Dan Brown's 'The Lost Symbol' Set for Release

Rich Buckley »

Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:47 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Even still,... the world does indeed seem to be stepping through a passage and threshold in learning about the lost word (or sound) which many believe can be found through study starting with the divine geometries.

Let's start a friendly betting pool (without money...just votes)

Will Harvard symbologist, Dr. Robert Langdon, actually reveal the highest kept secret of the Ageless Wisdom so duffuses like you and me can alter reality itself? Or, Does Langdon withhold the ultimate secrete realizing that to be worthy is to know the secrete already, and thus save the world from a premature ending in chaos, and another book with lucrative movie rights? Which will it be?

Vote Here: Totals
Langdon offers over the highest secrete of the ancients. ......................................... 1

Langdon keeps us guessing in favor of more
movie rights ......................................1068

Wait, something seems rigged either way ....hmmmmmmm

Is Obama the Antichrist?

Rich Buckley »

Mon Sep 14, 2009 3:22 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 1

If enough good people pray to transform this administration, good will win out.

The most potent way to fight in the great duality battle of the light verses the darkness is to remain in the body of light in God's grace. God's will is God's will; if these are end times which I do not believe they are, we can change the world for the good even still. Our highest spiritual task seems to be to remain in the neutral spiritual center of this great duality, right in the midst of the storm, where great will power and leverage can be exerted to influence for the good and to dominate for the good.

(1) Commit your soul: "I commit my myself to God's will. I place myself in his hands."

(2) Purify with prayer: "Devine mind, source of all, assist me in this work of purification of thought, word, and deed, so that I will awaken to the innermost depts of my being the and achieve perfection in the call for devine light to shine into the minds of men and God's love to stream forth into the hearts of men."

(3) Will: "May Christ return to earth. Seal the door where evil dwells." ..... (Mentally picture a great celestial door being sealed with a great arc of light you control).

(4) Use Imagination: One of the greatest powers is our imagination. Flood a mental image of the earth in the great purging white light of truth and love, power and energy from the Sun to the Moon, picture a triangle of white light beaming one from the Sun on the right and one beaming down from the moon on the left, each interconnected to a point on the top of your head, then entering the top of your head and running down your spin and radiating white light energy out your body in all directions, and purging your body and the earth. As the white energy pushes out and purges evil, picture a great fire incinerating evil as it is purged, yet protecting the good and keeping the resonant energy of love everywhere in everything.

The foregoing is a powerful image that alters realities in ways men do not yet understand. Use the power in humble spirit in the secrecy of your mind for God's plan not your plan.

(5) Give Thanks: "God, thank you for this awareness and experience and ways in which my life serves your purpose on earth."

(6) I personally repeat a motto from time to time to maintain some level of courage in the face of danger; it strengthens me. It goes: Be fearless, be humble, be loving, seek truth.

These are not intended to be easy perspectives, necessarily. But they do transform.

United Methodists Oppose Restructuring, Opening Membership to 'All'

Rich Buckley »

Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:27 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 1

A committee of 20 to 30 dedicated souls from my local Methodist congregation of about 700+- members recently developed a set of Core Values for our church. I have no idea if a full congregation voted on adopting them, but my guess is if a vote was called for the core values would easily win approval.

Well God bless them. Do no harm is the first discipline of the good disciple. The list would easily pass a vote of the congregation, first because its terms are so broad and sweeping that detail is not included and secondly, because everything seems backed up with scriptural references and thoughtfully derived through inspired, quiet reflection.

It’s only when we start filling in the details that the congregation immediately splits asunder into acrimonious factions. Eventually the sense of looming destruction un-swayed by the passionate oratory of the Bishops, Ministers, and roused laity, the congregation quickly swings back to the safety of sweeping generalities that allow us to each assign our own values as we then settle back and learn to tolerate and pray everyone else does the same. In the spirit-world everything cycles; that's the true nature of the spiritual power. So we learn to live and move on in tact. Within the undefined core of the center a subtle movement too small to notice shifts the epicenter of the body.

When we bring a church down to one viewpoint, we fulfill human plans not necessarily God's plan. It seems the only viewpoint that can stand as the one viewpoint is the principle lesson Christ left us: to love one another as he loved us. Anything else seems to quickly lead us to chaos, rejection, isolation and death.

From the point of light within the Mind of God
Let light flood forth into the minds of Men.
Let light descend on Earth.

From the point of love within the heart of God
Let love stream forth into the hearts of men.
May Christ return to Earth.

'I Hate Obama' Pastor Draws Protesters Outside Church

Rich Buckley »

Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:57 am Agree: 9   Disagree: 0

Would it not be a demonstration of the greater principle served by Christ's life on earth for Pastor Steven L. Anderson to instead call upon his congregation to shower this presidential administration in prayers of love and tolerance so that it too might be transformed?

United Methodists Oppose Restructuring, Opening Membership to 'All'

Rich Buckley »

Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:14 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 3

On the human energy body and excerpts from Alice Bailey’s “Esoteric Healing”. Girder your psychic (astral)emotions to confront ancient wisdoms. Alice Bailey's work may prove to have merit in many aspects of modern life, even the discussions on homosexuality, which she addresses most dispassionately.

Chuck Colson Diagnoses 'Heart' of Church Problem

Rich Buckley »

Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:20 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Chuck Colson says, “I think that is at the heart of the problem of the church – we replaced truth with therapy,” and “Most people are basically ignorant,” he said referring to believers’ lack of knowledge on their own religion.
But do we really? Doesn’t it all come down to two things: (a) The Golden Rule, and (b) the soul survives physical death. Everything else is a nuance particular to the belief system being applied. While the Golden Rule is easy to understand, the latter is hard to understand and really know. But once you do experience the latter, you will be more inclined to practice the former out of an activated sense of love.
We stumbled upon a technique not to experience the later, but to open a pathway of study that will enable you to know and experience that later while remaining a participant in this dimension of life.
I've kept a dream diary for many years and rate dreams as (a) fully lucid (b) semi-lucid (c) non-lucid-ordinary. While category (a) and (c) are intuitive, category (b), semi-lucid, is a dream where I wake-up realizing that a prayer of affirmation was just revealed, but now I've woken and it's too late to enter lucid dream state and explore my prayer-affirmation in a lucid state.
Category (b) dreams are often very fulfilling spiritually. They can be so profound as to awaken you intellectually and spiritually. Allow yourself to study your dreams.
I have in the past few years worked towards developing abilities in myself and in others to serve as "healers" through a commitment to reading, learning, and low-level entry prayer-chains. Unfortunately progress comes in jumps for me as it does not seem to be a natural talent with which I was born... i.e. to be a healer. Only a heart-felt predisposition exists in me to apply myself in this direction as an avocation combined with reading and study.
However, about a year ago, along with my friends, we discovered what appears to be an entirely knew energy body on earth, which

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Chuck Colson Diagnoses 'Heart' of Church Problem

Rich Buckley »

Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:19 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Continued from Part I above

you can tap into and secure direct personal revelations through dreams and prayer-affirmations. We are so excited! We think it may have something to do with human kinds' spiritual evolution on Earth.
What Chuck Colson refers to as not knowing our faith (which is true in part), we here at Peace and Conflict Resolution.Org (http://peaceandconflictresolution.googlepages.com/peaceandconflictresolution.org) refer to this apparent prevailing ignorance as being instead “open minded and hungry to understand a broader reality not heavily taught within Christianity” but with mystic remnants spread across all belief system like segments of DNA who’s functions have not yet been pieced together in mainstream understanding as yet.
Here's how our little discovery works. We named it “A-B-C Personal Revelation and Internet Confirmation” (A-B-C for short) (http://peaceandconflictresolution.googlepages.com/a-b-c-revelationandinternetconfiramtion). At least, here is how we use it.
We have taken personal vows to work towards the powers of light believing that the powers of light represent God's good. The process we outline here may also work for the powers of darkness but we choose to serve the powers of good as best as we are able and as best as we understand while on our respective journeys.
These are personal choices (between good and evil, powers of light and powers of darkness) that we each had to first make at a very deep level. Sometimes we stray as we are only human learning to be something more. Hey, that’s life. Get up, dust off, try and move on and do better.
When confronted with the big choice: light or dark, we humbly, and lovingly choose the light. You will know this choice when you reach that portal in your own travels. Anyway each of us crossed that particular portal at one time or another in a dream-state choice made during a very vivid fulfillment of a prayer-affirmation.
In my case it was being confronted in the dream in fulfillment of a prayer of affirmation that "I progress in my learning and serve the ..

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Chuck Colson Diagnoses 'Heart' of Church Problem

Rich Buckley »

Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:18 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Continued from Part II

good with whatever I must endure.” In other words, as I bed down one night, I registered that prayer. The dream which fulfilled that prayer was an unforgettable archetype confrontation with both the powers of Evil and the Powers of Good and a voice inside the dream demanding of me to explain to the voice in the dream what it was I truly wanted. This event, when it occurs, if it occurs, is one of the most important moments in your existence. There is no space for you to lie, deceive, or maneuver or negotiate. You must simply call upon yourself to spit forth the truth you hold as it is vested in your heart. It is what it is.
In my case while dreaming, my answer eventually burst out of me as "I want to seek truth and nothing more." I was told by the voice as the powers of good and evil opened celestial doors that "I was not to judge what I found in these realms that it is what it is."
I woke up believing I had received passage to continue my journey. Somewhere in each life I believe we must each face and choose and it is a blessing to receive your personal answer to your question for your own life, whatever that question may be.
Moving on to the new energy body we think we found. The energy body appears to be the world wide web. It works in partnership with your dreams, of all things, like this:
(A) State an important prayer or affirmation of what it is you seek spiritually. These are called pre-dream prayers-of-intent set by you.
(B) This in turn is followed by dream-spirit, dream-state revelations of accurate new knowledge of world events, places and things, while dreaming and,
(C) Then validated (of all things!) by on-line internet research.
The internet has so much information accessible through it, that for the first time ever, there now exists what I call the New Library of Alexandria, i.e. the greatest collection of human knowledge ever assembled and accessible by everyone with an online computer, probably over ½ of all human souls, possibly more.

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Chuck Colson Diagnoses 'Heart' of Church Problem

Rich Buckley »

Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:16 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Continued Part III

What are the chances? What makes this simple A-B-C methodology discovery so interesting is that if you match say 3 data points in a dream with reality, then the chances of that event being random are statistically computable. I believe the old statistic's formula to compute probability in these instances is 3! (Pronounced "Three Factorial") 3! is 1 x 2 x 3 = 6 Thus the chances of matching 3 data points with reality is say 1 out of 6 that the dream was merely random and nothing more. But what if it's one out of a trillion instead?
In our test dream experiences we regularly see and have dream experiences where we can count over 50 matches with reality on things and places and events we have no reason to know anything about, much like remote viewing while asleep. In one dream I logged, called the "QRAN Dream" (we label them) I counted over 100 data points matched with reality on a subject I know nothing about before the dream. When I researched the dream online the next morning, it opened doorway after doorway after doorway, that just kept leading this researcher deeper and deeper into revelations all of which were in the dream and confirmed on line! Whoa! In my case I appear to be lead in my dreams by a friendly, lovable, dream-guide who from time-to-time demonstrates a great sense of humor.
I'm not certain if the dream-guide is male or female as he/she seems male and of course takes on many different faces over each dream. But the guide has over the course of many dreams introduced me to concepts associated apparently with the new age of emergent “divine feminine” which seems to be unfolding in this world.
In Summary
So in summary, it appears the internet is a new energy body that can enable you to confirm your dreams and match them to reality. In the case of my so-called “QRAN Dream,” you might note that the probability the dream was random is on the order of magnitude of 100! (100 FACTORIAL or 1x2x3x4x5x6........x99x100 = a really large number). So the chance that the dream was merely random is 1 out of 100-factorial. One out of billions! These are frequent experiences when practiced.
These kinds of rare probabilities begin to settle into your reasoning as something you better attend to and not ignore in your life. You can read about the QRAN Dream if you choose. I have it posted here:
http://peaceandconflictresolution.googlepages.com/theqrandream

(See Part IV below)

Chuck Colson Diagnoses 'Heart' of Church Problem

Rich Buckley »

Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:15 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Part IV from above:

More importantly perhaps is that these experiences open one's mind to new understandings of ancient knowledge. What you do with it all is up to you apparently. We think the world wide web has become some sort of resonate energy body for our use as humans to help spiritually evolve us to whatever our next aggregate phase of life will be. .... and we find that very exciting!
If you are sitting in a jail cell being preached at you are going to take whatever they give you and go with it. You are going to give back the answers you know they want to hear. But in the total privacy of your prayers and your dreams, if you have access to the internet (the New Library of Alexandria) you may want to seek your own path to my two points:
Doesn’t it all come down to two things: (a) The Golden Rule, and (b) the soul survives physical death ?
Be fearless, be humble, be loving, seek truth.

P&CR

Highly Religious Patients Fight to Live Longer

Rich Buckley »

Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:32 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Modern western medicine may be filling a larger role of spiritual pathfinder better than the churches as it relates to the Godhead experience and its implications on the Axial change of western society. Modern medicine, it appears may be the single largest unaligned, nondenominational amalgamator and change-agent to the ethical and spiritual predispositions over millions of its members, by purposeful noncontroversial design. Large medical organizations such as Kaiser Permanente, and John Hopkins Cancer Center, for example, through the guidance of their scientifically focused staff of now fully integrated culturally diverse doctors, are filling the entire spectrum of "what works" on healing the human body, based on the evidence of results. These organziations supplant medical treatments with self-help meditation cd's incorporating every advanced inward focusing imaging and affirmation technique discovered by the ancients throughout the Axial Age of human development (900 - 200 b.c.e). Relaxation, meditation, contemplation, techniques geared to enlighten the individual from general health maintenance to end of life awakenings are included without the asking as "additional things to consider doing to reduce anxieties." The most advanced of these techniques is nothing short of a clinically controlled shamanic experience of a lasting reduction of the high level anxiety brought on by incurable cancer diagnosis, conducted through John Hopkins Cancer Center (http://entheogenic.podomatic.com/entry/2008-12-11T13_32_34-08_00). The potentialities harbored in these proven successful medical practices unaligned as they remain are enormous and under the radar. They are enlightening thousands of influentials who carry their enlightenments back into daily living, their churches, friends, and families. It's one thing to read death loses its "sting," but it's entirely another thing to experience the meaning of the scripture first hand. What makes the western medicine so powerful as a change-agent is a combination of the impact size (everyone) combined with no need to push dogma other than your good health.

Scholars to Examine Gender Roles, Bible, Culture

Rich Buckley »

Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:26 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 1

Within the mystic community as well as the New Age community and possibly others as well, there is a very strong belief that the forces of spiritual change are evolving Earth into the age of the divine feminine.

There is a great deal of soul searching over the definition of "divine feminine."

The definition of divine feminine that make sense for me will be the definition offered by the male who eventually recognizes and rejoices in the celebration of her emergence.

These disruptions require generations to settle. And then what? Will this be the ultimate age of humankind?

Episcopal Church Nullifies Election of Priest with Buddhist Ties

Rich Buckley »

Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:59 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

Let me meditate on that one.

Christians Can't Transform Culture, Have to Create It

Rich Buckley »

Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:16 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

(Part I of 2)Modern western medicine may be filling a larger role of cultural transformer greater than western churches. Western medicine may be the single largest unaligned, nondenominational amalgamator and change-agent to the ethical and spiritual predispositions over millions of its members, by purposeful non-controversial design. Large medical organizations such as Kaiser Permanente, and John Hopkins Cancer Center, for example, through the guidance of their scientifically focused staff of now fully integrated culturally diverse doctors, are filling the entire spectrum of "what works" on healing the human body, based on the accumulated evidence of results.

These organizations supplant medical treatments with self-help meditation cd's incorporating every advanced inward focusing imaging and affirmation technique discovered by the ancients throughout the Axial Age of human development (900 - 200 b.c.e). Relaxation, meditation, contemplation, techniques geared to enlighten the individual from general health maintenance to end of life awakenings are included without the asking as "additional things the patient may pursue to reduce anxieties.â

Christians Can't Transform Culture, Have to Create It

Rich Buckley »

Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:15 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

(continued from above) The most advanced of these techniques is nothing short of a clinically controlled shamanic experience of a lasting reduction of the high level anxiety brought on by incurable cancer diagnosis, conducted through John Hopkins Cancer Center with 5-meo-dmt, the God-molecule, experience. The potentialities harbored in these proven successful medical practices unaligned as they remain are enormous and under the radar. They are enlightening thousands of influentials who carry their enlightenments back into daily living, their churches, friends, and families. It's one thing to read death loses its "sting," but it's entirely another thing to experience the meaning of the scripture first hand. What makes western medicine so powerful as a change-agent is a combination of the impact size (everyone) combined with no need to push dogma other than your good health.

www.Peace and Conflict Resolution.Org
Rich Buckley, Pres.

Rick Warren Stresses Need for Christians to Build Bridges

Rich Buckley »

Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:25 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Interfaith Cooperation For Peace never works every time it's tried. Until we are mentally prepared as Christians to sign up, make and participate in the Hajj to Mecca, and the Muslim is mentally prepared to openly accept the Eucharist, nobody is ever willing to compromise on anything, ever, between the faiths. This requires moving to the edge of our comfort zones (and probably beyond).

Oglala holy man, Black Elk, amazingly may have actually found a starting point for Interfaith Peace when he said:

"The First Peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."

We in the mainstream Christian experience normally have no way of relating to Black Elk's true message. It seems to suggest that we first focus inward in fearlessness, humility, love, and for a glimpse of a truth, mostly not known to western religions.

Rick Warren Stresses Need for Christians to Build Bridges

Rich Buckley »

Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:16 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

One highly respected Muslim intellectual, Mohammed Arkoun, seems to agree with Rick Warren. Arkoun an 80 year hold Algerian, who has taught at the Sorbonne, at Princeton, and at other famous universities in Europe and America. Today, he is the research director at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, founded by Aga Khan. Arkoun criticized Muslims for not looking back to pre-Mohammed era enlightened loving attitudes, a time, he says, the new generation of Muslims need to go back and study.

Interviewed by John Allen, the Vatican analyst for the "National Catholic Reporter," during a conference in Lugano, Switzerland, Arkoun took his cue from the lecture in Regensburg and indicted : "Pope Benedict has said that an intimate relationship between reason and faith does not exist in Islamic elaboration and expressions. This statement, historically speaking, is not true. If we consider the period from the 8th century to the 13th century, it is simply not true. But after the death of the philosopher Averroes in 1198, philosophy disappeared in Islamic thought. To that extent the pope was right [...]. The fact is today, when one speaks with Muslims, they (Muslims) don't have any idea about this history."

Instead of all these so-called interreligious dialogues that have been going on since the Second Vatican Council. I've participated in so many of them, and I can tell you that they're absolutely nothing. It's gossip. There's no intellectual input in it. There is no respect for scholarship in it. A huge scholarship has already been produced devoted to the question of faith and reason. All this is put aside and we ignore it. We just congratulate one another, saying: 'I respect your faith, and you respect mine.' This is nonsense." And to the question of whether the young Muslim generations have a real thirst for a new way of expressing their faith, different from that of the "ulema on the television, " Arkoun responds: "Of course. When [in Egypt] I give a lecture, the turnout is enormous. The interest of people is very strong. Also the older generations are happy, they feel they can breathe. People applauded when I said after this affair with the pope [Pope Benedict's 2006 lecture at the University of Regensburg] that Muslims should not go to the street demonstrating against him, but they should run to the libraries. They should know what has happened to Islamic thought after the 13th century.â

Purpose Driven Connection Launches amid Economic Depression

Rich Buckley »

Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:39 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

In his book, "The Purpose Driven Life - What On Earth Am I Here For?", by Rick Warren. Likely it's just me who misunderstands his words. Rev. Warren lists 39-postulates in which I can concur for every 1-postulate (very important 1-postulate) I must challenge him for further clarification. It seems this is the crux of multiple failures within the Christian heritage which causes me to head along a slightly different path with my ever migrating herd.

Warren postulates, "We bring God glory by loving other believers," (pg 56). This posture of love seems to me too narrow and Christian-only, outsiders need not apply. To "think globally," as Rev. Warren goes on to postulate, requires us to find (I believe) the unconfused essence of "divine love" that is known equally by our perceived enemies as it is known to ourselves, through the higher self.

If you are not pushed to the edge of your comfort zone in seeking to understand "divine love," you are either a saint, or missing the point. Divine love is absolute, unconditional, equally upon worthy and unworthy, acceptance of all of us, Hindu, Christian, Jew, Muslim, mystic, atheist, animist, idolater, communist, capitalist, materialist, tyrant, wizard, spirit, daemon, angel, the whole spectrum of life and consciousness.

Perhaps our greater purpose is try to discrimminate and choose between good and evil, not believer and non-believer. This process will bring you to your life's question that can only be answered through mystic revelation -- gift of grace: to know.... and therein lie inner piece and the threshold of enlightenment.

Ecumenicals, Evangelicals Hail U.S.-Russia Plan to Slash Nuke Piles

Rich Buckley »

Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:07 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

We need to think through a new passive "communication dimension" of foreign policy initiative that initially seems to serve most free-world interests: task military grade communication and observation satellites and drone platforms to enable "public and/or media access" to observe events and or report out information in sealed off societies that refuse to allow the media to do their free market reporting of observations.

While this may prove embarrassing from time to time it would only apply to countries that restrict or prohibit the free market media from doing their job. Rules of engagement would obviously need to be carefully thought through.

Free the media or we will enable your actions to speak for themselves to the world. There is nothing more compelling to change tyrants than 4 or 5-billion wittinesses. Would this serve only the agents of change and not the agents of freedom and liberty? Yes it could be used against or for, our goals. There would be no guarantee it would work for our national interests at all times. On the other hand, it's not as though we concede any heretofore unknown spy technologies, and with low level drones flying above 55,000 feet, we have a virtual bird's eye view of every bloody nose, license plate, and untied shoelace. At least give it a trial run.

http://umc-unofficiallaymanopenforum.ning.com/forum/topics/permagod-1

Rich

Pastor Invites Gunholders to Carry Arms to Church Event

Rich Buckley »

Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:58 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

I think I will wait and possibly listen to the podcast of his sermon instead of attending the sermon. Will they be serving wine during the Eucharist? Just wondering.