Stealing God's Powers

This is Tuesday morning May 5, 2009, el cinco de Mayo. Sometimes you have ideas forming in your mind and you want to wait until they are fully germinated before you write them down. I wanted to write on the topic of “Stealing God’s Powers”. You all may remember that StarTrek TNG episode where Captain Piccard is with this foxy seductive woman, who claims that she “owns his spaceship” because she won it as part of a deal. And she wants to be worshiped by the people of the planet as some combination Devil-Savior or something because she owns their souls. Piccard says to her, “In my travels across space, I’ve come across far more credible and formidable opponents than you. To be frank, you come across as kind of a flim-flam artist. Later on at a court trial Piccard announces, “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I have stolen my opponents powers”, and then goes on to duplicate all her tricks which so awed the population of the planet. I was just thinking: “Are there people today who have stolen God’s powers?” - - and who inwardly are rather proud of it? Jesus of KFI had a promo on the radio about his program in which he made the claim, “There are some of you out there who have turned to some sort of spiritual guidance or source for help, but these so-called religious sources may be actually taking you further away from me”. Sometimes it’s interesting to put to put two statements side by side to either contrast them or to show the utter absurdity of one or both of them. I immediately thought of Dr. Dean Edell’s statement, “There are some of you out there who turn to vitamins because the basic problem is that you don’t have a good diet and you think that vitamins can substitute for a well balanced nutritional diet”. So I’m thinking to myself: A person who is well balanced and already has a good “religious diet” and has “networking” and all that for help in his life when he needs it- - such a person isn’t going to turn to a show they hear on the radio by a man claiming to be someone who died two thousand years ago. He wouldn’t do that any more than a person who ate a well balanced diet and was already healthy would turn to some of these quack vitamin remedy programs you hear on radio or see on TV. I’m not impugning any program on KTLK radio. These shows appear to be well informed with balanced, knowledgeable people who know their subject. But there are people in the media, and you may have come across them, that will “hook” you with some line. But a normal person who heard that “Jesus” commercial would not give it another moment’s thought but quickly deduce that this was some crack-pot. But how do these religious people try and “get inside your head”. First of all if a person uses the term “manipulate” a lot in their discourse when referring to certain “others” who are “dangerous”, you can rest assured they are engaged in projecting their own faults on to others, and they themselves are master manipulators. This one guy leading a class played a Van Morrison song the other day. It was one I’d never heard before and to me it sounded unusual. It was on the subject of existentialism. A lot of people like Chuck Smith like to trash “existentialist” philosophy, when most people in the public have scarcely ever heard of it and don’t know what it is. “Existentialism” basically is study of “What is the meaning of Life?” “Why am I here?” and related topics. So many Christian come-ons are existentialist in nature as kind of a hook to lure you in making you think they are concerned about your life. Of course you know- - last week I was thinking of directing my fire at Laura Schleshenger, the shrink on the radio. But since Dr. Laura has never said anything against me, personally, it wouldn’t be Christian to go out and attack her personally. But I just might lay down a few general guidelines even a small child could relate to. If you were trying to lose weight, and you were encountering talking animals, like a small child would expect to do, you most likely would not go to a prize winning Hog at the county fair for advice on dieting. You wouldn’t turn to a burrowing rodent in order to conquer your fear of agoraphobia. And if your Elsa the lioness from the movie “Born Free” (remember that?) you wouldn’t turn to one of these lions I once saw at a theme park, I forget which one. There was an old lion right by the entrance of the park just sitting there peacefully, that had been de-fanged and de-clawed. If you were a young lioness cub you wouldn’t turn to such a lion to learn how to hunt, would you? And if you were interested in relaxation technique and yoga and transcendental meditation, you wouldn’t turn to one of the tigers in the Siegfried and Roy circus exhibit would you? Have you ever held a cat that didn’t want to be held? Sometimes they will pretend to relax, but the minute they sense they are really free they will shoot out of your arms. Just as certain soils talked about in the Bible have fast, sudden growth of vegetation, yet the soil is incredibly shallow and the plants have no root in themselves and wither away in the heat of the day, so it is with many Christians I have met. There seems to be some invisible but definite “Maginoff Line” with them, where you may not cross. Before some particular date, it’s as though they didn’t exist. With such an individual you never know what is going to “set them off” or they will suddenly react erratically to some ordinary event. A lot of times when a Christian says “I’m really going to get serious about the Lord” it means he’s going to be harder to live with and more self-obsessed and touchy about stuff.

And now we come to today. I was just thinking about the subject of “Revealed Knowledge”. I have spoken often in my writings about The Sixth Dimension, yet I have never adequately described what it’s like to be in “the sixth dimension”. I guess to be honist I’m guilty of the Bob Dylan sin of “trying to hide what I don’t know to begin with”. This is always bad for a religious leader to do. I used to be surrounded by a lot of religious nuts. Once the basics of the Faith are established- - people assume “Permission” to come up with all sorts of bizarre “science fiction” theories about God and how he interacts with mankind. According to “Oh God”, George Burnes likes to show his greatest “trick” by pulling out a deck of cards and playing the illusionist. We’re all thinking, “come on, give me a break”. We all know what “The Basics” consists of. You repeat some believer’s creed every week in church, and suddenly everything is taken care of; you’re Good for another week, as far as God is concerned. In philosophy class we were taught that “Revealed knowledge” was a legitimate form of knowledge, and that people routinely got “knowledge” nobody else had from direct revelations from God. But Jesus of KFI now assumes himself to be the repository of all Divine knowledge that used to be dealt out to all mankind throughout the world. Jesus is kind of like Ebonezer Scrooge in that he is higher meiserly with this connection he has to the almighty and doesn’t think it should be shared. But in reality he’s worse than Scrooge was. Scrooge assumed that the tax payers would take care of the poor and the like. But Jesus believes that once you say those magic words and accept “the faith” by uttering whatever creed, you are pretty much Set for Life as far as God is concerned. But I myself as guilty in the past of “stealing God’s power”. Here’s why. As I say I’ve been surrounded by whackos in the past, so I gave myself “permission” to believe in things I normally wouldn’t such as The Orion Federation, and all of the other entities out there. I have been writing of these E T I topics for so long it’s like they are a part of me. Just as Soren Kirkiguard spoke of a “leap in faith” to become a Christian, at this point I’d have to take a “leap in doubt” to bring myself to disown all that talk about the Federation and the Reigellians and the Romulans and all the rest. Actually, someone said Kirkiguard was an existentialist. But contrary to things others have said about him, I’ve found him to be among the more rational philosophers. You know I was just thinking this morning that Astrology must be tied in with the sixth dimension- - because it’s like the sixth dimension represents “Revelation” of all the mysteries of life. So you can find out what the future holds, and why that coincidence occurred in your life. I believe there is something to astrology or I wouldn’t lean on it. It’s basis has nothing to do with any of the Four Fources that astro-physicists talk about. These are “the strong force” of binding atoms, “the weak force” of radioactive decay, electro-magnetism, and finally- - the one macro force, Gravity. Instead astrology derives it’s power through what you might call the “unified field theory” or everything in the universe being connected with everything else- - kind of like the I Ching. Things such as time and space do not matter, they don’t enter into the calculations, in the psychic dimension. I would like to conclude in pointing to some physical evidence of revealed knowledge. In ancient writings they spoke of Mars having two little companions, Phobos and Dimos, and that phobos meant fear and ran around really fast. Now we learn that Mars has two tiny moons, which were named Phobos and Dimos. Also in ancient writings were the notions that Saturn had rings around it, which we never knew about till the 1600’s. Also in ancient writings was the notion that Jupiter was the king of the gods. And we now know that Jupiter is the largest of all the planets. The fact that Mercury is known for speed has nothing to do with the Ford motor company- - however- - -this is a deduceable fact from observing the planet Mercury in the skies, that even the Romans had figured out.