Yes the image above is actually real, I didn’t make this up and it’s not from some movie set. Did you know that God is against drunkenness, sodomy and fornication? Well apparently these folks are in direct communication with the big guy up stairs. Oh and lets make no mistake about it… God is a man and he hates drunks, homosexuals and people who have sex before going to church or city hall to sign a piece of paper!

As you can probably tell I’m trying to make light of the above ignorance with humor. Sadly the fact of the matter is there isn’t really anything funny about kids in the middle of New York streets brainwashed repeating what their ignorant parents program them to say.

Instead of me feeding into the frenzy of hate, ignorance and fear lets examine what it is we think fornication is. I’ll start by checking out what the dictionary says.

So that’s what the dictionary says, basically sex between two unmarried people is what is called fornication. It’s too bad the definition for fornication in reality means much more than a sentence in the dictionary.

If an Alien came here from another planet looked up fornication in the dictionary it would probably seem like any other explanation for any given word. You and I both know (in the real world) fornication implies much more than a person who had sex with another person out of wedlock.

In the real world if you have sex with someone out of wedlock not only are you a fornicator but you are a sinner, deviant, lost soul and you’re going straight to hell. Let us not forget if you are a gay man or lesbian… you’ve struck sinner gold! You’re going to the really hot version of hell that’s even worse than the regular hell full of non-believers, abortion doctors, AIDS victims and Osama Bin Laden.

It’s mind blowing to think that there are people in the world who absolutely believe without a doubt, a couple who has a one night stand or lovers who have been together for years out of wedlock are going to the same fiery hell (assuming there is a hell) that Osama Bin Laden and Hitler reside.

What do you believe?

I don’t know what you believe but here’s what I know. I know my beliefs have nothing to do with fornication because I don’t have any beliefs about fornication to begin with, unless you’re a parent why should anyone?

Without sounding like I’m holier than thou, if you do judge others for their sex life perhaps you should examine more closely your feelings about your beliefs. What gives you the right or authority to judge anyone?

It’s not often that I quote the Bible but to make a point I’ll use these old (interpreted) words from history to illustrate a point.

So let us play this game and assume there is a man in the skies above and he’s keeping count of what we do, blessing us with the gift of “sin”. So assuming we can in fact sin, even so… what gives any of us the right to judge, remark or shun others for so called sinning?

I think all the Muslims, Jews, Christians and any other group who subscribe to living a life judging others… it’s high time you live your life with compassion and love rather than fear and loathing.

Are you kidding me right now? We still live in a world where people are judging each other for who they sleep with, how they sleep with them and if they did it with a signed piece of paper or not. If the end times are near, the end won’t come by the hand of god but by the mouth of modern day church goers who ignorantly and insidiously perpetuate fear and hate.

In the name of God, all those who delegate the smallest fraction of time, energy and effort to smite those who do what they will with their sex lives… please reconsider your actions.

I ask you on behalf of the whole of humanity to reconsider your beliefs and actions, whether you know it or not YOU are destroying this world with fear.

Are you in love or fear?

What is it to love your fellow man? Does love have anything to do with hate, judgment, or sin? I highly doubt it. Love is all encompassing all embracing and the end all be all of this universe.

Love is what binds us, love is what holds this world together and any personal emotion, aggression or movement away from that love is not in praise of God, Jehovah, Allah, Jah, Christ or Zues but a ignorant action that comes from a human being who’s not living a life of love and compassion.

Love is God my friends, love is what it’s all about. The next time you find yourself judging someone for living their life the way God intended them to, check yourself and remember you’re not loving.

If you want, you can even insert WWDJ, (what would Jesus do) instead of… am I being a loving person. I can assure you from what I’ve read of  Jesus, he would not judge anyone for anything and if he were alive today he’d tell you to do the same thing.

Ready to get your Zen on?

I’m not asking or calling all people to start subscribing to the school of Zen that would be redundant as all labels and religions are divisive and separate you and I from our fellow man.

What I am asking of us all is to apply some Zen to your life, a.k.a. mindfulness. If we could only observe and be mindful of ourselves completely in our daily lives then perhaps there would be more love in the world and less fear.

Knowing that God is love and love is all there truly is, is there any room in our lives to judge one another? If we can remember moment by moment in our daily lives that God has nothing to do with fear, judgment or sin then we can be godly.

So the next time you go to quote the Bible, Kuran, Old Testament, Upanishads or Bhagavad Gita remember none of that has anything to do with what is actually going on at the moment. All of those books and scriptures are of the past and we’re not living in the past, you and I are pledging to live in the moment… right here right now.

If you and I can be in the present moment when we are making breakfast, gossiping with friends, gathered around the water cooler at work or listening to the reverend at church anything that we think or any words that come out of our mouths will be from a place of love not fear.

If we can start to live our lives individually in the moment and our thoughts and words are of love not fear… think of the reality we can manifest.

Absolute peace in this world is 100% possible. I don’t care if you’ve been spoon fed whatever religion you’re currently subscribing to WE HUMAN BEINGS are ready to move beyond the fear of conditioning and child programming… we’re ready for heaven on earth.

Let’s be the change we want to see in the world. No more gossip, no more back biting, no more living in the shadow of dogma and fear.

I have tremendous faith in mankind but “my faith” in mankind is useless and meaningless. Faith, beliefs and words mean absolutely nothing but we’ve been conditioned to put a tremendous amount importance in all the above.

I’m asking you to look at what our faith, beliefs, words and thoughts have manifest in the world we live in today. Don’t take my word for it… you owe it to yourself and the rest of the world to seriously examine all of this quietly and deeply.

If we are to ever live in a world where there is peace, no wars and we all have food and shelter we must all do our part as individuals to make that world a reality. We need to move past all the ideas about peace, love and happiness and start living it.

Let us put down our holy books and scriptures. Let us stop talking about what the past says we should do in the future. Let us live in the moment where love resides and from that sacred place let our thoughts and actions manifest the revolution of universal unconditional love and peace.

I ask myself this question everyday… what will it take to bring about absolute peace in the world? I don’t have a fix-all solution for the world but I have come upon a realization so profound that it has dramatically changed my view of life and purpose in this world.

As a matter of fact there isn’t anything more important in my life than to investigate the human condition so that I along with everyone else might know absolute peace.

What is absolute peace?

I haven’t the slightest idea what absolute peace is… actually I do have ideas about it but that is all they are, ideas! This world that we live in has never known peace, so any notion or idea that I come up with for peace is just a concept for we have never know true world peace. For centuries we have fought amongst one another shedding blood in the name of ones religion, country, faith, etc.

It is clear that we all have ideas of what peace should look like. If you’re a Christian you will say follow the word of the Bible and you will know peace. If you are Jewish you will say follow the word of the Old Testament and you will know peace. If you are Muslim you will say follow the words of Allah and the Quran and you will surely know peace.

There are thousands and thousands of other books and religions that have ideas about what we must all do to bring about peace in this world and all of them are willing to die to prove it.

Top 5 Religions in The World

Christian 2 Billion
Islam 1.2 Billion
Hinduism 785 Million
Buddhism 360 Million
Judaism 17 Million

What can I do to bring about absolute peace in the world?

If you ask yourself the same question and truly understand the question completely you will see the answer is in understanding the question itself.

When I ask myself this question immediately a problem arises and for me to solve any problem I first look at what has been done that has not worked to fix the problem. Once you see what has not worked in the past you can then eliminate it and move forward, make progress.

Without casting judgment or a skewed opinion I can clearly see that looking at our history completely as a human race, all organized religions and systems of government have failed to bring about peace. I’m not stating an opinion but looking at the actual facts of our past.

I’m also not singling out any one religion and as a matter of fact I’m including all the so called non-religions too, Atheist, etc.

To see things as they actually are is not easy for most people because for most of us including myself… we’ve been conditioned to believe one thing or another from our parents, schools, etc. As a matter of fact most people will never truly be able to examine this question completely because their conditioning is so deep they can’t even understand the question and as I said above, the answer to this question is in understanding the question itself. What can I do to bring about absolute peace in the world?

If you and I can quiet our minds if only for a moment to step outside of what we know and see things truly how they are that is in itself a miracle.

Another interesting question to put to oneself is: Why do I have to know everything?

It seems as though we are brought up with this idea that we have to know what happens to us when we die, we have to know the meaning of life, we have to know EVERYTHING. This is a fundamental flaw in the way we are all brought up.

We don’t have to know everything, there is an infinite freedom in realizing this. You know that saying “some things are better left unknown”… well it’s true. Instead of interpreting different books, scrolls and ancient text from the past how about living right now? Instead of spending countless years of ones life KNOWING what you know how about waking up each day ready to find out?

For a person to wake each day KNOWING the word of god or the purpose of all humanity is really saying something about that person. For a person to wake up each day and know for a fact without a doubt that life started in this one particular way and this is what you must do in order to secure eternal salvation is in itself doing a disservice to your beliefs.

What audacity a person would have to have to believe they have “truth”, and what a shame it is to never wake up from that state of mind.

A state of mind that reads from the same book and says the same prayers over and over again surely isn’t the mind that will bring about peace in this world rather this is a mind that has been frozen and is no longer dynamic and progressive.

The mind that is to bring about peace in this world has no ties to books, churches, nations, temples or congregations. The mind that will bring about peace in this world will come from the human being that realizes this completely and this human being will go to sleep each night knowing that when he or she wakes the next day everything he or she knew the day before has nothing to do with that new day.

So again I ask myself. What can I do to bring about absolute peace in the world?

I can realize that in this world, in this existence in order to change the world I must change myself. In order to bring about absolute peace in the world I cannot live my life by the interpretations of other men, I must find out for myself what it is to know peace and in the process I must not only read and explore this intellectually but I must live this in my daily life.

Living and manifesting peace in the world has nothing to do with going to church or reading a book, it has everything to do with loving everyone UNCONDITIONALLY and speaking the truth always.

Loving everyone unconditionally is not the same as what all the religions of the world teach today. What the religions of the world teach you today is to TOLERATE one another not love one another. A Christian might say he loves a Jew but this is far from the “truth”. The fact that you subscribe to one religion or another implies that the other religion is wrong and damned… this is not love but fear.

Fear has no place in the enlightenment of humanity or day to day life. Fear breads hate, war, aggression, murder and insecurity in the world. Christians fear Muslims and Jews fear Atheist and Catholics fear Hindus and the list goes on and on.

See this all for what it is… it’s what you’ve been told, that’s all… nothing more. What you’ve been told is what they’ve been told and what they’ve been told is what someone told them and it goes on and on. It’s time to break this cycle… break free from the KNOWN.

Being a good Christian or Catholic is nothing more than an idea and ideas have nothing to do with peace.

Join the revolution and step into the UNKNOWN. Forget everything you know each day when you wake up and find out what life is all about each day as a new.

What would Jesus do? I’ll tell you what he did… BUT DON’T BELIEVE ME!!!

Go find out for yourself read the Bible but don’t take it as the word of god. When you’re finished reading the Bible pick up the Quran or the Buddhist 7 Noble Truths and continue seeking the truth but for the sake of all humanity don’t ever say you KNOW the truth.

The truth, the answers to all the universe and the purpose of all humanity cannot be quantified in any book, sermon or gospel for the truth for lack of a better word is ineffable.

If you want to live in a world of peace then drop the church, don’t call yourself a Buddhist or Atheist instead of talking the talk… walk the walk. In walking the walk you understand that to connect to the absolute truth that connection is through love. If you understand this then all your actions will be from a place of love and in acting from love you are expressing the truth.

So in summary: To bring about peace in the world I have to change myself, if I can change myself I have done all I can to change the world. Living life day to day, each day a new with all my actions and words coming from a place of love not ideologies, religions or beliefs but from unconditional love… in that ACTION you are realizing peace and from that realization others will come into realization as well.

Don’t take my word for it, go find out for yourself. Examine what it is that you KNOW and examine how it is that you’ve come to know what you know, then forget it. Once you’ve done that then ask yourself what can I do to bring about absolute peace in the world?

Understand that question completely and you will have the answer.

Peace,

Alan takes a look at the nature of the human mind and our interpretations of it. He looks over the many different conclusions that we’ve come up with to explain our existence. It is noted by Alan that man, no matter how hard he tries to sum up or quantify the human condition and existence these attempts in the past have all been futile. The reason being for this folly is that man is incapable to come upon and maintain the conscious attention that is needed to observe the multi faceted, numerous and unlimited states of the universe.

“The scanning process of mans conscious attention is very inadequate for dealing with the infinitely many variables the multi-dimensional processes of the universe”.

He then goes on to examine how man has fundamentally waged war on nature and the natural ways and processes of the world. It seems as though we must conquer and make nature subordinate to man. Its as though we think man is the ruler of nature and this is the natural order of things.

This is a terrible mistake.

It does seem to be a true observation by Alan, even though this lecture was over 2 decades ago it seems to hold even more truth today. From my viewpoint man is a part of nature not its custodian. We cannot bring order to nature or control it, the continued attempt to do so is a fundamental flaw in our global society.

We want to control and account for everything. We draw imaginary lines in the world and create countries separating ourselves from one another. From within those imaginary lines we then create governments and systems that are supposed to bring order and peace but as it were… looking over history none of these systems or governments have ever brought order or peace nor will they in the future.

I digress…

Later in the lecture Alan then goes on to talk about Jesus and the many different interpretations of his words and experiences. Alan’s commentary is very colorful and in my opinion on point. One of the more interesting points he sticks with is the interpretation of when Jesus said “I am a son of God”.

He goes on to talk about how the Jews made it blasphemy and the Christians said only Jesus can say that he’s the son of god. Alan points out that this is a flaw and obvious misinterpretation as we are all the son’s of god, we are all god, we are all one with god. When Jesus said “I and the father are one” he didn’t mean just him.

To know that you are god is another way to say that you feel connected with this Universe, that in everything you do you feel that you express the perfection and ultimate truth. It is when you are disconnected from that truth when you cannot see that you are by all means “God” this is when man becomes ignorant, agitated and has to try to put things in order… give reason to things.

When one sees he is perfection there is no need to explain it, there aren’t any needs for interpetations, Bibles, Qurans, Atheist, etc.

I would like to invite anyone who is interested to post your thoughts on the audio lecture. The second part to the lecture will be posted shortly after this one.

Peace.