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Black Tensegrity Warrior

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I am a Black Christian Nigerian who has augmented his knowledge with the teachings of Dr. Carlos Castaneda, the founder of Tensegrity. I believe that any reputed spiritual development can be duplicated by anyone who has the will and the fortitude to bear the discipline.

  • If American and European Governments are controlled by Satan-worshipers, wouldn't they offer Sacrifices?

    Would Civilan Casualties in the Middle East serve that purpose?

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    Would it not mean that their Religion influences- even guides their Foreign Policies?

    1 AnswerReligion & Spirituality9 years ago
  • Is there anything like a song or a poem in French, Spanish, German, Russian, etc. that contains all alphabet?

    What I want is a simple passage or paragraph that contains all the alphabet, all the vowels, consonants and diphthongs, which someone can memorize and recite, until they have complete mastery of basic pronunciation in any given language. This cannot be so hard, surely?

    4 AnswersLanguages1 decade ago
  • Can Divine Healing regenerate Telomeres?

    Is it of any importance to you or to anyone to know the answer to this?

    Would it be of any use to you or anyone?

    1 AnswerReligion & Spirituality1 decade ago
  • If the Will is exercised, will it grow stronger, like a muscle, to the point of developing "Psionic Powers?"?

    Along these lines?

    . THE TEN TALENTS OF POWER.

    1. HEIGHTENED AWARENESS: Total Recall and Total Concentration.

    2. *SEEING:* ESP ability to perceive anything that exists or existed,

    and analyze its life energy composition- thus proving the difference

    between true visions (which have the full range of energy signatures,)

    and false visions (which contain only the signature of the being who created it,)

    analogous to detecting the pixellation of faked photos.

    3. ANGEL DEPLOYMENT: The Telekinetic ability to create an energy body, and act through it at remote distances.

    4. TELEPORTATION: The ability to dematerialize one's body to pure Life Energy, and to rematerialize it elsewhere in the current Universe.

    5. TRANSLATION: The ability to teleport into the "Higher Universes" (i.e. Heaven).

    6-10. TRANSFIGURATION: The simultaneous triggering of all these abilities with a "jump" of one's energy content from 50% to 100% in an instant. "Cosmic Awareness." "Everlasting Life."

    Nagual Don Juan Matus' school (Los Nuevos Videntes- The New Seers) says that the process must start with the attaining of Total Recall of one's entire life, which can be accomplished in less than a year, by simply setting aside time and effort to systematically recall everything one knows about everyone one has ever met. When one has achieved this, one is said to be able to review one's entire life in as little as twenty minutes. This ability is claimed to be the only way to cohere one's soul after the loss of one's physical body. There is an entity that rips apart any soul that is unable to "map" all of its memories for it, upon the loss of its body. Being able to review one's whole life upon death prevents this entity from intrusively entering one's soul, which process causes the destruction.

    This is consistent with Jesus' Gospel Teachings about being "judged" and compelled to "render an account" upon confrontation with a "master."

    If one has sufficient spiritual "credit," when such a person "recapitulates," they may be sent back to resume living- whatever caused one's death overcome. Don Juan Matus claimed to have had this experience. Many people who went through deadly experiences have reported "seeing their entire lives flash before their eyes," suggesting that some of them, may have actually literally deceased, satisfied this "judgment entity" and been permitted to go on living. Not every one can do this without prior training, but obviously, many do not need training. (Should one leave it to chance, to find out whether they are among the "naturally-talented" few?)

    The 1960s mystic Lobsang Rampa described lamaism training as requiring that the monk voluntarily imprison himself in a cell, feeding on a dab or yak butter and a bowl of tea daily, until complete recapitulation- achieved by attempting to totally recall the events one one day, and then the day before that, and then the day before that, until his entire life was recalled. Whereupon they would gradually break themselves out of their cell (because their eyes were no longer able to tolerate full light) . Taisha Abelar, a disciple of Carlos Castaneda, censured the construction of a special structure for the purpose of recapitulation. During her own practice, in a cave, she said that she wasted most of the time merely sleeping.

    These candid accounts are discounted by all-knowing skeptics as completely fake (it is claimed that Lobsang Rampa was merely an English illiterate lorry-driver. Probably by people who know nothing about what he wrote about.) by people who offer nothing in their place, but rather even desperately, assure us than none of these steps or levels of attainment even exist.

    The Jewish historian, Flavius Jospehus who is a non-Christian source establishing the existence of Jesus of Nazareth- a mere village carpenter's boy, who allegedly raised the dead and healed the sick upon contact, viewed the future, and singlehandedly laid out a Way of Life that, if followed, is supposed to confer those abilities on others- is cited as saying that all the most fundamental laws of astronomy, geometry, and mathematics were learned during the period of time when men lived for centuries, and witnessed the same phenomena repeatedly, until they had to realize that specific laws were being enacted before them. The genius inventor Nicola Tesla claimed to have had a photographic memory, whereby he could design, build, and test a new device in his head, so accurately, that it even had bugs, which he had to solve.

    6 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade ago
  • Where does the story of the Spartan lad who would not interrupt his Elder come from?

    The story is that this lad hid a ferocious beast in his robe, but was intercepted by an Elder, who, not knowing what the boy was up to began to tell him something. The boy listened without interrupting, or in any way betraying the fact that the beast was eating its way to freedom through him, until he collapsed and died from his injury.

    Is this story considered true, and where does it come from?

    1 AnswerMythology & Folklore1 decade ago
  • If a gun were magnetized, would this affect its firing and bullet processing mechanisms?

    If someone were fighting a person whom they knew magnetized their guns (as in a storage rack), could they defeat them by throwing iron filings on their weapon? (I'm writing an action novel, and would never try this in real life!)

    2 AnswersEngineering1 decade ago
  • was there an Ancient lad, who was buttonholed by an Elder, while concealing a ferocious beast in his clothes?

    According to the story, he heard out the Elder without interrupting him, while the creature was eating through him to escape- without giving any sign of pain, or that what the Elder was telling him was neither interesting nor important to him at that time?

    Is this story considered true?

    Where does it come from?

    1 AnswerHistory1 decade ago
  • Why are people not afraid to incur God's Wrath by rejecting His Wisdom and Power?

    What does God have to offer, if He Exists? well, Life:

    . DEUTERONOMY 30:19-20.

    19. I call Heaven and Earth

    to record this Day against you,

    that I have set before you Life and Death,

    Blessing and Cursing: therefore choose Life,

    That both thou and thy seed may live:

    20. That thou mayest love the LORD thy God,

    and that thou mayest obey His Voice,

    and that thou mayest cleave unto Him:

    for He is thy life, and the length of thy days:

    that thou mayest dwell in the Land

    which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,

    to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

    . JOHN 12:42-50.

    42. Nevertheless among the Chief Rulers also

    many believed on him;

    but because of the Pharisees

    they did not confess him,

    lest they should be put out of the Synagogue:

    43. For they loved the Praise of Men

    more than The Praise of God.

    44. Jesus cried and said,

    “He that believeth on me, believeth not on me,

    but on Him that sent me.

    45. “And he that seeth me

    seeth Him that sent me.

    46. “I am come a Light into the World,

    that whosoever believeth on me

    should not abide in Darkness.

    47. “And if any man hear my Words, and believe not,

    I judge him not: for I came not to judge the World,

    but to save the World.

    48. “He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my Words,

    hath One that judgeth him:

    The Word that I have spoken,

    the Same shall judge him in The Last Day.

    49. “For I have not spoken of myself;

    but the Father which sent me,

    He gave me a Commandment,

    what I should say, and what I should speak.

    50. “And I know that His Commandment is Life Everlasting:

    whatsoever I speak therefore,

    even as the Father said unto me, so I speak."

    Somehow, a mythological showdown at a Last Day when all people who ever existed will be resurrected and judged has taken the place of a more logical application of the Doctrine.

    Any time when one is facing Certain Death is one's "Last Day," and if one has sufficient resources with God, He can permit one to survive it, and if one does not, one will perish.

    A mythological Matrix Paradise AfterLife one supposedly enters into after one's body has died, has replaced the more immediate and logical application of the Existence of "Heaven" as a collection of Spaces, that is, Universes, outside this Universe, to which this Universe is a mere shadow, and through which the Forces of Life flow to reach us, such that objects and energies in those Universes are the templates for objects and entities here in this Universe. If one can control these templates, it affords control of their shadows in this Universe and on this World. (As above, so below; As in Heaven, so on Earth.)

    By some superHuman feat of mentation, one should be able to access these Realms and their Energies and Templates without the cooperation nor assistance of "God," "Satan" or any other supernatural entity. This would be like ignoring the Channel Tunnel, grabbing a pickaxe and digging your own tunnel. (Good luck with that!)

    Using the "God" Entity, Who claims to be The Source of Life and Existence-sustaining Power, as a focus, one can, by following His Prescribed series of Mental Exercises and Physical Conditioning techniques, extend one's consciousness beyond this World and Universe, and exploit the templates for our personal benefit. The term "God" is at the very least a Vessel containing certain properties that it is necessary to attune one's mind to, to obtain necessary results.

    11 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade ago
  • I weigh 80 kg, I want to go on a fast, I am 171 cm tall and normally weighed 59 kg; How long can I safely fast?

    What effects on my body should I expect, and when should I expect them?

    What effects on my mind should I expect, and when should I expect them?

    I expect the following effects in this order:

    1. No longer feeling hunger.

    2. Sleep necessity cut from 8 to 4 hours.

    3. Massive detoxification of my body (I will be drinking about 2 litres of fresh water, of course- which is the only way this exercise can be possible).

    4. My bodily strength would return to normal and exceed 100%.

    5. My eyesight would improve to normal, where I would no longer require spectacles (+250).

    5. My hair would start growing out black again (this won't affect the grey hair that's already grown).

    6. I expect to experience significantly increased mental activity, due to increased blood flow to my brain.

    7. I intend to use this increased mental function to learn as many as three new languages before the fast is over.

    8. I expect to look younger than my 50 years.

    9. I expect an increase in willpower and conscious awareness, and a reduction of my subconscious mind.

    Fasting took off at the turn of the 20th Century, when Atheistic medical doctors (whom we'd call "Quacks," nowadays) laughed to scorn the Biblical claim that Jesus of Nazareth fasted for forty days and forty nights (Matt. 4:1-2). That even if he somehow survived to the 40th day, as The Bible claimed, he would be too weak to make it back to civilization, and should have died in the wilderness; "This is another example of The Bible's unscientific statements. There endeth the lesson." A Christian medical doctor colleague (whom we'd also call a Quack,) named Tanner, declared that he would prove that The Bible's claim was medically accurate. He predicted that he would become stronger than before his fast during the fast, and be significantly healthier after it.

    Franklin Hall reported that he indeed proved all of his points.

    I intend to begin this fast tomorrow, and if anyone has a YAHOO! Group where they'd want me to give reports for record purposes- for the benefit of those who do not know to do this for themselves- I would be happy to do so. I do not have any significant ailment or condition that specifically needs to be handled by fasting- such as cancer or tumours, but wish to encourage those who do. I once had keloid scars on my face from a car accident (window glass exploded into my face). These unexpectedly vanished after a 10 day fast.

    2 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade ago
  • Is David Icke's claim true, that Reptilian Aliens have invaded, intermarried, and rule them?

    Carlos Castaneda was shown something similar, that non-Humans walk on our streets, holographically disguised as people, but can be exposed by their Life Energy-discriminating ESP.

    Konchock Penday, a breakaway (FREEZONE) Scientologist, has said that seeing Reptilian Aliens is a result of sloppy mind-expansion technique (and that there is nothing of the sort- it is just homegrown Human, perceived wrongly, and misdiagnosed).

    If David Icke's findings are actually correct, what can or should be done about it, if anything?

    16 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade ago
  • If there is no such thing as an invisible, intangible "spirit" or "soul" of Humans- WHERE is all memory stored?

    Every single perception we experienced in our lives can be retrieved via hypnosis, or meditative Total Recall practices (e.g. Los Nuevos Videntes "Recapitulation.") Where is this data stored? by the 1950s, it was realized that there is not enough space in the BRAIN to store more than three MONTHS' worth of memory. After that, it should be dumped, to make room for new memory.

    Robert A. Heinlein in his TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE novel speculated that the mind would get filled up after a couple of thousand years, so that people would have to delete experiences to make room.

    A recent IRON MAN Comic book story arc (DARK REIGN) had Tony Stark spending weeks and enormous discharges of electrical energy to delete classified information from his brain, so as to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. My point being that this represents the level of knowledge of conventionally educated people, who take for granted that the "55 Perceptics"

    . THE 55 PERCEPTICS (by L. Ron Hubbard's reckoning):

    1. Time; 2. Sight; 3. Taste; 4.Colour; 5. Solidity (Barriers); 6.Relative Sizes (External); 7.Sound; 8.Pitch; 9.Tone; 10.Volume; 11.Rhythm; 12.Smell (4 subdivisions); 13.Touch (4 subdivisions); Personal Emotion; 15.Endocrine States; 16.Awareness of Awareness; 17.Personal Size; 18.Organic sensation (including hunger); 19.Heartbeat; 20.Blood circulation; 21.Cellular and bacterial Position; 22.Gravitic (self and other weights); 23. Motion of Self; 24.Motion (exterior); 25.Body Position; 26.Joint Position; 27.Internal Temperature; 28.External Temperature; 29.Balance; 30.Muscular Tension; 31.Saline Content of Self (Body); 32.Fields (Magnetic); 33.Time Track Motion; 34.Physical Energy (weariness, etc.) 35.Self-Determinism (relative on each Dynamic); 36.Moisture (Self); 37.Sound Direction; 38.Emotional state of other Organs; 39.Personal Position on The Tone Scale; 40.Affinity (Self and others); 41.Communication (Self and others); 42.Reality (Self and others); 43.Emotional State of Groups; 44.Compass Direction; 45.Level of Consciousness; 46.Pain; 47.Perception of Conclusions (Past and Present); 48.perception of Computation (Past and Present); 49.Perception of Imagination (Past and Present); 50.Perception of Having Perceived (Past and Present); 51.Awareness of Not-Knowing; 52.Awareness of Importance, Unimportance; 53.Awareness of Others; 54.Awareness of Location and Placement a.Masses, b.Spaces, c.Location Itself; 55.Perception of Appetite (Problem covered under 17).

    CAN be, and ARE stored in the brain.

    Experiments that prove that memories can be accessed through the brain (by touching electrodes to certain areas of the cerebrum, eliciting memories in the person whose head has been cut open (BY LICENSED TRAINED SCIENTISTS! DO NOT TRY AT HOME!!!) are misinterpreted and misrepresented to make the public believe that ALL one's memory is stored in the brain.

    For instance, if you touch an electrode to one region, you might remember a symphony.

    Why doesn't this prove that every symphony you ever heard is stored in the brain?

    Very simple: WHERE ARE THEY? The entire region of ONE symphony is in an area the size of a fingernail. How many fingernails can you fit in the brain?

    How would the information be stored- ZIP files? DVD? (Whoever cracks that can become richer than Bill Gates and Steve Jobs combined!)

    But if the Spiritual Realm is the actual site of storage (Isaac Asimov speculated that a computer containing the sum total of all Human Knowledge in a galactic empire could be accessed through a computer the size of a balloon, but stored in "Hyperspace,") the brain merely accessed the data, and damage to the brain merely means that the lines to access the data are compromised, but the actual data itself is unaffected, and if alternate routes can be established, memory lost through chemical or physical brain damage can be completely restored.

    Does the Phenomenon of Long-Term Memory strongly suggest that the living Human organism extends far beyond the Physical Planes of Existence, and may be capable of surviving the loss of the physical "Meat Puppet" body?

    8 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade ago
  • Do modern discoveries in Cell Biology prove that literally Everlasting Life is possible through Jesus' Name?

    The cause of aging is a feature of the cell nucleus called the TELOMERE.

    Human cells are recopied every seven years, and a weakness of the mechanism is that it cannot copy the entire chromosome chains, so that a bit off the end is cut off with each replication. The Telomeres are pieces of the chain that are not needed, and can be sacrificed. This can happen seven times, before the valuable parts of the chromosomes are affected, so that the cells are no longer fully functional copies of their previous version.

    This causes the deteriorating condition known as aging.

    . MATTHEW 15:30-38.

    30. And great multitudes came unto him, having with them

    those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others,

    and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:

    31. Insomuch that the multitude wondered,

    when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole,

    the lame to walk, and the blind to see:

    and they Glorified the God of Israel.

    32. Then Jesus called his Disciples unto him, and said,

    "I have compassion on the multitude,

    because they continue with me now three days,

    and have nothing to eat:

    and I will not send them away fasting,

    lest they faint in the way."

    33. And his Disciples say unto him,

    "Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness,

    as to fill so great a multitude?"

    34. And Jesus saith unto them,

    "How many loaves have ye?"

    And they said,

    "Seven, and a few little fishes."

    35. And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.

    36. And he took the seven loaves and the fishes,

    and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples,

    and the Disciples to the multitude.

    37. And they did all eat, and were filled:

    and they took up of the broken meat that was left

    seven baskets full.

    38. And they that did eat were four thousand men,

    beside women and children.

    Since it is a fundamental Gospel Doctrine that the Power of God available through Jesus' Name can restore complex molecular and cellular structures- as would be necessary to instantaneously heal the maimed, or replicate food including (cooked!) carbohydrates and proteins exactly- if people knew what to ask for, is it any great stretch of imagination to understand that Divine Power can recreate telomeres INDEFINITELY?

    The Ancients through Medievals to the modern day all believed that this was a silly extravagant exaggeration, to believe that Jesus could confer LITERAL physical immortality. That God couldn't REALLY make a contemporary worshiper greater than all their predecessors, and make them literally immortal.

    . JOHN 8:47-53.

    47. "He that is of God heareth God's Words:

    ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God."

    48. Then answered the Jews, and said unto him,

    "Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan,

    and hast a Devil?"

    49. Jesus answered,

    "I have not a devil; but I honour my Father,

    and ye do dishonour me.

    50. And I seek not mine own glory:

    there is One that seeketh and judgeth.

    51. "Verily, verily, I say unto you,

    'If a man keep my Saying,

    he shall never taste of Death.' "

    52. Then said the Jews unto him,

    "Now we know that thou hast a devil.

    Abraham is dead, and the Prophets;

    and thou sayest,

    'If a man keep my saying,

    he shall never see death.'

    53. "Art thou greater than our father Abraham,

    which is dead?

    and the Prophets are dead:

    whom makest thou thyself?"

    The usual way Hyprocritical Christians pretend not to disbelieve The Gospel is to claim that Jesus really did not mean what he said literally, but that he meant something else.

    . MARK 11:20-24.

    20. And in the morning, as they passed by,

    they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.

    21. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him,

    "Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst

    is withered away."

    22. And Jesus answering saith unto them,

    "Have Faith in God.

    23. "For verily I say unto you,

    'That whosoever shall say unto this mountain,

    "Be thou removed,

    and be thou cast into the Sea;"

    and shall not doubt in his heart,

    but shall believe that those things

    which he saith shall come to pass;

    he shall have whatsoever he saith.'

    24. "Therefore I say unto you,

    'What things soever ye desire,

    when ye pray, believe that ye receive them,

    and ye shall have them.' "

    What that means is that God, Jesus' Name, and Jesus do not have The Power to supply or manifest exactly what we believe and say. In that case, who does have that Power, and shouldn't we be worshiping him instead of God, if God's Covenants fall short of what Humans really need most of all (and waste our time)?

    The other method of hiding Unbelief is to say that "In a long Time from Now, in a Universe far, far away (The logic of: "If we push it far enough away, it won't pain us any more!")

    12 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade ago
  • Do you believe God heals today, but that those Christians who believe they can become Immortal are stupid?

    Kenneth E. Hagin, in his unfortunately-named Message: MOUNTAIN-MOVING FAITH, called those who believed that a Christian could receive more than Divine Healing, and become literally Immortal in their physical bodies "Never-Die Folks." He said, (I heard the tape with my own ears):

    "You ever seen one of those "Stoops?" (Laughter.) -because that's what they are- STUPID."

    Kenneth E. Hagin suffered from three terminal conditions and was not expected to reach the age 16.

    He practically re-discovered the principles of Faith, and founded the Faith Movement in Pentecostal Christianity. Actually, there were others- but nothing like him. he went to Heaven with Jesus (spiritually,) and received a unique Healing Gift that would heal ONLY those who believed his testimony.

    He was saved only because he was raised from the dead at the very brink of Hell itself. (He saw Hell, and was entering it.) He died as many as three times, and was raised from the dead. He performed every sort of Healing, including instantaneous cure of cancer. (During one service, he said the Lord commanded him to hit one woman in the stomach with his fist. He had to stop and explain what he was about to do to the congregation. He said that he then obeyed the Command, and the woman's cancer vanished like a ballon deflating. This was apparently a one-off. At other times, a super-anointing would come upon him, which he could bear for only a few moments, and so he ran down the healing line, touching each petitioner as he passed, and they instantly collapsed "falling Under The Power," and each got up, saved, filled with the Holy Ghost, Healed, whichever was appropriate.)

    I found it very painful to hear Kenneth Hagin inflicting verbal abuse persecution upon fellow Christians for no other crime than to Believe God more than he did, and to believe his teaching, that he had made millions of dollars in offerings preaching, "YOU CAN HAVE WHAT YOU SAY- Mark 11:23,24."

    He further testified to having discouraged a "Never-Die" Believer out of his Belief.

    The Belief in Immortality is to those who believe in Divine Healing and Miracles are available by Faith in Jesus' Name are to those who "Believe in Jesus" but that the days of miraculous manifestations died with the Apostles. We Pentecostals were taught that those who believed that Holy Ghost baptism was no longer for today were suffering from blindness, and were to be pitied and educated where possible, and could one day come to understand where they made the mistake. Kenneth E. Hagin, who reported going to Heaven and seeing God on His Throne declared and imposed a limitation on Faith, just as other "Christian Authorities" did before and after him, condemining those who believed more and better than he did.

    Do you believe in the reliable and manifestation of Divine Healing and Miracles as a Divine Right of every Christian, but that any other Christian who believes that they can become Invulnerable and even Immortal to be fools, and asking what they have no right?

    9 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade ago
  • Why would members of Righteousness Religions permit their Governments to use Sinful methods to do their jobs?

    The American Federal Government for one routinely uses sinful and even criminal methods in the course of performing its "duties." Its elected officials up to even the presidential level have been known to lie. In some cases, assassination appears to have been used. "Minor" sins and offenses such as trespassing, threatening, verbal abuse, physical battery, and obstruction, have been known to happen. People have been subjected to kidnapping and false imprisonment, while law-enforcement officers have perjured themselves under oath, to convict people they decided were guilty.

    The CIA is forbidden to operate within the borders of its own country. Why? Even because many of its methods are criminal in any civilized nation. Then there is the despicable practice of "Undercover Investigation," which has been so glamorized in the media. I am always sickened when the shows come on showing how the "clever" police officer, or secret agent, lies their way into the confidence of the Bad Guys, even committing crimes with them- which can include murder, to prove their bonafides. In order to catch the criminals, we are told, the law-enforcer has to become a criminal.

    What then, is the point of fighting crime, if crime can be justified, if it does what we want?

    If the evidence that someone is a criminal is not apparent, why look for it? Why is that so important?

    Why is such a sloppy job of enforcing existing laws done, that breaking the law to supposedly uphold the law becomes justifiable? If Police and Secret Agents cannot do their jobs by being morally upright and law-abiding by the same standard civilians are expected to live by, why not fire them and replace them with people who are competent and honest?

    7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade ago
  • Were The New Seers correct in claiming that all Humans fall into one of three personality types, only?

    In THE POWER OF SILENCE, Don Juan Matus and Carlos Castaneda have this conversation:

    >>>"Stalkers who practice controlled folly believe that, in matters of personality, the entire human

    race falls into three categories," he said, and smiled the way he always did when he was setting

    me up.

    "That's absurd," I protested. "Human behavior is too complex to be categorized so simply."

    "Stalkers say that we are not so complex as we think we are," he said, "and that we all belong

    to one of three categories."

    I laughed out of nervousness. Ordinarily I would have taken such a statement as a joke, but

    this time, because my mind was extremely clear and my thoughts were poignant, I felt he was

    indeed serious.

    "Are you serious?" I asked, as politely as I could.

    "Completely serious," he replied, and began to laugh.

    His laughter relaxed me a little. And he continued explaining the stalkers' system of

    classification. He said that people in the first class are the perfect secretaries, assistants,

    companions. They have a very fluid personality, but their fluidity is not nourishing. They are,

    however, serviceable, concerned, totally domestic, resourceful within limits, humorous, wellmannered, sweet, delicate. In other words, they are the nicest people one could find, but they have one huge flaw: they can't function alone. They are always in need of someone to direct them.

    With direction, no matter how strained or antagonistic that direction might be, they are

    stupendous. By themselves, they perish.

    People in the second class are not nice at all. They are petty, vindictive, envious, jealous, selfcentered. They talk exclusively about themselves and usually demand that people conform to

    their standards. They always take the initiative even though they are not comfortable with it. They

    are thoroughly ill at ease in every situation and never relax. They are insecure and are never

    pleased; the more insecure they become the nastier they are. Their fatal flaw is that they would

    kill to be leaders.

    In the third category are people who are neither nice nor nasty. They serve no one, nor do they

    impose themselves on anyone. Rather they are indifferent. They have an exalted idea about

    themselves derived solely from daydreams and wishful thinking. If they are extraordinary at

    anything, it is at waiting for things to happen. They are waiting to be discovered and conquered

    and have a marvelous facility for creating the illusion that they have great things in abeyance,

    which they always promise to deliver but never do because, in fact, they do not have such

    resources.<<<

    Is there any truth to this claim?

    Does it have any practical application?

    For instance, if it is true, and were used to evaluate, say, politicians- you could tell whether someone you elected was going to turn into Ghandi or Hitler, based on their past record.

    You could use it to analyze historical figures, and prove that they were either true to their inescapable personality group, or tried to suppress or disguise it by aberrative or arbitrary means, where they reverted to type in situations where it did not seem to matter.

    3 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade ago
  • Is there anyone here who understands and believes in The Three Realms/Levels of Knowledge?

    This is a question for people who have no problem spending serial hours praying and meditating.

    This is a question for people who have no problem going serial days without eating to understand God.

    This is not a question for people who have neither religion nor spirituality.

    This is not a question for people whose Attention span and Intellectual Capacity does not exceed 5 lines.

    This is a question for people who have Religion and Spirituality- whose minds have developed.

    . THE THREE ORDERS OF KNOWLEDGE Carlos Castaneda

    1. FIRST ATTENTION: This is what the common Atheists know, and believe to be the boundaries of Reality. It should be remembered that we take for granted many things our recent ancestors never knew existed, or were possible.

    . 1st CORINTHIANS 2:14.

    14. But the Natural Man receiveth not

    The Things of the Spirit of God:

    for they are Foolishness unto him:

    neither can he Know them,

    because they are spiritually discerned.

    2. SECOND ATTENTION: The awareness of the spiritual on all Levels of Existence. Namely:

    . THE SIX LEVELS OF EXISTENCE by L. Ron Hubbard

    1. Beliefs; 2. Thoughts; 3. Words; 4. Physical Actions;

    5. Postulates; 6. Total Understanding.

    EVERY CHRISTIAN is supposed to exhibit the same spiritual Powers Jesus had- NOW in this time.

    . JOHN 14:12.

    12. "Verily, verily, I say unto you,

    'He that believeth on me,

    the works that I do shall he do also;'

    and greater works than these shall he do;

    because I go unto my Father."

    IT IS BECAUSE of the extreme wickedness of the False Christian Clergy that Christians rarely attain anywhere near their full potential.

    PSALM 82:6-7.

    6. I have said,

    "Ye are gods;"

    and all of you are Children of The Most High.

    7. But ye shall die like men,

    and fall like one of the princes.

    3. THIRD ATTENTION: The Knowledge of things which can only be known by literal Immortals- whose souls are resilient and coherent enough to withstand any sort of data which would destroy a lesser soul.

    What Moses released to his people is superceded by what Jesus disclosed to us:

    EXODUS 33:17-20.

    17. And the LORD said unto Moses,

    "I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken:

    for thou hast found grace in My Sight,

    and I know thee by name.

    18. And he said,

    "I beseech thee, shew me Thy Glory."

    19. And He said,

    "I will make all My Goodness pass before thee,

    and I will proclaim The Name of the LORD before thee;

    and will be Gracious to whom I will be Gracious,

    and will shew Mercy on whom I will shew Mercy."

    20. And He said,

    "Thou canst not see My Face:

    for there shall no Man see Me, and live."

    JOHN 8:51-53.

    51. "Verily, verily, I say unto you,

    'IF A MAN KEEP MY SAYING,

    HE SHALL NEVER SEE DEATH.' "

    52. Then said the Jews unto him,

    "Now we know that thou hast a devil.

    Abraham is dead, and the Prophets;

    and thou sayest,

    'IF A MAN KEEP MY SAYING,

    HE SHALL NEVER TASTE OF DEATH.'

    53. "Art thou greater than our father Abraham,

    which is dead?

    and the Prophets are dead:

    whom makest thou thyself?"

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  • If a functionally illiterate village carpenter could do with his brain what The HADRON Supercollider cannot do?

    is "Science" not leading us on a "Wild Goose Chase," overlooking Bison in our backyard, so to speak?

    . MATTHEW 15:30-38.

    30. And great multitudes came unto him, having with them

    those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others,

    and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:

    31. Insomuch that the multitude wondered,

    when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole,

    the lame to walk, and the blind to see:

    and they Glorified the God of Israel.

    32. Then Jesus called his Disciples unto him, and said,

    "I have compassion on the multitude,

    because they continue with me now three days,

    and have nothing to eat:

    and I will not send them away fasting,

    lest they faint in the way."

    33. And his Disciples say unto him,

    "Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness,

    as to fill so great a multitude?"

    34. And Jesus saith unto them,

    "How many loaves have ye?"

    And they said,

    "Seven, and a few little fishes."

    35. And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.

    36. And he took the seven loaves and the fishes,

    and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples,

    and the Disciples to the multitude.

    37. And they did all eat, and were filled:

    and they took up of the broken meat that was left

    seven baskets full.

    38. And they that did eat were four thousand men,

    beside women and children.

    (Note that these legendary miracles have been duplicated in recent times.)

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  • Why don't educated Christians employ The Holy Ghost to enhance their education?

    Since Jesus explicitly promised:

    . JOHN 16:7-15.

    7. "Nevertheless I tell you The Truth;

    'It is expedient for you that I go away:

    for if I go not away,

    The Comforter will not come unto you;'

    but if I depart, I will send Him unto you.

    8. "And when He is come,

    He will reprove the World of Sin, a

    nd of Righteousness, and of Judgment:

    9. "Of Sin, because they believe not on me;

    10. "Of Righteousness, because I go to my Father,

    and ye see me no more;

    11. "Of Judgment, because the Prince of this World is Judged.

    12. "I have yet many things to say unto you,

    but ye cannot bear them now.

    13. "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come,

    He will guide you into all Truth:

    for He shall not speak of Himself;

    but whatsoever He shall hear,

    that shall He speak:

    and He will shew you things to come.

    14. "He shall glorify me: for He shall receive of mine,

    and shall shew It unto you.

    15. "All things that the Father hath are mine:

    therefore said I,

    'That he shall take of mine,

    and shall shew it unto you.' "

    There is this Christian Legend of a year when a zealous Christian Undergraduate was in some crucial exam, and- his mind was a blank! For the life of him, he could not fathom the questions set.

    Finally, he recalled all the sermons on Faith he had sat through, and hit the paper, snarling,

    "In the Name of Jesus,

    REVEAL your Secrets!"

    It was as if his ears popped from pressure, and he heard as if it were a dictation, reciting the answers he could not bring to mind. He wrote what he heard, and he passed the paper, handily.

    One of Carlos Castaneda's disciples wrote in one of her books how one of her teachers simply rattled off a very learned monologue, as if he had sat advanced courses in university.

    He had not, so she asked how it was possible for him to talk like that, and he explained that his ESP could *see* her connection to those subjects, like cobweb lines connecting to her.

    He was able to tap in to those communication lines, and so he was able to sound as if he actually knew anything about those subjects himself- which he did not.

    Jesus exhibited a similar level of learnedness himself:

    . JOHN 7:14-18.

    14. Now about the midst of the feast

    Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

    15. And the Jews marvelled, saying,

    "How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?"

    16. Jesus answered them, and said,

    "My Doctrine is not mine, but His that sent me.

    17. "If any man will do His Will,

    he shall know of the Doctrine,

    whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

    18. "He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory:

    but he that seeketh His Glory that sent him,

    the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him."

    He was depicted as being able to do that, even as a young child:

    . LUKE 2:41-52.

    41. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year

    at the Feast of the Passover.

    42. And when he was twelve years old,

    they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the Feast.

    43. And when they had fulfilled the days,

    as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem;

    and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.

    44. But they, supposing him to have been in the company,

    went a day's journey; and they sought him

    among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.

    45. And when they found him not,

    they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.

    46. And it came to pass, that after three days

    they found him in the Temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors,

    both hearing them, and asking them questions.

    47. And all that heard him were astonished

    at his understanding and answers.

    48. And when they saw him, they were amazed:

    and his mother said unto him,

    "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us?

    behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing."

    49. And he said unto them,

    "How is it that ye sought me?

    wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?"

    50. And they understood not the saying

    which he spake unto them.

    51. And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth,

    and was subject unto them:

    but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

    52. And Jesus increased in Wisdom and Stature,

    and in favour with God and man.

    Yet most Christians are content to let supposed "Atheists," "Pagans" and Nominal Christians from "wrong" Denominations make all the scientific, technical, and intellectual advances.

    Shouldn't there be at least one instance of a Spiritual Christian man, woman, or child, who received a prophecy, or saw a vision, and from it brought some new knowledge, device, or technique into the World, that was hitherto unheard-of?

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