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I Almost Died Today

2008-08-15T11:09:00.000-07:00

I Almost Died Today

Yes, I almost died today. Without going into the minute details I swirved to miss a vehicle on the highway this morning while driving in the slow lane and I lost control of my car going 65mph. I did a full 360 turn and another 180 across four lanes of full, morning traffic and ended up facing oncoming traffic in the fast lane. How I did this without hitting anyone or anyone hitting me is an complete and total miracle. This all happened within a few seconds of course. When I realized that I had lost control of my car (my son Owen was fast asleep in his carseat) I yelled out "NO!" Not a "No, this can't be happening" or a "No, I don't want this to happen", but a "No!, this is not going to happen to me today!" It was like my Higher Self proclaimed that nothing is going to happen regardless of this circumstance. A real word of power, creating my life and in this case saving our lives.

I ended up facing oncoming traffic in the fast lane and I threw my car in reverse and backed it up against the fastlane shoulder and as soon as I did a truck slammed on its breaks and missed me by inches. No one got hurt, no vehicle got hit. I sat there on the shoulder shaking and my son said, "Dad, whats going on?"

I am completely grateful for my life today and especially the life of my wonderful son. I went to work as normal, but several times throughout the day I broke down crying with an overflowing heart of thankfulness. Every day that I have from this day forth is a bonus day. I give thanks to The Source, The Goddess, The Higher Consciousness for an amazing day and Life. :)

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Comments:
Ampbreia

Wow! You are lucky to be alive! I'm glad you are! And to think your son slept through all the real terror and woke up only when you were both safe! Typical kid!

*HUGS* to you both.

The Muse™

All I can think to say is... WOW. You had a lot of angels watching over you and Owen, my friend. More than one miracle happened to you. Every day is so precious. What a way to be reminded. Lots of hugs and love to you both.

Ruth:

You're an amazing person, John. Every day in a human skin is not a guarantee, but you and your son have another day to live and enjoy life.

Blessings! Glad you're still here!

Dr. Michael Rhodes:

Glad you're alive.

Tamara Thorne:

Intent and the higher self -- I'm so glad you were able to put them into action!

Tamara

Dawn:

Nice save.(high five) Love the use of dexterity with the high self on the NO part. Glad you are sticking around for a while longer...since we just met and all.
:)

Peace, Dawn

Ghost Hunting and Parapsychology - Is there a difference?

2008-06-16T15:00:00.000-07:00

Ghost Hunting and Parapsychology - Is there a difference?

Since my previous blog on Paranormal Investigation Groups was posted I've received several emails from folks who seemed agitated by this blog, stating that they don't need to be "professionals" or have a degree to "hunt ghosts." They do it because they enjoy it and its who they are. And I totally agree. You don't have to have a degree in parapsychology or have some certification to search for ghosts. And it is completely fine to do so if you enjoy this.

This has urged me to focus some light on the topic of ghost hunting. My main concern with ghost hunting in general and ghost hunting groups in particular is its high level of missing knowledge, especially where the fields of Parapsychology, Quantum Physics, and Noetics are concerned. There seems to be a general ignorance that ghost hunting or ghosts, hauntings and poltergeists have anything to do with Parapsychology. This is odd, because it is Parapsychology (or the earlier term of Psychical Research) that created this field and defined the phenomena in the first place. Parapsychology has pioneered the investigative techniques (and technology used), and has been on the cutting edge of paranormal and psychical research for over a hundred years. With this being the case, you would think that those who are truly interested in investigating the unexplained and take it seriously (that is, its not just an infrequent hobby) would be avid students of Parapsychology and its research, but sadly this just is not the case.

Why do I feel the need to address this? Do I have a degree in Parapsychology? No I don't, nor do I presently have any "Paranormal Investigation Certification". It concerns me because I take this seriously and I desire to know all that can be known about Psi and the paranormal (and the two are intertwined).

I believe that there are many people who are also very serious about the paranormal, but just have not been challenged to think through things. Freethinking is what I am about...thinking through things thoroughly, being a constant student and ever learning, even if it hurts. I just want to challenge all of us "ghost hunters" to think and not to be lazy. Its easy to do. Its easy to go down to Barnes and Noble and pick up one or two books on ghosts and paranormal investigations by a self proclaimed "expert" in the field and feel like you know most of what you need to know about these matters. If you are really serious you may have five or six books on the paranormal, are a dedicated member of a local ghost hunting group and have been actively investigating for several years with up to fifteen or twenty investigations under your belt. Which is great. Yet, do you continue to grow and learn? Are you still willing to learn and research and gain knowledge even if it goes against the current beliefs or position of your ghost hunting group? Are you dedicated to truth (inward and outward truth) or to being accepted and looked up to? That, I believe, is the real issue.

There are many wonderful folks with fantastic intentions that are experienced ghost hunters and leaders in the paranormal investigation community. Yet here is my question for the leaders of groups like T.A.P.S.: Is your dedication to ghost hunting to really find truth or to be well regarded for your hard work and admired as being an "expert" in your field? I mean, who wouldn't want that? Would you be willing to lay down your positions in these groups or change your group's stance if you found out that you were propagating unscientific or misinformation about ghosts and hauntings? Would you change or would you seek to justify yourself and turn a deaf ear to better and more scientific information?

Unfortunately this is what I have seen in many of the ghost hunting communities. Truth and scientific fact many times ends up taking a back seat to the excitement of the hunt, the thrill of the unexplained, and becoming an "expert" in the field. Its a hard thing to be an "expert" and then change your position to become more inline with the scientific research if you are wrong. You loose friends and have descention, groups split and reputations are ruined, a lot of hard work is lost. Its easier to ignore the science and continue on than to run the risk of change.

To some degree many of the larger ghost hunting groups have become like churches. Governed by a core group of experienced "elders" who do not take well to being asked too many questions. The less experienced members take their orders and training from the "elders" and generally follow the direction and beliefs of the group without the need to question. The "elders" are the most knowledgeable and have no need of being challenged by less knowledgeable underlings. If there is conflict with or unwelcomed questioning of the leaders then you are disciplined or removed from the group. I've seen this happen first hand many times.

What I am getting at here is that many ghost hunting groups base their knowledge and understanding of ghosts, apparitions, hauntings, poltergeists and other unexplained phenomena on information other than the cutting-edge scientific research of parapsychology. This is attune to Christian churches using something other than the bible for their understanding of God. Paranormal Investigations SHOULD be based on science, not the writings of a self-proclaimed expert on the paranormal.

Can anyone fault me for being a stickler for science in a field like the paranormal? Why is this important? Because science creates a standard of knowledge, especially with regards to the unexplained. Could you imagine a Physicist ignoring the principles of science and writing a book based more on feelings and half-baked ideas than from hard science? Absolutely not. What makes us any different? The very fact that most paranormal investigators, whether leaders or not, have very little knowledge of parapsychology, its history and its research (past, present and where its going), is sad. Especially since it was Parapsychologists who began paranormal investigations in the first place.
Do I believe that Parapsychologists today are the real "experts" of the ghost hunting community? Yes I do. So am I saying that if you are not a Parapsychologist that you can never be an "expert" in paranormal investigations, regardless how many years of study and investigation you've put in? No, certainly not, but if your investigations and studies have not been based on the founding protoscience of Parapsychology, then how can you rightfully consider yourself or anyone else an "expert" in the field? Think about this.

Loyd Auerbach, director of The Office of Paranormal Investigations, and one of the leading Parapsychologists in the world has a "Certificate Course in Parapsychological Studies" http://www.mindreader.com/paraprogram/ that one can take if one so desires. To my knowledge this is the only Parapsychological course available in the United States. I have not been through the course, but have heard great things about it. I am not trying to sell the course, just putting the information out there for others to consider.

I believe that if you are serious about paranormal investigations, desire to see uniformity and high standards of investigation throughout the ghost hunting community, and to truly know and prove that there is life after death, then continuing the way we are going is actually causing more harm than good. Study the works by accredited Parapsychologists. We need to lay our knowledge of the paranormal on the foundation of science instead of something inferior. If the books that we have read on paranormal investigations are not either written by Parapsychologists or is heavily based on parapsychology then we need to look elsewhere. I am not saying that other works are useless, but we need a standard to measure the information by and that standard should be science. Using high-tech, state-of-the-art technology during investigations is NOT science and does not make you an expert in the field regardless of how expensive it may be or how much technology you use.

How can I say that shows like "Ghost Hunters" on the Sci-Fi Channel promotes fear-based sensationalism and ignorance? Because it is not based on the science of Parapsychology. How do I know this? Just by watching the show and their explanations of the phenomena. Its a shame and a disservice to the field of paranormal investigation. Sure everyone likes to be scared and enjoys the thrill of brushes with the unexplained in a dark basement, but this should not be the sole rationale of paranormal investigation groups. We can still have the rush of coming face to face with a ghost, but having the tools of real science to propel us forward
instead of running in place or even backwards is what we should all be about.
I have a real love for the paranormal, paranormal investigation/ghost hunter groups, and even the thrill of touching the unexplained in the dead of night, and this is why I write what I have in this blog. We have gone far enough without the light of real science to guide our way. Remember, question everything. Leave no stone unturned. This is part of the adventure and if your leaders or the "experts" you look up to have said little or nothing about Parapsychology then ask them why that is. Do the research and educate yourself and you will be amazed at the difference between being a follower of half-baked unscientific information and holding a hundred years of cutting-edge research of real science in your hand.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

John

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Comments from MySpace:

Loyd Auerbach:

Excellent blog, John.

"Ghost hunting" is part of what parapsychologists have long called "spontaneous case investigations." There is a rich history of investigations, methodology, findings and theories within the literature in and around the field of Parapsychology (and its precursor, psychical research) seemingly ignored by ghost hunters. More than 125 years of history and material.

Beyond that, the connections between ghostly phenomena and other psychic experiences (and the research that exists in the lab on psi) is overlooked and even dismissed out of turn by many so-called "professional ghost hunters."

One comment on courses and such...

Besides my own program in basic parapsychological studies (it is NOT an academic/university program), there are a few accredited colleges offering a course here or there on Parapsychology (though be careful of the ones offered by debunkers). More importantly, the Rhine Research Center (www.rhine.org), the Institute of Noetic Sciences (www.noetic.org) and the Parapsychology Foundation (www.parapsychology.org) offer various educational opportunities.

Finally, no one approaching this field should ignore the greater field of Parapsychology -- especially when real information is available. Start with the site of the Parapsychological Association (www.parapsych.org), the ONLY international organization of parapsychologists recognized by most science associations (including the American Association for the Advancement of Science). And do visit the Parapsychology Foundation's site (www.parapsychology.org) not only for the aforementioned info on education, but for so much more.

Loyd Auerbach, MS
Director, The Office of Paranormal Investigations
Paranormal Research Organization
Instructor, HCH Institute Parapsychological Studies Program
Adjunct Professor, JFK University
Rhine Research Center Advisory Board

The Debunker Cult of the Paranormal Investigation Community

2008-06-16T14:59:00.000-07:00

The Debunker Cult of the Paranormal Investigation Community

Hello all,

This post is basically a response to the debacle over the latest "Ghost Hunters" episode on the Sci-Fi Channel regarding the investigation at the Moss Beach Distillery.

This episode has really revealed alot about the current state of the Paranormal Investigation community. After watching the show and going onto the Myspace blogs of both Jason and Grant (The leaders of the TAPS crew on the show) and reading hundreds of comments of their fans, it is evident to me how influential this show has become in the minds and hearts of amateur ghost hunters and paranormal investigators. So much so that several things have been made very evident:

Firstly, that this show has invigorated and molded the majority of the Paranormal Investigation groups throughout the United States and even internationally is undeniable. With this being the case whatever mindset and methodologies this TAPS team displays on camera ultimately effects a majority of similar groups throughout the world, even if their mindset and methodologies are in error or unbalanced.

After reading the amazing amount of comments on Jason and Grant's blogs on the Moss Beach Distillery no one can deny that the vast majority of fans and supporters of the "Ghost Hunters" show follow the TAPS team's mindset of being first and foremost: DEBUNKERS.

You hear the term "debunk" and "debunking" frequently on this show as well as throughout the Paranormal Investigation community, as if being a debunker is being a solid or scientific paranormal investigator. This is totally NOT the case whatsoever, but Jason and Grant and the rest of the TAPS team consider "debunking" as something that they are supposed to be doing during every investigation. As if the Apparitions have to step up to the plate and prove the team wrong if they are really present.

Let me state this loud and clear: Being a debunker does NOT make you an investigator. The origination of this field (Psychical Research and Parapsychological Field Investigations) was, and still is, supposed to be centered on SCIENCE and the SCIENTIFIC METHOD not on an unbalanced focus of being a debunker of the paranormal. This mindset flows throughout the comments section of Jason and Grant's blogs. They set up an example for so many others to immolate and follow and most do not know any better, because they know nothing of the science of parapsychology. Parapsychology Field Investigators were the first "Paranormal Investigators" or "Ghost Hunters" LONG before this became a cultural phenomenon.

Secondly, the almost rabid devotion to this show and the TAPS team, and specifically to Jason and Grant in particular, reveals something that is extremely unhealthy, which most seem to be oblivious about. This show and its direct effect upon the Paranormal Investigation community has, in effect, created a CULT. Yes, I said that. A cult. Do just a little research on the marks of a cult and you will see the tell tail signs there. Read the blog comments on their pages. Go to the online forums. Present honest questions and respectful criticism on these blogs or in the online forums and see what kind of responses you receive. This show has created a community - a "church" - of ghost hunters that does not question why it does what it does and which does not allow for honest and open criticism of the movement or its leaders. Nothing is wrong. No one need to question. If one where to study the history of "ghost hunting" and understand the science of it, one would have to either bring up questions or bury their head in the sand and stop thinking for themselves.

I have mentioned this briefly on a previous blog called "Ghost Hunting and Parapsychology - Is there a difference?" though I believe it is time for those of us who know better to stand up and pronounce that the emperor has no clothes. Why are the leaders of Parapsychology silent? Sure, no one likes confrontation or to create dissension among the ranks of the Paranormal Investigation community, but Ghost Hunters has created a movement that is not based on Parapsychology but its own self-created terminology and methodology. We all want unity and peace together and that is completely understandable and noble, but not at the cost of ones conscience. The vast majority has very little understanding of parapsychology or why it is important and the majority of the leadership within the Ghost Hunting community, for their own purposes, either toss the science of parapsychology aside or are willfully ignorant. You have never heard Jason and Grant publicly discuss parapsychology or the works of respected Parapsychologists because it flies in the face of their mindset and what they are doing. And be honest, if they were to change their methods and adopt a more scientific investigative practice it would not make for exciting television and thus in the end would not make the Sci-Fi Channel much money. Solid parapsychological investigations are not overly rad and would not make for an exciting show most of the time.

Those of us who are more knowledgeable in the science of parapsychology have been quiet for too long. We haven't liked getting our heads chewed off by the rabid fans of Ghost Hunters. Once bitten, twice shy. But we shouldn't allow this any longer. I am calling for awareness. To spread the awareness that the "Ghost Hunters" show is neither scientific nor balanced. I have said it before and I will say it again, setting up tech and using tech in the dark is NOT scientific. Tech use is NOT science. Debunking a purported haunting is NOT scientific in and of itself, especially by the sole use of tech. But you will never hear that from the leadership of these ghost hunter groups.

Am I setting a line in the sand? I guess I am. I do realize that the Ghost Hunters show is a condensing of many hours into just 20 to 40 minutes of air time and that there is much that doesn't get shown, but after four seasons of shows you can get an honest and accurate picture of what TAPS does and what their thoughts and mindsets are.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this.

The Moss Beach Distillery, Ghost Hunters, Paranormal Dark Ages, and A Reply to Linda

2008-06-16T14:58:00.000-07:00

The Moss Beach Distillery, Ghost Hunters, Paranormal Dark Ages, and A Reply to Linda

This is a response to an email that I received from "Linda" (http://www.myspace.com/virgolinda10) concerning the mess over the Moss Beach Distillery investigation on Ghost Hunters. Linda does not accept emails from people who are not her "Friend" so I cannot send this reply to her privately. This will make for a good blog though.

Linda also posted this in response to my comment on Jason Hawes' blog called "Moss Beach episode!". Conveniently, Jason deleted my and Dr. Rhodes fair criticisms from his blog, further showing how they cannot take any criticism, which proves my point of Ghost Hunters leadership and fans are cultic in their mentality. I used to respect Jason, but this just shows how little of a man he is who cannot take fair, unbiased, constructive criticism. He has a responsibility as a leader on such a public television show to receive and respond fairly to constructive criticism. To shut out everything except the unquestioning adoration of his fans is a very sad thing.

Here is the reply:

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"Well professor - let me say this."

You don't even know me and yet you call me "professor" at the beginning of your communication. I know you do not think I am an actual professor, so this is a snide comment against me personally. The very kind of thing that I'd expect from anyone who takes the Ghost Hunter show seriously.

"Jason and Grant do not claim to be scientist - never have and never will."

They have never claimed to be scientists, but that HAVE claimed that their methods are scientific. This is one of the problems with TAPS. They want to be respected as investigators but they totally neglect the 130 years of science that real "ghost hunting" has been built upon. You speak as if science is a negative thing within the field of paranormal investigations. Real science IS the investigation of the unknown. If you don't follow scientific method or the body of research that science has uncovered so far with regards to the paranormal then you WILL go down an road that is unscientific and invalid as real research in the end.

"The Ghost Hunters is more of a reality TV show."

Yes it is.

"Coming to a conclusion about what is real and not real is subjective anyway - don't you think?"

Then why email me? Why does it matter? If it is all really subjective as you say then nothing in your email means anything. Its all subjective.

"There are many personal experiences that cannot be caught on tape but the team always gives the benefit of the doubt."

Yes.

"I will defend your right to your opinion, but to cut people down because they happen to be loyal to a show is something personal for each individual."

Yes, it is my opinion that the Ghost Hunters movement/fan base is much more of a cult than an open and freethinking community. If you have constructive criticism of the show and voice it publicly, you end up getting a hundred or a thousand screaming fans in your face calling you names and completely throwing away any valid criticisms you have. These are signs of cultic thinking and reacting. Do the research.

"You, Mr/Mrs Scientist have no right to deny the right of any other person's loyalty and or feelings."

Did I EVER deny the right of any other person to do or feel anything??? To actually deny the right of someone something implies power over that person. I have power over no one, but I do have the right to cry out "The Emperor has no clothes!" when the Emperor has no clothes on. People who are unknowingly caught in a cult will kick and scream against their helpers and that is what I am trying to do.

"They were not told of the gimmicks, bottom line."

I agree. I never said otherwise.

"They do not read restaurant reviews in California because they live in Rhode Island."

That is ridiculous. Any knowledgeable researcher of ghosts and hauntings within the United States would come across the Moss Beach Distillery in the stories and reports and previous investigations by other researchers. I've never been to Moss Beach, but I have read about it in many ghost books and seen it on TV shows. And yes, Loyd Auerbach (since he lives only 50 miles away from Moss Beach) has investigated the place more than anyone and has written about it extensively in his books.

Listen, this is one of the reasons why I do not respect Jason as an investigator. He creates a smear campaign against Loyd on one hand and on the other hand says that he respects him and his investigative methods. It is evident that Jason nor Grant has even read Loyd's books or really knows his methods. If Jason HAD read Loyd's books he would have known about the Moss Beach Distillery and the devices. This is what REAL investigators do, they never stop learning nor stop gathering information from their peers. The Paranormal Investigation community SHOULD be peer-reviewed, but that would mean that it would have to be based on science and not self-created terminology and methodology (see the bottom of this reply). Certainly Jason does not consider Loyd a peer of his otherwise he would have had more contact and familiarity with Loyd and his work, AS WELL as stifling the smear campaign against him. Jason knows whats going on and how this is hurting Loyd personally, but he doesn't care and allows his fans to chide Loyd unfairly.

Jason and Grant are good people. Its evident from watching the show (and yes I have the shows on DVD and study them too). But even good people can get caught up into a cultic movement, especially its leaders. Real leaders are open and inviting of their peers constructive criticism and learn from each other, not allow mud to be thrown by tens of thousands of adoring fans. That is selfish and self-serving even if Loyd was wrong in his response to Jason. Jason has proven that he is not respectful of others nor especially fellow investigators who have been doing this longer than he has.

"If you notice on the show - although upset about the "gimmicks" they continued to try and find something."

Yes they did, but it was not with an open mind any longer. They went through the motions, but expected that it was all a setup/hoax.

"So if the alledged "blue lady" showed up they would of gone with it."

I believe that they would have, but their reaction to the cheesy gimmicks made them too skeptical about the Blue Lady to fairly investigate it. They were in super-debunk mode (compared to normal debunk mode). It is more common for true Apparitions to make themselves known to people who are not overly skeptical.

"My question to you is this. Why does Moss Beach have to put trickery in?"

You are not listening. The devices WERE NOT "TRICKERY". No one, not Jason or Grant nor Loyd considers these devices as "trickery" or "deceptive" props. The Moss Beach Distillery created these gimmicks for tours. Apparitions do not make things move on-command by the living. This being the case they created the props to show interested customers what the REAL phenomenon was like, NOT to try to trick customers or investigators. Like I said, if these were designed to be "trickery" or "deceptive" they would have been created much differently and the previous investigations of the place would have made it known to the rest of us that the place was a hoax, but its not.

"The proof is in the pudding. If Moss Beach truly has "ghosts" there would be no need for "trickery".

Jason and Grant call it "fakery". Their reputation is on the line - so they think - in this investigation and so they have to call it "fakery". But any UNBIASED and FAIR research would make it evident that these devices were not "fakery" but designed for "reenactments" of what happens or has happened there in the past. Do I support that? No. Do I think it was a bad (stupid) decision to NOT be upfront about the devices? Yes I do. But just because an actual "fun-house" has props to scare you doesn't mean it can't still be haunted does it? I'm not calling MBD a fun-house, but anyone with an unbiased mindset would clearly see what the purpose is in these devices.

"Your cutting down the Ghost Hunters" but what is Moss Beach liability in this?"

They ARE liable. I said that from the beginning, so did Loyd. Did you not ACTUALLY READ my blog or did you do what the other cultic fans of TAPS do, just read a few sentences and start writing away?

"Someone got hurt because of this bogus place."

Grant hurt his ankle, but that would have happened whether or not there were pneumatics in the ceiling. Did the pneumatics in the ceiling cause Grants sprained ankle? They would have ventured up there anyways to check it out since there were reports of the ACTUAL lamps moving via paranormal activity. To say that Grant got hurt because the place was "bogus" proves the almost mindless mentality of these arguments. Come on now, you are an investigator. Think about it (that was not a put down either).

"I live in California, years ago when I went to Moss Beach the bartender told me about the "trickery". After that I never considered the place to be haunted."

And thats your uninformed opinion, which you are entitled to.

"I thought the restuarant went to "desparate measures" for financial purposes. There credibility went out the door."

Again that is uninformed opinion. Apparently they do great business because of the food, the view, and the beauty of the place, NOT because of some paranormal activity. Yes, they have used the activity for their own financial benefit JUST AS every other public place or restaurant that TAPS visits seeks to do, yet I highly doubt that the activity of the Blue Lady there has had any significant measure upon their finances.

"If this restaurant had been truly haunted the team would of loved it."

That is ridiculous. Sure if the Blue Lady became visible to all and walked through them maybe so, but do you think that even if that really happened that they would have chalked it up to being just another "fakery" created by projectors? Think about it. Once they experienced the womans voice in the bathroom and the speaker their mind was closed down to any real haunting. The Blue Lady would have had to appear and start throwing stuff at them for them to believe it was haunted. And maybe not even then.

"Or would you prefer they ran with the fake stuff, claiming it was real?"

Come on.

"The science of the paranormal is all subjective."

Really. Wow. And you know this how? This just proves your willful ignorance of Parapsychology. It IS science and there is empirical scientific evidence of the paranormal that has nothing to do with subjectivity. You would have known this if you had done your homework.

"Your "science" does not impress me in the least."

No, because you are willfully ignorant concerning it. For any REAL proof of life after death to have any real impact upon the world will HAVE to come through SCIENCE. If it doesn't it is worthless. TAPS and the majority of other paranormal investigation groups will continue on doing what they are doing and nothing will change. The world WILL NOT be impacted by their investigations or their unscientific evidence of photo orbs, EVPs, EMF readings and IR videography. EVERY great advancement in civilization has come through SCIENCE and the evolution of science. Parapsychology is on the evolutionary front lines of science, but it doesn't have the backing of the people because of ignorance. Mostly willful ignorance. If TAPS and the Paranormal Investigative community were to start studying science - Parapsychology - there would be a shift in awareness. Emotional and financial support would flood the scientific community and we would end up making major leaps forward in not only science but also in human consciousness, technologies, and even human evolution.

Am I a follower of Loyd Auerbach? No. I respect him and his research. He is a Parapsychologist and a lover of science and the scientific method. Where would the world be without science??? Still stuck in the dark ages. I see what he is trying to do and I agree with him because of parapsychology.

Let me make this clear: Paranormal Investigations will go no where and accomplish nothing substantial for the world if it does not embrace science at some point. If you or the rest of the TAPS community fear or brush aside parapsychology you HAVE to really ask yourself why? Why? Parapsychology is not perfect and parapsychologists are not perfect. We are ALL still learning. But if we learn without the help of science where will this learning take us?

We are in a paranormal Dark Age. Ultimately, if we ever come out of this Dark Age it will be because of science and the advancement of science, but that will NOT happen if the masses - who are so interested in understanding the paranormal - never truly embrace it.

If I am wrong here then please explain it to me. How can we progress in our understanding and grow and evolve in the human race without this happening?

"I don't care how Jason and Grant announce it bottom line. When they capture a haunting on film, recordings - now that is what I call science."

Exactly! That is what YOU call science. Science calls that crap. But you have to understand WHY science calls that crap and improve yourself. If you don't then you are either in to doing this only for fun or for money. Jason and Grant cannot rightfully claim that the show doesn't pay them well. But that is a whole other can of worms.

**On a side note Jason states in his blog: "As for us not doing enough research before the case, like we have always said, we wait till after the case so we do not contaminate ourselves with the claims, history or anything else of the case.  Why read up on a place prior and find out so and so died in the back room and then go there and focus mostly on the back room? "

This is ridiculous. Watch the first two seasons of Ghost Hunters on DVD, study them carefully (I have). They have been doing the opposite of what he says here. They have Donna or someone else to research and a history of the place BEFORE they go in. Besides if this was true then Jason and Grant need to start skipping the "Interview" portion of the investigation, because that is where the owner or witness tells them what happened where and this and that. So much for doing the investigation without "contamination".

Is There Free Will in christianity? - Video

2007-09-02T23:55:00.000-07:00

An excellent little clip.

Area 51 - An Incredible On-Air Radio Phone Call (Audio)

2007-09-02T23:51:00.001-07:00

This is an audio clip from the Art Bell show/Coast to Coast AM. Art Bell sometimes selects a certain topic and devotes the show to that one topic. One night Art chose the topic of Area 51 and had a phone line devoted to callers who were currently working there or had worked there at one time.

The following clip is from a caller on the Area 51 line. Listen (my comments will follow):

This audio clip does not reveal this, but the time from the initial failure to Art coming back on the air was about 15 minutes, and this was on emergency backup link system.

Days after this event had happened information started to come out that there had never been a failure of this sort in the history of radio - ever.

Even weirder still is that several months later a man called in to the show who said he was the "mystery Area 51 caller" who said that it was all a hoax, but later, after sophisticated voice recognition analysis was done comparing the two callers it was found that the second caller was NOT the original first caller. Makes you think....

Lunar Madness?

2007-09-02T23:47:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! As you can see I added some pics of the moon and lunar themed music to my page...and no...I haven't become a werewolf. LOL. I normally don't share a lot of inner-personal things in my blogs, but I thought this would be a good time to share that I needed to rekindle this wonderful fascination with the moon that I had when I was a kid.

I used to sneak out onto my roof with my blankets and pillow and stay up all night just staring at the moon. It was magical to me. I seemed to have lost that connection and fascination as I grew up and that is sad to me. There really isn't anything more beautiful and mysterious as the moon.

I am sharing this because several months ago I went into a deep meditation and had a moving experience wherein I was told that I, in certain respects, had ventured off the path for the purpose of my life and I needed to reconnect with the Moon and She would lead me back to my path. What did this mean? I still am not entirely sure. And like with many things, even with profound messages, I forgot about it the next day and went on with my life.

These past few days I have been going through a lot of the old 80s music that I loved so much as a teen and listened to three of my old favorites "Sister Moon" "Moon Over Bourbon Street", and "Little Wing" all by Sting (Moon Over Bourbon Street was written by Sting after he read the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. They are amazing books, which I think I might reread now). Wonderful and enchanting songs. When I was young I used to make-believe that the song Little Wing was a love song written about me and my Love, the Moon. :) I know that sounds really silly but its true. And this struck a deep cord within me. I had lost that fascination with my old love, the Moon. She still holds her sway. As any Cancer will tell you the Moon has a special place in their hearts. I remembered what my Inner Self had told me several months ago about reconnecting with the Moon and this, as you can see on my page, is a small rekindling of this fascination and love. This has been a deep part of me that has been locked away for many, many years.

I don't know really why I am sharing this with you. Maybe because I am lonely tonight. Restless. It feels good to share things like this. Yes, it may make me seem weird to some of you, but what can I say? I really am a pretty normal guy, I am just pretty deep I guess. Though its easy to become shallow as we age and become so wrapped up in the world.

My hope in sharing this is that maybe someone who reads this may also find that something that they need to reconnect with. To find that depth again, that wonder, that fascination.

A Comment on Suffering

2007-09-02T23:31:00.000-07:00

This is actually a comment I left on my friend Chandler's blog about "What Cures Heart Ache?" I thought it might be good to post as a seperate blog.

Here is his Question and my response:

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Do you ever wonder how people get ever heart ache?

I do. I have seen so much of it over the years, from shattering soul crushing shock, or gnawing long term pain.

In this time I have never watched a person just "get over it."

Are we meant to suffer after great losses?

How long should we suffer?

Is there a point where you need to just "Shut up and let it go?"

I often tell myself, when I am really hurting, "The world sucks, wear a crash helmet."
Though it is a joke, there is some serious truth in there too.

The world can suck to a point you do not want to continue to take part.

They say "time heals all wounds." I do not know that is true.

Abusive neglected childhoods, abusive spouses, mental illness, death of family members, even the loss of love or the loss of what you thought your relationships are to people you care about. All seem to leave a mark for ever.

What is the cure?

****Let me add. I am not feeling this now, but is an item that was a serious issue ofr me last year and the year before it.**************

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My reply:

Our hearts, in a more metaphysical sense, are a living, breathing thing, just like a tree. If given the right environment and nutrition it will heal from any wound. Though I think most of us live in social and family environments that do not grant an ideal environment for healing. It is rare to find. This is why I believe self love is so unbelievably important to be "healthy" individuals. When we don't have that deep self love, we are forced to find it somewhere else - in someone, in something - and that never truly satisfies or lasts.

I think that suffering is a part of growth that is a part of the "plan" of this life. Joy and suffering are the two dimensions of the Tree of Life. Joy (as seen from the ground up) is seen in its beautiful green leaves, tasty fruit, and fragrant flowers. Suffering (as seen from the ground downward to the tips of the roots) is seen in the tree's "dead" times. The tree is still alive, but looks dead. This is the time when the root system grows deeper and deeper into the soil, without which the upper part of the tree cannot grow further upward. Some of our most important moments of growth is during these times of "deadness" and "suffering". Those who have experienced little or no suffering in life have very shallow roots and can be overturned easily in a strong wind. Those who have had an extraordinary amount of suffering in life will shoot up high and glorious in the future, though it is still necessary - in the case of excessive suffering - to be replanted in more suitable soil and/or environment. Sorrow and pain - if it doesn't kill us DOES make us stronger, though it is important to cultivate and prune the branches to create the fruit of joy to relish in.

All this is said though within the context of our hearts, which are found WITHIN us. If we rely on our outward circumstances, family and friends to provide the proper environment for our inward hearts then we are destined to live a life of difficulty, cynicism, sorrow, depression and pain. Even if we do find that perfect outward environment in our outward circumstances, family and friends, it is made dependent on these things which are all temporal and fleeting. When they leave, die, or change then we are hurt because of our dependence on them. But if we have that "perfect environment" within us already, no one and no thing can take that way from us. We have everything we need to be whole and healthy, despite the pounding of this tumultuous life. This is not to say that we cannot be deeply hurt, but it allows us to have deep love within ourselves and to not have need on others or the world to give that love to us. It allows us to heal from the pain and disappointment of others. I have never really lost anyone close to me before, whom I loved with all my heart, so it is unfair for me to comment on the death of a loved one. I know that if I lost my precious son I could no longer life this life. This love I have for him runs so deep in me that I would die if he was gone.

Make Your Own Christianity! - Video

2007-08-12T00:30:00.000-07:00

A funny clip by comedian Doug Stanhope.

The "Unholy" Alliance - Christianity & The New Word Order

2007-08-12T00:26:00.000-07:00

As most of you know already, I consider myself an Atheist with regards to all religion. In this article there are many things that I definitely do not subscribe to and which I disagree with, yet I thought it is still interesting enough and important enough to post as a blog. There certainly IS a depth of conspiracy undreamt of by most Truthseekers as well as most of the top researchers in the world on conspiracies. I believe that Protestant Christianity within the United States and England is just as corrupt and just as strong of a tool as the Vatican for the dark forces of the world, but it is extraordinarily hard to prove, mainly because no one looks into this. Protestant Christianity is too big of a can of worms to get into for most. Most don't see any problem. I wish that more researchers would place their focus on the interconnectedness of American Christianity with the Ruling Elite of the world. I believe if this could be exposed for what it really is, the world could be turned around within a generation.

John
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The "Unholy" Alliance - Christianity & The New Word Order

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The Bilderbergs.
The Trilateral Commission.
The Council of Foreign Relations.
The Central Intelligence Agency.

Most everyone has heard of these groups and some of the conspiracy theories surrounding them regarding the development of the 'New World Order.'

Now imagine for a moment there is something to this (and there appears to be no lack of documented material justifying these theories). That would mean that at almost every elevated level of business and government, world wide, men and women have infiltrated, become the controlling administrators and are working to effectively control every aspect of the life of the "world citizen."

One aspect of this that has not been properly searched out is the "religious" connection. Surely, given that much of the world is religious, and in the currently reigning SuperPower nation of the U.S., predominantly "Christian," then it would only make sense that these organizations have infiltrated the Church itself and are also actively leading it to into the New World Order as well.

Do the worlds leading Christian evangelicals have ties to these organizations?

Yes they do, and it is thoroughly documented.

Rev. Sun Myung Moon (The Moonies), and
the Unification Church
For those few of you who are not familiar with the Rev. Moon, in the 60s both he and his Unification Church were universally regarded as a dangerous cult. The abuse his followers suffered at the hands of their mind manipulating master is indeed very well established.

His claims include stating that Christ failed His mission, and that Moon himself is the "new messiah" who is come to fulfill the mission of God. He also claims that it is his mission to 'unite the world through uniting religious forces'. But would it shock you to know that nearly all the big name Christian evangelicals have extremely strong ties to him?

One such Church leader and internationally recognized evangelical Christian, Jerry Falwell, readily admits that he accepted 2.5 million dollars from Moon in 1994 in order to bail out his Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. This was funneled through a Moon organization known as the 'Womens Federation for World Peace' which has been chaired by Beverly LaHaye, Wife of Timothy LaHaye, who is the popular co-author of the "Left Behind" Christian fictional book series and a well known evangelical Christian. The Womens Federation for World Peace paid 3.5 million to the Christian Heritage Foundation, which in turn bought Falwell's $73 million debt, and then frankly wrote it off. The Heritage Foundation then seems to have paid themselves a fee of one million dollars for their trouble.

Since that time Falwell has spoken at many of Moons functions, embracing the cult-leader with unabashed reverence and friendship. Even writings from Moons' Church confirm Falwells comradeship with 'the new messiah' and his cult. Moon has even been a guest speaker in mainline denominational Churches in the past few years. Falwell further praised Rev. Moon calling him, "An unsung hero to the cause of freedom, who is to be commended for his determination and courage and endurance in support of his beliefs."[2]

According to official court records of a lawsuit that was filed in Bedford County Circuit Court (West Virginia), it was alleged that Falwell and an associate flew to South Korea, January 9, 1994 to meet with Unification Church officials. This trip came shortly before Falwell was awarded the Moon money. Falwell stated openly, "If the American Atheists Society or Saddam Hussein himself ever sent an unrestricted gift to any of my ministries, be assured I will operate on Billy Sunday's philosophy: The Devil's had it long enough, and quickly cash the check."[1]

Falwell is not the only evangelical reported to have accepted money from Rev. Moon. Other notable speakers for Moon's organizations and affairs receiving as much as $80,000 to $150,000 have included Ralph Reed, Beverly LaHaye, Gary Bauer, and Robert Schuller, well known for his "Crystal Cathedral" in Southern California and "Hour of Power" 'positive-thinking' television ministry.

The Council Of National Policy (CNP)
Another Moon sponsored organization is the Council of National Policy founded in 1981 by Tim LaHaye, the aforementioned co-author of the "Left Behind" book series. It is reported that he received $500,000 from a Mr. Bo Hi Pak, Moons 1 man, and a former Korean CIA officer. Though a tape exists showing that LaHaye thanked Pak for the money, LaHaye never denied the charge but verbally attacked the sources verifying the allegation with a barrage of insult.

Other members of the CNP have included:
Beverly and Lee LaHaye, also associated with Moons CWA group. Gary Bauer, Bill Bright, James Dobson (Focus On The Family), Bob Dugan, Ron Godwin, Robert Grant, Rebecca Hagelin, Bob Jones the 3rd (Bob Jones University), Alan Keyes (Outspoken ultra-conservative black talk show host and author), Dr. D. James Kennedy (noted television evangelist and Pastor), Peter Marshall, Sam Moore of Thomas Nelson Publishing, Pat Robertson (founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and former Presidential aspirant), Rev. Duane Motley, Ralph Reed, Oliver North (formerly with the National Security Council), Phyllis Schlafly (ultra-right columnist and pundit), Rev. Jim Woodall, John Ankerberg (internationally recognized Christian television personality), Rev. E.V. Hill, James Robison, Jay Sekulow (Attorney and activist for ultra-right/Christian causes), Pat Boone, Larry Burkett, Reed Larson, and many others.

Some of the political leaders involved with the Moon sponsored CNP group include Senators Jesse Helms, Don Nickles, and Trent Lott. Also Representatives Tom DeLay, Dan Burton, and Bob Dornan.

Looking into some of the CNP officers we find not only a just a strong association with Moon, but also powerful ties with the CIA and the Council on Foreign Relations, not to mention association with high level Freemasonry for which many conspiracy theorists have more than a mere elementary knowledge related to the NWO. Another past President of CNP is Rich DeVoss, co-founder of Amway (and 33rd degree Mason).

Coalition For Religious Freedom (CRF)
Another past Moon organization was the 'Coalition for Religious Freedom' where again, Tim LaHaye held a paid position as Chairman. It was formed by LaHaye after Moon was arrested for tax evasion. Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggart, James Robison, James Kennedy and Rex Humbard, have all served as executive committee members. Other notables to serve in Moons CRF include Hal Lindsey (Author of "The Late Great Planet Earth"), Paul Crouch (Head of the Trinity Broadcasting Network), Dr. D. James Kennedy and Don Wildman to name a few.

CRF President Don Sills admits that CRF has received no less than $500,000 from Moon sources. In 1984, despite forces in government opposing the move, Moon was jailed for tax evasion (sentenced to 18 Months in prison and fined $25,000). In a CRF sponsored rally Tim Lahaye asked that people go to jail with Moon in protest.

Kingpins In
The Unholy Alliance

Evangelists & Politicians

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Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder, leader & self-proclaimed 'Messiah' to the Unification Church & the world.
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Tim LaHaye, evangelist & Christian author of best-selling series "Left Behind."
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Beverly LaHaye, wife of Tim LaHaye, author and spokesperson for several Moon funded "Christian" orgs
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Paul Crouch, Founder and Chairman of Trinity Broadcasting Network, one of the largest tele-evangelical corporations

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Bill Bright, Founder and head of the international evangelical association, 'Campus Crusades for Christ'

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Rev. Billy Graham, recognized world-wide as one of the most influential evangelical preachers; author and syndicated religious columnist

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Pat Robertson, Television Evangelist, Founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network & 700 Club anchor; founder of Operation Blessing; one time presidential candidate

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Rev. James Kennedy, founder & pastor of Coral Ridge Ministries, outspoken television evangelist

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Rev. James Robison, TV evangelist; Life Outreach International Ministries; associated with many Moon organizations

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Ralph Reed, former director of the Christian Coalition and member of the conservative think-tank "Heritage Foundation"

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Gary Bauer, Conservative politician and Executive Director of the Christian Coalition; unsuccessful Presidential candidate.

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Dr. James Dobson, Pediatrician, author and publisher, head of Focus On The Family, a Christ-centric organization and magazine

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Phyllis Schlafly, Christian political activist who says a woman's place is in the home... even though she's not

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Jay Sekulow, Christian political activist and attorney involved in family values issues from abortion to parents rights

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American Freedom Coalition
Led by Dr. Robert Grant and also a Moonie organization. In a period of a little over 2 years they received nearly 6 million dollars from Moon organizations and enterprises. This group includes Paul Crouch, Rex Humbard, James Robinson and many more, names well known among the evangelical Christian community.

Concerned Women of America
Headed by Beverly LaHaye. The wife of Tim LaHaye, She too has been a public speaker for Moon functions.

Womens Federation for World Peace
Also headed by Beverly LaHaye and recipient of Moon funding. Former President George Bush Sr. (and one time former CIA Director) received an undisclosed amount for speaking engagements from this organization and his fee is lost somewhere in the 13.5 million dollar conference expense-line according to IRS records.

Family Federation for World Peace
Another Moon organization which held a meeting in Washington in 1996. Among the speakers at this event were Beverly LaHaye and Ralph Reed. Over 1500 notables from around the world attended.

National Religious Broadcasters
Members include Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggart, Tim LaHaye, Billy Graham, Bill Bright and many others clearly associated with Moon.

Pat Robertson in the early 80s, as Oliver North was trading guns and ammo (and who knows what else) in Nicaragua, was coordinating efforts to use "Operation Blessing" to help supply goods to the Contras. Allegedly these goods included hard cash and gasoline for Contra vehicles.

The head of Operation Blessing was Captain Robert Warren, who was also formerly associated with a CIA group called "Operation Phoenix." Allegedly this was an assassination group that operated in Vietnam. Also associated with this group was... surprise, Oliver North.

The Washington Times Foundation
A pro-Bush Inaugural luncheon, held in Washington D.C. was sponsored by the Washington Times Foundation, another Moon founded group. Among the attendees were Paul Crouch, founder of Trinity Broadcast Network, Robert Schuller, Kenneth Copeland, Jerry Falwell, Don Argue, past president of the National Association of Evangelicals, Pat Boone, a former T.B.N. board member, Billy McCormack (who was a Christian Coalition board member who actually presented Moon with an award) and Southern Baptist Convention President James Merritt.

Council of 56 of the Religious Roundtable
Another Moon associated group is called the 'Council of 56 of the Religious Roundtable'. This group is made up of many of the same members from Rev. Moons' CNP and CRF organizations. It marries leading Moon associated evangelicals to the CIA, the Council for Foreign relations, the Trilateral Commission and Freemasonry. CFR, and TLC are closely tied to the Bilderberg group.

The following list of members of the Council of 56 of the Religious Roundtable can be found here http://www.pir.org/gw/rrt.txt

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Religious Roundtable File Name: rrt.txt
Last Updated: 4/93

Principles:
Members of the board of directors of the Roundtable were: Ed McAteer, founder and Pres; Jack Stewart, Vice Pres; Bob Amis, M.D.; John Beckett, Intercessors of America; Othal E. Brand; T. Cullen Davis; Nancy DeMoss; Rev. Del Fehsenfeld, Jr., LifeAction Ministries; Dr. E.V. Hill, pastor at Mt. Zion Baptist Church; Rev. Richard Hogue, Nelson Bunker Hunt, Dr. D. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church; J.P. Mills; Dr. Paige Patterson, Criswell Center for Biblical Studies; Rev. James Robison, James Robison Evangelistic Association; D.G. Seago, Jr., Mid-Continent, Inc; and Dr. Charles F. Stanley, First Baptist Church of Atlanta.(2,11) In 1986, Dr. James Robison was Vice President and John Beckett was secretary/treasurer.(14) Former Michigan Congressman Mark Siljander has served on the Roundtable board.

Past members of the Council of 56 include:
Jack Amis, M.D.; Ben Armstrong, executive director of National Religious Broadcasters; Rev. Raymond W. Barber, Worth Baptist Church; John Beckett,Intercessors of America; Dr. George Benson, President emeritus of Harding College; Morton Blackwell, President of the Leadership Institute; Neal Blair, President of Free the Eagle; Tim Bobbit; Dick Bott, President of Bott Broadcasting; Dave Breese, President of Christian Destiny; Paul Broadhead; William Bronson; Rev. Fletcher Brothers, Gates Community Chapel; Judy Brown, American Life League; Dr. Roland Byrd; Dr. David E. Calvin, West Ridge Baptist Church; Clay Claiborne, executive director of the Black Silent Majority; Dr. E.M. Cohron; Dale Collins; W.A. Criswell, Criswell Center for Biblical Studies; Paul Crouch, President of Trinity Broadcasting Network; Mary Crowley; Dr. Paul Cunningham, pastor of Nazarene College Church; Dick Dingman, Republican Study Commission; Dr. Jerry Falwell, Moral Majority, Old Time Gospel Hour and Thomas Road Baptist Church; Rev. Charles Firoe, John Fisher,American Security Council; Charles Fitzgerald, director of Operation Lifeline; Ken Fonas, the Fonas Corporation; Richard Ford,Coordinated Consulting; Rev. Roger Fulton, Neighborhood Church of New York; Peter B. Gamma, Jr., National Pro-Life PAC; Ellen Garwood; General Daniel Graham, President of High Frontier; R.M.Goddard; Robert Grant, Christian Voice; Lloyd Hansen; Dr. Roy Harthern, Calvary Assembly; Richard Headrick; Senator Jesse Helms(R-NC); Steve Herring; Rev. Melvin Hodges, 1st Baptist Church of Glen Oakes; Don Howard, Accelerated Christian Education; Mildred Faye Jefferson, M.D.; Congressman James Jeffries; Representative Louis (Woody) Jenkins, Friends of the Americas; George B. Jones; Dan S. Kauffman; General George Keegan, Jr.; James Kennedy, pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church; Bill Keyes, Black PAC; General Albion Knight, Jr.; Beverly LaHaye, President Concerned Women for America; Dr. Tim LaHaye, Scott Memorial Baptist Church; Reed Larson, President of Right to Work; Larry Lea, pastor of Church on the Rock; Marian Maddox, Point of View Radio; Connie Marshner, President of the Family Coalition; Don McAlvany, President of the International Collectors Associates; Bob McCustion, chairman of Faith Ministries; Dr. William H. Marshner, chairman of the Department of Theology at Christendom College; Congressman Larry McDonald (deceased); Jay Menefee, Robert Metcalf; Dr. Bobby Moore, Broadway Baptist Church; Dr. Gary North, Christian Economics Foundation; Larry Parish; Paige Patterson, President of the Criswell Institute; Howard Phillips, The Conservative Caucus; Dr. William A. Powell, Sr., Editor of the Southern Baptist Journal; Randall R. Rader, deputy counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution; Dr. Ross Rhoads, Calvary Presbyterian Church; Bill Richardson, California State Senate; Bobby Richardson, Ben LippenSchool; Gary Richardson; Rev. Tom Riner; Phyllis Schlafly, President of the Eagle Forum; Earl Seall, White's Ferry Road Church of Christ; Cory SerVaas, editor and publisher of the Saturday Evening Post; Doug Shadoux, National Republican Party; William S.Smith; Scott Stanley, editor of Conservative Digest; Rev. George Swanson; Helen Marie Taylor, U.S. Representative to the United Nations; William Taylor; Bob Tilton, Bob Tilton Television Ministry; Michael Valerio; Bob Weiner, President of Maranatha Ministries; Paul Weyrich, President of the Free Congress Foundation; Earl E. Whitwell, Kim Wickes, Kim's Ministries; Don Wildmon, President of the National Federation for Decency; Rev.John Wilkerson, Bethel Temple; Rev. Ralph Wilkerson, Melodyland Church, J.C. Willke, M.D., President of National Right to Life, and Jack Wilson, executive director of the Council for National Policy.(2,12).

The following are a few shortened bios from the same source, associated with this Roundtable of 56...

Govt Connections:
Major General George J. Keegan, Jr. was the chief of the U.S. Air Defense Intelligence and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, worked for the CIA from 1963-1966
General Daniel Graham (ret.) During the Vietnam war from1967-1968 he was chief of the Army's military intelligence estimates. In 1971 Graham served as director of collections for the Defense Intelligence Agency, the pentagon's version of the CIA. In 1973 Graham served as a deputy to CIA Director William Colby and from 1974-1976 he was the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency

Groups belonging to the Roundtable include:
The Christian Broadcasting Network, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Moral Majority, Christian Voice,Church League of America, National Religious Broadcasters, Campus Crusade for Christ, Plymouth Rock Foundation, National Association of Evangelicals, Gideon Bible, Wycliffe Bible Associates, and Intercessors for America.(15) Ed McAteer was sales marketing manager for Colgate-Palmolive Company when he retired to become the national field director of the Christian Freedom Foundation (CFF), and organization devoted to training evangelicals for places of leadership in government. From there McAteer moved to the righting Conservative Caucus where he served as national field director until founding the Religious Roundtable.(1) He is or was a member of the board of the evangelical Wycliffe Bible Associates.

Unity: A One World Religion?
In light of the ties between nearly all Christian "evangelicals" with Rev. Moon, the CIA, the Council for Foreign Relations, the Trilateral commission, the Bush family and Bush Sr's "New World Order", is it any wonder that after the September 11th tragedy, Billy Graham prayed in the name of God, AND ALLAH, as dignitaries from many faiths were gathered before him? This prayer was broadcast the world over. His call was for religious cooperation and 'unity of all faiths,' the trump of Rev. Moon.

Franklin Graham's (son of world renowned evangelist Rev. Billy Graham, and heir to the very lucrative and influential Billy Graham Evangelistic Ministries) answer to a question by NBC's Tom Brokaw, ..."it's very important that all the faiths, all the denominations are coming together, cooperating together, working together; it is a wonderful testimony to the spirit of America, and the dedication of the American people."

Moon also owns the Washington Times, THE conservative voice of the nation. Though this establishment should have gone under several years ago, Moon pours multi-millions of dollars annually into this paper. He also owns the publication "Insight". He indeed owns many businesses and operates in media of several nations worldwide.

In Central America He is the owner of the "Tiempos del Mundo" (Times of the World), another leading news publication, making him the conservative voice there as well. In the early 1980s, Moon was shooting for the acclaim of all of Central and South America. He met political opposition from Carlos Menem, Argentinas President.

His rescue came in the form of one man. That man was George Bush Sr. former director of the CIA, former Vice President, and former President of the United States of America.

Bush was the principal speaker at the Sheraton Hotel at a Moon sponsored event, with 800 to 900 guests in attendance giving this manipulative operative remarkable credibility overnight. Bush declared enthusiastically; "...The editors of The Washington Times tell me that never once has the man with the vision interfered with the running of the paper, a paper that in my view brings sanity to Washington, D.C. I am convinced that Tiempos del Mundo is going to do the same thing."

Both George and Barbara Bush made several speeches in Asia in 1995. In Tokyo, Japan during one Moon rallying function, over 50,000 pro-Moon advocates were addressed by the two. This was sponsored by the Womens Federation for World peace.

It has also been speculated that Moon and Bush were seeking joint business ventures in South America.
An interesting fact is that despite over 30 years of allegations (from some U.S. government officials seemingly out of the loop) of Moons connections with the Korean CIA (and as we can now see the American counterpart as well) no steps have been taken to deport him, let alone prosecute him.

Conclusion
What do Rev. Moon, leading Christian evangelicals and the American government have in common? And, just what does this have to do with the "New World Order," as (re)coined by George Bush Sr.? There can be no doubt that these dark elements of government, industry, banking, and intelligence are leading us into their new world order, and their influence has been extended to nearly every Christian in the world through these leading evangelicals who claim to represent Christ. Perhaps this Rev. Moon quote from August 4th 1996 may give us a little more "insight"...

"Americans who continue to maintain their privacy and extreme individualism are foolish people... The world will reject Americans who continue to be so foolish. Once you have this great power of love, which is big enough to swallow entire America, there may be some individuals who complain inside your stomach. However, they will be digested."

Could this be the 'falling away' of the Church so often preached by these same evangelicals? The great 'apostasy' which will, in the last days render much of the Christian Church faithless to their original calling and subject to the manipulation, will and prophesied plans of the 'Antichrist'?

References:
[1] Falwell quote from Christianity Today Magazine
Christianity Today, February 9, 1998
'Moon-Related Funds Filter to Evangelicals'
by John W. Kennedy

[2] Moon's 'Christian Ecumenism in the America's Conference' in Montevideo, Uruguay.
http://www.thelionofjudah.org/rick/April99l~1.htm

Part 2

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Part 1 of this article, "The Unholy Alliance: Christianity & The NWO" dealt generally with the relationship between this nations' leading evangelicals, Rev Sun Myung Moon, and the U.S. Intelligence community as strange bedfellows. This short follow up will attempt to go deeper into the makeup of these organizations, and how they work together. Every attempt to document the claims, statements and facts herein have been made so as not to unjustly accuse or impugn the integrity of those mentioned. But in the end, if such an unholy alliance exists, there are manifold truths which likely will never surface to the light of day for exposure and examination. We will deal with what can be verified be reasonable sources.

Amazingly, most of these organizations are almost entirely made up of the same individuals. Trinity Broadcasting Network, Christian Broadcasting and most leading evangelicals/pastors in this unique electronic limelight are also directly associated with these groups, or have been in the past. The vast majority of these men have spent decades making forays into political groups of this nature.

The question is, what are they doing? Where would these 'Moon money men' lead the flock they say God has charged them with as shepherds? Is it untoward to ask such questions, to scrutinize their political involvement with Moon? We think not. In fact, we feel it is imperative.

We have already shown that some evangelicals have unabashedly admitted Moon sponsorship, such as Jerry Falwell. It seems that most though try to sweep this dirt under the rug. Is their ultimate goal to lead the religious right blindly and willingly into the NWO, something openly hailed by preachers and president's alike?

Billy Graham
In 1992, broadcast across the US on Graham's radio program "Embrace America 2000," after Bush Sr. gave his now infamous New World Order Speech, the Rev. Billy Graham said that we should "embrace" this "New World Order".

In Erwin Wilsons book, "The Assimilation of Evangelist Billy Graham into the Roman Catholic Church" the renowned Bob Jones who wrote the forward said, " "Some of us who grieved over Graham's first downward steps toward compromise with apostasy and biblical unbelief knew that he was pursuing a direction from which there would be no turning back. While we grieved over him and prayed for him, we had to warn men against his ministry as we had warned Billy against his direction."

Protestant Church Life Magazine quoted Graham in its Sept. 29, 1956 issue, 'Referring to the Billy Graham New York Crusade scheduled for May, 1957, Dr. Graham said: "We're coming to New York not to clean it up, but to get people to dedicate themselves to God and to send them on to their own churches -- Catholic, Protestant or Jewish." This has remained the practice of Graham to this day. The Charlotte Observer reported on a press release of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, where Billy Graham lashes out at Southern Baptists who desire to evangelize Jews for Christ. Graham makes it clear that he firmly opposes "proselytizing" the Jews; Billy Graham's unbiblical teaching is that, if you are a Jew, you are already part of the Body of Christ, even if you reject Jesus. All Jews, Graham states "are engrafted into the Christian Church." And yet, many of Graham's past statements have proved to be antisemitic, as recently embarrassing Nixon White house tapes have revealed.

In 1982, Billy Graham was awarded the Templeton Prize for "progress in religion", a cash reward of roughly 1 Million dollars. Graham in turn endorsed Sir John Marks Templeton's books in "Christianity Today" magazine. Templeton is a universalist (1), just like Moon, preaching/teaching the unity and unification of all world religions. Other recipients of the Templeton award have been Charles Colson (1993) and Bill Bright (1996), founder of Campus Crusade for Christ. Templeton's New Age unification principles and teachings were introduced dramatically into the Christian mainstream by Robert Schuller in 1986, who continues to endorse the man and his doctrines. For decades Graham has offered a confusing doctrinal stance. Billy Graham said, "I found that my beliefs are essentially the same as those of orthodox Catholics. We only differ on some matters of later church tradition. I find that my beliefs are essentially the same as those of orthodox Roman Catholics" (Jan 1978, McCall's Magazine).

In the book "Billy Graham, A Parable of American Righteousness" by Marshal Frady, we see a very different picture of Graham. Frady has spent much time interviewing Graham, and those close to him. He documents that Graham at a New York Crusade refused to allow street people into the crusade because they were dirty, a loathsome violation of every Christian creed toward the poor, to whom the Gospel Jesus made declaration. This is tantamount to the Galatians incident in scripture when Peter, fearing the reproach of certain Judaisers of wealth and status, withdrew himself from associating with gentiles, and the Apostle Paul had to oppose him to his face publicly, "for he was to be blamed" (Galatians 2:11, The New Testament). With the release of the Nixon tapes we see a very shaky, strangely unchristian past for Graham.

He is also quoted as saying, "Pope John Paul II has emerged as the greatest religious leader of the modern world and one of the greatest moral...leaders of this century." (The Saturday Evening Post, Feb, 1980.) Though Graham is stating a fact, how does it reflect on his ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ from a Protestant position? More examples of a homogenization of the message and messengers for the sake of public appeal. "Pope John Paul II, often called "The Marian Pope," has stirred countless millions of Europeans to have faith in strange, supernatural Marian apparitions which directly challenge the Word of God, the Supremacy and Divinity of Jesus Christ and the Scriptural means of salvation ("Messages From Heaven," Eternal Productions, http://video.labargemedia.com/html/index.htm )"

In "The Deadly Deception", by Jim Shaw, an ex-33rd degree mason (Masons are believed by many to be associated with the Illuminati, and to be the driving force behind the NWO) p. 104-105, Shaw relates how Graham was present at his ceremony initiating him into the 33rd degree. Only freemasons are allowed to attend these ceremonies. Huffington house refused to publish this book until after Grahams' name was removed, and in place a simple reference to "a well known evangelist" was supplemented. Robert Schuller (Crystal Cathedral/Self-help pulpit guru), Norman Vincent Peale (Positive Thinking apostle), and Oral Roberts (Godfather of the "seed-faith" doctrines in contemporary fundamentalist-charismatic Christianity) are all admittedly 33rd degree Masons. The rites of the Masonic order, the writings of Albert Pike and the requisites for Masonic initiates are distinctly and undeniably counter to Christian doctrine and faith.

He is a supporter of the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches, where a belief in Jesus Christ is a nonessential. He has been quoted in an interview with Robert Schuller that there are 'many paths to God' and he 'respects them all.' Of course, as was mentioned in the previous article, he participated in prayer offered up to the god of Mohammhed (Allah). At that gathering were many Jews, Muslims, Christians and many other faiths gathered together praying to the god of Islam as the God of Abraham -- a distinct moment of "unification".

Is Billy Graham working toward the goal of a New World Order? Is it merely a matter of decades of compromise with the world, or something more strategic? I wrote to the Billy Graham Evangelical Ministries, to ask what moved him to participate in a prayer to the god of Mohammhed, and to date have received no answer.

Kingpins In
The Unholy Alliance

Evangelists & Politicians

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Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder, leader & self-proclaimed 'Messiah' to the Unification Church & the world.
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Tim LaHaye, evangelist & Christian author of best-selling series "Left Behind."
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Beverly LaHaye, wife of Tim LaHaye, author and spokesperson for several Moon funded "Christian" orgs
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Paul Crouch, Founder and Chairman of Trinity Broadcasting Network, one of the largest tele-evangelical corporations

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Bill Bright, Founder and head of the international evangelical association, 'Campus Crusades for Christ'

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Robert Schuller, Pastor and Tele-evangelist from the famous 'Crystal Cathedral' in Southern California.

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Rev. Billy Graham, recognized world-wide as one of the most influential evangelical preachers; author and syndicated religious columnist

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Pat Robertson, Television Evangelist, Founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network & 700 Club anchor; founder of Operation Blessing; one time presidential candidate

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Rev. James Kennedy, founder & pastor of Coral Ridge Ministries, outspoken television evangelist

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Rev. James Robison, TV evangelist; Life Outreach International Ministries; associated with many Moon organizations

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Ralph Reed, former director of the Christian Coalition and member of the conservative think-tank "Heritage Foundation"

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Gary Bauer, Conservative politician and Executive Director of the Christian Coalition; unsuccessful Presidential candidate.

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Dr. James Dobson, Pediatrician, author and publisher, head of Focus On The Family, a Christ-centric organization and magazine

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Phyllis Schlafly, Christian political activist who says a woman's place is in the home... even though she's not

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Jay Sekulow, Christian political activist and attorney involved in family values issues from abortion to parents rights

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Tim LaHaye
Tim LaHaye's relationship with Moon goes back at least 17 years. In 1985 as was reported earlier, LaHaye was addressing several hundred evangelical Christians, the flock he claims to guard and feed, and did he exhort that they draw closer to his God? No, unless his god is the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. He exhorted that they go willingly to jail with the Rev. Moon in demonstration to his imprisonment over tax fraud. (The spin on the story has been that LaHaye and others were supporting Rev. Moon's "religious freedom")

While in prison, Moon continued to spout out to the world that he is the anointed messiah, and also at that time, he pronounced a day when he claims he opened heaven. LaHaye visited him and apologized for the actions of the U.S. Government which imprisoned him. Also visiting Moon in prison was the president of one of the groups chaired by LaHaye This was the AFC (American Freedom Coalition) president, Don Sills.(Truth is my Sword' Vol 2, by Bo Hi Pak, 'The Watchman Expositor')

LaHaye is also the founder of the ACTV (American Coalition for Traditional Values). Bo Hi Pak, Moons 1 man, formerly Korean CIA and the operative that was liaison to American CIA, gave a very sizable donation to help steady the new organization, after which, LaHaye agreed to sit as a member of the board of directors for the Rev. Moon sponsored "Christian Voice" group.(Americans United For Separation of Church and State/Feb 2002)

The highly influential "Left Behind" author was also associated in a group called the Council for Religious Freedom, but when it was made public that this was another Moon front, LaHaye apparently resigned from the group, though his name was not at the time stricken from their membership roster. Though LaHaye resigned, others after him signed on, continuing to bolster its credibility. These include Paul Crouch of the Trinity Broadcasting Network.

Among the other bizarre goings on within the Moon/Conservative alliance, a young, black Zimbabwean claiming that he is the reincarnation of Moons dead son has also spoken at functions of the American Freedom Coalition. (CRI Journal-CRJ0092A). Moon himself has revealed that this claim of reincarnation is true.

The LaHayes were also involved in a meeting sponsored by Moon in 1996, through the Family Federation for World Peace as well as the Women's Federation for World Peace (two Moon sponsored organizations), a 3 day seminar in Washington D.C., from July 31-August 2, along with several other highly visible evangelicals. Beverly LaHaye received between $80-150,000 for speaking at the event. (2)

In 1999, Tim LaHaye and co-author Jerry Jenkins wrote (3) that the Catholic church was very likely the Great Harlot sitting on the beast in Revelation 17 and 18, their reason being that they believe the Catholic church may attempt to unify the worlds religions, though they wrote differently in their "Left Behind" book series. LaHaye and his family are involved directly with groups sponsored by and in some cases founded upon money from a false messiah whose objective is publicly stated, and loudly at that, for the unification of world religions. So where exactly does LaHaye stand if in doctrine he warns of unification brought about by Rome, and yet associates with the Unification Church?

Rev. Moon states in his address, 'Life on Earth and in the Spirit World' :

"This is why God created so many different religions: to be training grounds to make a path for every people, culture, custom, and tradition. Religions polish people to be qualified to enter the region of the original homeland. Because of humankind's many different cultural backgrounds, God sought and set the standard of comparison and has been leading the way toward one unified religious world." (4)

This is rather peculiar in light of the apparent diversity of world religions in doctrine, practice and teachings, each with their own sense of exclusivity of one another, sometimes to the very inspiration of holy war.

According to 'Group Watch,' a cult watchdog organization, Don Sills is another evangelical leader who stated that he would recruit members from a group directly associated with Rev. Moon, CAUSA, to become members of his AFC (American Freedom Coalition) organization. In March of 1988, Sills appeared on Trinity Broadcasting Networks flagship program "Praise the Lord" warning people away from listening to 'cult watch groups', being concerned for the division and fear they may bring. Of course these anti-cult groups tell us that since Moon claims Jesus will worship at Moons feet, and inflicts mind control techniques over his followers, his religion is a cult that should by all means be avoided and certainly watched. Paul Crouch is another who seems to shy away from the overall doctrine espoused on his "Christian" television network, and appears to work for religious unification.

The Tangled Web Revealed...

The Council for National Policy
We touched on this council in Part 1, but now we shall take a closer look at it and its members. This group was founded by Tim LaHaye in 1981. Again we have shown definite ties between this "Christian" organization and the Rev. Moons openly anti-Christ organizations. This will be addressed later more fully, but this group is also associated heavily with the controversial and cultic Church of Scientology, the John Birch Society (known for its espionage work), and the intelligence community. (Note: we attempted to get JBS board member lists but the Society returned a response that it was their policy not to reveal names of its board members).

It was stated by Congressman Woody Jenkins (Newsweek,1981) "I predict that one day before the end of this century the Council [for National Policy] will be so influential that no President, regardless of party or philosophy, will be able to ignore us or our concerns or shut us out of the highest levels of government." In October, 1999 George W. Bush addressed the CNP. His campaign refused to release the full text of his remarks. Why the secrecy??

Beverly LaHaye, as was previously noted, is the wife of Tim LaHaye. She also was and still may be part of the CNP, and also founder of Concerned Women for America. She joined forces with Citizens Council on Human Rights, a group affiliated with Scientology, and Gary Bauer's Family Research Council, which has benefited as well from Rev. Moon organizations and money. This all under the umbrella of social change and "Christian family values" in America. Mrs. LaHaye and Bauer appeared and spoke together in a 1995 rally against psychiatric practices on children. The question is, regardless of a good cause, is it necessary for these evangelical leaders to join forces with Moon, Scientology and the Intelligence community? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to recognize that many groups use charitable giving/participation, patriotic associations and demonstrations of community or national good will to obfuscate their true objectives and agenda, or to conceal and deflect attention from their wrong-doing.

LaHayes group, the Council for National Policy, is just one example of evangelical organizations being filled with Intelligence officers, Moon representatives and Scientology members. To name all the members who were and are involved in the intelligence community and cults would take too long here, but here are just a few; (5)

* Howard Ahmanson Jr. (CNP Board of Governors) Contributed to the Council of Foreign Relations according to their 1990-1993 reports

* Thomas R. Anderson (CNP Board of Governors) Also sits on the board of the Moon front Family Research Council.

* Rep John Ashbrook (CNP Board of Governors) Also a member of Moons front group "Christian Voice".

* Richard Bott (CNP Board of Governors) Former writer for the Moon owned Washington times.

* Jeffrey Coors (CNP Board of Governors) Coors brewing Co.

* Joseph Coors (CNP Board of Governors) President Adolph Coors Company

* Arnaul D'Borchgrave (CNP Member) Editor in chief of the Moon owned Washington times, member of the Council of Foreign Relations(CFR).

* George Gilder (CNP Board of Governors) Program director for Rockerfeller funded Manhattan Institute, friend of David Rockerfeller, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations(CFR).

* Ron Godwin (CNP Member) Former Vice President of Falwells Moral Majority, Sr Vice President of the Moon owned Washington times

* Allan Gottleib (CNP Member) Board Member of Moons front group, the American Freedom Coalition. In 1983 the Moon group CAUSA, founded by Bo Hi Pak, former Korean CIA and liaison to the American CIA, and Moons right hand man, granted Gottleib an all expense paid trip to Jamaica for a CAUSA conference

* J. Peter Grace (CNP Member) Council of Foreign Relations, Knights of Malta, and worked with the CIA to remove classified info concerning former Nazi scientists so that they could immigrate into the U.S., supposedly so they could carry on their work (including mind control projects) here in the good ole U.S.of A.

* Lt. General Daniel Graham (CNP Board of Governors) Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Deputy Director CIA, Military advisor to President Reagan, publicly endorses the Moon owned Washington Times. Also a member of the Moon org, World Anti-Communist League, and board of Directors for Moons CAUSA. Member of the American Freedom Coalition. Vice Chairman for the U.S. Council for World Freedom, which also is closely related to Moons CAUSA. Member too of the Council of 56, Religious Roundtable.

* Robert Grant (CNP Directory) Founder of "Christian Voice", and the American Freedom Coalition, both are Moon sponsored orgs. Graduate of the fuller Theological Seminary, and member of the Religious Roundtable. Bo Hi Pak has praised the union between these Christian organizations and Moonie orgs saying "...it shows what a great since of humor God has." Grants "Christian Voice" claims to be the nations largest Christian lobby, and according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, merged with Moon in 1987.

* Sen. Jesse helms (CNP Board of Governors) also of the Religious Roundtable, endorser of the Moon owned Washington times, and a member of the Council for Foreign Relations(CFR).

* Max Hugel (CNP Member) Former special assistant CIA Deputy Director for Administration, and Deputy Director for Operations

* Jack Kemp (CNP Member) Co Director of Empower American, whose board is dominated by the Council of Foreign Relations(CFR).

* Alan Keyes (CNP Member) Former Ambassador to the United Nations. He was also part of Reagans National Security Team which was dominated by high level Council of Foreign Relations men(CFR).

* Edwin Meese (CNP Executive Committee, CNP President) Former Attorney General, former Chief of Staff

Notice that many mentioned, (as well as many not mentioned) are members of the CFR (Council for Foreign Relations). This is a group espousing the New World Order and have actively and openly worked toward it for decades. Not surprisingly, the man who popularized the phrase "New World Order," George Bush Sr, was also at one time head of the CFR.

A reminder that some of the evangelical members of the CNP have included:
Beverly and Lee LaHaye, also associated with Moons CWA group. Gary Bauer, Bill Bright, James Dobson (Focus On The Family), Bob Dugan, Ron Godwin, Robert Grant, Rebecca Hagelin, Bob Jones the 3rd (Bob Jones University), Alan Keyes (Outspoken ultra-conservative black talk show host and author), Dr. D. James Kennedy (noted television evangelist and Pastor), Peter Marshall, Sam Moore of Thomas Nelson Publishing, Pat Robertson (founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and former Presidential aspirant), Rev. Duane Motley, Ralph Reed, Oliver North (formerly with the National Security Council), Phyllis Schlafly (ultra-right columnist and pundit), Rev. Jim Woodall, John Ankerberg (internationally recognized Christian television personality), Rev. E.V. Hill, James Robison, Pat Boone, Larry Burkett, Reed Larson, and many others.(5)

So now we must ask ourselves why are these people associated together under the front of "Christian" organizations? Is it merely coincidence? To assume such is to be remarkably naive and woefully remiss in learning the lessons of past history. By comparing the members of the CNP and cross referencing them with any large Christian or Moon organization, and many of the politically right-wing PAC (Political Action Committee) organizations, you will find essentially that these organizations are made up of the same people.

Is this a ruse, to draw evangelical believers and right wing patriots into the NWO? It certainly seems to be. Moon states his goal is to unify the worlds religions thereby unifying the world. Bo Hi Pak states; "We want to awaken the world. We want to turn the tide [so] that this totalitarian, godless system must go....It is a total war. Basically a war of ideas." (6)

These organizations work together tightly, and nearly every major evangelical name that can be named is involved with these apostate organizations, fleecing their sheep in order to help fund these groups; A large number of these "great men of God" can be found living in palatial homes, driving exorbitantly expensive automobiles and owning personal jets and relishing accolades as great teachers of the faith. These men seem more like the Pharisees of Jesus' day, who denied Him as well, yet 40 years later came to their destruction following a false messiah. They speak at each others functions, support one another monetarily, and cause many to believe that they do it in the name of God and in harmony with God's will (many claiming direct divine revelation, inspiration and in some cases unquestionable supernatural authority). The Bible they themselves espouse refers to them as hirelings.

For your own research, it is recommend to those of you who can, do a simple Internet search using the following keywords;

LaHaye, Rev.Moon, CIA

Falwell, Moon, Liberty University

Paul Crouch, Rev. Moon,

Hal Lindsey, Rev. Moon

Councel of 56 Religious Roundtable

Concerned Women of America, Rev Moon, Beverly LaHaye

Coalition for Religious Freedom, Moon, LaHaye

CAUSA, Falwell, Moon

Billy Graham, Mohammhed, Washington, Transcript

American Freedom Coalition, Moon, Crouch, LaHaye, 6 Million

Council for National Policy, members

References/Notes:
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(1) Sir John Marks Templeton, "Discovering The Laws of Life", published by Continuum/1994,
320 pages, 0-8264-0861-3

(2) The Calvary Contender Newsletter, October, 2001. Dave Hunt, The Berean Call, Sept.,1996

(3) LaHaye/Jenkins, 'Are We Living In The End Times?,'
1999, Tyndale House Pub; ISBN: 0842336443

(4) Chung Hwan Kwak, International President, Family Federation for World Peace and Unification International, March, 1998

(5) Database of Council for National Policy
http://www.ifas.org/cnp/
Notes: At the leadership levels in both the national office and state chapters, the American Freedom Coalition is closely tied to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. The Washington Post (March 30, 1988) has even described the AFC as a "Moon sponsored lobbying group. "(34) The links between the two entities are so extensive that they will be discussed here in the Background section as well as in Private Connections. - from "Group Watch" on the CNP
http://www.publiceye.org/research/Group_Watch/Entries-05.htm

(6) Vol 2, 'My Sword is Truth,' by Bo Hi Pak

Additional Material Of Interest:

Christianity Today, Week of August 6

CT Classic: With Their Leader in Prison, Moonies Pursue Legitimacy
Tim LaHaye and other Christians are helping the Unification Church battle the perceived threat of government intrusion.

By Beth Spring | posted 8/8/01
(This article originally appeared in the September 7, 1984, issue of Christianity Today.)

Full acceptance into the mainstream of American religious life is a cherished goal of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. Ironically, Moon's recent imprisonment for tax evasion appears to be bringing that dream a step closer to reality.

"Religious freedom" rallies around the country are drawing thousands of unsuspecting Christians into emotionally charged meetings that portray Moon as a persecuted man of God. No ties with the Unification Church are mentioned in promotional mailings. The sponsors are identified as a coalition of Christian leaders including author Tim LaHaye; Robert Grant, of Christian Voice; and Joseph Lowery, of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Greg Dixon and Everett Sileven, leaders of a coalition of independent, fundamentalist churches, are involved as well.

The sponsors view Moon as a persecuted ally in an escalating battle against secular humanism and government intrusion into church ministries. "One person's religious freedom equates to everyone's religious freedom," LaHaye says. "If one person's freedom is robbed, then potentially anyone's religious freedom can be robbed." Whether Moon is a victim of persecution or a felon is a matter of considerable debate. There is little doubt, however, that the entire affair is a public relations bonanza for his church.

Darrel Malcom, senior pastor of Webber Street Church of Christ in Urbana, Illinois, accepted an offer for an expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., to attend the massive "Pageant for Religious Freedom" on July 25. He learned of the event from two Unification Church members in Urbana. Their involvement gave him pause, but he says he accepted their invitation because he respects LaHaye. LaHaye is cochairman of the Coalition on Religious Freedom, the group that sponsored the event. Malcom says he enjoyed the lavish production, but returned home feeling "a little bit used."

"I felt there was a hidden agenda of trying to buy legitimacy [for Moon] within the Christian community. I'm not ready to grant that."

When Malcom returned home, Unification Church members asked him to consider sponsoring a local rally in support of Moon. "They wanted to meet and discuss getting Christians together," he says. "I said I do not consider their group Christian."

A narrator introduced actors portraying heroes of American religious history. At the end, a melodramatic enactment of Moon's trial and sentencing drew a chorus of boos and hisses for his prosecutor and sustained cheers for Moon.

Following the performance, LaHaye spoke to the audience. "If we have the same percentage of religious freedom attacks in the next 15 years as we have had in the past 15 years, we'll no longer have religious freedom in America," he said. LaHaye did not mention Moon by name.

The evening's dramatic climax came when Moon's daughter, In Jin Moon, choked back tears as she spoke of her father. "I have almost never seen my father sleep. He is always up working and praying. I have never seen anyone so dedicated to America's dream and to God." She read a statement prepared by Moon for the gathering. It referred to America as God's final hope, "his precious jewel which he prepared for the final battle against atheistic communism in the last days."

Moon's statement emphasized the need for churches to unite-a central theme of Unification teaching. "Here in prison God can use me to awaken America more powerfully than ever before. America's religious communities must be united to preserve religious freedom."

Chris Nauser, a 36-year-old Moonie from Switzerland, viewed the rally as "just one part of the whole development of an awakening" that will sweep the world. He shares the belief of most of Moon's followers that Moon himself is the Messiah. The Unification Church teaches that Jesus Christ failed in his redemptive mission and, before his death, lied about his coming resurrection. Moonies teach that mankind is in need of physical redemption, which will come by the marriage of an ideal man and woman. The man is to be from Korea-Moon himself.

Part 3

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Untangling the Web of Deceit

Part 3 of this series concerning the unholy alliance between the nation's leading evangelical Christian leaders, the Rev. Moon and the NWO will set about showing the sinister backgrounds of the U.S. intelligence personnel involved with these 'men of God', and untangle the web of deceit they have woven.

Through their many organizations, and deceitful methods of duping right-wing patriots and predominantly fundamentalist Christians, they have managed for 2 decades to work steadily toward bringing the world under their subjection with little suspicion, and with the aid of much patriotic support. They have made "Wag the Dog" look like a romp in the sand box with amatures.

We will look further into the bios of a few key men who are at the center of the debacle, and by adding to it a brief bio of just a few of their organizations, study their involvement in Nicaragua and the bringing down of that government; putting in its place a government that would play their game. This has been done throughout Central America and indeed throughout the world.

The following is a cross reference of the men who dominate the various "Christian" evangelical associations and organizations.
We will begin with the political and intelligence community. Included with each name is a short Bio and the list of Organizations to which the individual belongs.

Sen. Jesse Helms
Endorses the Moon owned Washington Times, closely associated with the CIA, and a member of the Council for Foreign Relations (CFR)(4). Member of Tim LaHaye's CNP Board of Governors, Member of the Religious Roundtable, also chaired by LaHaye and several other leading evangelicals. Sen. Helms was also an attendee of several of Rev. Moon's World Anti-Communist League (WACL) conventions; Member of Moon funded 'Heritage Foundation', and American Conservative Union.

Lt. General Daniel Graham
Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Deputy Director CIA, Military advisor to President Reagan, was with the American Security Council and publicly endorses the Moon owned Washington Times. Also a member of the Moon organization World Anti-Communist League, and board of Directors for Rev. Moon's CAUSA. He founded the U.S. Council of World Freedom, which is a breeding ground for the leadership of Moon's World Anti-Communist League.(4) He was Also associated with the group "Western Goals," a domestic intelligence gathering organization, which was also associated with Ollie North and the Iran/Contra debacle.(8) Graham is a member of the American Freedom Coalition, which was also a Moon Funded group with many evangelicals such as Don Sills and Tim LaHaye. General Graham was Vice Chairman for the U.S. Council for World Freedom, which also is closely related to Moon's CAUSA. A member of the Council of 56, Religious Roundtable, and Board Member to Tim LaHaye's Council of National Policy.(4,5)

Allan Gottlieb
Board Member of Moon's front group, the American Freedom Coalition. In 1983 the Moon group CAUSA, founded by Bo Hi Pak, former Korean CIA and liaison to the American CIA, and Moon's 1 man, granted Gottleib an all expense paid trip to Jamaica for a CAUSA conference, and he was thereafter associated with CAUSA. Gottlieb was also with the American Conservative Union, and was a CNP Member, and LaHaye/evangelical crony.

J. Peter Grace
Council of Foreign Relations (a breeding ground for the Bilderbergers, actively seeking to bring in the NWO), Knights of Malta (8), and worked with the CIA to remove classified info concerning former Nazi scientists so that they could immigrate into the U.S., in order to carry on their work (including mind control projects) in the United States. He is listed as a past board member of AmeriCares, a U.S. intelligence filled and evangelical associated group that flew many times into Central America when North was smuggling guns and drugs in and out of Nicaragua and Honduras, it has been alleged that AmeriCares was just one of the air services involved (9, 10, 11, 12). It is also alleged that Pat Robertson's "Operation Blessing" flew at times into Central America in association with Graces' AmeriCares (13). Grace, as well as many others listed here, were associated with the group "Western Goals", which among other things, gathered intelligence against U.S. citizens and was instrumental to the CIA(4, 7, 8). Grace is also listed as being with Tim LaHaye's CNP(5)

Howard Ahmanson Jr.
(CNP Board of Governors) Contributed to the Council of Foreign Relations according to their 1990-1993 reports. The Ahmanson foundation has also contributed large funds to Campus Crusade for Christ.

Thomas R. Anderson
(CNP Board of Governors) Also sits on the board of the Moon front Family Research Council.

Rep John Ashbrook
U.S. Attorney General and former Representative, Ashbrook was on the Advisory Board of the Western Goals (U.S. domestic intelligence gathering group), Also a member of Moon's front group "Christian Voice", founded by Bo Hi Pak. He was a member of the American Conservative Union and CNP Board of Governors.

George Gilder
(CNP Board of Governors) Program director for Rockefeller funded Manhattan Institute, friend of David Rockefeller, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations(CFR).

Max Hugel
(CNP Member) Former special assistant CIA Deputy Director for Administration, and Deputy Director for Operations.

Maj General Curry
Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship and served on CBNs Board of Regents

Jack Kemp
U.S. Rep, Co Director of Empower American, whose board is dominated by the Council of Foreign Relations(CFR). Associated with the Heritage Foundation, which was also chaired by LaHaye and other evangelicals. Kemp was with the International fellowship of Christians and Jews, The Council of 56 Religious Roundtable, and LaHaye's CNP.

Gen Richard Stillwell
Associated with AmeriCares, Chief of Far East Office of Policy Coordination, And was the head of Pentagon Intelligence during Reagan's Administration. Served as undersecretary of Defense for policy, helped to form the Intelligence Support Activity, which was a top secret army espionage unit that operated in El Salvador when that government was toppled and restructured. He was the CIA's contact man in the office of Secretary of Defense. Gen Stillwell formed a group of retired military personnel called the "Gray Eagles", whose intent was to train third world armies.

Alan Keyes
(CNP Member) Former Ambassador to the United Nations. He was also part of Reagan's National Security Team which was dominated by high level Council of Foreign Relations men (CFR).

Edwin Meese
Former Attorney General, former Chief of Staff for the Reagan Administration. Meese was associated with the Heritage Foundation as a trustee, and Pat Robertson's CBN, and has also served on Tim Lahaye's Council for National Policy(CNP) Executive Committee and as CNP President.

Kingpins In
The Unholy Alliance

Evangelists & Politicians

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Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder, leader & self-proclaimed 'Messiah' to the Unification Church & the world.
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Tim LaHaye, evangelist & Christian author of best-selling series "Left Behind."
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Beverly LaHaye, wife of Tim LaHaye, author and spokesperson for several Moon funded "Christian" orgs
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Paul Crouch, Founder and Chairman of Trinity Broadcasting Network, one of the largest tele-evangelical corporations

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Bill Bright, Founder and head of the international evangelical association, 'Campus Crusades for Christ'

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Robert Schuller, Pastor and Tele-evangelist from the famous 'Crystal Cathedral' in Southern California.

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Rev. Billy Graham, recognized world-wide as one of the most influential evangelical preachers; author and syndicated religious columnist

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Pat Robertson, Television Evangelist, Founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network & 700 Club anchor; founder of Operation Blessing; one time presidential candidate

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Rev. James Kennedy, founder & pastor of Coral Ridge Ministries, outspoken television evangelist

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Rev. James Robison, TV evangelist; Life Outreach International Ministries; associated with many Moon organizations

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Ralph Reed, former director of the Christian Coalition and member of the conservative think-tank "Heritage Foundation"

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Gary Bauer, Conservative politician and Executive Director of the Christian Coalition; unsuccessful Presidential candidate.

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Dr. James Dobson, Pediatrician, author and publisher, head of Focus On The Family, a Christ-centric organization and magazine

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Phyllis Schlafly, Christian political activist who says a woman's place is in the home... even though she's not

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Jay Sekulow, Christian political activist and attorney involved in family values issues from abortion to parents rights

Oliver North
This man was the Jack of all Trades, and a go between for many men and organizations. He was associated, through Maj. Gen. Richard Secord, to the Air Commando Association, which was also involved in Honduras and Nicaragua, as well as AmeriCares. North was associated with operation Phoenix, which was an assassination group operating widely in the 1970s, and it was responsible for the death of thousands of Vietnamese civilians. He was associated with Western Goals, and Moon's heritage foundation. North has been associated with several of Moon's organizations, such as CAUSA, CERT, The Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, and other branches of Moon's Unification Church. He has been actively involved with Beverly LaHaye's Concerned Women of America, Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network, Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship, and was a member of Tim LaHaye's Council for National Policy.

Jeane Kirkpatrick
U.S. Diplomatic Rep. to the United Nations. Kirkpatrick was a chairman for Moon's Nicaraguan Freedom Fund. She has been a director of the Council of Foreign Relations, (a force pushing the world into its New Order, many of which are Bilderbergers), and has been an honored speaker for Lahaye's CNP.

William Simon
Member of the Knights of Malta, Secretary of Treasury under President Nixon, and Chairman of Rev. Moon's Nicaraguan Freedom Fund(NFF). Simon was international business counselor for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and connected with Moon's Heritage Foundation, and the American Enterprise Institute. Simon was a board member of AmeriCares, and also in Lahaye's Council of National Policy.

Robert Warren
U.S. Naval Counterinsurgency expert, head of CBN's Operation Blessing while they were running flights into Nicaragua and Honduras.

Zbigniew Brzezinski
President Carters National Security Adviser, and oversaw U.S. Covert ops in Afghanistan. He was also honorary Chairman of Americares, which was also associated in their work with Pat Robertson's Operation Blessing, and Moon's NFF.

Maj. General John K. Singlaub
Formerly of the OSS (forerunner of the CIA), Former Deputy Chief CIA in Korea (Moon's homeland), and also at the Chinese desk of the CIA(2), Head of the Joint Unconventional Warfare Task Force(1), and was with the American Security council. Singlaub denies association with Operation Phoenix, though his Task Force was in charge of it. Operation Phoenix was an assassination organization that was responsible for the death of many thousands of Vietnamese civilians.(1), Chief of Staff of the U.N. Command in Korea, forced to retire under Jimmy Carter.(1) He founded the U.S. Council of World Freedom, which is very tightly associated with Rev. Moon's World Anti-Communist League. His Council has been a breeding ground for Moon's WACL organization.(1) He met repeatedly with William Casey of the CIA, Elliot Abrams of the State Department, and Oliver North of the NSC between 1980 and 1986, all of which were involved in the "drugs for guns" debacle in Honduras and Nicaragua.(4) He was head of the USCWF, Chairman of Moon's WACL (World Anti-Communist League), Refugee Relief International, board member of Tim Lahaye's Council of National Policy (Singlaub raised at least $100,000 for Moon's WACL from Tim Lahaye's CNP group during just 1 fundraiser (3). Singlaub has been with Western Goals (a group dedicated to surveillance of American "subversives"), and the British arm of Western Goals(4).

In an interview for CBSs' "60 Minutes" Mike Wallace asked him, "Singlaub has become Ronald Reagan's secret weapon to sidestep a congress that will not permit him to act in the areas where he believes that our (national) security interests are at stake.True?" Singlaub responded "True"(14). His association with these groups were to effect the toppling and restructuring of governments. He did this largely through LaHaye's CNP and the Council of 56 Religious Roundtable. He has admitted that the Defense Department organized the private aid (1), which largely included Moon's NFF, WACL, Heritage Foundation, And Tim LaHaye's CNP and The Religious Roundtable.

The following are a few short bios of the evangelicals sitting on these same various boards, and councils, with a list of the various councils to whom they belong.

Tim LaHaye
Co-author of the Left Behind book series, which depicts a person as being saved even after receiving the mark of the beast. Thinking this to be a fluke, in a conversation with his co-author Jerry Jenkins at the official left behind website in their message board section, we were told their position is that it will be ok to receive the mark of the beast as long as the recipient of the mark is not a worshiper of the beast. These men are influencing millions, and now no doubt countless thousands are embracing this doctrine as scripturally sound. Are they preparing the church to receive the mark of the beast? It would certainly seem so. I have asked Tim LaHaye several questions recently concerning his relationship with the Rev. Moon and the intelligence community. At first he denied sitting on any board with men associated with the Rev Moon, but when faced with evidence showing this to be untrue he now remains silent.

LaHaye is a central figure in marrying evangelical churches with the Rev. Moon and the intelligence community.

He was a principal in the American Freedom coalition, which was a Moon sponsored group, and claimed by Moon as an arm of his network. He was also associated with the Coalition on Revival, and the Heritage foundation, both of which were also Moon sponsored. After this association was made public, he resigned from the AFC, (though his name was not removed when he resigned), and tried to distance himself from Moon in the public eye. He was also a principal in the Coalition of Religious Freedom, where he spoke out for Moon during Moon's incarceration for tax fraud, asking hundreds of evangelicals to go to prison to support Moon if allowed by authorities. He was also on the original board of directors of Falwell's Moral Majority, which was also tied through its members to the intelligence community, and Ren Moon's Unification Church. LaHaye also founded the American Coalition of Traditional Values, which was touted as a Christian organization, but was extra-ripe with Moon organization board members, and the intelligence community. He then went on to found what was his hallmark organization, The Council for National Policy. This was an infamous moment for LaHaye as the most powerful intelligence and National Security community members were melded with the church, and it was literally filled with evangelical leaders who sit in organizations sponsored and founded by Moon. This Council went on for the next 2 decades to both work affecting national policy as well as movements within the protestant denominations, affecting nearly every evangelical church directly or indirectly. This coalition has even been involved with Oliver North, who was a member of CNP, and his CIA sponsored Central American mission of covertly toppling governments and then restructuring them (3). LaHaye has also been with the Council of 56 Religious Roundtable, which is another cover organization grouping together Moon's representatives and the U.S. intelligence community. LaHaye is, at my last finding, also a member of the National Religious Broadcasters which is filled with evangelical leaders tied in with Moon and U.S intelligence.

Ron Godwin
Former Vice President of Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, Sr. Vice President of the Moon owned Washington Times and honored member of LaHaye's CNP.

Robert Grant
Founder of "Christian Voice", and the American Freedom Coalition, both of which are Moon sponsored orgs. Graduate of the Fuller Theological Seminary and member of the Religious Roundtable. Grant's "Christian Voice", sponsored by Moon's Bo Hi Pak, "formerly" CIA, claims to be the nations largest Christian lobby, and according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, merged with Moon in 1987. He was also associated with the Heritage foundation, a supporter of Rev. Moon's Unification Church, and a member of the Board of Governors for Tim Lahaye's CNP (15).

Jerry Falwell
Falwell admits that he accepted 2.5 million dollars from Moon in 1994 in order to bail out his Liberty University in Richmond, Virginia. The Women's Federation for World Peace paid 3.5 million to the Christian Heritage Foundation, which in turn bought Falwell's $73 million debt, and then wrote it off. Falwell has spoken at many of Moon's functions, embracing the cult-leader with unabashed reverence and friendship, calling him, "An unsung hero to the cause of freedom, who is to be commended for his determination and courage and endurance in support of his beliefs." (16)

Falwell took over Jim Bakker's "Heritage USA" Christian theme-park/retirement community/tourist extravaganza when Bakker was indicted and incarcerated. He was with the Moon associated Coalition for Religious Freedom, and the Leader of the Moral Majority, which held high level Moon associates. Falwell was also a board member of the Council of 56 Religious Roundtable, and also a member of Tim Lahaye's CNP.

Paul Crouch
President of Trinity Broadcasting Network. Paul Crouch has been often ridiculed for some of the doctrine he allows on TBN. He promotes Benny Hinn, who has been caught in countless false prophecies, even exclaiming that Jesus will appear physically on stage at one of his crusades. Crouch promotes Kenneth Copeland who has publicly stated on TBN that God is the biggest failure in the universe ("I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is....The biggest one in the whole bible is God....I mean, He lost His top-ranking, most anointed angel; the first man He ever created; the first woman He ever created; the whole earth and all the Fullness therein; a third of the angels, at least--that's a big loss, man." Kenneth Copeland, Praise-a-Thon program on TBN [April 1988] "Christianity in Crisis"---Hank Hanegraff, Harvest House, 1993). When many have spoken out about these affronts to scripture and the church, Crouch expressed his wishes they be damned to Hell for causing division, and broadcasted it worldwide.

After it became public knowledge that Rev. Moon was sponsoring the American Freedom Coalition, Paul Crouch joined up, along with Rex Humbard and Hal Lindsey, giving Moon even more respectability among evangelical ministers. Jim Bakker helped Crouch to start his TBN empire(17). Crouch is a member of the Council of 56, Religious Roundtable, which again is loaded with Moon representatives, and U.S. intelligence personnel, and he is a member of the National Religious Broadcasters, also loaded with Moon cronies.

Gary Bauer
A Baptist evangelical, Bauer has also been a presidential candidate. He has served with the Family Research Council with Alan Keyes, and served with Falwell, Jack Kemp, and Ralph Reed in the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. In 1987 when the Religious Roundtable sponsored a rally in support of Oliver North during his troubles for trading guns and drugs, Ralph Reed was the featured speaker.

Pat Robertson
Pat gave Jim Bakker his start in the early days of CBN. Joseph Coors has been a financier of CBN, giving very large sums of money. He has been a part of Falwell's Moral Majority, he is a member of the Religious Roundtable, and a principal of Tim LaHaye's CNP. He claims to be a good friend of Oliver North and has helped raise funds for the NFF which was Moon sponsored to help Ollie in Nicaragua. Operation Blessing helped AmeriCares in Central America, and there is evidence that they shipped more than "relief goods", and was actually a cover for CIA activity. (This will be discussed somewhat in the next section of this article, and in depth in part 4.)

All very colorful men indeed, and not the sort to waste their time playing tiddly-winks to pass the time away. We can know of a surety that men of this caliber indeed have an agenda for every activity or group they involve themselves in. What is their agenda? A quick look at some of the activities in the groups they are involved with and the way they have spun their web, may shed much light to show us that, without a doubt, they have been for decades shaping the world to suit them. They are indeed bringing in the NWO from their powerful positions in the worlds most powerful nation, Mystery Babylon, and with the most powerful of the leaders of the Laodicean** church.

The Most Powerful Covert Operations In The World

The following is a downplayed exposé on organizations involving Moon, evangelical leaders and the U.S. Intelligence community Many parts are ver batem from Group Watch at http:www.pir.org. (A link to the over 100 sources in this article can be found at the end of the article.)

Air Commando Association

Most members of the ACA were involved in covert operations in Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam, including Aderholt who served as Chief of Covert Air operations in Southeast Asia under General John Singlaub. (1, 2)

Funding for the ACA comes primarily from member donations.(3) The supplies and equipment the group delivers are donated by other organizations such as World Medical Relief and Operation Blessing of the Christian Broadcasting Network. (4)

In 1984 the ACA began to deliver supplies in El Salvador. Irene Auberlin, the founder and chairman of World Medical Relief (WMR), pledged $20 million of WMR supplies for ACA's relief work in El Salvador. (1) According to author Russ Bellant, over the past 30 years WMR has provided over $100 million in supplies to CIA-directed counter-insurgency programs. (5)
The Michigan Air Guard packed up supplies, the Air Force provided storage facilities, and Special Operations Air Force personnel helped transport several tons of supplies to Guatemala for ACA. (1) The U.S. embassy in Guatemala provided ACA with a postal box, and according to one ACA member, "watched over" the group. (4) The operations of the ACA and other paramilitary groups operating in Central America reportedly coordinated their efforts through Oliver North on the National Security Council.(6)

AmeriCares Foundation
Robert McCauley (founder, chair), Zbigniew Brzezinski(honorary chair), Peter L. Keating (exec vice pres) Bert Schwarz (vice pres), William S. Post(comptroller), Leila McCauley (sec). Advisory Committee: J. Peter Grace (chair; chair, W.R. Grace &Co.), Louis F. Bantle (chair UST), Prescott S. Bush, Jr. (Prescott Bush & Co. Inc, brother to Vice President George Bush), Sol M.Linowitz (Coudert Brothers), William E. Simon (Treasury Secretary under Richard Nixon), Gen. Richard G. Stilwell (USA ret.).(1)
AmeriCares is a high profile organization. Often a prominent political figure in the 1980s, frequently a member of the Bush family, was on board to deliver the shipment, and the U.S. ambassador to the recipient nation was at the airport to receive the delivery. (2) Of course Bush Sr. was a leader of the Council of Foreign Relations, working toward bringing in the NWO under the guise of a mild mannered Christian. He was also the ex-director of the CIA, and who better to trust than his family to oversee his and their agenda? The activities of AmeriCares appear to echo U.S. foreign policy, so much so that investigative reporter Russ Baker wrote that "AmeriCares resembles a private foreign-policy operation of the U.S. government."(2)

The organization received significant contributions from the Moon founded Nicaraguan Freedom Fund (NFF) during its brief existence. Hal Eberle, a board member of the NFF, was quoted in the New York Times as saying the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund contributed $300,000 to Americares. (3, 4) The Nicaraguan Freedom Fund's 990 tax return shows the contribution to AmeriCares to be $165,648.

In l985 and l986, AmeriCares shipped more than $l00,000 worth of "newsprint" to the opposition daily, La Prensa, in Managua, Nicaragua. This included delivery of 200 tons of newsprint to the newspaper in l986. (5, 6) Of course we can see the need to send a member of the Bush family, and involve the U.S. Diplomat delivering such volatile material as "newsprint". It is no wonder that this was seen as a national security matter.

The Knights of Malta handled the local arrangements in Nicaragua. (7) It's l985 tax return indicated that AmeriCares delivered $73,136 worth of food and medical supplies to La Prensa, but Jim Schaffer, a former official in the organization, says that only newsprint was sent. (6) An attempted shipment of another l5 tons of "newsprint" from AmeriCares to La Prensa in April l988 was blocked by the Sandinista government which accused AmeriCares of being a CIA front and part of the secret network of private groups used by Lt. Col. Oliver North to deliver aid to the Contras. (5) The Sandinista claim they received corroboration from the organization's own tax records which indicate that AmeriCares is financially linked to a number of other individuals and organizations that supplied the Contras or were working with the CIA in Central America. (6)

Christian Broadcasting Network
CBN University: Pat Robertson, chancellor; Board of Regents in 1986 included: Mrs. Joseph (Holly) Coors, Major General Curry, and Mrs. Roger W. (Dee) Jepsen; Board of Trustees in 1986 included Joseph Coors. (1, 2, 3) Daniel Olson is the Manager of international marketing and mission. (4) Michael Little is a CBN vice president. Robert Warren, a retired U.S. Navy counterinsurgency expert, is head of Operation Blessing. (5) The Coors Foundation was an early supporter of CBN, giving $30,000 in support of CBN University. (6)

Robertson, according to investigative reporter Sara Diamond, used his tax-exempt broadcast license to hold a fundraising telethon in the United States for the Guatemalan military and the Nicaraguan Contras. (7) On The 700 Club, Robertson has interviewed Adolfo Calero and Steadman Fagoth, contra leaders; Efrain Rios Montt, then-president of Guatemala known for massive human rights abuses; Jeremias Chitunda, an Angolan guerrilla leader; and Ray Cline, former CIA deputy director of intelligence. Robertson praised death squad leader Roberto D'Aubuisson, of the ARENA party, as a "very nice fellow". (8)

While Robertson was campaigning for President, his wife Dede said, "He is not a television evangelist. He has never been an evangelist. He is a television broadcaster. He has a law degree. He's a businessman. He has a multi-million dollar business that he started with $70. " (9) This seems to be true in light of the fact that his "Family Chapel" was built with the money sent in from supporters of the gospel, and then sold for 250 million dollars, which of course was never sent back to the supporters of CBN.

CBN is spearheaded a grassroots movement called Christian Coalition; "a house united". Headquartered at CBN offices in Virginia, the coalition includes Christian stalwarts such as Beverly LaHaye, Rev. D. James Kennedy, both of whom are associated with Moon through his organizations, and organizations filled with his associates, as well as the U.S. intelligence community. (10)

In May 1985, CBN/Operation Blessing announced a $20 million relief campaign to send "humanitarian" supplies--food and medicine--to Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. This joint CBN and AmeriCares effort brought supplies "of a strictly humanitarian nature" to refugees and displaced people. AmeriCares gathered the contributions of medicines, pharmaceutical supplies, and nutritional supplements,and CBN provided $2 million cash for shipping and handling. [Quotes in original AP story]. (11, 12)

Several tons of the AmeriCares/CBN supplies were also transported to Guatemala and the Honduran Mosquitia region on U.S. Navy ships in the Navy's humanitarian aid program called "Operation Handclasp." (13) Some of the aid was to be distributed through Operation Blessing units in Central America, and also by Knights of Malta. While en route to Honduras in a C-130 full of medical supplies, Robertson told a reporter in Miami that "some [of this aid] may get to the Contras." (11)

According to Hap Lutz, Air Commando Association (ACA) vice president, Operation Blessing gave about $2 million to the ACA. (14)

The U.S. operation of CBN was considered one of the top private funders of the Nicaraguan contras. (11, 15) As of 1987 Robertson reported that Operation Blessing had sent more than $3 million in aid to the Nicaraguan refugees. (16) CBN gave the $3 million to the contra's Houston-based Nicaraguan Patriotic Association, according to Juan Sacasas, Vice President of the group and representative of the FDN contra force. (13, 14) Robertson denies any connection with Sacasas. (14, 17) However, there is little question that the Operation Blessing donations reached the contra forces. Robertson was so popular among them that one group named itself the "Pat Robertson Brigade." (16) In May, 1984, Pat Robertson solicited U.S. viewers' contributions for the "freedom fighters" through a special telethon on The 700Club and simulated mailgrams. (15) An undetermined amount of CBN aid was delivered to Miskito Indians on the Honduras-Nicaragua border by AmeriCares/Knights of Malta and the Friends of the Americas (FOA). (14, 13) Louisiana State Representative Louis "Woody" Jenkins (Chairman of FOA) told The New York Times that "some of the aid...would go to the refugees and some to the rebels." (18) Jenkins said in 1985, "I'm all for the freedom fighters. I want the Sandinistas kicked out of Nicaragua. That's one of the main motivations of my work." (13) At a National Religious Broadcasters dinner, Jenkins told the audience, "One of the few groups helping [the refugees through Friends of the Americas] is Pat Robertson and CBN." Addressing Robertson seated at the head table, Jenkins said, "Thank you." (13) Diane Jenkins, the representative's wife and Executive Director of FOA, has solicited funds on The 700 Club for the FOA's work on the Nicaraguan border. (19)

Robertson visited contra training camps in Honduras in June 1985, where he met with top leaders of the FDN and was saluted as a guest of honor. (20) When allegations of contra-CBN connections arose in the United States, CBN gave a statement to WCFC-TV, which airs The 700 Club in Chicago, saying in part: "CBN is helping starving and displaced persons in 15 countries, including some in Central America. The help is absolutely non-political. Articles claiming support by CBN of the Contras in Nicaragua are incorrect", despite the mountains of evidence to the contrary. (2) At a political fund-raiser in Chicago, Pat Robertson was asked about CBN's support for the Contras. He refused to answer directly, but said, "The fact is that the communists make people suffer. If that makes it [Operation Blessing] political, then, I'm sorry, we're still going to help them." (17) A refugee worker said that in 1985, a CBN film team came to a World Relief refugee camp asking for gasoline. "I told them I would give them the fuel, but not if their vehicle belonged to the Contras. They said it didn't. But when they came back a few days later, they admitted they had lied. The jeep belonged to Misura [contra forces]. CBN went down to do a story on freedom fighters. They weren't interested in refugees."(13)

In April 1989 Pat Robertson visited Managua to open the Nicaraguan chapter of CBN's 700 Club. Robertson's first stop was the U.S. embassy.

Joseph Coors, (Coors Brewing Co.) wrote to Al Weinrub in the Labor Report on Central America, "has used the power of the Coors financial dynasty not only to provide support to the Contras, but to set a right wing political agenda in the U.S...." (21) Coors who serves on the CBN University board of Trustees, is a funder and co-founder along with Paul Weyrich of the Heritage Foundation, which again is a Moon funded organization, filled with Moon representatives and U.S. intelligence.

Coors supported Lt. Gen. John Singlaub's U.S. Council for World Freedom (USCWF), a Moon associated organization, the U.S. chapter of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), a Moon founded organization. USCWF and the Nicaraguan Refugee Fund (another Coor's cause) helped fund the Nicaraguan Contras. (22) He was on the advisory council of the National Strategy Information Center, a rightwing think tank for military strategy, and a member of the secretive Council for National Policy, founded by Tim LaHaye. His wife Holly was on the CBN University Board of Regents.

CBN is a member of The Religious Roundtable, a coalition of business, military, political, and religious leaders working together to bring Biblical principles into public policy.(3)

Heritage Foundation
A Moon funded group through Bo Hi Pak. Principals have included William Simon, Joseph Coors, and trustees have included Former Atty. Gen. Ed Meese. Both Jack Kemp and Tim LaHaye have also been part of this group.

The New York Times in a November 17, 1985 article called it an "aggressively conservative" organization that has achieved success through a blend of political advocacy, public relations and job placement services. (1) Alan Crawford in Thunderon the Right said of Heritage, "It is unusual for a research institution to have a 'staff ideology'... [The] founder's real interest...appears to be less with balanced public policy research and more with the provision of support for New Right opinions." Or NWO, Moon, Evangelical, U.S. Intelligence opinion. (2) Its analysts study a wide range of military, foreign policy, economic,and domestic issues and produce position papers that have reached the top echelons of government, especially in the Reagan Administration. The New Republic said that the Heritage Foundation was "the most important think-tank in the nation's capital." (1)
Although the Heritage Foundation has offices only in the U.S., it produces policy papers that have had tremendous impact on Washington's policies and actions in Central America, the Philippines, Africa and Asia. The foundation's policy and position papers reach a wide international market.
The foundation received $2.2 million from the Federation of Korean Industries in the early 1980s. Initially it was believed this donation came from the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (which would make the Heritage Foundation a foreign agent of Korea, also remember that Bo Hi Pak was Korean CIA and liaison to American CIA, which makes it an agent of the intelligence community), but the Federation later stated that the donation came at the encouragement of the KCIA.(3)
In addition to generating numerous conservative policy suggestions, Heritage Foundation is a very successful public-relations operation. Heritage's senior vice president Burton Yale Pines was a former associate editor of Time magazine and a former journalist. In addition to its own numerous publications, Heritage articles appear frequently in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Newsweek, and are aired on national television news. (4) Considering Moon owns the Washington Times, and UPI, this pretty much ties up the media to put forth his propaganda and that of the intelligence community which are ties in with the evangelical groups.
Ed Meese was quoted as saying that "the Reagan Administration will rely heavily on the Heritage Foundation." (5) The Heritage foundation called for a $35 billion increase in defense spending, using food aid as a foreign policy weapon, during the Reagan Administration.
Another Heritage Foundation suggestion implemented by the Reagan administration was an unprecedented build-up of the Pentagon's Special Operations Forces (SOF). SOF specialize in the covert operations of Low Intensity Conflict warfare.
Funding for SOF tripled between 1981 and 1986. (6)

Mandate for Leadership II set the tone for Reagan's second term. In keeping with the mission statement of the foundation, it recommended privatization of social security, the federal highway system, Amtrak, and the postal service; elimination of special educational funding for the handicapped (because it drained funding from "normal students" and deregulation of trucking and other regulated industries. (7) It also recommended the government use "low-intensity" warfare to eliminate communist threats in nine nations around the globe. (8) As you can see from that time to now, this has been pursued to the letter, meaning Moon and the intelligence community, have influenced our national policy, and with the help of major evangelists, are sinking us ever deeper into their world order.

Mandate for Leadership III, the right's agenda for the 1990s which focused on management of the federal bureaucracy, was given to the George Bush Sr. Administration. (9)
Heritage representatives attended meetings of the militaristic, rightwing American Security Council's Tuesday Group. Other attendees included Lt. Col. Oliver North, then a top aide on the National Security Council (NSC), and representatives from the Pentagon, State Department, Lynn Bouchey of the Council for Inter-American Security, former ambassador to Costa Rica Curtin Winsor, Jr, and Constantine Menges, former head of Latin American affairs at the NSC. (10) Heritage has further connections to the American Security Council (ASC), through Roger Pearson. (10)

Heritage Foundation was responsible for "U.S. Policy and the Marxist Threat to Central America," by ex-CIA officer Cleto Di Giovanni, which provided the Reagan Administration with its blueprint for U.S. Central American policy, particularly in Nicaragua. (11) It called for a return to the "domino theory," claimed communism to be the common threat to Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador, and called for support of the traditional church, the private sector, unions, and former Nicaraguan national guardsmen in exile. (12) It recommended continued support of all types to the anticommunist military and governmental factions in El Salvador and Guatemala and muting human rights criticisms of those countries. (11) A second Heritage Foundation recommendation was to conduct a policy of economic warfare against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. The policy laid out the course followed by the Reagan administration--a U.S.-financed contra opposition and pressure on the international community to cut off trade, loans, and credit. (13) In June 1985, Lewis Lehrman arranged for a meeting to take place at the Heritage Foundation between Nicaraguan contra leader Adolfo Calero, Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, and leaders of other international "freedom fighting" groups. (14)
President Reagan's transition team included more than a dozen Heritage Foundation employees, and many others were hired to fill important posts in the Executive Branch.(17) Then-Vice President George Bush dedicated Heritage Foundation's new office building in 1983. (15) The late CIA director William Casey was among the initial supporters of the foundation. (16)
The crossovers between Heritage and the government probably number in the hundreds. (18) The Heritage Foundation publications include speeches and position papers of many conservative legislators and members or former members of the executive branch. (19)
Heritage Foundation also had a close connection with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church through its former Director of Administration, Michael Warder. Warder was a director of the Unification Church in the United States in 1977. Warder was also secretary of the International Cultural Foundation, an umbrella organization coordinating a variety of Moon's projects. (8) Also the financial ties between Heritage foundation and Moon are many.
Paul Weyrich, co-founder of Heritage has often acknowledged that he does not intend to "conserve" anything. "We are different from previous generations of conservatives," Weyrich explained. "We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of the country." (20)

American Coalition for Traditional Values; (Last info 1989)
Tim LaHaye founded the ACTV. Gary Jarmin, national field director; William K. Lyons, exec dir, Family Life Seminars. Executive board includes: Jerry Falwell, James Robison, Jimmy Swaggart, Pat Robertson, RexHumbard, Colonel Doner. (1)

According to "Separation of Church and State", Feb 2002, Tim LaHaye received $10,000 for ACTV from Bo Hi Pak, and then agreed to sit on the boards of the Christian Voice, and the Coalition of Religious Freedom. Both of these are Moon funded groups.
Private Connections: Tim LaHaye is married to Beverly LaHaye of Concerned Women for America (CWA). CWA had Lt. Col. Oliver North (ret.) speak at their 1985 and 1986 conventions. (2, 3) She also has spoken at Moon sponsored functions, where she received between $80,000-$150,000 for her troubles. Herb Ellingwood, chair of the Merit Systems Protection Board and a prominent conservative evangelical, headed the job placement bank described above. (4) Gary Jarmin is/was also legislative director of the fundamentalist lobby Christian Voice. (5) ACTV and Christian Voice worked closely together, and in l985 the two groups moved their bases of operations to Washington D.C. to coordinate their activities. (1) ACTV was a member of the RAMBO (Restore a More Benevolent Order) Coalition. (5) Tim LaHaye has been active both in the Moral Majority and Christian Voice. He helped to found the Council for National Policy, and has served as its president (as did Pat Robertson). (6) The Council is an umbrella group of conservative individuals which promotes a foreign policy agenda reflecting their objectives. (11)

American Freedom Coalition
The important members have included: Tim LaHaye, Paul Crouch, Hal Lindsey, Rex Humbard, James Robinson, Dr D. James Kennedy, Hon. Richard H. Ichord, chair; Robert G. Grant, pres; Dr. Ralph David Abernathy, vice-pres. Richard Viguerie, secretary. National Policy Board includes: Lt. Gen. Daniel Graham, Donald Sills, Religious Task Force dir; Maj. Gen. John K. Singlaub, Dan Fefferman, editor of American Freedom Journal, Lt. Gen. Gordon Sumner (USA-ret.). (1, 2, 3)

Most all of these men have been shown to have strong ties with Rev. Moon organizations and the intelligence community.
The American Freedom Coalition, or AFC, is a political education and lobbying group which was founded in April 1987. Calling itself a "supra-coalition", the group claimed some 300,000 members in all 50 states by February 1988. (4, 6) The AFC represents an attempt to unite political conservatives and conservative religious groups and individuals behind a common campaign. According to AFC president Robert Grant, the AFC was formed because of the "inability of the 'Christian Right' to achieve its agenda, because of its fragmentation and its failure to build coalitions with its philosophical allies from other communities..." (4) to preserve and promote what it describes as traditional values.
The AFC produces the American Freedom Journal, a monthly newspaper. Among contributors to the Journal have been former Reagan aide Patrick Buchanan, former Attorney General Ed Meese, the American Enterprise Institute's Ben Wattenberg, and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick. (3)

The AFC calls for support of "freedom fighters," in countries such as Afghanistan, and Nicaragua. (5) In terms of U.S. foreign policy, the AFC believes the United States should, in the words of Steven Trevino, take the "lead for the Free World with regards to improving the human condition." (7)
At the leadership levels in both the national office and state chapters, the American Freedom Coalition is closely tied to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. The Washington Post (March 30, 1988) has even described the AFC as a "Moon-sponsored lobbying group." (8)
AFC President Robert Grant has said that he hoped to "recruit a broad base" from his contacts with CAUSA, a political arm of Rev. Moon's Unification Church. (4) Grant has said that he solicited Phillip Sanchez, president of Moon's CAUSA USA, and Bo Hi Pak (Moon's 1 man and Korean CIA and liaison to American CIA), president of CAUSA Intl, for support for AFC. Sanchez and Pak agreed to help AFC. The two CAUSA leaders also granted the services of several CAUSA members to help in the Washington D.C. office of the AFC.'(4) 'According to Grant, state AFC chapters are headed by the state directors of the Moon funded lobby group "Christian Voice" and the American Constitution Committee (ACC), a CAUSA project. (4) Grant, founder and chairman of the evangelical lobby Christian Voice, said the AFC has about 65 CAUSA/ACC employees across the United States. Current and former members of the American Freedom Coalition have said that the majority of AFC administrative officers, including the executive director, administrative director, and publications editor--are members of the Unification Church and have been principals in CAUSAand ACC. (4) In a December 1987 Knight-Ridder article, Grant said that Moon's CAUSA could veto AFC state board members.(7)
Among its most prominent activities have been its fundraising efforts on behalf of former National Security Council aide, Oliver North. One special project of the American Freedom Coalition was its "Emergency Project to Support Colonel North's Freedom Fight in Central America." The group put together a television special on North entitled "Fight for Freedom." (8) It also hoped to mobilize popular support for North's cause in order to create pressure on President Reagan to pardon North. (8, 9) Between October 1987 and April 1988, the group had purchased airtime in 180 television markets to air its pro-North video. During that time it also collected some 600,000 signatures supporting North.(10) Perhaps they considered North and his links too important to lose. At both the national and state levels, the AFC has conducted campaigns to renew funding for the Nicaraguan Contras. (11)
Like Grant, Donald Sills is associated with the Coalition for Religious Freedom. (8) Sills is president of the group. Joseph Paige and Cleon Skousen are members of the Coalition's executive committee. (12) The Coalition for Religious Freedom has reportedly received $500,000 from Sun Myung Moon sources. (13) Eldon Rudd, former Congressman from Arizona, is a fundamentalist and an ex-FBI agent. (14) Rudd is also a member of the U.S. Council for World Freedom (USCWF), as are John Singlaub, Daniel Graham,John LeBoutillier, and J.A. Parker. The USCWF is the current U.S. chapter of Rev. Moon's World Anti-Communist League. (15, 16) Singlaub is the head of that organization, and Graham is its vice-chairman. Graham and Singlaub have also been (and may still be) co-chairmen of the Coalition for Peace through Strength, a project of the American Security Council. (15, 16)
The American Freedom Coalition has provided financial and other assistance to the Nicaraguan contra-support work of Rev. Moon's Christian Emergency Relief Team (CERT) International. In one such effort, the AFC attempted to get television appearances on morning talk shows for a Miskito Indian who worked with CERT. (17) The AFC also gave money to Moon's CERT, an evangelical relief assistance organization which has been taking over CAUSA's humanitarian aid work in Honduras. (17, 18) In California, the AFC and Christian Voice co-sponsor a monthly "California Leadership Forum." In South Carolina, the Vietnam Institute and AFC jointly sponsored a benefit for Oliver North. (19) The U.S. Global Strategy Council, headed by Steven Trevino, has ties to the Unification Church and CAUSA through Arnaud deBorchgrave and retired Gen. David Woellner. (16) De Borchgrave is editor of the Washington Times, a newspaper owned by the Unification Church. Woellner is (or was) president of CAUSA World Services. (16)
The Rev. Moon has said that he wants to form a Christian political party that would encompass all religious groups. (20) Members of the American Freedom Coalition like civil-rights veterans Ralph Abernathy and James Bevel have become champions for Moon and his followers. Abernathy, for instance, has compared criticisms of Moon to injustices suffered by blacks in the United States, this is a very sad affront to every African-American. An affront to every American. An affront to every Christian.

Parts 1 and 2 of this series have already examined the membership of the Religious Roundtable and Tim LaHaye's CNP, as well as their ties with the Rev. Moon and the U.S. Intelligence community. These 2 are the largest and most powerful as to these connections and were a driving force as well in the toppling of Central American Governments.

They seem to be a hub to these other groups though in some cases they are relatively newer groups. The men chairing the Roundtable and the CNP are the same men who head the National Religious Broadcasters, and the several other groups we have just examined which brought down Governments, allegedly operated smuggling operations, were used as fronts for CIA infiltration, and were responsible for helping to restructuring the governments of the nations they helped to bring down.

This article has presented facts to show the connections bringing in the NWO, by concentrating solely upon Honduras and Nicaragua for the sake of brevity, but be aware that their tentacles have reached much further.

They have been involved to the same extent, and in the same ways, Guatemala, El Salvador, Afghanistan, The Soviet Block before and after its fall, Ethiopia, and nearly every other nation whose Government has fallen in the last 20 years.

If anyone has firsthand information concerning the involvement of these groups in the areas discussed in this 3rd part of the Unholy Alliance please email me at sum14hizwrd@tcworks.net

Notes & References:

** Laodicea/ Revelation 3:14
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

1. Scott Anderson, Jon Lee Anderson, Inside the League: The Shocking Expose of How Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated the WACL. NYNY: Dodd, Mead and Co. 1986

2. Village Voice, Oct 22, 1985, Joe Connosen, Murray Waas

3. Peter Stone, "Private Groups Step up Aid", Washington Post

4. Group Watch, USCWF

5. Release of membership names by the C.N.P. 1998

6.Shirley Christian "Nicaraguan Rebels Reported to Raise up yo $25 Million," N.Y. Times Aug 13, 1985

7. Elton Magazine, "The Private Spy Agency", The National Reporter, summer 1985

8. "Conservative Think Tank Moves in to Capitol Spotlight", L.A. Times, Part 1-A, Dec 21, 1980

9. Charles Rammelkamp, "Coors Moves to End Boycott", Coming Up!, Feb 1983.

8. Matin A. Lee, "Who Are the Knights of Malta?", National Catholic Reporter, Oct 11, 1983.

9. Julia Preston, "Nicaragua Cuts off American Airlift of Paper to La Prensa", Washington Post, April 14, 1988.

10. Private Organizations With U.S. Connections in Hondouras, The Research Center, 1988.

11. John Spicer Nichols, "La Prensa: The CIA Connection", Columbia Journalism Review, July/August 1988.

12. Russ Baker, "A Thousand Points of Light, Americares, George Bushes Favorite Charity, Dispenses Bitter Medicine Around the World", Villaga Voice, Jan. 8, 1991

13. Interview with Julio Cesar De LeonS., January 1987.

14. Copy of CBS 60 minutes, CBS television Oct 5, 1986

15. Council for National Policy, board of governors mailing list, 1984

16. Christianity Today Magazine Christianity Today, February 9, 1998 'Moon-Related Funds Filter to Evangelicals' by John W. Kennedy

17. "Power, Glory, and Politics", Time, Feb. 17, 1986

Air Commandos Assoc

1. "Air Commandos", Susanna Mckean Moore, The Nation, Nov 2, 1985

2. Wayne King, N.Y. Times, Oct 12, 1986, "Private Role Increasing in Foreign Actions"

3. Air Commando Association, Newsletter, May 1985

4. Air Commando Association Newsletter, Aug. 1984

5. Russ Bellant, "The Politics of Giving", Metro Times, Detroit, Oct 9, 1985

6. Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, and Jane Hunter, The Iran-Contra
Connection (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1987)

Americares
1. Letter from Terry Tarnowski, AmeriCares, Feb 26, 1990.

2. Russ Bakert; A Thousand Points of Blight, AmeriCares, George Bush's

Favorite Charity, Dispenses Bitter Medicine Around the World; Village Voice, Jan 8, 1991.

3. Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, 990 Income Tax Report, 1985.

4.Shirley Christian, Nicaraguan Rebels Reported to Raise Up to $25
Million", New York Times, Aug 13, 1985

5. Julia Preston, "Nicaragua Cuts Off American Airlift of Paper to La
Prensa," Washington Post, Apr l4, l988.

6. John Spicer Nichols, "La Prensa: The CIA Connection," Columbia
Journalism Review, July/August l988.

7.John Spicer Nichols, "U.S. Government Funding of La Prensa," a
paper presented to the XIV International Congress of Latin American Studies
Association, New Orleans, Mar 17, 1988.

Christian Broadcasting Network

1. John J. Fiaka and Ellen Hume, "TV Preacher, Possibly Eyeing the
Presidency, Is Polishing His Image," The Wall Street Journal, October
17, 1985.

2. Jeff Gerth, "Tax Data of Pat Robertson Groups Are Questioned," New York
Times, December 10, 1986.

3. Larry Kickham, "The Theology of Nuclear War," sidebar on The Full
Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International, Covert Action Information
Bulletin, No. 27, Spring 1987, p. 15.

4. Jim Castelli, "CBN Launches 'Blitz' in Central America," National Catholic Reporter, Feb 9, 1990.

5. Paul Jeffery, "Popcorn for the Poor," Christianity and Crisis, Sep 24, 1990.

6. Foundation Grants Index, 15th edition, 1986.

7. Sara Diamond, "Christian Right Stronger Than Ever in the 1990s," Pacific News Service, week of May 22, 1989.

8.Sara Diamond, "Right Wing's Televangelists Manipulate U.S. on Contra Aid and Apartheid," Sequoia, September/October 1986.

9. In These Times, "Hawking the Faith", April 15-21, 1987, p. 5.

10. Group Research Report, Vol 29, No 1, Jan/Feb 1990.

11. Associated Press, "Christian Network Plans Relief for Latin America," Washington Post, May 9, 1985.

12. Adon Taft, "TV Evangelist Defends Aid to Nicaragua," Miami Herald, June 14, 1985.

13. Vicki Kemper, "In the Name of Relief," Sojourners, October, 1985.

14. Synapses Press Release, April 13, 1985.

15. Sara Diamond, "Pat Robertson's Central America Connection," Guardian, September 17, 1986.

16. Michael D'Antonio, "The Christian Right Abroad," Alicia Patterson Foundation, Reporter, Fall 1987.

17. Synapses Press Release, June 27, 1985

18. New York Times, April 6, 1985.

19. Air Commando Association Newsletters, dated August 1984, February 1985, and
May 1985.

20. Sara Diamond, "Right Wing's Televangelists Manipulate U.S. on Contra Aid and Apartheid, Sequoia, September/October 1986.

21. Al Weinrub, "Coors Brews More Than Beer," Labor Report on Central America, Sep/Oct 1985.

22. New Right Humanitarians (Albuquerque, NM: The Resource Center, 1986).

23. Special Operations in U.S. Strategy, National Strategy Information Center, 1984.

Heritage foundation

1. "The Heritage Foundation: Success in Obscurity," New York Times, Nov 17, 1985.

2. "Do You Know These Godfathers?" Mother Jones, Feb/Mar, 1981.

3. Joel Bleifuss, "Heritage Foundation Tries to Clear Name" In These Times, Apr 26, 1989.

4. John Saloma III, Ominous Politics: The New Conservative Labyrinth (New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1984).

5. Charles Rammelkamp, "Coors Moves to End Boycott," Coming Up!, Feb 1983.

6.Thomas Bodenheimer and Robert Gould, Rollback!: Rightwing Power in U.S. Foreign Policy (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1989).

7."Heritage Foundation Recommends Private Air Traffic Control System," Washington Post, Nov 20, 1984.

8. Russ Bellant, The Coors Connection (Cambridge, MA: Political Research Associates, 1990).

9. James Ridgeway, "New Right Agenda for Bush: Push Privatization and Woo Minorities", Pacific News Service, Dec 26-31, 1988.

10. Russ Bellant, Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Reagan Administration: The Role of Domestic Fascist Networks in the Republican Party and Their Effect on U.S. Cold War Politics (Boston, MA: Political Research Associates, 1989).

11.The New Right Humanitarians, (Albuquerque, NM: The Resource Center, 1986.)

12.Cleto Di Giovanni, Jr. U.S. Policy and the Marxist Threat to Central America, Heritage Backgrounder, Oct 15, 1980.

13. Thomas Bodenheimer and Robert Gould, Rollback!: Rightwing Power in U.S. Foreign Policy (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1989).

14.Sayid Khybar, The Afghan Contra Lobby, Covert Action Information Bulletin, No. 30, Summer 1988.

15.Heritage Foundation, annual report, 1988.

16."Conservative Think Tank Moves Into Capitol Spotlight," Los Angeles Times, Part I-A, Dec 21, 1980.

17. Jerry A. Shields, proposal for book on Joseph Coors, Dover, Delaware, 1989.

18. The Heritage Foundation: Success in Obscurity, New York Times, Nov 17, 1985.

19. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, "The Reagan Doctrine and U.S. Foreign Policy, Heritage Foundation and Fund for an American Renaissance", 1985.

20. Sara Diamond, Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of the Christian Right (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1989).

American Freedom Coalition;
1. Richard Ichord and Bob Wilson, with Dan Fefferman, "The Parties and the
New President," American Freedom Journal, Dec 1988/Jan 1989.
2. Gary Jarmin, "What Bush's Victory Means to America," American Freedom
Journal, Dec 1988/Jan 1989.
3. American Freedom Journal, Dec 1988/Jan 1989.

4. Kim A. Lawton, "Unification Church Ties Haunt New Coalition," Christianity Today, Feb 5, 1988.

5. Richard Ichord and Bob Wilson, with Dan Fefferman, "The Parties and the
New President," American Freedom Journal, Dec 1988/Jan 1989.

6. . A Promise for Their Future, AFC full-size brochure, Sep 1987.

7. Steven Trevino, "The Next Four Years," American Freedom Journal,
Dec 1988/Jan 1989.

7. Phone conversation with Wes McCune, Group Research Inc., Sep 9, 1988.

8. Emergency Project to Support Colonel North's Freedom Fight in Central America, flyer, undated but circa Fall l987.

9. American Freedom Journal, Dec 1988/Jan 1989.

10. Leslie Phillips, "Ollie North Now Gets His Day(s) in Court," USA Today, Apr 12, 1988.

11. "A Traditional Values Speakers Bureau," AFC New Mexico brochure, undated but circa Feb 1989.

12. Coalition for Religious Freedom brochure, 1986.

13. Group Research Report, vol 26, l0, Dec l987.

14. Jim Wallis and Wes Michaelson, "The Plan to Save America: A Disclosure of an Alarming Political Initiative by the Evangelical Far Right," Sojourners, Apr l976.

15. The New Right Humanitarians, The Resource Center, l986.

16. Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson, Inside the League: The Shocking Expose of How Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated
the World Anti-Communist League (New York: Dodd, Mead, & amp; Co., 1986).

17. Phone conversation with Daniel Junas, Feb 5, 1988.

18. Phone conversation with Daniel Junas, May 6, 1988.

19. American Freedom Journal, Dec 1988/Jan 1989.

20. "Rev. Moon's Political Moves," Newsweek, Feb 12, l988.

American Coalition for Traditional Values;

1. William Bole, "The Christian Right Eyes the Republican Party,"Interchange Report, vol 6, 1-2, Winter/Spring l985.

2. Kris Jacobs, "Right Sets l990 as Target for Takeover," Interchange Report, vol 6, 1-2, Winter/Spring l985

3. Group Research Report, Vol 26 No 10, December 1987.

4. Dear Reader; column, Interchange Report, vol 6, 1-2, Winter/Spring l985.

5. Sara Diamond, "Shepherding," Covert Action Information Bulletin,
Spring l987.

6. Group Research Report, Vol 26 No 10, December 1987.

7. The Resource Center, The New Right Humanitarians, 1986.

Part 4

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Doctrines Of The Moon
Doctrines Of Darkness

In Part 4 of this series we will concentrate on the doctrines of the Rev. Moon, and some of his teachings.

The serious Christian, as well as the secular citizen, must ask the following pertinent questions -- the alternative being hiding ones head in the sand, or pretending to see the Emperor's clothing...

1. Are these Moon and Central Intelligence associations of leading evangelicals really that important?

2. Should one be concerned about the large exchanges of money between these men and organizations affiliated with Moon?

3. What exactly is being "bought" with this money?

4. Is the Unification Church just another 'denomination', or is it something much more sinister, perhaps building to the fulfillment of the well understood prophecies of Scripture which say the Church will fall away (from the faith) in the last days?

Certainly every sincere Christian should be concerned over every one of the above issues. From the Christian point of view, the integrity of the faith is at stake, as well as the eternal destiny of untold millions. As Christians, those who claim to hold to the faith are commanded to sound the trumpet of alarm at the first sign of danger. The truth though, is that the trumpet is sounding very late in the assault and many are being caught off guard.

Those who believe we are living in the 'last days' must be aware that it is promised in scripture that in the end-times MANY will depart from the faith and follow false doctrines that are very seductive and deceptive (2 Timothy 4:3-4), even in the name of Christ, even by those claiming to be "of Christ." Jesus himself gave these express warnings.

Since it is firmly established that Christianity's leading evangelicals are embracing the Rev. Moon (under the leadership of Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye, Paul Crouch and many more) in the pursuit of worldly, political power and influence, we will look at the doctrines of the Unification Church in regards to its beliefs concerning Jesus and His role as the Messiah, where it appears unparalleled compromise has taken place.

The following can be found at the Rev. Moon's official sites, http://unification.org and http://www.Tparents.org. Much more could be added, but for the sake of brevity we have limited the examples; The excerpts from Moon's material will be in quotes.

To:
National Desk Contact:
Family Federation for World Peace and Unification,
202-722-6800
Email: admin@familyfed.org

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ --
The following is a statement by Rev. Michael Jenkins,
President, Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, USA

Excerpt:

"Unification teaching affirms that Rev. Moon has received the anointing of Jesus and stands in a messianic role as "True Parent." Unification teachings also affirm that the "anointing" or messianic role is conveyed to other pastors and leaders who, if called by God, take up the cross and follow Jesus."

Here we are first told that Moon received the anointing of Jesus. In Moon's bio (located at the above site) we find that he claims Jesus appeared to him, explaining sadly of His failure, and anointing Moon as the true Messiah. Also note that the teachings place everyone on the level of Christ, if they espouse Moon's doctrine.

Seminars in the Spirit World with the Four Religious Founders
February 3- April 11, 2001
Dr. Sang Hun Lee,
Presiding Reporter: Young Soon Kim

"Father Moon's position on Jesus as Lord and Savior is founded upon his personal faith in and experience with Jesus. Yet he tells us that it was Jesus who guided him to have an open heart for all the religions of the world! As we seek to unify the Body of Christ and bring unity among all faiths, we pray that you may be open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit so that we, as the Christian family, will have such love as to fulfill Jesus prayer in John 17 - "That ALL may be one." That we might be like Jesus and manifest such love as to bring unity and understanding to all the religions of the world. With this thought in mind, please consider the following revelations."

Notice we are being led to believe that all religions are the 'body of Christ', and should be embraced as such. The Moon agenda is that "all may be one". This is an affront to every religion, and especially to the blood of Jesus who bought the Church -- that "Church" being clearly defined in scripture as those who have entered into faith in the sacrifice and irrevocable, eternal Lordship of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins.

"I am deeply touched by the warm love of Jesus, the compassion of Buddha, the proper etiquette of Confucius, the absolute faith of Mohammed, the intelligence of Socrates, and Saint Augustine's passion and ambition for God. I am indeed inspired by their pledge and determination to live in the attendance of God as their Parent, offering to him all of their thoughts and truths. As I received and recorded the messages from these great religious founders in the spirit world, I wished that earthly people could resemble them in their unity of heart and mind, in their humble acceptance of the truths from other religions, and in their love for one another transcending religions and denominations."

Young Soon Kim
April 11, 2001

Young Soon Kim is a unification church leader, and promotes communication with the dead, as do Moon and all his devoted followers. Moon's doctrine also teaches that departed souls can take over a living body and live through that host, thus carrying on with their teachings. This is certainly against all Christian doctrine, and is portrayed in scripture as evil, even forbidden. It is actually the same as the Christian doctrine of demon possession.

"As I was leading this gathering, I experienced something infinitely painful in my heart, and thought: "If only earthly people could witness these scenes (his visions) and experience them, then God and True Parents could restore this world much more quickly."

Kingpins In
The Unholy Alliance

Evangelists & Politicians

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Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder, leader & self-proclaimed 'Messiah' to the Unification Church & the world.
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Tim LaHaye, evangelist & Christian author of best-selling series "Left Behind."
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Beverly LaHaye, wife of Tim LaHaye, author and spokesperson for several Moon funded "Christian" orgs
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Paul Crouch, Founder and Chairman of Trinity Broadcasting Network, one of the largest tele-evangelical corporations

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Bill Bright, Founder and head of the international evangelical association, 'Campus Crusades for Christ'

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Robert Schuller, Pastor and Tele-evangelist from the famous 'Crystal Cathedral' in Southern California.

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Rev. Billy Graham, recognized world-wide as one of the most influential evangelical preachers; author and syndicated religious columnist

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Pat Robertson, Television Evangelist, Founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network & 700 Club anchor; founder of Operation Blessing; one time presidential candidate

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Rev. James Kennedy, founder & pastor of Coral Ridge Ministries, outspoken television evangelist

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Rev. James Robison, TV evangelist; Life Outreach International Ministries; associated with many Moon organizations

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Ralph Reed, former director of the Christian Coalition and member of the conservative think-tank "Heritage Foundation"

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Gary Bauer, Conservative politician and Executive Director of the Christian Coalition; unsuccessful Presidential candidate.

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Dr. James Dobson, Pediatrician, author and publisher, head of Focus On The Family, a Christ-centric organization and magazine

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Phyllis Schlafly, Christian political activist who says a woman's place is in the home... even though she's not

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Jay Sekulow, Christian political activist and attorney involved in family values issues from abortion to parents rights

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It is Moon's stated mission as well that he is the one who will restore the earth, and restore all men to God.

"Each of these religious founders had experiences so moving, they rapidly progressed and clearly understood God's current providential purposes. And whenever they had time, they visited friends from other religions. Such scenes were so beautiful. Their reflections were similar to each other: "I think that I can understand the heart of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who is toiling so hard on Earth for the sake of world peace." "

Prophecy foretells the day when men will proclaim 'peace' - and that the world, for a very short time, will even be at peace. The prophecies also inform us that this is a false peace -- an illusion. Today many in the world, Moon and a multitude of major evangelicals, are currently working toward this peace, and it appears most of the world will embrace it, be it willingly or through the deceits and manipulations of the deceiver(s) whom Christ forewarned would come.

"Then if any man says to you, "Come, Christ is here", or "He is over there;" do not believe them. For there will arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall demonstrate great signs and power; so much so that, if it were possible, they would deceive even the very elect of God. Remember, I have warned you in advance! Therefore, if they shall say to you, "Look, He is in the desert"; do not go to see: or, "Look, He is in secret places;" Do not believe them. For as the lightning shines out of the east and flashes even to the west, likewise will be the Coming of the Son of Man." - Matthew 24:23-27.

"Now, the four religious founders, (He is speaking here of Confucius, Buddha, Mohammed, and Jesus) along with Socrates and St. Augustine who also attended the seminars, (supposedly in heaven) are pursuing the same direction; it is the direction of the providence of God and True Parents. They try not to show their own distinctive characteristics and are making shared efforts to be united in one direction. And they are earnestly praying that the direction of earthly people will also be one."

The message here is quite clear. Namely, that Jesus, Confucius, Buddha and Mohammed are themselves working toward the unification of all religions. Would this unification also embrace Satanism?

Dr. Sang Hun Lee
from the spirit world material:

"...God has been suffering as if He were a sinner until now, although He is not, and He has not been able to manifest Himself to His full capacity although He is the Creator of all things. Likewise, although He is the King of light, He has been enduring in darkness, unable to illuminate the whole world in His light. Until the arrival of the day of liberation, He could not experience peace in His heart nor could he fully manifest His light."

Notice what a weak God is portrayed here... his creation limits his power so that he is unable to do anything. He is unable even to experience peace, and unable to shed his light. He is portrayed as a weak and captive God. This is certainly not the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who raises up and tears down kingdoms at His will; the God that parted the Red Sea and raised Jesus of Nazareth from the dead.

"The day of God's emancipation arrived only when He could be crowned as the King of Kings, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, with the fall of Lucifer. Now, Lucifer is returned to his original position and God is also crowned as the King. That took place on January 13, 2001."

Here the Unification Church teaches that God was captive and HAD TO BE EMANCIPATED! Also they claim that Lucifer was returned to his original position, meaning that he is reconciled to God, sitting in heaven guarding the throne, and that he is no longer "the Adversary" as his name implies. They go on to say that man's unification will rid the world of evil. This certainly sets us up for the receiving of the Antichrist and the false prophet. Anyone familiar with Scripture knows that the last time mankind achieved "unification," God destroyed the endeavor knowing it was evil (Genesis 11).

"..Now, all human beings truly have entered a new era and received the precious master."

Regardless to who they are referring to as precious master, whether Moon or a homogenized god, this statement is certainly ridiculous and untrue considering the violent and lust filled, covetous day in which we live.

"..A new era refers to the time God can enter a realm of total liberation. On the other hand, to human beings, it is an incomparably precious gift. And the new era is a time we can live with God in joy and happiness, attending Him as the True Parent of all humanity. It is the time when the original world that He intended to create will begin. Thus, for human beings, what day could be more joyful than this day? January 13, 2001 was the day when, representing all humankind, the Messiah attended God as the True Parent of entire humankind."

The "Messiah" referred to here is Rev Moon. The god referred to here must certainly be a false and Luciferian god as he is ruling presently the affairs of men on all levels and in every area of society. Moon also refers to his wife and himself as the "true parents of all humanity", thereby making himself god, when referring to god as the true parent. This is what Antichrist will do as we are foretold in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, and several other passages of scripture.

"... Unless we are cleansed of the original sin, human beings from the moment of conception are not in their original state. In order for us to be cleansed of the original sin, we should be reborn. The method of rebirth is to receive the marriage Blessing with the Reverend Moon as the officiator. That is the best way to be cleansed of the original sin. This cleansing remains to be done for all humankind. Only after having gone through this cleansing can we personally stand before God and grow as original human beings."
Christians hold to Christ's blood as being the agent of cleansing from all sin. He is our covering and our offering, the "pascal" (Passover) lamb of sacrifice for sins. For two decades Moon has performed mass marriages and many religious ministers from all faiths have submitted to these marriages. The Rev. Moon picks who is mated with whom. Here we see the claim that it is Moon who cleanses us from all sin through a marriage approved, performed and blessed by him personally. This is a physical salvation that is false and blasphemous to every thing that is truly Christian.

"...We cannot directly go to God or stand before Him until we cleanse our first ancestors' fundamental sin. But we of our own power cannot set the conditions necessary to resolve our ancestors' fundamental sin. A central figure anointed by God must appear and cleanse the fundamental sin committed by our first ancestors. That particular central figure is the one chosen by God, the one whose blood lineage was purified through generations of human ancestors. That figure should set numerous indemnity conditions for the sake of returning us to the original condition from which our first human ancestors deviated. By setting indemnity conditions, he can stand before God in the position of Adam prior to the fall. From that position, he should bring us back into God's lineage, saving us from the sins of all humanity. On that foundation, he can build God's nation, crown God as the King, and lead us to God so that we all can live with God, together attending Him for eternity. Through his officiating at the Blessing of God, humanity comes to stand on the side of God's eternal lineage. That Blessing is the ultimate salvation for humankind. Our ancestors' wrongdoing degraded us to a fallen position. Returning to God's lineage saves us. Then, who is the specific figure anointed by God to bring us into the position of salvation? It is Reverend Sun Myung Moon. He is the Messiah for all humanity, the Second Coming of Christ."

There certainly can be no mistake that Moon is setting himself up to be The Christ. Neither can there be a mistake as to whom these evangelical leaders are with whom Moon has some influence. Can Tim LaHaye, Paul Crouch, Jerry Falwell and so many others sit on Moon's front groups and organizations for years on end, and put Moon's men in the high levels of their organizations and coalitions and still claim ignorance to what and whom they are supporting? Can Falwell, Schuller, Beverly LaHaye, Gary Bauer, and so many thousands of other ministers claim ignorance as to whom they are supporting when this information is blazoned on Moon's own site. As shown in parts 1-3 of this series, In 1996, when so many of these ministers were paid between $80,000-150,000 to speak at just one of his rallies, none of them tried to back out, and they gave great credibility to Moon before thousands. Only Bill Cosby - not affiliated with any religious organization but hired as 'entertainment' for the event - was offended enough to try to back out, and Ralph Reed (see bio in side bar above) gave his money to charity.

"...We were first shocked by the notion that providentially, someone must come who can save humankind. We just maintained a heavy silence while holding the serious yet unspoken question as to who that person could be. Jesus first broke the silence and spoke quietly but seriously, "That person is none other than the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. He should be the Messiah and Savior of all humanity."

Here it is claimed that Jesus Himself sadly claimed that the Rev. Moon was the only one able to save mankind. This is the man whom our Christian leaders, including Paul Crouch, Pat Robertson, Tim LaHaye and so many more have embraced, or otherwise entangled themselves with for the purpose of political power.

"....Reverend Moon walked a path of unbelievable indemnity, going beyond the cross to become victorious as God's anointed."

Now it is claimed Moon went beyond the sacrifice of Jesus to become the anointed, which is the literal meaning of Messiah.

"...Jesus is the Messiah who was sent by God. Due to human ignorance, his people did not receive him even in his own hometown. Rejected, he was unable to exercise his complete power as the Messiah. Reverend Sun Myung Moon is one anointed to fulfill the mission that Jesus was unable to complete."

How sad that "Christian" evangelical leaders would embrace this man. This truly is a travesty, and the epitome of apostasy, the departure from the faith. The leaders have betrayed the flock, proving that they are not true shepherds, but rather nothing more than "hired men", who sell out to what they perceive as the highest bidder.

Also from Rev Moon's site we find this press release, again showing the evangelical and government support this man receives...

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PRESS RELEASE

Rev. Moon Calls for Establishment of New World Religious Body
World Culture and Sports Festival '99
Special Convocation, 'Family Ethics and World Peace'
Feb 4th -8th at the Lotte HotelRev.

Moon Calls for Establishment of New World Religious Body The Reverend Sun Myung Moon called for the establishment of a new, UN-related organization composed of leaders from the world's major religions. Citing the ultimately ineffective efforts of current peace organizations in securing world peace, Reverend Moon said that the success of world peace in the next millennium hinges on the involvement of united, world religious leaders. "The reality shows us, however, that political, economic, and technological efforts alone have not effectively achieved those goals(of world peace). Only if these efforts are supported by the more internal ones of religion, education, and culture can ideal results be secured," said Reverend Moon, as he addressed an internationally diverse group of more than 800 guests at a conference on "Family Ethics and World Peace", at the Lotte hotel yesterday. The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, a group founded by Rev. Moon, convened the conference to solve the problems confronting society, most notably the breakdown of the family. Rev.Moon emphatically asked the assembly, composed of world leader from over 100 countries, to focus their energy during the next three days of the conference on the task of formulating this new religious governing body. The idea was warmly received by the participants and Rev. Moon was praised by Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr., who introduced Rev. Moon tithe assembly and credited Rev. Moon as being instrumental in overthrowing international communism.

Again, from Moon's site:

Chicago, Illinois
Friday - June 29, 2001

We wanted to do something a little different, that was a BBQ.

The Cathedral Holy Bible BC people and FFWPU members were so excited, because of the BBQ and we did door to door, inviting the people to the BBQ. We divided the foods to prepare and came early in the evening and started cooking. Host church people set up most of the BBQ. Rev. Booker Person himself came early and helped us a lot. It was a nice cooking fellowship centered on BBQ. At same time 20 (over 10 years old) FFWPU young people came and did door to door centering on Mrs. Sometani and Mrs. Nagai. It was very hot weather, but they were so determined to do it, because it is 40 days special time now. About 200 people were gathered together for the BBQ. They all enjoyed BBQ and we all took pictures together in front of the Church.

The revival started 7:30pm. 500 people were there. It was such a special day because FFWPU President of North America, Rev. Michael Jenkins came. Rev. M. Walker, Rev. Owens, Rev. Stokes, Rev. James Hampton, Rev. Fred. Harris, Bishop Crawford, Rev. Connie Bansa, and many more pastors, over 15 Pastors and ministers were there. They all were happy to see Rev. Jenkins as well as they see Father Moon.

The majority of the audience was young, 10 to 18 years old, and came from Rev. Edward Davis's church and Rev. Booker J. Person's Church and CARP and FFWPU young people. Our CARP & STF members were great; they always supported this revival.

What a deception! Supposed ministers of God enticing children through a Bar-b-que, to seduce them into the doctrines of Rev. Moon! The approval of Moon began with our most highly positioned leaders. They in turn began to recruit ministers of the ranks right below them and then the levels below that. After Moon's release from prison, Tim LaHaye and Gary Bauer had their names on a mailing to ministers across the nation, inviting them to all expense paid trips to what appeared to be evangelical rallies and conventions.(1) Once there, they were recruited aggressively by Moon personally, as well as by others from his church, even handing out expensive gifts. I have received personal emails from certain of these men who were invited and refused when they inquired and found the were actually invited to an event promoting Moon.

Blessing '99 Report
(Blessing '99 was a gathering of leaders and spokespersons from more than 8 world religions)
A word or two on the religious leaders
From the Moon website

"The Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace (IRFWP) was a co-sponsor of the Special Convocation of the World Culture and Sports Festival (WCSF). Approximately 50 major leaders from the world's religions participated in the convocation. Their presence was important for a number of reasons, as there was an uncommon degree of emphasis on inter-religious dialogue and harmony from Father this time. This emphasis was particularly evident at the inaugural plenary of the newly founded Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace (IIFWP)."

Excerpts:

"...Professor Mumtaz Ahmad spoke from the perspective of Islam, Professor Selengut from that of Judaism, Venerable Kongchinda offered a Buddhist point of view, Professor Smart, a Protestant (Anglican) perspective, and Archbishop Milingo a Catholic view. This session was inspiring and informative. Additionally the faith representatives who spoke themselves embodied these very ideals which they insisted could be fully embraced without internal tension. ...Professor Shivamurthy Swamiji of Karnataka offered Hindu prayers, Khamba Lama Dambajav from Mongolia offered Buddhist prayers, Rabbi Herzel Kranz offered Jewish prayers, Archimandrite Vikentiy Miskov offered prayers from the Christian Orthodox tradition, Archbishop Emanuel Milingo from the Catholic tradition, Reverend T.L. Barrett of Chicago offered prayers as a Protestant, and Professor Manjit SinghJathedar offered blessings from the Sikh tradition." (by Frank Kaufmann/Listed under Teachings/www.unification.org)

What we have here, is exactly the same thing we had with the National Day of Prayer, in Washington D.C. in September, 2001. That day Billy Graham, and members of every major religion met to mourn and pray for the nation after the September 11th tragedy.That day Billy Graham, of all people prayed with all these men and religions to the homogenized god of Abraham, and Mohammed. This is the end goal of the Rev. Moon, and the end goal of Antichrist and the false prophet.

Promise Keepers & The Moon/Evangelical Unification Movement
(From the Moon site)
The latest Unification Movement Worldwide News
Report on a "Revival of Christianity" pastors meeting

Yesterday (February 23, 1999) I had the pleasure of attending a 1/2 day seminar for pastors and lay leaders hosted by Promise Keepers, Mission America and Mainstay Ministries. (For further info http://www.promisekeepers.org and http://www.missionamerica.org.)

The theme for the day was the "Revival of Christianity." There was much talk on this theme and there seemed to be some genuine testimony that there was a beginning to a third great revival in the US today. There seemed to be an acknowledgement that the church has been pushed out of the center of the culture and that time has run out. There must be unity among the churches. Mission America is calling for every Christians home to be a light house for God and for all Christians to pray for their neighbors. Promise Keepers are calling for revival events to be held on Jan 1st, 2000 outside each state capital. Mainstay Ministries were calling for people to buy their products.

Of Course. And is it any wonder that the ecumenical group promise keepers is endorsed by Moon? What a dangerous day for the Christian faith.

The Following Is From Dave Hunt's "What's Happening To The Faith?"

Zondervan recently published a book titled 'More Than One Way?' Four Views On Salvation in a Pluralistic World. Echoing Billy Graham, who has said, "I respect other paths to God", Leighton Ford declared, "Preach the gospel, but don't be so negative as to refuse to endorse or work with those who belong to a group that proclaims a different gospel". Of course, for the Christian, there are no "other paths to God" and no "different gospels" to be "endorsed". And here is Jerry Falwell posing in a warm hug with Sun Myung Moon after speaking at a plenary session of Moon's "Christian Ecumenism in the Americas" conference in Montevideo, Uruguay. Falwell has called Moon an "unsung hero [to] the cause of freedom" who was "to be commended" for his determination, courage, and endurance in support of his beliefs. In fact, Moon is a cult leader who opposes freedom and whose mind control tactics have enslaved his followers.

And finally from Christianity Today magazine:

Christianity Today
Week of August 6
In Perspective: Why Are Pastors Flying to Moon?

Recent black clergy firings are only the latest chapter in Unification Church's efforts to court Christian leaders.
By Todd Hertz
posted 8/8/01

A Washington Post article reported on July 25 that approximately 35 African-American clergy have been fired or threatened with dismissal after tagging along with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon on his recent "We Will Stand" U.S. tour.The article alleges that the ministers, mostly from the South, "have been voted out of office by church boards that object to any affiliation with Moon." The article has been vehemently denied by a group of involved pastors (including Imani Temple archbishop George A. Stallings, who was married at a Moon mass wedding). This situation may be the boiling point in a mounting unrest over the increasing close ties between Moon's Unification Church and African-American clergy and on on-going mission for Moon.

Moon has found some pretty alluring ways to attract Christians to his cause. And he apparently has the funds to do it. While no exact numbers could be found on the church's worth, Moon-owned properties are connected to The Washington Times and a laundry list of other businesses. He's a regular travel agency with all the trips he's historically given out. And that's not to mention the free gifts as an April Washington Post article pointed out when Moon invited over 300 black clergy members to attend a recent tour stop at Washington, D.C. After his speech, Moon called more than 100 pastors to the stage, and each was presented with a gold Christian Bernard watch. "The gold watches are a personal expression from Reverend Moon, and the gold represents his unchanging love," the Rev.Phillip Schanker, a Moon spokesman, said in an interview.

Schanker said the watches were provided by a Moon-owned business and cost several thousand dollars apiece.Moon's also quite the matchmaker. He has married thousands of couples in his infamous mass weddings-some of them Christian clergy. Stallings, who broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1989 over issues of race,was recently married to a Japanese woman who worked for Moon.But the most publicized of the weddings came in the same ceremony as Roman Catholic Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo took the hand of a South Korean woman Moon provided. The Vatican didn't exactly send a toaster oven because-surprise-the Catholic church doesn't really see eye-to-eye with the whole clergy-getting-married thing.Milingo, the controversial "witch-doctor priest," has been given a deadline to give up his bride or he'll be excommunicated. So far, the archbishop hasn't made any real steps in meeting that ultimatum - such as leaving his new wife or disassociating from Moon. But he has released a public statement and sought an audience with Pope John Paul II.

Yesterday, he met with the Pope. In a letter to the Pope, Milingo wrote, "I know that the action I have taken is both surprising and difficult to understand, but I assure you that I am acting out of my deepest faith in Jesus, and my undying love for the Catholic Church."...Many conservative evangelical speakers have attended Moon-connected rallies including a Family Federation for World Peace event in 1986 where Ralph Reed, Beverly LaHaye, Gary Bauer, and Robert H. Schuller spoke. A 1998 Christianity Today article reported: "Conservatives find Moon attractive because they share many of his moral and political values," says James Beverly, theology and ethics professor at Ontario Theological Seminary. "Those similarities are significant enough that questions of theological differences are put on hold." Beverly, who has studied Moon for two decades, also notes that speakers at such events often have their trips to exotic locales fully financed in addition to receiving generous honorariums. During Moon's tax-evasion trial, frequent rallies were held for "religious freedom."

Well-respected Christian leaders such as Tim LaHaye spoke at these events. LaHaye told Christianity Today at the time: "By no stretch of the imagination does my participation in that rally indicate that I support Reverend Moon's doctrine. Frankly, I don't really know what his doctrine is. But in America, Reverend Moon and Reverend Sileven (Nebraska pastor) and every other religious organization ought to have the freedom to communicate their doctrine within the framework of the law."**

A Moon employee estimated that half of the several thousand pastors attending such a rally in Washington D.C. in 1984 were in attendance on a free ticket. Darrel Malcolm, at the time was senior pastor of Webber Street Church of Christ in Urbana, Illinois."I felt there was a hidden agenda of trying to buy legitimacy (for Moon)within the Christian community," Malcom said in the Christianity Today article. "I am not ready to grant that I do not consider their group Christian."Not all of this evangelical-courting is necessarily in the past. It continues.

While not many Christian leaders may have realized it at the time, Moon sponsored George W. Bush's Inaugural Prayer Luncheon for Unity and Renewal on Jan. 19. More than 1,400 ministers, civic and political leaders attended the event. Moon spoke to the attendees while church members handed out Unification books and pamphlets. Southern Baptist Executive Committee President and Chief Executive Officer Morris H. Chapman told Baptist Press:"I was shocked to see that Sun Myung Moon was on the program and in essence, the host. I was even more surprised on the way out of the banquet hall to be given a propaganda book on the Unification Church.(The experience) will serve to remind evangelical Christians that the world increasingly is filled with wolves in sheep's clothing."And although he is 81-years-old, it seems Moon will continue making headlines with such methods of attracting spiritual leaders to his Unification Movement. In a speech at his 80th birthday celebration he said a union of religions is the only way to prepare for the "last days."

**Note: An interesting side note here. A man by the name of Lon Mabon, was a recent member of Tim LaHaye's CNP. This is a man who truly would never support the unity of various religions at the cost of compromising the faith, neither would he follow these men into the NWO. He held a conservative rally, where a lesbian reporter showed up uninvited and began heckling while there. Mr Mabon asked she be escorted out. She sued both Mabon and the man who escorted her out and was awarded $60,000 between the two. Mr Mabon was subsequently jailed, and to date Tim LaHaye, who rallied for Moon, has yet to put forth the time and energy for this man who truly stood for what LaHaye claims to stand for. Of course it is documented that the Rev. Moon received LaHaye's full support. Also of interest, several people have been banned from the official "Left Behind" website BBS for expressing their religious views in opposition to the doctrines set forth by the pseudo-novel by LaHaye and Jenkins. So much for standing up for religious freedoms!) - Eric Jewell

Final Comments

Jesus told a parable many are familiar with. The parable of the ten virgins. These were bridesmaids who were expecting the coming of the Groom, and were waiting to accompany Him to his wedding. We are told that five of them were wise, and five were foolish and did not prepare themselves by having sufficient oil for their lamps. The next statement though is very revealing... all ten, the wise and the foolish slumbered and slept. He told another parable of the wheat and the tares. The wheat was planted but while the workers slept, an enemy came in and sowed tares (weeds) among the wheat. At the harvest they were separated. It would appear that it is time for those calling themselves "Christian" to wake from their sleep.

I am currently looking for firsthand information concerning the use of evangelical organizations as cover for covert activities in Central America, and nations in Africa or Asia. If you have such info please contact me at sum14hizwrd@tcworks.net . All names etc. will be held in the strictest confidence. Thank you.

Notes & References:

(1) Christianity Today Magazine/ Classic: With Their Leader in Prison, Moonies Pursue Legitimacy. Tim LaHaye and other Christians are helping the Unification Church battle the perceived threat of government intrusion.

By Beth Spring | posted 8/8/01 (This article originally appeared in the September 7, 1984, issue of Christianity Today.) As follows:

But a number of pastors are wary of the Moonies' motives. Darrel Malcom, senior pastor of Webber Street Church of Christ in Urbana, Illinois, accepted an offer for an expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., to attend the massive "Pageant for Religious Freedom" on July 25. He learned of the event from two Unification Church members in Urbana. Their involvement gave him pause, but he says he accepted their invitation because he respects LaHaye. LaHaye is co-chairman of the Coalition on Religious Freedom, the group that sponsored the event. Malcom says he enjoyed the lavish production, but returned home feeling "a little bit used."

"There are some issues we need to be aware of, but I personally do not perceive as great a threat as some who sponsored the rally," he says. "I felt there was a hidden agenda of trying to buy legitimacy [for Moon] within the Christian community. I'm not ready to grant that."

When Malcom returned home, Unification Church members asked him to consider sponsoring a local rally in support of Moon. "They wanted to meet and discuss getting Christians together," he says. "I said I do not consider their group Christian."

Lori Antolock, deputy assistant to Moon's top aide, says half of the several thousand pastors who attended the Washington rally were offered expense paid trips.

The Constitution was Designed to Enslave Us - A Review

2007-08-11T13:00:00.000-07:00

The Constitution was Designed to Enslave Us - A Review

**This is about the book "Hologram of Liberty" by Kenneth Royce (a.k.a. Boston T. Party) with my commentary following.

Hologram of Liberty
The Constitution's Shocking Alliance with Big Government

ABOUT HOLOGRAM OF LIBERTY

Civic Belief #1: The Congress was given few specific powers. All else was left to the States and to the people under the 10th Amendment. Ample checks and balances protect the Republic from federal tyranny.

Civic Belief #2: The Federal Government has become so powerful only because despotic officials have overstepped their strict, constitutional bounds.

If #1 is true, then how did #2 happen?

"The Constitution has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it". Lysander Spooner, No Treason (1870)

Think about that. By either the Constitution's purposeful design or by its unintentional weakness, we suffer under a federal colossus which takes a third of our lives and regulates everything from alfalfa to xylophones. This is Freedom? So, why aren't Americans free? Perhaps we weren't really meant to be!

hol· o· gram (häl' e gram) n. [< Gr. holos, whole + gramma, writing]
2. a document falsely representing itself as an accurate metaphor

lib· er· ty (lib'er tee) n. [< L. liber, free] 1. freedom from slavery

Hologram of Liberty –The Constitution's Shocking Alliance With Big Government – is a cold splash of water on our civic mythology. Hologram's main contention is that the 1787 Convention, its Constitution and Federal Government was the most brilliant and subtle coup d'etat in political history. While the majority of Americans then were Jeffersonian in nature, a few Hamiltonian Federalists eradicated our Swiss-style Confederation and replaced it with a latent leviathan. The Federal Government was given several escape keys to the putative handcuffing by the Constitution. Using the "necessary and proper" and "general welfare" clauses in conjunction with congressional powers under treaty, interstate commerce, and emergency, the "Founding Lawyers" of 1787 purposely designed a constitutional infrastructure guaranteed to facilitate a future federal colossus. While such a massive government was impossible to erect in the freedom-conscious 1780's, the "virus" of tyranny was cunningly hidden within the Constitution to foment the eventual federal behemoth we are burdened with today. The feds take in a third of economic activity and regulate everything from the price of corn to the size of chimneys and it's all constitutional!" Oh, it's only 'constitutional' because autocratic Supreme Court Justices say it is!," some would reply.

Yes, but the Framers allowed the Supreme Court, without any check or balance, to approve of federal encroachment on the States and on the people. There is no constitutional avenue for overturning a despotic Supreme Court ruling – and it was designed that way. The feds are allowed to "monitor" themselves, like students grading their own tests. Had the Framers wanted to really check the Supreme Court, they'd have at least created an appellate court (activated by petition) staffed by justices from the States. Had the Framers wanted to really hamstring Congress and the President, they would have given the people a "no-confidence" device to remove traitorous officials in midterm. Had they wanted to, the Framers could have (as did the Swiss) easily confined the Federal Government – but they didn't want to. In their opinion, a strong central government – independent of real popular approval – was best for America. The Framers left the federal fleas in control of their own flea powder, and that's why we have such an unchallengeable government today.

Most conservatives and libertarians believe that the Constitution and its Framers were Jeffersonian and laissez-faire. They were not, and they never claimed to be. This Jeffersonian gloss is echoic of two things: 1) What the Constitution was sold as to the people through The Federalist, and 2) How the Constitution, according to Jefferson, should have been interpreted under strict constructionism. Add the Red, White, and Blue, July 4th, the Founding Fathers and George Washington and you've got a civic religion with its unique parchment worship. There are but three ways to view anything, including the Constitution:

* The way you see it.
* The way you would like it to be.
* The way it really is.

Friends of freedom have gazed dreamily at the Constitution for two centuries, fusing #1 with #2 to create a false #3. We need to snap out of our parchment worship and coldly study the predicament of Liberty--before it's too late. Liberty-loving folks need to quickly understand that freedom is not well-served by the current Constitution. Neither is tyranny. It is Royce's firm opinion that the Constitution will be radically amended, if not abolished altogether, by "us" or "them" within 10 years. Royce proves that the States and the people were politically "checkmated" at ratification, and discusses his three peaceful solutions prior the imminent insurrection now brewing. The goal of Hologram of Liberty is to spark an active synthesis of Libertarians, Patriots, and Conservatives to prevent a 21st century Dark Age in America.

There hasn't been an innovative theory about the Constitution in 84 years, since Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation. We are long overdue for a paradigm shift to political reality. It's time to complete the story with Hologram of Liberty, the Jeffersonian/anti-federalist epilogue. Our window of opportunity for reestablishing freedom is quickly running out and we simply don't have time for comforting old fantasies. Hologram of Liberty is the freshest research on the Constitution since 1913.

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My commentary:
A hologram is something ephemeral that only appears to be solid. It is Kenneth Royce's contention that the US Constitution itself - revered by many - is just that: a mere hologram of liberty. Whether that idea shocks you or disgusts you is immaterial to the facts that are set out, one by one and chapter after chapter, to prove this point.

I picked up this book with some skepticism and a little trepidation. I've long been something of a fan of the Constitution and, though I'm no expert, I certainly have more knowledge about it than the average American does. But the research behind "Hologram of Liberty" was so extensive and with such attention to detail that I learned new things in every chapter. I also, largely against my will, found myself convinced that appearances are truly deceiving.

The beginning of the book is devoted to history. Writings by the founding fathers as well as excerpts from news reports of the day are mingled with segments of the Constitution and quotes from the Federalist Papers. With the evidence at hand and directly from participants and witnesses of the Constitutional Convention, Royce makes his case, and I believe its a compelling one. He says that his research has led him to conclude that "the Constitution and the Federal Government was the most protracted coup d'etat in history" and I have to agree.

In the later chapters, Royce discusses the present day and describes how the Constitution is applied. More importantly I think, he offers suggestions as to how we might "make happier arrangements, while we still have at least our Bill of Rights."

"Hologram of Liberty " is at times difficult to follow (I occasionally found myself re-reading certain paragraphs) due in no small part to the eloquent and slightly archaic English commonly used two centuries ago. But Royce's ability to distill information and to explain in simple terms various codicils and caveats is invaluable to those who want to learn more about the Constitution, its true intent, and just how our Government got from there to here in two hundred years.

Now that I've read "Hologram of Liberty" in its entirety, it's only served a small part of its intended purpose. As Royce so delicately puts it, "For over 200 years, we've been in blind love with an apparition, a hologram of liberty." Now that the blinders are off, I plan to keep the book readily at hand on my bookshelf.
I believe that the Constitution was written not with the intention of creating a free society, but to create a political system of an ever-expanding Federal Government at the expense of individual rights and state prerogatives. In other words, it was designed to ultimately enslave us. America was never meant to be a TRULY free nation, just one of a hologram of freedom. As I've said before, the worst enslavement is the one in which you believe you are free but aren't.

Get this book you will NOT regret it.

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The Secrets of the Matrix

2007-08-11T12:55:00.000-07:00

The Secrets of the Matrix by David Icke

For those of you who haven't been introduced to the incredible David Icke here is his fantastic live presentation called "The Secrets of the Matrix". Its long. It is a six hour presentation, but it is worth every moment of your time. The sound is a little dull, so you may want to turn it up just a bit. And yes, he does talk about the reptilians in this presentation. ; )

I also put another David Icke video on my page called The Robots Rebellion, which is much shorter, but just as good if you are interested.

Secrets of the Matrix Part 1

Secrets of the Matrix Part 2

Secrets of the Matrix Part 3

His website: http://www.davidicke.com/index.php/

The Inner World of the Occult

2007-08-11T12:50:00.000-07:00

The Inner World of the Occult by Jordan Maxwell

Truly AMAZING information.

Skinwalker Ranch - The Weirdest, Most Paranormal Place in the U.S.

2007-08-11T12:38:00.000-07:00

Skinwalker Ranch - The Weirdest, Most Paranormal Place in the U.S.

This is worth the listen, I promise. This was an Art Bell (Coast to Coast AM) radio interview. Absoluately amazing. I've been keeping track of this for years.

http://www.amazon.com/Hunt-Skinwalker-Science-Confronts-Unexplained/dp/1416505210/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-8391852-4716719?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186861151&sr=8-1

Skinwalker Ranch & Area 51
Investigative journalist George Knapp and researcher Colm Kelleher discussed their book Hunt for the Skinwalker, which chronicles bizarre paranormal events that were scientifically studied at a ranch in Utah. During the period of 1996-7 strange incidents were occurring frequently and included the sightings of anomalous dark shapes, creatures, lights and UFOs, as well as unexplained animal mutilations, recounted Kelleher (who appeared in just the first hour of the interview).

Kelleher told of one event that took place in August of 1997, in which two workers from NIDS (National Institute for Discovery Science) witnessed a dull yellow light on the ranch that was close to the ground and growing bigger and bigger. One of the workers viewed the light through night vision/infrared equipment and saw what could not be seen with the naked eye. A tunnel of light was opening up, and a large muscular humanoid entity with no facial features crawled out of it, and then vanished. The two workers investigated the area and found no trace of the being, though there was a strong smell of sulfur.

Knapp suggested that the events at the ranch (which continue to this day) may have a "dimensional" aspect to them, as though the area is a "portal" of some sort. In fact, he reported that the previous ranch owner, Tom Gorman, described seeing a sun-like sphere from which objects came and went, and that he could see another sky behind the sphere. Knapp also shared details of his many years investigating ufology as a television journalist, including the Bob Lazar/Area 51 story, which he first brought to public attention 18 years ago. Lazar, he believes, is telling the truth as he knows it.
http://www.huntfortheskinwalker.com/
http://www.colmkelleher.com/

False christian conversion video - Please watch!

2007-08-11T12:35:00.000-07:00

False christian conversion video - Please watch!

Derren Brown's False Christian Conversion Video.

This goes on throughout the world by "evangelists" and other christians, though most of them do this without the knowledge that it is mind control. Please understand that all "church meetings", "church services", and "revivals" are all hypnotist stage shows. ALL of them. When people sit in the pews or chairs in a "gospel" setting, they unknowingly give themselves over to be hypnotized. This is a MAJOR way how we all become programmed thinking that the bible and jesus is true.

Part 1

Part 2

Commentary of the Videos:

Ayahuasca, Spiritual Cleansing, Enlightenment, and Change

2007-08-11T12:30:00.000-07:00

Ayahuasca, Spiritual Cleansing, Enlightenment, and Change

Hello everyone,

After watching the DVD, "The Pharmacratic Inquisition 2007" I have been very interested in Amanita muscaria (the mushroom), its effects on the mind and consciousness, and basically wanting to experience it myself. I have never tried any "drugs" my entire life, including pot, so I have nothing to compare an experience of DMT (the active alkaloid). After researching on the web I came across what is known as Ayahuasca. Wow. Again I say...wow.

So I've been looking into this amazing plant drink used by the Amazonian Rainforest Shamans. In doing so I found this wonderful blog by Bernhard (http://www.myspace.com/bguenther) called "Ayahuasca and Machu Picchu" and wanted to share it with you all. Please read it. It is amazing. One of my main goals now is to go on a journey like Bernard and experience the healing and consciousness-opening effects of Ayahuasca. Here is the blog:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=2065889&blogID=162771346

Ayahuasca and Machu Picchu

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Ayahuasca and Machu Picchu

So it's been about three weeks since I came back from Peru. It took me some time to re-adjust and I'm still "there", not in Peru but in that state of mind I've experienced on my ayahuasca journey on the last weekend in Peru.
It's very interesting, to say the least. I knew the journey (inner and outer) would be profound but it was beyond my expectations and the transformation I've gone through seems more far-reaching than I can intellectually grasp at this point.
It is as if my whole being has been re-arranged from the inside out, as I'm floating on this cloud of complete contentment and love and being very grounded at the same time.

It was a group of total 12 people plus the group leader Hala, an excellent yoga teacher...which makes it a total of 13 people, a sacred number by "coincidence". We flew over Lima to Cusco, then we got picked up by a bus who took us to a little village close to Pisaq called Calca. That's where the retreat was, hidden in the sacred valley, protected by the majestic Andes and a beautiful waterfall. The energy of this place was breathtaking. It took me a couple of days to get adjusted to the altitude but after that I was just in a continuous state of awe. The retreat is owned by the wonderful Mama Kia, a native american woman in her late sixties, who came to Peru 8 years ago, realized that no one was taking care of the many homeless and parentless children in the villages outside of Cusco and decided to take care of them. Through her vision, intent and dedication she raised money, got support and built an orphanage just outside of Calca. Today about 30 children live on this beautiful estate.
The retreat, where we stayed at, is a couple of miles away from the orphanage and serves as an income source for the homeless kids.
It also is a beautiful place with the main house, a huge garden, and big Teepees where we slept. For ten days, every day, we did yoga in the morning, had organic vegetarian food (straight form the garden, homegrown) cooked by Kia's daughter Leisha and went on hikes to the different sacred sites in the valle sagrado de los incas.
We all spent one day at the orphanage with the kids and I got to play soccer with them, which they loved. Some of the boys' rooms looked like mine used to look, with posters of soccer players all over. The kids especially dig Rhonaldinio and Eto from FC Barcelona these days.
Mama Kia is also the midwife for Woody Harrelson's children and he is one of the main sponsors of the orphanage.

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Then there is Machu Picchu. Well, what can I say, one has to see and experience it in order to grasp the intensity and magic of it. We stayed two days there. The first day we got up at 4am and hiked up to Machu Picchu at night. It was a full moon. It took us about 3 hours , quite a steep and tough hike, and we reached Machu Picchu right at sunrise.
The whole two days at Machu Picchu are beyond words for me. Mama Kia hooked us up with the local Shaman, who gave us the non-tourist tour, leading us to sacred sites in the jungle close to Machu Picchu, performing rituals in the honor of Pacha Mama (one ceremony including chanting and prayers to honor Mother Earth lasted for two hours and was one of the most touching experiences I ever had), talking about the Inca prophecies, the time of transformation we're in right now, hinting at the similarities to the Mayan culture, the "moving lights" at night over Machu Picchu, how the Inca's were looking for the 4th dimension, and other mysteries the official tour guides don't dare to talk about, as it would disturb the official crap we get spoon fed in school. No doubt this ancient culture was far more sophisticated than mainstream archaeology likes to make us believe. One just needs to look at the ruins and with a little background in sacred geometry and understanding the power of vortexes one realizes that Machu Picchu (however they built it...a mystery in itself) wasn't built by the Inca's because of the nice view.
Time didn't make sense while being there. It didn't seem to pass at all. Everything slowed down. I found some nice spots in the ruins, off the path (and surely not allowed), for meditation. Again, I cannot put into words the energy and power, the love and bliss I experienced during this time. My pendulum was circling in the biggest circles I've ever seen it move, confirming the high energy of this place.
Cucho, our shaman, also does San Pedro ceremonies on full moons at Machu Picchu. Hala, our group leader, did it last year she was there. Of course it is officially not allowed to be at Machu Picchu at night, but there are ways to hide out until the guards are gone and then meet up again and perform the ritual in the Temple of the Moon. San Pedro on Machu Picchu at a full moon sounds like an experience I surely want to do when I'm back again. However , this time, we decided against it, since we were having our Ayahuasca ceremony in a couple of days.

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After ten days of yoga, organic vegetarian food and meditating at sacred sites, the night of our ayahuasca ceremony has finally arrived. Everyone was excited (and nervous) to say the least. Some of the people who decided to do it never even had smoked pot before. Diego, our shaman took his time to explain to everyone the "basics". First and all he said, Ayahuasca is a medicine, nothing more or less, a powerful one, but it's that, a medicine, and used for healing, deep healing. He went over the details of the ceremony and then everybody had time to talk to Diego personal, ask him questions, etc. When I sat down to talk to him, the most striking aspect about him were his eyes, I've never seen eyes of such depth and light. There were no boundaries or walls, no pretense or judgment, just pure love was coming trough them. I've never seen eyes of such openness. It was breath taking.
I tried not to get lost in them and told him a bit about my experiences on psilocybin and DMT, which he commented :" DMT is fun but it only lasts about five minutes. How about five hours of of that journey?".....only later would I understand the intensity of that comment.

Then it was time. It was evening around 9pm and we went into the Teepee close to the waterfall. Everyone got blankets and sleeping bags (the nights are cold in Peru, especially on an altitude of 12000 feet). Diego and his wife Milagros (their baby was sleeping in the main house) conducted the ceremony. We all sat against the wall of the Tee pee, a bucket (for obvious reasons) next to each of us. He lit up a candle, saying the ceremony starts when he blows off the candle and it is over when he lights it again.
One by one everyone came up to Diego as he looked into one's eyes and then decided the amount he would pour into the cup. I was second to last. Again, when I looked into his eyes, there was this profound connection I felt. I nodded and so did he as he filled up my cup.......all the way to the top.
I made my intentions for the journey. It took a lot of gulps to finish it all. To my surprise I didn't think the taste was that bad. However, at his suggestion, I chew a coca leaf right afterwards as I made my way back to my place. After the last person got the medicine he blew out the candle. And so we were all sitting there in complete darkness, waiting for the effects to come in.
At first, as usual in my in my entheogenic sessions, I didn't feel anything for the first half hour, wondering if I got the right dose. The ego being un-patient. Meanwhile it starts to hit the ones who got the medicine first.
One of the girls starts moaning and crying in quite a disturbing way, the sounds she was making where quite sexual in a way, in a dark twisted way. No doubt she was confronting her shadow as the medicine worked through her. At this point Diego started playing his guitar and he and his wife sang the ayahuasca songs which are songs of love and healing. Next thing I hear is the girl throwing up into her bucket, but it was not your usual throw-up. The sounds she was making were otherworldly and deep, as if she was possessed by an entity which was being exorcised. Slowly everyone started to feel the medicine and other people (in particular the women) started to moan, throw up and let the medicine do its work. I'm usually not used to do these journeys with so many people and many of them processing intensely, so I felt a bit uneasy, thinking "this is going get nuts, especially the ones who have never experienced anything like that before". Still , the medicine had no effect on me yet. I needed to take a leak, so I stepped outside the Teepee. The moment I got up I felt it hitting me hard. Very unexpected. It was difficult to walk but I made it outside. As the ayahuasca brew was working through my body, the universe opened up and looking at the stars was breathtaking as they morphed into geometric patterns. I looked at the plants and they literally seemed to look at me. I could see and feel their aliveness, their consciousness. I had to piss very badly. I saw this rock and it was very much alive. Pardon me, I said, but I need to take a leak and as I released as it hit me even more. The plants seemed to move and turn at me, observing me. The stillness was breathtaking. It came on stronger and stronger. Finally I felt it deep inside and I started to gag. Here we go, I thought, as I purged and threw up. However, the most amazing thing happened. Nothing physical came out, no substance. Instead I saw energy coming out my mouth, energy in form of huge, oversized, bizarre insects. One by one they fell onto the ground and dissolved. After the purge I felt so relieved, as if I've let go of a huge weight. I felt energized. The medicine became stronger and stronger. Slowly I made my way back to the Teepee, to the sounds of cleansing and moaning of ecstasy and shadow work. Not being able to stand anymore, I crawled to my spot, covered myself in my blanket and closed my eyes, listening to the beautiful music and voice of Diego and Milagros. Their songs served like a save harbor to listen to if one gets lost in the ayahuasca world. So far the journey felt quite familiar. Having done DMT (the psychoactive Substance in Ayahuasca) in the past, the visuals and the feeling felt familiar, however, it was more intense and it became stronger and stronger. I remember Diego responding to my DMT experiences "how about five hours of that experience?". All of a sudden I realized, almost in panic, the weight of that statement. Five hours? Am I going to be able to handle this? Five minutes, no problem, but five hours?
As the medicine worked on me and in me, I got pushed out far into hyperspace, loosing complete control and sensation of my physical body, only experiencing myself as pure energy floating in this universe of colors and shapes, all of them projecting a higher intelligence, almost like an extraterrestrial intelligence that guided me through this maze. At one point it seemed I had a blackout and felt like it was getting too much, too much to handle. Fear set in. Not a good thing. All of a sudden there was fear of not coming back, of finally having crossed over for good and staying in this confused sate of mind, which I can only describe as a psychedelic hurricane.
However, my past experiences on DMT and psilocybin have taught me to find the way back. So I was able to look at that fear more objectively and there I could see that it was up to me to create the experience, just as we creat our own reality. It was a fine line between giving into fear and panic or just to let go and ride it out, surrender to whatever may come. I was able to choose the latter. It was a conscious choice. The second I did, I started gagging again, as I grabbed my bucket and purged loudly. Again, no physical substance came out but I saw blocks of energy dropping into my bucket. I felt so relieved and took a deep breath , letting it out with a sigh. Whatever was inside of me giving me a hard time has been released. I regained myself, the intensity lessened a bit and I could relax into it, feeling the medicine working through me from the toes to my head and back and through. It came in waves. The intelligence of it was profound, as if I was being examined, broken apart and re-arranged, molecule by molecule. The visuals were so beautiful, like nothing I've ever seen before.
And then Mama Kia started to sing, one of her native american songs. Her voice was so beautiful, and the words (although I didn't understand them) touched me on a deep level, soothing me and guiding me through my healing process. I felt deep love emanating form my heart center, spreading over my whole body and from that moment I was in a sate of complete bliss, love and ecstasy for the next four hours. I was able to open my eyes, looking at the geometric spheres dancing in front of me. I looked across the room to Mama Kia and she was covered in layers of light, each of them a different color and density it seemed. As she was singing, colors were coming out of her mouth. Her face was covered with inca-like patterns and there were geometric spheres (resembling different forms of Metatron's Cube) hovering over her head and in front of her third eye. As I looked at her in awe and with love I realized that she resembled the archetype of a mother, pachamama in human form, pure feminine nurturing energy. It was quite profound and the love I experienced was almost too much to handle. I was warm, the heat was coming from within. I didn't need a blanket and it was about 40 degrees Fahrenheit. For the next hours I just soaked in the ocean of bliss to the songs by Diego, Milagros and Mama Kia, as I hummed along, just enjoying Being.
The moaning and darker episodes slowly vanished as well and we all met in the light. After 4 hours, as the medicine slowly lessened in intensity, Diego lit the candle, officially ending the ceremony.
Most of us were still "there" as we embraced each other with hugs and kisses and laid cuddled together for another couple of hours.
Funny thing was, for me it just didn't end. I never felt I was coming down. Even when we went to the main house and others started eating, food was the furthest away from my mind. Each time I closed my eyes, I could transport myself back to that visual maze. I did some yoga which felt like heaven and helped to move the energy around. Finally I got to embrace Diego and thanked him for the ceremony. He told me about his different Ayahuasca recipes and how to extract Mescaline from the San Pedro cactus as well has his experience of an ayahuasca experience in the jungle where they do five times ayahuasca in seven days on a special diet. No playing around there. While he was telling me that I still was pretty much tripping, even hours after the ceremony was over. He then told me, not to my surprise, that he has given me, himself and his wife the strongest dose. No wonder I was not "back" yet.
And I didn't really wanted to come back either...lol!....well....what can I say, I kinda got what I wished for, because ever since that journey, even three weeks after it, I still feel the medicine, no visuals or that intense. However, this deep feeling of contentment and love is still within me and I feel energized, having been healed on a very deep level. I also feel very connected to nature, like never before. Animals seem to come up to me even more trusting than before. I always had a good relationship with the animal kingdom, but this time the connection seems even more apparent.
Many people who took part at the ceremony feel the same, as we kept in touch afterwards, some even look physical younger, with lesser wrinkles, seriously.
Diego said that one good ayahuasca ceremony is worthwhile 50 years of psychotherapy work. No kidding. It's like a re-birth. And it's not like the western approach of medicine where everyone is looking for the "happy pill"
Ayahuasca is work, deep work and one will get confronted with his/her shadow and Unconscious. But that is true healing, as Carl Gustav Jung puts it :
"One doesn't become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious".

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So I'm back here in beautiful Topanga, under the trees, next to a creek, watching some Coyote puppies play with each other and a raccoon family climbing up the tree next to my house. I'm grateful to be alive, for this life, for this experience. I'm looking forward to apply what I've learned and experienced into my work as a healer and bodyworker. The people I've worked on so far already noticed change in my energy, as I'm giving my best let the medicine work through them as well.
Funny thing is, I don't miss Peru that much. It seems whatever I experienced there is within me, no matter where I am. But in any way, I made great friends over there and I'll be back next year, looking forward to learn more from Diego and ayahuasca, to see Mama Kia again (she'll be in LA in November for a fundraiser) and do some volunteer work at the orphanage, playing soccer with the wonderful kids.
On a note, the people I've met over there, the locals and families are the nicest and humblest human beings I have encountered in a long time.
Simple and what we would consider "poor" in materialistic terms, however rich in love and very content. Not that they don't have their own problems and set back, however, their whole live is based on the connection to mother earth, pachamama, and that alone takes care of most the problems we face in the "modern" world. Instead of forcing on them our world view, we should come back from our ego horse of "knowing better" and learn from them.
And ayahuasca is a powerful teacher. I can only recommend to take some lessons from her. She's a female, no doubt.

I feel this song by TOOL summarizes the medicine journey we all went through, for some more intense than for others.

"My shadow's shedding skin I've been picking my scabs again.
I've been crawling on my belly clearing out what could've been I've been wallowing in my own chaotic and insecure delusions.

I wanna feel the change consume me, feel the outside turning in.
I wanna feel the metamorphosis and cleansing I've endured within my shadow. Change is coming. Now is my time. Listen to my muscle memory.
Contemplate what I've been clinging to. Forty-six and two ahead of me.

I choose to live and to grow, take and give and to move, learn and love and to cry, kill and die and to be paranoid and to lie, hate and fear and to do what it takes to move through.
I choose to live and to lie, kill and give and to die, learn and love and to do what it takes to step through.

See my shadow changing, stretching up and over me soften this old armor. hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me."

-TOOL "46&2"

for more pics go to http://bernhardguenther.com/Peru2006/Peru2006.html

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Comments from MySpace:

kevin:

Wow! You continue to amaze me! I love what you`re doing! Thank you SO much!

Queen of Night:

Yes, she is female! And let me tell you, if you get to do Ayahuasca, make sure you do some cleansing before hand and go into it with as clear a body as possible...otherwise she'll kick your ass. The clearer you are psychically and physically, the deeper she can penetrate and awaken you on a DNA level. By far the greatest teacher and mirror I've ever had is this medicine.

Graham Hancock and Ayahuasca on Coast to Coast AM

2007-08-11T12:18:00.000-07:00

Graham Hancock and Ayahuasca on Coast to Coast AM

This interview is HIGHLY recommended.

Researcher and author Graham Hancock presented his thesis that "supernatural" entities such as aliens and fairies are actually transdimensional beings that humans encounter during altered states of consciousness. The ability to shape-shift has been ascribed to both modern aliens as well as elves and other entities reported centuries ago, he detailed.

Around 35,000 to 40,000 years ago humans underwent a sudden change, and the emergence of cave and rock paintings are evidence of this, said Hancock, who noted that some of their depictions were of part human/part animal beings. He believes these represent the supernatural entities, and through altered states (probably due to ingesting psilocybin mushrooms) humans learned advanced skills from their encounters with these beings.

Nowadays, shamans commonly have such altered state communications. They feel humanity is at a crossroads-- the West has lost contact with the spirit world, and many of the world's woes are due to this, Hancock reported. As part of his experiential research, he traveled to South America and took the psychedelic plant mixture ayahuasca. During one such episode, he described a confrontation with an alien being, but rather than being an extraterrestrial, he suggested it inhabits another dimension that can only be accessed during an altered state.
http://www.grahamhancock.com/
http://www.coasttocoastam.com
http://www.amazon.com/DMT-Molecule-Revolutionary-Near-Death-Experiences/dp/0892819278/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-0220253-0222020?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180852392&sr=1-1

Graham Hancock - Part 1

Graham Hancock - Part 2

Graham Hancock - Part 3

Graham Hancock - Part 4

Graham Hancock - Part 5

Graham Hancock - Part 6

Graham Hancock - Part 7

Graham Hancock and Ayahuasca on Coast to Coast AM
Current mood: mellow
Category: Life

This interview is HIGHLY recommended.

Researcher and author Graham Hancock presented his thesis that "supernatural" entities such as aliens and fairies are actually transdimensional beings that humans encounter during altered states of consciousness. The ability to shape-shift has been ascribed to both modern aliens as well as elves and other entities reported centuries ago, he detailed.

Around 35,000 to 40,000 years ago humans underwent a sudden change, and the emergence of cave and rock paintings are evidence of this, said Hancock, who noted that some of their depictions were of part human/part animal beings. He believes these represent the supernatural entities, and through altered states (probably due to ingesting psilocybin mushrooms) humans learned advanced skills from their encounters with these beings.

Nowadays, shamans commonly have such altered state communications. They feel humanity is at a crossroads-- the West has lost contact with the spirit world, and many of the world's woes are due to this, Hancock reported. As part of his experiential research, he traveled to South America and took the psychedelic plant mixture ayahuasca. During one such episode, he described a confrontation with an alien being, but rather than being an extraterrestrial, he suggested it inhabits another dimension that can only be accessed during an altered state.
http://www.grahamhancock.com/
http://www.coasttocoastam.com
http://www.amazon.com/DMT-Molecule-Revolutionary-Near-Death-Experiences/dp/0892819278/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-0220253-0222020?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180852392&sr=1-1

Graham Hancock - Part 1

Graham Hancock - Part 2

Graham Hancock - Part 3

Graham Hancock - Part 4

Graham Hancock - Part 5

Graham Hancock - Part 6

Graham Hancock - Part 7

Graham Hancock - Part 8

Graham Hancock - Part 9

Graham Hancock - Part 10

Graham Hancock - Part 11

Graham Hancock - Part 12

Derren Brown - Amazing Manipulation of Minds

2007-08-11T12:15:00.000-07:00

Derren Brown - Amazing Manipulation of Minds

This is awesome. This shows you the power of words and how easily we can be manipulated or fooled. Take what you see here and apply it to the news, relationships, and religion. Makes you think twice on how we can be wooed into something. Someone can make you think that something was your idea when it was actually theirs. This is just another example of a type of mind control. Most of us don't even realize this even happens to us when it does. This is one of the reasons why christianity and religion is so successful in capturing minds.

A more personal blog

2007-08-11T12:05:00.000-07:00

A more personal blog

I don't normally post very personal blogs, and I usually don't for a reason. I am a very private person, a true Cancer you might say. This is very true. But I want to share my heart a little with anyone who happens to read this.

I think I am ready now to finally open myself to being in a relationship. As some of you know I am divorced. As these things go I experienced a hurt so deep with a loss of a Love and I don't want to come close to experiencing that again. And even though I do not want to hurt again I am willing to try. I want to meet this incredible woman who I've only met in my dreams. Not out of neediness or dependency on my part, but out of that deep desire for a love profound. That connectedness with someone that goes deeper than words can convey.

In many ways I can closely identify with the X-Files character of Fox Mulder, not only in my own passionate search for truth and answers throughout my own life, but in his incredible love for Scully. Even though it is a fictional thing, it resonates within me. I can say that I am a Mulder searching for my Scully. Not for someone perfect or blameless, but someone who is wonderful.

Its funny, even though I am not into comics or big into movies based on comics I also find myself deeply identifying with both V (from V for Vendetta) and Batman. I know that seems silly and maybe even trite, but I think its because they both have suffered deeply in life in their own ways and have sought to help the
innocent not to suffer the pain they endured as well as seeking to free the world from injustice and control. That is who I am. Unfortunately they have to wear a mask to do this and I feel that I have my own mask as well. I know that I have some gifts that are extraordinary and in some ways I hide them, figuratively speaking, behind a mask and a cape. There is a measure of comfort and security in that I think, at least for me. I do not want to hide behind a mask to protect myself, especially in a relationship. I won't make that mistake twice.

As strange as this may seem, I am publicly stepping out with this little blog. One never knows, it is possible that someday I might meet my Scully though something like MySpace. Time will tell.

In closing I just want to say that it feels good to "open up" and share something personal with those of you who graciously take the time to read my little blogs. You guys are really great.

Peace and Light,

John
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Comments from MySpace:

Moonflower:

I can truly identify with what you are saying in this blog John. This is one of the reasons why I vowed to say what I want to say in my blogs because I spent way too much energy hiding rather than choosing to honor my thoughts and feelings. Just writing my simple little blogs has cost me the acceptance of my family because their acceptance always depended upon walking around on egg shells to keep their fantasy world alive. Although I lost them I have gained so many other people whom intrigue and inspire me. Although I will always have many things I keep private I have experienced so much freedom from just opening up in my blogs,it kind of says to the world yeah this is what I think and feel take it or leave it.

Your blogs have been truly educational and enjoyable for me. I appreciate your willingness to get your messages out into the world. I always felt from the first time I saw a comment from you on Chandler's page that you were someone of worth. This is not to stroke your ego but more to say I recognize a beautiful energy about you. A flame that promises to burn for those who still need it.

~JeNeY~:

The passion you have for wanting to help 'the innocent' is amazing. I don't know if I'm 'innocent' but I was (and still am in many ways) ignorant. You have helped me in many many ways in this short time that I've known you, through your writings and your thoughtful advice. It's great to see you opening up personally in this blog.

Thanks for everything,

-Jenny

Ghost Hunting and Parapsychology - Is there a difference?

2007-08-11T11:58:00.000-07:00

Ghost Hunting and Parapsychology - Is there a difference?

Since my previous blog on Paranormal Investigation Groups was posted I've received several emails from folks who seemed agitated by this blog, stating that they don't need to be "professionals" or have a degree to "hunt ghosts." They do it because they enjoy it and its who they are. And I totally agree. You don't have to have a degree in parapsychology or have some certification to search for ghosts. And it is completely fine to do so if you enjoy this.
This has urged me to focus some light on this topic of ghost hunting. My main concern with ghost hunting in general and ghost hunting groups in particular is its high level of missing knowledge, especially where the field of Parapsychology is concerned. There seems to be a general ignorance that ghost hunting or ghosts, hauntings and poltergeists have anything to do with Parapsychology. This is odd, because it is Parapsychology that created this field and defined the phenomena in the first place. Parapsychology has pioneered the investigative techniques (and technology used), and has been on the cutting edge of paranormal and psychical research for over a hundred years. With this being the case, you would think that those who are truly interested in investigating the unexplained and take it seriously (that is, its not just an infrequent hobby) would be avid students of Parapsychology and its research, but sadly this just is not the case.
Why do I feel the need to address this? Do I have a degree in Parapsychology? No I don't, nor do I presently have any "Paranormal Investigation Certification". It concerns me because I take this seriously and I desire to know all that can be known about Psi and the paranormal.
I believe that there are many people who are also very serious about the paranormal, but just have not been challenged to think through things. Freethinking is what I am about...thinking through things thoroughly, being a constant student and ever learning, even if it hurts. I just want to challenge all of us "ghost hunters" to think and not to be lazy. Its easy to do. Its easy to go down to Barnes and Noble and pick up one or two books on ghosts and paranormal investigations by a self proclaimed "expert" in the field and feel like you know most of what you need to know about these matters. If you are really serious you may have five or six books on the paranormal, are a dedicated member of a local ghost hunting group and have been actively investigating for several years with up to fifteen or twenty investigations under your belt. Which is great. Yet, do you continue to grow and learn? Are you willing to learn and research and gain knowledge even if it goes against the current beliefs or position of your ghost hunting group? Are you dedicated to truth or to being accepted and looked up to? That, I believe, is the real issue.
There are many wonderful folks with fantastic intentions that are experienced ghost hunters and leaders in the paranormal investigation community. Yet here is my question for the leaders of groups like T.A.P.S.: Is your dedication to ghost hunting to really find truth or to be well regarded for your hard work and admired as being an "expert" in your field? I mean, who wouldn't want that? Would you be willing to lay down your positions in these groups or change your group's stance if you found out that you were propagating unscientific or misinformation about ghosts and hauntings? Would you change or would you seek to justify yourself and turn a deaf ear to better and more scientific information?
Unfortunately this is what I have seen in many of the ghost hunting communities. Truth and scientific fact many times ends up taking a back seat to the excitement of the hunt, the thrill of the unexplained, and becoming an "expert" in the field. Its a hard thing to be an "expert" and then change your position to become more inline with the scientific research if you are wrong. You loose friends and have descention, groups split and reputations are ruined, a lot of hard work is lost. Its easier to ignore the science and continue on than to run the risk of change.
To some degree many of the larger ghost hunting groups have become like churches. Governed by a core group of experienced "elders" who do not take well to being asked too many questions. The less experienced members take their orders and training from the "elders" and generally follow the direction and beliefs of the group without the need to question. The "elders" are the most knowledgeable and have no need of being challenged by less knowledgeable underlings. If there is conflict with or unwelcomed questioning of the leaders then you are disciplined or removed from the group. I've seen this happen first hand many times.
What I am getting at here is that many ghost hunting groups base their knowledge and understanding of ghosts, apparitions, hauntings, poltergeists and other unexplained phenomena on information other than the cutting-edge scientific research of parapsychology. This is attune to Christian churches using something other than the bible for their understanding of God. Paranormal Investigations SHOULD be based on science, not the writings of a self-proclaimed expert on the paranormal.
Can anyone fault me for being a stickler for science in a field like the paranormal? Why is this important? Because science creates a standard of knowledge, especially with regards to the unexplained. Could you imagine a Physicist ignoring the principles of science and writing a book based more on feelings and half-baked ideas than from hard science? Absolutely not. What makes us any different? The very fact that most paranormal investigators, whether leaders or not, have very little knowledge of parapsychology, its history and its research (past, present and where its going), is sad. Especially since it was Parapsychologists who began paranormal investigations in the first place.
Do I believe that Parapsychologists today are the real "experts" of the ghost hunting community? Yes I do. So am I saying that if you are not a Parapsychologist that you can never be an "expert" in paranormal investigations, regardless how many years of study and investigation you've put in? No, certainly not, but if your investigations and studies have not been based on the founding science of Parapsychology, then how can you rightfully consider yourself or anyone else an "expert" in the field? Think about this.
Loyd Auerbach, director of The Office of Paranormal Investigations, and one of the leading Parapsychologists in the world has a "Certificate Course in Parapsychological Studies" http://www.mindreader.com/paraprogram/ that one can take if one so desires. To my knowledge this is the only Parapsychological course available in the United States. I have not been through the course, but have heard great things about it. I am not trying to sell the course, just putting the information out there for others to consider.
I believe that if you are serious about paranormal investigations, desire to see uniformity and high standards of investigation throughout the ghost hunting community, and to truly know and prove that there is life after death, then continuing the way we are going is actually causing more harm than good. Study the works by accredited Parapsychologists. We need to lay our knowledge of the paranormal on the foundation of science instead of something inferior. If the books that we have read on paranormal investigations are not either written by Parapsychologists or is heavily based on parapsychology then we need to look elsewhere. I am not saying that other works are useless, but we need a standard to measure the information by and that standard should be science. Using high-tech, state-of-the-art technology during investigations is NOT science and does not make you an expert in the field regardless of how expensive it may be or how much technology you use.
How can I say that shows like "Ghost Hunters" on the Sci-Fi Channel promotes fear-based sensationalism and ignorance? Because it is not based on the science of Parapsychology. How do I know this? Just by watching the show and their explanations of the phenomena. Its a shame and a disservice to the field of paranormal investigation. Sure everyone likes to be scared and enjoys the thrill of brushes with the unexplained in a dark basement, but this should not be the sole rationale of paranormal investigation groups. We can still have the rush of coming face to face with a ghost, but having the tools of real science to propel us forward
instead of running in place or even backwards is what we should all be about.
I have a real love for the paranormal, paranormal investigation/ghost hunter groups, and even the thrill of touching the unexplained in the dead of night, and this is why I write what I have in this blog. We have gone far enough without the light of real science to guide our way. Remember, question everything. Leave no stone unturned. This is part of the adventure and if your leaders or the "experts" you look up to have said little or nothing about Parapsychology then ask them why that is. Do the research and educate yourself and you will be amazed at the difference between being a follower of half-baked unscientific information and holding a hundred years of cutting-edge research of real science in your hand.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

John

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Comments from MySpace:

Loyd Auerbach:

Excellent blog, John.

"Ghost hunting" is part of what parapsychologists have long called "spontaneous case investigations." There is a rich history of investigations, methodology, findings and theories within the literature in and around the field of Parapsychology (and its precursor, psychical research) seemingly ignored by ghost hunters. More than 125 years of history and material.

Beyond that, the connections between ghostly phenomena and other psychic experiences (and the research that exists in the lab on psi) is overlooked and even dismissed out of turn by many so-called "professional ghost hunters."

One comment on courses and such...

Besides my own program in basic parapsychological studies (it is NOT an academic/university program), there are a few accredited colleges offering a course here or there on Parapsychology (though be careful of the ones offered by debunkers). More importantly, the Rhine Research Center (www.rhine.org), the Institute of Noetic Sciences (www.noetic.org) and the Parapsychology Foundation (www.parapsychology.org) offer various educational opportunities.

Finally, no one approaching this field should ignore the greater field of Parapsychology -- especially when real information is available. Start with the site of the Parapsychological Association (www.parapsych.org), the ONLY international organization of parapsychologists recognized by most science associations (including the American Association for the Advancement of Science). And do visit the Parapsychology Foundation's site (www.parapsychology.org) not only for the aforementioned info on education, but for so much more.

Loyd Auerbach, MS
Director, The Office of Paranormal Investigations
Paranormal Research Organization
Instructor, HCH Institute Parapsychological Studies Program
Adjunct Professor, JFK University
Rhine Research Center Advisory Board

Christy * Moon Maiden:

I love this... there is a difference between having a fun time and looking for ghosts and the field of parapsychology - knowledge is key, learning is vital to doing something for fun and doing something that may actually amount to finding and learning... that is my real issue with shows like Ghost Hunters... it isn't based on learned knowledge... if I could afford to take that course, I would... to add to my knowldge so far... which is never enough knowledge.

Thank you for all this information

Reese Christian, Psychic Medium:

Very interesting blog. I found myself shaking my head, "yes" over and over again... Kudos.

Oh, and thanks for adding me.

Reese Christian
Psychic Medium

Maxwell Jennings:

I've had some really strange and exciting experiences dabbling in this area. I had the opportunity to tour the Hotel Del Coronado with a friend and led by the second in command of security of the hotel back in the 1980's. He took us to all the places where so-called professional psychics had noted activities, and he said we responded to 95% of the locations. I would sense something and my friend would accentuate that by stating the same thing!

The people at T.A.P.S. seem to be true scientific investigators in that they use devices and debunking techniques to explain away natural or human created situations. They have some good photographic evidence of shapes and shadows moving across frame that defy current explanations. Their show is on the Sci-Fi channel.

Back in 1994, I was involved in an experiment that, unknown to us at the time, paralleled the Scole Experiment in England.

A Look into Paranormal Investigation Groups, Unscientific Nonesense, and Christian Dogma

2007-08-11T11:24:00.000-07:00

Many of you might not know this about me, but I have been into "paranormal investigations" and researching the unexplained for most of my life. I have experienced many unusual things throughout my almost 36 years and have always sought to understand these events. Studying the sciences of Parapsychology and Noetics has helped me tremendously in keeping my mind free from superstition and undue speculation, yet allowing me to be open to the unexplained.

I wanted to post this article written by the nation's leading Parapsychologist, Loyd Auerbach entitled, "Just Say "No" to Demons!" which touches on an issue that is very important to me. There are MANY "paranormal investigation groups" that promote theories about ghosts and hauntings that have nothing to do with the scientific evidence that has been compiled by parapsychology for over one hundred years, especially mixing christian dogma into their investigations. I was going to do a blog on this topic when I saw that Loyd had already done it for me, so here it is.

As a last note, though Loyd - in his professionalism - does not name names in this article, I will. The Sci-Fi Channel's "Ghost Hunters". This show has generated much interest in researching and investigating the unexplained, but I believe it has in a negative, sensationalistic way that pretends to be scientific (because they use "technology" in its investigations) but ignores the real science of true "ghost hunting" - Parapsychological Investigations. This show spreads misinformation about hauntings and spirits in too many ways to explain here. Why do I care? I guess because I am tired of superstition and sensationalism being spread in one of the most important fields of research that we can concern ourselves with: Life After Death.

Let me know your thoughts! Thanks!

John
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Just Say "No" to Demons! by Loyd Auerbach

This is a long one...

I know this may be an unpopular thing to post, but ...

Frankly, I'm troubled. I'm troubled by the kinds of training (or lack thereof) people who call themselves "ghost hunters" have received (or not received). I am troubled by the perpetuation of misinformation about ghosts, hauntings and poltergeists on the internet, and amongst ghost hunting groups – who have completely missed the over 130 years of field work and investigation of such things from the earliest days of psychical research through the inception and work of folks in the field of Parapsychology. I am troubled by the sentiment that using technology is the same as doing science (it's not).

But recently, I have been troubled by the rising tide of "demonology" connected to investigations of the phenomena which exists and is experienced in connection with consciousness, and the suggestion that studying demons is somehow "scientific."

Many use the word "demon" to refer to apparent non-human entities that have "evil" intentions, and the word "angel" for those entities who have "good" intentions.

It has not been established (scientifically) that human beings have consciousness, though the opinion is that we do. It has not been established (proven, scientifically) that consciousness is separable from the body (ghosts and such), though the evidence certainly points that way.

The idea of non-human disembodied beings is one step even further removed. Only living people's perceptions, what they experience, points to disembodied consciousness and only those perceptions and interpretations of those perceptions might suggest "non-human" beings (other than ghostly pets, of course). We've got enough to deal with human consciousness without leaping to conclusion that some entity or other is "non-human" for whatever reason.

Further, what is "good" and what is "evil" is subject to our interpretations, biases, and beliefs. Is a shark evil when it attacks someone? The result of the attack is certainly not a good thing, but the shark is what it is: hungry.

Is an earthquake "evil"?

Things can be very dangerous without being "evil." That label attributes motive – a conscious motive to do harm merely for the sake of doing it (see most DC and Marvel Comics super-villains).

There are two questions here: are there non-human entities and are they malevolent or evil?

The answer to both depends on looking deeper into the perceptions, psychology and experience of the folks encountering things they believe fall into these categories.

From the Parapsychological perspective, while there might be non-human disembodied entities (essentially, beings of pure conscious energy), they falls into the realm of belief and speculation even more than ghosts do. The experiences with such things can be explained by other psychic models (apparitions, hauntings, poltergeists, telepathy, etc.).

If there are such beings, are they evil?

Using the word "demon" to describe them already puts them in that category, regardless of what their intentions are or who they are. But more dangerous than that, using the label "demon" puts a religious spin on the entity and experience.

If one takes the word "demon" to mean those entities which started out as angelic beings, caught up in some rebellion against God (losing side) and thrown down to the "region" that became known as Hell, and perhaps their progeny, then we have a simple problem: God, or gods, and beings of that hierarchy, including the "low" (demons) are seen as unknowable.

How do you prove God exists? If you can't prove the existence of God, how do you prove the existence of lesser yet associated beings such as angels? How do you prove the existence of a Devil, whether you call him Satan, Lucifer, Ahriman, or Loki, when he is said to be part of God's (or the gods') hierarchy?

What's that you say? Why should Science have to prove the existence of God or the Devil at all? It's all a matter of belief, of faith. If you believe, fine. If not, shame on you. Or so people say.

Belief -- in whatever you believe in -- is a guiding principle for our lives. Beliefs come in many forms, from what we've learned in the educational process (you believe in "atoms," but have you ever seen one?) to what we're taught to believe as tenets of our religions, from basic, culturally transmitted ethics and morals to the prejudices we learn from our parents and immediate social group (positive and negative, likes and dislikes, loves and hates).

The existence of demons and evil entities is relative to our belief systems.

More than that, not every religion or culture in the world believes in Satan or demons and angels (in the biblical sense). Gasp!!

In fact, let me disclose that I grew up reformed Jewish (I'm more of a Jedi and a Foodhist these days), and we had no Hell and no Devil. Stories of the heavenly battles were taught as allegory – stories with lessons to them, not literal truth. I don't have to worry about behaving myself because if I don't I'll go to Hell – I have to worry about behaving myself because it's the right thing to do!!

Gods, demons and other supernatural beings have always been held responsible for the events of the natural world, whether we're talking about the weather or the functioning of the human body. Most of such explanations derive from the sense that humans have a hard time with the unknown, so we have come up with some forms of explanations, however groundless in fact. So, in some cultural belief systems, drought occurs because people have offended particular deities or demons, while rain comes when they are again pleased. An individual gets sick because of the direct influence of a magic spell, an evil spirit, or a demon.

Most of us do not still believe demons are responsible for drought, pollution, disease or a simple headache. Why? Because science and medicine have learned otherwise.

Speaking from the perspective of anthropology, the word possession is applied whether the spirit inhabiting the living person is good or evil, demon or saint. The practice of inviting in spirits or demons or other beings is not uncommon around the world, though, unlike channeling and mediumship, the entities are part of the religious or cultural pantheon of supernatural beings. The practice is often sanctioned by the culture and its belief systems, as the possessing being provides guidance for the people. In this form, it is pervasive throughout the world, and has evolved into something slightly different even in more technologically advanced Eastern and Western cultures.

Possession by invited spirits and supernatural beings may be considered a very different matter than what we think of as possession in this culture. Shamans of all traditions invite in spirits, gods, and other entities, from Native Americans to practitioners of voodoo (itself a derivative of West African pre-slavery belief systems combined with Christian elements), from practices of the shamans of Siberian aboriginal peoples to those of believers in Santeria (a variant of Voodoo). These possessions are more akin to channeling the way we now define it, and are rarely (if ever) harmful to the person possessed.

Looking cross-culturally at the idea of any sort of personification of evil such as a "god" of evil or a real Devil, one must first back up and look at how evil is defined. Evil, and what constitutes doing evil, is very relative to each individual moral and ethical system. Doing evil is to do things at odds with, or against society's norm -- things that are wrong. It is wrong to kill a human being, unless, apparently, that human is not a "person" (does not belong to one's own "group," whatever that would be). It's wrong to kill, even in self-defense, although that's generally excusable. And in war, "all's fair," so as long as you believe you're at war with someone, you can do lots of things that would otherwise be socially unacceptable. Thankfully, even in wartime the morals of many still prevail so that prisoners are generally well-treated, and children and other noncombatants are kept out of things as much as possible. (Of course, such rules didn't fit in the Holocaust during WWII or the Vietnam War).

So is there an evil that is personified as a "devil" or "demons"? The answer to that completely depends on what your religious or cultural beliefs are.

Over the years, I have spoken with and met many people who claim to be either possessed by spirits or demons, or under attack by psychic forces, living or disembodied. I have little doubt that most of those people were sincere and often genuinely frightened. While I am not a psychologist, my parapsychological background (which has included working with psychologists and licensed counselors) at least has given me some skill in assessing whether the people are just confused or disturbed, or if they need referral to more appropriate counseling and therapy. Most are confused about their experiences. Some need real help, and not the kind that comes from sprinkling holy water around the home.

When I say that most people are confused about their experiences, I mean that there may be confusion generated by something they are experiencing, that confusion causing them to mislabel the experience as "demonic" or "possession" when it may be a psychic experience of another sort or merely a "mistake." Many of the potential cases I screen have turned out to be misinterpretations of "normal" events. Odd sounds in one's home (say, from the house settling or a squirrel in the attic) may be mistaken for "ghosts" or "poltergeists" if the person hearing the sounds has just seen a very scary horror film or is someone who believes a lot of the supernatural propaganda that appears in the tabloids.

I have also found that confusion accompanies paranormal phenomena. For example, if objects are flying around your home, you might believe a demon is attacking you and trying to possess you. You contact one of those self-professed "demonologists" out there, who of course will verify that there is a demon in your home. If they call themselves demonologists, their beliefs have already predisposed them to assess such situations as demonic.

They may not be interested in any other explanation, and I've been informed by many people who first brought a "demonologist" into their home that there was no checking for alternatives, and no equivocation – the experiences were demonically caused. Interesting, since in some of those cases there absolutely, positively was a normal (though misinterpreted) cause. In others, the phenomena was halted by either speaking with the ghost (in apparition cases) or dealing with the stress of folks (in poltergeist cases – note that the additional stress brought on by the pronouncements of the "demonologist" caused an increase in PK activity).

Keep in mind that various religious beliefs of many people not only do not support psi experiences, they also teach that such abilities and experiences are either tools of the Devil or are signs that the Devil or lesser demons are out to get you. If I believed or even considered that, I'd be hard pressed to be studying the experiences at all, let alone writing about them.

Biblical Demons are unnecessary when it comes to explanations of ghostly phenomena. We have enough within ourselves – us humans – to cause all of the reported phenomena, whether from a psychic or purely psychological/perceptual perspective (and the combination of the two is incredibly powerful). Blaming certain activity on demons is to avoid taking personal responsibility. Possibly the most important lesson I've learned about the implications of psychic abilities (for the living or the dead) is that we must not only take responsibility for our physical actions, we must also take responsibility for our thoughts, whether those thoughts are conscious or unconscious. This goes for ghosts as well – ghosts are people, too…they're just people without a body (hmmm….do ghosts have an unconscious mind?).

It's tough enough (AT THIS POINT IN TIME) to study consciousness since there's no consensus of what consciousness is. That's what you're doing when you study ghosts, by the way – studying consciousness and how it interacts with the world around it.

It's tough enough (AT THIS POINT IN TIME) to understand why some people do evil acts, but to automatically blame their activities on influence from some demonic entity is to take away from both free will and personal responsibility.

Such forces were responsible for bad weather, failed crops, earthquakes, and disease – until we learned they were NOT responsible (due to our understanding of how the world works, an ONGOING process).

If you go the way of the demonologist, you leave Science behind.

If you go the way of belief in demons as causing these experiences, you take away human responsibility.

If you go the way of demons, you face the danger of justifying your own potentially harmful (dare I say evil) actions if you need to "deal" with the demons.

More people have died in the name of their own version of God (protecting their beliefs from non-believers) than for any other reason. It's still happening – terrorism for the most part is religiously based (or utilizing religious belief as their rationale).

I worry about people buying into the demonic belief system. I worry that some will go too far to protect people from "demons," as a couple whose trial I testified in as an expert years ago. In the trial I was involved in, they had killed their housemate because they believed she was a "witch" and had cast a spell on the wife. By the way, they were up for another trial for killing a man they stated was a "demon." They argued that their religious text told them it was good to kill witches and demons, that they were only doing the work of their God.

Neither victim had done anything negative to this couple, other than perhaps not being friendly towards them as their beliefs got more and more fanatical.

Demonology, studying demons, is inherently non-scientific. Approaching such experiences and supposed entities from this perspective IS religious, and a particular religious approach.

For ghost hunting groups to incorporate such things into their "investigations" means approaching the experiences of people from a religious perspective. Unfortunately, I've seen too many websites for groups that do include demonology, and in the same site profess to be going about their investigations "scientifically" with no acknowledgement that demonology is inherently from religion (and generally the Catholic/Christian religion).

More than that, it can mean that you are going to scare the s**t out of people having paranormal experiences (telling them they have a demon attacking them). This is inappropriate and does not respect the people one is trying to help, or the phenomena/experiences which need explaining.

I have had cases over the years (and know of many more) where people had a "ghost hunter" tell them they had a "demon problem." They got more frightened than they were, the ghost hunters were unable to help them (other than to refer them to some clergy who could not help them), and the experiences continued. In too many of those cases, there was NOTHING paranormal happening – the people (and I assume the ghost hunters) had misinterpreted normal occurrences as "supernatural."

In the cases where something paranormal was happening, not everything they reported was paranormal…just some things. We dealt with the experiences, we dealt with the fear they felt, and the phenomena stopped. But they needed counseling because of the stress and fear the "demonologist" ghost hunter had put into them.

If you are truly interested in the human spirit – in ghosts – and whether it survives in some form after death, drop the demon angle. Too much confusion, too much bias, and too much religious mythology (which I acknowledge may be religious fact to you, but not to Science) can lead to pain and suffering.

It certainly doesn't lead to understanding what these experiences are that we link to apparitions, hauntings and poltergeists.

It certainly doesn't lead to any sort of application of Science – which is the search to understand how we and the Universe works.

But most of all, looking for evil demons where there are other, non-religious explanations will send you off track and create emotional problems for those who report their ghostly encounters.

Just say No to demons!

Dreams, DMT, the Pineal Gland, and other Dimensions

2007-08-11T11:20:00.000-07:00

Dreams, DMT, the Pineal Gland, and other Dimensions

This is an awesome (editied) interview with Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan was a guest on Jim Breuer's Sirius radio show where he discussed DMT, dreams, and the role humans play on this planet. Joe says, "It's easily the weirdest interview I've ever done, and definitely the most interesting."

Sexual Symbolism in Religion

2007-08-11T11:16:00.000-07:00

Sexual Symbolism in Religion

Sexual Symbolism in Religion
- by Jan Irvin and Andrew Rutajit

A look into the symbolism of sex and it's reflection in religion, modern symbolism, and architecture.

Edited by Andrew Rutajit
© Gnostic Media 2007
Music by Nine Inch Nails (remixed by Andrew Rutajit)

Direct Link
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5164705298671448349

Religious Thought Control - Totalism in Today’s Cults

2007-08-11T11:11:00.000-07:00

It is true that Christianity is a cult. Is it worthy of being classified as a Totalistic and Mind Control Cult? There are examples in this article about Jehovah's Witnesses and their control, but MOST of these examples are easily transfered to Fundamentalist/Evangelical Christianity as well. You may not think these issues are that important, but as you will see in the near future, America is going to be (and already has been) greatly effected by this type of Christianity and its temporary influence on American politics and our country's future. Read and see....

Totalism in Today's Cults
by Jan Groenvald

Introduction

Studies have shown that today's cults use a stronger form of control than those of 50 years ago. The advent of new psychological experiments in the 60's and 70's have produced the modern methods of mind control which are far more sophisticated than the BEHAVIOUR MODIFICATION TECHNIQUES and THOUGHT REFORM developed by the Chinese. To understand mind control you need a basic understanding of BEHAVIOUR MODIFICATION TECHNIQUES.

What is "behaviour modification"?

Simply described, it is "reward or punishment for actions" association. It was used on you as a child whenever you were being commended or otherwise for your behaviour.

Taking away a privilege is usually a sure-fire method to persuading a child to change its behaviour when that child is old enough to understand the process. Praising a child for doing good is another method of changing behaviour, especially in the child who is anxious to please. The rod of education applied to the seat of learning is another method of bringing about a desired behaviour change.

When behaviour modification techniques such as these are applied in a loving, caring and consistent way, the child changes their behaviour without holding feelings of resentment. However, if these techniques are perverted in any way, damage is done to the child's psyche, their emotions, e.g. the abused child syndrome. Cults use a sophisticated and perverted form of behaviour modification which damages an individuals emotions.

Cognitive Dissonance

Leon Festinger is a psychologist who studied groups that predicted the end of the world. He found that most members became stronger than ever when the prophecy failed. His investigation revealed that members had to find a way to cope psychologically with the failure. They needed to maintain order and meaning in their life. They needed to think they were acting according to their self-image and values. Festinger described this contradiction which they had to overcome as what has become known as the "COGNITIVE DISSONANCE THEORY." The three components he described are:

"CONTROL OF BEHAVIOUR"
"CONTROL OF THOUGHTS"
"CONTROL OF EMOTIONS"

Each component has a powerful effect on the other two: CHANGE ONE AND THE OTHERS WILL TEND TO FOLLOW. When all three change the individual undergoes a complete change. Festinger summarised the basic principle:

"If you change a person's behaviour, his thoughts and feelings will change to minimise the dissonance."

When there is a conflict between thoughts, feelings or behaviour, then those in conflict will change to minimise the contradiction. This is because a person can only tolerate a certain amount of discrepancy between these components which make up his identity. In cults this dissonance is created to exploit and control them.

Steven Hassan, author of Combating Cult Mind Control, added a fourth component to Festinger's:

"CONTROL OF INFORMATION"

By controlling the information one receives you can control and restrict the individual's ability to think for himself. You limit what he is able to think about.

BEHAVIOUR CONTROL -- The control of an individual's physical reality. This can include control of where he lives, what he eats, his clothing, sleep, job, rituals etc. This is why most cults have a stringent schedule for members. There is always something to do in destructive cults. Each cult has its own distinctive set of behaviours that bind it together. This control is so powerful that the cult member will actually participate in their own punishment and come to believe he actually deserves it! No one can command a person's thoughts but IF YOU CAN CONTROL BEHAVIOUR THEN HEARTS AND MINDS WILL FOLLOW.

Thought Control -- The control of an individual's thought processes. The indoctrination of members so thoroughly that they will manipulate their own thought processes. The ideology is internalised as "the truth". Incoming information is filtered through the beliefs which also regulates how this information is thought about.

The cult has it's own language which further regulates how a person thinks. This puts a great barrier between cult members and outsiders.

Another form of control is "thought stopping" techniques. This can take many forms: chanting, meditating, singing, humming, tongues (some even pay money to learn it), concentrated praying, etc. The use of these techniques short-circuits the persons' ability to test reality. The person can only think positive thoughts about the group. If there is a problem the member assumes responsibility and works harder.

Emotional Control -- The control of the individual's emotional life. This manipulates a person's range of feelings. Guilt and fear are used to keep control. Cult members cannot see the control by guilt and like other abuse victims are conditioned to blame themselves when things are wrong, even grateful when a leader points our their transgressions.

Fear is used to manipulate two ways. The first is to create an outside enemy (we vs them) who is persecuting you. The second is the fear of punishment by the leaders if you are not "good enough." Being "good enough" is following the ideology perfectly. The most powerful emotional control is phobia indoctrination. This can give the person a panic reaction at the very thought of leaving the group. It is almost impossible to conceive that there is any life outside the group. There is no physical gun held to their heads but the psychological gun is just as if not more powerful.

Information Control -- The control of the individual's information sources. Deny a person the information needed to make a sound judgment and he will be incapable of doing so. People are trapped in cults because they are denied both the access to the critical information they need to assess their situation. The psychological chains on their minds are just as powerful as if they were locked away physically from society. So strong is this psychological process they also lack the properly functioning internal mechanism to process any critical information placed in front of them.

The Eight Marks of Mind Control

Totalism -- All or Nothing

Mind Control is a PROCESS of eradicating former beliefs and instituting new beliefs in their place through the use of COERCIVE persuasion. It is a PROCESS which is designed to break a person's independence and individuality and replace it with the ideology clone. The Chinese called this process "thought reform" which was poorly translated into English as "brain-washing".

Brainwashing

Brainwashing is now considered to be a different process to thought reform or mind control. In brainwashing the victim knows who is the enemy. An example is American Patty Hearst who was kidnapped by a terrorist group. Through physical abuse she finally became a member of the group and took part in terrorist activities and bank robberies.

Thought Control

Thought control is more subtle. The victim doesn't know who is the enemy because the enemy seems like their best friend who only has their best interests at heart.

Cults practice a more refined form of thought control than that used by the Chinese. Leading psychologist, Dr Margaret Singer, said cults do it better than the Chinese because it is easier to get people to do what you want through manipulating them with guilt and anxiety. During this process the prospective recruit is re-educated and will abandon the precepts he has learnt from life for the "truth" or "enlightenment" offered by the group. In some cults this is done over a long period of time; Other cults can bring about this change within 48 hours. Whichever way the process takes place the results are the same. The individual has undergone a total change in personality and is often unrecognisable by their family.

The process of thought control has been documented by Robert J. Lifton who researched what happened to the American prisoners of the Communist Chinese. He labelled the steps which have become the standard by which to judge whether a group is using "brain-washing" or "thought reform" on its recruits.

Robert J. Lifton's research showed that:

"These criteria consist of eight psychological themes which are predominant within the social field of the thought reform milieu. Each has a totalistic quality; each depends upon an equally absolute philosophical assumption; and each mobilises certain individual emotional tendencies, mostly of a polarising nature. Psychological theme, philosophical rationale, and polarised individual tendencies are interdependent; they require, rather than directly cause, each other. In combination they create an atmosphere which may temporarily energise or exhilarate, but which at the same time poses the gravest of human threats." (Thought Reform & the Psychology of Totalism, p. 420) The eight marks noted by Lifton are:

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1. MILIEU CONTROL -- Control of the Environment and Communication. The control of human communication is the most basic feature of the thought reform environment. This is the control of what the individual sees, hears, reads, writes, experiences and expresses. It goes even further than that, and controls the individuals communication with himself -- his own thoughts.

Everything other than their beliefs is excluded. The organisation appears to be omniscient. They seem to know everything that is going on. Reality is their exclusive possession. In this environment the individual is deprived of the combination of external information and internal reflection required to test reality and to maintain a measure of identity separate from his environment. The individual can feel victimised by his controllers and feel the hostility of suffocation -- the resentful awareness that his striving toward new information, independent judgment and self-expression are being thwarted.

EXAMPLE - Jehovah's Witnesses are a classical example of a closed community living within and mixing with the wider community. Because they are so well known we have used them as an example.

e.g. - In Jehovah's Witnesses:

You could "go beyond the 'truth' -- beyond what they taught. This showed you were thinking for yourself and put yourself above leadership. Those moving ahead of the Organisation are counselled

No gatherings other than those allowed or organised by organisation (1982).

Not making comments from your own thoughts at the meetings. Only comments from the study articles are permitted. No independent thinking is permitted.

The organization always seemed to know what was going on in your congregation and article appeared in Watchtower publications just at the right time ("food at the proper time"). This was done through Circuit Servants reports to Headquarters.

Use of 'publisher record cards' etc. to monitor activities of members. Watchtower is aware of trends etc. by strict reporting and control of individual Witnesses activities.

Report on fellow brothers & sisters (cannot get away from organisation)

Monitoring or observation of disfellowshipped or marked people.

Non Witnesses are viewed as 'bad association'

Worldly education discouraged -- better to go door-to-door

Employment that takes up time which should be devoted to Watchtower activities is also discouraged.

Should be 'buying out the opportune time' in 'theocratic activities'.

Taught to indoctrinate self!

'Shepherding' of those who fall behind.

2. MYSTICAL MANIPULATION -- The Mystique of the Organisation.

This seeks to provoke specific patterns of behaviour and emotion in such a way that these will appear to have arisen spontaneously from within the environment. For the manipulated person this assumes a near-mystical quality. This is not just a power trip by the manipulators. They have a sense of "higher purpose" and see themselves as being the "keepers of the truth." By becoming the instruments of their own mystique, they create a mystical aura around the manipulating institution -- the Party, the Government, the Organisation, etc. They are the chosen agents to carry out this mystical imperative.

The pursuit of this mystical imperative supersedes all considerations of decency or immediate human welfare. The end justifies the means. You can lie, deceive or whatever to those outside the organization. Association with the "outside" is only to benefit their own cause in some way. Some cults like Moonies and Hare Krishna's call their deception "heavenly deception" or "transcendental trickery". Members believe in the ideology to such a degree that they rationalize these deceptions. Members are kept in a frenzy of cult related activities. There is little time or energy to think about their lifestyle.

"The psychology of the pawn" -- This person feels unable to escape from forces he sees more powerful than himself. His way of dealing with this is to adapt to them. He learns how to anticipate problems with the organisation and to manipulate events to avoid incriminating himself. This is the person who has been in the organisation long enough, knows something is wrong, is on the verge of leaving then suddenly becomes very loyal. They sell out to the organisation and will turn in friends who may have confided in them.

e.g. - In Jehovah's Witnesses:

"Theocratic strategy" - If you don't have a right to know the truth it is OK to lie to you. (See "Insight" under 'Lie')

Avoid telling prospects- No blood, holidays, family, friends, etc.

Bring someone new each time they call so prospect gets to know the people at the Kingdom Hall when they attend. (Planned spontaneity)

The ideology supersedes the welfare of the individual. They are not involved in charities outside the group [or in the group].

Not helping fellow members to the detriment of promoting the ideology. This is more important than helping the sick & elderly.

Prayers are general -- for the organisation not the needs of the individual. See God as not interested in you as a person.

Blessed only for effort in promoting the Kingdom.

Ability of organisation to accomplish the 'preaching work' seen as evidence of Jehovah's blessing, direction and angelic help

Jehovah 'sifts out' those not truly 'in the truth', those without 'the right heart condition' which is why people leave or must be disfellowshipped. No one leaves legitimately.

3. DEMAND FOR PURITY -- Everything is black & white.

Pure and impure is defined by the ideology of the organization. Only those ideas, feelings and actions consistent with the ideology and policy are good. The individual conscience is not reliable. The philosophical assumption is that absolute purity is attainable and that anything done in the name of this purity is moral. By defining and manipulating the criteria of purity and conducting an all-out war on impurity (dissension especially) the organisation creates a narrow world of guilt and shame. This is perpetuated by an ethos of continuous reform, the demand that one strive permanently and painfully for something which not only does not exist but is alien to the human condition.

Under these conditions the individual expects humiliation, ostracism and punishment because of his inability to live up to the criteria and lives in a constant state of guilt and shame. Since the organisation is the ultimate judge of good and evil, this guilt and shame is used to manipulate and control members. The organization becomes an authority without limit in the eyes of members and their power is nowhere more evident that in their capacity to "forgive".

All impurities are seen to originate from "outside" (the world). Therefore, one of the best ways to relieve himself of the burden of guilt is to denounce these with great hostility. The more guilty he feels, the greater his hatred, the more hostile is his denouncement. Organizationally this eventually leads to purges of heretics, mass hatred and religious holy wars. The group will point to the mistakes of all other belief systems while promoting their own purity. This gives the impression that their organisation is perfect, clean and pure as a people or group.

e.g. - In Jehovah's Witnesses:

Dress and grooming have been laid down at various times.

No pantsuits for ladies
No beards or moustaches
Short hair on men
No coloured shirts for men
No gold rimmed glasses
Certain styles of clothing
These rules change at the whim of the leaders.

Only 2 organisations: Jehovah's and Satan's. You cannot be part of both.

World has no conscience - all dishonest

Must keep clear of worldly celebrations (Christmas, Easter, Birthdays, Mother's & Father's Day, Thanksgiving, etc.)

Loyalty displayed through meeting attendance and participation, field service, choice of marriage partners [strong 'in the truth'], shunning disfellowshipped relatives and friends.

4. CULT OF CONFESSION -- Reporting to leadership.

This is closely related to the demand for purity. Confession is carried beyond the ordinary religious, legal and therapeutic expressions to the point of becoming a cult in itself. In totalist hands, confession becomes a means of exploiting, rather than offering solace for these vulnerabilities.

Totalist confession is an act of self-surrender, the expression of the merging of the individual and environment. There is a dissolution of self, talents and money. Conformity.

The cult of confession has effects quite the reverse of its ideal of total exposure; rather than eliminating personal secrets, it increases and intensifies them.

The individual becomes caught up in continuous conflict over which secrets to preserve and which to surrender, over ways to reveal lesser secrets can be revealed and ways to protect more important ones.

The cult of confession makes it virtually impossible to attain reasonable balance between worth and humility.

e.g. In Jehovah's Witnesses:

Confessing infringements to an Elder.

Putting in field reports (test of spirituality) [A monthly report of one's activities for that month. How many hours door-knocking; number of books and magazines sold; number of people one studied doctrine with, etc.]

Accept orders without question. Ask "How high" when told to jump.

Any who are aware of another's sin must put this one in to the elders or the guilt will rest on their shoulders.

Congregation is made aware of the sin through talks and restrictions placed on guilty ones.

5. SACRED SCIENCE -- Absolute "Truth".

Their "truth" is the absolute truth. It is sacred -- beyond questioning. There is a reverence demanded for the leadership. They have ALL the answers. Only to them is given the revelation of "truth".

The ultimate moral vision becomes the ultimate science and the person who dares to criticise it, or even think criticism, is immoral, irreverent and "unscientific".

The assumption here is not so much that man can be God, but rather that man's IDEAS can be God.

This gives sense of security to the member. They are confident they can get the answer to the most difficult problem or question.

e.g. In Jehovah's Witnesses:

you can be disfellowshipped (kicked out) for daring to question what is taught in their publications.

Watchtower demands full devotion of members. Must not question the Organization (= questioning God)

There is an answer to everything, if you cannot find it in the publications you must 'wait on Jehovah' and not 'push ahead'.

Organisation itself will survive Armageddon but individual Jehovah's Witnesses have no such assurance.

6. LOADING THE LANGUAGE -- Thought terminating cliches.

Everything is compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed.

There are "good" terms which represents the groups ideology and "evil" terms to represent everything outside which is to be rejected. Totalist language is intensely divisive, all-encompassing jargon, unmercifully judging. To those outside the group this language is tedious -- the language of non-thought.

This effectively isolates members from outside world. The only people who understand you are other members. Other members can tell if you are really one of them by how you talk.

This narrowness of the language is constricting. The individual is linguistically deprived because language is central to the human experience and his capacities for thinking and feeling are immensely restricted.

While initially this loaded language can give a sense of security to the new believer, an uneasiness develops over time. This uneasiness may result in a withdrawal into the system and he preaches even harder to hide his problem and demonstrate his loyalty. It may also produce an inner division and the individual will publicly give the right performance while privately have his own thoughts.

Either way, his imagination becomes increasingly disassociated from his actual life experiences and may even tend to atrophy from disuse.

e.g. - In Jehovah's Witnesses:

Theocratic strategy
"ark of salvation"
"new light"
"meat in due season"
"faithful & discreet slave"
"apostate"
"The anointed"
Book study
Christendom
"Christ Jesus" instead of "Jesus Christ"
'back calls' now called 'return visits' (terminology changes indicate who might be falling behind or who is not really a member)
"Jehovah will take care of it in his due time."
"It's the truth" -- doesn't matter if they make a mistake
Where else is there to go?
Worldly
Governing Body
New System of Things

7. DOCTRINE OVER PERSON -- Doctrine supersedes human experience.

The ideological myth merges with their "truth" and the resulting deduction can be so overpowering and coercive that is simply replaces reality. Consequently past events can be altered, rewritten or even ignored to make them consistent with the current reality. This alteration is especially lethal when the distortions are imposed on the individual's memory.

They demand character and identity of a person be reshaped to fit their clone of mentality. The individual must fit the rigid contours of the doctrinal mould instead of developing their own potential and personality.

The underlying assumption is that the doctrine -- including its mythological elements -- is ultimately more valid, true and real than is any aspect of actual human character or human experience. The individual under such pressure is propelled into an intense conflict with his own sense of integrity, a struggle which take place in relation to polarised feelings if sincerity and insincerity.

Absolute sincerity is demanded by the group yet this must be put to one side when changes take place the individual has to deny the original belief ever existed. Personal feelings are suppressed and members must appear to be contented and enthusiastic at all times.

Some cults believe that all illness is a result of lack of faith and evidence of sin in your life. These things have to be prayed away and medical attention is ignored as a "sign of faith."

e.g. - In Jehovah's Witnesses:

"There is no life outside the organisation" so when they see people who have made a life outside they revert back to doctrine over what they see.

If an experience doesn't fit, it must be demons.

Will ignore needs of others because doctrine overrides human experience. i.e. will ignore needs of disfellowshipped or marked persons no matter how serious those needs are.

Those who were JW's before 1975 and are still JW's will deny they ever believed Armageddon was due that year -- even those who sold homes, delayed medical treatment etc.

Watchtower has final authority even over personal experience. Blood transfusions, etc. Conscience matters are discussed only in the light of Watchtower doctrine (not left to individuals' consciences).

8. DISPENSING OF EXISTENCE -- Who is worthy to live.

They have the right to decide who is worthy of life and who isn't. They also decide which history books are accurate and which are not.

Those in the organisation are worthy of life; those outside worthy of death. The outsiders can be permitted to live if they change and become an insider. Members live in fear of being pronounced "dead". They have a fear of annihilation or extinction. The emotional conflict is one of "being vs nothingness".

Existence comes to depend upon creed (I believe, therefore I am), upon mission (I obey, therefore I am) and beyond these, upon a sense of total merger with the organisation. Should he stray from the "truth" his right to exist may be withdrawn and he is pronounced "dead".

e.g. - In Jehovah's Witnesses:

"Sheep and goats" -- how one responds to "Christ's brothers" decides their future. ("Christ's brothers" are those who rule the organisation. How you respond to their message as carried by their messengers decides your eternal future).

Elders decide who is worthy of life at Judicial Committee meetings.

They decide who is worthy of a resurrection -- (Sodom & Gommorah).

Disfellowshiping 'sinners' denies them any hope for a future outside the Organisation.

They will blatantly lie to achieve goals and consider this to be "theocratic strategy".

Any information contrary to the Watchtower 'system' is not considered worth listening to or reading.

Witnesses are forbidden to discuss such information, especially if is considered 'apostate' [put together by former members]

In Summary...

The more clearly these eight points are obvious, the greater the resemblance to ideological totalism. The more an organisation utilises such totalist devices to change individuals, the greater its resemblance to thought reform.

Remember ..... A group does not have to be religious to be cultic in behaviour. High demand groups can be commercial, political and psychological. Be aware, especially if you are a bright, intelligent and idealistic person. The most likely person to be caught up in this type of behavioural system is the one who says "I won't get caught. It will never happen to me. I am too intelligent for that sort of thing."

A Pharisee of Pharisees - My article posted on Ex-Christian.net

2007-07-29T09:24:00.000-07:00

A Pharisee of Pharisees

My article was posted on Ex-Christian.net back in 2005.

My name is John Blatt and I am an ex-christian. The process of leaving christianity took a good two years, but now I am finally free from that fear and fear-based Cult. Fundamentalist christianity is a destructive mind-control Cult and the bible is primarily a series of psychological documents. It took many years to finally come to see this reality, because I didn't want it to be so. No one in the Cult can see with straight vision, thus, the more devoted and zealous one is for christianity the more blind they are to its psychological and spiritual damage and control.

I became a born-again christian at the age of twenty while I was in the U.S. Air Force in May of 1992. It was a powerful and moving experience and it did effect me deeply, being changed instantly. Before this, I had simply adopted my mothers metaphysical beliefs and so I had no true belief in anything that was truly my own.

Since the day that I had been "born-again" I began a long journey within the realms of christianity, seeking to find where I belonged and what I really believed. I began simply as non-denominational, not wanting to even go to church. My first belief was that one does not need a minister and a church to know god, yet this belief eroded over time. While stationed in South Korea I did not have much other than the bible to study. Then after a year I was shipped back to U.S. and I began seeking answers to all the different questions I had about denominations, churches, different "gospels" and many other things. No one could match my zeal or devotion to god and "His Word". Christianity was now my life and I severed life long friendships and relationships due to my new found beliefs, even "converting" my father and step-mother to "the Faith".

My searching for answers caused a lot of waves wherever I went and I quickly gained many christian friends and admiration by everyone I came into contact with.

Here is a chronological list of churches and theologies that I joined and embraced and studied through in my journey through Christianity:

Vineyard/Charismatic/Speaking in Tongues and Healing miracles.

Independent Messianic-Jewish Church/Jews for Jesus/Christian Zionism

Independent Baptist/Dispensational Theology/Pre-trib Rapture

Pentecostal/Hyper-Dispensational Theology/Post-trib Rapture

Charles Finney-ism

The 5-Point Calvinism/5-Point Arminianism Debate

Became a 5-Point Calvinist

Embraced Reformed Theology/Orthodox Presbyterian Church/Modern Puritanism

Paleo-Presbyterianism/Covenanters/Old-school Puritanism

The debate between infant baptism/adult baptism

The debate between mode of baptism: sprinkle/pouring/immersion

Became a Reformed (5-Point Calvinist) Baptist

Moved to NY and joined an Albert Martin Reformed Baptist church-cult/London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689

Studied the forbidden Anabaptist writings (pre-1644 London Baptist Confession)

The debate between the Covenant of Grace (1689 Baptist Confession of Faith) and the Old-New Covenant separation (1644 Baptist Confession of Faith)

The debate between Reformed Theology and New Covenant Theology (NCT)

Left the Reformed Baptist church

Was castigated, harassed, and denounced as a heretic and immoral for leaving "The Faith" of the Reformed Baptists. I was stalked, physically harassed and secretly threatened by the leaders of the Reformed Baptist church

Embraced the Home Church Movement and New Covenant Theology

Embraced the teachings of Gene Edwards and Frank Viola

Became a member of one of Frank Viola's home churches

Saw the strange character and ways of Frank Viola and rejected the teachings of his books

Left the Home Church Movement

Was introduced to the concept of Universal Reconciliation (Jesus reconciled EVERY man to god regardless of belief or state of soul)

After long study I embraced Universal Reconciliation and the truth that there was no such thing as "Hell", Eternal Damnation, and that there was no condemnation in christ regardless of faith or deeds and christ reconciled every man back to himself, regardless of belief or unbelief.

This freed me to look into other non-christian views.

I have now come around full circle and after looking through many belief systems and religions. I now consider myself Metaphysical. I no longer believe that the bible is inerrant nor divinely inspired, but is one of the most brilliant psychological documents ever contrived. Christianity is a man-made religion specifically designed to control the masses and indoctrinate mankind with fear (sugar-coated with love, grace and redemption in christ) and is a truly destructive Cult (not because of its doctrines but because of how it thinks, behaves, and acts).

I have studied the bible and church history and all aspects of christian theology for over 13 years and was the most devoted and passionate Christian that could be imagined. Though the further I went into christianity the more it sucked the life out of me. The more intolerant, the more fearful, the more Law-ful I became. I generally studied an average of 25-45 hours a week on my own. Bible study, church history, hermeneutics, exegetical commentaries, Greek and Hebrew lexicons, apologetics, polemics, systematic theology, and many other christian disciplines. When I was stationed in Saudi Arabia for six months I took only my bible and studied it 10-12 hours a day on average. I did take some days off to recover, but my devotion to God and his truth was that great - it was my life and my passion.

Looking back over my life I see how much of my vital years (age 20-32) were spent in all of my searching and studying. I viewed myself as a modern-day Apostle Paul, yet I was actually a Pharisee of Pharisees. I treated anyone who did not see eye-to-eye with me as inferior and treated others with pity because of how lost or confused they were. I knew more about the bible and its interpretation than the pastors that I sat under. I had to act ignorant most of the time so I would not be a threat to the elders of the churches I was in. My closets were literally stuffed with books. I hid most of them in my closets so that my fellow christian friends wouldn't treat me differently than a normal christian.

I share all this not to boast in my previous christian devotion and knowledge, but as a testimony to free thinking. Question everything. If I had grown content in my searching and closed my eyes, I would still be bound by unbreakable chains of indoctrination and thought-reform. I can honestly say now that I truly know the bible and christianity, especially after loving it and sacrificing so much for it.

This is why I am using my knowledge and experience in writing a book about christianity and the bible. My hope is to help others free their own minds and hearts and to possibly help heal the souls of those who may have been abused by this religion.

Feel free to contact me through Yahoo Instant Messenger: psychicevolution

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I posted this article about two years ago on ex-christian.net. Since then I have pondered the state of religion, christianity (of all levels and liberalness) and the general consensus of the population on the christian bible. I believe now, more than ever, that the bible is not "the Truth" and liberal christianity and even gnosticism is very inconsistent with the bible itself. There is no greater series of books that were written specifically designed to enslave the mind and polarize humanity. The purpose of "the Good Book" is to divide humanity in order to conquer it. Yet the bible, more than any other thing in Western civilization, has one of the greatest protective defaults in history, its extremely deep-set program embedded in the conscious minds of almost every American that the bible is the truth, and that Jesus existed. This is one of the greatest deceptions ever to overtake the minds of humanity. If you still have this programming intact within your subconscious and conscious minds you will probably scoff at what I write here. If you feel insulted or threatened by these words you most likely still have the program - a program that is not of your own thinking but is of someone else's. It is a program-matrix of religion that creates emotions, experiences, sensations, that seeks to protect itself within you. In many ways it is a mind parasite, living off your energy. As many brain parasites do, they give you feelings to sustain its hold over you, supported by the religion-matrix that so many within humanity is enslaved by.

I write this not only to say that christianity is a thought-reform system, but that if you truly desire to live a life of freedom for your heart and consciousness, then please examine your own view of this religion. Christianity IS a religion. Many christians have told me "seek Jesus not religion" and "christianity is about relationship, not doctrine or religion", yet this is the power of the delusion. The constructed character of Jesus (please research the term "Astrotheology" and this will help some to understand) is the delusion. The person of Jesus(as the bible reveals) never actually existed. Jesus is the religion, regardless of its denominational or non-denominational leanings.

The word "Religion" explains it all. This English word is derived from the the Latin word religio, which means "to constrain". Literally: "to bind." Like most of the great conspiracies of this world, the governors of this world hide these things in plain sight.

How can we free our minds if we don't believe we are enslaved? This is one of the greatest deceptions of all.

My desire in sharing these things stems from a truly deep love for humanity and the longing for all men and women to be gloriously free in every way. Free to love and free to think for ourselves. That the deepest joys of life can be experienced by everyone equally without hatred, condescension, or pity on anyone else. To break the cycle of control forever, which can never come by argumentation or proving others wrong, but by freeing us all to think for ourselves (please refer to my blogs "The Battle For Your Mind" and "Why Atheistic Arguments Cannot Work Against christian Fundamentalism").

My heartfelt love to all who read these words, especially those of you who once knew me in the past.

A small portion from my new book

2007-06-16T10:35:00.001-07:00

The Tree of Knowledge

This is a small portion of the book that I have been working on about Christianity. Even this small portion is not what I want it to be nor is it "cleaned and polished" as some of my book already is. I share this unfinished portion now because of the need to have people think and understand the foundations of the major world religions and WHY they are harmful to the mind and consciousness of humanity.

Any feedback on this would be appreciated. Thanks!

John

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The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

It is common knowledge that the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil lies at the very foundation of the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Regardless of the various interpretations there is no dispute – that at this Tree the whole of these religions are founded. Yet there is one extremely important fact which is repeatedly overlooked in the understanding of this doctrine. These Old Testament scriptures unquestionably - yet subtly - proclaims that unrestricted knowledge was to be withheld from mankind and the only "true" knowledge is that which is confined to what God authorizes.

From a non-religious perspective it seems clear that, according to the Old Testament, God created the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and placed it in the garden of Eden where all of the other "good" trees were for eating of its fruits. God created it and yet did not want mankind to eat from it. Why? For the moment try to forget that this was, according to the New Testament, the beginning of God's plan of salvation, saving humankind from their Fall. Try to forget that it was the Serpent that tempted Eve. Even try to forget that it was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Let's just think about the Tree of Knowledge itself. It was the Tree of Knowledge. Knowledge.

Regardless if you believe in these scriptures or not, these passages clearly prohibit and condemn the acquiring of knowledge. Yet even further, in essence, what these texts suggest is the prohibition of thinking. It attributes the process of human thinking as something that Evil tempts you to do. Think for yourself. The act of thinking is the acquiring of knowledge. We learn more and know more by the act of thinking. Yet knowledge is looked upon as something that is initially controlled by God and that God warns man not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge, that is, to have man gain his own knowledge through thinking for themselves. The knowledge that God wants man to have is the knowledge that He dictates, not what man himself/herself dictates (according to the scriptures). The Serpent, the one prompting Eve to think for herself, is viewed here as the Tempter, the Deceiver, and ultimately interpreted as Satan, Lucifer, the Devil, the Dragon, and the Evil One.

Let's shine some light on this and turn it around now. From a non-Christian perspective the Bible is at best errant and contradictory. I personally believe that it is also be the most brilliantly constructed set of psychological documents in human history. The Bible, in my opinion, is a series of mind-control documents that were created by incredibly knowledgeable men for the precise purpose of manipulating mankind and controlling the minds and knowledge of the world.

Look at Genesis 3 again. Think not from the perspective that God is dictating anything or that even Adam and Eve existed. Think now for a moment that the Old Testament is man-made, not divinely inspired. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil takes on a new light. It becomes the control factor of billions of people. How? By creating a "divine world-view" and telling all of its adherents that Knowledge is to be restricted to "His Knowledge" or devotion to "Orthodox teaching". To lay out in the beginning that man is NOT to gain knowledge on his own, but to rely only on that which the Bible-God says to rely on. Men and women are NOT to think on their own terms, to attain knowledge and wisdom upon what they believe is best for themselves, but only what God says is best for them. Obtaining knowledge of all that is "good" and all that is "evil" on mankind's own volition is Evil. This "eating of the tree of knowledge" by Adam and Eve was the "fall of mankind". We have become corrupt, sinful, deluded, and immoral by eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Thus, this sets all of humanity in a position to be completely dependent on the "knowledge of God" derived from the Old and New Testaments, since our "minds have been darkened" and the wisdom of God is now "foolishness to men". We are set in a system of control so amazing and so "fearfully and wonderfully made" that we cannot think now outside of this system because we cannot understand the "things of God" on our own. We must rely now on God's Word and its interpretation by the Elders of His Church to teach us His Truth. If we question it, we are rebelling against the knowledge of God. If we question it, we are doing what Eve did in the Garden – think for herself and seek knowledge not based on God's dictates (according to the scriptures).

[Another thing to remember is that this is the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil - this again, is very sublte control, because it states that the knowledge to be had is either Good or is Evil. One of the best ways to manipulate a mass of people is to give them two oppositing forces to believe in, neither of which are what they are. This is literally a magic trick. A good magician makes the audience concentrate on two objects while the real trick is going on somewhere else, the focus is drawn away from the real issue. You create two opposing forces and do not give them any other options. We are suckers for battles. The battle between good and evil. If there is no actual good or evil, but only what we are made to believe or think (it only has power if we give it power, it only exists if we believe it exists) then we are stuck with a foundational premise of viewing the world that is controlled with two "opposing forces" that don't even exist.]

From the very beginning uncontrolled knowledge (knowledge outside the confines of the bible, that is, knowledge that is not specifically approved by God) is a temptation, it is a deception, it is evil. Knowledge, and thus the process of thinking, must be controlled by God for our own protection – for our own good, because we are weak creatures. In the beginning God called man "very good". Yet, not good enough to allow man to truly think for himself. He needed to be restricted from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He was commanded not to eat thereof. Adam, though "very good" and very appealing to God in the beginning, wasn't good enough to have access to all knowledge. The knowledge of good and evil was bad for Adam. Why? Because if Adam had knowledge he would become like God himself, the ability to think for himself freely.

"God" was the first Freethinker, yet, according to these texts he did not want mankind to have knowledge and to think according to this knowledge. In truth, God forbid man to think for himself. This, of course, is not true in reality, but according to the Old Testament it is. Thus the condemnation and guilt of mankind came from taking in knowledge and thinking for themselves. It makes the act of thinking and knowledge "evil". At the very bedrock of the worlds "great" religions is Thought (or Mind) Control.

Knowledge is power. Thus all independent thinking and the seeking of wisdom on our own (outside of this god) is welded into our conscious and subconscious minds as coming from the "Evil One". Even if we seek to think for ourselves and reject the teachings and gods of these religions there is the deep programming, the deep indoctrination that says to us that we have gone the way of the Serpent. The Mind Control program is still at work.

So the work has been accomplished quite amazingly according to plan. The majority of mankind is gripped by a fundamental mind control system that cannot be seen or understood by most. The easiest way to control the world is to control the thinking of mankind. How do you control the thinking of mankind? Just look at the religions that hold up the Tree of Knowledge at its beginning and you will see. Programming genius. Those who created these texts knew exactly how to use Thought Reform on the minds of men, for they have been successful in reforming the thought processes of trillions of men, women and children and controlling the knowledge and the reality of mankind for thousands of years. This is why the evolution of humanity is governed directly by these religions. We can speak of world consciousness, peace, and the evolution of humanity's consciousness all we like, but without being deprogrammed from this Mind Control there is no hope. As long as our minds are programmed and conditioned to accept these lies, humanity is forever bound to darkness and control.

New screenplays for consideration

2007-06-16T10:31:00.001-07:00

Here are some ideas I have.

1. A "super assassin" created by the U.S. secret government (Black Projects), disappears on a mission and becomes the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history. Much to this one. This would be a Trilogy.

2. "The Wendigo" by Algernon Blackwood. NOT the recent Wendigo film of 2001 (which totally sucked ass), but one which closely follows the original story:

http://www.horrormasters.com/Text/a0228.pdf

3. Either of my present screenplays

4. Lastly, one I've been thinking of lately, is of a family living in a HUGE Victorian mansion. This family has lived in this house all of their lives and more or less confined themselves to the ten or twelve rooms they tend to use and the rest of the house - at least three times as many rooms, if not more - are closed up and unoccupied. None of the family members care to deal with cleaning and maintaining the other areas, so doors are kept shut, windows closed, and furniture is covered with sheets and plastic. The place they use suits them well, anything else is extra work so they let it lie. The "other" part of the house is quite creepy and the basement is deep and largely unexplored. Upon occasion the family members hear inexplicable, mysterious sounds from the "closed" and unoccupied areas of the house: muffled voices and sudden unexplained bangings and thumping. Sometimes as they pass a hallway which leads to those areas they glimpse doors closing suddenly, or a quick shape gliding across a darkened hallway to disappear into an "uninhabited" room. When they go to investigate there is nothing out of the ordinary. Things scamper to hide when they arrive unexpectedly, and they only catch the slightest impression of what they seem to be. Upon occasion they feel that, when they least expect it, someone or something creeps into their living areas, absconds with some of their belongings, spies on them in their most intimate and private moments and invades their pantry and refrigerator with impunity. Beef and other meats seem to be a favorite item for theft. They occasionally feel that they are being victimized or molested as they sleep, or when they are almost asleep, or in some sort of "altered state" which they don't understand. The most maddening aspect of all of this turns out to be that, in spite of the certainty that they feel "something" is going on, they can never catch anyone or anything in the act, nor can they prove that the invaders or squatters actually exist. Over time, they come to feel that they are either all insane, or that the beings are essentially benevolent. They condition their children to have little or no fear of the strange and mysterious areas and phenomenon. The relationship between the family and the "others" is identical to that which a host or prey population has with a predatory or parasitical species.

The key with this movie is to never show the beings who live there. Leave that to the imagination. Their is much more plot and background to the story, but this is the main thrust of the movie. Suspense and psychological horror.

Let me know what you think.

An Interesting Report on a Strange Creature

2007-06-16T10:00:00.000-07:00

I used to live near the area of this sighting. It always made me think while walking through the woods. Just think about this the next time you go into the woods.

~John

Report # 2405 (Class A)
Submitted by witness on Sunday, May 06, 2001.
Dusk sighting on shoreline of Lake George at Deer Leap (Show Printer-friendly Version)

YEAR: 1990

SEASON: Spring

DATE: Spring

STATE: New York

COUNTY: Warren County

LOCATION DETAILS: Just south of the Tongue Mt.Lookout on Route 9N.

NEAREST TOWN: Sabbath Day Point

NEAREST ROAD: Route 9N

OBSERVED: My brother and I were canoeing on Lake George, in N.Y state at about sunset. We headed south for 10 minutes to an area known as Deer Leap. At lake side it is a boulder strewn area with cliffs rising 600 feet above the shoreline. As we were begining to come on to this area we saw something standing on shore. It was brownish in color and standing straight up with it's arms at it's side. It was about the size of a small man and very thin. Its body was facing south, looking down the shorline when it suddenly turned its head directly towards us and looked very intently. We whispered to each other and watched it while it watched us. We were 2 grown men paddling parallel to the shore and about 200 feet out but we could not summon up the courage to go in closer. This thing had a strange look, almost a crazed grin. Like a giant Lemur. The sun was set now as we continued to watch it in the shadows of the mountain. As it was standing next to an old, dead pine tree, it turned and climbed, sloth-like up the tree about 20 feet to the first and only large limb and onto the crook of a branch. We paddled back around and as we approached it again cocked its head directly at us, after a minute or so it turned its face downward into its body and became as if it were a part of the tree. Just a lump on the crook of the branch. You would not know it was there unless you saw it move. I have been in this area all my life and have never seen anything like this and have not seen it since.
In my searchings I have found reference to a creature found in the woods of New Hampshire. Back in the 30's they called it the "Wood devil or Stick Men". The one thing incommon is they are able to blend into trees to avoid being seen.

ALSO NOTICED: It did not make any sounds.

OTHER WITNESSES: 2 witnesses, 30 and 35 years old . Canoeing. Swimming.

OTHER STORIES: I have not heard of another story like this one but I did submit a "bigfoot sound" report that I heard near this location back in 92 and 93.
Also there is mentioned way back in the 1700's, in a report by Roger and his Rangers that "as they were traveling in Vermont from an attack on a French Fort in Canada, they were followed by a thing they called Old Slippery Skin ( a skinny thing) which threw rocks and branches down on them from the ridges above the valley floor they were traveling on. It did't make much of an impression on them , it seemed to be just a pest.

TIME AND CONDITIONS: sunset

ENVIRONMENT: Boulders, lakeside. towering cliffs near by deep water and pine trees.

Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Kevin Withers:

The witness described the animal as about five feet tall and extremely skinny, like "a teenaged boy." It appeared to be covered with reddish brown hair and had a pale face, expressive eyes and mouth, and a "deranged" smile or smirk on its face. Unlike a bear, its arms were long and it lacked a pronounced snout.

The witness supplied these two drawings:

When it first spotted them, it turned its head and looked down its shoulder at them. It was standing ten to fifteen feet away from a dead pine tree that was about thirty-five feet tall and devoid of pine needles; the lowest branch was about fifteen feet above the ground.

Once the witnesses had passed the animal and turned their aluminum canoe around, it had already begun climbing the tree. It was ten feet up the trunk near the lowest branch, moving slowly like a sloth. It crawled onto the branch and moved its head to look at them again. Then it tucked its chin down into its chest and appeared to blend in with the reddish brown bark on the tree. The witness said that, once it blended into the tree, "The shape didn't have any definition to it."

The witness described it again to me in writing: "As soon as it put it's head down into it's underbelly, it looked like a large bump on the branch. If you hadn't seen it move it's head you would not know it was anything but a large branch. When it bent over on the branch blending in with the bark of the tree, it's fur had a pine bark look too."

During this sighting the witness felt no fear, however he did feel that there was a "boundary line," or a certain area between him and the animal that should not be encroached upon.

The witness' brother was contacted and he corroborated his brother's story, although his recollection of the sighting was not as detailed. He said that the creature was about four feet tall, and both sloth-like and orangutan-like in appearance, although he did not see its face. He doesn't remember seeing the creature standing on the shore before it climbed the tree; nor does he remember seeing it tuck its head down and "blend in" with the tree as his brother did.

According to the witness, several years later two girls, one of which is a lifeguard at a nearby YMCA camp, saw something they called "Monkey Boy" jumping on and off a wall. Attempts to locate and contact these witnesses have thus far been unsuccessful.

An example of christian mind control - an email exchange

2007-06-16T09:29:00.000-07:00

This person is Jason:
http://www.myspace.com/jasontherealdealoneil

You are a little self-righteous, conceited ass - so completely typical of mind controlled christians. You know nothing about me. You look down on me because I am different from you and see things differently. To say "I...hope that one day you will know brotherly love and the beauty that life with purpose has to offer" is a slap in the face. By this you state that my life has no purpose unless I believe what you believe - in your mythical jesus. That I know nothing of "brotherly love". Unbelievable. You know NOTHING about my life and my family and friends, but you assume that you do.

Jason, you are a pharisee of pharisees. It was YOU who contacted me and started asking me questions about Zeitgeist, not vice versa. It was you who told me that this video infuriated you and I explained to you why that was. There is no truth??? Your jesus said he WAS truth and the your bible states that it is the truth, but you say there is no truth.....If jesus and the bible is just an idea then why are you such a pompas, condescending ass?

You have not seen both sides. You must LEAVE your mind control religion behind and be freed from it to be able to see both sides, of which you are incapable of.

christians always use this "I will pray for you and hope that one day you will know brotherly love and the beauty that life with purpose has to offer" routine when they are faced with a problem they cannot overcome. It is a self-defense mechanism of your religious mind control.

I am posting this on my blog and as a bulletin for all to see what a self-righteous and condescending person you are.

John

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Jason
Date: Jun 12, 2007 10:52 PM

there is no truth. Just an idea. You are missing the point.

You are claiming to know my kind based on what I write and the idea you get from my belief. I have seen both sides. I choose to believe what I do based on life itself what I see and what I feel. faith and beliefs are not logic. They are ideas.

I will pray for you and hope that one day you will know brotherly love and the beauty that life with purpose has to offer.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Psychic Evolution
Date: Jun 13, 2007 1:41 AM

It infuriates you because it goes against your programming. You claim to have a free mind and open to truth, but you are indoctrinated in religious mind control. You refuse to think otherwise because you cannot. You don't want to because it is your comfortable program. This is mind control. Mind control cannot be felt or sensed while you are subject to it. It just goes to show how controlled you really are even though your eyes are open to many other realities. You need to spend time in my blogs but you won't.

The information in this movie IS true, but your program will not allow you to know that.

Please delete me as your friend, since I offend you with the truth.

----------------- Original Message -----------------

Just curious. That video infuriates me when people pass it off as truth. I posted a blog about it this morning.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Psychic Evolution
Date: Jun 13, 2007 1:19 AM

Why do you want to know?

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Jason
Date: Jun 12, 2007 10:17 PM

Is it the ideas of Jesus? or the arrogance, ignorance and hypocrisies of it's believers?

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Psychic Evolution
Date: Jun 13, 2007 1:11 AM

I never said I denounced "GOD". I denounce religion and christianity.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Jason
Date: Jun 12, 2007 10:06 PM

Why do you believe the first part of this and denounce GOD?

----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: Psychic Evolution
Date: Jun 13, 2007 12:51 AM

Zeitgeist the Movie

This is one of the greatest and most important videos ever made. Watch it and you will agree.

Zeitgeist is originally German expression that means "mind of the age", literally translated as "time (Zeit) mind Geis". It denotes the intellectual and cultural climate of an era.

What does Christianity, 911 and The Federal Reserve have in common? This is the full Zeitgeist production. Please note it is an experiential work; the opening 4 minutes has no video - just audio.

More christian mind control exchange

2007-06-16T09:20:00.000-07:00

This is from the comments section of my post on Ex-Christian.net. I think some of you might find it interesting. The comments are directly following this article. I have several exchanges with a fellow named Tizso below. If you are interested in christianity and/or its fallacies then I hope it is helpful to you.

~John

http://exchristian.net/exchristian/2007/01/why-atheistic-arguments-cannot-work.html
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Why Atheistic Arguments Cannot Work Against Christian Fundamentalism

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I, along with many other ex-Christians, am in a rare position to speak on one of the most oppressive thought systems that has ever been subjected upon humanity and because I honestly care about our world and our spiritual and psychic evolution of humanity do I set out to help some to be free from this darkness. This HAS to come out of me. I need to know that I did all that I could with the knowledge that I have to help humanity in the best way that I can. It is a part of who I am and what I am here to do with the remaining time I have left.

Okay, why is it that Atheistic arguments cannot work against Christian Fundamentalism? Over the past three years I have read most of the major and many of the minor works on Atheism and its arguments against theism in general and fundamentalism in particular. There are some great arguments for sure, yet as a very knowledgeable ex-Christian I can logically answer 99% of all the hardest questions that can be posed to a Christian. I had (and still have) a solid answer for every question, and well-educated Christians (that is those Christians who truly know their bibles, hermeneutics, and the various disciplines of theology) also can answer such hard questions (though maybe not to the satisfaction of an Atheist). So being able to rebut Christianity through logic, science, nitpicking the contradictions of the bible, or various other means just doesn't work (on the whole). It just doesn't. If it did there would be hordes of people leaving Christianity. Certainly other religions have even less of an effect upon Christian ideology. If anything it strengthens the resolve of those who are serious Christians. If Atheism, rational thought, science, and every other religion cannot dismantle the Christian religion then is there any hope of freeing the world from this incredible darkness?

Yes. Most Atheists have never been a die-hard, living martyr for Christ and "the Faith." There are some of us Atheists who have lived that life, gave ourselves to Jesus and "his truth", sacrificed everything in our utter devotion to love and serve him, his truth and his church. "That Christ might live in us and that we might die" all for Jesus. There are ex-Christians who were as devout or deeply ingrained within it as I have been and they know, as I do, why arguments, whatever they might be, just didn't hold water. We know the passion and determination of other extremists from religions like Islam and Mormonism as well.

Ultimately, there are only two ways to break through this incredibly resilient ideology and belief system, to break into the minds of these people and help them to see. The first being: Universal Reconciliation, the third major theological system of the bible (the other two being Arminianism and Calvinism). Universal Reconciliation is the most consistent New Testament theological system and portrays god in the highest and most loving and merciful light. Universal Reconciliation is a much higher view of Christ and god than the vast majority of evangelical Christianity holds to, which falls within the confines of Arminianism or Calvinism (usually an inconsistent combination of the two). Anyone who truly knows the bible understands that the bible is broken up into covenants, mainly the new covenant and the old covenant. The new covenant was created when Jesus died on the cross (according to the bible that is). Everything before Jesus' death was under the old covenant, which was just a foreshadow or anti-type of the real, which was Christ and his new covenant. This is why knowledgeable Christians will never be moved with all the horrid and murderous quotes from the Old Testament - "that was under the old covenant and was fulfilled in Christ." The Old Testament is not the canon of the Christian, the New Testament is. Though many less knowledgeable Christians see the Old Testament quotes and try to follow them. This is why the Phelps' and other members of Westboro Baptist Cult in, Topeka, Kansas can say and do what they do. They take the Old Testament scriptures as their cannon (that is, it is authoritative to them) and use it for their own horribly deviant agendas. The new covenant puts all the duties and requirements of the Old Testament law completely fulfilled in Christ, but more than this Universal Reconciliation states that Christ died for EVERY person, past, present and future regardless whether or not they believe. Sure it is ideal to come to faith and be born-again in this life and know Jesus now, but it is not necessary for reconciliation with god. He did it all. Thus all the sins of all the people in every age, past , present and future were propitiated by christ on the cross, reconciling everyone to himself, yes, even Hitler, Dahmer, and Phelps. Some also believe that Satan will be reconciled and restored to god in the consummation of the end as well. This is a MUCH more positive and loving, (and I must say more scriptural) understanding and view of god under the new covenant. Though mainstream Christianity calls Universal Reconciliation a heresy and those who believe it are damned to hell. This blocks nearly 100% inquiry into this understanding of the New Testament. I didn't want to even look into it at first because I was so deeply programmed with the Christian status quo.

Once one also understands that 98% of English translations of the bible are translated by people who are programmed themselves with a certain theological system and that there are many places in the New Testament that are purposefully mistranslated to concur with their own theology, then you can understand that the word "hell" is never even in the New Testament. There is much to this of course, but suffice it to say that there are agendas within agendas even with translating the bible. If there is no hell in the New Testament then the current, mainstream evangelicalism and fundamentalism basically falls apart. Hell is a more generally a more treasured doctrine to Christians than redemption or reconciliation is, whether they would like to admit it or not, because without hell there is no NEED of faith in Christ.

Thus Universal Reconciliation frees the mind and heart to love Christ more or to seek other avenues of meaning in life. If I am reconciled to god whether or not I believe then I am free. Free to love Christ all the more or free to leave Christianity altogether. So this is the first way to free the minds and hearts of devout, truth seeking Christians.

The second and only other way is to expose them to the methods and means of the mind control that they are subject to. Logic and reasoning cannot penetrate their mind control and indoctrinated programming, no matter how sharp your logic is. See, knowledgeable Christians have an answer to every question that can be imagined. Their box is complete. This is why debating a devout Christian ONLY hardens them in their position. This is the nature of their control. The more you question them, the more you try to shake them from their faith, the more resolute they become. When they believe that there is an answer for EVERY question, no matter how difficult it may be, there is no way to rationally dethrone their thinking, because even though they might not have the answer - there is an answer - and thats good enough for them. This is just one part of the programmed mind of the Bible believer.

Christian mind control is based on indoctrination. Their indoctrination is, of course, based on the bible. Their understanding of the bible is based on a specific framework or system of interpretation of that bible (generally considered as theology). Their interpretation of that bible is largely based the on teaching of that interpretation by others, generally pastors, bible teachers, seminary professors, or parents, friends, or even popular Christian literature. In turn these people (pastors, teachers, seminary professors, parents, etc.) are indoctrinated by others and the cycle is continuous. This indoctrination, in order for it to be successful, must be authoritative. That is, the teaching that one receives is one of authority, either by parents or by a charismatic pastor, etc. This authoritative indoctrination, if accepted by the mind, reforms the thoughts of the person from one ideology to another or in a child's case from a blank slate. This is called Thought Reform or more generically brainwashing. Thought Reform or Brainwashing is unnoticeable in the convert since they continue to have a fully functioning free will and do not feel inadvertently coerced. They want to be taught/programmed with "the truth."

The gospel message of salvation or any other teaching by Christians that seeks to convert someone to "the Way, the Truth, and the Life" is usually a message designed to bombard the mind with the threat of eternal damnation (fear) and the reward of eternal life (joy). Evangelization, generally speaking, is psychological warfare of the mind. It is designed to confuse your current non-belief with a powerful, authoritative message of tremendous weight - eternity. Those who are in a weakened emotional or psychological state (from some inner turmoil, external stress, or even being lonely or homesick) are much easier prey to this psychological bombardment, and when it is masked with the guise of spirituality it becomes a serious burden to the Self.

When one undergoes the "born-again" experience and feels like a different person (and psychologically is) this is the mind succumbing to the psychological warfare and tremendous emotions of relief are felt and "renewal of soul" are felt because that burden, in a sense, falls through the mind of the person and is now free from it by being taken over by it. This is classic mind control. Any true research into psychological manipulation, Thought Reform and Brainwashing will reveal this very process. It is NOT a spiritual re-birth but a psychological reprogramming of the Self. There is no more powerful experience that one can undergo. Once one is programmed in this manner it is nearly impossible to be brought back or to be involuntarily deprogrammed.

The human mind is incredibly strong in many ways, yet it is weak just as much as it is strong and it is susceptible to suggestion, manipulation, and many other forms of coercion. Overt forms of control are easily thwarted, but it is the subvert or subtle forms of control that the mind is so easily turned by. If you have any question about this I recommend you watch some of the material by Derren Brown, Criss Angel, or any other talented mentalist and it is clearly evident how frightfully simple it is to control people without their knowledge. (Please see my Derren Brown videos I've uploaded to My Videos section).

When authoritative preaching is conducted, especially on a podium behind a pulpit (the elevation of the stage or podium above the congregates is a subliminal message of authority and exultation. The pulpit is also a symbol of an authoritative position) along with the "perfect and holy Word of God" this becomes an extremely powerful force upon the minds of those who are witnesses. You add the submissive rows of silent, attentive hearers and the mind is even further at risk to programming. The very sight of this kind of submissiveness and attentiveness of rows of people speaks volumes to the mind. The human mind has the tendency to "get caught up with the mob" or go along with the crowd and be swayed by what the others do. Its called the sheep mentality. You mix these powerful ingredients and you have mind control par excellence! When the preacher starts to preach the congregation goes into a specific type of hypnotism. This hypnotism keeps the congregates continually renewed in their indoctrinated programming. This is why pastors insist on members coming to worship every Sunday, because it helps to keep the sheep in line (the money flowing as well as their accolades for the ego of the pastor).

If one has a thorough understanding of this Christian mind control, what it is and how it works, one can use this knowledge to not attack their beliefs but to attack their process of mind control and help them to see the control without them feeling like their Faith is under attack. Once one comes to see the means of control and how psychological programming works then on their own they have the ability to look at the program and question it. Do you see? If one attacks their beliefs it will NEVER free them. It will in fact harden their beliefs. Though, help them to see the means of programming and they will in time question the program.

This is just a very condensed version of a book that I am currently writing on Christianity. I go into much deeper detail of the methods and means and effects of evangelical psychological programming as well as the teachings of Universal Reconciliation and the dangers and conspiracy of Dispensational theology, which is what mainstream Christianity is.

If you like this article feel free to visit my others at my MySpace site at: http://www.myspace.com/psychicevolution

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Comments:
Great post there John.

It's funny how these coincidences pop up. Only a few days ago did I want to look into the psychology aspect of Christianity. - its methods to increase the flock through fear of damnation and the joy of heaven.

Not wanting to side track from this great post but I used to attend a 'happy clappy' church as I call them, where talking in tongues and so forth was pretty much the norm.

I always remember one lady standing up giving a testimony of how one of her relatives came to the lord not long before he died. However when he did die she spent every waking thought worring that he wasn't saved and that he was either in Hell or going to be sent to Hell.

'Then' .. she said that this weight was immediately lifted when one of the pastors was praying over her and came out with a 'prophecy' "and we thank you lord that you saved Ken" (not his real name - I can't remember it). She felt immediately at peace.

I sat there and listened to this and very slowly shook my head. This same pastor had 'prophised' over me saying how I was a pillar of light in the kingdom of heaven and that I'm truly blessed. The pastor knew that I was (and indeed am) a career for a relative. What that pastor didn't know that the only reason I attended that church was so my relative who's a Christian could attend.

What makes matters worse (in their eyes) is that I was at the time a practising Pagan Witch .. and still am. Here was this pastor alledging that he was prophising from God saying that I was a pillar of light when in fact if he'd known the truth he'd probably be rephrasing that - to involve Hell fire and the like.

All that evening I kept thinking of the lady and how her way of thinking was instantly changed because of this supposed revelation. Imagine if I had gone over and told her that if this pastor who'd told me that I was 'blessed' when I was (in their eyes) the enemy, how could he have had 'the authority' to say that her relative wasn't facing damnation.

I look forward to reading your book on the subject as I find this matter of particluar interest.

Cheers.

posted: January 21, 2007 EST

xrayman wrote:

Great article. I'm an ex-tepid Christian. For some reason I was born with a great deal of sceptcisism programmed within. I've been down and out on plenty of occasions, but the relgious meme was never really sold to me. Atheism came very easy to me once I became well informed.

I just watched the story on the History Channel of Jim Jone's mass suicide cult. How do people fall for such bullshit that leads to such an outcome? 900 people died for this asshole, and before that they signed every asset they had to him. How does this happen? How does a mind get sucked in so far? There is just a fine line between a church and a cult. When you are a preacher you such potential to have great power over a large group of people or sheep as they were called.

You usually can't get the the rock hard minds of the devout, but we must get at the non enthusiastic Christians as I once was. I was so easy to deconvert.

posted: January 21, 2007 EST

John Blatt wrote:

Hey xrayman,

It does seem crazy that 900 people would knowingly drink poison in their devotion with Jim Jones. Remember, most of those people were highly intelligent people, some of whom were doctors and lawyers. Yet this is the deception of mind control and it is NOT just found in these extreme religious groups. Let me make this as clear as I can:

Fundamentalist christianity IS mind control.

There is no imaginary dividing line between a church and a cult, they are ALL cults. The control is usually non-violent and so flies under the radar of danger for most people, but the same mind control that is witnessed in islam is identical to christianity - its just a different set of programming. Yes, christianity, islam, and conservative judaism all are mind control cults.

Thanks for the comments!

John

posted: January 21, 2007 EST

Anonymous wrote:

"most Atheists have never been a die-hard, living martyr for Christ... " no shit. none of the living atheists have ever been a living martyr? wow! i know lots of christians who are living who where martyrs...duuuu uuuhuck...

posted: January 21, 2007 EST

John Blatt wrote:

Anonymous said...

"most Atheists have never been a die-hard, living martyr for Christ... " no shit. none of the living atheists have ever been a living martyr? wow! i know lots of christians who are living who where martyrs...duuuu uuuhuck...

Okay, huckleberry, good one........

posted: January 21, 2007 EST

Anonymous wrote:

"Universal Reconciliation states that Christ died for EVERY person, past, present and future regardless whether or not they believe ... Though mainstream Christianity calls Universal Reconciliation a heresy and those who believe it are damned to hell."

There's an interesting episode of This American Life which talks about a popular preacher ("Carlton Pearson") who comes to the conclusion that God saves everyone. He ends up being ostracized by evangelicals. You should have a listen. (You can also look up the wikipedia entry on him.)

Episode 304
http://www.thislife.org/pages/archives/archive05.html

posted: January 22, 2007 EST

Andrew Hawkins wrote:

This is an extremely interesting post – many thanks. I was subjected to such mind control plus fear of hell to become a Christian. I would be extremely interested to read of a case-study of someone that has been de-programmed using these techniques.

You're so right when you talk about faith just becoming stronger when it is attacked. I have used that knowledge myself to great effect. When I was trying to convince a Christian of the truth of the atheistic world she responded by saying, "Why are you even trying? You know you will not cause me to lose my faith". "Of course not", I replied, "That's why faith is so dangerous - the more you attack it the stronger it becomes". A shear look of horror came over her face as if to say you are right but I will not admit it. The argument ended there as it was, unfortunately rather heated.

posted: January 22, 2007 EST

Anonymous wrote:

Sadly, everything you've said actually does happen. but that's just the ugly side. the side that ,half of the time, means well but in the end still drinks the kool-aid. Sounds to me like you have a case of mind over spirit. Some people are too smart for there own good. You, yourself might have been brainwashed, but most of the people that you seem to be speaking about are spiritwashed. The only way to free them is spiritually. People who were brainwashed into Christianity seem to become athiests once they snap out of it. People who were spiritwashed into Christianity usually just find another church. There are many types of churches though. Some operate like cults, and other are completely free. The problem isn't "True Christianity". The problem is "Cult Christianity". It all comes down to finding out the truth for yourself constantly testing whatever it is you believe in.

posted: January 22, 2007 EST

John Blatt wrote:

Anonymous said...

"Sadly, everything you've said actually does happen. but that's just the ugly side. the side that ,half of the time, means well but in the end still drinks the kool-aid. Sounds to me like you have a case of mind over spirit."

That is very presumptuous of you since you don't even know me. I totally disagree with you. One of the things that you and many others fail to realize is that the mind and the spirit are very much interconnected. Its called CONSCIOUSNESS. The consciousness and subconsciousness of humans is an intelligent spirit. You cannot separate them in the way you have in "mind over spirit". I understand what you are saying, but we are thinking beings and not just spirit. We are a balance. This is why religious indoctrination is so dangerous. It effects the consciousness of not only the individual, but of the consciousness of all.

"Some people are too smart for there own good."

Really...In other words some people would be better off being stupid (namely people like myself and the other intelligent ex-christians here) instead of challenging the medieval thinking and control of christianity. This very statement reveals a lot about your own programming. One of my ex-"pastors" told me the very same thing when I left his church. Amazing.

"You, yourself might have been brainwashed, but most of the people that you seem to be speaking about are spiritwashed."

Define and thoroughly explain "spiritwashed" in contrast to "brainwashed". You can't because you do not understand brainwashing in the first place. Do your own homework and come back and lay down your explanation. I would like to understand the details of "spiritwashing" in contrast to Thought Reform.

"The only way to free them is spiritually. People who were brainwashed into Christianity seem to become athiests once they snap out of it. People who were spiritwashed into Christianity usually just find another church."

What you mean is the only way to free people is by the blood of christ, right? Why do you hide behind an anonymous name using vague language when you really want to say its the holy spirit that saves and those who merely believe in christianity intellectually (i.e. brainwashed) were not true christians in the first place since they were not "spiritwashed" by the spirit of god? Why hide? Because once "spiritwashed" always "spiritwashed," right? They might leave one "bad church" but end up in a "good church". This is the very type of thing I was writing about in the first place. Because of your own programming and mind control you are unwilling to understand what christian brainwashing really is. It is a self-defense mechanism of the program. I challenge you to study what Thought Reform really is. Those who refuse to do so and want nothing to do with understanding it reveal that they themselves are brainwashed and controlled. If you are not brainwashed, explain to me how you are not. But you must understand it first to do so.

"There are many types of churches though. Some operate like cults, and other are completely free. The problem isn't "True Christianity". The problem is "Cult Christianity"."

I completely disagree. The problem is not the difference between "True christianity" and "cult christianity" but of christianity. There ARE many types of churches, but they are CHURCHES and churches are based on the christian bible and christianity. Christianity is a mind control system and the bible is a series of psychological documents.
Go read my own ex-testimony at: http://exchristian.net/testimonies/2005/06/pharisee-of-pharisees.php It shows how thoroughly indoctrinated and programmed I once was and how I much experience I've had with the christian religion of so variations.

"It all comes down to finding out the truth for yourself constantly testing whatever it is you believe in."

Exactly. You are right.

posted: January 22, 2007 EST

Anonymous wrote:

John,

I am afraid that the complexity of your explaination allows for the same argument to be made against everything you have said, as easily as for everything you have said...

Skipping the tit-for-tat details -- I believe you have acommplished nothing; except to scientifically break down the nature of how a person might believe in anything. And, even if you are correct (which I do not dispute), all you have done is come full circle...

You might sell some books though! People everywhere are searching for a way to explain the things that are just out of reach...

You should do well!

posted: January 22, 2007 EST

John Blatt wrote:

Tizso said...

"John,
I am afraid that the complexity of your explaination allows for the same argument to be made against everything you have said, as easily as for everything you have said..."

Hi Tizso, thanks for the comments. I do appreciate your honesty. I am really interested in what your thoughts are with regards to this. I'd like to know in more detail how my explanation is self-contradictory. I'm sincere in this request because I'd like to be informed if my thinking is flawed. If you wouldn't mind you can either email me privately at psychicevoultion@yahoo.com or post here. I'd like to hear back from you.

"Skipping the tit-for-tat details -- I believe you have acommplished nothing; except to scientifically break down the nature of how a person might believe in anything."

I would tend to disagree, since religion, specifically fundamentalist christianity, is based on faith and not evidence, based on an interpretation of a book. I believe that it is a much different thing to believe the inerrancy of the the bible than to believe that the Greek gods exist. There is no sciencific evidence for either, but inerrancy is a programmed and indoctrinated belief and the Greek gods is just mythology. Do you see what I'm saying? The doctrines of christianity are no greater than the doctrines of the Greek gods, but the difference is the power of authority. The christian system, whether we like it or not, has psychological authority over a majority of people, since it is true that a majority of this nation believe that the bible is true. People just don't believe in the Greek gods anymore, mostly because there are no authoritative presenters of that old religion and there is no authoritative belief structure (like churches, denominations, and seminaries and such) for the Greek gods. I know that I'm not being very clear here since I don't have the time right now to elaborate. I'll try to later.

"And, even if you are correct (which I do not dispute),"

If you do not dispute that I am correct, then how is it that my thinking is flawed? I know you didn't directly say it was flawed, but you did say it was basically self-defeating, am I correct?

"all you have done is come full circle... You might sell some books though! People everywhere are searching for a way to explain the things that are just out of reach...
You should do well!"

LOL, my real goal is to help the world from the downward spiral of religious insanity, which unchecked WILL ultimately destroy this country if not the entire world. Sure, who wouldn't want to be successful in something that they loved doing, but having my book on the NY Bestseller list, though it would be cool, is not my objective, only in so far as to get the information out.

Thanks again for your comments and look forward to hearing from you again.

John

posted: January 22, 2007 EST

boomSLANG wrote:

People everywhere are searching for a way to explain the things that are just out of reach...

Yes, yes, people "everywhere", including Christians. And according to most theists, again, Christians included, the "nature" of their "supernatural" deity is---by logic and definition---"out of reach"(especially when they don't have "logical" and definitive answers in regards to their deity.) Yet, interestingly, they "know" so much about Her. And how?....pen and ink. It's SUPERNATURAL, baby! lol

posted: January 22, 2007 EST

Anonymous wrote:

John,

Thanks for the civility. I'll try to take it one point at a time:

1) Your explaination is not self-contradictory --in fact for the portion of the problem that you are addressing-- you are correct. It is simply inaffective against oppossing information, in that it is equally complex.

2) Christianity is based on faith only so far as "religion" goes; and evidence, only so far as science goes. Your science is not incorrect, it is incomplete. Religion, it is true, includes "interpretation" and a bunch of hearsay. You are right to be skeptical and put off with all of that. However, at its core Christianity and the Bible are rooted in something much more factual (I am not saying "evidence" or "proof"), hence the faith problem that affects the masses. The facts that I am speaking of, are without hearsay; they are direct witness accounts of God's commuication with mankind. If you were the recipent of such an encounter, you could speak with authority about (and above) those who have not. That is the common thread of the Bible. It takes one to know one --- and such accounts begin to pile up, thus the making of a book that everyone but those who wrote it -- have room to be skeptical of. It doesn't "prove" anything. But, if it happened to you, you would'nt just sit on it either.

3) Your thinking is flawed and you have only come full circle, in that you have nothing to add that goes beyond the skepticism. Nothing, as a position -- is nothing. And if you don't have faith in the witness of others - you remain as you are. I can't help you with that -- it's a crappy part of the deal, but it doesn't prove anything either -- which ends in a stalemate. What I can say, is that if you want to move foward, you have got to be willing to go (and I don't want to discuss this with anyone who isn't up to it).

4) As far as getting the information out, you'll get no respect from me unless you address the portion of Christianity that is not spoiled by religion. The problem is that, that portion has blinding effect, even with you... Granted, to even attempt to go beyond would be like interviewing UFO claims -- but you could take a lesson from that: If there is anything to (any) of the claims -- you won't see it until you take it seriously. Until you do so, your debate, is beneath any real authority. That is the delema of mankind searching within himself (and his own world) to find a truth that is beyond himself... And therefore, down through the ages life becomes just another unfinished book.

Nice chatten.

posted: January 22, 2007 EST

boomSLANG wrote:

And if you don't have faith in the witness of others - you remain as you are.

Praise Jesus!

And while you're at it--praise Muhammed; praise bigfoot; praise 'Nessy; praise batboy; praise Elvis; praise Buddha; praise Mithra.... praise! praise! praise!......praise any ol'thing!.... provided it's "verifiable" by the "witness of others"!

"I believe", said the believer.

posted: January 22, 2007 EST

John Blatt wrote:

Tizso said...

"John, Thanks for the civility. I'll try to take it one point at a time: 1) Your explaination is not self-contradictory --in fact for the portion of the problem that you are addressing-- you are correct. It is simply inaffective against oppossing information, in that it is equally complex."

Sorry but you couldn't be more vague in your explanation. I really do not believe it is complex at all and neither do the dozens of others who have contacted me about this post, both christian and ex-christian. Why do you think it is so complex? Do you think that maybe you make it more complex than what it is because it challenges your own views?

"2) Christianity is based on faith only so far as "religion" goes; and evidence, only so far as science goes. Your science is not incorrect, it is incomplete."

Is it? That is a fairly convenient way of trying to get around the issue at hand I think. Even if psychology is "incomplete" (and do you think that you can prove that it is?) it is still effective in what it explains about the human mind and the methods and effects of Thought Reform. There is just no way around that. If you would have actually studied Thought Reform, the purposes and tactics of coercive persuasion, and the history and methodology of mind control, then you might be better able to argue your point. But I doubt that you really want to go there, because as my article states, you would have to deal with your own programming.

"Religion, it is true, includes "interpretation" and a bunch of hearsay. You are right to be skeptical and put off with all of that. However, at its core Christianity and the Bible are rooted in something much more factual (I am not saying "evidence" or "proof")"

You have to understand that I am VERY familiar with christianity. It was my life and breath for thirteen years (if you would have read my ex-testimony you would know this). I am not skeptical. Skepticism (in the manner in which you used the term here) implies being indisposed or unwilling to believe. I was willing and I did believe whole-heartedly. One of the things that is so frustrating with communicating with christians (as an ex-christian) is that they always tend to think that we are skeptical because we don't understand, that we just don't get it. Though I did get it and I do get it. But I know what you are saying. You are saying that true christianity is NOT religion and this is so because at its core - jesus - is not about doctrine or theology but experiential relationship at the deepest levels. It is not so much intellectual as spiritual, not so much doctrinal as union with christ. Thus you assume that because I wrote about programming and indoctrination and MIND control that that doesn't have any true baring on this "true" or "unspoiled" core essence of real christianity (i.e. a deep unconditional love-union with christ), but you are wrong. Every religion and non-religious spirituality has the capacity to have the same deep spiritual experiences as this "true" religion-less christianity you describe. It is different programming but the same experience. The Buddhist has incredible transcendent spiritual bliss experiences just as devout christians have with with christ indoctrination. Taoists, muslims, wiccans, and yes even some atheists have the same incredible experience of love spiritually. You might not believe this but I know because I've experienced it both inside and outside the christian bubble. This is incredibly hard for christians to grasp, who have never experienced these other religions and their spirituality. The experience is the same, the context (or programming for some) of that experience is completely different.

"hence the faith problem that affects the masses. The facts that I am speaking of, are without hearsay; they are direct witness accounts of God's commuication with mankind."

Are they now? You affirm that because you are programmed with that belief. You were taught that by someone and you accepted that as "fact". I understand what you are saying and it is a powerful thing to believe that experience is the hallmark of authenticity. "It happened therefore it is". Direct witness accounts of god's communication (with regards to the bible is) IS hearsay. You cannot prove that the bible was (or is) the plenary, verbal inspiration of god. You might think you can prove it, but that comes from your programming.

"If you were the recipent of such an encounter, you could speak with authority about (and above) those who have not."

I was and I did. I have had tremendous experiences when I was in the same psychological state of indoctrination. Visions, healings, revelations, prophetic utterances, words of knowledge, etc. I lived it and experienced it all, and I did speak with great authority. I preached with great authority and power. So I understand precisely what you are saying.

"That is the common thread of the Bible. It takes one to know one ---"

I see. The same old argument. Again, this is your indoctrination.

"and such accounts begin to pile up, thus the making of a book that everyone but those who wrote it -- have room to be skeptical of."

But you didn't write it, did you? With this reasoning only the actual writers of the bible could believe it.

"It doesn't "prove" anything. But, if it happened to you, you would'nt just sit on it either."

You're right it doesn't prove anything. You assume that those who wrote the bible are whom you were taught they are. You presuppose that it is genuine because you were indoctrinated to think that way in the first place. Your programming confines your ability as well as your desire to see otherwise.

"3) Your thinking is flawed and you have only come full circle, in that you have nothing to add that goes beyond the skepticism. Nothing, as a position -- is nothing.

You are extremely vague again here. Sure its easy to say that my thinking is flawed and that my position is nothing(???) without proving it or at least trying to. I can say with confidence that everyone who reads your comment is going...what???

"And if you don't have faith in the witness of others - you remain as you are."

Again, man, you are incredibly vague here. If I don't have faith in the witness of others I remain as I am...??? WTF??? In the context of what you have said this doesn't make any sense.

"I can't help you with that -- it's a crappy part of the deal, but it doesn't prove anything either -- which ends in a stalemate. What I can say, is that if you want to move foward, you have got to be willing to go (and I don't want to discuss this with anyone who isn't up to it)."

You mean that if I want to know the Truth and the truthfulness of christianity then I have to be willing to believe and go into it and experience it. And if I am not "up to this" you don't even want to bother with me. This is standard christian thinking. I've used this on countless people during my time in the Cult. *big sigh*

"4) As far as getting the information out, you'll get no respect from me unless you address the portion of Christianity that is not spoiled by religion."

To be completely honest, I do not care if I do not get your respect. I really didn't expect to get it in the first place. I don't say that to be mean or condescending in any way. I mean, you don't give a crap if I don't respect your position, right? MANY people will not like what I have to say and many people will not want to understand it.
Portions of christianity not spoiled by religion??? Now that is a good one. I used to think this way too. Usually this "unspoiled" christianity was my current theological position or specific christian viewpoint, everything else was either corrupt, heretical, or just mislead - all being "spoiled by religion." There is no "unspoiled christianity" that is free from religion. That is such a strong indoctrination, man. The very fact that you mention such a thing proves your deep seated programming.

"The problem is that, that portion has blinding effect, even with you..."

But not with you of course. And what may I ask is this blinding, unspoiled version of christianity? I'd would like to know. The position that you hold, correct?

"Granted, to even attempt to go beyond would be like interviewing UFO claims -- but you could take a lesson from that: If there is anything to (any) of the claims -- you won't see it until you take it seriously."

You are the typical condescending, THOROUGHLY programmed christian. Yes, being an ex-christian I couldn't possibly have been serious about my previous faith or your "unspoiled" religion-less christianity now. You'd be surprised, but you are programmed (again) to speak this way to those of us who "just can't see the light." Amazing.

"Until you do so, your debate, is beneath any real authority."

So I have to "take serious" your "unspoiled", religion-less christianity in order to have any "real authority" in my "debate"? Gosh, I have my plate full. First of all, I wasn't debating anyone. And even if I had your so called "authority" it still wouldn't matter a lick because you are controlled, which was the very reason why I wrote my article in the first place.

"That is the delema of mankind searching within himself (and his own world) to find a truth that is beyond himself... And therefore, down through the ages life becomes just another unfinished book."

Dude, not to be rude here, but your comments, generally speaking, are incoherent and vague. Most of your points don't make any sense. ***Speaking now to the readers of these comments***: Am I correct in saying this people? Look, your comments speak to me as if I am ignorant of true christianity either from a intellectual or experiential position, which isn't the case. Thats why this is on EX-christian.net.

In my opinion, in conclusion, your arguments are ones of confusion and vagueness because you are faced with the fact that your christianity is mind control indoctrination and you don't want that to be so. It took a long time for me to finally come to that conclusion. I know that I have probably offended you in my responses, but just as your own website states this is just "tough love".

John Blatt

posted: January 23, 2007 EST

Sarabhi wrote:

John,

Great article. I'd never heard of Universal Reconciliation, but you gave a great, easily understandable description. Also understanding mind control is so important to ex-christians, imo, b/c it helps to understand the feelings we experience through deconversion and the experiences we had while we were christians. It's also, obviously, important for christians to understand mind control. I believe this article has strong potential to plant seeds of doubt in any christians willing to think on it.

Oh, and not only is your article great, but your responses to other posters have been excellent. Especially Tizso who, oddly enough, I thought was a young teenage girl until I visited his site. I completely agree with you that his arguments are confusing and vague. A sign that he's confused by his own vague understanding of things?

Ah well, again, great job! Thanks for posting this article.

-Sarabhi

posted: January 23, 2007 EST

tigg13 wrote:

Yeah, sounds to me like Tizso got himself a bad case of that cognitive dissonance stuff that the other poster was talking about. He can see that you're right, but you couldn't be right, but you have to be right, but then he might be wrong, but ... oh its just too complex. (ALERT! ALERT!)

Great post John. I was brainwashed too - went through hell deconstructing my whole sense of reality. (Still haven't figured it all out yet.) Wish I had read your post 20 years ago. (Can't wait for the book) Hopefully it will help a lot of other people break free.

posted: January 23, 2007 EST

Anonymous wrote:

John,

I new it was a mistake to comment… You seemed sincere and I meant to be kind.

I'm going to make this brief and then I'm going to drop it:

John, you don't know me well enough to say all you said about me --- I had no programming or indoctrination. I was a virgin, and the first information I got was directly for God…But I do know you, well enough to say, that is not the level to which you knew Christianity.

In fact, due to your attempt at making me out to be some kind of victim of religious programming – I would venture to say that you were talking about you!

---You were the victim --you were programmed --you thought you knew everything, and you thought you had some real authority…

And, as you say--- you were wrong!

Oh, and the bubble – it isn't Christianity – it's humanity, your humanity. You think too small…and you're not complex, you just rattle on…

posted: January 23, 2007 EST

John Blatt wrote:

"Tizso wrote: John, I new it was a mistake to comment… You seemed sincere and I meant to be kind. I'm going to make this brief and then I'm going to drop it: John, you don't know me well enough to say all you said about me --- I had no programming or indoctrination. I was a virgin, and the first information I got was directly for God…"

Tizso, you said you HAD no programming at the beginning. You were a virgin when god spoke to you. This is fine. Before I became a christian, as a child and teenager, I used to have long, profound conversations with god. I was a "virgin" as well, of course until christianity crashed into my life and told me how to think about god. Tizso, I would say though that NOW, using the bible, and being in christianity that you have come to be programmed. Do you not believe certain truths about the bible? Do you believe that the bible is the perfect "Word of God"? Yes, you HAD no programming in the beginning. Neither did I. But that is not that case any longer is it?

"But I do know you, well enough to say, that is not the level to which you knew Christianity."

If you mean that jesus came down from heaven and spoke to me in person saying "follow me", then no. But you do not know me either, Tizso. It is easy to accuse in ignorance, but all we have to go on is what we share here and we both went off of that.

"In fact, due to your attempt at making me out to be some kind of victim of religious programming – I would venture to say that you were talking about you!"

Yes of course! I was subtly describing myself in everything in my last comment. No, no, I couldn't have been actually talking about you. It was me! I confess!

"---You were the victim --you were programmed --you thought you knew everything, and you thought you had some real authority…"

You know this is absolutely correct. I WAS programmed. I DID think I knew everything. I DID think that I had some real authority. You are right on the money, Tizso.

"And, as you say--- you were wrong!"

Yes. I WAS wrong. Very wrong. Thank you for making my point so poignantly. I mean that. I was very wrong about christianity and the bible and its authority. And I was very sad for a long time, because I loved jesus so much.

"Oh, and the bubble – it isn't Christianity – it's humanity, your humanity. You think too small…"

Wow, you got all that from our little discussions in these two comments. You must be psychic,or um, I mean, prophetic. Its funny Tizso that you scold me for accusing you of being programmed because I didn't know you, but you turn around and do it to me. Wow, you are the average christian.

"and you're not complex,"

Thank you. You confirm my point in my previous comment.

"you just rattle on…"

Of course. You know what A.W. Pink said (he was a fellow christian programmer I used to love to read), he said that denunciations and insults at the end of a conversation are the marks of one who has lost his argument. Well, I guess there are still some things that I agree with in christianity.

posted: January 23, 2007 EST

.:webmaster:. wrote:

Tizso (AKA Scott Allen Taylor) said, "The first information I got was directly for God"

Tizso's full testimony is here: I Witness

posted: January 23, 2007 EST

Jeff wrote:

I have read Tizso's testimony and I find his God experience unbelievable.

posted: January 23, 2007 EST

Sarge wrote:

Great posting, Mr. Blatt. Loved it.

posted: January 23, 2007 EST

boomSLANG wrote:

RE: "I witness"

UNbelievable(both in testimony, and suggestion). Okay, firstly, I personally have known 4 people who have committed suicide, one of which, I got to clean up "the mess"(because the state doesn't do it) So fair-warning... this post will NOT be "civil".

Item: So, po' boy "Tizso" sank to such a low point in his life, that he actually contemplated taking his own life. Hmmm...boy, that's simply UNheard of, isn't it? Yes, succumbing to the pit-falls and trials in life is a rare occurance in our society. So, "one man"---in all his desperation---"called out to God" for help. Wow. Again, totally UNheard of. I mean, surely no one else with the business-end of a hand-gun pressed against their temple has EVER thought about "calling out to God" before painting the wall with their brains, right? Gawd...so original, that Tizso is.

'Tell ya what---what an insult to the friends and families of people who actually have taken their own lives, safely assuming that the deceased got no "Divine" intervention. "Oh....'sorry that God had a 'plan' for me to live, and not your loved ones."

Go F%CK YOURSELF, you pompous delusional prick.

BTW, if anyone gets a "message from God" to go live in the woods like Grizzley Adams, please don't eat the wild mushrooms!...or you, too, may find yourself "astral projecting" into the clouds. Idiot.

posted: January 23, 2007 EST

Dano wrote:

RE: "I witness"
Mental health facilities are full of people who hear voices, and see visions. Nothing new or unique here!

The last case of schizophrenia that I saw documented, was on TV last week, and told of the life of the guy in New York who had sought help from the health care system, was given cursory treatment and put back out on the street, something like 33 times.

He is in prison now after being found guilty of pushing a pretty young girl off a subway platform into the path of an oncoming train. He says, he doesn't know why he did it.

I believe that Tizso really does believe his out of body experience was a message from God. I'm not even sure that, if I had an equally "Marvelous" experience, that I wouldn't doubt my profound skepticism somewhat, but like someone said on another thread, (I think it was tigg13) "If God or Jesus comes to me and starts telling me stuff, He'd better bring a whole shitload of ID")

John Blatt,
I applaud your complete grasp of religious brainwashing including that caused by mystical experiences, and by being washed by the spirit. These people seem to be saying "If you could be crazy like me, you would be happy" I'm not sure though, that human societies can tolerate much more of that kind thinking.

Having faith in faith just seems to have outlived it's usefulness. As scary as reality is, hard core, this world, reality, I am, increasingly, of the opinion that we should constantly use it as our new faith.

Sure, having no certain belief in anything supernatural, I do have to say: "I don't know what happens to our spirit, (If we have one), after we die, and I don't know what created us or why, but I am absolutely certain, that none of the other 7 billion Homo Sapiens don't either!"

The good part of this is,that, certain, non belief, makes me impervious to all the threats of hell, and the mighty unmerciful justice of, "That GOD" of the bible,whom we created in our own image. You know what I'm talking about! All the havoc and carnage described in Revelations.

I tend to think now that if there is a God out there somewhere, he would have to be a much better than the ones we have made up in the past. Bible God just doesn't seem too bright, or good!
Dano (SKEPTICAL)

posted: January 23, 2007 EST

sarabhi wrote:

Tizso said:

"I new it was a mistake to comment… You seemed sincere and I meant to be kind."

John seemed sincere because he is sincere. What has he said in the article or any of his posts that seem insincere?

You meant to be kind? No. You meant to defend your religion by saying that John's article didn't prove anything. You meant to make a point, which you have proven to everyone you can't make.

-Sarabhi

posted: January 23, 2007 EST

Anonymous wrote:

John is one of the most intelligent,sincere,honest and compassionate persons I have ever known. He cares deeply about the sorry state our Earth is in and how it will affect his son as he grows up. Religion has destroyed our planet with violence,hatred and intolerance of all kinds. I truly wish there was a Jesus so he would rapture all their sorry asses out of here and leave the intelligent ones alone. It reminds of a song by 'Quiet Riot called 'Mental Health'. Religion is bad for humanity but no one ever in a Cult can actually see and acknowledge that they are in fact one.

posted: January 25, 2007 EST

TrisB wrote:

Dear John,

Great post - it clarifies at good length many of my own musings on why theists are often so arrogant. It would be great to see a hard-nosed manual of "how to brainwash people" and then systematically show how well Christianity follows it.

Your dissection of Tizso's attack was quite entertaining if not long winded - although indeed such responses often have to be to navigate the fog people create. I've tried before and words sometimes just don't seem to do it. (we would need mind-melds to get them back on track I reckon). You seemed frustrated and I hear you - ignorance and complacency are an unpleasant combination to endure in an opponent (the qualities always seem to come paired).

I am a student at Cambridge in England and I've had trans-Atlantic blog-battles with theists but always hit a brick wall when they go back on things like proof by personal revelation, proof by incomprehensibility or even worse, the proof by forceful assertion. Your article nicely establishes and elucidates this "wall" they put up but still cutting through it is very hard. What is the next step?

I doubt telling theists that they are brainwashed will go down well, but teaching them about the nature of human delusion might. One reason I am an atheist (former Christian although not for as long as you) is due to an understanding of basic psychology. Secular cases of textbook denial, deflection and fabrication in the face of a threat to normality come up all the time and are quite well understood. I think getting people up to speed on this, showing how easily we are brainwashed, could go far.

Dawkins likened the UNDETECTABILITY of religious brainwashing to that of a computer virus - it being a necessary attribute. It's the whole point, viruses are supposed to be undetectable! It has to replicate before it surfaces or else risk getting splatted (the analogy here with religeon is profound). Nonetheless too few theists seem humble enough to run a proverbial virus-scan on themselves, and would I applaud you for encouraging them to do so. All the best

posted: March 21, 2007 EST

Jamie wrote:

I'm glad someone posted to this and bumped it back onto the "Recent Comments" page otherwise I would have missed the whole thread.

Like John, I first came to believe in Universal Reconciliation. It was the only way a God of love and grace made any sense to me. Also, like John, that belief freed me to explore outside the Christian bubble. No wonder so many Christians are filled with fear at the very idea of Universalism.

And finally, like John, I became an ex-christian. In some ways it's still hard for me to actually SAY or WRITE that I am not a Christian. I have been one for 37 years, and not one for a matter of weeks or months, so I still feel some discomfort saying it. But it's the most honest thing I can say about my belief, and I can't bring myself to pretend that I believe otherwise.

Thanks, John, for the informative post. I do have a fear for my children. My wife seems to have gone further into the faith (possibly to find some comfort over our crumbling marriage). I worry my children's minds will be bound and chained by Church-Think. I guess the only thing I can do is offer them another point of view and let them decide.

My Personal Bigfoot Encounter

2007-04-08T01:36:00.001-07:00

My Personal Bigfoot Encounter

As most of you probably do not know about me, I have been an avid Bigfoot/Sasquatch buff all of my life. I've read most of the books out there on the subject from main-stream science to the paranormal as well as DVDs/Videos and websites on the subject.

After thirty years of my own searching and investigation I have come to believe that Bigfoot certainly does exist, is an inter-dimensional creature and is highly psychic. This past year I moved to the great Pacific Northwest and have spent over a dozen nights camping in both the North Cascades as well near Mount Rainier. Being psychic myself and having a great interest in the Sasquatch people I have sought contact with them during my camp outings. It took me many nights to get the nerve to make a psychic contact, because I have had a deep personal fear of Bigfoot most of my life (until recently). My visits to the North Cascades were uneventful, but my one camping trip to Mount Rainier was very interesting.

We arrived at our camp site in the early afternoon and set up camp in a wonderful and pristine location next to a small river. We walked the shores during the day and gathered a ton of firewood and having fun. During this time I stopped occasionally and psychically called out to the sasquatch and told them I was a friend, was interested in contacting them and wished them love and peace. I felt nothing in return, though later in the day, nearing evening, I felt the distinct feeling that we were being observed, though not in a threatening manner.

That night we settled in and my girlfriend and son fell asleep quickly. It was peaceful, no breeze or clouds in the sky. I laid there and psychically projected out my contact again and as I did so I felt a strong psychic presence and saw the outline of a sasquatch face in my "minds eye". It is very hard to explain a psychic communication without words, but basically I felt that it was incredibly interested in me, almost shocked that a human would (could) psychically seek contact with them. Almost a kind of bewilderment I felt from it. I told him that I was a friend and wished them peace. Told him that I was fascinated by their kind and was very interested in them in a friendly way. The psychic contact got really intense in a way that I cannot describe it had tremendous power and I had to break my contact with it. Not out of fear but because it overloaded my own senses. I laid there for probably an hour unable to fall asleep, trying to listen to any possible noises, but I heard and felt nothing and eventually fell asleep.

I woke up suddenly later that night in a startle. It was pitch black out and my girlfriend and son were asleep. I woke to something or someone touching the tent. Tapping actually. Not a light tapping either. I could tell that it wasn't my son or girlfriend moving in their sleep because the tapping sound came from the top of the tent right above me. I because extremely fearful and laid there unable to move, just listening. There was no breeze or rain outside. I calmed myself and called out to the sasquatch people psychically and asked for their help, because I was not sure if it was a human person outside our tent or not. I immediately was contacted by the same being that I received contact from earlier that evening. Its hard to explain but what I received from the sasqatch was that it was a leader of its kind and that my psychic callings was very unusual for them to receive. Some of them felt it as a threat and wanted to pay me physical visit and scare us out of their territory (for which they are known to do from time to time). They wanted to come and "check us out" because it was so unusual. But what I received from the Sasquatch was that he knew I meant no harm and that I had love in my heart though it knew my innate fear which I had and was interested that I would seek contact with them even though I had this long-standing fear of them. I felt that there was some kind of "release" psychically and the connection was gone and the tapping stopped and I felt peaceful again. I felt that we were actually being protected now so I felt very safe and was able to fall asleep quickly after this.

The next morning I woke up and it was beginning to be daylight out. I got up having to relieve myself and unzipped the tent and stood up. I was immediately shocked to see a ditch right next to our tent that wasn't there the previous day. It was between six to eight inches deep and was about twelve feet long, straight east of our tent, not two feet away from the edge of the tent. I gasped so loudly that I woke up my girlfriend, she got up and was shocked by it too. Someone or something made this deep mark in the ground next to our tent in the middle of the night. It wasn't there the previous day because we both remarked how nice the area was for settling up a camp and that the whole area was flat and clear - perfect for a tent. We would have noticed such a trench. To this day I am unsure what the significance of this mark meant. Was it a marking of protection of some sorts? "Leave these people alone"? That is what I sensed psychically that night.

Well, thats my first Sasquatch story. I looked around carefully for footprints or other signs and found nothing. I really am looking forward to further encounters this spring and summer. Can I prove that this had anything to do with a Sasquatch? No, but I have learned to trust my psychic gifts and this was something that I have never experienced before. Yes, there could be a rational explanation for all of this, but I feel that the contact was genuine. Hopefully I can get better information in the future as well as possibly physical evidence to back it up, but that would be up to them, because they are incredibly intelligent and know the intentions of the heart of all who come into their territory. They like to be left alone mostly, but we'll see what happens!

How Christian Mind Control Works

2007-04-06T06:34:00.000-07:00

How does Christian Mind Control work?

Coercion is defined as, "to restrain or constrain by force..." Legally it often implies the use of PHYSICAL FORCE or physical or legal threat. This traditional concept of coercion is far better understood than the technological concepts of "coercive persuasion" which are effective restraining, impairing, or compelling through the gradual application of PSYCHOLOGICAL FORCES.

A coercive persuasion program - within Christianity it is called "The Gospel Persuasion" - is a behavioral change technology applied to cause the "learning" and "adoption" of a set of behaviors or an ideology under certain conditions. It is distinguished from other forms of benign social learning or peaceful persuasion by the conditions under which it is conducted and by the techniques of environmental and interpersonal manipulation employed to suppress particular behaviors and to train others. Over time, coercive persuasion, a psychological force akin in some ways to our legal concepts of undue influence, is MORE effective than pain, torture, drugs, and use of physical force and legal threats.

The Korean War "Manchurian Candidate" misconception of the need for suggestibility-increasing drugs, and physical pain and torture, to effect thought reform, is generally associated with the old concepts and models of brainwashing. Today, they are not necessary for a coercive persuasion program to be effective. With drugs, physical pain, torture, or even a physically coercive threat, you can often temporarily make someone do something against their will. You can even make them do something they hate or they really did not like or want to do at the time. They do it, but their attitude is not changed. In Christianity this is called a "false conversion".

This is much different and far less devastating than that which you are able to achieve with coercive persuasion. With coercive persuasion you can change a person's will without their knowledge and volition. You can create new "attitudes" where they will do things willingly which they formerly may have detested, things which previously only torture, physical pain, or drugs could have coerced them to do. In effect, their desires change, their viewpoints change, and their feelings change through this Gospel persuasion. Most people have no idea of the depth of change that this type of persuasion can bring into a person, even changing them in "an instant". This seems impossible and that is a part of its strength and deceitfulness.

The extreme anxiety and emotional stress production technologies found in Gospel Coercive Persuasion supersede any physical style coercion that focuses on pain, torture, drugs, or threat in that these physical systems of coercion do not change an attitude so that subjects follow orders "willingly." Christian or Gospel Coercive Persuasion changes both attitude AND behavior, not JUST behavior.

Christian or Gospel Coercive Persuasion (or thought reform as it is sometimes known) is best understood as a coordinated system of graduated coercive influence and behavior modification designed to change the wills and volition of individuals, usually in a group setting, in order for the originators of the program - those witnessing or preaching - to spiritually and psychologically profit from this persuasion to validate their own program and to continue the feeling that the program gives each converted person. This Gospel Coercive Persuasion is a psychological program that is inherently addictive in itself, because the program makes itself the sole purpose of life and feeling. This is one of the reasons why it is so hard on many levels to deprogram and be freed from this psychological addiction of this program.

The essential strategy used by those operating such programs is to systematically select, sequence and coordinate numerous coercive persuasion tactics over CONTINUOUS PERIODS OF TIME. There are seven main tactic types found in various combinations in the Christian Coercive Persuasion program. A coercive persuasion program can still be quite effective without the presence of ALL seven of these tactic types.

TACTIC 1. The individual is prepared for thought reform through increased suggestibility and/or "softening up," specifically through hypnotic or other suggestibility-increasing techniques such as audio, visual, verbal, or tactile fixation drills (anything that is "moving" to the emotions as well as to the mind, i.e., worship music, dancing, embraces, stirring preaching or instructional teaching from a pulpit) and excessive repetition of routine activities.

TACTIC 2. Using rewards and punishments, efforts are made to establish considerable control over a person's social environment, time, and sources of social support. Social isolation is promoted ("You are not of the world", "Christ can to bring a sword"). Contact with family and friends is abridged, as is contact with persons who do not share church-approved attitudes. Psychological and emotional dependence on the group is fostered.

TACTIC 3. Disconfirming information and nonsupporting opinions are prohibited in church communication. Rules exist about permissible topics to discuss with outsiders. Communication is highly controlled, especially communication from God. God's communication is one-way, via the bible, and nothing is to contradict that communication. An "in-group" language is usually constructed, sometimes called "Christianese."

TACTIC 4. Frequent and intense attempts are made to cause a person to re-evaluate the most central aspects of his or her experience of self and prior conduct in negative ways. Efforts are designed to destabilize and undermine the subject's basic consciousness, reality awareness, world view, emotional control, and defense mechanisms as well as getting them to reinterpret their life's history, and adopt a new version of causality. This is usually called "sanctification" and "working out your salvation with fear and trembling."

TACTIC 5. Intense and frequent attempts are made to undermine a person's confidence in himself and his judgment, creating a sense of powerlessness. The only power that can help is God, or more precisely, the specific church's or Christian group's version of God. The eldership, church leaders, or "advanced" Christians are usually relied upon to understand the bible and for "encouragement" to "have the mind of Christ."

TACTIC 6. Nonphysical punishments are used such as intense humiliation (private and public confession of sin), loss of privilege (suspension or excommunication from the church or Christian group), social isolation (from the world and the "unbelievers" as well as from erring or heretical Christians that doesn't agree with their church or group), social status changes (from being a "respectable" and "stable" Christian to a "weak" or "unstable" Christian), intense guilt, anxiety, manipulation and other techniques for creating strong aversive emotional arousals, etc.

TACTIC 7. Certain psychological threats (force) are used or are present: That failure to adopt the approved attitude, belief, or consequent behavior will lead to severe punishment or dire consequence, (e.g. physical or mental illness given by God, the reappearance of a prior physical illness, worldliness, personal economic collapse, social failure, divorce, failure to find a mate, etc.).

Another set of criteria has to do with defining other common elements of mind control systems. If most of Robert Jay Lifton's eight point model of thought reform is being used in an organization, it is most likely a dangerous and destructive cult. Conservative Christianity is a dangerous and destructive cult (please note that "dangerous and destructive" does NOT mean that it must be PHYSICAL. The dangerousness and destructiveness is a psychological, emotional and spiritual one. Just because Christianity doesn't normally create personal or public violence does NOT mean that it is not severely destructive on many other levels). If you are an exchristian or presently a Christian you will be able to see that every sentence of these following points are prevalent within Conservative, Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christianity. The eight points follow:

Robert Jay Lifton's Eight Point Model of Thought Reform

1. ENVIRONMENT CONTROL. Limitation of many/all forms of communication with those outside the group. Worldly books, magazines, letters and fellowship with unbelieving friends and family are taboo. "Come out and be separate!"

2. MYSTICAL MANIPULATION. The potential convert to the group becomes convinced of the higher purpose and special calling of the group through a profound encounter or experience, for example, through an alleged miracle or prophetic word or spiritual feeling while within the group.

3. DEMAND FOR PURITY. An explicit goal of the group is to bring about some kind of change, whether it be on a global, social, or personal level. "Perfection is possible if one stays with the group and is committed." (This "perfection" is associated with sanctification, "(Mat 5:48) Therefore, you be perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect." "(2Co 13:11) For the rest, brothers, rejoice! Perfect yourselves"

4. CULT OF CONFESSION. The unhealthy practice of self disclosure to members in the group. Often (but not always) in the context of a public gathering in the group, admitting past sins and imperfections, even doubts about the group and critical thoughts about the integrity of the leaders.

5. SACRED SCIENCE. The group's perspective is absolutely true and completely adequate to explain EVERYTHING (A knowledgeable Christian can rebut any critical question presented and Christianity is the Truth and is capable to explain everything about life and spirituality). The doctrine is not subject to amendments or question. ABSOLUTE conformity to the doctrine is required. "(Mat 7:28) And it happened, when Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were astonished at His doctrine." "(Mat 7:28) And it happened, when Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were astonished at His doctrine." "(1Ti 4:16) Give attention to yourself and to the doctrine; continue in them, for doing this, you will both deliver yourself and those hearing you."

6. LOADED LANGUAGE. A new vocabulary emerges within the context of the group. Group members "think" within the very abstract and narrow parameters of the group's doctrine. The terminology sufficiently stops members from thinking critically by reinforcing a "black and white" mentality. Loaded terms and clichés prejudice thinking.

7. DOCTRINE OVER PERSON. Pre-group experience and group experience are narrowly and decisively interpreted through the absolute doctrine, even when experience contradicts the doctrine.

8. DISPENSING OF EXISTENCE. Salvation is possible only in the group (Christianity). Those who leave the group are doomed.

Any group that has most or all of these points is a destructive mind control cult.

CHRISTIAN COERCIVE PERSUASION IS NOT PEACEFUL PERSUASION

Christian programs identified with the above-listed seven tactics have in common the elements of attempting to greatly modify a person's self-concept, perceptions of reality, and interpersonal relations. When successful in inducing these changes, coercive thought reform programs also, among other things, create the potential forces necessary for exercising undue influence over a person's independent decision-making ability, and even for turning the individual into a deployable agent for the organization's benefit without the individual's meaningful knowledge or consent.

Christian Coercive Persuasion programs are effective because individuals experiencing the deliberately planned severe stresses they generate can only reduce the pressures by accepting the system or adopting the behaviors being promulgated by the purveyors of the coercion program. The relationship between the person and the coercive persuasion tactics are DYNAMIC in that while the force of the pressures, rewards, and punishments brought to bear on the person are considerable, they do not lead to a stable, meaningfully SELF-CHOSEN reorganization of beliefs or attitudes. Rather, they lead to a sort of coerced compliance and a situationally required elaborate rationalization, for the new conduct. With this being said the mind will reconstruct its reality and will view everything through this new reality. The construct of this new reality, to the new convert, is perfect and whole and beautiful even though it is psychologically devastating and logically contradictory. The Christian mind cannot see its own blind-spots. It sees no contradictions, no dangers, no imperfections, yet this is the Matrix that is the Christian Coercion Persuasion Program.

Once again, in order to maintain the new attitudes or "decisions," sustain the rationalization, and continue to unduly influence a person's behavior over time, coercive tactics must be more or less CONTINUOUSLY applied, thus the need to be a consistent member of a local church or Christian "body". A fiery, "hell and damnation" guilt-ridden sermon from the pulpit once a month, an hour of bible study within the New Testament on sanctification once a week, or other single instances of the so-called peaceful persuasions do not constitute the "necessary chords and orchestration" of a SEQUENCED, continuous, COORDINATED, and carefully selected PROGRAM of surreptitious coercion, as found in the comprehensive program of Christian Coercive Persuasion.

Looking like peaceful persuasion is precisely what makes Christian coercive persuasion less likely to attract attention or to mobilize opposition. It is also part of what makes it such a devastating control technology. Victims of coercive persuasion have: no signs of physical abuse, convincing rationalizations for the radical or abrupt changes in their behavior, a convincing "sincerity", and/or they have been changed so gradually that they don't oppose it because they usually aren't even aware of it.

Deciding if coercive persuasion was used requires case-by-case careful analysis of all the influence techniques used and how they were applied. By focusing on the medium of delivery and process used, not necessarily the message itself, and on the critical differences, not the coincidental similarities, which system was used becomes clear. The Influence Continuum helps make the difference between peaceful persuasion and coercive persuasion easier to distinguish.

VARIABLES

Not all tactics used in a Christian coercive persuasion type environment will always be coercive. Some tactics of an innocuous or cloaking nature will be mixed in.

Not all individuals exposed to Christian coercive persuasion or thought reform programs are effectively coerced or converted into becoming Believers.

How individual suggestibility, psychological and physiological strengths, weakness, and differences react with the degree of severity, continuity, and comprehensiveness in which the various tactics and content of a coercive persuasion program are applied, determine the program's effectiveness and/or the degree of severity of damage caused to its victims.
WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA OF THE CHRISTIAN COERCIVE PERSUASION PROGRAM?

A). Determine if the subject individual held enough knowledge and volitional capacity to make the decision to change his or her ideas or beliefs.

B). Determine whether that individual did, in fact, adopt, affirm, or reject those ideas or beliefs on his own.

C). Then, if necessary, all that should be examined is the behavioral processes used, not ideological content. One needs to examine only the behavioral processes used in their "conversion." Each alleged coercive persuasion situation should be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. The characteristics of coercive persuasion programs are severe, well-understood, and they are not accidental.

Christian Coercive Persuasion is not a religious practice, it is a control technology. It is not a belief or ideology, it is a technological process.

As a PROCESS, it can be examined by experts on its technology COMPLETELY SEPARATE from any idea or belief content, similar to examining the technical process of hypnotic induction distinct from the meaning or value of the post-hypnotic suggestions.

Examining PROCESSES in this manner can not violate First Amendment religious protections.

Christian Coercive Persuasion is antithetical to the First Amendment. It is the unfair manipulation of other's biological and psychological weaknesses and susceptibilities. It is a psychological FORCE technology, not of a free society, but of a criminal or totalitarian society.

Any organization using coercive persuasion on its members as a CENTRAL practice that also claims to be a religion is turning the SANCTUARY of the First Amendment into a fortress for psychological assault. It is a contradiction of terms and should be "disestablished."

Coercive persuasion is a subtle, compelling psychological force which attacks an even more fundamental and important freedom than our "freedom of religion." ITS REPREHENSIBILITY AND DANGER IS THAT IT ATTACKS OUR SELF-DETERMINISM AND FREE WILL, OUR MOST FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS.

My Screenplays

2007-02-12T18:46:00.000-08:00

Hi all,

I haven't mentioned this before anywhere else on my site, but I have been in the process of writing two screenplays, one of them for for six years now. I wanted to get this information out to others who are also interested in screenplays and making movies because one day I will finish these darn things.

The one that I have been working on most recently is, to me, the most interesting. It is a horror/thriller that is based on some of the most fascinating aspects of quantum physics, parapsychology, metaphysics and the paranormal. It is very loosely based on the horror classic Dracula by Bram Stoker. It is actually what I call a "re-imagination" of the tale based in the present year, but the main vampire character is not an undead creature like most vampires are based on. The idea comes from my own research into the world of physical parasites that live in the human body as well as "Entities: Parasites of the Body of Energy" by Samuel Sagan, "Mind Parasites, Energy Parasites and Vampires" by Jonathan Zap, "Psychic Vampires" by Joe Slate.

The creature is a parasitic entity from a lower astral dimension and under the right circumstances can enter into our physical dimension, unless it can continually feed off of the physical and psychic energy of humans. The creature, once able to feed from a human host takes on the physical form of that person's DNA and is in a sense a kind of clone of the original person. Once the entity is finished with its first victim it can walk around and interact like a human. Though it constantly needs both physical energy (blood) and psychic energy (life force or Chi). When it feeds from a human it absorbs the victims memories and knowledge as well as its DNA. So with each person that it feeds from it becomes smarter and smarter and harder and harder to destroy.

The heroes of the story are two brothers who are amateur paranormal investigators, a parapsychologist/quantum physicist, and a gifted psychic/energy worker. Together they battle the vampire and seek to destroy it. The Parapsychologist/Quantum Physicist is the "Van Helsing" of the group. The two brothers are younger late teens/early twenties and provide dark humor.

The two movies that are inspirations to this film are both Fright Night and The Lost Boys. The vampire will be an incredibly handsome man with the ability to psychically influence and seduce anyone with a weak mind like the Jerry Dandrige vampire in Fright Night. Thus there are scenes of captivation and seduction. This vampire is the real vampire that all the other mythological vampires are derived from such as Dracula. In history past there have been instances where these creatures, under specific conditions, can enter into our plane and wreck havoc and the most knowledgeable people rise up against them.

So this creature is the real vampire of mythology from ages past. These creatures feed off of fear and negative energy (vibrations/thought patterns). Thus the power of intention (positive intention) of others can repel the creature. This is why the religious icons were used in the past as means of defeating the vampire (crosses, holy water, holy wafers, and other religious items). The religious icons have no power within themselves but the intentions (positive thoughts) of people who used those items. This is thoroughly explained in the film and reveals that the christian means of dispatching the "evil" has no power except for what we give it. This is why in my film the creature is repelled without any religious means, but through the power of positive intention (Please watch the movies What the Bleep and The Secret to understand this concept).

This is it for now. I will share the other screenplay details with you if you all like this one. Please let me know your thoughts on this story. I'd like feedback if you're up to it.

Thanks!

John

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Cindy

Wow, I'm impressed. I like the fresh premise, I too, am a huge fan of the varied vampire genre. I'm intrigued by the actual creature itself, very fresh concept, I can't recall anything like this.
I'm interested in hearing more~

Posted by Cindy on Thursday, February 01, 2007 at 5:45 PM

Psychic Evolution

Thanks Cindy! Yeah, I am a real fan of the vampire genre as well and don't think that there has been anything similar to this. The creature is very interesting, since there are similar paranormal entities that are psychic or mind parasites in real life. Though I don't have any info on whether or not such entities or anything similar passes into our physical plane. There are some "Beings" that do come in and out of our plane of existence, such as Sasquatch (they are very psychic and explains why they can never be caught or killed), which is actually in the other screenplay that I have been working on for six years now.

As the vampire grows in power and energy it is able to control animals and use its mind for psychokinesis (move objects and even levitate and fly) which brings in the aspect of bats and wolves (dogs) from the vampire mythos.

Posted by Psychic Evolution on Thursday, February 01, 2007 at 8:36 PM

Moonflower

I'd read it and watch it, I have become so bored with the cliche vampire stories. I am one of those people who believe that vampires do exist. I swear I have met a few and they are not always as easy to identify as what one might think.

Posted by Moonflower on Thursday, February 01, 2007 at 9:43 PM

~JeNnY~

I just love this story, but one thing frustrates me.... I'm ready for it to come out in a theatre near me!! My fave parts are the 'positive intention' power and the vampires' ability to consume their preys knowledge.

Posted by ~JeNnY~ on Monday, February 05, 2007 at 6:31 PM