"I of my own knowledge…"

Thursday March 19, 2009

 Miss Rita, anything you’d care to say on this anniversary of your escape? You see, you weren’t left here because they’d forgotten to pull the plug!

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In this month’s column in The Meta Arts online magazine, which may be found at http://www.themetaarts.com/pages/frankdemarco.html, I wrote the following, which i think may be of value to many.

by Frank DeMarco

It’s funny. The workshop was about using energy work, but the most valuable thing I got out of it was a sudden realization of what I have been doing all my life, and shouldn’t be doing, and am not going to do any more. You might find yourself making the same resolution.

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Something of this sort has to happen. Christianity is old wine in a new container. That is, it is a way of understanding the spiritual world that does not fit the civilization that is shaping itself around us. That doesn’t mean that much that is precious may not be lost along with the irrelevant and the misunderstood.

This thoughtful essay is from a man who describes himself as “a postevangelical reformation Christian in search of a Jesus-shaped spirituality.” (I found it via the Schwartzreport. It appeared in the online Christian Science Monitor, and may be found at  http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html.)  

ONEIDA, KY. - We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West.

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I came across this story (from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1157784/Do-mysterious-stones-mark-site-Garden-Eden.html) via Stephan Schwartz’ remarkable Schwartzreport (www.SchwartzReport.com). It is a hilarious situation. The established “scientific” chronology allows only a few thousand years for human existence in civilized societies,but it  keeps meeting all this evidence that we have been here a million years, with evidence of societies hundreds of thousands of years old. To preserve the orthodox view, they have to keep twisting the facts into an ever weirder set of suppositions:

* Cave men somehow built this collection of megaliths even though they weren’t supposed to be capable of doing any such thing. 

* Primitive man must have built this gold chain that was found – embedded in a lump of coal! 

* This battery that was found in ancient Iraq (I’m not making this up) doesn’t have any explanation, so we’ll think about something else, instead.

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