truth of the matter is that if we are angry often enough, we will be sicker.</p>
<p>This is not the answer, in as much as anger is not good to begin with. Therefore, whatever it produces cannot be ultimately good. Selfishness has never been good, and never will be, although we are being taught today to be successfully selfish.</p>
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<p>The simple basic rules governing life now hurt us because we have not learned to understand them. We have not learned to obey them or to accept their meaning.</p>
<p>We build barriers of individuality and personality, of attitudes and purposes and convictions, and then we leave behind these walls, trying to shut ourselves out from an infinite and inevitable reality.</p>
<p>To us Heaven is rest because we are weary; and we are weary because we are constantly making trouble for ourselves and each other. If we stopped doing this, perhaps we would not get tired. Perhaps the universe is just really full of fun. Perhaps it is a wonderful place where no one really wants to rest except those who have beaten each other to a pulp.</p>
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<p>So if we stop doing these things to each other, perhaps we will not want rest anymore. Perhaps it is much more interesting and wonderful to go on and see the landscapes that lie beyond the present mountains. Perhaps when we get to the stars, we can look out upon still greater fields where we shall see universes spread around us. We do not know exactly what may be there, but we have a very profound belief that as we get nearer to the infinite insight, the Infinite being, the infinite purpose, we will come to happiness; we will come to peace of soul and peace of heart and mind.</p>
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Julia29http://www.blogger.com/profile/09959432249593123988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847287520792993384.post-2579218125641822712018-06-03T13:08:00.001-07:002018-06-03T13:08:20.919-07:00We Were Not Created To Reform The Universe, But To Reform Ourselves.<p>We are coming more and more to the realization that we are all part of a single web of life and that our survival depends very largely upon cooperation with a plan existing everywhere in creation. Invisible laws govern visible things and perhaps the end of education is to understand these invisible laws?</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6583" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/06/03/we-were-not-created-to-reform-the-universe-but-to-reform-ourselves/p03xsw49/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/p03xsw49.jpg?w=640" data-orig-size="1280,640" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"\u00a9 Denys Bilytskyi \/ Alamy Stock Photo","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="p03xsw49" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/p03xsw49.jpg?w=640?w=300" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/p03xsw49.jpg?w=640?w=640" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6583" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/p03xsw49.jpg?w=640" alt="p03xsw49" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/p03xsw49.jpg?w=640 640w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/p03xsw49.jpg 1280w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/p03xsw49.jpg?w=150 150w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/p03xsw49.jpg?w=300 300w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/p03xsw49.jpg?w=768 768w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/p03xsw49.jpg?w=1024 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
<p>We find archetypally in nature that every form of life survives through a plan peculiar to its own kind. Each division and subdivision of the natural world operates according to some form of instinctual instruction. Living things fulfill their destiny; with the exception of ourselves, the various creatures around us probably never realize that they are following a patterned way of existence.</p>
<p>They have no defense against the ancient instincts or the early environmental training which they gained during their period of growth. We are the one being that can contemplate the mystery of life and, strangely enough, we are the one being that can violate its rules.</p>
<p>There must be then, be a pattern of law particularly applicable to the human being? We are no doubt, part of a natural creation. This endowment does not justify the violation of those natural procedures even though we have been endowed with a higher degree of conscious intelligence than the forms around us.</p>
<p>The more we come into contact with our fellow men, the more remarkable human behavior appears. It would seem that there are many inducements to live happily and with due regard for the rights and privileges of each other. Unfortunately, whatever these inducements may be, they are not sufficient.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6584" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/06/03/we-were-not-created-to-reform-the-universe-but-to-reform-ourselves/c8916472e2f3eda8d16eb05d233f0db4/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/c8916472e2f3eda8d16eb05d233f0db4.jpg?w=640" data-orig-size="2975,3850" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="c8916472e2f3eda8d16eb05d233f0db4" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/c8916472e2f3eda8d16eb05d233f0db4.jpg?w=640?w=232" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/c8916472e2f3eda8d16eb05d233f0db4.jpg?w=640?w=640" class=" size-full wp-image-6584 aligncenter" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/c8916472e2f3eda8d16eb05d233f0db4.jpg?w=640" alt="c8916472e2f3eda8d16eb05d233f0db4.jpg" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/c8916472e2f3eda8d16eb05d233f0db4.jpg?w=640 640w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/c8916472e2f3eda8d16eb05d233f0db4.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/c8916472e2f3eda8d16eb05d233f0db4.jpg?w=116 116w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/c8916472e2f3eda8d16eb05d233f0db4.jpg?w=232 232w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/c8916472e2f3eda8d16eb05d233f0db4.jpg?w=768 768w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/c8916472e2f3eda8d16eb05d233f0db4.jpg?w=791 791w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
<p>In all the billions of years of evolution and hundreds of millions of years of growth on this planet, no other species has developed the same endowments. We are, therefore, uniquely self-responsible. Which means we each have a limited determinism to do that which we believe to be right.</p>
<p>It is because we posses this determinism that we are capable of becoming religious, that we do become religious. But, religion is meaningless unless an individual has the right to determine good and evil, and by which we can raise ourselves above the deportment and patterns of other kingdoms in nature around us which are instinctively obedient.</p>
<p>This means we must become consciously obedient and maintain the rules and patterns suitable for the best preservation of our own kind. Unless we do this, we are abusing our ecological position in the universe.</p>
<p>Humanity can and should be considered a unit. The name Adam is a plural, meaning a collective; and the Adamic and pre-Adamic forms of humanity are considered symbolically as individuals, people, composed of a number of separate personalities within their own structure.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6587" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/06/03/we-were-not-created-to-reform-the-universe-but-to-reform-ourselves/the-tree-of-life-and-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/the-tree-of-life-and-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil.jpg?w=640" data-orig-size="1600,1237" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/the-tree-of-life-and-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil.jpg?w=640?w=300" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/the-tree-of-life-and-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil.jpg?w=640?w=640" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6587" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/the-tree-of-life-and-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil.jpg?w=640" alt="the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/the-tree-of-life-and-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil.jpg?w=640 640w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/the-tree-of-life-and-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/the-tree-of-life-and-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil.jpg?w=150 150w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/the-tree-of-life-and-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil.jpg?w=300 300w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/the-tree-of-life-and-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil.jpg?w=768 768w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/the-tree-of-life-and-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil.jpg?w=1024 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
<p>Humanity as a creature under the archetypal pattern breaks down into many cultural groups, racial groups, national groups, but all of these exist under natural law, survive by keeping this law, and we destroy ourselves by breaking it. Turn back and look along the shores of the ocean of time and we will find many dead shells are found, resulting from the individual or the collective departing from the plan of which we are a part and which we can not violate with impunity.</p>
<p>The ancient orator Cicero defined civilization as a condition in which human beings dwell together in a state of civility. On that basis we are not doing so well. We are not fulfilling the needs of our human archetype. We are not fulfilling ourselves. We are forever sacrificing what we are to the accumulation of what we want.</p>
<p>It is time for us to accept our responsibilities to human society. Just as we are now reaching out to try to protect endangered species around us, it is time for us to reach out and protect ourselves. Unfortunately, on our present course of life we have made ourselves an endangered species.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6590" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/06/03/we-were-not-created-to-reform-the-universe-but-to-reform-ourselves/d632334130a2b9d194362b7d857b88bf_xl/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/d632334130a2b9d194362b7d857b88bf_xl.jpg?w=640" data-orig-size="918,618" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="d632334130a2b9d194362b7d857b88bf_XL" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/d632334130a2b9d194362b7d857b88bf_xl.jpg?w=640?w=300" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/d632334130a2b9d194362b7d857b88bf_xl.jpg?w=640?w=640" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6590" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/d632334130a2b9d194362b7d857b88bf_xl.jpg?w=640" alt="d632334130a2b9d194362b7d857b88bf_XL" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/d632334130a2b9d194362b7d857b88bf_xl.jpg?w=640 640w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/d632334130a2b9d194362b7d857b88bf_xl.jpg?w=150 150w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/d632334130a2b9d194362b7d857b88bf_xl.jpg?w=300 300w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/d632334130a2b9d194362b7d857b88bf_xl.jpg?w=768 768w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/d632334130a2b9d194362b7d857b88bf_xl.jpg 918w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
<p>The situation that we face is not an instantaneous phenomenon; it is the result of a long antecedent pattern of causes, a long ecological history involving the automobile, the motion picture, the airplane, the computer, the television, the advancements of all our industrial and economic processes until we have gradually become obsessed with our own worldliness.</p>
<p><strong>But</strong> we can all do something about some of the problems that face us and recognize that it is absolutely necessary for us to discover the truth in the situations in which we find ourselves. Unless we are able to do this, we will continue to make the same mistakes indefinitely.</p>
<p>In the ecological identity of ourselves it should be regarded that every individual is as important to the compound as every tiny form of life is important to the earth’s integrity. If blades of grass fail, the planet will ultimately drop out of orbit. It is a long process, but it will follow.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6591" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/06/03/we-were-not-created-to-reform-the-universe-but-to-reform-ourselves/secret-of-balance-fundamental-law-of-universe-23-728/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/secret-of-balance-fundamental-law-of-universe-23-728.jpg?w=640" data-orig-size="942,728" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="secret-of-balance-fundamental-law-of-universe-23-728" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/secret-of-balance-fundamental-law-of-universe-23-728.jpg?w=640?w=300" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/secret-of-balance-fundamental-law-of-universe-23-728.jpg?w=640?w=640" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6591" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/secret-of-balance-fundamental-law-of-universe-23-728.jpg?w=640" alt="secret-of-balance-fundamental-law-of-universe-23-728" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/secret-of-balance-fundamental-law-of-universe-23-728.jpg?w=640 640w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/secret-of-balance-fundamental-law-of-universe-23-728.jpg?w=150 150w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/secret-of-balance-fundamental-law-of-universe-23-728.jpg?w=300 300w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/secret-of-balance-fundamental-law-of-universe-23-728.jpg?w=768 768w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/secret-of-balance-fundamental-law-of-universe-23-728.jpg 942w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
<p>So unless every form of natural product is balanced so that it maintains its integrity and its individuality, the collective must and will suffer. Each of us a small center within the vast structure of life, and the first thing that we can do is to put our own center in order, take hold of our natures, examine ourselves honestly, and try to find out why we are not as happy, contented, or as well-adjusted as we ought to be.</p>
<p>We will find that we are in need of an incentive if we are going to make any changes. No one seems to want to be good simply because it is good, anymore than the majority of people want to keep the law simply because it is lawful. We do things because of incentives, and there is perhaps a bit of ulterior motive in almost anything we do. The one ulterior motive that may be forgiven is the natural desire to be better, to have a better integration within ourselves.</p>
<p>We like to think of families of worlds, families of galaxies, families of all kinds of magnitudes existing in space, and we observe that the cosmos around us is confidence-inspiring. Here is a machinery beyond our comprehension, beyond our imagination, something that we must explore inch by inch, and in exploring it we must never fail to explore not only the greater but the lesser, not only the outer but the inner.</p>
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<p>As we look out on this magnificent array of integrities, it is difficult to imagine that anyone’s life is an accident. It is difficult to assume that in this vast pattern wayward individuals can successfully change the plans of the infinite. We were not created to reform the universe, but to reform ourselves. It was our duty to transcend and transmute our material personality until we came to understand the reason for ourselves.</p>
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<p>According to ancient legends, while “we” were in a state without sin, <em>Adam </em>lived in a paradisiacal region from which he fell by his own disobedience. The story may be a little difficult to accept literally, but the fact remains that in a way we have been disobedient. We are violating the principles that we know to be right.</p>
<p>Great generals and dictators have deliberately broken the law, “Thou shall not kill,” and have justified this because it fulfilled great ambitions of their own – political, social, industrial. We have covered the earth with blood for the fulfillment of our own private ambitions.</p>
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<p>We have much the Alexander the Great complex. We look out longingly into space, searching for other worlds to conquer. Actually, the world we have never conquered is ourselves.</p>
<p>The human being is a magnificent thing, and for the most part this magnificent thing wastes itself. It does that same thing we do with our energy resources.</p>
<p>People are getting a little weary of being unhappy all the time and attempting to escape from this unhappiness by selfish pursuits.</p>
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<p>Most people would like to be better than they are. Perhaps they are better than they know they are. Given certain inducements, opportunities, and advantages, human character might even be modified to a considerable degree. We can grow magnificently then, if we want to, but the average human being does not want to grow and, therefore, growth is forced upon us by suffering.</p>
<p>Ignorance is the primary disease. It is ignorance which permits an individual to have a bad disposition and do nothing about it. Ignorance is the basis of unkindliness.</p>
<p>Human evolution must be the victory of enlightenment over ignorance.</p>
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Julia29http://www.blogger.com/profile/09959432249593123988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847287520792993384.post-76192891085634106612018-05-11T00:24:00.001-07:002018-05-11T00:24:09.430-07:00Egotism Is A Destroyer Of Health and Happiness<p>One of the most universal and “respectable pressures is selfishness. Some go as far as to say that without selfishness very little can be accomplished in this world. Experience teaches us, however, that the consequences of such conduct can never truly contribute to the well-being of humanity.</p>
<p>Excessive self-interest lowers our sensitivity to the rights of others and to the common good. It makes close understanding between individuals difficult and impossible and makes it extremely hard to maintain honorable friendships and constructive affections.</p>
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<p>Selfishness abuses all privileges, including the privilege to live constructively. Many of us are taught to be selfish, but this is one lesson that must be unlearned, unless we all enjoy suffering. We may say to ourselves, “every man must think first of himself in this highly competitive society,” but unfortunately self-centeredness can never protect anyone.</p>
<p>Egotism is an aspect of selfishness and a top-ranking destroyer of health and happiness. Very few people like to admit that they are egoists. They prefer to take on the attitude that they are always right, and superior to others in their opinions, beliefs and convictions.</p>
<p>An egoist cannot afford to admit their own mistakes. To sustain their self-delusion they must win every argument and dominate every situation. Society conspires against them by letting them have their own way. No sensible person will bother with a closed mind.</p>
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<p>An egoist is seldom happy, for they live constantly on the defensive. Their sense of superiority is their most valued possession, and they must protect it at all costs. Because they cannot be taught, they remain ignorant and inadequate. Their decisions are usually poor and their conduct often offensive. He is never able to figure out how he can be so correct in his judgment and at the same time so miserable.</p>
<p>In religion the egotist enjoys privileges not available to them in business, industry, or domestic relationships. It is very easy to abuse the right to one’s spiritual convictions. In a religious argument there are few facts available to either of the contestants. Often the person who talks the loudest and fastest can count themselves the winner. We just note, that most holy wars have been started by egotists willing to sacrifice the brotherhood of man for the sake of winning an argument.</p>
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<p>Such attitudes permit us to resent the self-interest of others, and to accept our own selfishness as right and proper, or at least inevitable. Through long association with ourselves, we have gained the ability to live in a state of uneasy comfort with our own peculiarities. The laws and processes operating us are unknown, ignored, or forgotten. We simply do as we please, whether it really pleases us or not.</p>
<p>But, true happiness can seldom, if ever, be achieved by selfish or self-centered persons. Neither wealth nor distinction can confer real contentment. It has been said in the old Arabic proverbs that happiness, is always a by-product. It is an effect, the cause of which is enlightened conduct.</p>
<p>An educated person should not be selfish, for the primary purpose of enlightened education is to educate selfishness out of the individual.</p>
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Julia29http://www.blogger.com/profile/09959432249593123988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847287520792993384.post-42764782820243377172018-03-01T10:11:00.001-08:002018-03-01T10:11:05.130-08:00The Six Pressures That Make Living Difficult<p>The pressures that most commonly disturb us are usually environmental. The six pressures that make living difficult are:</p>
<ol>
<li>Bodily pressures, such as sickness, age, fear of accidents, and fear of death.</li>
<li>Economic pressures, such as lack of training or credentials, unemployment, debt, disability, extravagance of self or family, unusual expenses, unexpected responsibilities, taxes, inflation, cost of adequate insurance, and the needs of children and other dependents.</li>
<li>Social pressures, such as lack of true friends, loneliness, status seeking, the temptation to compromise standards, lack of constructive interests, and fear of society and its demands upon character.</li>
<li>Emotional pressures, such as romantic difficulties, domestic problems, incompatibility, worries over children and other loved ones, fear of marriage or divorce, intemperance, infidelity, promiscuity, scandal, and emotional immaturity.</li>
<li>Character pressures involving lack of self control, worry, vanity, hatred, jealousy, unreasonable ambition, stubbornness, cruelty, short sightedness, egotism, willfulness, and over-possessiveness.</li>
<li>Spiritual pressures such as fear, lack of faith, or a feeling of internal insecurity. Other causes can be conflicts arising from religious confusion in society, the conflict of creeds, various depressing superstitions, and fanaticism.</li>
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<p>All these external factors press in upon us through our sensory perceptions and are then coordinated by our mind; they begin to form a negative psychological syndrome, which in turn becomes pressure, which will then impel our future conduct. The constant flow of pressures into the individual often results in complexes, fixations and neuroses.</p>
<p>One of the mistakes that most people make is the belief that the aggressive conquest of environment is possible. Actually, it is not possible, because no human being can actually control environmental circumstances. Nobody can foresee or dominate the conduct of all other human beings.</p>
<p>The physical body is the receptacle of pressures. The human being, because we are pressure, has no adequate defense against pressure. The degree of self-control a person possesses reveals the degree that the will, conditioned by experience, has been able to reduce pressure. Thus life appears as an infinite variety of pressures setting up an infinite variety of demands, each requiring immediate gratification.</p>
<p>Heredity and environment now come into play. Both of these factors are merely pressures moving in upon us directly or indirectly from other people. As environment consists of many degrees and combinations of pressures and the consequences caused by these pressures, it provides valuable instruction. We must t decide whether we wish to profit by insight or continue to be the victim of our own ignorance.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6571" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/03/01/the-six-pressures-that-make-living-difficult/increased-intracranial-pressure/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/increased-intracranial-pressure.jpg?w=640" data-orig-size="650,352" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Increased-Intracranial-Pressure" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/increased-intracranial-pressure.jpg?w=640?w=300" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/increased-intracranial-pressure.jpg?w=640?w=640" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6571 aligncenter" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/increased-intracranial-pressure.jpg?w=640" alt="Increased-Intracranial-Pressure" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/increased-intracranial-pressure.jpg?w=640 640w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/increased-intracranial-pressure.jpg?w=150 150w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/increased-intracranial-pressure.jpg?w=300 300w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/increased-intracranial-pressure.jpg 650w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
<p>Buddhism affirms that pressure is the torturer of life, the true cause of misery, madness and death. We can build all kinds of intellectual deceits. We can argue and excuse. We can draw pictures and develop formulas, but we cannot escape the simple fact that we must reduce the pressure or destroy ourselves.</p>
<p>Those long accustomed to think of pressure as a natural stimulant may have some trouble realizing that it is only a nerve whip. Nature provides pressure for certain emergencies, but life cannot and should not be one long emergency.</p>
<p>We all must recover from the delusion that pressure provides the energy necessary for accomplishment. We are not missiles, and life is not a problem trajectory. WE can achieve our goals without tension by having clear insight, trained ability and purposed planning. Pressure pushes us on to exhaustion, not to victory.</p>
<p>The most universal therapeutic agent available to us is nature itself. Color, form, sound, and design reveal universal motions and processes.</p>
<p>Evil can never impress good upon the soul, and we must remember that direct action makes the deepest and most lasting impressions.</p>
<p>Not by fighting tension but by cultivating relaxation we achieve the solution to the problem. It is conscious receptivity to the benevolence of the universal plan that helps to heal the sufferings caused by disordered thoughts and emotions.</p>
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<p>Anything, which increases tension, also lowers self-control. Beauty does not increase tension, but deformity does. Violation of conscience creates pressure. Exposure to hatred or violence creates tension. Immoral, amoral art or psychotic music creates tension. That which is in itself not good cannot be a direct cause of good. When we try to overthrow evil by revulsive tension, we create situation, which will lead to further tension. The war inside us can never result in peace.</p>
<p>Tension is merely stress moving into manifestation. Anything, which apparently can be accomplished by tension, can be more safely accomplished by disciplined action without tension. To become tense is the quickest way to make our problems larger and ourselves smaller. A head on collision with tension seldom is the solution. It is usually wiser to direct our thoughts and feelings into more constructive channels and allow the tension to subside from lack of support.</p>
<p>Which brings us to the point that, if a we can be the victim of our environment, it becomes evident that environment can shape our destiny. If bad habits can destroy us, good habits could also then rescue us. A single wrong attitude strengthened by repetition can become a destructive negative force. Conversely a single right attitude given strength and repetition can create a powerful constructive psychological archetype.</p>
<p>If children can be led into delinquency by motion pictures, televisions, and improper books, it is foolish to say that they cannot be inspired by an improved level of entertainment and literature that leads to better character and normalized psychic patterns. But, since it is not likely at the moment that desirable reforms will occur in society, each individual must make the necessary constructive adjustments in their own way of life.</p>
<p>We should remember that the normal state of the body is health, and the normal state of the mind is sanity. The emotions find their fullest expression through love, friendship, and kindness. We must settle down to the serious labor of self- improvement if we want to change our reality. Health like happiness much be earned, and each person must earn their own happiness. Fortunately, we have been endowed with the means for our own perfection. Growth is a do-it-yourself project. Get to work!</p>
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Julia29http://www.blogger.com/profile/09959432249593123988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847287520792993384.post-79395942224960131312018-01-27T00:25:00.001-08:002018-01-27T00:25:07.842-08:00Find The Facts And Live By Them<p>We live in a kind of world in which we have created an artificial pattern. We have come to conclude that the troubles of life are real and immediate, and the joys of life remote and reserved for a fortunate few. We have also come to the general feeling that the knowledge necessary for our own enlightenment is extremely difficult to secure.</p>
<p>In a sense, this is true, but it is not true because of the quality of knowledge, but only because of the attitudes we have created within our own natures. We have created a wall between ourselves and the natural life.<img data-attachment-id="6553" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/01/27/find-the-facts-and-live-by-them/quote-we-are-at-war-between-consciousness-and-nature-between-the-desire-for-permanence-and-the-fact-of-alan-watts-354905/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-we-are-at-war-between-consciousness-and-nature-between-the-desire-for-permanence-and-the-fact-of-alan-watts-354905.jpg?w=640" data-orig-size="850,400" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="quote-we-are-at-war-between-consciousness-and-nature-between-the-desire-for-permanence-and-the-fact-of-alan-watts-354905" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-we-are-at-war-between-consciousness-and-nature-between-the-desire-for-permanence-and-the-fact-of-alan-watts-354905.jpg?w=640?w=300" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-we-are-at-war-between-consciousness-and-nature-between-the-desire-for-permanence-and-the-fact-of-alan-watts-354905.jpg?w=640?w=640" class=" size-full wp-image-6553 aligncenter" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-we-are-at-war-between-consciousness-and-nature-between-the-desire-for-permanence-and-the-fact-of-alan-watts-354905.jpg?w=640" alt="quote-we-are-at-war-between-consciousness-and-nature-between-the-desire-for-permanence-and-the-fact-of-alan-watts-354905" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-we-are-at-war-between-consciousness-and-nature-between-the-desire-for-permanence-and-the-fact-of-alan-watts-354905.jpg?w=640 640w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-we-are-at-war-between-consciousness-and-nature-between-the-desire-for-permanence-and-the-fact-of-alan-watts-354905.jpg?w=150 150w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-we-are-at-war-between-consciousness-and-nature-between-the-desire-for-permanence-and-the-fact-of-alan-watts-354905.jpg?w=300 300w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-we-are-at-war-between-consciousness-and-nature-between-the-desire-for-permanence-and-the-fact-of-alan-watts-354905.jpg?w=768 768w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-we-are-at-war-between-consciousness-and-nature-between-the-desire-for-permanence-and-the-fact-of-alan-watts-354905.jpg 850w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
<p>Let us all think back a little to what was happening twenty or thirty years ago – the houses we lived in, the people we knew, the patterns which made up our friendships and acquaintances. As we look back upon that time, we see many faces in our minds that are no longer with us; we see situations that have broken up and disappeared; we see old houses that have been torn down for freeways; we see gardens that have disappeared to make way for apartment houses. The whole area of our experience has changed.</p>
<p>Now, it is perfectly normal to develop a little nostalgia about this. But, what it really does, is it points out that all things change; that whatever we grasp at vanishes even as we reach for it, and that most of the experiences of life have permanence only in our own memories.</p>
<p>So instead of regarding the world as a permanent place, maybe we should regard it as shifting sands of circumstance.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6554" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/01/27/find-the-facts-and-live-by-them/ad6/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/ad6.jpg?w=640" data-orig-size="1069,677" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="ad6" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/ad6.jpg?w=640?w=300" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/ad6.jpg?w=640?w=640" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6554 aligncenter" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/ad6.jpg?w=640" alt="ad6" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/ad6.jpg?w=640 640w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/ad6.jpg?w=150 150w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/ad6.jpg?w=300 300w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/ad6.jpg?w=768 768w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/ad6.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/ad6.jpg 1069w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
<p>Every time the wind blows the sand, its patterns change, and the sand itself slips through our fingers. And if we think for a moment of the faces we no longer see, we can very quietly remember that some day our own face will be among those that will no longer be seen; but instead of getting melancholy over this, this should be a something that is understood. The moment we can see this other side of things, the moment we can see that the reality of life is its motion and not its stationary aspect, then we can come to recognize that things are really motion, not objects. All objects vanish. Motion goes on.</p>
<p>Motion is the only fixed thing there is. Motion is that which will continue, which has always been and always will be – a movement of life. It is this movement of life that is its very essence and substance. It is by means of this that life becomes life. Life without motion or movement is as the seed before it is quickened.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6555" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/01/27/find-the-facts-and-live-by-them/quote-remember-the-only-sign-of-life-is-motion-and-growth-swami-vivekananda-82-60-62/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-remember-the-only-sign-of-life-is-motion-and-growth-swami-vivekananda-82-60-62.jpg?w=640" data-orig-size="850,400" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="quote-remember-the-only-sign-of-life-is-motion-and-growth-swami-vivekananda-82-60-62" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-remember-the-only-sign-of-life-is-motion-and-growth-swami-vivekananda-82-60-62.jpg?w=640?w=300" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-remember-the-only-sign-of-life-is-motion-and-growth-swami-vivekananda-82-60-62.jpg?w=640?w=640" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6555 aligncenter" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-remember-the-only-sign-of-life-is-motion-and-growth-swami-vivekananda-82-60-62.jpg?w=640" alt="quote-remember-the-only-sign-of-life-is-motion-and-growth-swami-vivekananda-82-60-62.jpg" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-remember-the-only-sign-of-life-is-motion-and-growth-swami-vivekananda-82-60-62.jpg?w=640 640w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-remember-the-only-sign-of-life-is-motion-and-growth-swami-vivekananda-82-60-62.jpg?w=150 150w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-remember-the-only-sign-of-life-is-motion-and-growth-swami-vivekananda-82-60-62.jpg?w=300 300w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-remember-the-only-sign-of-life-is-motion-and-growth-swami-vivekananda-82-60-62.jpg?w=768 768w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/quote-remember-the-only-sign-of-life-is-motion-and-growth-swami-vivekananda-82-60-62.jpg 850w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
<p>Within us, then, is pure motion. Our self instead of being a fixed ego, is motion. It is something that is always in a state of becoming what it has not yet attained, and releasing that, which has already acquired. Motion is from the things that have been to the things that are, and on through all other states and conditions. Thus we live from what we have been, from what we are, and toward what we will be.</p>
<p>Change is natural to moving things. Change is only difficult to the person who believes that his own mind never changes.</p>
<p>It is a fact that everything in nature moves. Everything moves from the state of insufficiency to the state of greater sufficiency; from failure to success; from slavery to freedom. Therefore, there is in ourselves no impediment to our own motion to completion, except the impediment, which we place in our own minds.</p>
<p>If then, instead of living in a fixed world, we begin to look around us, we will discover something that we already know scientifically, but which in our psychology we do not always admit to ourselves. Our earth is moving, everything that we have is moving through space rapidly or more rapidly than any projectile that we have yet been able to devise. Space, time, eternity, all is motion. Cosmic systems are forever moving.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6556" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/01/27/find-the-facts-and-live-by-them/motion-phase/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/motion-phase.png?w=640" data-orig-size="299,156" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Motion-phase" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/motion-phase.png?w=640?w=299" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/motion-phase.png?w=640?w=299" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6556 aligncenter" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/motion-phase.png?w=640" alt="Motion-phase" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/motion-phase.png 299w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/motion-phase.png?w=150 150w" sizes="(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px" /></p>
<p>We are actually not standing still, even on this little planet. And motion is of two kinds – motion from place to place, and motion from quality to quality. These motions determine our real growth, our real ability to be great beings.</p>
<p>Stability to us is very largely in terms of status. It is what we own – our bank account, our income, and the property that we administer. It is something we can reach out and touch. Or, within ourselves, stability is a thing that we can call stubbornness – the determination to maintain the status quo. It is our resolute determination to cling to those things that seem to be pleasant, and to build continuing walls against those things, which we believe to be unpleasant.</p>
<p>One of the great impediments to progress, in every area that we know, is this reactionary authoritarianism, and this little more that the continual exertion of the idea that there is a desirable permanence in things.</p>
<p>Take, for example, an area like education. With the exception of a few minor details, the educational theory of today is essentially that which was devised during the Renaissance. In other words, our educational theory actually came into existence in the 15<sup>th</sup> century. We have undoubtedly refined and advanced the subjects taught, but the theory of teaching remains essentially the same.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6557" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/01/27/find-the-facts-and-live-by-them/images-21/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/images.jpeg?w=640" data-orig-size="285,177" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="images" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/images.jpeg?w=640?w=285" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/images.jpeg?w=640?w=285" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6557 aligncenter" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/images.jpeg?w=640" alt="images" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/images.jpeg 285w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/images.jpeg?w=150 150w" sizes="(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px" /></p>
<p>We call this traditional authority. We believe that this fixedness is the desirable thing. Whenever a progressive educator arises who would like to correct some of the old faults, they are regarded as the enemy of education. It is necessary for the great-entrenched pattern of things to rise against them, with all of its authority, and discredit them, because anything, which attacks the continuance of the things as they are, is regarded as the enemy. We do not like to be moved out of patterns or to change our ways. We want to remain in the old comfortable attitudes, which have made us miserable for years and will continue to do so. So when someone comes along and suggests that we take a different attitude, we rise in defense of the old-not because it is good, but because it is familiar.</p>
<p>All over the world, therefore, the progress necessary to the solution of human problems has been inhibited by reactionary pressure. This reactionary pressure is that the individual or group shall hold on to the advantages that it has. The thing itself must be preserved.</p>
<p>But, what really must be preserved is motion. Anything that blocks or stops motion, or stops the process of a thing unfolding from within itself, is bad, and is ultimately going to result in tragedy for all concerned.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6558" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/01/27/find-the-facts-and-live-by-them/559173-buddha-quote-remember-that-the-only-constant-in-life-is-change/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/559173-buddha-quote-remember-that-the-only-constant-in-life-is-change.jpg?w=640" data-orig-size="3840,2160" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="559173-Buddha-Quote-Remember-that-the-only-constant-in-life-is-change" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/559173-buddha-quote-remember-that-the-only-constant-in-life-is-change.jpg?w=640?w=300" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/559173-buddha-quote-remember-that-the-only-constant-in-life-is-change.jpg?w=640?w=640" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6558 aligncenter" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/559173-buddha-quote-remember-that-the-only-constant-in-life-is-change.jpg?w=640" alt="559173-Buddha-Quote-Remember-that-the-only-constant-in-life-is-change.jpg" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/559173-buddha-quote-remember-that-the-only-constant-in-life-is-change.jpg?w=640 640w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/559173-buddha-quote-remember-that-the-only-constant-in-life-is-change.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/559173-buddha-quote-remember-that-the-only-constant-in-life-is-change.jpg?w=150 150w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/559173-buddha-quote-remember-that-the-only-constant-in-life-is-change.jpg?w=300 300w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/559173-buddha-quote-remember-that-the-only-constant-in-life-is-change.jpg?w=768 768w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/559173-buddha-quote-remember-that-the-only-constant-in-life-is-change.jpg?w=1024 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
<p>Now, in terms of practical living, this is tremendously important, because many of our troubles arise from our desperate struggle to avoid change. If however, we believe simply in a moving universe- if we believe that it is perfectly right and proper that things should change, that our own body should age, that our property should wear out, instead of resenting these things; if we recognize the inevitable that the things that we possess will gradually disintegrate, then we have release from this desperate effort to attempt to prevent that which we cannot prevent.</p>
<p>Everywhere we look, things gradually disappear and other things come and take their places. Each year we watch the garden grow into its winterness, and sometimes we find it necessary in some areas certainly to replant our gardens every year. No matter how beautifully they may bloom in August, we know how they are going to look in December. There is nothing we can do about it. We accept this subconsciously, but we do not apply it to our own code of conduct. We do not release ourselves from this lockedness of affirming that we must defeat the seasons.</p>
<p>If we can find some way to make or force this garden to grow, then we are a success; whereas in fact the substance, these principles cannot be defeated, and we ultimately destroy ourselves trying to defeat the principles of life.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6560" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/01/27/find-the-facts-and-live-by-them/e89364f9499ab1f6c3b5fff8355e0c63/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/e89364f9499ab1f6c3b5fff8355e0c63.jpg?w=640" data-orig-size="600,647" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4.8","credit":"","camera":"E7900","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1128134861","copyright":"","focal_length":"7.8","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.0037411099066705","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="e89364f9499ab1f6c3b5fff8355e0c63" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/e89364f9499ab1f6c3b5fff8355e0c63.jpg?w=640?w=278" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/e89364f9499ab1f6c3b5fff8355e0c63.jpg?w=640?w=600" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6560 aligncenter" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/e89364f9499ab1f6c3b5fff8355e0c63.jpg?w=640" alt="e89364f9499ab1f6c3b5fff8355e0c63" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/e89364f9499ab1f6c3b5fff8355e0c63.jpg 600w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/e89364f9499ab1f6c3b5fff8355e0c63.jpg?w=139 139w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/e89364f9499ab1f6c3b5fff8355e0c63.jpg?w=278 278w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></p>
<p>So we need to remind ourselves as strongly as possible, to become observant, to simply accept those things which time and eternity and the living motions of life, reveal to be true. It is not necessary for us always to believe what we read in books; but we cannot successfully deny what we see unfolding around us in the ritual of nature itself.</p>
<p>We cannot deny the story of the morning glory, although it may not be the same kind of story that we find in the book of history. We cannot deny the example and the experience of the bird and the butterfly, the flowering plant, the great tree, the mountain, the rivers. All of these experiences move in upon us, and they become the valid messengers of one fact – namely, that everything it the universe is change.</p>
<p>Actually we have no right to say that change is bad. If change is bad, God is bad; if change is wrong, then the whole universe if wrong, and there is nothing we can do about it. Change is the most blessed of all things. It is, however, a continuance against which we have built one very difficult barrier, and that is the barrier of death.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6564" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/01/27/find-the-facts-and-live-by-them/unknown-18/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/unknown.jpeg?w=640" data-orig-size="300,168" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Unknown" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/unknown.jpeg?w=640?w=300" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/unknown.jpeg?w=640?w=300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6564 aligncenter" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/unknown.jpeg?w=640" alt="Unknown.jpeg" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/unknown.jpeg 300w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/unknown.jpeg?w=150 150w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p>We assume that all change leads to death, and that beyond death, there is only uncertainty. Even the most theologically minded person with a strong moral argument for immortality, still measures, by means of his sensory perception, the duration of things, and marks this duration with death. However, all change ends in life, because death is not the end, but a releasing of things from restraint against change.</p>
<p>If we can remove the idea that change ends in death, we will destroy one of the great adversaries to our peace of mind, and we will have greater courage with which to free life, and to live our own lives without this barrier being forever high before us. Then, motion becomes the symbol of complete freedom. This motion goes on forever, fulfilling its own purposes, and carrying with it the fulfillment of all creatures; <strong>for it is motion that makes growth possible, and it is growth which makes enlightenment inevitable.</strong></p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="6559" data-permalink="https://hermeticahealth.me/2018/01/27/find-the-facts-and-live-by-them/r5a_e_vdzc/" data-orig-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/r5a_e_vdzc.png?w=640" data-orig-size="533,400" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="r5a_e_vdzc" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/r5a_e_vdzc.png?w=640?w=300" data-large-file="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/r5a_e_vdzc.png?w=640?w=533" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6559 aligncenter" src="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/r5a_e_vdzc.png?w=640" alt="r5a_e_vdzc.png" srcset="https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/r5a_e_vdzc.png 533w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/r5a_e_vdzc.png?w=150 150w, https://roxcell.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/r5a_e_vdzc.png?w=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px" /></p>
<p>Let us imagine for a moment, that we are trying to sincerely get some peace of soul, to get through this block, which holds so many of us.</p>
<p>Through the love of nature we can develop of kinship with life. We can pick up books on nature study and gain some magnificent insight. Anyone who has ever read through a book on the life of birds, or on the life of insects, or has considered the stories written on these little lives, will suddenly discover the universality of intelligence. We would realize that these little creatures, without our faculties or powers, have tremendous existence of their own and that we, by our faculties and powers, has become disorderly, disobedient and has allowed our ambitions to threaten the survival of our own kind and all other kinds in nature.</p>
<p>We have all seen the metamorphosis of the butterfly from the caterpillar; we have all seen life come to the nest in the tree; we see around us all the manifestations of universal energy – motion that make up the mystery of nature; but only a few perhaps have ever come to experience these facts in a way that influenced and modified their own lives. Most people do not accept these facts as Scriptures to be meditated upon, as mysterious mandalas to be studied and explored.</p>
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<p>We can turn to the sky and the mountains and the moving stream. Here there are no doubts- only facts. We can explain them in a thousand ways, but the facts remain. The rivers cannot talk to us; the birds cannot tell us anything; and yet there is nothing that has existence that does not speak. Trees speak – you can hear their voices when the wind moves through the branches, birds speak with their song. Some things speak in color, and others in motion.</p>
<p>The race of living things speaks in the flutter of wings and little cries at night. The fish speaks, for you hear the little eddy of water when he swims; he jumps into the air and there is a little splash in the pool- this is the voice of his way of life. Everything has some kind of voice, and the quieter we become to more of these voices we can hear. All of these voices together reminding us that we live in a universe of facts, that we live in a universe of things that are just as they are, although we have tried to create out of this a universe of things we believe them to be.</p>
<p>Again the facts as they are will be only our ignorance of the facts; and ignorance is a complex thing, for it includes innumerable prejudices and intolerances and intemperance of attitude.</p>
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<p>What we call evil Is not an evilness of being, but a fixation of wrong attitude. It is something that arises as the result of tradition, association, temptation and a lack of interior integration. <em><strong>All ignorant people regardless of how they choose to live are criminals in some degree, because every ignorant person will hurt someone, and this itself is a crime. Every person who is selfish, or who advances his own cause at the harm of another is criminal. Everyone who breaks Universal law, is a criminal before the Law.</strong></em></p>
<p>But this does not mean that such individuals are hopeless; it does not mean that they must be punished forever or cast out of society. It means that the vortex of attitude by means of which the criminal state arises in the self, must be corrected.</p>
<p>We must remember that we live in a universe of Law; we live in a universe in which the Law itself is beautiful. We do not live in a universe of frustrating, inhibiting, tyrannizing laws, but of laws causing motion, causing all things to unfold out of their own needs.</p>
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<p>In nature there are infinite forms of life, and each one of these comes to its own blossom.</p>
<p>The universe is not made up of things; it is made up of relationships between phases of motion. Therefore, we are the ones who create the obstacles with which we confront our own endeavors and purposes.</p>
<p>We must begin to reduce the pressure; because after all, what does it benefit us if we gain the whole world and lose our own soul?</p>
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<p>All people have their festivals. They have to have those occasions in order to give an opportunity for individuals to express themselves in a clear and definite manner.</p>
<p>To be honest, we need these types of common activities. We need to get together in the spirit of friendliness, of good fellowship, of veneration and respect for things of value and for the simple enjoyment of the various occasions that nature produces which are suitable to our appreciation.</p>
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<p>Actually, a festival is a symbol of man’s participation in some form of gratitude, appreciation, friendship, kindness, generosity or mutual good feeling.</p>
<p>So when the time comes for us to celebrate any occasion, we should make the most of it. Some might say that such remembrances are childish, but anyone who thinks humanity is grown up, is also making a grave mistake. Because the truth is we are all childish, and perhaps it is our childishness that makes life endurable to us all.</p>
<p>Everything depicts on why we are here. If we are here to build apartment houses, and great structures of glass and steel, to compete with each other, then the child is certainly at a disadvantage. But if we are here as a movement in a great journey to build within ourselves a consciousness of great value then perhaps the child is better off than we think. Perhaps if we could have more of this child quality going into maturity we would not have some of the terrible problems we have today.</p>
<p>Perhaps it is the child that really represents the true maturity of the race, the unspoiled human being. In the child, you have very little of these terrible antagonisms and animosities that can be cultivated only by association with adults.</p>
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<p>The child is not intolerant. It is not a religious fanatic by nature. The child is not corrupt by disposition — with a very few examples to the contrary, for occasionally we do find the very difficult child. But for the most part, children brought up in normal environments, are by nature well intended and properly disposed toward life. Gradually we destroy this.</p>
<p>But, we need the child life, the child heart, the child joys, and with such a holiday as Christmas, whether we wish to admit it or not, the adults are having just as much pleasure as the children. Perhaps, it is a good plan then, to make the most of every opportunity to express beauty and kindness and to reveal personal generosity. If we do not preserve these values, we really are going to destroy what is left of our civilization.</p>
<p>So much of our religious life is only abstract. We have golden rules we seldom follow; we have beautiful thoughts that we can quietly meditate upon, but which are disrupted by every practical event of life; we have determination to do wonderful and kindly things in a spiritual way, and then our personal feelings step in and we may be anything but kind and thoughtful.</p>
<p>It seems, therefore, that part of religion has always been the process of taking a beautiful idea and making it work, getting it out of the mind and the heart and into our hands and life so that something is actually done about it. But the moment we move these convictions out into visible and physical expression, we subject them to the frosts of circumstance.</p>
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<p>If all our virtues are held only as abstract truths in the heart and mind, they serve nothing. They do not even serve us. Abstract truths cost us nothing; they mean nothing to us until we have to make some physical, mental, emotional, moral stand in regard to our convictions. Unless we prove these things to be real in ourselves, they do not help us, and they do nothing for others.</p>
<p>Let’s pause for a moment. We have holidays on Washington’s birthday, Lincoln’s birthday, Columbus Day, Fourth of July, because they stand for principles that we admire and think about.</p>
<p>Christmas is unique in the fact that it represent’s man’s celebration of the ultimate virtues as he is able to understand them — the highest good, the greatest depths of insight. They represent the two great mysteries of life: the mystery of eternal giving, and the mystery of eternal resurrection. <strong>These are the great universal truths that touch people of every faith everywhere</strong>.</p>
<p>They are not national holidays, they are world holidays, and everyone celebrates them under some name or symbol. They represent man’s relationship with infinite life, and it is perfectly right and proper that on these occasions, we should restate our relationship with the infinite plan, the infinite good, the infinite love; for these are our securities. And, until we are able to live always in the right, it is good that there are days, which the light shines especially bright.</p>
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<p>So let us take the Christmas season and try to realize a little more of what it basically means.</p>
<p>We have united two distinct concepts – one is sharing of gifts according to the ancient tradition of St. Nicholas of Myra, and the other is the celebration of the nativity of Jesus.</p>
<p>Actually, Christmas is a symbolic kind of foreshadowing of the Sacrament of the Eucharist, for in the sharing of our goods, coming together in the name of a holy and sacred being to bring joy and friendship and kindness to other people, those who celebrate are really performing a part of the Christian sacrament.</p>
<p>Christmas, therefore, is a time to get certain convictions into practice, and everything actually depends upon ourselves. The Christmas spirit is not something that is bought or exchanged or conferred. It is an awareness from within our own spirit.</p>
<p>Everywhere the Christmas spirit should be regarded for what it is—a spirit moving from within us – a spirit that is going to take things that are not very beautiful and transmute them. If it has no transmuting power, if it simply gets bogged down in the common symbolism we have not achieved much. We must take what has gradually become a physical festival and transmute it again into what it originally was intended to be.</p>
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<p>We do this by attempting in the Christmas season to live the principles operative in our relations with each other. There should be emphasis upon the spiritual meaning of Christmas, an awareness that the giving of presents is a symbol of something.</p>
<p>Actually, it is a symbol of two things: our utter dependence upon life itself for everything we have, and the giving of ourselves for the good of others. While we may develop various agricultural instruments, learn to handle harvest and create an economic systems around the produce that we grow, still, ultimately, everything that we use comes to us first as the gift of the universe.</p>
<p>The refinement and merchandising and distribution of products becomes the basis of expense, but everything that we really need is here for us without a price tag. It was put here by nature itself, which makes it possible for all creatures to live, if they will live together in fraternity rather than discord.</p>
<p>Poverty is not a divine institution; it is the result of the inconsistent administration of these things which nature bestows. We are in a position at all times to make sure that all human beings have what is necessary for their survival – perhaps more. So we should give honor on Christmas to this universal availability of the needs of life. We give thanks that nature in its infinite wisdom has provided all its creatures with everything they require. And if we learn the proper ways of distribution, there can be no real need or poverty in the world.</p>
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<p>In the ancient statement of the Mass, the lines repeat again and again. “Do this in honor of me,” or “Do this in memory of me.” All the things that we do in connection with the Christian mystery should be done in remembrance of the power of the Divine Giver. When we accept with kindness that which may be useless, we are doing this in the kindness of remembrance of the great principle of giving for which the small insignificant package stands. When we give regardless of the poverty of our material abilities, we give in the name of that which is eternal life. And there is no time in the year in which we should be more charitable than at Christmastime.</p>
<p>Nature gives us every opportunity to see the consequences of actions. Our scriptures, our great structures of idealism are not based merely on someone’s opinion. They do not arise from a prejudice of five thousand years ago; nor have they become obsolete as the result of the infinite changes taking place in society. Man’s spiritual codes have been built upon the quiet observance of common experience.</p>
<p>They are the result of man living with man for thousands of years, observing his ways of action, noting the effects of his conduct upon not only his environment immediately, but upon the whole course of history.</p>
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<p>The opinions of the ancients have been summarized wisely in the great commandments of the past, and we know beyond all question of a doubt that the path of selfishness cannot succeed; that regardless of the inducements, regardless of the promises, regardless of the apparent immediate advantages, selfishness leads to the destruction of the individual and the collapse of society as a whole. Some day we have to face this.</p>
<p>Perhaps this Christmas can help us in a practical way, for it is one day that stands for the elevation of principle over profit. Now, it may be that the merchants have made a little profit along the way, but that has no bearing upon us. In our own lives, we have a conviction, and according to this conviction, we have set aside this day to celebrate what some regard as one the most perfect examples of human character that ever lived.</p>
<p>We have set this day aside for the universal respect and admiration for qualities and virtues we all possess but which this one person seems to have been able to manifest perfectly before men. So on this day, we are honoring the very principle that we need today for the survival of our world.</p>
<p>We are accepting the concept that spiritual truth is stronger than material benefit and the conviction that beauty and love are the true rulers of the world. We are elevating and paying homage to integrity, the highest form of honor and honesty. We are also pointing our that perhaps the most commendable of all virtues is truly that man will sacrifice himself–all that he has and all that he is to the service of his brother men in need.</p>
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<p>We are honoring on this day a person who exemplifies every quality that we consider to be essential, basically right and eternally true. If we think about it for a moment we would realize how, in a certain way, this person whom we worship or regard is also a symbol of the superiority that we all really seek.</p>
<p>So this Christmas, we should all do everything possible to guard against negative thoughts. Let us be determined that we are not going to think dark thoughts about anything- not about those around us, or about the world, or about politics. Let us use this season to lighten our own thinking, to make it bright within ourselves. And for a few days, if we claim to have any religion in us at all, let us put this religion to work, with the conviction that if we can live it for two or three days intensely that we can set up a pattern of gratitude instead.</p>
<p><em>Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.</em></p>
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Julia29http://www.blogger.com/profile/09959432249593123988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847287520792993384.post-19794788072146928042017-10-11T11:12:00.001-07:002017-10-11T11:12:37.057-07:00In Order To Help Many People, We Must Be Many People<p>Of all the problems that each person must solve, the complexity of our own temperament is probably the most challenging. Most of us have very little trouble giving other people good advice – we see exactly what is wrong with them – and we tend to develop the attitude that perhaps we have been more fortunate; that through experience or opportunity we are just a little wiser than the others.</p>
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<p>And then a little problem comes home to us, and confusion immediately results. The confusion, of course, arises from the important principle operating in nature that impersonal judgment is always best. It is very true and we cannot deny it, that we can advise others in many areas where we cannot solve our own, simply because personal involvement results in loss of perspective.</p>
<p>We spend many years becoming proficient in some art or science but we must also remember to give some time and thought to disciplining and directing our own consciousness.</p>
<p>Any time we have a feeling that the moods that arise within ourselves are inevitable we develop what might be termed as “blind spots in our understanding”. Several factors can lead to this type of “blindness”. One is prejudice.</p>
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<p>In any area where we have prejudice, we lose sight of facts. Prejudice is a kind of intensity that drives us past what is reasonable. If we study this problem we would come to one general conclusion, which is that each person has areas of his own understanding that has not been developed.</p>
<p>These areas represent fields of activity with which we are not familiar, patterns of life that we have not experienced, levels of understanding that we personally have not known. We must then depend upon advice, or opinions of those more learned than ourselves, “experts” in various fields.</p>
<p>Sometimes those experts are really helpful, particularly on practical levels but no experts can contribute to us their experience; they can merely apply it to our problems, and sometimes this adds further confusion, inasmuch as they are applying a perspective that belongs peculiarly to themselves. They have not experienced our problems, any more than we have experienced theirs. Practice and familiarity and constant work may give them certain advantages, but these advantages also have their limitations.</p>
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<p>So it is important for each of us to experience as wide an area of life as is feasible or practical for us. Our blind spots are nearly always in areas where for one reason or another we may have refused to live, or refused to think through or accept certain ideas that have appeared distasteful or unimportant.</p>
<p>Today it is assumed that we know many things that we actually do not know. It is assumed that in our search for spiritual consolation, we are adequately informed on the principles of religion. This is usually not true. We do not have as much ground work as we might wish. We must develop a greater breadth of thinking in order to meet the challenges of other minds.</p>
<p>The unknown is not or should not be the cause of anxiety. What we do not know should not cause us to be unkind, critical or suspicious. We should assume the unknown is merely an extension of the known. We should realize that the meadows that we have never seen are not different from meadows that we have seen, and that just as surely as the familiar landscape is beautiful so the landscape that we do not know is also beautiful.</p>
<p>Some areas have mountains, and other shave seas; but each has its own beauty. And the same is true of humanity. The people we do not know are not mysterious; they are just like the people we know. Sometimes that is a disturbing thought, but we should accustom ourselves to it. The basic emotions of all people are essentially the same.</p>
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<p>That which we do not understand should not cause us to suddenly pause and tighten. We should approach these things with a desire to understand and an expectation that what we find will be natural, reasonable, and proper. It may not be exactly what we want, but then, what we do understand is not always what we want either.</p>
<p>We must not be afraid of growth or change. We must not fear broader vistas. Of course, we have a right to choose what is most suitable to ourselves, but we should also recognize the right of others to choose. We may admit that tastes differ, but it is very hard for us to really accept this. We have lived so long in the concept that there is only our own good taste and everyone else’s bad taste. Yet, to others, we may be among those with bad taste.</p>
<p>We can gradually correct our tendency to make these generalities. They do not hurt the people or the groups against which we direct them as much as they hurt us. The great danger of a generality that covers a vast area without any deep consideration, and arrives at negative conclusion is that it is continually taking us away from learning. It makes us reject the challenge of that group or situation.</p>
<p>We should remember that we learn most by relaxing; we teach best by listening, we help others in many cases just by gradually coming to understand the total pattern of their kind of life. It creates bridges of understanding.</p>
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<p>Every day we live, we should not only strengthen our strong points of character, but also redeem our weak points. By simply working, day by day to understand and to share, and refusing to permit prejudice or criticism to limit our search for knowledge.</p>
<p>When we decide that there are things we do not like simply because we know nothing about them, or perhaps because we have mistaken one or two solitary instances for a complete picture, it comes time to review the whole situation.</p>
<p>We know for example that today we are having trouble internationally partly because small groups of visiting tourists from a certain country have behaved miserably. They have gone out as ambassadors and representatives and have betrayed their country as far as maintaining any dignity or prestige as far as the homeland is concerned.</p>
<p>As a result, we will find in some small town in Portugal or somewhere the typical Portuguese who does not like Americans. He may also be in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, England, Scandinavia or any part of Asia or Latin America, because they all feel the same way. To them, we are an extravagant impolite, disagreeable, fault-finding, critical, snobbish group, and they know it. After all, they have met six of us.</p>
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<p>The same thing happens here. We do not like a certain religion. We just know it is bad, because we knew two people who belonged to it, and neither one of them was pleasant; therefore, we have all the facts.</p>
<p><em>Facts about what?</em></p>
<p>Not about the religion – about two people. But we never seem to be able to keep the points clear. So wherever we have prejudice, we must look a little deeper.</p>
<p>If our prejudice is directed against a religion, for example, we must try to understand why this religion, with perhaps 400 million followers, can survive with our disapproval. Somebody must like it. Some people must find good in it, or they would not believe it. People are not that foolish. Therefore, it is up to us to go a little deeper.</p>
<p>We do not have to join the religion, but we cannot allow it to be a blank area or prejudice in our own consciousness because if we do, it may sometimes cause us to cause a terrible injury upon a perfectly honorable member of that faith. We will not have natural honesty when we come in contact with that person, and this lack of honesty arising from ignorance, will also hurt us because that person might have become a valuable window into a larger world.</p>
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<p>It is the same with every field of learning-art, sciences, industry, politics – all these things have to be understood. This does not mean that we take the Pollyanna attitude that everything is right but we should take the attitude that everything is interesting. In everything there are probably values that we should understand, for we are not even entitled to criticize unless we understand. And usually understanding ends criticism. We have a right to choose what is good for us, but we have very little right to condemn.</p>
<p>We must learn to have a certain amount of detachment. One way to do this is to simply look in the mirror. We shall then observe in all probability that we are not marked by Heaven with any particular symbol by which we are superior to other creatures.</p>
<p>Even under ordinary conditions, even if we are slightly sensitive, our haloes do not show in the mirror, and they do not show to other people. As we observe, as we look at ourselves, we have a somewhat reminiscent similarity to a creature called a human being; that we are just like people. We are people with all others, striving to learn. We were born as they were born, we grew as they grew; we suffered as they suffered; we achieved as they achieved; and in due course we will depart as they departed.</p>
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<p>Therefore, there is nothing about us that demands that we regard ourselves as a peculiar and sacred creation apart from everyone else. We have a perfect right to learn, and to grow and to share, but there are very few persons in this world who have the right to dominate.</p>
<p>It is not necessary that other people agree with us. It is not necessary that others cater to us, or that they should keep their tempers when we lose ours. The thing that is essentially necessary and right is that we shall grow up in the world together, enjoying our own individuality and enjoying the individuality of others – not trying to create conformity, but trying to help people be themselves.</p>
<p>This is real helping, and it means a larger foundation in our own thinking. In order to help many people we must <em>be</em> many people. We must have in ourselves an availability of general knowledge, understanding and appreciation.</p>
<p>We must grow beyond the tendency to criticize or condemn. We may not agree but we can understand; we can sympathize. We can realize the circumstances and conditions that cause other people to be what they are, because we are gradually learning to appreciate the conditions that made us what we are.</p>
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Julia29http://www.blogger.com/profile/09959432249593123988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847287520792993384.post-89163707647609254922017-08-31T14:01:00.001-07:002017-08-31T14:01:21.394-07:00To Live By Medicine Is To Live Horribly<p>We are all, to a measure, the victims of the environments in which we live. When this environment becomes too oppressive, denying us self-expression, or discouraging it to the degree we no longer have energy or resistance to demand personal rights, we are bound to become unhappy. We then seek a way of relieving the negative pressure in our lives.</p>
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<p>In modern society, certain drugs and assorted pills have come into the category of escape mechanisms.</p>
<p>Before we begin we must differentiate, of course, between the right and wrong use of medication. There are undoubtedly individuals who need medical help, and who, seemingly at least, benefit from a certain use of medications. If a person develops certain symptoms and finds extraordinary difficulty in getting along without sedation; or without some type of artificial stimulation, then this person is probably sick. Such illness needs proper diagnosis, analysis, and care.</p>
<p>However, it does not pay merely to drug ourselves in the hope that we can pass over certain symptoms. We are learning to depend too much upon this kind of thing. Of course, it is very profitable to the pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers to make us all addicts to these remedies, but it is not profitable to us and it is not a good or valid use of medication.</p>
<p>Our forefathers and those of preceding generations made use of natural and simple remedies on many occasions and those were useful. But there is no usefulness in the practice that is becoming prevalent today of carrying a pill bottle at all times and munching on them like candy.</p>
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<p>This type of thing is no answer to anything.</p>
<p>We now think in terms of how many packages of aspirin the average citizen consumes in the course of a year. It would seem as though we are depending upon it as a basic element in our diet, and this is not good. Yet it is hard to tell people that they should be uncomfortable or should not take care of these symptoms that come along because the individual must be able to continue with the daily processes of life.</p>
<p>Pain, discomfort, the sense within ourselves of things not being well-these symptoms are of the greatest use to us. Naturally we try to eliminate pain, but we should not forget that pain is not there merely to be alleviated. It is there to tell us something. It is a voice crying in the wilderness of our mis-behavior and it is trying to convince us that something we are doing is wrong. If we keep on ignoring this symptom, we will suffer more and more until nature will make it impossible for us to endure the difficulty without very strong sedation. If we sedate ourselves too much, we may damage the pain mechanism.</p>
<p>Twenty-five years ago, it was common practice for physicians to tell patients that they should get down on their knees and thank God for pain, because pain is nature’s way of preventing us from gradually killing ourselves without even realizing it. Suppose we should be indiscreet enough to sit down on a hot stove and had no pain reflex. We would probably be burned to death. Of course we can say that no one would be so foolish, but everyone is doing more foolish things than that everyday.</p>
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<p>Though it is possible to perfectly block each symptom, this dash to the medicine closet is no answer to anything. In an emergency, it might be necessary; but as a solution to a problem, it is worthless and always has been. There are a limited number of instances, of course, where minor ailments, aches and pains can be temporarily alleviated, so that we immunize ourselves for six to 12 hours, and where the pain will then not return.</p>
<p>But this is due to the fact that nature has been working behind the scenes to correct the situation itself. It is not proof that aspirin has cured anything; it has simply, perhaps given nature a little help in attempting to ease a difficult situation. This is very different, however, from the problem of our neurotic pressures, which do not respond permanently and will return immediately after the sedation passes. To continually relieve these pressures, therefore the individual must become a chronic or habitual user of various types of sedation.</p>
<p>What does a tranquilizer do? It simply lowers nerve function. It creates a temporary toxic state in which the individual becomes unconscious. The individual whose nerve reactions are not quite so acute feels happier. They become increasingly comfortable as he lowers the threshold of consciousness. If they could be totally unconscious, they probably could be happy all the time.</p>
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<p>It is only when we are awake that we worry. It is only when we are conscious that we are sorry for anything. So if we can keep the individual further and further under the influence of negative drugs, they will gradually emerge as a kind of happy idiot, where they will experience nothing unfortunate because their centers of responsible cognition have been numbed. This apparently is the end greatly desired at the moment. We want to enjoy being foolish and that seems to suggest these tranquilizers.</p>
<p>Everything in life has become the basis of an anxiety mechanism and a dash for the bottle. We face every emergency with a bottle in each hand. Today the pill-taker is the “normal” person; but he is still sick. He is not normal, and he never will be. All these things are just plain foolishness.</p>
<p>We are losing the power to think things through; we are losing the desire to make any real personal effort to solve things. We do not wish to solve them; we wish to be immunized by some fancy method. This can ultimately become as dangerous as a national or international emergency as any we face today on a political level.</p>
<p>Actually, the strength of a nation has to be the integrity and integration of its people, and where this falls to pieces, there is no political power that can hold a nation together.</p>
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<p>We must realize there is no use in merely blocking symptoms, in as much as symptoms tell us facts. Usually, in modern people, these symptoms are more difficult than they were in our ancestors because we have less resourcefulness. We are not as resourceful a people as we were even 10 years ago.</p>
<p>Resourcefulness means that we have something in ourselves that is capable of taking over and contributing to the solution of our problem. It arises from experience, from the actual fact of discovering that we can stand on our own feet. This discovery is becoming increasingly rare; it is almost considered unnecessary. All we have to do is pick up that convenient telephone and almost anything we want is available. Our ancestors could not do that, so when problems arose, they had to either work them out or suffer the consequences.</p>
<p>It is nice to hope that our way represents a new standard of living that will go on forever, but actually it will not. This so-called luxury living, resulting in increasing mental and emotional laziness is not producing happiness or security or well-being that were envisioned in the beginning of our great era of modernization.</p>
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<p>Behind this situation lies a series of false values, which we must eventually face if we do not want to become hopelessly drugged and medicated generation of people.</p>
<p>About fourty years ago, psycho analysis and psychiatry began to loom large on the scientific horizon. These discoveries seemed to fit in with a new need that was arising, and it is quite possible that most psychotherapy is keyed to complexities that have come as a result of our present way of life.</p>
<p>A hundred years ago there were no psychologists as we know them today. People are always referring to the miseries and sorrows of ancient times. We know that in those days, people did not enjoy most of the facilities that we have; life was harder; working hours were longer; rewards were fewer. Yet with all these limitations, and these other pressures people were not as consistently unhappy as we are. Having less, they expected less, and this made a certain kind of balance.</p>
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<p>Nervous tension is not the same as physical effort. We can get more miserable today over the front page of the newspaper than our ancestors did after a fourteen-hour working day. We are more concerned with situations that have less validity and our sufferings are due to a fantasy that has gradually become so real that we are unable to cast it off or evaluate it correctly.</p>
<p>All these together create a set of ills that require pills to sedate the pain.</p>
<p>Our civilization is producing these as inevitable by-products. These disturbances in the body do not simple represent clouds that pass. They are becoming so chronic that is astonishing to consider the amount of research and scientific chemicalization being directed toward these problems today.</p>
<p>Whereas five years ago we had one or two tranquilizers that were of some value, today we have dozens; tomorrow we will have hundreds; before long they will become as common as aspirin. <em>(I think we are already there)</em></p>
<p>These medications by the way, do have gradually cumulative results. The pill that takes the edge off worry also takes the edge off the will to achieve. The tranquilizer gradually dedicates the individual to mediocrity. It digs in continually under the incentive mechanisms, and the loss of pain also means the loss of self- directive.</p>
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<p>This does not indicate progress. It is merely scientific ingenuity trying to struggle against private stupidity. The painkillers are not progress, but patches upon something that threatens to fall apart. They do no represent any positive advancement in knowledge, but are merely escape mechanisms for people demanding these to a far greater degree than ever before in scientific history.</p>
<p>Most of the ailments for which our assorted drugs are available come under the general heading of “nervous disturbances.” We are becoming a generation of nervous wrecks, and each person has his own explanation for his particular case.</p>
<p>What we call our problems are really evidence of hysteria within ourselves.</p>
<p>Education is contributing to the common dilemma. Our religious systems, also, have not yet been strong enough to lift us out of the problem, to give us again the courage of personal conviction in the things that we do. Yet within each one of us there is an archetypal individuality, something that wishes to be true to itself.</p>
<p>Nature has its own plans and its own ways, and these are now being continuously blocked by the artificial way of life we have gradually accumulated, which has been a burden upon the spirit since the beginning, and now threatens to be a menace to the survival of the body itself.</p>
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<p>It is useless for us to use chemicals in trying to meet this kind of problem. It is useless to believe that by some kind of process of medication we can kill out in man that which is man-the individual expression of life. The person who tries to fit into a norm may then consult a psychologist to see if something can be done to adjust him to our time. And the adjustment is possible, but, in many instances only through a different kind of sedational medication.</p>
<p>Why then, do we try to escape by means of these artificial methods? We feel nervous, things have gone wrong, we gradually develop a sour stomach, a headache and these symptoms are not to be neglected. Twenty-five years ago, it was common practice for physicians to tell patients that they should get down on their knees and thank God for pain, because pain is nature’s way of preventing us from gradually killing ourselves without even realizing it.</p>
<p>Suppose we should be indiscreet enough to sit down on a hot stove and had no pain reflex. We would probably be burned to death. Of course we can say that no one would be so foolish, but everyone is doing more foolish things than that everyday.</p>
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<p>We must learn to use our own nervous system as a thermometer. When it begins to go high, we are in trouble, and there is no solution to that trouble but to find out what caused it. If it is due to an organic or systematic problem, it may be that we are finally reaping a long harvest. Perhaps many years ago we developed attitudes that we have never been willing to change, and which are basically wrong.</p>
<p>No individual can hate and be in good health, no matter how just his dislikes may seem to be. No one can be jealous and not finally come to the pill-taking stage. We may think that the pills will neutralize jealousy; that we will be able to continue to be jealous and not feel discomfort; but he is creating a cause and effect pattern here. He is not improving his attitude, and he is endangering his body.</p>
<p>The purpose of education, of religion, and of philosophy is to make the individual tranquil by understanding without the aid of dope. If he does not wish to grow if he does not wish to use these instruments to improve himself then he will take pills and hurt himself. Nature seemingly continues to fight with man on the ground that nature’s end is that the individual shall be sufficient and that this sufficiency shall not require a pill bottle.</p>
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<p>Our only escape and true solution to most of these situations is to face the facts. Facts are not always what we want, but if we permit ourselves to war with them, we are fighting the most losing battle of all time. We know, as philosophy teaches us, that we live in a world of facts. Some of these facts are good, as far as we can understand them, some we do not understand; and some appear to be very dangerous. But we do live in a world of facts.</p>
<p>Actually when you look over some of these problems that people consider monumental, many of them are utterly ridiculous; and yet, to the person involved, they have become tremendously vital. The only answer lies in facts.</p>
<p>Know what you want, and have the courage to do it. When situations are wrong, correct hem as quickly as possible; and if you cannot correct the situation, if there is no way to correct it, and you see that it is making you sick, simply move out of it. Do not try to find escape by dulling your senses.</p>
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<p>If we find that we cannot enjoy the average normal functions of the body without continual minor medications, then either there is something wrong with our health, or there is something wrong with our psyche and either of these conditions must be cured or at least corrected as much as possible.</p>
<p>In most cases it is hardly necessary to go to a doctor because the situations represent only psychic stress. If after you have made a series of good personal adjustments, the condition remains, then it may be well to consult your doctor. The beginning, however, is always to do the thing you realize right now you should be doing. Most people know what is wrong with them they just will not face it.</p>
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<p>And in order to forget, they use every conceivable means. What we need to do is remember, and while we still have the courage to do it. This will be hard on the pill manufacturers, but it will certainly be a great saving to the individual and a great enrichment to the future.</p>
<p>Unless we solve some of these problems we are going to have a very poor heritage to pass on. We have no way of knowing yet what all this doping and drugging is actually going to mean in terms of heredity.</p>
<p>Cure the cause and the effect will die of itself. You will have better health, freedom from stress and vitality and courage you have never before experienced.</p>
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Julia29http://www.blogger.com/profile/09959432249593123988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847287520792993384.post-52973976782454972142017-08-09T14:42:00.001-07:002017-08-09T14:42:31.742-07:00What Are People For A World That Does Not Need Their Labor?<p>One of the tragedies of humanity is artificiality. Having attempted to take over the leadership of our own kind, we have placed human beings under the guidance or dominance of man rather than the intuitional power that is locked within consciousness. Little by little we have simply exiled Diety from its place of existence.</p>
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<p>We use the word God, we attend places of worship but still in most of our conduct we are man-governed rather than nature governed. We are rules by laws we created. We follow habits and policies, which we have fashioned, and we lose the tremendous advantage that comes from living close to the facts of existence.</p>
<p>There is no such thing as an atheist in space; there is only a locked mind trying to be an atheist in the midst of a divinely administered plan. There is no such thing as injustice in the universe; there is only us, creating concepts which result in injustice, and then plaguing ourselves with the consequences of our own invention. To be unhappy has become a habit with us. To be miserable has become our inevitable destiny.</p>
<p>We try to estimate the incredible wisdom that maintains the order of the stars. We can hardly dare to think about the infinite chemistry of space. Yet with all the skill and knowledge that we have today, we still discover every day that the universe is greater than we ever suspected. We go through it and on into it, step by step, with a strange faith that it is lawful.</p>
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<p>If it were not for the fact that we believe in the law of space, we could not send our astronauts out. We calculate their journeys according to laws that we believe are true, and we did not make those laws. Yet we depend on them, because if they were false our astronauts would never come home. We have to believe in a universe in which infinite integrity is everywhere forever manifested. Our whole scientific world and our most exact patterns of thought are based upon this.</p>
<p>Happiness does not arise from copying other people because the things that make them happy might make us miserable. There has to be a universal happiness- something infinitely beyond the individual patterned pleasures which we recognize; and this happiness is the freedom of life in itself.</p>
<p>Perhaps, having gradually lost our positive experience of things being right, we do not know how to revive it, how to make it alive in us; and instinctively, having set up the habit of unhappiness and we carry it along with us through the years.</p>
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<p>We can recognize that most of the way through life we are in the presence of difficult situations, and this is especially true of young people growing up in the present generation. Children growing up fifty or sixty years ago had a little better sense of happiness than the young people of today. Of course, you cannot generalize completely, for there were miseries at every period of history; but young people in the last generation or two before the great cycle of wars and depressions that have upset us, grew up, in a certain security which we do not know anymore.</p>
<p>Their ambitions had less pressure; they had more leisure time; they played more in those years when play was proper for them. They were not attempting to assume great responsibilities while they were still in their teens, and the educational theory was not filled with pressure as it is today.</p>
<p>Young people today do not have very much legitimate expression of simple, honest fun. Nearly every bit of fun we have now is costly, and perhaps detrimental to others. It has become more and more destructive. We have lost the simple pleasures.</p>
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<p>So what is it that can produce for us this continuing state of contentment and inner joy? The obvious answer is that the person to have this must live in a world of light, beauty, of appreciation and affection. We must realize that the great value of our affection is not that we are loved, but that we love, that happiness is not the result of what others due for us but the result of the dynamic expression of our own divinity. It is the expression of our own spiritual strength to be right, and this alone can bring us to the solid sense that we are cooperating with the universe, and that we are true to God, and that we are working constructively with our fellow men and women.</p>
<p>Once we have even a slight experience that there is a better life, a better consciousness that right here and now we are divided only by the wall of our own attitudes from a situation infinitely better than anything we have ever known. Once we really know this, we are inevitably moved to cultivate it. It becomes our duty, and it is also our privilege.</p>
<p>The thing is though, that each person must come to the decision on their own. Are you going to follow the rules which lead to happiness, and be happy; or are you going to follow those rules which lead to misery; and be miserable? We cannot come to any end without a decision relating to the end with which we seek.</p>
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<p>The tendency today, however, is to drift with the main body of human society, to assume that this large collective drifting is the only thing that can be done. Whatever be the styles of the time, those must be our styles; whatever be the policies they must be our policies; because if we try to stand as individuals in this collective situation, we seem to be penalized. Yet the universe did not labor for millions of years to create a human being with nothing but a herd instinct.</p>
<p>A hundred years ago, we had much more individuality than we have today, but the gradual integration and organization of our economic theory has worked a hardship on individuality. The direction in which our educational theory has gone has also worked a hardship on individuality, and we are constantly struggling now to produce conformity. This conformity we accept as so natural and inevitable that we do not even try to resist it. This might not be so bad if the conformity were getting us anywhere, but it is not.</p>
<p>If out of this conformity we came to anything resembling peace or happiness we might excuse it. We might say, “Well by following these rules, we can be well-adjusted people, therefore why not follow them” others have followed them and are happy, so we might as well. But what we really say today if we think for a moment is “others follow these rules and are miserable; therefore, we will follow them too and hope that we will be happy”. We cannot hope to win this way; the odds are too heavy. There is no winning, only various degrees of losing. If we are a slow loser we consider ourselves fortunate, if we are a fast loser than we consider ourselves less fortunate.</p>
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<p>But we are all going to lose unless we depart from a policy which has loss built into it as an inevitable. Somewhere along the line, individuals must regain certain individual rights, and these rights do not necessarily have to produce physical complications.</p>
<p>Actually, the rights that are important do not interfere with those of other people. We can cultivate them without doing damage to our neighbor or our friend. And if we do not do something that is better than what we are doing, we will do damage to our neighbors, our friends, and our world. We will create situation that we ourselves cannot endure.</p>
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Julia29http://www.blogger.com/profile/09959432249593123988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847287520792993384.post-1057312198701075312017-07-28T11:03:00.001-07:002017-07-28T11:03:16.530-07:00How Do You Know If You Are Falling For A False Sense Of Self?<p>An idealized self sounds like a model of self-acceptance. But, if we take a moment let’s listen to what it tells you:</p>
<p>“You’re doing the right thing. You’re in control. No one can hurt you. Just keep being the way you are now. “ Thus shielded, you can hardly do wrong, and if you do your misdeeds are quickly covered up and forgotten. The beauty of having an idealized image of yourself is that you actually do feel good about who you are.</p>
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<p>However, the image sometimes substitutes for a painful reality.</p>
<p>As you would expect by now, the shadow self has something to say in this matter.</p>
<p>At regular intervals one icon of righteousness, usually a preacher or a public moralist, falls into scandal. Invariably these individuals have committed the very sins they accuse others of, improper sexual misbehavior being the most typical. Cynically we imagine that these Elmer Gantries are rank hypocrites that they live out the sham of public virtue so they can pursue a vice in private.</p>
<p>In reality fallen icons are extreme examples of an idealized self-image. Their powers of denial were superhuman. The shadow couldn’t touch them.</p>
<p>Then, when the shadow did surface, an enormous sense of guilt and shame surfaced with it. Once they fall, these professional saints indulge in extremes of public atonement. But, even in contrition, nothing feels real.</p>
<p>If you pull back from the spectacle however, the whole drama could have been avoided. An idealized self-image isn’t a viable solution.</p>
<p>Only true self-acceptance is, and when that happens there is nothing for others to reject. This doesn’t mean you will be universally loved. Some one else might still walk away, but if that happens, you won’t feel rejected. It won’t result in an emotional wound.</p>
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<p>So, how do you know if you are falling for a false sense of self, which is what an idealized self-image is?</p>
<p>Dismantling your ideal self-image of yourself is a challenge, because this is a much subtler defense than simple denial.</p>
<p>Denial is blindness; the idealized self-image is pure seduction. The way out is to go past all images. There is no need to defend who you really are. Your true self is acceptable not because you are so good, but because you are complete. All things human belong to you.</p>
<p>The most important ally you have is awareness. Judgment is constrictive. When you label yourself or anyone else as bad, wrong, inferior, unworthy, and so on you are looking through a narrow lens.</p>
<p>Expand your vision and you will be aware that everyone, however flawed is complete and whole at the deepest level.</p>
<p>The more aware you are, the more you will accept yourself.</p>
<p>This isn’t an instant solution. You must spend time looking at all the feelings you’ve so diligently denied, suppressed and disguised. Fortunately those feelings are temporary; you can go beyond them.</p>
<p>There’s nothing to reject, just a lot to work through.</p>
<p>This is how a figure like Jesus or Buddha could have compassion for anyone.</p>
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<p>By seeing wholeness behind the play of light and dark they found nothing to blame. The same holds true along the spiritual path you follow.</p>
<p>As you see yourself more completely, you will have compassion for your faults, and that will lead to complete self- acceptance.</p>
<p><em>The One Versus the Many.</em></p>
<p>The solution: Surrender to being.</p>
<p>Finally we arrived at the war in your soul.</p>
<p>At this level, the conflict is very subtle, which sounds odd because we tend to think that the cosmic battle between God and Satan must be titanic.</p>
<p>In fact, it’s very delicate. As you get closer to your true self, you begin to sense that you are part of everything. Boundaries soften and disappear. There’s a blissful feeling of merging. As beautiful as this experience is, one last resistance crops up.</p>
<p>The ego says, “what about me? I don’t want to die, like the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz, whose last words were “I’m melting, I’m melting!”. The ego has been incredibly useful. It has guided you through a world of infinite diversity. Now you are about to experience unity. No wonder the ego feels fatally threatened; it sees its usefulness (and its domination coming to an end).</p>
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<p>The ego mistakes surrender for death. To be whole involves surrender. You give up one way of seeing yourself, and in its place a new way dawns. “Surrender” isn’t a welcome word to the ego, because it connotes failure, loss of control, passivity, the end of power.</p>
<p><em>When you lose an argument, aren’t you surrendering to the winner?</em> Of course!</p>
<p>Any situation couched in terms of winning and losing makes surrender seem weak, shameful depressing, and unworthy. These are all feelings at the ego level, however. Seen without ego, surrender becomes natural and desirable. A mother who gives her children what they need isn’t losing, even though one could say she’s surrendering her needs in favor of her children’s. That would be a false perspective.</p>
<p>When you give yourself out of love, you lose nothing. In fact, loving surrender is like a gain. Your sense of self expands beyond ego-driven needs and desires—these can never lead to love.</p>
<p>Surrender is not of the mind. You cannot think your way there. Instead, you must journey into pure consciousness, before words and thoughts arise. That’s the whole purpose of meditation, to carry a person beyond the thinking mind, which means beyond conflict.</p>
<p>Eventually one longs to experience the true self completely.</p>
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<p>The shadow is a thing of denial, resistance, hidden fears, and repressed hopes.</p>
<p>The spiritual path delivers everything; it can resolve all conflicts. But we expect too much of it when we ask for a panacea. Spiritual unfoldment is delicate. It can’t be reached when your mind is agitated or your attention overwhelmed by stress and other outside pressures. In other words, wholeness is a cure-all, but not an instant cure-all. You need to prepare the right conditions for going inward.</p>
<p>You only have to gaze around you at the world to see the proof of that beauty, form, order, and growth have survived for billions of years. In dealing with your shadow, you are aligning yourself with the same infinite power.</p>
<p>The instant that life is split into good and evil, the self follows suit. A divided self cannot make itself whole.</p>
<p><span style="color:#999999;"><em>Read more in The Shadow Effect</em></span></p>
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Julia29http://www.blogger.com/profile/09959432249593123988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847287520792993384.post-12995983317072334032017-07-23T12:44:00.001-07:002017-07-23T12:44:31.515-07:00Mixing Culture With Islam Is Like Mixing Poison With Water<p>It is important to understand Islam from a cultural point of view because the basis of much of the current turmoil within Muslim countries and conflict with their neighbors can be attributed to cultural clashes. Consequently, a clear understanding of culture and its derivatives is necessary to comprehend the relevance of Islam to the civilization of Muslim peoples in the twentieth century and beyond.</p>
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<p>The word “culture” comes from the Latin cultura, which is a derivative of the verb colere meaning “tending” or “cultivation.” It was first recorded in the Oxford Dictionary of English in 1510 as meaning: “training of the mind” or “manners.”1 However, culture in anthropological usage, may be defined as “the way of life of specific group.”</p>
<p><em>“Basically, the idea of culture arises from the observation that what human beings do and what they refrain from doing is, in part, a consequence of being brought up in one group as opposed to another. People have a social heredity as well as a biological heredity.”</em></p>
<p>Biological heredity represents practices common to all human societies, like, sleep, marriage, care for children and smiling, while social heredity refers to customs which usually vary from one society to the next. A simple definition of culture would then be ‘the man-made part of the human environment.’ “Members of the human species are trained in the family and in their education, formal and informal, to behave in ways that are conventional and fixed by tradition.”</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#993366;"><em>While virtually all students of man agree upon the indispensable </em><em>importance of the concept of culture, no single definition has yet won universal </em><em>acceptance.</em></span></p>
<p>The culture of most of the world today is that of Western Europe and America. It was exported to the remainder of the world during the period of European colonization and continued during the neo-colonial era by way of indirect rule. In the twentieth century Western culture has been promoted on a massive scale through the far-reaching effects of the media. Today, it is not surprising to find in the pages of National Geographic pictures of South American Indian youths in loin cloth in the middle of the Amazon wearing baseball caps with a Nike logo or Mongolian horsemen in the middle of the Gobi Desert wearing striped Adidas sweat pants and Rebook trainers.</p>
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<p>Western culture now represents the dominant cultural influence in most countries, both non-Muslim and Muslim. And it is the natural conflict that arises from the clash of cultures, which dominate the social and political policies in both the West and the East. Harvard University Professor, Samuel P. Huntington summed up the essential issues of the cultural clash in his following observation.</p>
<p>“The underlying problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power. The problem for Islam is not the CIA or the U.S. department of defense. It is the West, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the universality of their culture and believe that their superior, if declining, power imposes on them the obligation to impose that culture throughout the world. These are the basic ingredients that fuel conflict between Islam and the West.”</p>
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<p>In this statement Professor Huntington dismisses the usual claims regarding Islamic fundamentalist terrorism as the major threat to the New World Order. Western media constantly reduces the world’s problems to this common denominator. The New York Times carried an article stating, “Muslim fundamentalism is fast becoming the chief threat to global peace and security as well as the cause of national and local disturbance through terrorism. It is akin to the menace posed by Nazism and fascism in the 1930’s and then by communism in the 50’s.”</p>
<p>However, Professor Huntington brushes such claims aside and identifies Islam itself as the main problem for the West because its civilization is fundamentally different from Western civilization. He also identified two distinct qualities of Muslims, which, in his opinion, contribute to the problem. The first is that Muslims consider their culture superior to all other cultures. Most Muslims will openly claim that Islam is better than all other religions and philosophies. This attitude is a natural consequence of their belief that the religion of Islam was revealed from God. It is only logical to assume that the culture created by practicing God’s religion must, of necessity, be superior to any culture resulting from human experiment.</p>
<p>The other quality is that Muslims desire that the laws that govern them be Islamic. Much of the turmoil in the Muslim world today, in Algeria, Egypt, Chechnya, Dagestan, etc., is a direct result of this desire. During the era of European colonization of the Muslim world, the colonial administration substituted European laws for Islamic law. During the neo-colonial era, Muslims who were trained by their colonial masters were given the reins of government of Muslim territories and continued to govern according to European law. Today the vast majority of Muslim governments rule according to British, French, German and Dutch laws, and Muslim law is only partially applied in the area of family law.</p>
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<p>Consequently, as the wave of Islamic awareness sweeps over the Muslim world, the aspiration of Muslims for self-determination has exploded in a series of violent confrontations with existing administrations. In places like Indonesia, where since the era of Sukarno (1945 – 1965) and his successor Suharto (1968 – 1998), Pancasilia, has been the state philosophy/religion taught in all schools to the population of some 200 million Indonesians, 95% of whom are Muslims. And, to suggest that Islamic law be introduced was considered an act of treason.</p>
<p>In 1998 Suharto was finally overthrown by popular dissent. All of those who clamored for power, including Suharto’s henchman and substitute, B.J. Habibe, immediately began paying some allegiance to Islam. And in recent elections, Sukarno’s daughter, Megawati Sukarnoputri, was decisively defeated by Nahdlatul Ulama’s Abdurrahman Wahid, who is half-blind and can hardly walk.</p>
<p>On the other hand, Professor Huntington negates the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as the chief enemy of Muslims. Although the CIA has a reputation for toppling governments and assassinating political figures, the professor assures Muslims that it is not their chief enemy. He further rules out the American military complex in spite of its presence in Saudi Arabia, its decimation of the Iraqi army, its launching cruise missiles into the Sudan and Afghanistan, and its open support for Israel.</p>
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<p>The real source of the problem facing the Muslim World, according to Professor Huntington, is Western civilization itself. He further explains that the root of the problem lies in the fact that the West considers its culture superior to all other cultures. It considers its civilization and its leading principles what all human beings should aspire for and live by.</p>
<p><em>Why?</em></p>
<p>Because, according to Darwinian theory, the evolutionary process refines and improves human beings and their society. From our supposed savage ape-like origins to twentieth century civility, human society has progressed relentlessly. During the last few centuries, the evolutionary principle of “survival of the fittest” appears to have placed Western nations and their culture at the top of the pyramid of human civilization.</p>
<p>Thus, claims the West, the foundational principles of their civilization must be the most suitable for human society. Professor Huntington takes the issue another step further, pointing out that the West not only considers its culture the most appropriate for all nations, but it considers itself duty bound to impose their culture by any means necessary, politically or militarily, on the rest of the world. Professor Huntington has correctly identified these as the essential elements of the cultural clash facing the world as it enters the 21st century.</p>
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<p>The goal of religion is to establish an inner strength against all exterior circumstances. The nature of God is truth, beauty, love and joy. These are divine qualities, and the universe in which we live was founded upon these great spiritual principles. Yet we accepting these as true, still do not experience in our own life the wonderful inward composure of spirit that comes from the simple acceptance that God is good.</p>
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<p>Perhaps one of the reasons we have trouble with this situation is that we mistake the works of men for the works of God. We live surrounded by a peculiar confusion of our own kind-a confusion that is rooted largely in the inability of devout persons to find beauty in their own devotion. Most religions emphasize a certain stern sense of duty so therefore, religion has come to be a more or less militant dedication.</p>
<p>The individual feels that he must come under a very strict administration by the universe; that his spiritual salvation depends upon the unquestionable obedience to something that is superior to himself, which he cannot and does not rightly define. So instead of religion bringing a great release of spiritual values, it has a tendency to bring submergence, a state of the individual being tied to some credo, and this cannot be entirely the beautiful thing, which we sense it to be.</p>
<p>Practically all-religious people believe that God is love, but they do not believe it sufficiently to find God’s love in the things that are. They believe in some way that an evil power has corrupted God’s love, and that there must be some great process of redemption by means of which it can be restored again. There is a process of redemption but it is nothing but an awakening. It is a waking up again into the life that is eternal.</p>
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<p>This whole thing is a strange world of delusions in which individuals try to delude each other with only reasonable success, and manage to delude themselves with greater success. And in this delusion, everything that is really fine and happy and good and joyful is sacrificed. It is like a strange intoxication of the alcoholic, in which his toxicity causes him to finally to fall into the terrors of delirium tremens.</p>
<p>To most people of antiquity, God had the implication of great Joy, and this is something we seem to have lost. In the sense of responsibility and duty, we have in some way lost the happiness, and have been unable to make our faith an immediately beautiful, joyful experience of conduct. We affirm these things we believe that Deity wants us to be happy, but we do not seem to find a way of being happy. The moment it looks as though we might be happy, we become conscience-stricken, for nearly all of our so-called daily happiness is so selfish and self-centered that we can scarcely justify our own attitudes.</p>
<p>God wanted to be made manifest in man. God wanted to know himself in man. God wanted to release all the good, beauty, the truth, the love, and the joy through man. These different releases were not evil things if we understand them correctly and build our lives in which good brought joy, truth brought happiness and wisdom brought peace of soul.</p>
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<p>Recognizing that the dictionary is the expression of our usage of words, we can check the word happiness to see what the dictionary has to say about it. The first definition given is “good fortune and prosperity.” Now this is exactly what we would expect, for it is typical of our idea of what constitutes happiness. Happiness is having more than the neighbor, a certain smug sense of satisfaction at some phase of real or assumed superiority. Happiness today comes to the individual who wins in some kind of a competition with others. It also has to do something with luck, according to this definition “good fortune” some sudden unexpected pleasure that comes to us, perhaps out of space which we are all looking for but which the majority of us never find.</p>
<p>This happiness therefore simply means a certain creature reaction it is the individual who says, “I am perfectly willing to smile and be happy if everything goes my way. If I have what I want, do as I please, and influence other people as much as I want to, I will be happy.” One thing that happiness must require today is a vast amount of forgetfulness. If we could forget our own past, forget everything that other people have done to us, and forget all the mistakes that we have made, the result would probably be a colossal peace of mind; but we cannot forget these things.</p>
<p>The idea that happiness is simple the result of status – the larger swimming pool, the better car, the larger home- these things can no longer be regarded as valid. Yet this is where the dictionary takes its first stand, because it means just that to most people, and words have no meanings except the usage that we give them. When an individual tells us they are happy, it almost certainly means that they have been favored in some way by circumstances outside themselves, that something desirable or pleasurable has happened to them from the outside.</p>
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<p>The dictionary does however; give us a second meaning for happiness, and that is, “a state of well-being.” Now, if the truth were known, that should have been the first definition, because a state of well-being must precede any effort to be happy. It really does not make much difference whether fortune smiles or not; unless the individual has some experience of well-being within himself, even the greatest gifts that nature can bestow, or the greatest success that can be attained, will not bring any real or lasting happiness. So happiness is a condition that must be cultivated through the establishment of a state of well-being.</p>
<p>We can talk about how to be happy until the end of time, and still be miserable. We can develop all kinds of reasons why we should be grateful, and still remain ungrateful. There has to be something more than in intellectualizing, or even a theologizing, of the idea. In theology, we are constantly reminded of the blessing that we receive from heaven, but very few people are very excited over these blessings because they are really still fighting desperately against the small personal miseries that beset them.</p>
<p>In order to discover happiness, we must have some kind of a vital experience of it within ourselves. There has to be a living kind of happiness, and the only way we can combat the experience of unhappiness is to set up the experience of happiness.</p>
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<p>There used to be something of a gaiety, naturalness about growing up something that we have lost. As a result very few people have any vital experience of happiness. They have nothing to hook the happiness concept onto. Broken homes, depressions and insecurity have taken away the laughter, joy and close association with family. Because of these trends, which have become more and more dominant since we have depended so heavily upon artificial sources of pleasure, the average person today does not have the living inner visualization of happiness set within himself.</p>
<p>It becomes very easy for us to be critical and suspicious of other people, to be dissatisfied and rebellious, until finally we have developed one of the heaviest burdens of the present generation – hypercriticism. There is hardly a day when we do not criticize something. We seem to live in a world that suggests criticism, and although we can do nothing about it, still we become critics, constantly dissatisfied.</p>
<p>Out of this dissatisfaction comes a subtle form of self-excuse mechanism. Feeling that we live in a world that is topsy-turvy, in which nothing makes sense, we have a wonderful reasons to be poor citizens. We have every reason to excuse our own failings. We become victims of circumstances, and we say “How can one individual live well in a world that is going to pieces?”</p>
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<p>One thing we do not realize in all of our thinking, however, is that this generation is not essentially different, in its basic problems, from the generations in which individuals did find a certain amount of security and peace of mind. We cannot hope that we can create entirely new solutions. We can create new solutions only if the problems that we face are new, but the problems that we face are not new. They are the eternal heritage of our kind.</p>
<p>We all want to live in a world in which we are happy but we also want a world tailored to our desires. We want the world to make us happy, to provide us with everything we need. We want to surround ourselves with situations that will give us happiness and pleasure. Of course, as long as everyone in the world feels that way, the complex gets more and more difficult, because each person trying to fulfill his own ambitions out of the reservoir of world materials ultimately comes into conflict with every other human being and the tensions simply increase and compound.</p>
<p>Happiness is not a matter of environment but of the adjustment of consciousness to the values of life; that the very things that make us unhappy could perhaps be the sources of happiness if we understood them correctly. Always complication destroys peace of mind, and without peace of mind, there is no real hope that any individual can be truly happy. Of course, we have our moments, but even in those moments the heavy burden of destiny hangs over us.</p>
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<p>There have always been some who have realized that unhappiness was neither desirable nor necessary; so they have left us rules and patterns by which we could guide our way to a certain degree. A life to find happiness must be a life that has discriminated values. If we use our minds we come to one standard of value. If we use our hearts and our intuitions, we come to another standard of value, and it is this second standard that must come first. In order to know what happiness is, we must finally decide what will make us happy.</p>
<p>We all feel that when we can pay off the mortgage, we will be happy, when we can get that new car we will be happy. We have the simple feeling that if we have what we want, we will be happy. But what do we want? Above all things, we want freedom of fear. We want freedom from ignorance. We want freedom of faith. We want freedom of growth. Of all things we want freedom from insecurity within ourselves, freedom from mental and emotional sickness. We want freedom from the ills and weaknesses, which we recognize in our own natures. The only real freedoms the only real things that can bring us happiness are those attainments within ourselves by which we are free forever from the delusions and illusions that cause misery.</p>
<p>The most difficult and miserable adventure in the world is the desperate quest for personal happiness. The individual, who makes happiness their goal, will fail, because they usually have the wrong concept of what will make them happy. We have not yet realized that we have to be happy from within and that all other things are accidents and incidents- the elements of a providence that may change at any moment.</p>
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<p>Pythagoras said, “all men know what they want, but only God knows what they need.” In our desperate effort to get what we want, we are miserable, we must therefore change to the concept of what we need, to what is most necessary to us. We live in a universe in which love and wisdom, and joy are the very substance out of which creation fashioned things. We live in a tremendous potential for good, and to realize this and cooperate with it, is to begin the unfoldment of our own lives.</p>
<p>The ancients believed there was only one life, the life of God. To live with love for this life was to live in peace with it; to live in hate and fear was to destroy God. The individual who hates and fears is the only true atheist. No one can hate, fear, and worship at the same time.</p>
<p>Happiness does not arise from copying other people because the things that make them happy might make us miserable. There has to be a universal happiness- something infinitely beyond the individual patterned pleasures which we recognize; and this happiness is the freedom of life in itself. It is not necessarily a theological state at all. It is the transference of our citizenship, an inner belonging to another world, so that the suddenly the world of realities becomes meaningful and we realize that this material creation floats as a bubble in an infinitely vaster spiritual creation; that far beyond anything we can estimate is the power of infinite love infinitely working.</p>
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Julia29http://www.blogger.com/profile/09959432249593123988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847287520792993384.post-15633801190398710162017-06-29T21:49:00.001-07:002017-06-29T21:49:09.375-07:00Words Are Signs Of Natural Facts.<p>Every word, which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found as borrowed from some material appearance.</p>
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<p>Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most of the process by which this transformation is made, is hidden from us in the remote time when language was framed; but the same tendency may be daily observed in our children. Children and “savages” use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.</p>
<p>But this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import, — so conspicuous a fact in the history of language, — is our least debt to nature. It is not words only that are emblematic; it is things, which are emblematic. Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.</p>
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<p>For example, an enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a torch. A lamb is innocence; a snake is subtle spite; flowers express to us the delicate affections. Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance; and heat for love. Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our image of memory and hope.</p>
<p><em>Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is not reminded of the flux of all things?</em></p>
<p>Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.</p>
<p>Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein, as in a firmament, the natures of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine. This universal soul, which we call Reason: is not mine, or yours, or his or hers, but we are its; we are its property and men and women.</p>
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<p>And the blue sky in which the private earth is buried, the sky with its eternal calm, and full of everlasting orbs, is the type of Reason. That which, intellectually considered, we call Reason, considered in relation to nature, we call Spirit. Spirit is the Creator. Spirit has life in itself. And man in all ages and countries, embodies it in his language, as the FATHER.</p>
<p>It is easily seen that there is nothing lucky or capricious in these analogies, but that they are constant, and pervade nature. These are not the dreams of a few poets, here and there, but we are analogists, and study relations in all objects. We are placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to us. And neither can we be understood without these objects, nor these objects without us.</p>
<p>All the facts in natural history taken by themselves, have no value, but are barren, like a single sex. But marry it to human history, and it is full of life. Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts, savages, who have only what is necessary, conversed in figures.</p>
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<p>As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry; or all spiritual facts are represented by natural symbols. The same symbols are found to make the original elements of all languages. It has moreover been observed, that the idioms of all languages approach each other in passages of the greatest eloquence and power.</p>
<p>And as this is the first language, so is it the last.</p>
<p>This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power to affect us. A man’s power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.</p>
<p>The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires, the desire of riches, of pleasure, of power, and of praise, — and duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will, is in a degree lost; new imagery ceases to be created, and old words are perverted to stand for things which they are not. In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate understanding or affection.</p>
<p>We know more from nature than we can at will communicate. Its light flows into the mind continuously, and yet, we forget its presence.</p>
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<p>Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts? The world is emblematic.</p>
<p>Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>“The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible.”</em></p>
<p>The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, “the whole is greater than its part;” “reaction is equal to action;” “the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;” and many similar propositions have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when only confined to technical use.</p>
<p>In the same way, the memorable words of history, and the proverbs of nations, consist usually of a natural fact, selected as a picture or parable of a moral truth.</p>
<p>Thus; A rolling stone gathers no moss; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay while the sun shines; ‘T is hard to carry a full cup even; Vinegar is the son of wine; The last ounce broke the camel’s back; Long-lived trees make roots first; — and the like.</p>
<p>In their primary sense these are trivial facts, but we repeat them for the value of their analogical import. What is true of proverbs, is true of all fables, parables, and allegories.</p>
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<p>This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet, but stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all of us. It is the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine genius since the world began; from the era of the Egyptians and the Brahmins, to that of Pythagoras, of Plato, of Bacon, of Leibnitz, of Swedenborg.</p>
<p>A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world. “Material objects,” said a French philosopher, “are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator, which must always preserve an exact relation to their first origin; in other words, visible nature must have a spiritual and moral side.”</p>
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Julia29http://www.blogger.com/profile/09959432249593123988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847287520792993384.post-65283234526168894932017-06-03T14:51:00.001-07:002017-06-03T14:51:24.429-07:00Words Can Inspire. And Words Can Destroy. Choose Wisely.<p>Nobody in his senses wants airplanes dropping bombs and poison gases upon his head; nobody in his senses wants slums, Tobacco Roads, and undernourished, ragged schoolchildren in a land of potential economic plenty. But bombs are killing babies in China and Spain today, and more than one-third of the people in America are underfed, badly housed, shoddily clothed.</p>
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<p>Nobody wants men and women to be unemployed, but in Western civilization from twenty to thirty million are, or have recently been, without work, and many of those who have recovered their jobs are making munitions of war. In brief, with a dreadful irony, we are acting to produce precisely the kinds of things and situations which we do not want.</p>
<p>It is as though a hungry farmer, with rich soil, and good wheat seed in his barn, could raise nothing but thistles. The tendency of organisms is strongly toward survival, not against it. Something has perverted human-survival behavior. I assume that it is a temporary perversion. I assume that it is bound up to some extent with an unconscious misuse of man’s most human attributes – thinking and its tool, language.</p>
<p>Failure of mental communication is painfully in evidence nearly everywhere we choose to look. Pick up any magazine or newspaper and you will find many of the articles devoted to sound and fury from politicians, editors, leaders of industry, and diplomats. You will find the text of the advertising sections devoted almost solidly to a skillful attempt to make words mean something different to the reader from what the facts warrant.</p>
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<p>Most of us are aware of the chronic inability of schoolchildren to understand what is taught them; their examination papers are familiar exhibits in communication failure. Let me put a question to my fellow authors in the fields of economics, politics, and sociology: How many book-reviewers show by their reviews that they know what you are talking about? One in ten? That is about my ratio. Yet most of them assert that I am relatively lucid, if ignorant. How many arguments arrive anywhere? “A controversy,” says Richards, “is normally an exploitation of a set of misunderstandings for warlike purposes.” Have you ever listened to a debate in the Senate? A case being argued before the Supreme Court? . . .</p>
<p>This is not frail humanity strapped upon an eternal rack. This is a reparable defect in the mechanism. When the physicists began to clear up their language, especially after Einstein, one mighty citadel after another was taken in the quest for knowledge. Is slum clearance a more difficult study than counting electrons? Strictly speaking, this may be a meaningless question, but I think you get my point.</p>
<p>It is too late to eliminate the factor of sheer verbalism in the already blazing war between “fascism” and “communism.” That war may end Europe as a viable continent for decades. To say that it is a battle of words alone is contrary to the facts, for there are important differences between the so-called fascist and communist states. But the words themselves, and the dialectic which accompanies them, have kindled emotional fires which far transcend the differences in fact.</p>
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<p>Abstract terms are personified to become burning, fighting realities. Yet if the knowledge of semantics were general, and men were on guard for communication failure, the conflagration could hardly start. There would be “honest differences of opinion, there might be a sharp political struggle, but not this windy clash of rival metaphysical notions.</p>
<p>If one is attacked and cornered, one fights; the reaction is shared with other animals and is a sound survival mechanism. In modern times, however, this natural action comes after the conflict has been set in motion by propaganda. Bad language is now the mightiest weapon in the arsenal of despots and demagogues.</p>
<p>Endless political and economic difficulties in America have arisen and thriven on bad language. The Supreme Court crisis of 1937 was due chiefly to the creation by judges and lawyers of verbal monsters in the interpretation of the Constitution. They gave objective, rigid values to vague phrases like “due process” and “interstate commerce.” Once these monsters get into the zoo, no one knows how to get them out again, and they proceed to eat us out of house and home.</p>
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<p>Judges and lawyers furthermore have granted to a legal abstraction the rights, privileges, and protection vouchsafed to a living, breathing human being. It is thus that corporations, as well as you or I, are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It would surely be a rollicking sight to see the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey in pursuit of happiness at a dance hall. It would be a sight to see United States Smelting and Refining being brought back to consciousness by a squad of coast guard men armed with a respirator, to see the Atlas Corporation enjoying its constitutional freedom at a nudist camp.</p>
<p>This gross animism has permitted a relatively small number of individuals to throw the economic mechanism seriously out of gear. By economic mechanism, I mean the operation of factories, stores, machines, whereby men, women, and children are fed, sheltered, and clothed. If people were armed with semantic understanding, such fabulous concepts could not arise. Corporations would not be interpreted as tender persons.</p>
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<p>A community of semantic illiterates, of persons unable to perceive the meaning of what they read and hear, is one of perilous equilibrium. Advertisers, as well as demagogues, thrive on this illiteracy. The case against the advertising of commercial products has hitherto rested on mendacity. In modern times outright mendacity—such as a cure for cancer—is tempered with spurious identification. The advertiser often creates verbal goods, turning the reader’s attention away from the actual product. He sells the package, and especially the doctrinal matter around the package. The plain woman, by using a given cosmetic, is invited to become Cleopatra, vested with all the allure of the East. In brief, consumers often pay their money for the word rather than for the thing.</p>
<p>Without ability to translate words into verifiable meanings, most people are the inevitable victims of both commercial and literary fraud. Their mental life is increasingly corrupted.</p>
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<p>Disillusionment is a phase through which we all pass in one way or another. Children today must live in a world their parents have never known.</p>
<p>Today millions of young people face a future that offers no encouragement for effort and no reward for merit. Education insures no preferment, ability creates no security; the foundations of honesty and integrity have been undermined by the pressures of a perverted profit system.</p>
<p>The present youth crisis is more than a temporary emergency. This condition cannot solve itself. The answer must be found in an intelligent and farseeing program of industrial and social planning.</p>
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<p>Today the nation’s most important asset, our youth, continues to remain unrepresented. Unorganized and unemployed, it is rapidly approaching dangerous crises, and stands in desperate need of wise and sympathetic direction.</p>
<p>America’s youth is the helpless victim of industrial feudalism. The energy, courage and vision of youth can support the progress of the world, yet it is denied a place in the sun. No provision has been made to insure a square deal to the young people of America; no hero has come forth to champion their cause before a self-centered generation.</p>
<p>For the most part their problems are unconsidered, their needs unanalyzed, and their future unassured. The miseries, uncertainties and disillusionments of past decades are overshadowing and oppressing the new generations.</p>
<p><em>Can America afford to ignore the psychological force and constructive energy of its young people?</em></p>
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<p>In a few years the older generation, with its plots and spoils, must pass away. Instead of battling the feudal lords of industry and finance, secure in their high places, leave them to the inevitable ravages of time. If these hard-set men who think only in terms of success, and whose only emotion is love of power, cannot be reformed, we need not despair. What men cannot change, nature will remove in due time.</p>
<p><strong>Why not educate the younger generation to a different standard of life and action?</strong> Let’s invest every resource of the nation, if necessary, in equipping youth to rule the world of tomorrow more wisely than age is ruling it today.</p>
<p>The vast sums now being expended for relief are only taking care of an imminent problem. The fundamental psychology of the country must be changed. If we can change our attitude from that of rapacious greed to one of national pride and solidarity, then the root of the problem has been touched</p>
<p>If we can prevent the younger generation from being corrupted by the old selfish codes which perverted our father’s time the death rate will bring a natural end to the Age of greed.</p>
<p><em>The man who is fed today is hungry tomorrow.</em></p>
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<p><em>Is it not more extravagant for a nation to assume economic responsibility for millions of indigent persons that to finance a program, which will eventually render charity unnecessary?</em></p>
<p>One of the greatest fallacies in our viewpoint is that we try to reform adult delinquents, striving to cure people of innate selfishness when they are too old and set to change.</p>
<p><em>Let us then try to straighten the bent twig than the inclined tree.</em></p>
<p>Under our present industrial system the employment of the millions of unemployed is practically impossible. The country must be prepared to make drastic changes in its economic system or else be satisfied to support for years to come the millions of people who are permanently crowded out of industry. The better alternative is to build for the future, to look forward 10 or 20 years instead of at our noses.</p>
<p>As no plan has yet been attempted which solves the basic cause of unemployment, it would seem the vital issue of the hour is the discovery of some method to preserve the integrity and self-respect for our coming generations.</p>
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<p>We must make our young people a part of the nation is a new and thrilling way, from the first day of school until they finally emerge into their own life. They must be led to realize that they are important and necessary. The psychology of helping themselves and at the same time others will give them enthusiasm and dignity.</p>
<p>Youth is probably the most vulnerable element in the psychology of the American people. No one can attack youth’s right to life, liberty, and happiness without exposing their own intolerance and inhumanity.</p>
<p>The sentiments, higher emotions and ideals of people are never drawn out and played upon and that is why they are so seldom expressed in national life.</p>
<p>At the present time, nearly every country of the world is in serious difficulties. We hear continuing reports of conferences and summit meeting to arbitrate the feuds and dilemmas of nations, communities and – for that matter – private lives. The old traditional ways of solving disagreements between countries are over worked and have virtually no effect.</p>
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<p>There are forebodings of further probable disasters, and the citizens of the various political structures are on the verge of revolution. Up until now there seems to be no comprehensive approach for successfully dealing with even one of the impending catastrophes.</p>
<p>Why not face the facts and study the historical and psychological conditions, which are responsible for practically all of the tragedies that have befallen the world over the last, several thousand years?</p>
<p>I think there is constructive hope in the idea of a complete educational overhaul, no only encompassing the classroom but also including the standard reference books on the critical events that have distinguished and disfigured the planet for a long time.</p>
<p>The concept now seems to center on the importance of reconstruction of the public school system so that young people are better informed about the great social problems we have inherited from the past.</p>
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<p>Democratic commonwealth can never be legislated into existence. Nor can it result from treaties or conferences. This is clearly indicated in the failure of the United Nations. They have failed to prevent war because the nations, which make up the union, lack courage of high conviction; they failed the very institution, which they themselves established.</p>
<p>Permanent progress results from education, and not from legislation. The true purpose of education is to inform the mind in basic truths concerning conduct and the consequences of conduct. Education is not merely fitting the individual for the problems of economic survival.</p>
<p>No human being who is moved to actions through wrong motivation, or misuses the privileges of his times, can be regarded as educated, regardless of the amount of formal schooling he received.</p>
<p>Civilization after civilization has been built up by human courage and destroyed by human ignorance. We stand again on the threshold of great decision.</p>
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Julia29http://www.blogger.com/profile/09959432249593123988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847287520792993384.post-51714496670434442752017-03-28T14:39:00.001-07:002017-03-28T14:39:13.189-07:007 Reasons for the Hidden Mental Health Crisis of America’s Youth<p style="text-align:center;"><em>There’s a crisis of mental health in our children’s schools and it’s getting worse!</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">7 reasons contributing to this epidemic are as follows:</p>
<p>1) An unsound, impractical and inadequate educational theory. It perpetuates much that is obsolete and ignores most of that which is vital in knowledge.</p>
<p>2) A vicious popular psychology of success. The young are constantly urged to force their way into lines of endeavour for which they are unsuited, merely for reasons of monetary gain. <strong>Progress cannot continue with money as a sole motive for effort.</strong></p>
<p>3) Inadequate, prejudiced, ignorant and intolerant religious training. Narrow religious concepts so distort the ethical values that religion’s true work o character building is ignored.<img data-attachment-id="6217" data-permalink="http://ift.tt/2o8eXVp" data-orig-file="http://ift.tt/2neChvI" data-orig-size="1000,946" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="sapvoice-can-software-help-solve-the-global-education-crisis-q4Fz6T-clipart" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://ift.tt/2o8mpQo" data-large-file="http://ift.tt/2nf29HD" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6217" src="http://ift.tt/2neChvI" alt="sapvoice-can-software-help-solve-the-global-education-crisis-q4Fz6T-clipart.jpg" srcset="http://ift.tt/2neChvI 640w, http://ift.tt/2o8kPhh 150w, http://ift.tt/2neW4ed 300w, http://ift.tt/2o87S7g 768w, http://ift.tt/2neWhOy 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
<p>4) Lack of understanding between young people and the older generation. Children receive detrimental training based on the example of unfairness set by their elders.</p>
<p>5) Non-representation in social and political life. Young people must grow up and live in other men’s worlds, with no right and no voice in the correction o flagrant evils of which they themselves are conscious.</p>
<p>6) Loss of resourcefulness. The educational theory destroys initiative, the social order discourages originality, and neither offers any security in the place of the qualities they kill out.</p>
<p>7) Loss of confidence in life, self and authority. This condition is greatly aggravated by unemployment and the impossibility of finding useful outlets for skill and knowledge acquired through schooling.</p>
<p>It has taken years to being about the present evil and will take years to perfect a cure. The education of youth in the essential values of life and the release of their young minds from the abnormal complexes which grip this generation is the only way to prevent these social crises.</p>
<p>Young people are the most vulnerable element in the psychology of the American people. It will be easier to coordinate the mind of the people on this issue than on any other od the programs under consideration. No one can attack a young person’s right to life, liberty and happiness, without exposing his own intolerance and inhumanity.</p>
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Julia29http://www.blogger.com/profile/09959432249593123988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847287520792993384.post-80440546849524059162017-03-17T01:29:00.001-07:002017-03-17T01:29:08.676-07:00What is Hermetica?<p>The Hermetica is a collection of writing attributed to Thoth- a mythical ancient Egyptian sage whose wisdom is said to have transformed him into a god. Although largely unknown today, the writings attributed to Hermes/Thoth have been immensely important in the history of Western thought. They profoundly influenced the Greeks, and through their rediscovery in fifteenth-century florence, helped to inspire the ‘Renaissance’ which gave birth to our modern age.</p>
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<p>The list of people who acknowledge a debt to the Hermetica reads like a ‘Who’s Who’ of the greatest philosophers, scientists and artists that the West has produced- Leonardo da Vinci, Duer, Botticelli, Roger Bacon, Paracelsus, Thomas More, William Blake, Kepler, Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Sir Walter Raleigh, Milton, Ben Johnson, Daniel Dafoe, Shelley and his wife Mary, Victor Hugo and Carl jung. It heavily influenced Shakespeare, John Donne, John Dee and all the poet-philosophers who surrounded the court of Queen Elizabeth I, as well as the founding scientists of the Royal Society in London, and even threaders who inspired the Protestant Reformation in Europe. The list is endless, with Hermetica’s influence reaching well beyond the frontiers of Europe.</p>
<p>The Hermetica is a cornerstone of Western culture. In substance and importance it is equal to well-known Eastern scriptures like Upanishads, the Dhammapada and the Tao Te Ching. Yet, unlike these texts which are now readily available and widely read, the works of Hermes have been lost under the dead weight of academic translations, Christian prejudice and occult obscurities.</p>
<p>History shows that wherever the works of Hermes have been studied and venerated, civilisation flourished. Pagans and sages fled to the newly emerging Arab culture, taking their knowledge and the Hermetic writings with them. Two hundred years later, the Muslims created an empire who learning and scientific achievements were unsurpassed.</p>
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<p>By the beginning of the ninth century, the first university was established in Baghdad, called the ‘House of Wisdom’. Here many pagan works were translated, the sciences that had reached such heights in Alexandria were significantly developed, and the ancient Pagan spiritual wisdom was covertly studied and practised. From its exalted position amongst the sacred scriptures of Egyptian spirituality, the Hermetica became the secret inspiration for an important undercurrent in Islamic philosophy.</p>
<p>With the Arab empire becoming increasingly intolerant, the owners of the Hermetic books travelled in search of a safe refuge. In the fifteenth century many fled to the tolerant city state of Florence in Northern Italy, where this wisdom again inspired a great cultural flowering.</p>
<p>The emergence of a glorious new culture in Florence signalled the end of the Dark Ages. We call this period the ‘Renaissance’, meaning ‘rebirth’, which is a fitting name, for at the heart of the Hermetic philosophy is the idea of being spiritually reborn.<br />
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<p>As in Alexandria a thousand years earlier, the Renaissance viewed science, art, literature and religions parts of a united whole to be studied together. All aspects of human life were now opened up as legitimate areas of investigation. It was a situation that challenged the authorities of the Roman Catholic Church in 1492, with the aid of the Kind of France, they crushed the Republic of Florence.</p>
<p>In the modern world we know from the actions of the tabloid press how one well-timed ‘hatchet job’ can unjustifiably undermine someone’s reputation for good. This is exactly what happened to the Hermetic teachings.</p>
<p>As old as the Christian gospels and older than the Qu’ran, it is one of the great sacred texts of the world. It is worthy of respect and study for these reasons alone.</p>
<p>Although human culture has changed beyond recognition from the times of ancient Egyptians, the essential mysteries of life have remained what they have always been and always will be. For those alive to these mysteries, the writings of Hermes are as relevant today as they were in the distant past.</p>
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Julia29http://www.blogger.com/profile/09959432249593123988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847287520792993384.post-42407761718896344652017-02-18T17:01:00.001-08:002017-02-18T17:01:21.972-08:00The More We Learn, The Less Certain We Become<p>One the most important factors for the continued existence of any country is its defense capability. As a nation, it must be in a constant state of preparedness to face all kinds of threats and danger from external and internal sources.</p>
<p>No matter how well developed and advanced a country may be, if it fails to defend itself, it could be brought to ruin with the launching of even a minor military offensive against it, or even a well-directed and unanticipated terrorist act. In the face of such threats, neither its natural resources, its technological prowess, not its economy will be of any avail. If the country in question is unable to defend itself, it may even cease to exist</p>
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<p>This is one of the reasons why significant amounts of the national income is regularly allocated to defense; nowadays, armed forces have to be provided with the most advanced weaponry, tools and equipment fitted with the latest technological features, and meticulous training has to be given to soldiers in an all-out attempt to keep defense systems fully functional.</p>
<p>No less than countries, people too have to be concerned about their defense, if they want to lead a healthy and peaceful life. They inevitably have to protect themselves and their possession against criminal acts, such as theft and murder, as well as against natural disasters, such as accidents, fire, earthquakes and floods. But this is not the end of the matter.</p>
<p>Human beings have other enemies, which go unseen by them and, as such, are often ignored. Actually, these enemies are much more resilient than the others. Serious measures must, therefore, be taken to guard against them.</p>
<p>Who, or what then are these enemies that keep human beings under constant threat?</p>
<p>They are bacteria, viruses, and similar microscopic organisms, which may exist in the water we drink, the food we eat, the house we live in, and the office where we work. In essence, they are everywhere.</p>
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<p>Most interestingly, in spite of being surrounded by such a serious threat, we make no effort whatsoever to protect ourselves against it. This is because there is a mechanism within our bodies, which undertakes this task on our behalf, providing the necessary protection for us, without causing us the slightest disturbance. This is “The Defense System”.</p>
<p>The defense cells that protect the human body against invaders, such as bacteria, viruses, and similar micro-organisms, are equipped with extraordinary abilities. The patterns of intelligence, effort, and sacrifice, which these cells display during the war they wage in the body, astonish everyone who learns about them.</p>
<p>According to statements of scientists, the defense system possesses an “irreducible complexity”. This term refers to an intact system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning. As an example, let us think of the devices we would need if we were to send a fax:</p>
<p>– A facsimile device</p>
<p>– A telephone line</p>
<p>– A cable</p>
<p>– Paper.</p>
<p>If any one of these items is absent you cannot send a fax. Nothing from the above list must be missing. Besides, they must conform to exact specifications. For example, the length of the cable must be sufficient for the plug to reach the socket, otherwise the available items will be of no use. Similarly, although all elements of the defense system fulfill their functions perfectly, if there are a few components which malfunction, this would cause the body to lose the war.</p>
<p>For example, if the tiny granules located within the T cells do not function properly, they cannot store toxins, which in turn cannot be transferred to the enemy, again resulting in the war being lost. Therefore, in a system where the enemy cannot finally be killed, important functions such as the formation of warrior cells, their training, the transmission of the necessary signals to appropriate locations by the cells at the right time, and the thousands of combinations needed by our genes to produce antibodies, or the storing of limitless information in the memory cells, would all be worthless.</p>
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<p>The system would simply not work. Similarly, the existence of the many and varied functions of the human body, which has an irreducible complexity, is equally useless in the absence of a defense system. If the defense system did not exist or failed to operate properly, <strong><em>no human being would be able to survive.</em></strong></p>
<p>Most researchers are well aware that evolutionist statements are nothing more than consolation and window-dressing. Klaus Dose, a well-known researcher in the field of molecular biology states:</p>
<p><em>More than 30 years of experimentation on the origin of life in the fields of chemical and molecular evolution have led to a better perception of the immensity of the problem of the origin of life on Earth rather than to its solution. At present all discussions on principal theories and experiments in the field either end in stalemate or in a confession of ignorance.</em></p>
<p>Even Darwin, the founder of the theory of evolution, experienced the same lack of confidence some 150 years ago:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>When I think of the many cases of men who have studied one subject for years, and have persuaded themselves of the truth of the foolishest doctrines, I feel sometimes a little frightened, whether I may not be one of these monomaniacs.</em></p>
<p>Let’s pause and ask ourselves what would happen if we were asked to control only our defense system and nothing else, we would have to be involved in such a complicated and difficult process. Even a simple common cold would require us to go to the doctor’s many times over, follow up the recovery course of the cells with extremely advanced medical equipment, and use them as necessary. Even the slightest delay or a problem in the course of the process would cause the illness to be further aggravated.</p>
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<p>Let’s take it further; what if you were asked to form these cells, make them recognize the enemy and manufacture the appropriate antibodies, then teach and organize all the processes they would perform … Unquestionably, such a life would be far more troublesome and distressful than the aforementioned model. Actually, it would literally be impossible.</p>
<p>The cell of a living being is more complex than all of the technological products produced by us today. Even in the most developed laboratories of the world, a living cell cannot be produced by bringing inorganic materials together.</p>
<p>The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too great in quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The probability of proteins, the building blocks of cell, being synthesized coincidentally, is 1 in 10950 for an average protein made up of 500 amino acids. In mathematics, a probability smaller than 1 over 1050 is practically considered to be impossible.</p>
<p>The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of the cell and which stores genetic information, is an incredible databank. It is calculated that if the information coded in DNA were written down, this would make a giant library consisting of 900 volumes of encyclopedias of 500 pages each.</p>
<p>An unlimited number of combinations can be made with the use of one hundred thousand genes. The cell, however, uses, with great intelligence, only 5,200 basic combinations and produces 1,920,000 specific antibodies. How has the cell learned to make the right combinations out of these unlimited possibilities to form the required antibodies?<img data-attachment-id="6150" data-permalink="http://ift.tt/2kL3fKb" data-orig-file="http://ift.tt/2lv02m3" data-orig-size="1754,1240" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="maxresdefault" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://ift.tt/2kKYbVU" data-large-file="http://ift.tt/2lv1RPM" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6150" src="http://ift.tt/2lv02m3" alt="maxresdefault" srcset="http://ift.tt/2lv02m3 640w, http://ift.tt/2kL40Tf 1280w, http://ift.tt/2luZHQ1 150w, http://ift.tt/2kL3hSj 300w, http://ift.tt/2luSrDV 768w, http://ift.tt/2kKYHmX 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
<p>Making the correct combinations out of an infinite number of possibilities aside, how did the cell get this idea to make combinations?</p>
<p>Moreover, the produced combinations serve a certain purpose, and aim to produce an antibody that would eliminate the antigen that enters the body. Therefore, the cell also knows the properties of the millions of antigens entering the body.</p>
<p>No intellect in this world can produce a design of such unparalleled perfection. But cells only the size of a hundredth of a millimeter can do so.</p>
<p>So, how has the cell learned such a special system?</p>
<p>The truth is that no cell has the opportunity to “learn” a biological function in the real sense. This is because the cell does not possess the ability to perform such an act at birth, nor has it the chance to develop the required skill during the rest of its lifetime. In such cases, it is a prerequisite that the system in the cell should be ready and complete at the beginning of life. The cell neither possesses the skill to learn such combinations, nor does it have the time to learn them, as this would cause it to fail in stopping the antigens entering the body and the body would lose the war.</p>
<p>The fact that a system that baffles mankind, even at the point of comprehending it, has been placed in a cell which has no ability to think and reason, has a very special meaning.</p>
<p>People in general would like to know what makes them ill, how illnesses take complete control of their bodies, what causes fever, fatigue, pain in their bones and joints, and which processes take place in their bodies throughout their illnesses.</p>
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<p>Before delving into the astounding details of the war of defense fought in the innermost recesses of our bodies, we must first have a general look at the defense system and its elements.</p>
<p>Briefly, the defense system may be defined as “an extremely disciplined, hard-working and organized army that protects the body from the clutches of external enemies.” In this multi-faceted war, the main duty of the elements fighting in the front line is to prevent the enemy cells, such as bacteria or viruses, from entering the body.</p>
<p>Although it is not easy for the enemy organisms to enter the body, they exert themselves to the utmost to reach their ultimate goal of invading the body. When they successfully do so, after overcoming various obstacles such as the skin, and the respiratory and digestive tracts, they will find tough warriors waiting for them. These tough warriors are produced and trained in specialized centers such as the bone marrow, spleen, thymus, and lymph nodes.</p>
<p>These warriors are “the defense cells” referred to as the macrophages and lymphocytes.</p>
<p>The phagocytes, known as the scavenger cells of the defense system, take the first action. They fight hand-to-hand with the enemy. They are just like infantrymen who fight with bayonets against enemy units.</p>
<p>Sometimes, phagocytes cannot catch up with the increasing numbers of the enemy, at which point big phagocytic cells, macrophages cut in. We can liken the macrophage to cavalrymen cleaving their way through the middle of the foe. At the same time, macrophages secrete a fluid, which sets off a general alarm in the body to increase the body temperature.</p>
<p>People do not immediately realize that microbes or viruses are invading their bodies. Only when the symptoms of their illness surface do humans become aware of them. This is proof that a virus, a bacterium, or a similar micro-organism has long ago settled within their body. This means that the primary intervention has resulted in failure. Such unchecked conditions could cause the disease to progress considerably, resulting in irremediable dispositions. Even if the person has been infected with a curable and relatively simple disease, delayed response may result in a serious crisis, or even death.</p>
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<p>We may not be aware of it, but all the elements of the immune system protect our bodies just like the soldiers of a huge army.</p>
<p>In this situation, the individual resembles a “besieged castle”. Needless to say, such a castle, which is surrounded by countless enemies, must be protected in a very complete and organized manner. Human beings are created along with this perfect protection they need, and are not, therefore, entirely defenseless against these enemies. The “micro” guards in our bodies never leave us alone and fight for us on many fronts.</p>
<p>The invader cells that want to take control of the body first have to fight their way through the front line of the body. Even though these fronts have their weaknesses at times, the enemy is hardly ever allowed to pass through them. The first front the enemy must penetrate is our skin.</p>
<p>The skin, which covers the entire body of our body just like a sheath, is full of amazing features. Its ability to repair and renew itself, its non-permeability by water, despite the existence of tiny pores on its surface as opposed to its function of discharging water through perspiration, its extremely flexible structure, allowing free movement, as opposed to its being thick enough to avoid easy rupture, its ability to protect the body from the heat, the cold, and harmful sunrays are only a few of the features of the skin that have been specially created for human beings.</p>
<p>The technology of the 20th century has proved insufficient even at the level of understanding the methods of this perfect production.</p>
<p>The brave battle fought by of our defense system is comprised of three important stages:</p>
<ol>
<li>Identification of the enemy, first action.</li>
<li>The attack of the real army, all-out war.</li>
<li>Retreat to a normal state.</li>
</ol>
<p>The defense system has to clearly identify the enemy before it starts the fight. This is because each engagement differs from the other depending on the type of enemy. Moreover, if this piece of intelligence is not properly handed on, our defense system may inadvertently attack the body’s own cells.</p>
<p>If you were to design an antibody molecule, how would you do it?</p>
<p>Human beings, however, have been unable to design an antibody, despite all the technology at their disposal. The antibodies produced in the laboratory environment are either derived from antibody samples taken from the human body, or the bodies of other living beings.</p>
<p>When people become curious about the creation of the universe and its contents, it will be sufficient for them to assess the self-evident truths objectively and with a free mind.</p>
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<p>Once materialism is invalidated, all other theories based on this philosophy are rendered baseless. American astrophysicist Hugh Ross explains this as follows:</p>
<p>Atheism, Darwinism, and virtually all the “isms” emanating from the eighteenth to the twentieth century philosophies are built upon the assumption, the incorrect assumption, that the universe is infinite. The singularity has brought us face to face with the cause – or causer – beyond/behind/before the universe and all that it contains, including life itself.</p>
<p>The primary reason why the theory of evolution ended up in such a big impasse about the origin of life is that even the living organisms deemed the simplest have incredibly complex structures. The cell of a living being is more complex than all of the technological products produced by man. Today, even in the most developed laboratories of the world, a living cell cannot be produced by bringing inorganic materials together.</p>
<p>A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: the DNA can only replicate with the help of some specialized proteins (enzymes). However, the synthesis of these enzymes can only be realized by the information coded in DNA?</p>
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<p>Natural selection holds that those living things that are stronger and more suited to the natural conditions of their habitats will survive in the struggle for life. For example, in a deer herd under the threat of attack by wild animals, those that can run faster will survive. Therefore, the deer herd will be comprised of faster and stronger individuals. However, unquestionably, this mechanism will not cause deer to evolve and transform themselves into another living species, for instance, horses.</p>
<p>Therefore, the mechanism of natural selection has no evolutionary power. Darwin was also aware of this fact and had to state this in his book “The Origin of Species:”</p>
<p>So, how could these “favourable variations” occur? Darwin tried to answer this question from the standpoint of the primitive understanding of science in his age. According to the French biologist Lamarck, who lived before Darwin, living creatures passed on the traits they acquired during their lifetime to the next generation and these traits, accumulating from one generation to another, caused new species to be formed. For instance, according to Lamarck, giraffes evolved from antelopes; as they struggled to eat he leaves of high trees, their necks were extended from generation to generation.</p>
<p>Darwin also gave similar examples, and in his book “The Origin of Species,” for instance, said that some bears going into water to find food transformed themselves into whales over time.</p>
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<p>However, the laws of inheritance discovered by Mendel and verified by the science of genetics that flourished in the 20th century, utterly demolished the legend that acquired traits were passed on to subsequent generations. Thus, natural selection fell out of favor as an evolutionary mechanism.</p>
<p>In order to find a solution, Darwinists advanced the “Modern Synthetic Theory”, or as it is more commonly known, Neo-Darwinism, at the end of the 1930’s. Neo-Darwinism added mutations, which are distortions formed in the genes of living beings because of external factors such as radiation or replication errors, as the “cause of favorable variations” in addition to natural mutation.</p>
<p>Today, the model that stands for evolution in the world is Neo-Darwinism. The theory maintains that millions of living beings present on the earth formed as a result of a process whereby numerous complex organs of these organisms such as the ears, eyes, lungs, and wings, underwent “mutations,” that is, genetic disorders. Yet, there is an outright scientific fact that totally undermines this theory: Mutations do not cause living beings to develop; on the contrary, they always cause harm to them.</p>
<p>The reason for this is very simple: the DNA has a very complex structure and random effects can only cause harm to it. American geneticist B.G. Ranganathan explains this as follows:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Mutations are small, random, and harmful. They rarely occur and the best possibility is that they will be ineffectual. These four characteristics of mutations imply that mutations cannot lead to an evolutionary development. A random change in a highly specialized organism is either ineffectual or harmful. A random change in a watch cannot improve the watch. It will most probably harm it or at best be ineffectual. An earthquake does not improve the city, it brings destruction.</em></p>
<p>Not surprisingly, no mutation example, which is useful, that is, which is observed to develop the genetic code, has been observed so far. All mutations have proved to be harmful. It was understood that mutation, which is presented as an “evolutionary mechanism,” is actually a genetic occurrence that harms living beings, and leaves them disabled. (The most common effect of mutation on human beings is cancer). No doubt, a destructive mechanism cannot be an “evolutionary mechanism.” Natural selection, on the other hand, “can do nothing by itself” as nature. Since no evolutionary mechanism exists, neither could any imaginary process called evolution have taken place.</p>
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<p>Written by Hannah Jeter @ <a href="http://ift.tt/2l7ieSM" target="_blank">The Players’ Tribune</a></p>
<p><em>This is the first of a new editorial series in which family members, friends, and those closest to them, share special insights into the athletes they love.</em></p>
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<p>I thought he was a pitcher.</p>
<p>I know it sounds strange that I didn’t know he was a shortstop. When a mutual friend introduced us while I was at dinner with my mom in New York, I didn’t really know who Derek was at all.</p>
<p>I can just imagine all of the New Yorkers reading this right now thinking, <i>Oh, come aawwnn.</i> They probably don’t believe me.</p>
<p>You probably don’t believe me.</p>
<p>But it’s true.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong: I’d been living in the city for a couple of years — and I know I saw Yankees hats and probably a Jeter jersey or two (or 100), but they didn’t register. I grew up in the Virgin Islands, on St. Thomas, which is only about three miles wide. Baseball wasn’t really “a thing.” We didn’t have professional teams to obsess over so I was never a baseball fan.</p>
<p>Derek and I met during the off-season, and I think that was a lucky break. It let us spend some time together away from New York. I didn’t have any preconceptions about who he was, and I didn’t need much more to go on than this: I had met the nicest guy, and I wanted to get to know him on my own terms. Not Google’s.</p>
<p><span class="tpt-inline-photo-credit-image-wrap"><img class="size-full wp-image-92330 alignnone" src="http://ift.tt/2lcszfW" alt="Orioles Yankees Baseball" width="2501" height="1735" /><span class="photo-credits-wrap dark-overlay extra-wide"><span class="photo-credits-wrap-inner"><span class="photo-credits byline">PHOTO BY JULIE JACOBSON/AP IMAGES</span></span></span></span></p>
<p>We met at the right time. To me, what matters in a relationship is being at the same place in your lives. And right from the start, I could tell that the timing of Derek’s life and mine were aligned.</p>
<p>I’d grown up really fast. I started working as a model when I was 14, and traveled the world and built a career for myself. A life like that — going from job to job around the globe, and especially in my industry — kind of forces you into adulthood. The truth is: Just as Derek had lived a whole life before he’d met me, I’d lived a whole life before I’d met Derek.</p>
<p>Where we’d been, where we were and where we wanted to go — everything just seemed to fit.</p>
<p>That off-season was sort of a bubble. I don’t think I realized the full magnitude of his career — of <i>everything</i> — until I went to Yankee Stadium for the season opener in April. You have to understand: Up to that point, I’d only really known him as <i>Derek</i>, this great guy I was dating. This was the first time that I’d seen him as <i>Derek Jeter</i>: a New York icon, a Yankees hero.</p>
<p>I walked into the stadium and saw fan-made signs:</p>
<p>I LOVE DEREK JETER.</p>
<p>DEREK, WILL YOU MARRY ME?</p>
<p>It was a wild feeling, seeing all of that affection, live and up close. It felt almost as if New York and I were dating the same person. As if I was in love with the same person as millions of other people. I thought, <i>Here’s this guy, who I go home and watch TV and order takeout with — and the rest of the world feels like they have a piece of him too.</i> It was strange. I didn’t know how to reconcile it all.</p>
<p>I think people assume that — because I was a relatively well-known model — dating a famous baseball player wouldn’t have been an adjustment for me. But trust me, not all levels of fame are created equal. When Derek Jeter walks into a room … the whole room takes notice. Paparazzi followed us at times. People interrupted us during meals. The only way to maintain some sort of privacy — to be together, just the two of us — was to stay in. It’s funny: You don’t see many photos from the early part of our relationship … and that’s why. We rarely went anywhere.</p>
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<p>One way I learned to cope was by compartmentalizing baseball as much as I could, by telling myself that there was Derek Jeter, and then there was Derek. During that first year, I treated baseball like it was just his job. A very extraordinary job — but a job all the same. The workout and meal regimens, the travel, the attention … I tried to tell myself that this was just part of Derek’s “office” life.</p>
<p>But at the same time, when you love someone, compartmentalization is pretty much impossible. Part of loving someone means wanting for them the same things that they so passionately want for themselves. And I gradually began to realize that, if baseball was important to Derek, then it had to be important to me. The next season — Derek’s last — I decided to travel to some of the games. My managers, at times, were not too happy with me; I canceled jobs left and right just to be present at those remaining games. And I still didn’t feel totally in my element. Even during those last few months, I felt like I was still learning to identify the Derek Jeter everyone was saying goodbye to as the same Derek that I knew.</p>
<p>And then, during his last game at Yankee Stadium … that’s when, for me, everything fell into place.</p>
<p>That night, I got it.</p>
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<p>I remember watching Derek walk out to shortstop for the last time at Yankee Stadium. I remember how he seemed to be absorbing everything — every sound, every fan, all of the energy. There was something about the <i>feeling </i>of that night that was unforgettable. I knew how much it meant to me. But for the first time, I think I could also fully sense how much it meant to everyone else: the culmination of this 20-year career, this 20-year journey that they had all been on together. This atmosphere that I had gotten so swept up in — for a lot of people, baseball is like that <i>every night</i>. Yankees fans had had two whole decades worth of nights like this. They grew up with Derek Jeter, and he grew up with them. And I don’t think I’d understood that before.</p>
<p>But I’m glad I understand it now.</p>
<p>Timing is everything.</p>
<p>On May 14, the Yankees will retire Derek’s number. It’s a significant moment, and one that’s had me thinking a lot about the end of his playing career — those last two years for him as a player, that also happened to be the first two years for us as a couple. Big moments have a funny way of doing that, I think — of getting you to look over your shoulder and reflect.</p>
<p>Big moments also have a funny way of making you look ahead.</p>
<p>Now, pregnant with our first child, Derek and I are looking to the future.</p>
<p><span class="tpt-inline-photo-credit-image-wrap"><img class="size-full wp-image-92331 alignnone" src="http://ift.tt/2l0wPNt" alt="img_2608" width="3024" height="4032" /><span class="photo-credits-wrap dark-overlay extra-wide"><span class="photo-credits-wrap-inner"><span class="photo-credits byline">PHOTO BY HANNAH JETER</span></span></span></span></p>
<p>He already has a name in mind — he’s set on it. (We’ll see.) He’ll say when he calls me during the day:</p>
<p>“So, how are you and so-and-so doing?”</p>
<p>“That’s not the name yet, sweetie.”</p>
<p>Whatever her name is, I know she’ll run circles around him.</p>
<p>We want our kids’ lives to be as “normal” as possible. They’re going to be born into such an extraordinary situation. They’re going to have to be some strong little people. We don’t want them to be defined by their dad’s name — for them, we want him to just be “Dad.” That will be the piece of him they’ll have that the rest of the world doesn’t. It will be special, and it will be theirs.</p>
<p>Still, though, I want them to <i>know</i> Derek Jeter. I feel some sadness — and Derek must as well — thinking about how our children will never get to experience that time in his life. We can show them videos, and photos, and memorabilia — I already can’t wait to show them footage of that last night at the Stadium. But I know it won’t be quite the same. I’ll tell them myself: <i>You had to be there.</i></p>
<p>And I’m sure that both of us will be thinking about that in May.</p>
<p>Derek and I will want our children to understand that the lives they’ve been given are so fortunate, in so many ways. We’ll want them to learn to help others, and to care for others, and to give back to the world.</p>
<p>We’ll let them know that they are strong and smart, and that they can do anything they put their minds to. I hope they’ll be honest like their father. I hope they’ll be stubborn like me. I hope that they know what they want and won’t settle for less.</p>
<p>And if they want to play baseball, well, we’re gonna have a little talk first.</p>
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<p>Man has passed out of the state of savagery and become a civilized creature with the development of social consciousness. Civilization is a collective state. In our collective type of life the isolationist is a detriment to himself and a menace to others.</p>
<p>There is a great difference between isolationism and intellectualism. Development of the mind releases the individual from mob psychology, but it does not set him apart from the common responsibility of his kind. A true thinker becomes a force for good within the group life. If his intellectual powers lure him away from the practical problems and values of his world, he can no longer make his contribution to the social unity.</p>
<p>Political reforms are not accompanied by the people but through the people. Behind all collective progress stands the enlightened individuals leadership. His superiority does not free him from common responsibility; his is the obligation to assume the greater burden of directing his vision to the well being of all his people.</p>
<p>We’ll go as far back to ancient times. Akhenaton, Pharaoh of Egypt is often referred to as the first civilized human being. Which this may not literally be true, he was definitely the first man in recorded history to exemplify social consciousness in the administration of a great nation.</p>
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<p>Charles F. Potter, in his History of Religion, says of Akhenaton that he was, “the first pacifist, the first realist, the first monotheist, the first democrat, the first heretic, the first humanitarian, the first internationalist, and the first person known to attempt to found a religion. He was born out of due time, several thousand years too soon.</p>
<p>To Akhenaton, God was not a mighty warrior ruling over Egypt, speaking through the oracles of his priests; he was not a Supreme Being flying through the air in a war chariot leading armies of destruction. No – God was a gentle father who loved all his children, of every race and nation; and desired for them that they should live together in peace and comradeship.</p>
<p>This was a pharaoh who traveled alone through the countryside, meeting peasants, conversing with slaves, and sharing the simple food of the poor. To the most ignorant man he listened with profound respect, for in each of his subjects he sought and found the life of God.</p>
<p>He could not accept the inequalities of birth, wealth, or physical estate as a justification for men persecuting each other or exploiting one and other.<img data-attachment-id="6075" data-permalink="http://ift.tt/2lFp2V5" data-orig-file="http://ift.tt/2l41gVg" data-orig-size="580,451" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="gal_7098" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://ift.tt/2lF98dB" data-large-file="http://ift.tt/2l47AfN" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6075 aligncenter" src="http://ift.tt/2l41gVg" alt="gal_7098" srcset="http://ift.tt/2lFfny7 580w, http://ift.tt/2l45rAH 150w, http://ift.tt/2lEZYxG 300w" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" /></p>
<p>He saw it the duty of the ruler to protect this beauty in the hearts of his people to nourish it, and to give every possible le opportunity for its expression and perfection.</p>
<p>In his personal life Akhenaton emerges as the first man in history to bring dignity and gentle beauty to the management of his home. He was the father of seven daughters, to whom he was completely devoted, and in his speeches and public pronouncements he always referred to Queen Nefertiti as “my beloved wife.”</p>
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<p>It was usual for the Pharaohs to cause themselves to be depicted in great stone carvings upon the walls of their palaces. They were represented as majestic figures, crowned and sceptered; they were shown either seated on their thrones or wielding their weapons against their foes. Akhenaton was the only Pharaoh in the history of Egypt who chose to be depicted with his arm about his wife, with his little daughters playing about and seated on his lap</p>
<p>Akhenaton was the first man in history who dared to dream of the Brotherhood of Men, and he cheerfully gave his life and his empire for that dream.</p>
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<p>The larger problem and our greatest challenge is in how to set up a new order of world ethics firmly established on a foundation of democratic idealism.</p>
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Julia29http://www.blogger.com/profile/09959432249593123988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847287520792993384.post-48888992289139034342017-02-07T00:39:00.001-08:002017-02-07T00:39:02.095-08:00The Origin Of Life?<p>The theory of evolution posits that all living species evolved from a single living cell that emerged on the primitive earth 3.8 billion years ago. How a single cell could generate millions of complex living species and, if such an evolution really occurred, why traces of it cannot be observed in the fossil record are some of the questions the theory cannot answer. However, first and foremost, of the first step of the alleged evolutionary process it has to be inquired: How did this “first cell” originate?</p>
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<p>Since the theory of evolution denies creation and does not accept any kind of supernatural intervention, it maintains that the “first cell” originated coincidentally within the laws of nature, without any design, plan, or arrangement. According to the theory, inanimate matter must have produced a living cell as a result of coincidences. This, however, is a claim inconsistent with even the most unassailable rules of biology.</p>
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