Interconnectedness.

The collective unconscious is the network by which we are connected to all other humans.

It is the agent of our interconnectedness.

All things are interconnected.

And all things are connected with God.

God is at the center of all interconnectedness.

Unfortunately some influences in the collective unconscious spread violence, hatred, and evil.

These influences try to control us.

They tempt us.

And they corrupt us.

Viceland is just one example of this.

Rock music, movies, T.V., literature, and sports can infect us with these influences.

So it is up to us to meditate on non-violence, goodness, and love in order to neutralize these influences.

And pray to God to protect us.

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God is One.

"Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is One."

This statement from Deuteronomy 6 contradicts all notions of Dualism.

Dualism developed in ancient Persia and influenced Judaism during the Persian Empire.

It states that God and the devil are equal co-creators of reality.

 

This was a primitive theory developed to explain our experience in the world.

But there are other explanations.

For example evil in our world can be attributed to the ignorance and fear of human beings with free will.

There is no need for a supernatural explanation of evil.

This means that there is only one supernatural force - God.

And God is good.

So we are not surrounded by shadows and evil.

We are surrounded by God's Love.

It is evident in creation.

And it is evident is the Life that is all around us.

But that is not to say that there is no evil in the world.

Evil exists in the form of people who have rejected God and turned to the devil as a preferred alternative.

Or so they believe.

Rock stars, entertainers, and sporting heroes have sold their souls for fame and fortune and a rock star reception.

And they do evil in our world.

But the image of God which they have rejected is not the true image of God.

Jesus said that the world did not know God.

By this he meant that the standard image of God as a harsh punisher and judge of humans was not what God was like at all.

God does not punish us.

God does not judge us.

God is our loving Father.

And He loves all His children.

"even the darkness is not dark to you.

the night is as bright as the day,

for darkness is as light to you."

Psalm 139:12 (NRSV)

"God is light and in him there is no darkness."  1 John 1:5 (NRSV)

"Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is One."

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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Deliver Us From Evil.

Generation X turned to Satan,

And when Ronald Reagan realized that the power of Generation X came from Satan he said: "Use Satan to win". 

So Ronald Reagan's campaign against the political left turned to Satan to win.

And the Religious Right and the Republican Party are still there today!

They rely on the violence and hate of Generation X win.

And they are in league with Satanists in our entertainment and sports.

Satanism is lies.

Joseph Goebbels said: "If you tell a big enough lie and keep repeating it people will eventually come to believe it."

And this is what Fox News does.

It feeds the irrational mentality of the Religious Right by repeating lies.

But the truth will out!

Lay down the sword and cry out to God!

He will hear.

And deliver us from evil.

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Ahimsa.

Ahimsa is the Eastern Principle of non-violence.

God would not tell us to be non-violent if He was violent Himself.

Therefore God must be non-violent.

And all the passages in the scriptures which justify violence in the name of God are in error.

God is non-violent.

And He expects us to be non-violent also.

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God's House.

"'In my Father's house there are many dwelling-places.'"  John 14:2 (NRSV)

Heaven, Paradise, The Pure Land, Olympus, Valhalla, Asgard, The Elysian Fields, The Abode of the Blessed, The Abode of the Ancestors, The Happy Hunting Ground.....

All these concepts refer to the place where God lives.

And all the world's religions ascribe to it peace, light, beauty, tranquility, and happiness.

Buddhists experience glimpses of it in meditation, as do yogis, mystics, prophets, and poets.....

It is all one place.

The abode of the One Living God.

"'In my Father's house there are many dwelling-places.'"  John 14:2 (NRSV)

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education Of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]       

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One.

There is only one supernatural power.

That is God.

And God is good.

There is no devil, no dark powers.

These notions derive from an assumption of Dualism.

That is that everything has a balancing opposite.

But Dualism is a false conception.

Not all things in the universe come in pairs.

There are unities, trinities, decimals, duodecimals.....

The number is infinite.

So why should the Cosmos be dual?

God is Panentheistic.

That is God is everything and more.

All is interconnected.

And all is connected to God.

If you turn on the lights the darkness disappears like a dream.

Darkness has no power over light.

It merely contains radiation which is outside the range of our human sensors - our eyes.

It has no substance in reality.

So Dualism is bankrupt.

God is One.

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Gay Spirituality.

Gay men spend their lives searching for Him.

He is the great dark man of Quentin Crisp and the all-American boy of Christopher Isherwood. 

He is the beautiful musclemen of Michelangelo.

And He is the men of the Internet Muscle Worship sites.

The love that we have for Him is often rejected.

It is the ideal - the impossible dream.

But our love is requited by God.

And we discover that God is Him.

The Beloved - the object of our hearts desire.

God returns our love.

He guides and enlightens us.

He answers our prayers.

And we are Home.

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