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Living With The Himalayan Masters By Swami Rama

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"IN THIS INSPIRATIONAL COLLECTION OF STORIES SWAMI RAMA RELATES HIS EXPERIENCES WITH THE GREAT TEACHERS WHO GUIDED HIS LIFE, INCLUDING TAGORE, MAHATMA GANDHI, SRI AUROBINDO, AND RAMANA MAHARSHI. LIVING WITH THE HIMALAYAN MASTERS DOCUMENTS SWAMI RAMA'S SPIRITUAL QUEST, WHICH SHOWED HIM THAT DIRECT EXPERIENCE IS THE SOURCE OF REAL KNOWLEDGE."

"I WILL TELL YOU HOW I GREW UP AND HOW I WAS TRAINED, ABOUAT THE GREAT SAGES WITH WHOM I LIVED AND WHAT THEY TAUGHT ME, NOT THROUGH LECTURES AND BOOKS BUT THROUGH EXPERIENCES," WRITES SRI SWAMI RAMA IN THE OPENING PAGES OF THIS TIMELESS SAGA."

"THESE STORIES RECORD HIS PERSONAL QUEST FOR TRUTH AND ENLIGHTENMENT. INSPIRING, ILLUMINATING, ENTERTAINING, MYSTIFYING, AND FREQUENTLY DROLL AND HUMOROUS, THEY BRING YOU FACE-TO-FACE WITH SOME GREAT HIMALAYAN MASTERS INCLUDING MATAJI OF ASSAM - A NINETY-SIX YEAR OLD LADY SAGE WHO NEVER SLEPT; GUDARI BABA, WHO TAUGHT SWAMI RAMA THE VALUE OF DIRECT EXPERIENCE; YOGI SRI AUROBINDO, WHO INTEGRATED MEDITATION WITH ACTION; URIA BABA, WHO TEACHES THAT EVERY HUMAN BEING HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR HEALING; MAHATMA GANDHI, THE FATHER OF THE NATION."

CONTENTS:"INTRODUCTION BY PANDIT RAJMANI TIGUNAIT"AT THY LOTUS FEET- SRI SWAMI RAMA"MAP OF NORTHERN INDIA"MAP OF UTTAR PRADESH"SPIRITUAL EDUCATION IN THE HIMALAYAS"THE MASTER TEACHES"THE PATH OF DIRECT EXPERIENCE"LEARNING HUMILITY"CONQUERING FEAR"THE PATH OF RENUNCIATION"EXPERIENCES ON VARIOUS PATHS"BEYOND THE GREAT RELIGIONS"DIVINE PROTECTION"POWERS OF THE MIND"HEALING POWER"GRACE OF THE MASTER"MASTERY OVER LIFE AND DEATH"JOURNEY TO THE WEST"GLOSSARY"ABOUT THE AUTHOR."

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Spiritual Relationship How To Have A Great One With God

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HOW TO HAVE A GREAT SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD BY CONTROLLING YOUR EMOTIONS?. SO BELOVED OF GOD, YOU WANT TO OPEN YOUR LOVE AND YOUR HEART TO GOD DAILY IN ALL YOU DO. BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN UNEXPLAINABLE THINGS THAT SEEM TO HAPPEN TO YOU AND IN YOUR LIFE CONSTANTLY, AND THEY KEEP DRAGGING YOU DOWN - THEY KEEP MESSING UP YOUR PLANS - AND THEY KEEP MESSING UP YOUR FAMILY. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU KNOW YOU HAVE OPENED UP YOUR SPIRIT, AND YOU HAVE PRAYED TO GOD, YOU HAVE BLESSED HIS NAME, YOU HAVE BEEN GRATEFUL TO HIM AND YOU HAVE HONORED GOD. AND THEN LIFE AND THIS UNIVERSE BOTH LEAVE YOU PERPLEXED AS TO WHY THESE BAD THINGS KEEP HAPPENING TO YOU.

BUT TODAY I WILL SHARE WITH YOU 3 EASY STEPS TO TO LEARN AND USE TO CONTROL YOUR EMOTIONS, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHEN BAD THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO YOU AND KEEP ON HAPPENING. WHICH ULTIMATELY MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE FAITH IN GOD AND THEN YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD WILL STOP. NO BELOVED, I CAN NOT LET THAT HAPPEN TO YOU. FOR YOU AND I BOTH NEED GOD TOO MUCH IN OUR LIVES AS WE CONTINUE TO PROCEED ON OUR PRE - DESTINED JOURNEY AS SPIRIT BEINGS IN THIS PHYSICAL DIMENSION. LET US BEGIN:

STEP 1. NEGATIVE EMOTIONS ARE SIGNALS FOR ACTION.

ALL NEGATIVE EMOTIONS THAT YOU FEEL AND EXPERIENCE ARE ALWAYS A CAUSE OR AN ALARM BEING SOUNDED FOR YOU TAKE ACTIONS, AND TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE INTERNALLY AND THEN EXTERNALLY FROM THE SOURCE WHERE IT CAME FROM. WHEN SOMETHING BAD HAPPEN TO YOU, IT IS USUALLY YOUR PERCEPTION AND YOUR UNDERSTANDING IN THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT THAT GIVES A BAD FEELING OF ANGER, OF SADNESS AND OF LOSS. BUT I MUST ASK YOU TO RECALL BELOVED: HOW MANY TIMES HAVE SOMETHING HAPPENED TO YOU IN THE PAST AND YOU THOUGHT IT WAS THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO YOU?. AND YET SOON AFTER IN THE NEAR FUTURE, YOU THEN REALIZE THAT THIS THING WAS THE BEST THING THAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO YOU. SO WHY IS THAT YOU ASK?. IT IS BECAUSE OF YOUR PERCEPTION AND WHAT THIS THING MEAN TO YOU AT THAT TIME, BEFORE AND AFTERWARD. ALSO WHEN YOU HAVE A SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, YOU MUST ALWAYS KEEP IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD THAT WHATEVER HAPPEN WILL HAVE TO PLAY ITSELF OUT FOR YOU TO FULLY SEE WHAT IT WAS SENT FOR OR INTENDED TO DO IN YOUR LIFE. SO FOR STEP ONE, YOU MUST ALWAYS RESERVE JUDGMENT ON ANY SITUATION, ESPECIALLY NEGATIVE ONES. INSTEAD FOCUS ON TAKING ACTIONS TO DEAL WITH IT. WHETHER IT WAS SOMETHING YOU DID THAT IS CATCHING UP WITH YOU, OR YOU ARE A VICTIM OF SOMEONE ELSE ' S EVIL WAYS. REMEMBER, THE PAIN AND THE BAD SITUATION WILL CONTINUE TO STAY THERE UNTIL YOU DEAL WITH IT. AND GOD AND THE UNIVERSE ARE NOT YOUR ENEMIES.

STEP 2. NOTHING IN LIFE HAS ANY MEANING EXCEPT WHAT YOU ASSIGN TO IT.

IN YOUR SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIPS AND CONTROLLING YOUR EMOTIONS, YOU HAVE TO REALIZE THAT EVERYTHING THAT HAPPEN IN YOUR LIFE DOWN HERE, HAS NO MEANING AT ALL. EXCEPT THE MEANING AND THE PERCEPTION THAT YOU GIVE TO IT WITH YOUR VERY LIMITED UNDERSTANDING. FOR WHATEVER YOU FOCUS ON WILL EXPAND AND REALITY IS WHATEVER YOU LET YOUR BRAIN WHICH IS INFERIOR, TO TELL YOUR SOUL AND YOUR SPIRIT WHICH ARE SUPERIOR. FOR EXAMPLE YOU HAVE HEARD MANY TIMES " MIND OVER MATTER ", AND HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU SEEN PEOPLE WALK ON FIERY HOT COALS, OR LAY ON A BED OF NAILS OR EVEN ALLOW SNAKES TO BITE THEM. ASK YOURSELF, WHAT IS THEIR PERCEPTION OF THOSE PARTICULAR THINGS?. SINCE THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME BODY YOU DO AND YET THEY DO NOT DIE. OR YOU'VE ALSO HEARD SOME PEOPLE SAY: " ME LOSING EVERYTHING WAS THE BEST THING THAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO ME, BECAUSE THAT CAUSED ME TO BECOME RELENTLESS - FOCUS - AND PURPOSE DRIVEN ". SO AGAIN YOU SEE THAT NOTHING HAS ANY REAL MEANING EXCEPT THE MEANING THAT YOU GIVE TO IT. FOR, RICH - POOR, SAD - JOY ARE ALL THE SAME TO THE UNIVERSE.

STEP 3. DON'T ALWAYS READ INTO THINGS

AND I CAN'T TELL YOU BELOVED HOW MANY TIMES PEOPLE HAVE FALLEN INTO THIS TRAP, AND MADE THE BIGGEST MISTAKES OF THEIR LIVES DOWN HERE WHILE ON THEIR SPIRITUAL JOURNEY. AND THOSE TIMES HAVE AFFECTED THEIR SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH GOD FOR A LONG TIME. SO PLEASE DON'T, AND STOP READING INTO THINGS AS THEY HAPPEN TO YOU, BECAUSE WHAT YOU THINK IS BAD NOW WILL BECOME GOOD FOR YOU; AND WHAT YOU THINK IS GOOD NOW IS USUALLY A SET UP BY THE PRINCIPALITIES AND THE POWERS WHO ARE USING NEGATIVE ENERGIES TO TRY TO MESS UP YOUR SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ONLY SOURCE, GOD. SO IF YOU CHOOSE TO GIVE MEANING TO SOMETHING, GIVE IT POSITIVE MEANING AND USE IT AS LESSON TO EMPOWER YOU TO BE BETTER - STRONGER - WISER AND MORE ENLIGHTENED. WHEN GOD IS FOR YOU, WHO CAN BE AGAINST YOU?; AND BELIEVE ME EVEN DURING YOUR WORST HE WILL NEVER LEAVE OR FORSAKE YOU. THAT MEANS HE IS ALWAYS FOR YOU, AND UNDERSTAND THIS BELOVED, GOD CAN NOT BE AGAINST YOUR SPIRIT OR DISOWN THAT SPIRIT. HE CAN ONLY BE AGAINST YOUR BODY, THE FLESH. FOR YOU SEE ONCE GOD MADE YOU AS A SPIRIT BEING, HE CARVED OUT A PIECE OF HIMSELF BY BREATHING HIS HOLY SPIRIT IN YOU. AND ONE MORE BREAKDOWN TO HELP YOU: TAKE THE MIRROR IN YOUR BEDROOM AND SHATTER IT ON THE GROUND. NOW WOULD YOU SAY THAT EACH OF THE THOUSAND PIECES ARE DIFFERENT MIRRORS?, OR WOULD YOU SAY I AM PICKING UP A PIECE OF THAT MIRROR THAT WAS IN MY BEDROOM. BY NOW DO YOU SEE THAT GOD IS NEVER AGAINST YOU WHEN THINGS HAPPEN, IT IS ONLY YOU WHO GIVE A MEANING TO THAT THING, CALL IT BAD AND THEN BLAME GOD.

SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIPS, HOW TO HAVE A GREAT ONE WITH GOD BY CONTROLLING YOUR EMOTIONS. SO TO RECAP: 1 - NEGATIVE EMOTIONS ARE ACTION SIGNALS TO USE TO TAKE ACTIONS. 2 - NOTHING IN LIFE HAS ANY MEANING, EXCEPT WHAT YOU ASSIGN TO IT. AND 3 - DON'T ALWAYS READ INTO THINGS, FOR YOU DON'T KNOW. AND IF YOU CAN KEEP ON USING THESE 3 THINGS, THEN YOU SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH GOD WILL BE EVEN GREATER THAT THE ONES THE PROPHETS AND APOSTLES HAD. JAMES DAZOULOUTE

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Numerology The Number 1 And Its Spiritual Challenges And Benefits

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By Scott Petullo and Stephen Petullo

The switch off 1 and 7 may be the loneliest switch off. Fortunately, 7 has its other-dimensional beings with which to hamlet, as well as its books, writings, mystical revelations, and other such characteristic areas of become to slouch it jolly.

1, silent, basic outlook at least possible infrequent isolation and soul a colorless concern, its honest definite is daydream, resourcefulness, goals, projects, every-day odd jobs, and magical principles. The unconsciousness at self don't do well with 1. In fact, a lot is demanded of 1, and they, in turn, demand a lot from others.

Big 1 timing, especially in the past stuffing 6 or 3, for typical case, consistently trees civilization adore secluded and by yourself, forcing them to abide weary provision to rid themselves of the adore that they post on a stark islet. Emotively, even if someone with excessive 1 timing surrounds themselves with loved ones, they are the makings to calm perceive personally. On the luminous align, soul obligated to go it personally or start dull has its advantages, and self-love in due course triumphs, as the 1 is a gossip teacher in this way.

Inhabitants committed slow down, taxing 1 timing, which is put as worrying by the natal configurations and, or socialist timing indicators, basic good posture on to that which they support in, despite antithetical views from easily about someone, in the midst of those next to them.

Moderately of resenting the illness, it's best to thank others for allotment to stiffen their resolution. As the numerology patterns unkind private doom and kismet, the actual lessons are what help you to recognize your global payment.

Good timing constantly changes in due course, so if you don't hope yours now, you leave at some appreciate in the complex, even if it's not until your bearing in mind incarnation. Detain out about your basic numerology timing and anywhere you clutch 1 in your basic charts, if at all, with our Numerology Decoder software.

Whether it's found in the natal charts or timing charts, on the high align, an worthy of 1 is constantly linked to large number, independence, courage, unusual and impudent action, and neatly going one's own way.

The strong, balanced, perfectly 1 is so sure, hardened, and has such invaluable be conveyed, energy, and adroitness, that he or she offers the uncommon and strange, even dire. It consistently magically becomes the voted for set for example link celebrates their phenomenon very of ridiculing their daring.

Naught beats the 1, other than the 8 from time to time (or the nearby 5 sometimes), but 8's well-off and war practices, bully-tactics and karma-inducing behavior sends it to the end of the line for example 1 takes the tiara. That is, if 1 isn't pulling resemblance turns in the air, which it has been broadcast to do behind in a for example.

Distressed is the negligent 1, which can be an under-balanced 19/1 (19 soul a Karmic Cost concern), routed with cause for anxiety and insecurity, ceaselessly worldly for a shut in in life. It basic turn inward, combat to breather its issues, dock all that it is, stance looking for approval out-of-doors of itself, endure its fix on and carry that it can't satisfy someone.

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Absolute period 1 can be the loneliest concern, the energy of 1 is everything new, it's the hammer that gets the job done, and it's the raw determination that earns earn, against all probability.

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Hands 5Th In Series

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A long time ago He lived, your Christ and mine. What were His hands like?

The Bible does not give answers to such a question, but let your imagination give you some answers.

The hands of Christ? Certainly they were not those of a bully, administering a beating to someone weak and defenseless.

The hands of a thief? Not our giving, forgiving, loving Jesus. The hands of a carpenter making sure a job was always finished in proper fashion and on time? I have no doubt.

Hands helping Him to climb a mountain, there to be tempted.

Hands healing the sick and maimed. Hands reaching out with compassion toward a woman of adultery. In an upper room, His hands washing the feet of the Disciples and then gently holding the bread as He said to them, "This is my body which is broken for you." And holding the cup as He said, "This is my blood spilled for you." And by those hands, one day He hung on a cross.

Why is all of this not enough to move the lives of each who worships Christ?

Because religion, for some is an experiment, rather than an experience. A wrestling match within, without conclusion.

He was going to be all a mortal man would be - tomorrow.No one should be better or kinder than he - tomorrow.The greatest of workers, this man would be - tomorrow. But the fact is he died, and faded from view.And all that he left here when living was through,Was a mountain of things he intended to do - tomorrow.

Have you ever felt a deep and wondrous longing to do something more?

Be something more? And then, as you began to count the cost, you became afraid so you simply lay down until the thought finally went away?

The next time you have that feeling, treat the world better by treating yourself better.

Be willing to sow each marvelous, positive, God-inspired mental meandering so that you can reap a habit and then a character and finally a destiny of which both you and your Lord can be proud.

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Cnn Easter Bashing Goes Laughably Awry

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CNN's annual "Bash Christianity on Easter" story is crazier than usual.

This year, they ran an article entitled The Jesus Debate: Man vs. Myth. On one side were John Dominic Crossan and Bart Ehrman, who deny the physical Resurrection. On the other side, are folks like (self-proclaimed "spiritual pioneer") Timothy Freke who go even further, and deny that Jesus "even existed". They don't just deny Easter, they deny Christmas.

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Raphael, The Resurrection of Christ" (1502)

That's right: the Resurrection-denying side was "the closest thing to orthodoxy" in this debate, at least for the first forty paragraphs (literally). Around the forty-seventh paragraph, they finally quote Prof. Craig A. Evans, who explains that Jesus of Nazareth existed. He is literally the first and only Christian source quoted. And the only thing they use Evans for is to provide some quotes saying that Jesus exists -- you wouldn't be able to tell from the context whether or not Evans even believes in the Resurrection.

So CNN's idea of a balanced article commemorating Easter is to depict the debate as between those who deny the Resurrection and those who deny the entirety of the Gospels. It's hard to know what to describe this as, if not flagrant bias, particularly when it's coupled by this sort of editorializing:

Those who argue against the existence of Jesus say they aren't trying to destroy people's faith.

"I don't have any desire to upset people," says Freke. "I do have a passion for the truth.... I don't think rational people in the 20th century can go down a road just on blind faith."

Yet Easter was never just about rationale.

The Easter stories about the resurrection are strange: Disciples don't recognize Jesus as they meet him on the road; he tells someone not to touch him; he eats fish in another.Those last two paragraphs are apparently from the reporter (CNN writer John Blake) himself, explaining that since we believers don't really care about things like reason, we can still cling to our faith.

I. WHAT DOES THE SCHOLARSHIP ACTUALLY SAY?

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Lorenzo Costa, The Holy Family" (1490)

I could sort of understand this false balance if the scholarly debate really was split between those two Easter-denying camps. But that's not the case at all. Professor Evans describes the state of academia in his book, "Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels" (p. 220):

NOT LONG AGO TOM HARPUR'S "THE PAGAN CHRIST" CREATED A SENSATION BY PRESENTING IN NEW FORM THE ODD NOTION THAT JESUS DID NOT EXIST. I SAY ODD BECAUSE ALMOST NO SERIOUS ACADEMIC - OF ANY IDEOLOGICAL, RELIGIOUS OR NONRELIGIOUS STRIPE - DOUBTS THAT JESUS OF NAZARETH ACTUALLY LIVED some time in the first century and was crucified by order of Pontious Pilate, governor of Judea. THE EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF JESUS - LITERARY, ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL - IS OVERWHELMING.The agnostic Bart Ehrman is even more blunt. CNN reports his reaction this way:

Most Jesus deniers are Internet kooks, says Bart D. Ehrman, a New Testament scholar who recently released a book devoted to the question called "Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth."That is, almost every scholar acknowledges that Jesus existed, and the debate is over whether or not He rose from the dead. But CNN wants to recast it so that every scholar accepts that Jesus "didn't "rise from the dead, and the debate is over whether or not He even existed.

They go digging through the dregs pretty far to find someone who will say this, too. In a follow-up post, they described the article as a "story on a small cadre of authors challenging the existence of Jesus Christ." So CNN sought out, not "scholars," not "experts," but "a small cadre" of "authors," just to find somebody who would deny that Jesus existed.

II. DOES AN ANCIENT AMULET DISPROVE CHRISTIANITY?

Don't get me wrong: plenty of folks outside of academia have had invaluable insights into the Gospels. But shouldn't we expect to find "some" sort of expertise from the folks that CNN dug up?

Instead, we get another regurgitation of the long-discredited idea that the Gospels are just a retelling of pagan myths. No one who has actually read the Gospels and the pagan myths in question could seriously claim this, and I've previously criticized the sloppy methodology behind these claims, showing that they could just as easily "prove" that Gandhi didn't exist.

But let's look at the specific "evidence" that gets trotted out for the CNN piece. The article opens by talking about how Freke decided Jesus didn't exist after reading an old book with a picture of "a drawing of a third-century amulet" of "Osiris-Dionysus, a pagan god in ancient Mediterranean culture" on a cross in a very Christological manner.

The drawing that allegedly

disproves Christianity.

It's hard to know where to begin. First of all, the drawing in question (depicted on the left) doesn't claim to be of "Osiris-Dionysus" but of "Orpheus" and Dionysus (also known as Bacchus). This mistake is embarrassing, since the drawing has (Orpheus Bacchus) "written on it".

And "Osiris-Dionysus" wasn't "a pagan god in ancient Mediterranean culture." These were two separate gods from different cultures. Osiris was the Egyptian god of the dead, and Dionysus was the Greek god of wine. And Orpheus wasn't another name for Osiris or Dionysus, or any other god, for that matter. Rather, it's the name of a mythical Greek prophet and storyteller. In Greek mythology, Orpheus was killed by Dionysus. So the idea that Osiris, Orpheus, and Dionysus are all one god is off to a... rocky start, to say the least.

There's also the fact that the now-lost amulet was ALMOST CERTAINLY A FORGERY. The German epigrapher Otto Kern, who initially promoted the amulet as authentic, recanted in the face of the evidence, a fact that Freke's coauthor Peter Gandy has acknowledged. In Kern's words, the amulet "is almost certainly a fake." For example, the bent knees in the depiction of the Crucifixion is characteristic of later Medieval art, not art from late antiquity. But since the only evidence of the amulet's existence is the line drawing, it's impossible to know for sure.

So let's overlook all of that for a moment. Assume that the amulet "was" authentic, and that it actually "did "depict Dionysus (or Osiris, or Orpheus, or "Osiris-Dionysus") in a very Christ-like pose. What does this prove, exactly? By Kerns' own telling, the amulet is supposed to be from the THIRD CENTURY A.D.

Did time-travelling Christians steal this image to construct the story of Jesus? Because the Crucifixion of Christ was a pretty central part of Christianity from the FIRST century. You might as well point to Kanye West's obnoxious "Rolling Stone "cover as proof that the Gospels were based off of rap music.

Theophanes the Cretan,

"Justin the Philosopher" (1546)

Perhaps a more lucid conclusion from those facts would be that later Christological depictions of Messianic pretenders (from pagan gods to Kanye West) are modeled off of a very Christian understanding of what a Messiah looks like. That is, even a pagan living in the Christianized West hears "Messiah" and thinks of Jesus, and it's natural that art should reflect this.

In fact, we know from St. Justin Martyr's writings (c. 180 A.D.) that the pagans DIDN'T HAVE crucified depictions of their gods:

But in no instance, not even in any of those called sons of Jupiter, did they imitate the being crucified; for it was not understood by them, all the things said of it having been put symbolically.And he says this exactly one chapter after he lists Bacchus as one of the sons of Jupiter. So the idea that Bacchus was depicted as crucified, prior to Christ, is directly contradicted by the only evidence that we have.

Let me emphasize something here: this amulet is at the heart of Freke's argument. I didn't just choose Freke's stupidest argument. Rather, this is how the CNN article opens, and Freke and Gandy acutally put a computer enhanced (read: "doctored") version of the amulet drawing as the cover of their own book.

Given all of this, Freke's amulet argument is laughably weak. It's probably fake, and even if it were real, it doesn't remotely prove what Freke and the others are claiming (and goes directly against uncontroverted second-century evidence).

CONCLUSION

As is hopefully clear, this was worse than a puff piece. This was part of a recurring trend: that each year at Easter, CNN runs stories hostile to orthodox Christianity, and often doesn't bother checking even basic facts.

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that CNN's article would be roughly equivalent to a mainstream news source deciding on the anniversary of V-E Day to run an article sympathetic to Holocaust deniers. In both cases, we're dealing with conspiratorial nuts without regard for evidence. And in both cases, it would be incredibly tactless for a paper to run that sort of frontal assault at that particular time. But as BBC director-general Mark Thompson has admitted (and defended), it's common practice to treat Christianity much more harshly than religions like Judaism or Islam.

I'm not suggesting that Christianity (or any religion) be treated with kid gloves. As Christians, we make truth claims, and I would "love" a spirited dialogue over the reliability of those claims. But this trend of exploiting Christian religious holidays to spread bilious nonsense under the guise of critical scholarship is the opposite of the role that the media should be playing.

Waxing Crescent Moon

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Moon enters the Secure Wet Sign

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Exorbitant Meditation: The creative

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Sun in Leo

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August 14th, 2010

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Harmless Crackpot Or Should We Worry

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The entity beneath is from the Newspaper Situation and not the customary articles I sometimes post on into, but I am in the contact of Holistic Management and Fortune-teller Mediumship so under that umbrella comes beliefs. Now I had hint I had heard the storage space of this guy, "DAVID ICKE" in the UK animation ago afterward he was common, we blameless laughed and hint he was a safe crackpot, tidy up to all that he blameless wasn't simply and who would persist him, but this bearing in the Newspaper Situation mystified my eye, "America now sinking at his feet". Unsophisticatedly I was thunderstruck.He pokes fun or is it fun? nope I reflect on he's fatal repellent, at our Imperial Descent claiming she is not whole Lizard and part of an odd organization. He as well claims this of the US be first Obama, now I know give to may be a proportion of Americans who be repulsed by be first Obama, each to give to own but to find he has conduct out tours of the US wherever Americans are jewelry on to his every word is distressing. He even claims the greatest ranking UK Clergy had the badge of Satan on his robes and they lap it up.Why are breed, well above Americans listening to this twaddle? and distressing they are member him? My hypothesis is they hammer something to persist in. Man from time immemorial had a hammer to have a weakness for something, so you wish find this widely held stock all through all civilizations. Contemplatively a mixture of are sour with pay for day religions, which take lost the promote of sticking to the real use up of religion, which is to preciseness for others and explain others as they themselves wish, pay for day religions happen to take urban senior in the way of power and hold back, and breed take been searching for something out of the ordinary. David Icke is positively a manipulator at using persons pure searching breed, he refers to such condition as "U.S. command arms, the satanic paedophile politicians leeching strength from children" and give to are a mixture of above in the US who are "vulnerable to schematic theories", Icke the stage on this. As far as I can see he is no out of the ordinary from any other organisation who tries to running breed with power and hold back. Contemplatively these pure breed in my objective essential look religiously at themselves to their own chi and conscious.No establishment what religion you persist in get entangled it back to turncoat line, we essential preciseness for our fellow man as we would suppose ourselves to be treated. Geniality is final, it does not conciliator others. OK you may say I am judging him, well hes free to label what to persist in and if he desires to persist HM the Sovereign and Lead Obama are not whole lizard not whole odd, who need to get entangled untouchable the world let him. But he essential not be hard to conversion others to his beliefs, that is a dicey precedence. I would take senior concern for him if he were to rudeness about Ordinary Geniality for mankind, more accurately he claims to be the son of God and the also Messiah. THE Further Impending OF DAVID ICKE: CLAIMING HE WAS THE SON OF GOD Prepared HIM A Homewards Trick. SO WHY IS AMERICA NOW Falling AT HIS FEET?Handiwork a comeback: David Icke and his odd views are continuing to conduct out tours in America, yet he is torpid one of the most ridiculed men in BritainAmericans love to take captive about the mysteries of the Imperial Descent and David Icke wasn't about to sadden his 2,000-strong attendance.A obviously chaste picture of the Sovereign person greeted at the gates of Westminster Abbey for the situation wedding flashed up on the giant TV take cover on the full stop fluff him. 'He's got the on its head pentagon on a circle, the classic symbol of Satanism,' supposed Icke, ring the decoration on one of the clergyman's robe with his laser warning. 'It's so tidy up, I hint it inevitability take been Photoshopped.'But the devil-worshipper portion to head at the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton is noticeably the smallest of the Imperial Family's faults. Later, the take cover was swamped with a photo of the Sovereign with out of true eyes, also to an image of a green lizard-man. This shows her Glory in her true form, Icke explains, as a human-lizard hybrid. Horrendously, Icke believes that the world is person run by a let off of child-sacrificing, shape-shifting, reptilian aliens - and thousands of breed happen to persist him.Accept to the inquiring and picture perfect world of David Icke. But having the status of mad claims such as these adjoin Icke to fugitive the pinpoint 20 animation ago - what time he confirmed on a BBC chat steal that he was the son of God - his schematic theories are now proving worthwhile. Icke, now 59, is, mournfully, a man for our time. The messianic pace in the turquoise tracksuit (which apparently channelled confident energy) was in the same way as the most ridiculed man in Britain. But looking at the 2,100 breed who had rewarding lb45 a frivolity to pay attention to him in New York at the weekend, it seems Icke has had the storage space kid. Delusional: Icke makes his mysterious claim that he was the son of God popular an sample on Terry Wogan's chat steal in 1991The attendance - a mixture of arduous Icke T-shirts, others sack down report on their phones or position minute-by-minute updates on Icke fan forums - sat and listened attentively as the history Coventry Capital footballer down for the count eight hours rail neighboring U.S. command arms, the satanic paedophile politicians leeching strength from children and, of course, the lizard breed and their map for world control.He got a standing clapping and his attendance headed back home to contrary on their computers and go under water themselves in their world of schematic hypothesis sites and chat forums. No establishment how ruthless they catch fish, they'll find few stories as unlikely as Icke's. Goalkeeper for Coventry Capital not later than strong arthritis adjoin him to jump up football at blameless 21, he became one of the BBC's most high-status presenters, not later than person sacked for refusing to pay the choose tax.He in addition to became a spokesperson for the Blooming Visitors. By 1990, he was having mystical experiences. A psychic's claims that Icke would luxury the Alight were faraway reported, having the status of Icke visited a money disembark in Peru - wherever he supposed a wake up 'talked' to him. His hidden life was the same as odd. He wedded Linda Atherton in 1974, but had an problem with psychic Deborah Shaw, and motivated his mistress at home the connubial home in 1990 to stop in a polygamous m'enage `a trois. He followed by divorced what's more Atherton and his instant other half, Pamela Leigh Richards. In the function of, in 1991, he announced on Terry Wogan's BBC1 chat steal that he was the son of God and that the world would end in 1997, his own world fell withdrawn. Partially lizard? Icke has enigmatically suggested the Sovereign and Barack Obama are part of an odd organization that run the world.Dawn-till-dusk lampooning followed and Icke retreated to his Coral island of Wight home to develop his odd substance. It as well set him free to make far senior money than he might take dreamt of staying in the Blooming Visitors. He has written 18 books, published in 40 countries, under such titles as And The Wisdom Shall Set You At liberty and Infinite Geniality Is The Lonesome Wisdom. His website receives 600,000 hits a week and he has a worthwhile sideline production DVD recordings of his performances for lb35 a the same.He is using his new-fangled sell-out go - which takes in Australia, the Netherlands, Croatia, a succession of dates imaginatively the U.S. and a elevated end at Wembley Return also October - to announce his new book At all Lineage Get Off Your Section.Americans are his prime fans - it right rally the transatlantic power of speech Icke now seems to take - and it's not ruthless to see why. They take unendingly been above vulnerable to schematic theories, which now brand a multi-million blame industry of radio shows and websites in the U.S. Extensively of this is founded on a cynicism of breed in power. Inevitable, in a novel choose, only this minute a question of U.S. adults supposed they harvester their command. Superstitious: Icke used to wear this fetching turquoise tracksuit as it apparently channelled confident energy to himSo what, withdrawn from a blister drive backwards, does one get entangled away from eight hours with the self-proclaimed son of God? There's some New Age waffling about overcoming resignation and humanity's great mind which approval up addressees - but rather a lot senior which alarms them.Yet Icke's scaremongering about a wet Establishment Organization of politicians, Zionists, financiers and secret societies - plus the Jesuits, Templars and Freemasons - all intrigues together to get entangled untouchable the world, is not all that juicy. What's out of the ordinary is that few of even the most wild-eyed conspiracists persist imperceptible odd lizard breed are trade the shots. Icke tells breed we cannot decode the reptilians the same as, understandably, they are distinct only this minute on a light predominance that humans cannot purchase. Meanwhile, we take been brainwashed so that what we reflect on is specifics is only this minute a hologram. Icke's desire is all eerily echoing of the Matrix series of sci-fi movies, starring Keanu Reeves, about a man who discovers we are all living in a dream world contrived by evil supermachines. He has plenty senior of this hokey methodological nonsense, together with thoroughly cherry-picked quotes from scientists and rather longer extracts - which he laboriously reads out - from rather senior mythical sources such as science creation writers, fictitious script and even New York's most all-encompassing continuing cause of death, the young man of Sam' David Berkowitz.Icke's revelations comprise everything from the fact that the moon was built by aliens to the fact that the Rothschild family of Jewish bankers are trusty for everything from the Russian coil to the 2008 monetary meltdown. Popular: Icke has written 18 books having the status of his website receives senior than 600,000 hits a week. He as well sells DVDs of his steal at lb35 a timeThe lizard hybrids Icke believes in comprise every situation individuals in Europe, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Henry Kissinger, Arnold Schwarzenegger and - most reticently - the chorale member Kris Kristofferson. The list includes plenty of Jews. Notwithstanding Icke insists he isn't anti-Semitic but only this minute anti-Zionist, his rant neighboring Jewish bankers such as Goldman Sachs and their hold back of transnational sore give somebody a loan of has redoubtable echoes of what the Nazis used to say.His attack of things is so nippy that addressees not sufficiently take time to relate to if they ring even inhospitably true. And so he argues that the New Establishment Organization is so obsessed with symbolism that it chose to message Princess Diana in Paris's Pont de l'Alma search. Why? As Pont de l'Alma manner dike of the moon idol and Diana was named what time the Roman goddess of the moon. It sounds good - but it's tripe: the Pont de l'Alma was named what time a Crimean War come to blows. But who cares, Icke is on to his also revelation: that the reptilians are obsessed with doppelganger towers. The Imperial Descent get wedded in Westminster Abbey and St Paul's which what's more take doppelganger towers and, yes, that's why the lizards blew up the Doppelganger Towers on 9/11.Interviewed storage space week on a radio steal, Icke couldn't keep cover his opening that in parts of the world wherever he has otherwise 'talked to a arrange container, he is now stilted out 2,000-seat auditoriums. For anyone who stops sniggering at Sphere Icke long passable to reflect on about that, it may not be a smiling establishment.MAGGIE Suntanned (Ring) Appreciate Amazon's Maggie Suntanned PageFind all the books, read about the writer, and senior. 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