Monday, May 28, 2007

 

Help PETA Save God's Creatures from Abuse

Breaking News: PETA Investigators Expose Another KFC 'Supplier of the Year'


Companies that torture, kill, and exploit animals depend on people's ignorance. They go to extreme lengths to hide their hideous abuses from the public. So PETA goes even further to uncover the truth.

KFC thought that it could hide the fact that its suppliers' workers delight in torturing chickens. Fashion designers thought that they could cover up the fact that many of their "raccoon fur" coats are actually made from dogs who are killed and skinned alive in China. And medical laboratory Biosearch believed no one would ever know that its employees were dripping caustic substances into terrified kittens' eyes.

They were all wrong. Thanks to PETA's undercover investigations, the world has seen graphic evidence of the horrific cruelties that these companies are perpetrating. Once we've exposed the abuse, it's only a matter of time before it stops. You and I have seen it happen time and again.

PETA's investigations have forced hundreds of the largest and best-known companies to stop hurting animals. It is your support that drives our lifesaving work. By making an online donation to PETA today, you can help us take down the next corporate abuser that thinks no one is watching.

Your donation is crucial because these investigations require an enormous amount of resources. We must create a fake identity for our investigators and get them hired at companies that are abusing animals. Every day, our investigators must appear to be doing their jobs — while actually videotaping the horrors that they see. They can't quit until we have enough proof to take to the public.

I often fear for the safety of PETA's undercover investigators. But I know that they do it because our investigations are the only hope for animals who are tortured and killed behind locked doors.

Please make a special donation to support our investigative work in behalf of animals today. Your donation will send this powerful message to every company that abuses animals: You have no refuge, no safe haven, nowhere to hide.

With gratitude,
Ingrid Newkirk
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President

P.S. By supporting PETA's undercover investigations, you are refusing to allow animal suffering to take place in silence. With your support today, the world will learn about the violence inflicted upon animals used by the cruelest industries. Thank you for speaking up for these forgotten animals.


We Respect Our Lord by Respecting His Creation:


"God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that creeps, so that the water swarmed with all kinds of them, and there was every kind of winged bird; and God saw that it was good." [Genesis 1:21]

"God made each kind of wild beast, each kind of livestock and every kind of animal that crawls along the ground and God saw that it was good." [Genesis 1:25]

"For all forest creatures are mine already, as are the animals on a thousand hills; I know all the birds in the mountains; whatever moves in the fields is mine." [Psalms 50:10-­11]

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How Our U.S. Military Kills Innocent Civilians


Cluster bombs are weapons that keep killing, long after the war ends.

Individual bomblets can fail to detonate on impact, leaving behind large numbers of unexploded duds akin to landmines.

These bombs continue to maim and kill innocent men, women and children years after the bombs dropped.

Tell your Senator(s) that the humanitarian cost of these weapons is unacceptable.

Cluster bombs that the U.S. dropped 40 years ago in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam still kill people today. Since 1973, when the U.S. dropped the last cluster bomb on Laos, 12,000 Laotian civilians have been killed or injured by an unexploded cluster dud. Many of those men, women and children were not born when the bombs were dropped.

Cluster bombs are indiscriminate. Research in Southeast Asia has revealed that as many as 60% of casualties from unexploded cluster munitions are children.

The United States has stockpiled nearly one billion bomblets. But members of Congress introduced legislation this year that would ban the use of cluster bombs in or near civilian areas and control the use, sale and transfer of almost the entire existing U.S. arsenal of cluster bombs.

Tell your Senator(s) to cosponsor the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act today »

Thank you!

Peace,

Natasha N.
Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team

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Saturday, May 19, 2007

 

What else makes hunters happy in Canada?

Polar Bears With Cubs, Susanne Miller, FWS
Help put an end to American trophy hunting of Canadian polar bears.

Urge your Senators and Representative to support the Polar Bear Protection Act today!

Take Action red

Fast Fact
Polar Bear in Ice, Marie Webber/USFWSOn thin ice, polar bears' large paws act like snowshoes, distributing their weight as they walk to avoid breaking through. Unfortunately global warming is melting the sea ice these creatures need to survive.

Increase your impact: tell others to get involved. Forward this message on to others who care about polar bears and other wildlife.

Polar bear populations in the U.S. and Canada are decreasing. So why is the U.S. still allowing American trophy hunters to kill Canadian polar bears and bring them home?

Take action now. Urge your Senators and Representative to close this deadly loophole and ban the import of Canadian polar bears killed as trophies.

Canadian polar bear populations -- like those in America -- are declining due to global warming and other threats.

In fact, the World Conservation Union's Polar Bear Specialist Group predicts that polar bear populations could drop 30% in the next 35-50 years and that polar bears may disappear entirely from most of their range within 100 years.

Hunting polar bears is already banned in the U.S. But last week Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Olympia Snow (R-ME) and Representatives Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) introduced the Polar Bear Protection Act -- a bill that would close a deadly loophole and end imports of polar bears taken as trophies from Canada.

To kick off Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund’s Campaign to Save Polar Bears, I’m asking for your help to get this important legislation passed.

Take action -- tell your Representative to support the Polar Bear Protection Act today!

Defenders Action Fund's Campaign to Save Polar Bears is dedicated to preserving and protecting polar bears for future generations -- and these beloved bears are in desperate need of our help.

Big Oil’s drills threaten to drive polar bears from key denning habitat; toxic pollution continues to take its toll; and global warming is melting vital sea ice needed for breeding, denning and hunting.

On top of it all, a little-known loophole in the Marine Mammal Protection Act -- the federal law currently charged with protecting polar bears -- allows U.S. big game hunters to secure permits to kill Canadian polar bears and bring them back to this country.

Please help close this deadly loophole for good. Write your Representative and Senators today -- urge them to support the Polar Bear Protection Act.

We need to do all we can to save our polar bears. I hope you’ll help.

Rodger Schlickeisen, President Sincerely,
Rodger Schlickeisen, President Signature
Rodger Schlickeisen
President
Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund

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Yet another call to end the war...

Maybe our reps actually work for us; it helps to stay positive.

Congress has reached a fork in the road on the war in Iraq. Do they back down to President Bush and grant endless extensions, or will they use real funding power to send back a binding plan to end the war?

Tell your member not to back down to President Bush and to end the war>>

Congress took the right first step by passing their last funding bill setting a timetable for withdrawing our troops from Iraq. But following Bush's veto, the resolve in Washington has started to fade. Some members of Congress have started talking about reverting back to
symbolic deauthorization bills. Others are pushing for so-called temporary extensions that give Bush all the money he needs without ever actually bringing a single troop home.

This country needs real action - Congress using their funding power to pass another binding plan and forcing George Bush to actually end this war.

Only massive, direct public pressure will get Congress to choose the right path. So this week, John Edwards is leading the effort to gather 100,000 voices calling on Congress to stand firm and send back a binding plan to end the war. The campaign has already collected nearly 90,000 signatures and we need 10,000 more before delivering to Congress.

No more extensions. No more delays.

Tell Congress not to write President Bush a blank check for an endless war>> http://go.care2.com/e/R9vM/i1bg/U1cM

Always, with appreciation,

Michael Lawley,
Care2 and ThePetitionSite team

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Friday, May 18, 2007

 

Yes, I'm a Born Again Christian

Born Again Christians are a special variation of society. Granted, we all have our bouts with sin, but as I mention in the article, sin becomes the exception, not the rule.

Yes, I am a Born Again Christian, but there's far more in being born again than what I mention in the attached article (click the title above). You will notice a statement towards the bottom to the effect, "you will have a special relationship with God..." It just so happens that God communicates with ALL of us. We, who are Born Again, understand this communication from Elohim (God) according to our mind patterns, our strengths, our weaknesses, our way of life. In essence, we have our individual understanding because of the way Elohim created us.

I will refer to God as "Yehovah" from now on; so there is no mistake about mixing up the one and only true God with any pagan gods out there, let's refer to Our Lord on a first name basis, Yehovah. You may say "Jehovah" if you prefer. (You have divine permission ; ).

I accept Jesus Christ as my person Lord and Saviour. As a result of this I recognise, understand , and follow messages from the Lord. I'm here now telling you this because the Lord insists that I should tell everyone what I'm about. Anyone who is born again will tell you that this is the way it is with them as well.

What does it feel like? What changes in my life? I can only offer individual perspective. As I said, the experience is individual. I can offer my perspective from what I have observed through the years that keeps others from also being born again: We are victims of circumstance since childhood. Certain emotional securities that are NOT spiritually oriented are bred into us throughout our lives by the surrounding culture.

You will find that I dish out a lot of negative feedback against sinful, backwards, cretinistic people at HealingMindN.com. This is because these sinful people are holding most of us back, either directly or indirectly, from experiencing our spirituality, from our becoming Born Again.

There are culturally oriented emotional securities that actually deaden our senses to the aliveness and passion in the universe. Certain emotional securities deaden our receptivity to the out stretched hand of Yehovah. When I hear atheists or worse ranting and raving how crazy I am I can't help but respond by saying, "How dead are you to Our Living Universe?" If I may borrow a term from Wilhelm Reich (circa 1950's), these people are emotional deserts.

I have to take mystics into consideration for a moment. There are certain paranormal experts who claim to be "channels" for disembodied spirits. They allow themselves to become "possessed" by disembodied spirits. Any born again person can tell you that this is a dangerous thing. In fact, if we all release those emotional securities that deaden our senses to reality, then we would all be able to sense "spirits." There is a distinct difference between allowing the pure, perfect spirit of Yehovah to come into you and the tainted spirited of something else to come into you.

Keep in mind that we are all sentient, individual aspects of the One Mind of God. Remember that we are all spiritual beings attached to physical bodies. Please also remember from another article "Why is there a physical reality?" that spiritual beings are intimately attached to their physical bodies in this physical reality for a reason: So we can experience good and evil within the same person, thereby knowing the difference between them. Purely spiritual beings like angels can't do that. As opposed to Our Creator, a purely spiritual being can have only one purpose: Either complete good or complete evil.

There are genuine mystic "channels" out there who do not understand that they are sensitive to the aliveness in this universe for a reason: They were meant to be born again so they can truly experience The Lord and share the Holy Ideas with the people. Instead, there are those who choose to play pawns within a mystical culture, thereby opening themselves and everyone around them to evil; these sensitive mystics or psychics have chosen to leave themselves open to anything; this is dangerous.

Since disembodied good spirits usually choose transcendence and transmutation out of goodness - leaving behind evil in the process, guess what's left to play with the mystics?

Unfortunately, a number of people with psychic gifts are driven away from the idea of being born again because they are afraid of being labeled as "weirdos" by a decadent society. The old saying is true then, "to go with God is to go against..."

I would have to say that becoming born again is a long, back breaking, tedious process. It's like precipitating your own manna from sea water; it's a back breaking process, but once you're there, it's amazing. You see, it's more heart knowledge than head knowledge. I might be losing some of you, so I'll try to approach this from general perspective first.

Do you remember that point in your life when you made an important life decision about what you wanted to do with the rest of your life? Maybe you were younger, an adolescent, a teenage? Maybe you found yourself doing the same old drudgery for years at school, then an opportunity presented itself. You see other people doing these things that are exciting and mystifying. You find yourself in this exhilirating place where you know absolutely, positively that this is what you should be doing.

Maybe your intuitive intuition was speaking to you like a little voice from inside; maybe it was yelling at you "this is what you should be doing!" Then when you do, you do it with an amazing gusto - like a Born Again Christian.

That's heart knowledge.

I believe you know what head knowledge is already, but head knowledge is what will get you to the point where your heart knowledge kicks in. I believe that you know what I'm talking about. Now, we have to understand the spiritual laws of the universe. To do that we have to understand some physical laws too because the spiritual is intimately attached to the physical.

When we allow our innate sensitivities to the universe to help us, you might be surprised how the spiritual and the physical work together in syncopation. In the same way music is to the instrument, we have to realise there's a lot happening in that musician that most people tend to miss. There's almost a distortion of time in the musician because there are so many functions happening all at once.

In the same way we have revelations when we make important life decisions and in the same capacity that we process information with ambidextrous functionality from intense study and training, a Born Again Christian experiences all of that, but like a bolt of lightning. It's a wake up call. In my case, I'd call it a quantum leap.

I took around fifteen years to "wake up." I made a conscious decision to become Born Again around 1992. (I'm a late bloomer - what can I say?) I believe that I would have done it sooner without the hinderences - same as everyone else.

What were my biggest hinderences? The masses I attended since kindergarten convinced me and, I assume, everyone else in church that we are born as a gutter-trash, flesh-driven sinners and that we all must repent to get into heaven. Since then I have learned that we should always be careful with the information we present to developmentally cognitive sensitivities of small children.

We have to remember that the Holy Bible was written from a spiritual perspective. We are "born with sin" does not mean that we are evil. The physical bodies created for our sentient spiritual beings allow us the ability to contain good and evil in the same place. All of physical reality is sinful from this spiritual perspective. This means that we have the ability to choose a good or evil path. We have the ability to choose between being greedy, gutter-trash, flesh driven sinners or good, altruistic people.

If the priests had taken time to explain this simple concept, then I would have been better. The whole neighborhood, in fact the whole city and everyone else in the congregation would have been vastly improved. I was taught to believe that my passions were sinful - that I must avoid earthly desires.

The worst part: No one in this church taught me what Jesus said on how to be born again; no priest, no nun, no catechism teacher, no mention of being born again whatsoever. All I was taught was that I was a gutter-trash, flesh-driven sinner that better repent before it's too late. Can you imagine delivering that message to legions of impressionable grade school kids? That was the culture.

It also didn't help that I had suffered from slow poisoning from mercury amalgam fillings for over thirty years. (I'm sensitive to poisons; they tend to deaden my feelings.) It also didn't help when I got chicken pox in the early 1980's; this seemed to compound the effect of the mercury poisoning. I still have holes in my memory. There are people from my high school and middle school days who remember me, but I can't remember them.

Fortunately, my neural pathways have adapted since then. I ask forgiveness of those who I had forgotten - especially one, Louise, please forgive me.

I would go as far as saying that becoming Born Again re-aligns neural pathways to the original mind-pattern. The original mind-pattern is like a clean slate; there are no emotional insecurities, no hangups. The passion that I was taught to ignore for decades has returned. Becoming Born Again is almost like all the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) in one massive shot.

Now, I can recognise patterns in nature in the same way that certain investors can recognise patterns in the stock market. Of course, people trained in life sciences can do that, but it goes a little deeper. As a born again Christian I see sychronicity whereas an emotional desert cannot.

A few days before I wrote this I received a question from another researcher. Here's his question: "Dear Randolph, I have a totally different take on Deja Vu but here is a guy whom I respect that might have input worth noting?"

My
response is directly related to the reason I am writing this: Sychronicity. This is how Yehovah works in our lives. He brings us together in certain ways, so we can fill in each other's "missing pieces:"


Hello ,

I appreciate your inviting me into the inner sanctums of your thought experiment. Please excuse my belated reply. I decided to sleep on it to provide the freshest response I can muster.

First off, we should agree upon the meaning of Deja Vous. I assume that it's a "been there, done that, known this person" kind of feeling for you as well.

I imagine that you might like a Judeo-Christian perspective with smatterings of science because that's the kind of guy I am. From what I observed on your latest video on Noah's Ark (excellent BTW), I assume that you are in the same fold. So here goes.

I believe it's interesting that we should happen to use the French reference, Deja Vous, for a rather spiritual feeling. As you might know, our word language is a reflection of our DNA patterns. Our DNA patterns are a reflection of our mind patterns. It so happens that the French cling to certain ancient ideas through their language - especially concerning spirituality. L'esprit is one example: Mind and Spirit are the same. This idea is completely in line with Judeo-Christian perspective, so I continue from there.

The mind is the spiritual body intimately attached to the physical body. Let us assume that the spiritual body is just as important as the physical body - if not more so. The spiritual body must adhere to the laws of the spiritual realm. In the spiritual realm as you can imagine, there are different laws of physics such as space and time.

We can have great distance between physical bodies, yet we can still have spiritual closeness, when two or more minds resemble each other. Whereas, physical bodies can be close, yet, if the attached minds do not resemble each other, then they are spiritually far apart.

We can compare this idea to the way we react to anything in nature: If it resembles us, then we are attracted to it. We are attracted to certain people, places, and things because they resemble different facets of ourselves that appeal to us.

We can look at a tree. Trees have a calming effect on most people. In fact, let me borrow from an article I happened to be reading at Elliott Wave:

Psychologists have always recommended gazing at trees if one wants to calm down. Well, now we know why: Trees are arguably nature’s most abundant fractally-patterned objects, and simply looking at them “can cut our stress levels up to 60%.” (Associated Press)

Let me make a bold statement: We are attracted to patterns in nature that resemble facets within our own mind patterns. As you see from the (Elliott Wave) article, fractals (patterns) repeat after a certain point. The fractals within our own mind patterns are repeated throughout physical reality after a certain point. This repetition is based on the golden section (as you can see according to the Elliott Wave model which is based upon the Fibonacci series).

Traveling this world, and no doubt other worlds and other peoples, we would encounter similarities at certain places and certain times because of this repetition in nature. We would have that feeling of "Deja Vous" because that certain pattern, that certain set of harmonics, those fractals, to which we spiritually acknowledge and resemble, have repeated themselves throughout the space time continuum.

The reason we have synchronicity is because of this fractal repetition in both physical and spiritual worlds. We communicate to fill in those "missing" pieces of knowledge in order to fulfill that repetition. I hope that I have provided what may have been that "missing" piece concerning Deja Vous.

BTW, I noticed your mentioning that you do not believe in infinite realities. Each one of us is like a wrinkle in the space time continuum. People alter and affect each other's reality, especially when they are spiritually close. Neural pathways are always adjusting themselves to compensate for different realities when these effects occur. (Of course, some neural pathways are difficult to change.) In that sense, there are infinite alternate realities according to the way we interact with other "wrinkles in time." Those "wrinkles in time" are destined to repeat themselves, throughout time.

Regards,

Randolph


In addition, allow me to add this piece of esoterica: The Mind is like time is like the Mind. Because of their colloquelisms the French have a different way of saying this: "L'esprit a lieu comme le temps est comme l'esprit," The spirit takes place as time is like the spirit. '

The spirit shapes itself to reality. In turn, reality shapes itself to the spirit. The spirit is central to all we do and who we are. The reality of good in this physical world is to conquer evil, so we can climb higher, be the best humans we can be, and make those quantum leaps.

Thanks for your time.

Peace and Good Will,

Randolph

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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

 

Save the Children stats on Child Mortality

We have the tools to significantly decrease the amount of child deaths each year.

Save the Children

Take Action!

Tell your representative to support the Global Child Survival Act.


Every year, more than 10 million children die before they reach the age of 5, most from preventable causes and almost all in poor countries. That is roughly half the number of children under age 5 living in the United States.

We cannot let this trend continue, and there is something we can do to stop it. Join Save the Children in supporting the Global Child Survival Act.

The greatest risk of death is in the first days and month of life, when 4 million babies die each year. Recent analysis has shown that nearly 3 million of these newborn deaths could be prevented annually by improving access to basic, cost-effective interventions that are not yet reaching those who need them most.

Members of Congress have stepped up and introduced the Global Child Survival Act. This legislation would recommit the United States to improving children's health by expanding funding for proven solutions such as:

Please tell your representatives in Congress to support the Global Child Survival Act today!>> http://go.care2.com/e/R0T2/jdXe/U1cM

Thank you,

Emily L.
Care2 and
ThePetitionSite Team



A new study release by US charity, Save the Children, has tracked child mortality trends in 60 developing countries during a 15-year period.

Egypt made the most progress among developing countries in reducing deaths of children younger than 5 from 1990 to 2005, while Iraq deteriorated the most. 60 countries accounted for 94% of child deaths worldwide, the report says.

About 10.2 million children younger than 5 die annually around the world — 99% of them in developing nations amid poverty, disease and malnutrition, with 28,000 deaths a day. Nearly three-quarters of all such deaths were due to pneumonia, diarrhea and newborn disorders such as premature birth, birth asphyxia and birth defects, the report says.

Iraq, gripped by war since the US-led invasion in March 2003 and subjected to years of economic
sanctions before that, had a 150% increase in child mortality. "Even before the latest war, Iraqi mothers and children were facing a grave humanitarian crisis caused by years of repression,
conflict and external sanctions," the report says.


Reuters, Los Angeles Times

The United States helped reduce child mortality significantly from 1960 to 1990, but has let funding fall by 20 percent in the last 10 years.

We cannot let this trend continue, as 28,000 children die every day from a preventable or treatable disease>> http://go.care2.com/e/R9vx/i1Ce/U1cM

Our goal for this petition is 28,000 signatures, symbolic of this statistic. This equates to about ten million children under five each year. They're not dying from mysterious, incurable diseases, but from diarrhea, pneumonia, malnutrition and other causes that would be unthinkable in our own country.

Effective and affordable tools exist that could prevent the deaths of millions of children each year. Immunizations, antibiotics, clean drinking water and vitamin supplements are a few of the simple interventions that we know can save lives.

Members of Congress have stepped up and introduced the Global Child Survival Act. This legislation would recommit the United States to improving children's health by expanding funding for proven solutions like immunizations and antibiotics.

Please tell your representatives in Congress to support the Global Child Survival Act today!

Thank you,

Emily L.
Care2 and
ThePetitionSite Team

Ten million children under five die from preventable and treatable diseases each year.


Idaho the beautiful

Take Action!



Tell your representatives to support the Global Child Survival Act
to stop these unnecessary deaths.

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Thursday, May 03, 2007

 

Protect Idaho Forests

The National Forests in Idaho is the largest pristine wild forest slower 48 states. It is the only place where nearly all of the wildlife species that characterize the Northern Rockies can still be found.

Tell the Forest Service to Keep Idaho's Wild Lands Pristine>>

The state of Idaho contains over 9.3 million acres roadless national forest lands - the most of any state outside of Alaska. And these roadless areas are of national and global significance. The variety of landscapes represented by these roadless lands is unmatched by any other state outside of Alaska.

The new rules the Forest Service wants will destroy these wild forests with commercial logging, mining, and road-building.

This is the first time that the Idaho Roadless Plan has been presented to the American public for consideration and it's also the first time that comments have been requested at the national level for a rulemaking specific to Idaho's roadless areas.

But we only have until May 10th to express our outrage on their plans for opening these lands to exploitation.

Save Idaho's wild forests from exploitation from logging and mining>> http://go.care2.com/e/R9fz/HZr5/U1cM

Thank you,

Michael L.
Care2 and
ThePetitionSite Team


Idaho forests are being threatened by commercial logging, mining and road-building.

Idaho the beautiful

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We have until May 10 to tell the Forest Service that we want Idaho's wild forests protected!

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Tuesday, May 01, 2007

 

Why is there a physical reality?

If spiritual reality is the true reality, then why did God create physical reality? Allow me to borrow a concept from Judaic studies to find if this makes sense: God created the universe to bestow good to His creation (I say His. She says Her. Noone is wrong), but this good is purely spiritual. This being true, what need is there for a physical world? Before we can answer this question, we must first ask another, “What is the difference between the material and the spiritual?”

We speak of the material and the spiritual as two different concepts. We know that the spiritual is not material, but what exactly is the difference?

The main difference between the physical and the spiritual involves space. Physical space only exists in the physical world. In the spiritual, there is no space as we know it (just as there is neither linear causality nor passage of time as we know it).

Although concepts of distance and closeness exist in the spiritual realm, they do not have the same meaning in the physical world. In a spiritual sense, closeness involves resemblence. Two things (or people) that resemble each other are said to be spiritually close. Two things that differ are far apart in a spiritual sense.

This has very important implications. In the spiritual world, it is utterly impossible to bring two opposites together. Because they are opposite, they are by definition, poles apart.

For example, God and man are worlds apart, "as the heavens are higher than the earth." On a purely spiritual plane, it would be totally impossible for the two ever to be brought together. It was for this reason that God created the concept of space. Spiritual things can be bound to the material. For example, the soul is bound to the body.

Two opposites can then be brought together by being bound to physical objects. In the physical world, space exists, and two opposites can literally be pushed together. Furthermore, two spiritual opposites can even be bound to the same material object.

For instance, man has both an urge for good or evil. In a spiritual sense, these are poles apart. Without a spiritual world, they could never be brought together in a single entity.

The archetype of a spiritual being is an angel. Since an angel has no body, it can never contain both good and evil in its being.

It is only in a physical being that both good and evil can exist together. Although they are at opposite poles, spiritually, they can come together in the physical being. One reason God created humans in a physical world was to allow them to have full freedom of choice with good and evil as part of his makeup. without a physical world, these two concepts could never exist in the same being.

The fact that good and evil can exist in the same physical space also allows good to overcome evil in this world; this is only possible in a physical world. In a purely spiritual arena, good could never come close enough to evil to have any influence over it. In the physical world, however, good and evil can exist together, and good can therefore overcome evil.

Our sages teach us that one of the main reasons why people were placed in the physical world was to overcome evil.

Perhaps, you have read one of my recent articles at the bioresonant science blogspot,"Psychotronics Hypnosis Project Release." The information you read here is crucial to understanding how and why the mind works.

The mind is a pure spiritual entity, bound to our physical brains. Many thoughts and memories may be bound together by a person's physical brains, but the mind can only focus on one of them at a time. In simple terms, a person can only think of one thing at a time. [Even a multiple mentality can only fulfill a simultaneous set of functions rather than an out of phase set at any particular moment.]

A thought is a spiritual entity unto itself and, as such, can only contain a single concept. Thoughts, like angels, are basic spiritual entities; like angels a thought can only have a single mission.

In the physical world, we can learn things through our five senses. We can hear, feel, smell and taste. [Extra sensory perception is a spiritual sense.] Our knowledge of things comes from our physical proximity to them. In the spiritual worlds, however, this does not exist. The only way that one can learn about a thing is to come into spiritual proximity with it. A spiritual entity like an angel cannot do this outside of his own realm.

Physical beings, therefore, have an advantage over angels. The very fact that we exist in this lower world enables us to reach up even higher. Think about it.

There are concepts of good decreed by God; as His Decrees, they are intimately bound to Him. When we physically involve ourselves with these good concepts, we literally bind ourselves to God. We achieve a closeness that no angle could ever hope to reach.

This is a major difference between physical humans and angels. An angel is assigned to one spiritual station and has no way to rise any higher. When the prophet speaks of angels, he says, "Around Him, the seraphim stood" [Isaiah 6:2] Angels are described as standing and stationary.

But when God speaks to physical people, He tells them, "If you walk in My Ways... then I will give you a place to move among those who stand here." [Zechariah 3:7] God was showing the prophet a vision of stationary angels and telling him that he would be able to move among them.

We can move from level to level, but angels are bound to their particular plane.

There are many levels in the spiritual world. If only the spiritual existed, there would be no way for these levels to come together. The only thing that could possibly unify these levels is the physical world.

In order to reach the highest levels of holiness, humans must become part of the physical world. When we obey God's commandments, we attach ourselves to the same physical objects as the One Who gave the commandments. In obeying these commandments, We attach ourselves to God in the highest degree.

We are thus able to scale the highest spiritual heights.

{extracts from Sefer Yetzirah, Book of Creation by Aryeh Kaplan}

I'm leaving it there for now. Thank you very much for your time. I hope that I've been helpful.

Just to be sure, you should know that I'm not dressing down the angels in an sense. I find them quite helpful. They have already told me that I don't need them, but I still find them helpful and I'm very thankful for them. I'm writing this especially for the ones looking over my shoulder at this moment.

Let me ask you something before I end this. You know that commandment, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife? Is it OK if he's not my neighbor? Just wondering. I mean if I plan on completely taking her, body and soul, I'm not really coveting. Am I? And I desire her righteously the way I see it.

That's a pat on the back from an angel. Not sure what that means exactly.

Thanks for your time,

Randolph

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Science of Miracles article is coming

Have you ever wondered about the science of miracles. I have a paper coming specifically for understanding how miracles work in the living realm. Have you ever wondered how certain people like Noah lived an average of 900 years? Have you every wondered how Jesus Christ rose up three days after his crusifixion?


This is a project that I have been assigned. You have your contacts with the divine. So do I. Science has come far enough that I can explain, at least, in theory about how miracles take place. I also attempt to define "faith" and "miracles," so we can see eye to eye about how and why I am doing this.

Stay tuned. Thanks for your time.

Randolph

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