There is a sense in which all words are ‘true’ – the sense in which they are existent forms that govern our belief-sets and value systems. I do not consider them to be the primary organising principle governing our collective memes, as the universal archetypal stories, being universal, transcend language – or, rather, they underlie it. Perhaps an appropriate metaphor would be to imagine the archetypes as an invisible loom which we illuminate with words – without the specific threads of words we weave we cannot see the looms at all, but our choice of colours and stitch are merely transient decorations, patterns that play upon the surface of that which I AM.

It is not unreasonable to confer a certain authority on as great a spiritual teacher as Jesus – but why anyone continues to conflate his authority with that of the canon authorised at The Synod of Hippo is absolutely beyond me.

The Book of John says “you do not need any man to teach you…the same anointing teaches you all things and is truth…you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things…Beloved, now we are the sons of God. He who keeps his commands dwells in him, and he in him. And we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.” Thus, surely, the contemplations of any ‘righteous’ man – by John’s or any other definition – should be ‘true’ (if ‘true’ is a meaningful term) and worthy of our consideration? It is in this sense that we might regard all virtuous beings as prophets, as they themselves, and what they produce, are all expressions of an Immanent God that dwells both within them, and that they, equally, dwell within. Are not all stories allegories, parables, timeless riddles, that are as much mirrors on ourselves as they are reflections of the topics they ostensibly explore?

We are all prophets, and both mankind’s ancient noumenous expressions, and the musings, fictions and machinations of this apparently Godless age, ARE collectively the most diverse, beautiful, spiritual canon in this or any other universe. The life of man in its entirety, let us now waste any of it, then none of our suffering will have been in vain.

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‘I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover’d the infinite in everything, and as I was then persuaded, and remain confirm’d, that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences, but wrote. William Blake’ ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’

“It was necessary for humanity to depart from God, and for all original unities to undergo differentiation, desire, and conflict – as in the rebellion of Satan, the separation of Eve from Adam and their acquisition of the knowledge of good and evil – in order for creation to evolve to a new state of redeemed harmony that would be more perfect than the original state of innocence, allowing God to achieve a new self-awareness by interacting with a creation that was both part of, and distinct from, Himself.” Wikipedia extract about the philosophy of Jakob Boehme

“The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed by fire, at the end of six thousand years, is true – as I have heard from Hell.
For the cherub, with his flaming sword, is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life and, when he does, the whole creation will be consumed and appear infinite and holy, wheareas it now appears finite and corrupt.
This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment. But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul is to be expunged; this I shall do by printing in the infernal method by corrosives, which in Hell are salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away and displaying the infinite which was hid. If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks in his cavern. ” William Blake

Blake and Boehme are both reporting a post-HIStorical period when conflict is no longer necessary. If God is both Omnipotent AND loving there must be both a reason for human suffering and an ending to it.

“The more people do, the more society develops, the more problems arise. The increasing isolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity’s trying to accomplish something. Origanally there was no reason to progress, and nothing that had to be done. We have come to the point when there is no other way than to bring about a ‘movement’ not to bring anything about” The One Straw Revolution

I am a Christian
I am a Jew
I am a Muslim
I am a Buddhist
I am a Hindu
I am a Daoist
I am a Pagan
Hydra, dear dragon, do stop rolling your snakes’ eyes and watch your seven tongues!
You’ve been chasing your tail since the day we begun,
It is time to stop fighting your selves and remember: you are ONE.
‘Appeal to The Hydra: a spell to end war’, The Jester, 2008

Thank you for your mention of Turame. I work for WR and I am responsible for our Microfinance programs.

Let me know if you have time for a call sometime. I am currently in Burundi having just attended the Turame board meeting.

Hope to speak to you soon, Gareth