ZenZoneForum.com http://www.zenzoneforum.com/ ZenZoneForum.com: Discussion forum for politics, religion, conspiracy theories, science, philosophy and more. en Thu, 23 May 2013 01:00:02 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.zenzoneforum.com/images/misc/rss.png ZenZoneForum.com http://www.zenzoneforum.com/ I Can Dance http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25202-I-Can-Dance?goto=newpost Thu, 23 May 2013 00:53:23 GMT Attachment 21410 (http://www.zenzoneforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=21410) Name: 73a4e64d-2eb2-4beb-8276-7d04ba1f1af2.jpg Views: 0 Size: 15.5 KB ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25202-I-Can-Dance Senate Betrays Constitution for Israel: Commitment to attack Iran http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25201-Senate-Betrays-Constitution-for-Israel-Commitment-to-attack-Iran?goto=newpost Wed, 22 May 2013 13:29:45 GMT Senate Betrays Constitution for Israel: Commitment to attack Iran by Jim Fetzer (with M.J. Rosenberg) One more war for Israel In a stunning betrayal of the Constitution of the United States, which obligates the United States to conform to the UN Charter and international law, the US... Senate Betrays Constitution for Israel: Commitment to attack Iran


by Jim Fetzer (with M.J. Rosenberg)

One more war for Israel


In a stunning betrayal of the Constitution of the United States, which obligates the United States to conform to the UN Charter and international law, the US Senate has before it a resolution that commits the nation to support Israel militarily, diplomatically, and economically should it decide to attack Iran “in its legitimate self-defense”, where every action Israel has ever taken–from the Six Days War to its incursions into Lebanon–has been deemed by the American government to be “in its legitimate self-defense”. The Senate vote will occur Wednesday, 22 May 2013.


The resolution states:
If the Government of Israel is compelled to take military action in legitimate self defense against Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the United States Government should stand with Israel and provide, in accordance with United States law and the constitutional responsibility of Congress to authorize the use of military force, diplomatic, military, and economic support to the Government of Israel in its defense of its territory, people, and existence.


As M.J. Rosenberg has observed,


[T]he “self-defense” limitation is no limitation at all. The United States has deemed all major Israeli military actions as “self-defense” (most recently two Gaza wars) with the oft-repeated statement that the United States is “fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself.” Couple that with President Obama’s language ruling out containment of a nuclear Iran and it’s pretty clear that any attack by Israel on Iran will be deemed self-defense by the United States.


Rand Paul (R-KY) has been doing what he can to tone down the resolution, but whether he can prevail is yet to be seen. While this is a non-binding resolution that does not have the force of law in committing the nation to support Israel under these circumstances, it does express “the sense of the Senate”. While the President is obligated by the Constitution to seek its “advice and consent”, this commitment violates international law and the UN Charter and therefore the Constitution itself.


At the very least, AIPAC should be required to register as a “foreign agent”. Its virtually complete domination of American foreign policy has led wits to describe the US as “the United States of Israel”. The problem is that this is not a joke, where “our gallant ally” is drawing us deeper and deeper into a conflict which has enormous potential to precipitate World War III. It is a positive sign that Russia has intervened in Syria. It will not stand idly by while Israel and the United States attack Iran.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3u6WzfDWmA


Iran poses no imminent treat to the US or to Israel, where the stunning stupidity of the Senate resolution emerges from the reflection that (1) Iran has no nuclear weapons program, much less any nukes; (2) that the casualties from an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear energy facilities would be catastrophic; and (3) that Israel is not an ally of the United States, but is committed to advancing its own interests, regardless of the consequences for the US or, indeed, for the world at large.


(1) Iran has no nuclear weapons program


Iran not only has no nuclear weapons program but is a peaceful nation that has not attacked any other country for more than 300 years. The Supreme Leader of Iran, The Ayatolla Khamenei, has declared, “Nuclear energy for all, nuclear weapons for none”. Iran has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and has allowed inspectors. All 16 US intel agencies concluded in 2007 that Iran was not pursuing a nuclear weapons program, a conclusion that it reaffirmed in 2011.


Israel, by contrast, has more than 200 and as many as 600 of these little beauties. It has never signed the NPT and will not allow inspectors. The War against Terror was an Israeli contrivance to set the United States on a course to dismantle the sophisticated Arab states and leave Israel with uncontested domination of the Middle East. Upon his return from serving as Supreme Commander, Allied Forces Europe, Gen. Wesley Clark was presented with a plan to dismantle seven Arab nations in the next five years. Syria and Iran are the final stages of this Israeli plan.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha1rEhovONU


(2) The civilian casualties would be catastrophic


Estimates have it that an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear energy facilities would bring about an estimated 1 million Iranian deaths outright and another 35,000,000 premature deaths as the cloud of pollution swept across Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Even if there were proof of an Iranian nuclear weapons program, what could possibly justify an atrocity of this magnitude? Yet the US Senate would have our nation become complicit in one of the greatest atrocities of human history?


For the sake of comparison, according to the “official account”, some 6,000,000 Jews died during the Holocaust. Set aside that the International Committee of the Red Cross maintained detailed records that support perhaps 600,000 deaths of Jews, gypsies and the mentally and physically impaired, Benjamin Netanyahu is willing to sacrifice six times the number of deaths alleged to have taken place during the Holocaust to promote Israel’s political domination of the Middle East.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih_oddwQywA


(3) Israel is not an ally of the United States


The recent attack on Syria by Israel, which appears to have been intended to destroy a shipment of missiles and to take out a chemical supply depot, has had the unintended consequence of providing Russia with an excuse to speed up its delivery of its advanced S-300 missiles, which can be used for anti-aircraft and anti-ship defense and has greatly strengthened the ability of Syria to withstand attacks. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that Russia is committed to standing fast with Syria.


Throughout this conflict, Obama’s actions have been disgraceful, where he (a) has supported Israel in taking such actions as it may deem appropriate (without adding, “provided they are in accordance with international law”), (b) is providing Netanyahu with refueling tankers and radar-suppressing aircraft to attack Iran (which I compare to placing a pedophile in charge of a day care center) and (c) continues to use drones in Pakistan (another violation of another nation’s sovereignty).


VIDEO: Israel Defense Force IDF Sniper Team Kills 400+ US Troops in Iraq
http://vimeo.com/59462618


What this means is that the President of the United States, by encouraging Israel to violate the sovereignty of Syria and of Pakistan and to attack Iran, which poses no “imminent treat” to any other nation, especially to Israel with its vast stock of nuclear weapons, has become an accessory to the violation of international law and to the commission of war crimes. If Israel should launch an attack on Iran because it believes the US will support it, the stain on our history will be permanent.


It is all the more surprising that the US Senate remains so enthusiastic about its unqualified support for Israel, since we now have multiple confirmed reports of Israeli snipers having taken out more than 400 US troops in Iraq. This is just about as disgusting as it gets and reveals decisively that Israel has only its own interests at heart and is willing to sacrifice even the welfare of American troops in combat to promote it, not to mention 36,000,000 innocents to advance its political agenda.


Senate Resolution: U.S. Will Go to War With Iran if Israel Does

by M.J. Rosenberg


It is customary for Congress to pass resolutions commending Israel on the anniversary of its founding in 1948. Once these resolutions were innocuous with references to “making the desert bloom” and “ingathering” Jewish refugees. Standard “pro-Israel” boilerplate. No more.


In recent years Congress, with the Israel lobby’s eager assistance, has coupled salutations and congratulations with increasingly strident language about terrorism, Palestinians, and now, Iran. (For an excellent analysis on how the concept of being “pro-Israel” has degenerated in recent years, see this smart piece by Michael Koplow, program director of the Israel Institute at Georgetown University.)


One such anniversary resolution now being considered in the Senate and, with 79 cosponsors, certain to pass is Senate Resolution 65, introduced by Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), two lobby stalwarts. It cleared the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday.
The resolution begins with five clauses of standard rhetoric, noting that “since its establishment nearly 65 years ago, the modern State of Israel has… forged a new and dynamic democratic society including “freedom of speech, association, and religion; a vigorously free press; free, fair, and open elections; the rule of law; a fully independent judiciary; and other democratic principles and practices….” The usual fare.


Then, with no transition, it segues into 14 clauses condemning Iran with citations of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s ugly language about Israel, his repeated Holocaust denials, the Islamic Republic’s human rights violations and then the threat ostensibly posed by its nuclear program.


That is followed by 13 clauses citing President Obama’s repeated promises not to permit Iran to attain a nuclear weapon, along with Congress’ own, which are even more aggressive.


All this is just the windup for the pitch which says that if Israel goes to war with Iran, the United States should join the fight. The resolution states:
If the Government of Israel is compelled to take military action in legitimate self defense against Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the United States Government should stand with Israel and provide, in accordance with United States law and the constitutional responsibility of Congress to authorize the use of military force, diplomatic, military, and economic support to the Government of Israel in its defense of its territory, people, and existence.
On the surface, this doesn’t sound that terrible. After all, it specifically limits our commitment to a situation in which “Israel is compelled to take military action in self-defense….”


But the “self-defense” limitation is no limitation at all. The United States has deemed all major Israeli military actions as “self-defense” (most recently two Gaza wars) with the oft-repeated statement that the United States is “fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself.” Couple that with President Obama’s language ruling out containment of a nuclear Iran and it’s pretty clear that any attack by Israel on Iran will be deemed self-defense by the United States.


In short, the Graham-Menendez resolution is telling Israel that if it goes to war, we will have their back.


The problem here is not that Congress is saying that the United States would support Israel if there was any chance that it might be defeated in a war with Iran or anyone else. That is obvious and has been since 1973 when the United States military was placed on its highest alert following the joint Egyptian-Syrian attack on Israel.


No, the point of this resolution is to tell Israel that it can go to war with Iran, with the assurance that if it gets into trouble, the United States will step in and finish the job. Israeli hawks need that assurance because it is generally understood that Israel cannot take out Iran’s nuclear facilities alone. It can only try if it knows that the United States is right there just in case.


The intent of this resolution is to eliminate any Israeli hesitancy about getting into a war it cannot win. Israelis won’t do that. Menendez, Graham and company are telling them not to worry. Just do it, and we are in too.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/05...o-attack-iran/ ]]> Politika Solve et Coagula http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25201-Senate-Betrays-Constitution-for-Israel-Commitment-to-attack-Iran IRS Scandal Headlines: More Than Meets the Eye http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25200-IRS-Scandal-Headlines-More-Than-Meets-the-Eye?goto=newpost Wed, 22 May 2013 13:19:53 GMT IRS Scandal Headlines: More Than Meets the Eye by Stephen Lendman More than targeting political enemies is involved. More on than below. The practice is longstanding. Republican and Democrat administrations use the IRS abusively. During the Coolidge administration, Republican Senator... IRS Scandal Headlines: More Than Meets the Eye


by Stephen Lendman

More than targeting political enemies is involved. More on than below. The practice is longstanding. Republican and Democrat administrations use the IRS abusively.


During the Coolidge administration, Republican Senator James Couzens investigated the IRS’ predecessor – the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).
Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon sued him. University of Virginia Law Professor George Yin called doing so the “greatest tax suit in the history of the world.” At issue was political intrigue, backstabbing, and unintended consequences.


Franklin Roosevelt targeted William Randolph Hearst, Louisiana Governor Huey Long, and anti-administration critic/popular radio host Father John Coughlin. IRS officials investigated their finances.


In the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of IRS employees were sacked and/or indicted for involvement in widespread corruption and bribery.


San Francisco officials colluded with organized crime. The St. Louis office head, a practicing attorney, represented a client on a tax issue. Doing so was a clear conflict of interest.


The Kennedy administration created an Ideological Organizations Audit Project. It did so to investigate conservative groups. It challenged their tax exempt status. Targets included the American Enterprise Institute and Christian Anti-Communist Crusade.


Nixon’s Opponents List and Political Enemies Project became known as his Enemies List.


His administration created the Special Services Staff. It targeted political opponents and activists.


According to his White House Counsel John Dean, it “deal(t) with persons known to be active in their opposition to our Administration; stated a bit more bluntly – how we (could) use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies.”


In the 1990s, the Senate Finance Committee accused the IRS of “Gestapo-like” conduct. In 1998, the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act followed. At issue was curbing IRS enforcement powers. Little more than doing so nominally was achieved.


Shortly before the 1992 election, the Binghamton, NY Branch Ministries ran full-page newspaper ads. They claimed Clinton promoted policies “in rebellion to God’s laws.”


Doing so was illegal. Tax law prohibits 501c 3 organizations from engaging in electoral politics.


In 2001, statistical evidence showed voters in key electoral districts experience disproportionately fewer election year audits.


During the 2004 electoral campaign, a Pasadena, CA All Saints Church minister criticized Bush’s attack, invasion and occupation of Iraq. An IRS investigation followed.


Obama’s accused of using the IRS against conservative non-profit groups and others seeking tax-exempt status. Organizations with “tea party,” “patriot,” or “9/12″ in their names were targeted.


So were others challenging Obamacare or federal electoral integrity. All government critics are vulnerable. It’s true under Republican and Democrat administrations.


In 2012, former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman lied. He told House members “there’s absolutely no targeting. This is the kind of back and forth that happens to people.”


The IRS now claims targeting conservative groups was “in no way due to any political or partisan rationale.”


Some NGOs operate legitimately. Others don’t. No more than 49% of a group’s resources can be used for political purposes. Strict rules govern doing so.


In January 2013, Pro Publica discussed five conservative dark money groups. They were active during the 2012 election. The IRS illegally released information about their tax exempt status petitions. Doing so is a felony.
Former Obama Council of Economic Advisors chairman Austan Goolsbee divulged confidential Koch Industries tax information.


After not levying gift taxes for decades, the IRS told five donors to conservative NGO advocacy groups that past donations could be taxed. Doing so retroactively raises legitimate concerns.


FOIA-obtained information revealed that the IRS “has long taken the position that (it) can read your emails without a warrant.” Doing so violates the Fourth Amendment.


Once Obamacare’s fully implemented in 2014, the IRS will enforce 47 new tax provisions. Doing so promises to be nightmarish. Giving the agency power over healthcare is scandalous. Enormous harm is likely.


After the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling, NGOs became more politically active. At the time, Ralph Nader denounced the decision, saying:
It “shreds the fabric of our already weakened democracy by allowing corporations to more completely dominate our corrupted electoral process.”
“It is outrageous that corporations already attempt to influence or bribe our political candidates through their political action committees (PACs), which solicit employees and shareholders for donations.”


“With this decision, corporations can now also draw on their corporate treasuries and pour vast amounts of corporate money, through independent expenditures, into the electoral swamp already flooded with corporate campaign PAC contribution dollars.”


“This corporatist, anti-voter decision is so extreme that it should galvanize a grassroots effort to enact a Constitutional Amendment to once and for all end corporate personhood and curtail the corrosive impact of big money on politics.”


“It is indeed time for a Constitutional amendment to prevent corporate campaign contributions from commercializing our elections and drowning out the civic and political voices and values of citizens and voters.”


“It is way overdue to overthrow “King Corporation” and restore the sovereignty of “We the People”!


Dark money infests politics. America’s political system is scandalous. Duopoly power corrupts it. Voters get the best democracy money can buy.


Corporations, NGO advocacy groups, and other powerful interest groups decide everything. Ordinary people have no say.


Today’s scandal is bipartisan. For example, Senator Pat Toomey (R. PA) accused the IRS of tactics “akin to an enemies list.” In his 2010 senatorial race, conservative NGOs contributed millions of dollars to his campaign.
The criminal class in Washington is bipartisan. Both sides of the isle share guilt. Big spenders flout the law repeatedly. Most do with impunity.
After Citizens United, the IRS struggled to determine which NGOs deserved “social welfare” status. The ruling lets corporations and unions raise and spent unlimited amounts of political money.


Other groups can accept undisclosed contributions as long as their “primary purpose” is apolitical.


House and Senate committees announced investigations. Capitol Hill is rife with corruption. Legislation if enacted won’t improve things. It hasn’t before. It won’t now.


After Watergate, the White House was legally barred from contacting the IRS about tax matters. The agency can only release information about petitions for tax exempt status after they’ve been approved or denied.


On May 16, Public Citizen said the IRS controversy doesn’t “diminish the need for fair and balanced disclosure of corporate political spending.”


According to Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division director Lisa Gilbert:
“The IRS controversy is about partisanship, not disclosure. Tying the IRS’s problems to the SEC rulemaking on corporate political spending is the height of political theater.”


Public Citizen’s Craig Holman added:
“The real issue with the IRS controversy is whether the agency was enforcing the tax code in a partisan, discriminatory manner, not whether electioneering nonprofit organizations should disclose the sources of their campaign funds.”
The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) headlined “The Real IRS Scandal,” saying:
It’s not about targeting tea party or other conservative groups. It’s “the shocking lack of much scrutiny at all of the vast majority of politically active nonprofits that poured hundreds of millions of dollars into our elections over the last four years.”


CRP executive director Sheila Krumholz and chairman Robert Weinberger explained, saying:
“The majority of the organizations that appear to be most politically active – from groups that run their own ads, like American Action Network and Americans for Prosperity, to the mysterious Center to Protect Patient Rights, which distributes money to other political groups – already have exempt status.”


“There’s little evidence that the IRS is looking into these groups.”
The current scandal will make it harder to do so. Groups targeted “received more scrutiny and suspicion than they deserved.”


“(M)ore regrettable is the long-term damage to the credibility of the IRS as an impartial arbiter of whether organizations merit tax-exempt status.”
“With the surge of dark money into politics, we need to ensure that the IRS is capable of rigorously enforcing the law in a nonpartisan, but also more effective, way.”


“While we focus on the rickety raft of minor Tea Party groups targeted by the IRS, there is an entire fleet of big spenders that are operating with apparent impunity.”


Obama faces a trifecta of scandals. Perhaps more will surface. Cover up followed last September’s Benghazi killings. The official narrative doesn’t wash.


Institutional spying targeted AP. Manufactured national security threats violate press freedom. Doing so is rife.


First Amendment rights are threatened. Dissent increasingly is criminalized. Obama’s targeted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined. He’s heading America toward full-blown tyranny.


The IRS scandal shows the dark side of electoral politics. America’s system is scandalous. It mocks democracy. It lacks legitimacy.


Monied interests control things. Duopoly power rules. Wealth, power and privilege alone matter.


America’s broken system is too corrupted to fix. Change requires tearing it down and starting over.


A good start entails excluding money from politics and creating a level playing field for all political parties and aspirants.


http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/05...meets-the-eye/ ]]> Politika Solve et Coagula http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25200-IRS-Scandal-Headlines-More-Than-Meets-the-Eye <![CDATA[Did You Take Mike's Bike?]]> http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25199-Did-You-Take-Mike-s-Bike?goto=newpost Wed, 22 May 2013 12:48:15 GMT Attachment 21407 (http://www.zenzoneforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=21407) Name: c915a017-fb0b-4bf5-bb16-e097d39c41ce.jpg Views: 6 Size: 31.8 KB ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25199-Did-You-Take-Mike-s-Bike Could 3D Printed Food End Hunger Once and for All? http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25196-Could-3D-Printed-Food-End-Hunger-Once-and-for-All?goto=newpost Wed, 22 May 2013 11:56:09 GMT Could 3D Printed Food End Hunger Once and for All?

It's not quite the replicator from Star Trek, but Anjan Contractor's idea for a 3D printer capable of synthesizing food could point the way towards a future in which hunger and food waste are nearly eliminated.

Contractor, a mechanical engineer employed by Systems & Materials Research Corporation, hopes to build a prototype of a 3D printing machine that works with basic nutrients instead of inedible materials to create meals for human consumption. NASA this week gave Systems & Materials Research a six-month, $125,000 grant to do just that, according to Quartz.com...

More - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2419277,00.asp ]]> Zen Zone General Discussion Arkham Knight http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25196-Could-3D-Printed-Food-End-Hunger-Once-and-for-All Global warming debunked: NASA report verifies CO2 COOLS atmosphere http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25195-Global-warming-debunked-NASA-report-verifies-CO2-COOLS-atmosphere?goto=newpost Wed, 22 May 2013 09:25:28 GMT Its all a hoax!! (as we've been saying)

Global warming debunked:
NASA report verifies carbon dioxide actually cools atmosphere

(NaturalNews) Practically everything you have been told by the mainstream scientific community and the media about the alleged detriments of greenhouse gases, and particularly carbon dioxide, appears to be false, according to new data compiled by NASA's Langley Research Center. As it turns out, all those atmospheric greenhouse gases that Al Gore and all the other global warming hoaxers have long claimed are overheating and destroying our planet are actually cooling it, based on the latest evidence.

As reported by Principia Scientific International (PSI), Martin Mlynczak and his colleagues over at NASA tracked infrared emissions from the earth's upper atmosphere during and following a recent solar storm that took place between March 8-10. What they found was that the vast majority of energy released from the sun during this immense coronal mass ejection (CME) was reflected back up into space rather than deposited into earth's lower atmosphere.

The result was an overall cooling effect that completely contradicts claims made by NASA's own climatology division that greenhouse gases are a cause of global warming. As illustrated by data collected using Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER), both carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitric oxide (NO), which are abundant in the earth's upper atmosphere, greenhouse gases reflect heating energy rather than absorb it.

"Carbon dioxide and nitric oxide are natural thermostats," says James Russell from Hampton University, who was one of the lead investigators for the groundbreaking SABER study. "When the upper atmosphere (or 'thermosphere') heats up, these molecules try as hard as they can to shed that heat back into space."

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/040448_so...#ixzz2U0nEc6Av
]]> zengrifter http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25195-Global-warming-debunked-NASA-report-verifies-CO2-COOLS-atmosphere Liberace Beats Batman - VIDEO http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25194-Liberace-Beats-Batman-VIDEO?goto=newpost Wed, 22 May 2013 07:13:59 GMT For Katweezel -

Liberace Beats Batman and his Dick (Grayson)

]]> Anything Else But zengrifter http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25194-Liberace-Beats-Batman-VIDEO OODA loop http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25193-OODA-loop?goto=newpost Wed, 22 May 2013 06:36:23 GMT This looks like it could have some AP application?* OODA loop* From *Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop)* The OODA loop (for observe, orient, decide, and act) is a concept originally applied to the combat operations process, often at the strategic level in... This looks like it could have some AP application?

OODA loop

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The OODA loop (for observe, orient, decide, and act) is a concept originally applied to the combat operations process, often at the strategic level in military operations. It is now also often applied to understand commercial operations and learning processes. The concept was developed by military strategist and USAF Colonel John Boyd.


Diagram of a decision cycle known as the Boyd cycle, or the OODA loop

The OODA loop has become an important concept in litigation, business and military strategy. According to Boyd, decision-making occurs in a recurring cycle of observe-orient-decide-act. An entity (whether an individual or an organization) that can process this cycle quickly, observing and reacting to unfolding events more rapidly than an opponent, can thereby "get inside" the opponent's decision cycle and gain the advantage. Frans Osinga argues that Boyd's own views on the OODA loop are much deeper, richer, and more comprehensive than the common interpretation of the 'rapid OODA loop' idea.

Boyd developed the concept to explain how to direct one's energies to defeat an adversary and survive. Boyd emphasized that "the loop" is actually a set of interacting loops that are to be kept in continuous operation during combat. He also indicated that the phase of the battle has an important bearing on the ideal allocation of one's energies.

MORE- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
]]> Scientific Advantage Play zengrifter http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25193-OODA-loop Goat Rides Hippo http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25192-Goat-Rides-Hippo?goto=newpost Wed, 22 May 2013 02:50:38 GMT Image: https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7443753728/h4C11850B/ ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25192-Goat-Rides-Hippo Creepy Places http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25191-Creepy-Places?goto=newpost Wed, 22 May 2013 02:24:29 GMT In the early 1900s, Cincinnati was one of the top growing U.S. cities. They'd already expanded beyond their borders and needed a mass transit system, but estimates for a new subway were around $12 million, but they only had $6 million in the budget. Rather than rethink the project or opt for an alternate system, city planners threw caution to the wind. They went ahead with a modified version of the $12 million plan anyway, until they ran out of money a little over halfway through. Most of a basic subway network had already been dug out and built, but then the city found they had no more funds to actually put anything inside of it.

Name: creepyw.jpg Views: 7 Size: 52.7 KB ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25191-Creepy-Places Start, Ya Bastard http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25190-Start-Ya-Bastard?goto=newpost Wed, 22 May 2013 01:22:02 GMT Attachment 21368 (http://www.zenzoneforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=21368) Name: start.jpg Views: 7 Size: 48.3 KB ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25190-Start-Ya-Bastard Pick the Real Zengrifter http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25189-Pick-the-Real-Zengrifter?goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 23:28:04 GMT Here are some pics, ONE of which may be the real, live Zengrifer. *Mystery prize for first correct entry opened. Attachment 21348 (http://www.zenzoneforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=21348)Attachment 21349 (http://www.zenzoneforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=21349)Attachment 21350... Here are some pics, ONE of which may be the real, live Zengrifer. *Mystery prize for first correct entry opened. Name: zen88883.jpg Views: 10 Size: 57.9 KBName: zenyryt.jpg Views: 9 Size: 13.7 KBName: zen857.jpg Views: 9 Size: 8.7 KBName: zen745.jpg Views: 10 Size: 26.9 KBName: zen947.jpg Views: 9 Size: 8.5 KB ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25189-Pick-the-Real-Zengrifter Living nature http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25188-Living-nature?goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 23:17:56 GMT LIVING NATURE Living Nature in its totality is a manifestation of intelligent forces, of intelligent beings of various grades who live in complete harmony, communion and unity. All of them have a sublime aim which we call God, that is, that which has no limit, that which has no beginning,... LIVING NATURE


Living Nature in its totality is a manifestation of intelligent forces, of intelligent beings of various grades who live in complete harmony, communion and unity.


All of them have a sublime aim which we call God, that is, that which has no limit, that which has no beginning, that within which everything exists, moves and develops.


It is clear that by "Living Nature" we do not mean that which contemporary natural scientists imply. For us Nature is something great not only because of its organization but also because of the intelligence and supreme wisdom which it manifests.


Living Nature is a totality of thinking beings which represent the "atoms" of the great immense world. The entire space within which we live and move is full of beings of different categories and cultures.


Thus, when we speak of the universe, we mean the sum total of intelligent beings whose relationships among themselves are absolutely harmonious These beings give value to the entire cosmos.


Therefore, from the viewpoint of those who have cosmic consciousness, the entire cosmos with its nature is a living being within which everything is united.


This cosmos might be "limited" or "unlimited", great or small: a great attribute of the Eternal is that It can take any form It desires.


To the spiritual sight of all the great initiates of all times and epochs the entire universe, called in ancient times the "macrocosm", appears in the form of a man - the great Heavenly Man. In contemplating this Cosmic Man they discovered the correspondences which exist between Him and the little man, the "microcosm".


That is why I say unto you that a man, every cell of whose body is awake and conscious, can communicate with the whole of Living Nature.


You see the stars like faraway bright points in heaven. But every star of the Milky Way or of any Galaxy has its receptive centers in the human brain. Man can receive instantly the impulses coming from the various stars. In this sense I say that man can communicate with the entire cosmos.


If for men on earth the stars are nothing but bright points, for an angel they are worlds inhabited by millions of beings. Those beings have a culture far superior to that of man.


Therefore, we call intelligent, Living Nature that which is revealed. And that which is not yet revealed we call the ideal soul of creation. The ideal, the eternal, the sacred, the unrevealed, is God, the beginning of life. It is linked with the manifested. That is the reason why some say that Nature is the body of God. This is only a figure of speech, but some are so captivated by this form that they maintain that Nature and God are one and the same thing. But if Nature and God are one and the same thing, then God would be a limited being.


We know with certainty that Nature is the revealed and God the unrevealed, the infinite who reveals Himself eternally and still remains unrevealed.
Ordinary people, who see just a small section of the world, think that Nature is something mechanical and unintelligent, within which chance reigns. Apparently, they project themselves into Nature.


In fact there is nothing accidental, nothing arbitrary in Nature. Within it everything is constructed and organized according to the unchangeable laws of Divine mathematics. Thus, every one of Nature's acts is strictly and intelligently determined.


The wisdom of Living Nature is apparent everywhere. If we examine any organism, studying deeply and discerningly its structure and functions, with all their regularity and utility, we shall be convinced as to the great wisdom of Nature which directs everything.


A higher intelligence and a penetrating mind are required, of course, as well as highly developed capabilities and the gift of fine and keen observation, in order to comprehend all the subtlety of the intelligence that is revealed in Nature.


Living Nature has its own language, and if man desires to understand nature, he must learn its language.


Nature always uses images, and always speaks in pictures and symbols. This language is not like the language of contemporary people - the arid conception and destitute logical forms of the analytic intellect. Nature's language is alive, picturesque, and symbolic, it is the language of great and beautiful diversity.


Nature tolerates no uniformity or repetition.


She loves diversity in e progressive and ascending degree.


Therefore, when people wish to reduce everything in life to a mechanical uniformity, they do evil. When they create according to the laws of diversity and harmony, as nature does, they do good.


Living Nature loves diversity and abundance, but does not tolerate any superfluity. If her energies are not wisely used, if they are hindered in their unceasing progress and transmutation, if they are limited within the closed circle of uniformity, nature reacts immediately. Nature does not stand still. There is eternal movement within her, eternal creation directed by intelligent laws. We observe a rhythm and a periodicity in these laws, which are rooted deeply in the very essence of Creation, in the way it manifests.


Upon that cosmic rhythm are based the two great processes of Living Nature - involution, in which there is a movement from the center towards the periphery, and evolution in which the movement of life is from the periphery towards the center.


These two processes create the conditions in which universal life can manifest itself.


There are two great streams - one from the infinite which gradually reduces itself and descends to the infinitely small, to the cell; the other, the constantly growing stream from the infinitely small, the cell, to the great, the limitless.
And when these two cosmic streams meet in man, then the great abilities and virtues of the human soul are born.


Living Nature envelops everything in its aura. This aura is bright, pure, rational and kind.


It is Living Nature that has implanted everything in man and that helps him each minute of his life to develop the seeds planted in his soul. Like a tender mother she constantly keeps his consciousness awake, turning his attention, by various means and methods, towards all that happens around him.


Contemporary men are greatly in error when they think that they can conquer Nature. If they could really succeed in doing that, the whole earth would be destroyed and not a living thing would remain on it. Living Nature, however, will not submit to domination. The only thing she permits is that her energies be put to work. But only the wise man, who adheres to Nature's laws, can with impunity put her forces to work. Everyone who does not adhere to her laws will be destroyed.


Experience shows that all of those who have imagined that they would rule Nature have been buried under the dust of their own ruined fantasies. Men who have thought that they must fight Nature, as they near the end of their struggle and prepare to taste the fruits, always have been cruelly deceived in their hopes. At the last minute Nature deprives them of the fruits of their efforts and leaves them to start work again, laboring to correct their mistakes and delusion.


Man must not fight Nature, because he will always be defeated. And do you know what his defeat is? Death! The reason for man's death is that he constantly fights living intelligent Nature, which he tries in vain to conquer.
It must not be forgotten that Nature does not easily forgive. Man might repent his sins ten times and they would still remain unforgiven. Nature forgives man only when he begins to adhere to her laws, not in an external, mechanical way, but consciously.


All who try to govern Nature, all who fight Nature, who resist it, from a deeper point of view are "outside" it. That is an allegory. Nature's door is locked to such people; for them she is a closed world. And do you know what beauties are in this world, what beings live there?


All people who crawl upon the earth today can be called nature's "backward pupils", prisoners. In this sense, they are truly "outside" it.


Nature has her reformatories for these men. And often she comes there with her punishing stick!


But for wise people, Living Nature is a wonderfully organized world - a world of harmony, music and beauty.


And one day, when the ears of men are opened, they will hear throughout the world the sublime music of Nature. Nature has her special music. But she does not always sing. Sometimes she is silent. At such a time, inexpressible silence reigns within Nature. There is deep meaning in this silence - deep inside her bosom, a great idea is being conceived, and until it is formed and born, Nature is silent.


When the idea is born, Nature begins to sing a new song.


And if you live a conscious life, if your soul is awake and lovingly disposed toward all living beings, you will hear the divine music of Nature which will pour like a living impulse throughout your body. The thoughts of all living beings will be transmitted to you in this music. The life of all rational beings in Living Nature will be transmitted to you with a speed greater than that of light and you will feel that you are a citizen of Nature's great kingdom.


http://beinsadouno.org/en/node/1999 ]]> Solve et Coagula http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25188-Living-nature Prayers and formulas given by peter deunov (beinsa douno) http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25187-Prayers-and-formulas-given-by-peter-deunov-(beinsa-douno)?goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 23:01:02 GMT PRAYERS AND FORMULAS GIVEN BY PETER DEUNOV (BEINSA DOUNO) FOR PROTECTION IN THUNDERSTORMS AND EARTHQUAKES Everything which is good i may receive. Everything which is good i may apply. Whenever i wish to do any kind of good, there is no power, which can prevent me. I can do everything... PRAYERS AND FORMULAS GIVEN BY PETER DEUNOV (BEINSA DOUNO)


FOR PROTECTION IN THUNDERSTORMS AND EARTHQUAKES


Everything which is good i may receive.
Everything which is good i may apply.
Whenever i wish to do any kind of good, there is no power, which can prevent me.
I can do everything through the living lord of love, who has created everything in the world.
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THE NEW CREDO


I believe in ONE ETERNAL TRUE GOD Who has spoken to me in the past, Who speaks to me in the present, and Who will speak to me in the future.
I believe in the Lord and His Spirit, Who created the conditions for my salvation.
I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, Who came to save the world.
Amen.


MY BELIEF


I believe in You, Lord, Who has spoken to me in the past.
I believe in You, Lord, Who speaks to me now.
I believe in You, Lord, Who will speak to me in the future.
May Your Name be glorified, and may we live in Your Glory.
May Your Kingdom be established, and may we partake in Your Joy.
May Your Will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven, and may we work together with You.
Amen – So Be It!


THE PROMISE OF GOD


Whenever you call Me, I will hear you, because I am the Holy God, the mighty Spirit, and I am fast in helping. Justice, Purity, Faith, Hope and Love do not endure any hesitation or hypocrisy.
Get out any anger! God is not a God of anger, but of gentleness. He does not accept gossip and ingratitude.
Have full trust in the Lord, Who is unchanging and persistent in His promises and God will bless you, because He knows why He has sent you on Earth and no one could stop or frustrate His intentions.
God is strong in everything.
I AM IN THE SACRED ONENESS
I am in the Sacred Oneness. I have come to bless you.
The kingdom of My Father is near and the day of the Sacred Oneness approaches.
I come to do the Will of the Eternal God Jehovah: the Father of the future centuries, the Lord of Glory, the Lord of Power, the Lord of Holiness, the Lord of Love in all and everything.
Blessed are those who love Him and who are beloved, for theirs is the Kingdom, Peace, Joy and Life.
Blessed be the Lord now and forever.
Amen.


THE PRESENCE OF GOD'S SPIRIT


MAY THE PRESENCE OF MY SPIRIT DAWN UPON YOU
I will visit you at the proper time to bless you.
Am I not a Measure, a Sacred Path, Truth, Understanding, Reason, Wisdom, Justice, Mercy, Love, Faith, Hope and Gentleness?
Truth is My real virtue. My Love is unhesitating and My gentleness abides throughout the ages.
May My Peace rest upon you and the Presence of My Spirit dawn upon you.
Receive My blessing. I am God the Lord, Savaot, Jehovah, Elohim, God Unchanging and Eternal. I am forever and ever One, Who I AM and Who creates according to the Willingness of His Own Spirit. I am your Spirit Who enlightens you, Who teaches you in knowledge and Wisdom and makes you more conscious.
Creating My kingdom, I give comfort to you and support you. I always speak to you. My eye is vigilant. My hand is helpful.
Bless now the Lord in your heart and sanctify Him. Rejoice in this – to love and serve Him with all your soul and all your heart.
Lord, be blessed now and forever. May Your name be glorified.
Amen.


THE LORD JESUS CHRIST


THE LORD JESUS CHRIST is Salvation and Hope for the world.
This thought is consoling for all those who believe in Him.
How happy we are that we have a Friend in Heaven – He has stood up for us; He is a Savior and a Lord, guiding us in our life.
We have a Comforter, the Holy Spirit, Who purifies and supports us, Who brings us peace and every joy granted us by God – the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
You should pray unceasingly, you should be grateful for everything, you should always rejoice, because that is the Will of God for you in Jesus Christ.
Christ Himself prayed every night. He had a great deal of knowledge, but He spent hours in prayer after midnight. During these hours He was filled with energy like a dynamo. He then used that energy during the day. In other words, we draw energy from God while praying.
Christ teaches: "Watch and pray!"


INNER WORK


Thoughts of God form the human being and His ideas enlighten the human heart and mind.
God presents the diversity of Life and His Love is a ceaseless spring for those who seek Him. From now on, all waiting for the Lord will rejoice in Him. We will sing a new song to the Lord. The revival of the Spirit is a new transformation of the human heart. The Lord will place eternal Daylight and Righteousness in it. The prophet said, 'I will give them new hearts'. This is the New Kingdom of God, which Jesus introduced into our hearts; and we are members of this Kingdom of Daylight; we are all united in this Great and Sacred Heart of the Lord Jesus.
You have to do your inner work, increasing the power of your faith and strengthening the spirit of your prayers. In fact, every good service comes due to the Servants of God and every good act comes from God.
Exercise yourself in all virtues. Encircle yourself with the Power of Faith, put on the Dress of Love. Call Patience to help you and strengthen it with your Noble character and Tenderness.
Give place to Gentleness in your soul and call its children – Selflessness and Meekness together with Politeness and Good nature. And when you do all this, give thanks to God for His help to guard you from evil and to place you in His abode in safety. Sing and praise the Lord in your souls, because your salvation is reality and Heaven is your home.
The Lord is reigning, clothed in Magnificence. Your prayer will be meaningful when it comes from the bottom of the heart. It will not comply with any rules or laws. When you pray in the right way, you turn to God, breathing the elixir of Life. Do not seek assistance until you have not found it inside. Concentrate your mind and direct your prayer to the Heart of God, so that you can take in some Divine streams. When you sense them passing through your heart, then you will be able to pray. The Light coming from God is pleasant. This Light of Immortality, attained only by praying, could do only Good, solving all difficult problems. When you pray, forget everything around you; become invisible. Praying is a Divine act.
When my heart engages my spirit, then my soul will engage all those who are in harmony with me. Pray for one another. The Spirits of Light are amongst us all the time and they follow us in order to help us. It is enough to call them in the Name of God's Love and they will manifest themselves.
In conclusion, my brothers, honest and good workers in all fields of the common activity in the Kingdom of Truth, who are working for the enlightenment of the world and for improving the fate of each suffering person in it, receive the Blessing of God.
May His Peace and Joy, transcending each mind, fill your hearts. And may the God of Truth bless His work forever and ever.
You, who love the Lord, come now to bow to Him in Spirit and Truth, for He is our God, our Father throughout the ages.


THE MASTER BEINSA DOUNO ABOUT PRAYER


There is no greater thing in Life than prayer.
No knowledge, no love, no wisdom in the world can be compared to prayer, to a person's communion with the Primary Principle.
There is no greater moment than that when one raises one's eyes towards God.
To pray means to direct one's mind, heart, soul and spirit towards the Great Source of Life from which we have emerged.
Prayer is a conversation of the soul with God, in which people confess their mistakes, rectify themselves and give thanks for all good things which they receive every day.
To pray means to send your report about the work you have done to That Center from which you have emerged. In reply you will receive peace and enlightenment.
True prayer means the awakening of the Divine within the human being.
It concentrates human thinking, human feeling and human will in a single whole.
Such prayer is mighty; it can accomplish miracles.
If you persevere in prayer, you will always be joyful and happy; you will feel the Presence of God and will see that the Lord is true.
Prayers made with love are always received.
You will know that your prayer is received by that quiet joy, by that inner light, which will help you in resolving various tasks.
If you do not succeed in your prayer, you may seek the help of one, two or three persons, depending on the need.
Whoever prays from the bottom of their heart will invariably receive an answer!
Without prayer a person cannot make progress and learn.
Everything, which is done without prayer is difficult for the human spirit.
Knowledge or love or food without prayer is tedious to people.
Just as breathing is necessary for the body, so is prayer necessary for the soul.
Prayer is the most sacred action – the sole prerogative of the soul.
Prayer is not subject to any rule or limitation. If you pray correctly, you are always turned to God; no other image should exist in your mind.
Prayer is a conscious process of the human soul; it is the inner spiritual food of the soul; so it has a magical power.
When a person prays, they activate all their virtues simultaneously: Love, Wisdom, Truth, Justice, Compassion, Goodness and many other virtues.
Prayer is a Divine impulse. When it comes to you, you should not delay, but enter the secret chamber of your heart and start praying.
Prayer is an initiation to Divine life; prayer brings bliss.
Prayer is a method for resolving the three most difficult human tasks:
- to know yourself,
- to know your neighbor, and
to know God.
All our works will be successful, if we begin with prayer.
We can pray at any time and in every circumstance because prayer relates to all spheres and moments of life.
Prayer has the power to heal any infirmities and illnesses, to purify one's mind and heart.
Pray to be liberated from all impurities, which tarnish you!
Prayer is even stronger when people undergo the greatest suffering and hardship.
In all circumstances prayer has the power to help!
In all conditions of life, in joy and sorrow, we should think of God.
We always need to pray!
Each one of you is preparing to become a citizen of the Kingdom of God, for which you should have the correct attitude towards God, towards your own soul and towards your neighbors. But you cannot establish these correct attitudes until you have a main idea within yourself.
You should concentrate all your forces on one aim – to develop the Divine in yourself and to give it precedence over the human.
Appraise the Divine within yourselves – your mind, your heart, your soul and your spirit.
Learn to love your soul and you will be of help to yourselves.
The more you believe in your own internal forces and possibilities, the more rapidly you will develop.
The law is: maintain contact with the Heart of Nature, with the Mind of the Sun and with the Soul of the Universe: there is one Heart in Nature, one Mind in the Sun, one Soul in the Universe, one Spirit in Eternity. And above everything is One God.
"When I pray, THE GOOD PRAYER takes me 15 minutes, the 91st PSALM – 20 minutes, THE PATH OF LIFE – also 20 minutes. When I read THE LORD'S PRAYER, it takes me half an hour and when I get to the PRAYER OF THE KINGDOM it takes me another half an hour.
If you are in a hurry when you pray, nothing will be achieved.
15 minutes represent the law, by means of which all misunderstandings are dispelled,
20 minutes is the law of creation and work, 30 minutes is the law of equilibrium.
Whoever does not understand these laws will be discouraged, while whoever understands them will use the 15, 20 and 30 minutes in prayer and in reading the Bible."


PRAYERS


THE LORD'S PRAYER


When you say the Lord's Prayer, give the following meaning to the words: Our Father, Who are in our minds, may Your Light come to my mind, so that it will be able to perceive. May Your Will be within all my undertakings, in all my thoughts and feelings, in all my actions. May Your Will be present even in my breathing and in my blood circulation, so that I can serve You in Joy and Love. 'Lead us not into temptation' means: Lord, give us knowledge and wisdom, so that we cannot fall into temptation through our ignorance. ('Sacred Words of the Master', p.65)


THE LORD'S PRAYER


Our Father in Heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your Will be done – on Earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom, the Power and the Glory, forever.
Amen.


THE GOOD PRAYER


Given by the Master Beinsa Douno in 1900
The Good Prayer is a password. You can pass everywhere by reading it. When you say "Lord God", you will go through the first door. You will pass through as many doors as there are sentences in it. The Good Prayer is sacred, as originating from God; and the Spirit of God vivifies it every day. Thus it is daily up-dated and never gets old. You shall read the Good Prayer in deep inspiration. You shall call the presence of the Spirit by your praying; you shall be very serene and master your mind. In this way you will form and send out that mighty force, those waves, which will attract the Power of God and will activate the Spirit. Then everyone will receive that gentleness and joy which you seek.
"Prayers and directions of the Master", 1925


The Good Prayer
Lord God, our tender Heavenly Father, Who has given us Life and health to rejoice in You – we pray to You: send us Your Spirit to shelter and protect us from every evil and cunning thought.
Teach us to do Your Will, to sanctify Your Name and to glorify You always.
Enlighten our spirit, guide also our hearts and minds to keep Your commandments and instructions.
By Your presence, inspire within us Your pure thoughts and guide us to serve You with joy.
Bless our lives, which we dedicate to You for the sake of our brothers and our neighbors.
Sustain us and help us to grow in knowledge and in Wisdom, to learn from Your Word and to abide in Your Truth.
Guide us in everything we think and do in Your name, so that Your Kingdom may come on Earth.
Nurture our souls with Your Heavenly bread and fill us with Your Power, so that we may succeed in life. And as You give us all Your blessings, supply Your Love as well, so that it may become for us an everlasting law.
For Yours is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, forever.
Amen.


PSALM 91


The Good Prayer and Psalm 91 used together attain such a great spiritual force that they can even save one's life in death strains.
They were recommended by the Master to some of the soldiers who were sent to the fronts during the Second World War.


You who dwell in the shelter of the Most High,
who abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
Say to the Lord, "My refuge and my fortress,
my God, in Whom I trust."
For He will rescue you from the snare of the fowler,
from the destroying pestilence.
With His pinions, He will cover you; and under His wings, you shall take refuge;
His faithfulness is a buckler and a shield.
You shall not fear the terror of the night
nor the arrow that flies by day,
Not the pestilence that roams in the darkness
nor the devastating plague at noon;
Though a thousand fall at your side, ten thousand at your right side,
near you it shall not come.
Rather with you eyes you shall behold
and see the requital of the wicked.
Because you have made the Lord your refuge
and the Most High your strong hold,
No evil shall befall you,
nor shall affliction come near your tent,
For to His Angels, He has given command about you
that they guard you in all your ways.
Upon their hands, they shall bear you up,
lest you dash your foot against a stone.
You shall thread upon the asp and the viper;
you shall trample down the lion and the dragon.
Because he clings to Me, I will deliver him;
I will set him on high because he acknowledges My Name.
He shall call upon Me and I will answer him;
I will be with him in distress.
I will deliver him and glorify him;
With length of days, I will gratify him
and will show him My salvation.


PRAYER OF THE BROTHERHOOD


Lord,
Bless the Universal Brotherhood of Light that is now present amongst the Bulgarians and the Slavic nations. Strengthen its Spirit. Give faith, confidence and hope in You to those who follow Your Path, in order to revive and glorify You through all the future ages.
Do this, Lord our God, for the sake of Your Holy Name, by which You are known throughout the centuries, above in Heaven and on Earth below. May Your Name be sanctified amongst all those impeding Your Sacred Work and make them know You are the only One in Whom betrayal is excluded and Who is always strong to help and to redeem.
Disperse the enemies of Your Kingdom, Lord, from before Your Face, and we shall glorify You with a pure heart, as You assist and strengthen us to chase away the cunning spirits of hell who wish to damage Your Holy Cause. You, God, now work alone with Your mighty Hand. And do it for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ Whose name You deigned to call You.
And let the rulers of this nation become aware that there is no other Lord or God besides You. You are the only One.
Amen.


PRAYER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT


O Lord my God,
My soul trusts in You. Hear my supplication and give heed to my prayer.
Elevate my spirit and give comfort to my heart.
Show me the Light of Your face.
Lord, for the sake of Your mercy, support me with the presence of Your Holy Spirit.
Lord, may Your Kingdom come, Your Justice be fulfilled, Your Truth beam out, Your Love be established and You, Lord Jesus Christ, the Only-Begotten Son of the Living God, dwell in Your fullness within my soul.
And may there be Glory on the Lord God the Father, manifested in the Spirit of His Word throughout the ages.
Amen.


AGNUS DEI


This Prayer is from the black and white shepherd's plaid pocketbook of the Master, in which he noted his reflections in the period from 3.03.1899 up to 16.10.1900.
Lord Jesus, Agnus Dei,
May Your blessing be with me day and night.
Lord, You are my fullness. In You my soul will find the strength to stand. Without You life will perish, the spirit will be weakened.
Lord, my hope of any age in this waterless and desert land, in which my spirit is depressed, You said that living water would spring forth even in the desert for those who trust in You. Lord, I wish to see Your Face in this land, so that my spirit will rejoice in Your Mercy. Dress my soul in Your Strength and Presence.
Lord, You have always supported me and helped me with Your Kindness, You have always empowered me with Your Spirit. Will You hear me again and give me answer, so that others may know that You are my God and You have sent me to do Your Will.
Amen.


THE SMALL PRAYER


Lord, my God -
Make so that I can see Your Face.
Gladden me for the sake of Your Name.
Bless me for the sake of Your Mercy.
Enlighten me for the sake of Your Spirit.
Exalt me for the sake of Your Word.
Help me for the sake of Your Promise.
Guide me for the sake of Your Truth.
Support me for the sake of Your Justice.
And blessed be You, Lord, for ever,
For You are Kind and Truthful towards all.
Amen.


PRAYER OF THE KINGDOM


This prayer was given by the Master Beinsa Douno at the annual meeting of the Spiritual Circle on August 16, 1909 – Sunday
Lord our God,
May our prayer rise up before Your Face.
May Your Spirit come and mayYour Word abide in our hearts, for the sake of Your Love – You have cherished us with it.
Gentle Heavenly Father, Abba!
May Your Kingdom come!
May Your will be done!
May Your Name be sanctified on Earth!
This is the desire of our souls. This is the need, which we constantly feel in this world.
Great Lord of all Power and Might, stand behind Your Cause. Inspire the hearts of all those whom You have chosen to be called the seed of Your Glory and Greatness.
Our gentle Lord, lead us with Your merciful Hand. Enlighten us, so that we do not stray from Your Word and we do not transgress Your Law. Lead us like a good shepherd to the green pastures and clear springs.
You, One Lord and Savior of the world, known before all the Ages of Light, One in the Streaming Daylight of my life – expand my soul, increase my spirit, renew my heart, enlighten my mind, so that I may glorify You now and forever.
Amen.


THE PATH OF LIFE


Lord God, Our Savior of all Power and Might, of all Truth and Love, of all nations and authority,
Source of all Blessings in our life,
Send us Your Gentle Spirit to guide and sustain us on the Path of Life, to enlighten our minds, to illuminate our hearts and to give us strength and vitality, so that we may do Your Gentle Will. Forgive us our transgressions, which we confess before You – they have estranged us from Your Fatherly Love. Erase them from the book of Your Recollections, and grant us the Peace of Your Spirit.
Let Your Face shine upon us now, so that we may become images of Your Love, messengers of Your Truth and servants of Your Justice. Bless the nation in which we live. Bless our brothers and sisters with whom we work. Bless all mothers and fathers who do Your Will. Hear the voices of all who are suffering on the face of the Earth and bless them. Bless our Master, Who is leading us in Your Sacred Path.
Blessed are You, Lord our God. Blessed is Your Name from ages past, for You are the Way, the Truth and Life and no other God exists, but You. You are the only One.
Amen.


THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT


Lord of Tenderness, God of Love –
We call upon You in Your Mercy.
We accept the sufferings, which You send us with joy in our heart.
We accept the difficulties, which You give to us for the strengthening of our spirit.
We will fulfill Your Gentle Will without hesitating or vacillating.
Send us Your Spirit to bring into our hearts, our minds and our souls the Fruit of Your Love, the Blessing of Joy and Peace, the Foundation of Your Patience and Compassion.
Grant us the Gift of Faith, Humility and Temperance.
Bless us as You have always blessed us.
Make Your Name dear to our souls.
Establish Your Kingdom in our souls.
Nourish our souls with Your Word that all Your Virtues may be fortified in us.
May Your Radiant Spirits of Love, Faith and Hope abide within us now and forever together with You.
We bring You praise, Glory be to You, the One Lord and God of the Great Sacrifice.
Amen.


PRAYER OF THE TRIUNE GOD


1. Lord, may Your Spirit come upon my spirit – to fill my heart and soul with Your Presence, and to strengthen my feet in every Righteousness.
I bow before the Eternal Rock out of which I have been carved.
Blessed is Your Name, Lord.
Strengthen me and uplift me that I may serve You with gladness.
2. Lord, my God, may Your Spirit come and enlighten my mind, illuminate my heart and fill my soul with every joy and exaltation.
I bow before You, the Eternal Source Who has always redeemed me.
Wash my feet and cleanse my heart, bleach my soul so that I may be pure and sacred before You.
Blessed are You, Lord, my God!
3. Lord, my God, may Your Blessing come upon my spirit to fill my heart and my soul with the Sweet Fruits of Your Spirit, to make my feet firm with the Strength of Your Presence.
I bow before Your Eternal Spirit Who vivifies me and resurrects me from the dead.
Protect me, Lord, with Your Sacred Name.
Strengthen me that I may serve You with joy and gladness and be one with You, Lord Jesus Christ as You are One with the Father.
Amen.


THE GOOD PATH


Prayer of the Disciple
Lord of Light, of all Abundance and Gentleness,
About which my Master has spoken to me and he is still speaking,
Reveal Yourself to me as You deign, as it is pleasing to You.
I am ready to fulfill Your Will without any deviation, without any hesitation, without
any doubt. And I will be as loyal and truthful, Lord, as You are Loyal and Truthful.
For the sake of the Name of my Master, through Whom You have spoken to me, may I always rejoice in the Presence of Your word, in the Manifestation of Your Great and Sacred Spirit. And may I always be like the little children of Your Kingdom – obedient, diligent, constant, patient, content in Your Boundless Love, which You show towards all the weak and infirm who seek the Path of Your Eternal Light, in which You dwell.
Enlighten me, I pray You, Lord, and let not the Presence of Your Gentle Spirit move away from my soul, from my heart, from my mind, from my will.
Lord, may I be a bearer of Your Word, a performer of Your Will; may I always do what is pleasing to You, what You want.
May Your Spirit dwell in my soul, may I rejoice in the Presence of Your Light, for the sake of the Name of my Master with whose Name You are known in the world.
Amen.


PRAYER OF THE SPIRIT


When you read this Prayer, you should be very careful. Do not hurry, but concentrate your mind. Begin from the heart; put your heart and your mind in their places. Direct them to God and pronounce this Prayer. (We read the Prayer of the Spirit for the first time kneeling on our right legs and lifting our right hands.) We need to think that all said in the Prayer will come true and will be fulfilled in our souls. (We read the Prayer once more, but this time with lifted left hands.) Falling on our knees, now we shall direct our minds to the Lord of Love with the following words:
"Lord,
We are ready to fulfill Your Sacred Will without the slightest deviation. And our whole joy will be in serving You with all our hearts, minds, souls and spirits. We wish to know You as Love in us and outside us.
May You always be present in our thoughts, desires and actions; may You be the alpha and omega of our life, the beginning of all Your Mercy and the end of all our misunderstandings; the beginning of Truth and the end of falsehood; the beginning of Wisdom and the end of foolishness; the beginning of Strength and the end of violence.
May You be a new beginning unlimited and boundless! The beginning of the New Light, of the New Life! Come down to our souls, introduce Your Light into the New Life. Illuminate the New hearts You have given us. Fill our minds with Your Light You have brought into our spirits. Bless us and we will spread Your Blessing."
Only those of you, who are willing to give promise, may use this part of the Prayer. ("Lectures, explanations and directions, given by the Master Beinsa Douno to the disciples of the Universal Brotherhood of Light at their meeting in the town of Veliko Turnovo in the summer of 1922." It was the year of the opening of the Esoteric School.)


PRAYER OF THE SPIRIT


Lord our God,
May Your Kind Spirit come and fold our spirits in His Arms; fill our hearts with the Boundless Love that reveals Your Presence everywhere, strengthen our hands in every Righteousness and our feet in every Goodness.
We bow before You, our Eternal Father, Rock of our life.
Blessed are You, blessed is Your Name in our souls.
Strengthen and uplift us to begin our serving for the coming of Your Kingdom with every Gladness, caused by the manifestation of Your Love to us.
You are the only One, Who knows us and Whom we know – for You bring Light to our souls, Expanse to our minds, Increase to our power, Strength to our spirits and Fullness to our hearts. You are the Crown and Glory of our life.
Amen.


PRAYER OF GRATITUDE


We thank You, our Father, for the Great Love with which You have loved us.
We thank You for the Life which You have given us.
We thank You for the Mind which you have put in us.
We thank You for the Virtues which You have placed as a Foundation of our lives.
We thank You for the Justice with which You have surrounded us.
We thank You for the Love with which You have filled us.
We thank You for Your Great Wisdom and we glorify You for Your Truth with which You have enlightened us.
We rejoice in the Life which You have given us and we fulfill Your Will.
Because of the Spirit Whom You have sent to lead us, be blessed by all of us,
now and forever more.
Amen.

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May 16, 2013 By davidjones
By MICHAEL HOWARD—


Today, especially in New Age circles, the term ‘shamanism’ is often used in a generalised way to describe all kinds of indigenous magical practices in a wide range of cultures worldwide. It has also been projected back into a past that it never had, so we can find modern books on so-called ‘Celtic shamanism’ and even ‘Ancient Egyptian shamanism’. Modern writers on the subject such as Dr. Michael Harner have also created what is called ‘core shamanism’ or ‘urban shamanism’.


This takes the essence of shamanic beliefs and practices and repackages them in a safe, sanitised and often diluted form that is acceptable for Western seekers of alternative spirituality. In this article, however, we examine and describe the real ‘core shamanism’ as it has been practised for hundreds of years in its homeland of Siberia and the Turkic-speaking areas of Mongolia, and where it is now being revived.


In the late 16th and early 17th centuries the area known as Siberia was colonised by the Russians. They were led there by its abundance of wild animals that created a flourishing trade in animal skins and furs. The Tsars used the income from this enterprise to boost their economy and access the foreign currency that helped create the Russian empire. The influx of Russian hunters, fur traders and merchants drastically affected the local population, which consisted of many different tribes. By the 1900s the native population had dwindled to about 10% of the total people living in Siberia. Along with the fur traders there also came missionaries and, in later times, anthropologists. The former were interested in converting the indigenous population to Orthodox Christianity, while the latter wanted to study their tribal culture, spiritual beliefs and ritual practices. Both these groups of outsiders contacted the tribal shamans of Siberia and, for totally different reasons, recorded and commented upon their religious observances.


The earliest references to magical practitioners that could be described as shamans in fact date back to the 13th century. It was then that the first Western travellers penetrated Central Asia and visited the court of the Mongol rulers. The explorer Marco Polo, for instance, met magicians who were healers and could diagnosis diseases by the use of divination. Polo says they became possessed by what he described as “a devil,” who then used their vocal chords to speak through them.


However, it was an English explorer called Richard Johnston in the 16th century who first described what sounds very like the activities of shamans proper. He reported witnessing a tribal priest wearing animal skins and playing a drum “shaped like a great sieve” in “devilish rites.” During the ritual the drummer fell into a trance and was possessed by “evil spirits.”


In 1692 another Western explorer, Nicholas Witsen, described seeing a “shaman” or “priest of the Devil.” He was clad in ritual regalia, consisting of an antlered head-dress and a richly decorated robe, and chanted and beat on a drum to attract the spirits. Generally, reflecting the Catholic culture they came from, these Westerners regarded the shamans as fanatical “devil worshippers” who forced their ignorant and uneducated followers to serve evil spirits and demons.


What is Siberian Shamanism?


The meaning of the word ‘shaman’ is shrouded in linguistic mystery and various explanations have been put forward for its origin. One theory is that it is possibly derived from an ancient Chinese term for a Buddhist priest or monk. The Oxford English Dictionary defines its meaning as “a priest or witch-doctor [sic] of (a) class claiming to have sole contact with gods etc.” It says the word comes from the Russian “shaman” and is a translation of the Tungusion word “saman.” In Siberia and Mongolia, shamanism was known as Tengerism, meaning a reverence for sky spirits. It reflected an animistic belief system where everything in the natural world was alive, permeated by spirit force or, in simple terms, inhabited by spirits.


These spirits had to be respected and appeased or else the land would become infertile and barren, the animals relied upon for food would disappear and eventually the world would come to an end. To achieve this essential and vital balance between humans, nature and the spirit world, a magical specialist was required and the shaman took that role. He or she acted as an intermediary or middle person between humanity and the Other, and a caretaker of cultural and magical tradition. Their job involved conducting blessings, especially on new-born babies, performing rituals of protection, divining the future, healing the sick, exorcising ghosts and demons, overseeing the burial of the dead, and generally communicating on behalf of the tribe with the spirit world and its denizens.


Initiation into the shamanic cult could be achieved in several different ways. The easiest was the hereditary route where magical knowledge, power and skill were passed down from grandfather or father to son or, more rarely, from grandmother or mother to daughter. Sometimes children were chosen at a very early age or even at birth by the spirits and instructed by them through the medium of visions and dreams. Young people who suffered a serious illness or disease or from epileptic fits, were introverted and dreamy, or had any form of mental condition or disability, were regarded as natural shamans who had been specially chosen by the spirits.


In later life those who felt a strong calling to become a magical practitioner would retreat from society, usually to a remote place in the wilderness, and undergo a vigil during which they invited the spirits to contact them and teach them the shamanic ways. When a person was actually taken on by another shaman as his assistant or sorcerer’s apprentice, a formal initiation rite was often carried out. The candidate offered an animal sacrifice, called on the spirits to aid them in their task, took an oath of loyalty to their shamanic master or spiritual clan, and accepted the special ritual regalia of a shaman’s office.


Often these initiations by either another shaman or the spirits involved a traumatic visionary death and rebirth experience. Sometimes this included a journey to the underworld, meetings with deities and the would-be shaman’s body being dismembered and then put together again.


The ritual regalia given to the new shaman reflected the fact that he or she was a special person who was separate and different from other members of the tribe. Siberian shamans wore robes made from animal hide and fur and decorated with embroidery, bird’s feathers, silk tassels, ribbons, bells, small mirrors, jewellery representing symbolic motifs such as the World Tree, and assorted metalwork such as copper discs. Headwear consisted of a conical or pointed cap made from felt or fur or the antlers of a reindeer. Some shamans wore iron-shod fur boots so when they stamped their feet they could drive away evil spirits.


The majority of shamans carried a ritual drum similar in shape to the traditional Irish bodhran. These were made from an animal skin stretched over a wooden frame and decorated with feathers and magical symbols representing spirit journeys to the Otherworld or the shamanic cosmology. The drum was very important and represented the symbolic and magical steed that enabled the practitioner to travel from Middle Earth to the realm of the spirits. It was also a magical object in its own right that contained and focused spirit force or energy. By playing it the shaman could both attract spirits and exorcise them. In addition to the drum a magical staff was often carried. This was made of either wood or metal and was decorated with feathers, bells, ribbons and the pelts of small woodland animals.


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May 16, 2013 By davidjones
By RICHARD SMOLEY


“The world,” wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, “is the totality of facts, not of things.” So it is, but facts take many forms. The hard-edged events of ordinary reality are only one form, and not always the most important.


This insight can be hard to accept in the positivist world of mainstream Western thought. In these terms, either an event took place or it did not. Truth and falsehood are judged by this criterion alone. And yet such a stance has only a limited value. It is indispensable in history and journalism and perhaps in science (although the anomalous discoveries of twentieth-century physics have blurred the picture somewhat). But in the spiritual dimension, even though there are facts here as well, they are not of this kind. To overlook this truth is to mistake one reality for another.


Conventional Christianity has often made this mistake. Practically from the start, it has presented its case in literalistic terms: the Bible is true; moreover it is literally true. Its facts must be historical facts, and its record of the past must be a true one. At first these claims fostered Christianity’s rapid success in the ancient world. By the early centuries of the Common Era, Greco-Roman civilisation could no longer take its own myths seriously, so it was persuaded to adopt the Scriptures of the Jews and Christians on the grounds that these presented not only sacred truths but an accurate record of the past.


Since the Enlightenment, such claims have been more of an embarrassment than an advertisement for the faith. Over the last 250 years, scholars in many fields have taken Christianity at its word and investigated in great depth just how much the Bible jibes with science and history. The findings have not exactly vindicated the Good Book. Indeed the trend over time has been to call more and more of the Bible into question as a historical record.


From a scientific point of view, the tide began to turn in the early nineteenth century. In 1830–32, the British scientist Charles Lyell published his classic Principles of Geology, arguing that geological changes that are recorded in rocks could not possibly have taken place in the mere 6,000 years that Genesis assigned to the earth’s lifetime, but had occurred over a much longer period. A generation later, another, even more famous scientist, Charles Darwin, suggested that animal species had not been created by the Almighty on a single day of creation in 4004 BCE, but had evolved over much longer periods by what he called “natural selection.” (In fact, when Darwin had finished his magnum opus, The Origin of Species, he sent it to Lyell for comments.)


Historicity of the Bible Questioned


In recent decades, archaeology has cast doubt even on parts of the Bible that had seemed more or less factual, such as the history of Israel in the Old Testament. To take one example, a generation ago most scholars accepted the historicity of the Exodus from Egypt, believing at least that some migration of this kind happened, even if the narrative had to be stripped of its miraculous festoonings. Since then, the picture has changed considerably. Summarising recent findings in their 2001 book The Bible Unearthed, Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman contend that the Exodus did not happen in any form that is recognisable from the archaeological record. The first mention of Israel in any known inscription, they note, dates from the reign of the Egyptian Pharaoh Merneptah in 1207 BCE. While this is around the time traditionally assigned to the Exodus, the inscription speaks not of a flight of Israelites (or even an expulsion), but of Merneptah’s successful incursion into Canaan, where Israel is reckoned among the peoples subdued. In any case, the Israelites could not have escaped to Canaan out of the hands of the Egyptians, because Canaan was part of Egyptian territory at the time; Merneptah’s invasion would have been to quiet a troublesome province.


Instead, Finkelstein and Silberman suggest that the biblical account of the Exodus is a composite of folk memories of the Hyksos – a Semitic people who ruled Egypt from c.1670 to c.1570 BCE before being expelled by the Egyptians. The Exodus story as we know it was framed in the seventh century BCE, when the national ideology of Jerusalem and the nation of Judah was beginning to crystallise – and Egypt was a powerful and aggressive neighbour.
Other scholars have come up with equally revolutionary insights. In her work The Great Angel, the British biblical scholar Margaret Barker points out that originally the Israelites worshipped a female goddess, known as Asherah (or sometimes as Hokhmah or “Wisdom”), as the consort of Yahweh, alongside El, the Most High God, and Yahweh himself, who was essentially a national deity allocated to Israel alone. Barker suggests that the famous Deuteronomic reform under the Judahite King Josiah – in which Josiah purges the Temple of these other gods and restores the worship of Yahweh alone (2 Kings 22-23) – was not a reform but an innovation, a purge of time-honoured traditions in an attempt to create a “Yahweh-alone movement.” This movement eventually took over Judaism after the Babylonian Exile and imposed its own agenda on the past.


One could make similar points about much of the rest of the Bible. The “quest of the historical Jesus,” as Albert Schweitzer so famously dubbed it, has gone on for over two centuries now without any really conclusive results. Most scholars are convinced that there is some admixture of myth and legend in the life of Christ as portrayed in the New Testament, but they differ enormously about just what was legend and what was not. The panel of liberal New Testament scholars known as the Jesus Seminar has won some notoriety for contending that Jesus neither said nor did most of the things attributed to him in the Gospels. As shocking as some may find this claim, it is hardly new: an array of German New Testament scholars reached much the same conclusions in the nineteenth century. A still more radical view holds that Jesus never existed at all: his story was merely a Jewish equivalent of the numerous death-and-resurrection myths circulating in the ancient world. Since there is no archaeological evidence for Christ’s life, and the textual evidence is elusive (none of the Gospels, canonical or apocryphal, even claims to be an eyewitness account), this position, as extreme as it is, is hard to definitively refute.


Biblical Stories as Allegory, Not History


What, then, are we to do with the Bible as history? Some will no doubt cling to it. The literary critic Harold Bloom has noted that in evangelical Christianity, the “limp leather Bible,” waved at the audience by the preacher, has itself become a totem. But others are unlikely to find refuge in a simplistic bibliolatry. They may be drawn to another approach – one that is equally ancient, and possibly more profound. It is that the Bible is not, and never was, meant to be taken literally, but has deeper meanings that are to be unearthed by those are capable of doing so.


This idea goes back to the very beginnings of Christianity and has always existed side by side with narrow literalism. Ironically, it was a major impetus for the creation of Christianity as a separate religion from Judaism. The nascent Christian movement often had to allegorise the Hebrew Scriptures to make use of them for its own purposes. The Apostle Paul writes about one biblical passage:
It is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.


But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.


Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.


For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.


But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all (Gal. 4:22–26).


Paul is saying that the real meaning of the story of Abraham and his two sons lies in the relationship of the Jews and the Christians. Ishmael, the older son, born to Hagar (or Agar), “the bondwoman,” is the Jews, who are in “bondage” to the Law of Moses. Isaac, the younger, born to Sarah, the “freewoman,” represents the Christians, who are freed from having to follow the Law. The story is an “allegory.”


The first authority to use the word “allegory” in this sense (the Greek is allegoria) – and the first to expound the Hebrew Bible in this way – was a philosopher who lived at the same time as both Jesus and Paul: Philo of Alexandria (c.20 BCE–c.50 CE). Although there is no reference to Jesus or Paul in his works or to Philo in the New Testament, it would be hard to overstate Philo’s influence on Christianity. To take one example, it was he who first used the Greek word logos (often translated as “word”) to mean the creative, structuring element in consciousness and to contend that this principle had engendered the world. Philo’s view was prevalent in the Judaism of the first century CE, in which the logos was often seen as a kind of deuteros theos or “second god.” The Christians appropriated this theology, especially in the Gospel of John, whose prologue “In the beginning was the Word” etc. is almost a programmatic statement of Philo’s thought. Philo, of course, never equated this logos with Jesus, as the Christians did, and once the Christian view had spread throughout the ancient world, the Jews dropped the concept of the logos entirely.


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May 16, 2013 By davidjones
By ROBERT MOSS—


I have known since I was a very small boy in Australia that there are worlds beyond physical reality, and that we can journey to those worlds and gain first-hand knowledge of the multidimensional universe and about what actually happens after death.


When I was nine years old, I was woken up to these possibilities during a crisis of illness. I was rushed to hospital in Melbourne after complaining of a pain in my lower right abdomen. The medical staff found that my appendix was about to burst and I was wheeled into an operating room in short order for an emergency appendectomy.


Under anesthesia on the operating table, I found myself hovering above my body, somewhere up near the ceiling. I decided I didn’t want to watch the bloody work with the scalpel and flowed through the door and along the corridor to where my mother sat hunched and weeping. I couldn’t stand her pain, so I drifted off to a window, to the brightness outside, to the colours of spring and the laughter of young lovers seated at a sidewalk table, drinking each other’s smiles. I felt the pull of the ocean. I could not see the beach from the hospital window, so I floated through the glass and out onto a ledge where a blackbird squalled at me and shot straight up into the air. I followed the bird and sailed over the rooftops.


I saw a huge moon-round face, its mouth opened wide to form the gateway to Luna Park. I swooped down through the moon-gate – and plunged into darkness. I tried to reverse direction, but something sucked me downwards. It was like tumbling down a mineshaft, mile after mile beneath the surface of the earth.


I fell into a different world. It was hard to make out anything clearly in the smoke of a huge fire pit. A giant with skin the colour of fine white ash lifted me high above the ground, singing. The people of this world welcomed me. They were tall and elongated and very pale, and did not look like anyone I had seen in my nine years in the surface world. They told me they had dreamed my coming, and raised me as their own. For the greater part of my schooling, I was required to dream – to dream alone, in an incubation cave, or to dream with others, lying in a cartwheel around the banked ashes of the fire in the council house.


Years passed. As I grew older, my recollection of my life in the surface world faded and flickered out. I became a father and grandfather, a teacher and elder. When my body was played out, the people placed it on a funeral pyre. As the smoke rose from the pyre, I travelled with it, looking for the path among the stars where the fires of the galaxies flow together like milk.
As I spiralled upward, I seemed to burst through the Earth’s crust into a world of hot asphalt and cars and trams – and found myself shooting back into the body of a nine-year-old boy in a Melbourne hospital bed.


It was a little hard to discuss these experiences with the adults around me at that time, and we did not yet have Raymond Moody’s useful phrase “near-death experience” to describe an episode of this kind. One of the doctors said simply, “Robert died and came back” – with memories that made me quite certain of the existence of worlds beyond the obvious one, and of the fact that consciousness survives physical death.


There is great contemporary interest in the NDE in Western society, and this is a very healthy thing, because to know about the afterlife, we require first-hand experience, and need to be ready to update our geographies and itineraries frequently in the light of the latest reliable travel reports. In ancient and traditional cultures where there is a real practice of dying, near-death experiencers – who may be called shamans or initiates – have always been heard with the deepest attention and respect.


There is a Tibetan name for such a person, delog, pronounced “day-loak”. It means someone who has gone beyond death and returned. The famous Tibetan Book of the Dead, with its detailed account of the possible transits of spirit after death, emerged from the experiences of such travellers.


But to have first-hand knowledge of what lies beyond death, we do not have to go through the physical extremity of an NDE. We can learn through our dreams, the dreams in which we receive visitations from departed loved ones and others who are at home on the Other Side, and the dreams in which we travel beyond the body and into their realms.


Our dreams open portals into the multidimensional universe, including the places we may travel after physical death. As we become active dreamers, we come to realise that dreaming is not so much about sleeping as about waking up – to a deeper reality and a deeper meaning in life, and death.


The Departed are Dreaming with Us


One of my driving purposes in writing The Dreamer’s Book of the Dead was to help some of the many people in our society who are hungry for confirmation that communication with the departed is not “weird” or “unnatural”, let alone impossible, and that it is possible to extend love and forgiveness and healing across the apparent barrier of death. We encounter our departed, especially in dreams, because they are still around (sometimes because they have unfinished business or are not actually aware they are dead); or because they come visiting; or because we travel, in dreams or visions, into astral realms where the departed are entirely at home.


It’s not just that we dream of the dead; our departed are dreaming of us, and trying to reach us through dreams. Sometimes our departed return as counsellors or “family angels”, as my father returned to me, many times, in the year after his death in Australia in 1987, with loving messages and practical guidance for the family. Sometimes our departed need us to play guides, because they are confused or stuck between the worlds, clinging to old appetites and attachments – which can be extremely unhealthy for the living, who may pick up the feelings and addictions and even the past physical symptoms of the dead.


One of the cruelest things that mainstream Western culture has done is to suggest that communication with the departed is either impossible or unnatural.  There is nothing spooky or “supernatural” involved, though these experiences take us into realms beyond physical reality. It is especially easy to meet our departed in dreams (if we are willing to listen to our dreams) for three reasons:


Our Departed are Still With Us


Quite frequently dreams reveal that the departed are present because, quite simply, they never left. The departed may linger because they have unfinished business, or wish to act as guide and protector to the family, or are attached to people and places they loved in waking life, and this may be a perfectly happy situation for a year or two.


But there comes a time when our departed need to move on, for their own growth, and so they do not become a psychic burden to the living. Because our society does a poor job in preparing people for the afterlife, many people who have passed on do not know they are dead, and hover in a limbo close to familiar people and places on this Earth. After death, we continue to be driven by our ruling interests, appetites and addictions. Some of those who have died but not truly “passed on” continue to try to feed their cravings via the living. When the departed remain earthbound, the effects are unhealthy both for those who have died and those among the living to whom they are connected. When the dead are enmeshed with the living, the result is mutual confusion, loss of energy, and the transfer of addictions, obsessions and even physical ailments from the departed to the person whose energy field he or she is sharing.


Helping the departed may involve a loving dialogue, a simple ritual of honouring and farewell, and invoking spiritual helpers. As we become active dreamers, familiar with the geography of the afterlife, we may find we are called on to provide personal escort services and help to instruct some of our departed on their options on the other side. William Butler Yeats noted, with a poet’s insight, that “the living can assist the imaginations of the dead.”


Our Departed Come Calling


Most people who remember dreams can recall one in which someone on the other side made a phone call, sent a letter, or simply turned up at the door or the bedside. Our departed return to us in dreams for all the reasons they might have called on us in physical life – including the simple desire to tell us how they are doing and see how we are coping – and for larger reasons: to bring emotional healing, to bring us helpful information, to instruct us on life beyond death and the reality of worlds beyond the physical.


Our departed may come visiting to offer or receive forgiveness. They may come to show us how they are doing on the other side.


Our departed can be excellent psychic advisers when they achieve clarity on the other side and are aware that they are not confined to the rules of space and time.


Our departed may come as health advisors and family counsellors. My friend Wanda Burch had received many dreams containing possible health advisories, but was finally driven to seek medical attention when her deceased father turned up in her dreams in a doctor’s white coat and yelled at her, “You have breast cancer!” Her father’s dream intervention helped put her on the path of healing and recovery.


Our departed may visit us in dreams to help us prepare for our own deaths and reassure us that we have friends on the other side. 


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May 16, 2013 By davidjones
By ROBERT BLACK—


The secret account of the revelation that Jesus spoke in conversation with Judas Iscariot during a week three days before he celebrated Passover. …Jesus said to him, “Step away from the others and I shall tell you the mysteries of the kingdom. It is possible for you to reach it, but you will grieve a great deal.”
– The Gospel of Judas1


From an historical point of view this find is as important as the Nag Hammadi writings discovered half a century ago. Everything tells us that we are dealing with the Gospel of Judas referred to by Irenaeus in the second century AD. It is fantastic that something like that re-appears after 1800 years.
– Dr. Stephen Emmel2


The story of how the Gospel of Judas arrived in the Western world is a fascinating tale. Like many of the so-called Gnostic Gospels, it somehow travelled out of Egypt and arrived in the US with a large price tag. Unlike many manuscripts which vanish sight unseen, luck or providence if you like brought this manuscript not only to light but finally to restoration and publication. In the words of Professor Elaine Pagels, “the discovery of the Gospel of Judas is astonishing.”


Originally unearthed by a farmer in 1978 near El Minya, Egypt, from where it had been hidden in a “tomb-like box” for some 1,600 years, the leather-bound papyrus codex was in superb condition. The farmer secretly sold the codex to an antiquities dealer in Cairo, without advising Egyptian Antiquities. In a clandestine meeting in 1983, the antiquities dealer offered the codex for sale to various scholars in Geneva, however with an asking price of over $3,000,000 and a dubious provenance, the price was considered extraordinary.


Ironically, while the Gospel survived well in Egypt, it seriously deteriorated when stored for some 16 years in a safety deposit box in Hicksville, New York. Finally purchased by antiquities dealer Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos in 2000, the following year the codex was acquired by the Maecenas Foundation for Ancient Art in Switzerland. With the help of National Geographic and an agreement reached with the Egyptian government, restoration work soon began.


Known as the Codex Tchacos (named after Dimaratos Tchacos, father of Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos), it is a 26-page document written on 13 sheets of papyrus leaf in ancient Egyptian, or Coptic. The codex contains not only the Gospel of Judas, but the First Apocalypse of James, the Letter of Peter to Philip, and a small fragment of text that scholars have called the Book of Allogene.


If we focus on the Gospel of Judas, the document is a 3rd century Coptic translation of a now lost Greek text, thought to have been written by a group of early Gnostic Christians before 180 CE. While its significance is much debated, there is no question about its authenticity. There is universal agreement it is the genuine article. “All you had to do was look at this thing once,” said Bart Ehrman, a scholar of early Christianity. “I’ve seen a lot of ancient manuscripts, and there was no question.”3 According to James M. Robinson, America’s leading expert on ancient religious texts from Egypt, “I don’t know of any scholar who thinks this is fake.”4


Heresy Hunting


Back in the 2nd century of the Christian era, the Christian Bishop Irenaeus mentioned a Gospel of Judas was in use among the Kainites, an early Gnostic Christian sect. In part I of his Against Heresy, paragraph 31.1, he wrote:
(Some) stated that Cain owes his existence to the highest power, while Esau, Korak, the Sodomites and all other men are dependants of each other. (…) They believe that Judas the Betrayer was fully informed of these things and that only he understanding the truth like no one else fulfilled the secret of betrayal that confused all things, both in heaven and on earth. They invented their own history called the Gospel of Judas.


The Gospel had been known to exist for some time when discussed by Irenaeus around 180 CE, with his primary source being Justin Martyr. This moves the date back to around 140 CE, and most scholars therefore date the Gospel itself to around 120 CE or even earlier. This is significant because it places the Gospel of Judas within the same timeframe as the Biblical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.


The publication of the Gospel of Judas undertaken by National Geographic is unlikely to disturb the mainstream Christian church. In a recent interview, Monsignor Walter Brandmuller, president of the Vatican’s Committee for Historical Science, called it “a product of religious fantasy,” and went on to say, “There is no campaign, no movement for the rehabilitation of (Judas) the traitor of Jesus.”5


From past experience with the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1947 and the Nag Hammadi Library unearthed two years earlier, whatever the merits of a document it does not bring about a religious revolution. There is an entrenched power structure within Christendom and regardless of the strength of evidence presented, the Church will use spin, distortion and, if necessary, violence (remember the first crusades were against the Cathars) to preserve its dominion.


The significance of the Gospel of Judas needs to be seen in the context of the larger picture provided by Gnosticism and current scholarship regarding Christian origins. Too often modern Christians live in a sort of self imposed ghetto. They read Christian books, subscribe to Christian magazines, and generally are not exposed to scholarship except through the lens of their chosen leaders or churches. In many cases even when a Christian leader tries to inject scholarship and critical thinking, it is still filtered through a very antiquated religious lens. There does seem to be a surprisingly large gap between modern research into Christian origins, even that generally available, and the information the average Christian receives within his or her community.


Over the last 100 years the academic model that has arisen in regards to Christian origins is radically different from the traditional Christian worldview. It would be fair to say Christianity is sometimes even seen as a Gnostic heresy and not vice versa. While this is an inflammatory way of describing Christian origins, it does seem quite clear that within the early Christian “spectrum” there was an exceptionally wide range of traditions and practices. This diversity was not only tolerated but encouraged and embraced.


Christianity was not a single, monolithic tradition handed down from one leader to another in succession; it was diverse and multi-faceted with many dispersed centres of power.


Elaine Pagels, a professor of religion at Princeton who specialises in studies of the Gnostics, recently said in a statement, “These discoveries are exploding the myth of a monolithic religion, and demonstrating how diverse – and fascinating – the early Christian movement really was.”6


Gnostic Christianity


Although later denounced by certain leaders as ‘heretics’, many of these Christians saw themselves as not so much believers as seekers, people who ‘seek for God.’7
– Elaine Pagels


Early Christianity seems to have included many differing viewpoints from the rather staid Judaic Christian mix of James the Brother of Jesus to the esoteric Gnosticism of the followers of Mary Magdalene and Simon Magus. Variations in approach were such that within one movement there were libertine sects that used sex and mind altering substances, and others which were strictly ascetic and celibate. There were groups which were strictly Judaic in focus even to the point of keeping the old laws and festivals of Israel, while others were clearly influenced by the Greek Mysteries and even Buddhist traditions.


Each of these communities had their own sacred texts and interpretations of the teachings of Jesus; the majority would now be considered Gnostic, i.e. they emphasised personal and direct experience of the divine. Accordingly, each of these groups acted like a “Mystery Cult” and had their own specialised practices, mythologies and rites. Many had distinct Gospels which included unique revelations from Jesus to their founders. For example, in the Pistis Sophia, we read of the secret teachings of Jesus to Mary Magdalene and the Gospel of Thomas begins… “These are the secret words which the living Jesus spoke, and Didymus Judas Thomas wrote them down.”8


These secret writings and communities flourished for hundreds of years. It was only in the early 4th century that Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria wrote a letter to some Christians in Egypt ordering them to reject what he called “secret, illegitimate books.”9 In 363 CE the first synod (of Laodicea) was held to decide the official contents of the Bible.
Certainly by the middle of the 4th century, Christianity had become a political force and dissenting views were not tolerated. Under threat and violent persecution, Gnostic communities withdrew from public view, to survive as an ‘underground’ movement. This continued right through to such groups as the Templars and Rosicrucians, and even to the present day.


Clearly, early Christianity offered a wide spectrum of beliefs and practices catering to the unique needs of people with differing levels of spiritual development. This helps us understand the Gospel of Judas. While Christendom has attempted to downplay the significance of this Gospel, its message, like that of Gnosticism in general, is actually quite confronting and challenging.


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:-) ]]> Solve et Coagula http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25183-The-Gospel-of-Judas-Revealed Are We Food for the Moon? http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25182-Are-We-Food-for-the-Moon?goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 11:31:13 GMT Are We Food for the Moon? May 16, 2013 By davidjones By JASON JEFFREY— If man is not affected in some way by the Moon, he is the only thing on Earth that isn’t. Are We Food for the Moon?


May 16, 2013 By davidjones
By JASON JEFFREY—


If man is not affected in some way by the Moon, he is the only thing on Earth that isn’t.


– Robert Millikan (1868-1953), US physicist & 1923 Nobel Prize winner
Probably no heavenly body has received as much attention down through the ages as our Moon. The causes of this fascination are obvious: the Moon enlightens the night and appears as a remarkable and large object in the sky. As a regulator of Earth’s tides and life’s biological cycles, the Moon’s importance to our physical existence is second only to that of the Sun.
Sacred scriptures, ancient myths, and even modern day pagans, all exalt the Moon in one way or another. Omens, spells, wishes, oracles, divination, and calendars cluster around it throughout history. Moon magic, the belief that working rituals at the time of different phases of the Moon brings about physical or psychological changes, is essential to various pagan and witchcraft systems. Witches in Greek and Roman literature were regularly accused of ‘drawing down the Moon’ by use of a magic spell.


Nevill Drury, a respected authority on mystical and occult traditions, says “traditionally… the Moon has been regarded as a ‘funnel’ drawing on the light of the stars and constellations and transmitting their energies to the Earth.”1
In Western astrology the Moon is said to represent the feeling intuitive nature of the individual as well our deepest personal needs, our basic habits and reactions, and our unconscious. In esoteric astrology the Moon represents attachment to form, and under certain circumstances a variety of limiting conditions are related to the Moon, ranging from blatant materialism to subtler forms of limitation such as debilitating nostalgia, sentiment and regret.


The word “lunacy” – which derives from the Latin for Moon, “luna” – denotes the traditional link made in folklore between madness and the phases of the Moon. Several studies have tried to get to the bottom of this age-old belief. A 1976 report compared 34,318 crimes against lunar cycles. It found offences occurred more frequently during a full Moon. Other research, however, failed to find any firm link between the cycles of the Moon and irrational behaviour.
England’s Lunacy Act of 1842 gave allowances for uncharacteristic crimes committed during the full and new Moon. This law distinguished between the chronically insane and the lunatic. It was argued the lunatic became deranged at these times because of the Moon’s power and thus could not be held accountable for his or her actions.


Interestingly, a study of the Moon’s effect on mental health patients, conducted by the University of Liverpool in 2000, found a significant change at the time of the full Moon, but only in subjects with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.


Whether we are conscious of it or not, the Moon exerts some sort of influence upon our biological and psychological states. But does it go any deeper than this?


Gurdjieff and Ouspensky


The Fourth Way philosophy claims to help individuals cease to be slaves of external and internal influences by building up a core of heightened consciousness. Its ultimate goal is the realisation of the full potential of human evolutionary possibilities. Its founder, George Gurdjieff (1872-1949), frequently spoke of the thoughtless mechanical behaviour of humanity, and was fond of commenting humans are “food for the Moon.”


What did Gurdjieff mean by this phrase? Many interpreted “food for the Moon” as a figure of speech – perhaps Gurdjieff meant we are slave to our mechanical conditioning and feed our baser impulses. But while it can be interpreted in this fashion, Gurdjieff was primarily being literal.


Peter Ouspensky, Gurdjieff’s most famous disciple, lectured at length concerning the Moon’s role in human affairs and its place in the cosmological scheme of things.


Ouspensky said the Moon drives the individual’s mechanical aspects like a pendulum moves the gears of a clock. The degree to which one’s actions are driven by the Moon is proportional to one’s level of contact with higher influences. For people incapable of moving themselves through life by nobler spiritual impulses, the Moon provides a propulsive force. Without this force, mechanical individuals would be passive as puppets without a puppeteer.
In the cosmological scheme proposed by Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, Earth is like a mother to the Moon which is still a fetus in the sense it cannot yet “breathe” on its own, hold an atmosphere, or support life. Someday, the Earth will evolve into a being like the Sun, while the Moon will transform into a second Earth. Humanity was simply a stage in this process.


“The Moon is actually a fragment of this Earth, which must now constantly maintain the Moon’s existence,” Gurdjieff said.2 In that sense, the Moon is like a parasitic thought form. Nevertheless, the equation is balanced because in exchange for the Moon propelling our mechanical movement, we feed the Moon so that it may grow and one day be born as a living planet.


As to how organic life feeds the Moon, Gurdjieff taught that most human beings are mere “slugs” with no souls and that following death their remaining psychic energy is “food for the Moon.” Like a magnet, the Moon draws the fine matter of human souls into it: “Everything living on the Earth, people, animals, plants, is food for the Moon. The Moon is a huge living being feeding upon all that lives and grows on the Earth.”


Only through an intensive effort of conscious evolution – what he called “self-remembering” – was it possible for an individual to escape being eaten by the Moon. “The liberation that comes with the growth of mental powers and faculties is liberation from the Moon.” Gurdjieff always maintained Man is not truly conscious, and his actions are entirely mechanical: “Everything ‘happens,’ he cannot ‘do’ anything. He is a machine controlled by accidental shocks from outside.”


To escape these deleterious lunar influences, Ouspensky said we must “create Moon within ourselves.”3 By this he meant we must develop within a driving mechanism that takes the place of the external lunar influence; in this way we can break free of the puppeteer.


Boris Mouravieff, who was an associate of both Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, formulated an esoteric system for spiritual evolution founded upon the inner traditions of Eastern Orthodoxy and Fourth Way principles. His extensive three volume work, Gnosis, deals extensively with the question of lunar influences and spiritual development.


He concurs with Gurdjieff and Ouspensky on the role of the Moon, but also warns “that organic life functions as a transmitter station sending refined energy to the Moon to assist its growth. Despite increases in the human population and thus an increase in quantity of energy transferred, times of peace do not produce sufficient energy and so catalysts for suffering such as wars and catastrophes arise to sustain the process.”4


Mouravieff and Ouspensky emphasise that despite the hypnotic nature of the Moon and the urgent necessity for individuals to overcome its influence, there is still an important cosmological reason for its existence. If nothing else, the Moon’s unique position in relation to the Earth was paramount in making physical ‘conscious’ life possible.


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It is with sadness that we are reporting the passing of Stuart Wilde, author, philosopher and a teacher many considered to be brilliant on a variety of subjects. Wilde was 66 and died from a heart attack suffered while driving through Ireland.The official announcement of Wilde’s passing is found below.I only recently met Stuart Wilde and recorded an hour-long interview with him on the subject of consciousness. This conversation was one of the most interesting I’ve had with anyone in recent memory, and you can listen to the full interview at:http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=B2...0E5AD1261226CC

The last article Wilde published was a victory piece about the EU banning the chemical pesticides known to cause devastating losses to honeybee populations. Read it here:http://www.stuartwilde.com/2013/05/a-win-for-the-bees-eu-votes-to-ban…

Visit Stuart Wilde’s website at:www.StuartWilde.com

Here’s the official announcement of his passing:

World Renowned Author & Metaphysical Teacher Stuart Wilde Dies, Age 66

Friends & Family sadly announce the passing of globally respected Author & Metaphysical Teacher Stuart Wilde (www.stuartwilde.com). Wilde suffered a fatal heart attack on a scenic drive through Ireland on Wednesday 1st May 2013.As Author of over 20 books (translated into 27 languages and selling millions of copies) on Spirituality & Personal Development, Wilde was considered by many to be one of the greatest metaphysicians that ever lived. Many famous New Age, New Thought writers & teachers privately studied with him including Deepak Chopra & Dr. Wayne Dyer.

“Stuart’s sudden departure from the physical realm was very shocking and millions of hearts worldwide will be weeping with despair over the loss of a great teacher, a great man, and a great friend. He touched the lives of so many people and he will be greatly missed.” said Stuart Wilde spokesman Tom Lishman

In the 1980s, Wilde correctly described the etheric life-field around humans in precise detail. Previously, it was known only in vague terms in discussions about the human aura. Wilde wrote out the first of many precise and verifiable etheric exercises and sensations in his book The Quickening (Hay House 1995). In course of his 30+ years of teaching, Wilde appeared on over 500 Television Show & 10,000 Radio Programs including Coast To Coast AM.

“Stuart passionately taught about freedom, love & respect for all human beings and for deep respect of nature. He was a relentless animal rights advocate. Also, it’s important for people to know that Stuart never saw himself as being a guru or above anyone else. He believed that he was merely a mirror that reflected love & peace into the world and a facilitator of wisdom from realms of existence that one could refer to as heavenly.” said Tom.

Among Wilde’s teachings about love & peace, were Wilde’s teachings about spiritual evolution, personal development insights, philosophies about where human beings really came from, and predictions about world events yet to come that he would regularly see in transcendental meditation. Throughout the course of Wilde’s life, hundreds of his predictions came true.A private funeral service will be held for Wilde’s immediate family but, larger memorial gatherings are currently being planned for the general public later in the year.

Updates will be posted on Stuart Wilde’s website - www.stuartwilde.com

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ThePOGG Interviews –
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Nathaniel Tilton author of The Blackjack Life

Posted by THEPOGG



Nathaniel Tilton is a world class blackjack player with a story to tell. His book The Blackjack Life, is a compelling read detailing his start from being an average Joe, to learning an authentic skill, to honing that skill into a finely tuned craft that afforded him an incredible array of fantastic experiences that he adeptly shares in his truly excellent book. I had the pleasure of meeting Nathaniel a few years ago, and while I could see then he definitely had the skills to have a successful blackjack career, I never would have guessed he was as good an author as he was a player. The Blackjack Life is something that honestly could be enjoyed by anybody. It’s one of those books that pulls you right in and makes it hard to put it down once you start reading. As I said anyone would enjoy it, but I would put it on the absolute must read list to anybody that is interested in casino play, especially blackjack.

Many professional blackjack players found early in their lives they had a real interest in card games, gambling, or figuring out ways to beat the system early in their lives. Was there a person or event that looking back specifically influenced the direction your life took?

Well, I always had an interest in competing, whether it was in sports, trivial pursuit, or in my career. But there was something about the science of blackjack that really drew me in. I liked the idea that the harder I worked at it, the more significantly I could get better. That’s not necessarily the case with other things I enjoy, like golf. Growing up, I was often getting into trouble, but usually it was just a case of being overly curious. I guess it’s just in my nature.

At the start of The Blackjack Life you tell us how reading Ben Mezrich’s books on the MIT teams of the late 90′s early 00′s really captured your imagination. You went on to train with both Semyon Dukach and Mike Aponte. Both these men were/are highly respected and profitable players. How did the real people compare to the characters in Mezrich’s books? What did you get out of your experiences with these guys? How did they help you develop your game?

They were completely different than I had imagined. Mike (“Fisher” in the book), wasn’t portrayed too favourably. And Semyon was depicted as all flash. But both guys, as different as they are from one another, were both down to earth. You could tell that they were eager to help out. And I really appreciated that.

Do you feel you could have reached the levels of success that you eventually did without Mike Aponte taking the interest in you that he did? Do you feel having a more experienced player ‘mentor’ you makes that big a difference to your chances of success?

Of course, there’s no question that Mike’s mentoring really helped take my game up several notches. Most importantly, his talent provided me a much needed benchmark for evaluating my own skills. As a player, his skills are legit and I was obsessive about getting to that level. I think everyone is motivated by people in different ways. Certainly Mike was one of the big influences in my career early on. But I also continued to get better and grow in the years after my time with Mike.

Ultimately you ended up choosing to use the Hi/Lo counting system. Was this decision based solely on what Mike Aponte recommended? Why do you feel that one of the oldest counting systems developed is still the best when multi-level counts offer a greater advantage?

When I first started, I so was naïve to the blackjack world that I just assumed there was only one way to count cards. By the time I realized there were other options, I was too engrossed in Hi-Lo. Counting systems are often debated on blackjack discussion boards, but the premise of them all remains the same: as your advantage grows, so should your bet size. Many people consider Hi-Lo to provide the most bang for your buck. It’s a pretty powerful counting system that can be implemented with relative ease. I didn’t see a need to try something else.

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By Benjamin Merhav
Al-Jazeerah, CCUN, June 16, 2012


The 5th of June, 2012 marks 45 years since the Blitzkrieg zionist invasion of Egypt by the zionist apartheid regime of Israel, in collusion and with the collaboration of the USA rulers. It is also 44 years since the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, by the zionist Gestapo in the USA, also in collaboration with the USA rulers.


There is a close connection between the two heinous crimes. The reason Robert Kennedy was assassinated was that he had committed himself to reopen - upon his election as USA president - the investigation into the assassination of his brother, J.F. Kennedy. on the 22nd of November, 1963. President J.F. Kennedy was assassinated by the zionist Gestapo in Dallas, Texas, USA (See my 18th letter to the Attorney General of Australia http://5thautobiography.blogspot.com...-attorney.html), also in collaboration with the then Vice President L.B. Johnson, with the CIA and with the FBI. Obviously, those culprits have been fearful of being exposed and punished as a result of a new investigation which would be appointed by Robert Kennedy. However, let us return to our main subject, namely, the huge zionist Blitzkrieg war crime of the 5th of June, 1967, and deal with the heinous assassination of Robert Kennedy later on.


As Vice President, L.B. Johnson represented the fascist and imperialist section of the American ruling class, namely, the huge transnational corporations. He therefore opposed the peaceful and liberal policies of President J.F. Kennedy in Vietnam, in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world. L.B. Johnson was very accommodating to the zionist Gestapo's plot to assassinate President Kennedy, and thereby make him the boss in the White House. The secret zionist nuclear bombs factory in Dimona must have been part of his deal with the zionist Gestapo, because no USA inspectors have visited the secret zionist reactor since, as President J.F. Kennedy demanded until his assassination. Moreover, L.B. Johnson was so happy with the "success" of the assassination that he immediately elevated the zionist Gestapo to the status of USA imperialism's global spearhead. Accordingly, he immediately began to plot secretly the zionist Blitzkrieg invasion of June 1967. The clear proof of that appeared during that invasion when he allowed the zionist military to torpedo and bombard the USS Liberty which was monitoring the zionist invasion off the coast of Gaza.


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Cross of Christ ‘invented’

Vati Leaks - Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Members of the Christian clergy consider the ‘Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church’ indispensable on all academic aspects of Christian theology. Its contributors include professors of ecclesiastical and Church history, consultants to the Pontifical Biblical Commission, and leading Christian academics the world over. The first edition was published in 1974 under the editorship of Dr. Frank L. Cross (‘Oxford University Press’) and after the sell-out of the initial printing Dr. Cross proudly exclaimed that ‘a copy was in every parsonage in the country’.


This orthodox and wide-ranging dictionary carries over 6,000 cross-referenced A-Z entries, yet in a remarkable disclosure, it fails to record an alphabetical entry under ‘C’ for ‘cross’, the object upon which the Church today maintains that Jesus Christ suffered and is ‘the epitome of the Gospel’ (‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Farley Ed., Vol. iv, p. 524).


An extraordinary priesthood confession
Some accounts certified to be published by such a supposed august body of Christian experts and presented to the world as official realities are extraordinary, one being an Entry on page 710 called, ‘THE INVENTION OF THE CROSS’ (‘Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church’, p. 842 in the 1997 Edition; Also, ‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Farley Ed., Vol. iv, p. 524). The international panel concede that Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine (d. 337), ‘invented the cross’, and then the Church slowly developed her crude untruth as an article of Christian faith right into the 21st Century.


‘Cross’ of Christ created for the ‘uneducated’
After the closing of the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE, Bishop Eusebius Pamphilius (260-339), probably the most corrupt bishop of the Fourth Century, said:
‘It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interests of the church might be promoted’.
(‘Ecclesiastical History’, Bishop Eusebius, Vol. 1, pp. 381-382)

Bishop Eusebius stood on a pulpit in the town square and announced to ‘the groveling rabble’ that Emperor Constantine’s 78 year-old mother, Helena had undertaken ‘a great trip’, and ‘dug up’ the cross upon which Jesus Christ was crucified (‘Vita Constantini’, 3, 41-47). At the same time, she ‘discovered’ other remarkable relics that make pale into triviality the later discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb-treasures.

Amongst them were two sealed clay jars, one containing the precious last breath of Jesus Christ, and the other, beams of light from the Star of Bethlehem. Helena’s public showings of her ‘Jesus treasures’ were displayed with great fanfare and coincided with Emperor Constantine’s announcement that the first 50 ‘New Testimonies’ were soon to be written:
‘Great mobs of ignorant rabble, slaves and seamen, the lowest populace, peasants, drunks and hoards of women … lined up to view the fabrications, and the presbyters schemed to this end and devoured the people’s means’. (‘Catech’, xviii, 7-8; also Schaff, ‘History of the Christian Church’)

To such an extent had the frauds of false relics of the Christian priests been thus early systematized and raised to the dignity of a regular doctrine that Bishop Eusebius, in one of the most learned and elaborate works that antiquity has left us, the ‘Thirty-second Chapter of the Twelfth Book of his Evangelical Preparation’, bore for its title this proposition: ‘How it may be Lawful and Fitting to use Falsehood as a Medicine, and for the Benefit of those who Want to be Deceived’.

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This site has been #1 in Google for Blackjack Forum for about six months. I think this confers upon us a responsibility. I would like to find a way to use the site to educate more non-advantage players. Not necessarily to become APs. Not to put them down for not wanting an advantage. There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to play cards on an occasional vacation. Just to protect themselves against absurd rule, mechanistic, and other procedures designed to grossly reduce the odds. Basically, to avoid CSMs, H17, 6:5, et. al. Of course, I am not saying this because it would help us. Suggestions?
]]> Gambling AP Community Miscellanea Machinist http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25171-WTH-does-Norm-have-up-his-sleeve-now Get ReggieRolled http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25170-Get-ReggieRolled?goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 02:12:31 GMT http://youtu.be/I6OXjnBIW-4 ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25170-Get-ReggieRolled Fire Extinguisher FAIL http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25169-Fire-Extinguisher-FAIL?goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 01:12:42 GMT Image: https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7483550464/h91417861/ ]]> Anything Else But Katweezel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25169-Fire-Extinguisher-FAIL The return of the Russian Med fleet is a warning for Israel http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25168-The-return-of-the-Russian-Med-fleet-is-a-warning-for-Israel?goto=newpost Mon, 20 May 2013 21:25:47 GMT Russian Med fleet returns – an unintended consequence Mon May 20, 2013 2:45PM GMT By Jim W. Dean Israel’s days of roaming freely over Lebanon airspace and their ability to launch air flight munitions without entering Syrian territory may be over, or it will be when the Russians decide... Russian Med fleet returns – an unintended consequence


Mon May 20, 2013 2:45PM GMT
By Jim W. Dean


Israel’s days of roaming freely over Lebanon airspace and their ability to launch air flight munitions without entering Syrian territory may be over, or it will be when the Russians decide to.”


The first big part of the news is the active word ‘permanent.’ Corporate media decided to ignore the strategic shift consequences of that, and the West may be looking back soon at the wisdom their aggressive regime change military moves, despite the extensive use of proxies.


The recent Israeli attacks on Syria, particularly the use of a nuclear bunker buster gave the Russians a gift from heaven, opening the door to make a defensive deployment to protect their longtime ally in Syria. The Russians are back in the Med to stay, and this might be a good lesson to the folly of the Western slow motion aggression policy in the region, which has put a match to the whole place.


Russian Navy Commander Admiral Viktor Chirkov has announced that a permanent staff was being set up, and the present force might eventually include their nuclear submarines. In speaking to RIA:


“Overall, already from this year, we plan to have five or six warships and support vessels [in the Mediterranean Sea], which will be replaced on a rotating basis from each of the fleets - the Black Sea, Baltic, Northern and, in some cases, even the Pacific Fleet. Depending on the scope of assignments and their complexity, the number of warships in the task force may be increased.”


Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu let the cat out of the bag when he stated that a permanent naval task force was needed to defend Russian interests in the region. The world has watched for two years now how coolly Russia has dealt with the continuing escalations in the fighting there, supported by a growing number of outside states who have effectively declared war on Syria thinking that such was a no-risk deal.


Here is what corporate media has not been telling you all. The preemptive strike doctrine of the Israelis and Neocons is going to be challenged. Netanyahu can talk all he wants to about red lines which will trigger a preemptive ‘defensive’ strike, but yours truly has written in these columns that eventually the intended targets would adopt that policy themselves. They have actually been given permission to by the dummies who invented it.


US Navy sources can sneer at the ‘old’ Russian ships all they want to, but there is nothing old about what they will be carrying, a game changer… their state-of-the-art missiles which they made a top priority in their defense policy as the new missiles are revolutionizing the next generation of warfare. The will sweep the skies of planes and the seas of ships. Air forces are working now to deploy robotic war plane drones that are basically missiles themselves by matching their speeds and aerodynamics.


Part of the corporate media hoax has been the fraudulent story of the S-300s being ‘introduced’ to the region as being destabilizing. Anyone wanting to check a copy of Jane’s in 1996 will find them already in Syria. Maybe some definition game has been going on that if they were under Russian physical control, as American munitions are in many foreign bases, they are not officially Syrian. But I would ask the lazy media what they thought brought down the Turkish F-16 provocations, a waste of those unfortunate pilots in peace time.


Yes folks, the S-300’s have been there all this time, and not fired at Israel yet. But that is all going to change. Israel’s days of roaming freely over Lebanon airspace and their ability to launch air flight munitions without entering Syrian territory may be over, or it will be when the Russians decide to.


Their fleet, even its older ships will be carrying their state-of-the-art weapons like the S-400’s where a pilot only has two or three seconds to live once the ‘beep beep’ that they are locked onto at tremendous speeds. The Russian ships on patrol will be able to shoot any attacking Israeli planes down, including those returning to base post attack. They can even be shot down while taking off.


Any retaliatory strike by Israel would trigger a full response by the Russians that could include their bases and command structure. Their updated Iskander missiles are stated to have speeds in the Mach 6 to 7 range but our sources say over Mach 8. To evade anti-missile fire they can pull 30+ g turns and make a 90-degree dive onto a target while doing so. The Israeli bullies have never had to stand up to a modern military but they may get the chance. They won’t like it.


The beauty in all of this is the scenario described above could all be done in a purely defensive mode while resisting an Israeli attack. After one incident alone the Russians might tell the Israelis that any Israeli warplane leaving Israeli air space would be considered an attack and both the plane and the base it flew from subject to attack.


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From Daily Mail UK -
One of the world’s top gamblers won £7.8 million in a game of chance by ‘reading’ the backs of the cards, claim the owners of Britain’s oldest casino, who are refusing to pay out. Phil Ivey, dubbed ‘the Tiger Woods of poker’, is understood to have exploited tiny flaws in the card design during a game of punto banco, a type of baccarat based purely on luck.

He insists he did nothing illegal, however, and is suing Mayfair club Crockfords in the High Court in what is expected to be the biggest legal battle in casino history. The Mail on Sunday, which revealed last October that Mr Ivey’s winnings had been withheld, understands the cards were flawed because of a mistake during the cutting process at an overseas manufacturing plant.

Crucially, it meant their geometric pattern was not symmetrical, though this would not have been noticeable to the untrained eye.
Cards should look exactly the same if turned 180 degrees. If they do not, it allows so-called advantage players to use a system known as ‘playing the turn’.

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A vote by the United Nations general assembly has called on Israel to open its nuclear programme to weapons inspectors. Photograph: Chip East/Reuters
The UN general assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to open its nuclear programme for inspection.


The resolution, approved by a vote of 174 to six with six abstentions, calls on Israel to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) "without further delay" and open its nuclear facilities to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Those voting against were Israel, the US, Canada, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau.


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...ear-inspectors ]]> Politika Solve et Coagula http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25160-UN-tells-Israel-to-let-in-nuclear-inspectors MI5 files: Zionist terrorist plotted to kill Winston Churchill http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/25159-MI5-files-Zionist-terrorist-plotted-to-kill-Winston-Churchill?goto=newpost Mon, 20 May 2013 10:34:12 GMT MI5 files: Zionist terrorist plotted to kill Winston Churchill By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent, 03 Apr 2011 A Zionist terrorist planned to assassinate Winston Churchill in order to secure a Jewish state, MI5 records show. Eliyahu Bet-Zuri suggested sending agents of the... MI5 files: Zionist terrorist plotted to kill Winston Churchill


By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent, 03 Apr 2011


A Zionist terrorist planned to assassinate Winston Churchill in order to secure a Jewish state, MI5 records show.


Eliyahu Bet-Zuri suggested sending agents of the Stern Gang, a terrorist group dedicated to forcing the British out of Palestine, to London to kill the prime minister.


MI5 was concerned that Jewish extremists might try to assassinate other leading British politicians, in particular the post-war foreign secretary Ernest Bevin, files released to the National Archives reveal.


Major James Robertson, from the agency's Middle East section, said threats made by Bet-Zuri in November 1944 were disclosed by another member of the Stern Gang who was arrested in April 1945.


The suspect revealed: "As soon as he [Bet-Zuri] returned to Stern Group headquarters he proposed to suggest a plan for the assassination of highly placed British political personalities, including Mr Churchill, for which purpose emissaries should be sent to London."


But Maj Robertson noted: "The above information does not, as you will see, amount to very much.


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