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Occupy The Courts
by Gabriel of Urantia
I was a volunteer chaplain at the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. I worked at the county jail from 1977 to 1982. I also worked with the pre-trial release program of the Department of Economic Security and accepted prisoners to my halfway house, if I thought I could work with them. Many of these prisoners I got personally involved with. I went to their trials. I learned a lot about the “injustice system” because none of these prisoners had the money to really hire an attorney, so most of them had court-appointed attorneys to defend them. And a lot of those attorneys were wet behind the ears. Continue reading The Judicial System: Why It Doesn’t Work And How It Can »
Our Current Compromising-Consciousness President, And The Need For Both To Lean On Somebody Or Fall
by Gabriel of Urantia
The Republican nominees can also be called “the parade of new souls.” There is a lot to learn about the difference between a new soul and an older soul or starseed, which has taken me writing two published books (called The Cosmic Family, Volumes I and II) so far to even begin to teach. But for the clarity of this article, I will just state a few pertinent facts on both soul types. The majority of the billions of people on this planet are new souls, but there are approximately 500 million starseed over the age of 18 who are older souls. Continue reading The Higher-Consciousness-Handicapped Presidential Nominees, »
In an interview, Michael Ferner, interim director of Veterans for Peace, discusses the growing calls for non-violent means of resolving issues.
Veterans for Peace, a US-based non-governmental organization founded in 1985, seeks to eradicate war as a national policy. The group comprises veterans from many eras and conflicts, including World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to their website, “Our collective experience tells us wars are easy to start and hard to stop and that those hurt are often the innocent. Thus, other means of problem solving are necessary.” Michael Ferner is the group’s Interim Director. Jason Francis interviewed him for Share International.
Share International: What was behind the formation of Veterans for Peace?
Michael Ferner: The group Vietnam Veterans Against the War was created in 1967. A number of military veterans, most of them from the Vietnam War, got together in the mid-1980s and decided they wanted to form an organization that would provide a platform for veterans in an ongoing way, not just following a particular conflict. What brought people together at that time was a sense of urgency regarding US policies in Central America – using death squads in El Salvador and Guatemala, and later, funding the Contras in Nicaragua. Continue reading There is no glory in war »
by Gabriel of Urantia
History doesn’t talk much about it (with the exception of the Old Testament and other holy writings of various religions), but most of the prophets and holy men of old have been revolutionaries, including Jesus Christ. Even over the last few centuries, revolutionaries like George Washington, Joseph Smith (of the Mormons), and Gandhi were men who prayed to the Creator for guidance. When they did pray, many of their historical accounts said that miracles happened. Continue reading Occupiers Must Learn How To Use The Creator To Win Over The Power-Elite And Their Soldiers Of Gas-Destruction »
Meditation has long been considered a pathway to Spiritual progression, but a Huffington Post article by naturopathic doctor Michael Stanclift suggests it may also have a more direct physical impact upon practitioners.
Confirming long-held belief in the power of thought, and pointing to research from neuroscience, Stanclift says where we direct our attention actually changes the anatomy of the brain. Meditation helps us wilfully direct our attention and thus consciously create our physical as well as Spiritual evolution.
Understanding Meditation: How Attention Changes Our Brains, The Huffington Post 12/14/2011
Harvard Magazine, January-February 2012, carries an article describing how some leading academics are embracing retreats conducive to the practice of meditation.
MIT Dalai Lama Center for Ethics fellow Sousan Abadian, a regular retreat participant, says: “Retreats allow us to access and strengthen subtle capacities and to hear ourselves and others on a different level.”
Christopher Germer, clinical instructor in psychology in the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and practicing Buddhist says: “Mindfulness has become probably the dominant paradigm of psychotherapy”.
Cambridge psychotherapists Susan and Bill Morgan are attendees at a silent meditation retreat. Susan says: “The encouragement is to unplug from this world… to learn how to straddle that line between participant and observer all the time… and learn how to meet all of experience with a certain amount of equanimity.”
Abiding Our Own Minds, Harvard Magazine January-February 2012
by Gabriel of Urantia
The Occupy movement—no matter how many protestors—is overpowered by the might of the power-elite’s police force and “weapons of gas-destruction” against the poor and disenfranchised, students, and the once middle class, as the early colonists were by the British empire. Continue reading The Occupy Movement In Relationship To George Washington, The Colonists, And How They Won The Revolution »
by Gabriel of Urantia
Jesus wasn’t a politician. However, I recently watched both Democratic and Republican debates. I was hoping to watch a third-party debate, but that’s another article. Maybe 10 minutes of the more than four hours of presentations were spent on the need for free national healthcare. And in those 10 minutes, from all of the candidates, I think I understood about 5 seconds of their 26-letter, bureaucratic jargon—jargon that really means nothing. As the Native American elders would say, “They speak with forked tongue.”
In order to talk about “free” anything, you have to realize what the root of the problem is. And that is: plain greed. You see, doctors are supposed to be healers. They are supposed to go into the profession because of a calling from the Creator, not for the desire to become rich or to have top status in a broken and materialistic society. Continue reading The Truth and Answers About Free Healthcare »
The Great American Dream Is Over, But Many Millions Of Americans Still Hang On To False Hopes. The 99% Are Beginning To Awaken To The Entrapment Of The False Powers. Is There An Answer To The Future?
By Gabriel of Urantia 11/11/11
On Saturday my wife and I were driving to the Occupy movement in Tucson that was going to march to the Bank of America to protest. My son and two daughters were there already, as well as several others from our community. We drove past the University of Arizona stadium where the Wildcats football team was playing that day. We saw hundreds of college students walking with six-packs in their hands. As we drove by the university stadium parking lot, we saw thousands of students with kegs of beer and booths, all getting drunk and boisterous.
I thought this looked more like Sodom and Gomorrah than a university parking lot, even if there was a football game going on. But the main thought I had was these college students should be going to the Occupy Bank of America march. When we got to the march, there were only about one hundred people, but there were thousands of people at the university parking lot drinking beer. Continue reading Pseudo Activism And University Students »
Late 2011 has produced numerous Occupy protests. The Occupy Wall Street Web site says their purpose is “fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations”.
Capitalism has undoubtedly produced unparalleled progress; just compare the U.S. with the former, communist, USSR. But even in the pinnacle of capitalism, the U.S., many millions do not have access to basic medical care.
The so-called credit crunch of 2008 shattered the illusion of the efficiency of capitalism, leaving major banks reliant upon public bailouts to stay afloat at the expense of a deep global recession and the ensuing suffering of the innocent majority. Continue reading Money, Morality and Spirituality »
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The Higher-Consciousness-Handicapped Presidential Nominees,
Our Current Compromising-Consciousness President, And The Need For Both To Lean On Somebody Or Fall
by Gabriel of Urantia
The Republican nominees can also be called “the parade of new souls.” There is a lot to learn about the difference between a new soul and an older soul or starseed, which has taken me writing two published books (called The Cosmic Family, Volumes I and II) so far to even begin to teach. But for the clarity of this article, I will just state a few pertinent facts on both soul types. The majority of the billions of people on this planet are new souls, but there are approximately 500 million starseed over the age of 18 who are older souls. Continue reading The Higher-Consciousness-Handicapped Presidential Nominees, »